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Chanelle founded Chic and Charmed before finishing high school · Inspiring Stories

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the picture of a radiant.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody to Inspiring Stories. Our next guest is
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Chanel Chazan, and we're going to talk to her today
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about her three year old business.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Chanelle is sixteen years old and she is an entrepreneur
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from Saskatoon and the founder of Chick and Charm boutique.
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She started the brand at the age of thirteen and
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she has grown it into a national jewelry brand with
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customers across Canada. She built it using trade shows, strong
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online sales, and billboard advertising. She even has billboards featured
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across her hometown with her likeness on it. And she's
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still in high school. She has taken a brand across Canada,
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showcasing in cities like Saskatoon, Calgary, Winnipeg, Regina, Vancouver, Ottawa
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and Toronto, and she's continuing to expand into new markets
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across the country. She is balancing school and business and
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she says she hasn't really been easy, but it keeps
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her disciplined and thinking of the bigger picture and thinking
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how she can grow bigger even at a young age.
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She hopes to inspire other women to reach her full
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potential as she is doing so by example, and she
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even has wants to after high school. She wants to
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continue her education and expand into medicine and learn other
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ways to help people and to grow her community. So
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why don't we bring Chanel onto the show and let's
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hear what she has to say and how she wants
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to grow her business and how she wants to help
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people and build a better community. Chanel, Welcome to the show.
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You know, it's it's really cool to meet people like
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you who like not only do things that are cool,
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but they do things that actually inspire people to do
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to do things. Cals do cool things themselves. So you
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were thirteen and you and you started a jewelry business,
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So why don't we go from there?
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Speaker 4: So at first, I think the idea started from my dad.
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He was an entrepreneur, and I think watching him through
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my childhood run his own business grew my idea. And
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my mom always she was always a blin girl like me.
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She always had very fancy jewelry, and I think watching
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her always get dulled up and dressed up started that
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kind of bling idea. So I think my jewelry business
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kind of interconnected with my dad teaching and showing me entrepreneurship,
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and it started with my mom kind of showing me
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all that pazzazz and that blink to make it what
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it is today.
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Speaker 1: If people go to your website, uh that it is,
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it's blank. It's really cool. Yes, yeah, and you're worrying
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some of it right now, right, yes, I am.
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Speaker 4: I always have my jewelry on.
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Speaker 1: So why jewelry?
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Speaker 4: I think as a girl, I always loved accessories and
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always dressing up and getting dolled up, same as my
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mom watching her always get dressed up. And I think
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I've always loved putting jewelry on. And you know, when
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you put a piece on, it makes you kind of
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more empowered and you feel it's more of a confident booster.
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And I think I wanted that to bring to the community.
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I wanted other women and other girls to feel the
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same way. When they put jewelry on, it's a confident booster.
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They can go out and achieve their dreams and whatever
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their daily life brings, and it goes great every way.
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We put it towards the business.
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Speaker 1: So you you felt empowered by something, so you decided
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to create something to help empower other people in your
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community and around the world.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Wow, that is that is a really really
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huge thought, especially for thirteen. So yeah, you sat it
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out on that journey. So how's that journey going now?
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Speaker 4: So when I started, like I said, it was just
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a small idea, so it was kind of just playing
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with jewelry. Then at fourteen I kind of grew the
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idea more and then we started selling off a Facebook marketplace.
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So one selling one earring to a lady a day
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turned into twenty people coming to the house and buying.
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So I think that's when me and my dad my
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mom realized this could be a real business. So at fifteen,
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I turned fifteen and my dad said, you know what,
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go full throttle. Book all the shows you can do,
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all the interviews, podcasts, go around Canada, and get your
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name out. And that's what I think starting a business,
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you have to get your name out so people understand you,
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they hear your story, and they understand your purpose. Because
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then in business you have to have a purpose, like me,
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empowering women, You have to have something like that. And
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we started our first show in Warman, Saskatchewan, a very
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small town here, and we got really good feedback with
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that show, and vendors were coming up and surprised by
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my age and surprised by the product and how good
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quality and affordability it has. And then we started doing
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lots of out of town shows. So our first out
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of town show was Calgary, and we just started going
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hardcore there and we started going to Toronto and Ottawa
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and Vancouver and being more selling and more in BC
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and Alburn and Saskatchewan, and it kind of led to
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where I am today.
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Speaker 1: Cool. So how many I should say, how many pieces
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do you actually baby sella day?
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Speaker 3: It depends.
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Speaker 4: It depends, I would say when I designed something. When
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we have a big collection comes out with the collection.
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Sometimes we have twenty thirty new collections that or pieces
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that come out with the collection, and sometimes it goes
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really good. Like I said, not everything's perfect and not
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everybody's gonna like a color, and it's trial and error
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as well, But most of the time we do pretty
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well off a collection and lots of people love the pieces,
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and you know, you get little different necklaces and we
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got our cherry necklaces with pink and silver instead of
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just red. So like little tweaks like that, and people
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really love some tweets and some people don't, and you
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kind of have to make different pieces for everybody. And
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that's the best part. Everybody has their own preference and
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you can design for that. Wow.
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Speaker 1: The funny part is you actually sound like a big
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time in the fashion industry already. So this guy's a
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limit for you girls. Yes, So do you release a
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new collection like twice a year, like for fall in spring?
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Speaker 4: For big collections, we kind of do more in like
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the seasons, like the Christmas season, we have the fall
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season and so on spring and summer. But sometimes I
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do drop some pieces if I'm really interested or I
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design something and I say, you know what, that has
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to be out now. We can't wait a couple of months.
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So you'll see always on the website there'll be two
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or three different things a couple of weeks, and then
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sometimes we have those big drops and that's when lots
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of the time things sell out. So yeah, works perfectly.
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Speaker 1: Wow, you got this down to us, down to a
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whole entire science. So let's focus on the creative part. Yeah,
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so you you designed each of the pieces yourself. Yes,
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So what does it take inside of you to actually
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create a collection.
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Speaker 4: So even when I started the business, I've always loved designing.
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Even before I loved you know, colors and designs and
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putting patterns and shapes together. So when I first started
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at thirteen, I was making the jewelry by hand. But
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with school and going to school full time and having
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the business grow even bigger, it just wasn't feasible anymore.
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So my brother's a doctor in BC's. We have a
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couple chemists we met, and couple suppliers and you know,
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at first, when I sat down with me and my dad,
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they said, you know what, we're not going to deal
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with you. You're a kid, right, And then my dad said, well,
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you're not dealing with her, you're dealing with me. So
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then they said, you know what, we're going to take
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a chance on you. And these are big suppliers who
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do you know, different jewelry and they do all different
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kinds of stuff, and you know every month where sales
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are progressing more, and they're saying, you know what, we
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took a great chance. But when I sat down with them.
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I said, the only way I'm going to work with
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the supplier is if I still have a little connection
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with my jewelry. I need to still design and pick
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out the colors and the shapes. And that's why I
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have heart designs. Most of the time they would only
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do balls, but strawberries now we have and raspberries and
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all different fruits and lemons and every different thing, things
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that you wouldn't even think of for jewelry. But I
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always wanted it to be a personal connection with my jewelry.
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So when you're wearing a piece, you always think, you
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know what it's not just it was just put together
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for nothing. It was put together for a reason or
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a story or something that I seen online and it
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goes great.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Honestly, I was when you should up for
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for the pre interview. I was surprised that you were
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only sixteen years old.
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Speaker 4: I'm glad that that's the reaction you want to have, kid.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I wasn't going to discount you because you
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were you were sixteen, because you didn't show up as sixteen.
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You showed up as a person wanting to to get
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her message out there, right. Yeah, absolutely knowing that you
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feel that feel that way about getting your message out
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there and get in getting your your pieces made. How
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did that feel? What somebody said, well, you're only sixteen,
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why should I want to deal with you?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think age is just a number. You can
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achieve so much at any age. Even when I was
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at thirteen getting told that you're just a kid, I thought,
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you know what, I have my dream and i have
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my envision and my mindset, and I'm just going to
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keep pushing forward. Not everything works well in business and goes,
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you know, straight forward, and some you're gonna have ups
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and downs. But you have to learn to push forward
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and keep moving forward because if you don't, then your
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business is just gonna keep going down. So when that happened,
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and you know, you have to have great support systems.
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So my dad helping me, helped with the business growing,
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and every time I got a little push from him,
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I pushed even more at the business. And I think
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that's why I've achieved so much by having a great
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mentor and a support system behind me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, is that support system means everything to you?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 1: If you were advising anybody in business, would you advise
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him to have that sort of support system.
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Speaker 4: I would say the only way to start a business
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is to have somebody behind you. Doesn't have to be
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a father father like my dad, can be maybe your mom,
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a friend, anybody around you. It could be a coworker
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even if you're at a job, or your manager, just
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somebody to have be behind you. They don't have to
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be in full control of the business, like my dad
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always being around with me, going to show but even
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as a you know, commentary and saying you know what,
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you got this, you can go forward, you can do this,
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and maybe even giving you ideas or doing what my
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dad did and helped me and went around with me
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and you know, showed me the ropes. And I think
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having a great support system is really going to help
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you in business.
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Speaker 1: Part of one getting at here is because there's something
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that a lot of business owners forget. They think that
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they that they have to do it all themselves, right,
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instead of you have through your parents, it seems that
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you've built a network.
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Speaker 4: Yes, And I think in entrepreneurship in general, on business,
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you have to be great at networking. You have to
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be not shy and be able to meet other people
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and you know, hear other people's stories. As well, and
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not just show yours and and really just meeting people.
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And you know, when you understand somebody else's story, that
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also maybe gives you an idea, and then you share
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your story and somebody gets an idea and gets inspired
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from you, and it just it's a full circle and
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it keeps going. And that's the great part about entrepreneurship
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that we're all in it together. We're not here just
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to compete. We're here to share ideas, get inspired by
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each other, and keep everybody moving forward and having fun
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while having their businesses going.
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Speaker 1: So it sounds like you believe in a more collaborative
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way of doing businesses as opposed to a competitive way
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of doing business.
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Speaker 4: I would see, yes, I would. I believe in, you know,
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having common ground as well, but being respectful and being
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kind to everybody. And you know, we're all in here
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to share our stories and connect with others. And why
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should it be.
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Speaker 1: Harder than that, I don't know. Why should it be
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harder than that? I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Some people, I think other business owners, when they get
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into business, they they want they want to do all
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it themselves, or they want to be fearless and be
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a big competitor. But if you have a mindset and
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you have a goal and you want to achieve that
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and have people understand your story as well, you kind
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of just push that out of the way and you
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steer directly into the where you want to go. And
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with me, that was empowering women and you know, bringing
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my brand to life and sharing my story of how
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I started and how it's going. And I think if
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I wouldn't have done that, and I would have been,
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you know, said to my dad, you know, don't help me.
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And I got this it when of went where it was.
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Speaker 1: You probably have a really good point and probably a
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good part of your success is because you decided to
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focus on what you were strong at and then allow
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others to pitch in where they were strong at, right
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for sure. Yeah. Yeah, So empowering women, that's that's a
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strong thing.
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Speaker 3: It is, and.
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Speaker 1: Many say that they're doing it, but they're just using
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it just just to brand themselves.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I try to. Like I said, empower women is
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not just saying you're empowering women and hope women feel empowered.
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It's designing pieces. Like for me, I design a piece
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that I would want to wear that I feel empowered
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with and hopes and dream that somebody else feels the
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same way. And I think they do, because lots of
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people are buying and they you know, they some lady
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send me pictures saying I loved the hoops I bought,
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and they it's a confident booster. And I think that's
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the best part about having a business is seeing that
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feedback and having that great feedback and seeing that people
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are being empowered and there's proof that that is happening.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I want to change gears on you a
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little bit because I want to be on that struggle
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part did you have, because let's face it, you're still
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in school, yes, grade ten. Yeah, it's like and you
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still got a lot of stuff to decide because hey,
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you know, having your grade twelve is cool, but most
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people when they become successful, they realize that, hey, there's
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a whole world to learn out there. So I was
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focused on that struggle because you got to balance your
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work life, your business, and your school life. So how
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does that work out for you?
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Speaker 4: I think at first, when the business just started, I
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didn't think too much into managing both. I kind of
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just went with the business, and you know, I've always
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had great grades in school, and I've always wanted to
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achieve lots in school and keep going. And I think
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that's my skill and my what's the word I'm looking for?
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I would say what I want to achieve. I brought
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that skill into my business as well. I've always wanted
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to learn, and I think with the business as well,
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I'm always constantly learning about marketing or new designs, and
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I think they both interconnected greatly. But when the business
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got a little bit bigger, it is challenging to balance both.
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So I think as a business owner, and if you
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have it doesn't even have to be school, it could
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be another thing that you have going on. You have
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to have priorities, know what needs to come first. And
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also you have to have great time management, knowing what
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needs to be done and how much time you have
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per day and dealing with that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, time management is how often do you
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get lost in doing something? You forgot something else?
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Speaker 4: All the time, I'm forgetting what I'm doing, But it's okay.
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You have to once you realize and you keep going
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and things just line up to how they should be.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. So what do you what are you looking
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for right right now, what do you what are your
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personal goals? Just just just to be channel.
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Speaker 3: I.
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Speaker 4: I do want to continue my path in school, so
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get my grade twelve, of course, but I also want
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to go into business and medicine and learn about those.
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I'm already in business, but there's so much that you
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can continue to continue to learn. And I want to
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go into medicine because my brother's a doctor, so there's
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so much to learn in medicine as well. And I
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think just having the business going while studying in school,
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it's amazing. You're learning both ways. And you know, you
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meet different people in school of course, and you meet
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different people while in the business and you network, and
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I think I can do both personally.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you are going to do both. I mean
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it's like you just you're one of those people that
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you meet that's like, oh wow, she's just going to
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keep succeeding.
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Speaker 4: I hope I try.
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Speaker 1: Okay, just a sideborrow, what would you like to study
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in medicine?
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Speaker 4: I want to go into radiology, but we'll see how
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it goes. Sometimes things change and we'll see where it goes.
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But mostly I want to focus on specializing in radiology.
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Speaker 1: Interesting a little bit different, but yeah, it's not the
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it's not the the the the huge you hear most
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people say, oh, I want to become a surgeon or
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that started out there a therascic cardio surgeon is like,
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because it said, and then he asked him, was like,
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well what it means, and they it just sounds glamorous,
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but he said, he says, radiology it means. It's like, oh,
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because radiology is like emitting light through a person so
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that you can see what's going on inside their body. Yes,
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I was like, it's very different.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I think that's why I liked it
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so much. It was different compared to a surgeon or
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you know, regular practitioner. It was something unique and you know,
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something exciting that I would want to do in the future.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So it leads me to creative question though, how
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much of the sparkling blink stuff is because you like
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looking at the different ways light reflected off of the
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things you make.
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Speaker 4: I think personally, we all go through our hardships, not
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even just in business, as just humans in general. We
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all have our hardships, and I think reflecting onto our
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lives that's the best way you always have to reflect
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on your past. I know some people say, you know what,
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I don't want to look back there. But our past
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is why we are here today, and we learned from
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our past, and we reflect off of fit. And I
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think my jewelry, it's not my main reason, but it's
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so reason that.
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Speaker 3: You can put.
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Speaker 4: You can have jewelry to reflect and you know, grow
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and have that growth in your life, but also empower
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yourself to keep going and grow even further in your life.
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Speaker 1: It's a it's good to have something to look back
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on that you achieve so you can achieve more. Right, absolutely, Yeah,
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it's a good theory in life. Yeah, okay, so move well,
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getting into getting into medical school and all that kind
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of stuff. That's as still a few more years down
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the road house, do you predict your future to look like?
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How many more people do you think you can empower
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along the way too?
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Speaker 4: I hope I can power at least every woman in
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Canada and beyond in my years of just going and
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I think that I can. And that's once you have
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a goal and you want to work towards it. Disguy's
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the limit. Like you said, you can achieve anything you
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would like, but you have to have that store and
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you have to have that mindset and you have to
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keep pushing forward.
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Speaker 1: So globally, right, I mean, I mean there's there's women
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issues in Canada, but women issues in Canada in comparison
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to say, women issues in some foreign countries. What are
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your thoughts.
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Speaker 4: I would say in Canada, there's lots of issues that
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we have, but there's lots of issues in other countries
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as well, like you said, and I think jewelry is
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not going to fix every issue there's it goes beyond
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them that. But if you can give a little bit,
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a little sparkle into somebody's life and empower them just
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a little bit, that could be the change that the
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world needs to see. Once that maybe that one person
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feels empowered, she goes on and she becomes what she
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wants to do, and she she has that say and
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she gets her word out and she has fixes some
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of those problems. I'm not going to say that just
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the problems that there is with the women in our
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world is going to be fixed, but I'm saying could
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be other problems and other issues, and you know, disguise
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the limit with everybody, and once they have that little
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push and that little empowerment. Who knows what somebody could do.
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It could be a great change in our world.
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Speaker 1: Do you believe in chain reactions? So you push, you,
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you inspire somebody with the pair of I'm just I'm
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just being sealine and ridiculous at this point. Okay, you
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inspire somebody with a pair of cherry ear rings, yes, okay,
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or a cherry charm, you know, Okay, And she feels
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so empowered by that that she actually has an effect
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through international channels on gender violence in say Pakistan.
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Speaker 4: Might not be that far, but you know, maybe she
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feels empowered to maybe say something towards an issue. Maybe
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doesn't be that exact issue. Maybe it could be a
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small issue in her community, could be maybe an issue
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in her city or country and so forth. But you know,
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you just need that little push in your life. And
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I'm not saying it's going to go that far into
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something that big, because that's a really big issue and
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not one person's going to fix it. It's going to
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be a whole community. It could be forty million people
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that need to talk and you know, need to have
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their stories all said to fix one issue. But I'm
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just saying, maybe it's in her small community, maybe it's
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in her city. Maybe it's her saying something to her
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friend and her friend feels more empowered, and her friend
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goes on and does something. It just it goes keeps
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It's like a pathway and it keeps going.
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Speaker 1: Wow. The thing is is is it's it's not rather
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it would happen or not, it's just you. You have
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thought about that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think as a business owner, you all
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have thoughts about things about what we're selling and who
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has that idea about what we're selling. And I think
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with getting my story out there and sharing and what
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my goals are with the business, I think people relate
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and you know, they feel a little bit empowered. Just
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even listening to this, I bet a couple of women
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feel a little empowered and want to achieve their dreams
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and you can it's possible.
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Speaker 1: Well, the whole purpose of this particular podcast was to
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inspire women. It's like absolutely So it's because I've okay,
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I'm going to do a little revealed that most people
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don't ever get out of me. Okay. The reason why
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I believe in inspiring women is because I had to.
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I actually had to watch my mother when she got
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divorced from my dad, that the banks told her that
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she could no longer have an account there because well,
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you're not with you're not with your husband anymore, and
27:53
these accounts really belonged to him, so they started closing
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out her accounts, and that's just terrible. Yeah, it's that's
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the the world. I grew up as a kid, and
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I figured that, well, no, we need more women to
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step out there and and and voice that, hey, women
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are important in our world.
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Speaker 4: So absolutely, yeah, and I think yeah, So.
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Speaker 1: It's just it's just kind of interesting and refreshing that
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that you have thought that, hey, I can do something
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here that will affect somebody thousands of miles away, if
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not directly, but but through a process.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely so sure.
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Speaker 1: It's like it's just really cool. You're very very multifaceted,
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uh individual, Thank you.
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Speaker 4: I tried to think different ways and how to expand
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further and how to get even more women and more
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women empowered. And I think you have to think of
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different ways to get your goals out there, and you
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have to think other ways to get your name out,
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so things like that can be possible.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So going back to getting your jewelry out there
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and getting your name out there, and because you were
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successful in Okay, the town you grew up in, not
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to meet people ever actually heard of. I remember I
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had to ask you how close you were to some
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other town like Vagino or Moustrawl or something like that
29:46
in order to and then most people I don't even
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know where that is either. So you managed to grow
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your network so that it actually hit it has hit
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three major cities. But you grew up in a small town.
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Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't say it was too small of a town. Saskatoon.
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It's around three hundred thousand population. Regina is a little
30:15
bit smaller still, but a little bit you When we
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went to Ottawa, they had no idea where Saskatchewan even was.
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So I think it's, you know, the smaller compared to
30:25
other bigger cities when you have two three five million population.
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And you know, we went to lots of different cities
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to get our name out, but we built a really
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strong base here in Saskatoon and as well in Regina
30:35
because it's so close. And you know, we've been to Vancouver,
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we built a strong base there in Toronto and autun
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and we've been to everywhere in between, and just a
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small small amount of major cities we've been to, and
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we want to expand even further, going to Cologna and
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Victoria and Edmonton, and you know, even expanding into New Brunswick, Nova,
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Scotia and Newfoundland.
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Speaker 1: You're going to take it, take it all all the
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way across. The only place you have mentioned yet we're
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Arctic provinces. And I'm sure you actually get yourself into
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those also. But it's you have you have a definite plan.
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And I mean, what do you what do you see?
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You see your siety, your life looking like in the
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next five years.
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Speaker 4: I see she Can Charm being bigger and better than
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it was. I see us, you know, all around Canada
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west the East Coast and expanding and you know people
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when you go shopping you see somebody with she Can Charmed.
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Then you know, just getting her name out to that point,
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and you know, making even more women be empowered, and
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you know, of course me being in school and me
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being in medical school would be the goal. And you know,
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just achieving more dreams and more goals and move moving
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forward and continuing to have a great life and go
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from that.
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Speaker 1: Very cool. If I gave you the opportunity to stand
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on the stage and and you were able to empower
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just let's just say five thousand women that are sitting
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in the audience, what would you want to say to them?
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Speaker 4: I would want to say it would be more vice
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I give to everybody. It would be you know, turn
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any no or maybe into it. Yes, anything is possible.
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You can achieve so much in your life. But sometimes
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we get a little scared, and we get a little
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kind of in like a corner, and we don't want
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to expand too much, or we don't want to say
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that one word, or you know, we're a little shy
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and we don't want to get ourselves out there. But
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that's the best part about you know, doing something is
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getting your name out there, expanding yourself and you know,
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saying that word that you don't want to say, and
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that can You can achieve lots of things from just
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you know, talking and you know, asking questions and going
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from that. And I'd also say that nothing's impossible. Everything
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everything in life is possible. But you have some things
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that are not gonna happen overnight. They might not happen
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in one year, they might not happen in ten years.
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But if you keep moving towards your goals, and you
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keep going towards what you want to achieve, you can
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achieve anything.
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Speaker 1: How does Chanell get past her fears?
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Speaker 3: I won't say.
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Speaker 4: I will say I've always when I was younger, I
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was a little shy. But I think you know, when
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you see, my dad was never shy, or my mom.
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So I think watching them throughout my childhood, you know,
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talking to others and connecting, and with my dad running
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his business, I kind of learned that it's not bad
33:52
to be shy, but it's also not bad to talk
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and connect and network. And I think that's what helped
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me with my business, was you know, networking, and that's
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the number one thing, you know, connecting with you and
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then you connect with another person, and I connect with
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another person and we all share our stories and we
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and it goes beyond that. And next thing, you know,
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you talked to fifty thousand people around the country, and
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you've learned so many from that, so many things from them,
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and they learned so many things from you.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Very cool. All right, Another opportunity if I give you,
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give you the opportunity to change the world to something
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that you would see you see more beautiful. What would
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it look like?
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Speaker 4: I would say, well, I always try to make the
34:46
world a better place now, So with in October, in
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the month of breast cancer Awareness, we gave a small
34:54
donation of twenty percent of our proceeds to the breast
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cancer in c ninety five had an event here Saskatoon.
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And I think donating and then also hearing other stories
35:05
about things that are happening in other people's lives is
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what's gonna make the world have a difference. If we
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don't listen to each other, what do we have We
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have to learn from each other and other cha understand
35:16
people's stories, and I think just grow with each other
35:20
and help each other. And I think that's what's gonna help.
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It's not gonna be a major change, but it's gonna
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help us individually.
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Speaker 1: Cool, all right. Your website where everybody can find your jewelry.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can find us on she can charm jewelry
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dot com. And we're all over Canada as well, so
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I bet we'll be at a city near you so
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you can shop in person as well.
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Speaker 1: Cool. All right, Chanelle, it's been a pleasure. I hope
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to have you back again to talk more about your
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achievements and how she can check say again for me,
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charm boutique, charm boutique. I fell over my own tongue,
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did you see? I'm sure that your business is going
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to do It's going to grow more even leaves and
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balance in what you even imagine, and I think you're
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going to have. And this is this, this is my wish.
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Wish for you is that is that your business carries
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you to places and stages there you actually do have
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the opportunity to stand in front of one hundreds of
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thousands of women to make a difference in their life.
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you. I hope so too, and that's why
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I keep moving towards my goal. So hopefully that is
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a reality one day.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, thank you everybody for listening. Go
36:51
check out our website and hey, buy a pair, buy
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a pair of fruity earrings.
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Speaker 2: The post to.
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Speaker 3: Back shoes. So I don't know, so I wish you
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fron action.
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Speaker 1: So why.
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Speaker 3: That this day? I reason shad like chos. We can't
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t wait? So you can't?
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Speaker 1: She go to start stop stop?
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Speaker 3: I know.
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