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Your Inner Circle: Surround Yourself with Success · The Boujee Multipreneur

• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Hilary Hushauer Jones.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna kind of do a short podcast today, also because I was karaoking too much and my voice is a little bit uh hoarse.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yes, I do love karaoking in my uh spare time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what I wanted to talk about today is who you surround yourself with.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, who are those that you are around on the daily basis?
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  SPEAKER_00: And are these the right type of people for you to be around?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, I'm gonna start with an example of one of my sons.
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  SPEAKER_00: My husband and I were talking about he's got so much potential, he's going to go to a great college, but the people he surrounds himself with are the opposite.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it makes you wonder, you know, why is he surrounding himself with these people?
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  SPEAKER_00: And or do we do this our whole lives as adults now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are we surrounding ourselves with those who build us up, drag us down, or are we staying like a steady meh, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are your friends around you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are they your friends, your family, your business associates?
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  SPEAKER_00: For example, if you want to own a business or you are a business entrepreneur, are you surrounding yourself with other like-minded individuals?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are they business owners?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are they wanting to be business owners?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are they trying to further themselves in their career?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or are these people naysayers and negative nullies and they just don't seem to do more than they really have to to get along in life?
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  SPEAKER_00: I kind of see that with our son, you know, the people he's around.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think, oh, if you could just stick around those people a little bit more, you seem so happy and positive and full of life around those, and someone else that might be dragging you down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't mean that they're bad kids, teens, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just you can see as a parent, right, that that's just not the right person to lift you up.
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  SPEAKER_00: They might be pulling you down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then as adults now, we need to look at ourselves and take this little check.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are we also lifting up those around us?
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  SPEAKER_00: Are we being negative to those around us?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and who are you surrounding yourself with?
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know that you can't maybe pick your family, but you could probably pick how often you are around them or what you talk about when you're with around them, but you can definitely pick your friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: And are you picking the friends that are aspiring to go and do more like you are?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or are these friends happy, content, don't want anything else out of life, only want to work as much as they have to?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not saying drop your friends if this is it, but I think it's great to look and take account of who is around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe this is something you have to do more than once in your life to look around and you know, look at these friendships, business associates, your even your family, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, are these people like do you admire them?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you know, do you want to be like them?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or are you the one in the group that everyone aspires to be?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I also don't think it's great to be, quote, the best one in the group.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that there should be multiple people that are building up the group.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there can be people in the group, the friendship group, so to speak, that are not doing as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's okay as long as they're trying and they're aspiring to do more, be more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think it's you're you're I think there's like a saying, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: About like you're the sum of the closest five people to you, or there's some cute little saying like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But how often are you guys stepping back and looking at the people around you?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, who do you admire?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that it's great to start off with even a couple people per year, like, hey, I admire this person and this person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'm not great friends with them now, or maybe I want to become friends with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what am I gonna do to emulate how well they're doing to learn from them?
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  SPEAKER_00: It could be just as simple as like picking up the phone and calling or texting and trying to get to know these people better.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so look at your circle.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't say be the best one in your circle, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You should always be building and growing more and more and surround yourself with those people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whether or not you're listening now and you are a business owner or want to be a business owner, you know, make sure you're surrounding yourself with other business owners.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's hard to be a business owner in a sea of people who are not business owners because, as you guys know, there's a lot of challenges and stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's so nice when you can congratulate another business owner for a great month or for a good hire, or they finally fired that person.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they those dragging them down in their workplace.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's just so much you can talk about with people that are business owners.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so check your potential, check your group around you, and just you know, where do you want to go this year?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who do you want to be around you?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not saying disregard all the people that aren't, but if there happens to be someone that's pulling you down as an anchor to your ship, you need to sail.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might need to drop, drop an anchor or two because you need to sail.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I hope that this isn't too negative for you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you're having a great day.
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  SPEAKER_00: If anyone wants to karaoke with me in the future, just let me know because I do like to do my rap songs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a great day.