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BEST OF: Jamaican Girl Goes BROKE in Dubai — Then THIS Happened… · Babes, how did you get here

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  It feels like no more than ever, people are chasing new countries, new lives, and new
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  beginnings.
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  But very few speak honestly about what it really takes to start over again when nobody
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  knows your name.
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  I am April Jackson, traveling the world speaking with interesting people who have chosen a life
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  elsewhere.
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  Today, I'm speaking with Shafawa Hilton, a beauty therapist, educator, and entrepreneur
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  who left everything behind in Jamaica to chase her dreams here in Dubai.
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  Our story is about patience, purpose, identity, and what it really takes to bet on yourself
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  yet again.
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  But first, I have to ask, babes, how did you get here?
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  Ciao!
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  Well, I mean, I just felt like I needed a change, I needed a change, and I didn't want to
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  go to the US.
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  Okay.
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  I can't do with the snow.
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  I didn't want to go to the UK, I can't do with the snow, I can't do with the cold.
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  So I was like, this is a perfect place, as well as my aunt lives here, so it was even better
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  for me.
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  Take me back.
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  Tell me a little bit about your childhood.
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  Well, I was very shell-tired.
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  Shell turd.
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  It was home school church, because I sang in the choir, me and my sister, so yeah, it was
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  home school church, and then my mom opened her business, home decor business, and that
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  was where it was until wordy to go home.
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  But even before that, you know, she would sell stuff from the back of her car, so I was
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  used to seeing entrepreneurship from back then, and then my dad, he also is in the music
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  industry.
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  So for sure, I've been seeing entrepreneurship from Miyai Damani, as Jamaica would call
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  it, you know?
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  And in terms of your career pursuits when you're young, what do you want to be?
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  I wanted to be a doctor.
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  Yeah?
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  Me too, and then I realized I can't do blood.
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  Listen, I realized I'm going to like the sciences.
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  I was like, this is ghetto hell, you know, I ain't doing no sciences, and I didn't love
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  math.
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  So I was like, no, this is not going to work.
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  But then I think, when was it?
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  Like I started, I think I was like in high school, and I started to like make up.
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  And then, you know, I was like on YouTube, and I liked to see the girls transform.
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  And so it started in college when I went to UTek back in Jamaica.
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  And I was like, yeah, I'm going to do eyebrows.
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  I'm going to do these girls' eyebrows, because I was seeing the girls' eyebrows and they
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  needed to be fixed.
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  I was like, yeah, no, let me fix your eyebrow, girl.
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  And then I was like, yeah, I should do this.
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  And then I started to shave the girls' eyebrows, charge them through into Jamaica and
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  dollars.
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  That's like probably a dollar, right?
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  Yeah.
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  And then I started to shave it and fill it in.
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  And yeah, the girls loved it.
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  I was known as the eyebrow girl on the UTek campus, and then I started to do makeup.
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  Yeah.
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  So I learned from YouTube University.
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  Yeah, man.
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  You know, and then I got certified in that and then I went on to work on travel program.
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  And I decided that I wanted to do something that, you know, like if the girls don't want
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  makeup, they're going to want something else, right?
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  Okay.
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  You know, so I was like, yeah, maybe I should do lashes and microblading.
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  So I went and I did a one-day lash course, one day lash course and then I did a two-day
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  microblading course.
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  So I was grateful at my first, I actually was staying at my friend in Florida and I'm
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  telling you, I spent like 10 hours in her eyes.
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  I'm sure her butt's still hurting her right now.
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  I said, at every time, yeah, man, 10 hours and I was just, I just had a knock for it.
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  I wasn't the best but I didn't give up right as I finished the training.
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  I was legit in somebody's eyelash.
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  Yeah, man.
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  So that's all you have to do, it's right.
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  That's all you have to make sure that you don't forget what you learned.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, it wasn't the best looking back.
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  I'm so grateful for that course because it, it, it started me where I'm at.
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  But honestly, if I had more money, I would have invested in something longer, something
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  more thorough, you know, because usually, you know, when you have the money and you invest
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  properly the first time, it seems you're a lot of time and you're able to make money
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  faster.
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  Sure.
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  So you said you went for a work and travel program 2017, what was that for?
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  If what is a work and travel program?
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  Okay.
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  So in you take, you have, you have the opportunity to go to the US to work.
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  Oh, I didn't know that.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  So yeah, have a, have a bit of money.
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  Right.
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  I don't know.
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  It's not something that's like compulsory, but it's usually people who, you know, they really
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  want to give you a whole lot of opportunities that you can go there and you can work for four
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  months, you know, in the summer and then like you come back, you can help for pay a school
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  fee.
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  I did that.
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  I helped mommy pay a school fee and it also helped me to invest into the courses.
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  Yeah, man.
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  So it helps you come back to Jamaica, then you graduate, you take, yeah.
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  And then what's our next step?
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  What was my next step?
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  Yeah.
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  I was doing internship in college and I was like, yeah, no, I can't.
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  I saw her to treat employees and I was like, no, I want to be the, I don't want to have
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  to do this.
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  Okay.
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  So I was like, yeah, no.
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  So I started my business.
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  I mean, I was doing it from while I was in college from the $300.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, man.
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  But they know, I was still in college when I came back from the work and travel program.
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  So I was doing lashes.
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  I was doing makeup on campus for graduate, Shawn, the girls love that.
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  I was making money in college.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, man.
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  I had a lot of coffee.
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  I had those skills.
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  So yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And then I just started my business, started my business and then some, I went to a expo
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  and I was one of the vendors there and one of the top, like a top school back in Jamaica
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  and I don't remember her name.
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  What she had asked me, it's a makeup school.
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  She owns a makeup school.
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  She had asked me, I was doing a demo.
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  I was doing a demo on how to make her bleed eyebrows, you know.
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  And the girl, the young lady said to me, have you ever thought about teaching?
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  I was like, no, I was like, I should teach.
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  And she's like, you're so thorough, you know, like you, I think you do a really good job
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  and hearing that from her because she's like the owner of one of the top makeup schools.
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  I think it's face to face or face place.
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  I think her name is Sharon.
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  Trust me, man.
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  When she said that to me, I was like, yeah, no, let me, let me see what that's all about.
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  And then I started this university, you know, where I teach individuals to do lash extension
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  on micro bleeding.
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  And that was in 2020, COVID, that was when I had my first class.
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  And I was like, everybody was telling me, shafa, do keep the class because you know, people
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  don't want to tell you, if you come out for the road, this time like everybody was running
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  up and down because of COVID.
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  And they were like, don't keep the class because I still kept the class.
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  And I had my first five students and they came and they learned.
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  And I was like, yeah, no, I can't do five days anymore.
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  I need to do seven days because I, I respect value.
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  I love when people can get value from something that you are offering.
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  So I realized that, you know, the five days wasn't working.
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  The students were still asking me like a question and I was like, yeah, I'm going to do seven
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  days and I'm going to do internship.
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  So I was actually the first person to do so much these and do the internship.
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  You know, so that was really the difference that I was trying to bring to the industry
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  back in Jamaica.
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  But the problem was the Dalit them couldn't afford it.
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  I was probably one of the more premium premium academies back in Jamaica because everybody
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  was doing one day or two day and trying, yeah, and they're trying like 400, 500 US.
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  And that's cost effective, you know, it's short, it's cost effective, but because I sell
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  products, I see the girls come to me and they're like, they don't know what they want.
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  They don't know what to get.
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  They don't know the name of the products because, you know, and I was like, yeah, no, I need
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  to make sure that I bridge this gap and I offer something different.
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  So the girls can be better, you know, and the work can be better across the board too.
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  So yeah, I was really trying to do something different back in Jamaica.
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  So I realized that that's the most that everybody loved the curriculum.
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  They loved that.
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  It was so much days and whatever.
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  They were like, oh, it's so expensive.
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  And I'm like, yeah, babe, it is what it is.
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  And I'm not, I wasn't going to drop my prices because I know my value.
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  I once you know your value, you can't.
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  Is this when you start to get the itch that you need to leave?
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  Yeah, I mean, I always felt like I didn't really belong there.
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  Really?
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  Yeah, I was like, well, I especially, I don't know if it was because I was trained in
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  the States and I was exposed to how the girls like really, you know, when I used to do
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  lashes in the States, the girls are booking their refills before back in Jamaica.
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  When I tried out with the Jamaicans, it was so hard.
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  It was, it was not the culture back in Jamaica for that.
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  You know, I don't know if it was, you know, but that was just my experience.
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  But yeah, no, I had a good rondo in Jamaica.
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  My premium service is like my clients loved it.
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  And honestly, I went back to Jamaica the other day and I really realized I was like, I'm
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  so grateful to God that I was like, my clients really, it allowed me to see how valuable I was.
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  Because I was, I started to really, I really didn't start, I started to lose it, lose the spark.
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  As in being here.
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  Being here.
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  Okay, hold on.
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  So you come here in November?
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  No, I come here.
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  I came here in October.
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  You come here October, you go home after Christmas?
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  No, I went just to visit.
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  Okay, the family business I've been in December.
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  So that you've been here for about two months before you go home.
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  And when you say you're starting to lose it here, what does that mean?
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  Yeah, because honestly, you know, you come, no clients.
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  Back in Jamaica, I'm booked.
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  I'm fully booked.
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  Did you have a goal in terms of financially before you said I'm getting on the plane?
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  I wanted to leave with with one million.
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  That never happened.
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  I almost know.
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  Honestly, I almost made, I was at 800 grand.
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  Okay.
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  No lies.
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  But you know, try to make it.
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  I don't know.
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  Right.
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  But it's still impressive that you had a goal.
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  You had a financial goal.
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  And then you like the time has come.
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  Yeah.
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  And then you realize that boy, you need for put certain things in place before you leave.
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  What are those things?
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  I had to like run ads in order to getting students and clients.
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  For Dubai.
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  For Dubai.
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  No, no, no.
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  Well, not for Dubai, because I didn't register as yet.
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  Okay.
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  I didn't register the business here as yet.
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  Right.
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  I will be doing that.
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  Sure.
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  But they know, you know, it's a lot of expenses.
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  Can you have to still be keeping up with your life back in Jamaica and taking care of those expenses?
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  So when it's time to save to come to a whole other country, it's a lot.
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  You mentioned that a part of the bigger dream is to bring students in Jamaica to come abroad and see and get that exposure.
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  I often say that I fell in love with Jamaica when I left.
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  And like a date.
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  Don't give it wrong.
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  I've always loved Jamaica, but like that deep, like feeling the need to talk about Jamaica every single day, feeling the need to let people know something about Jamaica that they didn't know.
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  To broaden the spectrum, to challenge your stereotype.
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  Like I genuinely feel like it's my life's work, right?
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  And I only felt that when I left.
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  And I'm just wondering from your experience, do you want believe that you have seen Jamaica differently having left?
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  And if so, why?
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  And two, is the goal to always stay away?
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  Yeah, I'm okay with staying away.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Because when you're exposed, I was even talking to somebody that's in my workplace.
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  And she's like, oh, she feels tired of Dubai already.
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  She's been here for probably like four years.
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  And she's like, she'd love to go back home.
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  But she came back home.
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  Took to earn what?
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  You know what I mean?
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  Jamaica is a beautiful place.
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  It's warm.
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  The people are.
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  Love the people.
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  Like we're the best.
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  But the earning capacity is just not it.
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  Especially when you have big dreams.
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  No.
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  That's my experience.
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  Sure.
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  That's my experience.
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  And I know people, people would say, you know, like, yeah, people, I want to go to Jamaica, you know, it's true.
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  But how much are them?
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  Yeah, it's just a percentage.
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  And you have a lot of people going to college and in the hospitality industry.
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  But I'm not going to say I never like to say that an industry is over saturated because there's always room where you can do something and thrive at it.
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  But I just feel like Jamaica is beautiful, but ain't nothing wrong.
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  You're not letting go of your roots because you move elsewhere.
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  Like people are going to know that I am Jamaican.
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  I'm going to find somewhere to squeeze my accent in.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, you're going to know.
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  So it doesn't take away from from from my home.
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  I don't have to be there to, you know, be like ripping.
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  No, I can be out here and I'm spreading.
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  Let's just say I'm the one spreading the good news about Jamaica.
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  I'll do it from afar because I want to earn more.
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  As I said, I was going to do more.
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  Luxurpriced lash artist there.
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  We're.
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  I want to be able to do that in another place where I don't have person saying a lot.
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  Expensively.
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  Right.
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  You know what I mean?
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  So yeah, I just.
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  You speak about wanting children and a family.
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  And I wonder in terms of like location.
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  Has that then come into your mind?
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  Because for example, myself with my girls, I always said by eight,
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  we need to be back in Jamaica.
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  That was much.
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  I know by their eight.
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  Why?
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  Because so I went to preschool in general.
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  It's like living for good.
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  Yeah.
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  And they're five noisy.
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  Girl.
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  I know.
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  But the reason for me, I felt like eight was a good age because.
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  You still have enough of your formative years, right?
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  To have Jamaica kind of shape your character.
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  Okay.
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  And so that was my deadline.
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  The point is I always knew that they were never going to stay in England.
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  Because the values, you know, when you speak about the values that you hold there to you.
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  For me, my values with the UK don't align.
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  And as our children get older, I appreciate that they spend more time away from us.
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  So whilst now we're living in this little bubble that I can make sure that the values that are important to me
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  are being instilled in them, you know, as they get older, as their peers become more important
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  rather than their mother.
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  These are the types of things I think about in terms of what is the wider culture of the space going to impart on my children.
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  And for me, the UK culturally just is very miserable, you know, because of the weather I heard too.
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  Yeah.
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  And I think, you know, it's more than it just being gray outdoors.
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  I think that that has kind of seeped into the culture of complaining.
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  And don't get around, you know, I love a good vent.
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  Yes.
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  You know, I can call you and we can vent about X, Y, Z.
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  But after the venting, we need to then move on.
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  Do something.
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  Make decisions.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Make it.
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  And I feel like they wallow in the venting.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  Without any action or changing anything.
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  And that part, I don't like.
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  I also find it quite anti-competitive in the sense that, you know, I land in New York, I feel like I can take over the world.
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  I don't know how or why, but I feel like there's just an energy that says, yeah, man, you can't take over the world.
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  Yeah.
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  In England, I almost feel as though you are looked down upon for wanting to be the best.
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  Right.
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  Because you must all get to participation middle and we must all be equal.
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  And don't get wrong, you know, I believe that we may come into the world equally.
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  And even that I say with hesitation, because respectfully, the environment of the womb is not equal for many people.
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  Regardless, I'm not saying it's anyone's fault, but I'm saying there are different things that play.
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  If you are a wealthy lady who is able to eat lots of organic foods and have her chef make food for her and she doesn't have stress and all of these things,
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  then your womb is probably in a better condition than my womb.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, it's just what it is.
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  So this idea that it's all equal, I think, is also a fallacy that we keep saying to people that is disingenuous.
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  But aside from that, I just think that Jamaica made me, right?
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  Even, and I wanted to ask you, is there anything about your childhood that has allowed you to be fearless in this way,
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  to be brave, to say, you know, I have these dreams and I'm going to go for them or have you kind of just not fault about it.
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  Because I think sometimes also when you're living, you don't necessarily reflect on the pieces that made it happen.
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  As I said, I was sheltered.
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  Mom was thinking about a couple months ago.
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  My mom used to tell me that I need to home by myself because she used to tell me that I need to home by myself a lot.
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  And I feel like that made me this fearless know because I'm able to do and talk.
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  You know, do what I want to do now.
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  So yeah, I definitely feel like that was because sometimes she used to tell me for shut up, you know, I'm not bashing what I'm just saying.
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  I wasn't able to express myself a lot.
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  Do you think she was trying to protect you?
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  I don't know what it was.
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  I don't know.
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  I'm just remembering those core memories.
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  What I just feel like no, because I wasn't able to say and do a lot.
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  I feel like that's what has made me this fearless individual know.
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  A sheltered life is, yeah, like I definitely feel like she was trying to protect me.
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  Definitely think so.
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  She was trying to protect me from boys.
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  What do you think in terms of their parenting style has really fostered that bond?
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  And I'm selfishly asking for myself, especially the mother daughter bond, because I think that it's either great or terrible.
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  Very few times you meet people and they're like, oh, yeah, me and my mom are so, so like it's neutral.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know.
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  She's just supportive.
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  Like, they make sure that I had my, the money, you know, to go on the work and travel program.
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  I wanted to go on it from second year.
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  They were like, boy, I'm only the kind of steep.
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  And then they ensure that my sister and I went on it and they said, listen, I'm gonna go make the money.
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  Who long the money for the next year?
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  Okay?
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  You know, so they taught us those things.
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  And I don't know.
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  It's just the support.
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  Like, I don't know where I would be if I didn't have the support.
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  I probably wouldn't even be here.
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  I'm just going to be honest with you.
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  Does your drive and desire to, to realize the dreams that you can visualize come any part from the little girl who's blue debt church?
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  Have you considered if it doesn't work out?
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  Or is that not how you work out?
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  No, no, no, no.
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  Okay, it's off to work out.
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  It has to, there's no, go back home.
• 21:21
  First of all, I had a yard sale, right?
• 21:25
  It's serious movements.
• 21:27
  It wasn't like I did, but they moved.
• 21:30
  Okay, girl, I'm going to have to buy back every, because when I came here, I had to buy everything over lines, bed, everything to do that back in Jamaica, the ghetto.
• 21:44
  I ain't doing that no more.
• 21:46
  I don't want to have to buy back no more stuff, move back.
• 21:50
  No, it has to work.
• 21:53
  Why wouldn't it work?
• 21:55
  Do you have in your mind when you foresee something happening that you want XYZ by this time?
• 22:02
  I don't, I don't love to do that.
• 22:04
  I mean, it's because I need to work on my discipline.
• 22:08
  I'm from however, I want to try to do that.
• 22:12
  But then I've, I'm not saying that I, there, there's not room for improvement in my life.
• 22:19
  Maybe if I do do that, it would, it would be better.
• 22:24
  But I feel like, like, because for example, when I got offered the job, I was like, okay, I'm just going to do this for six months.
• 22:35
  I can't do that for six months now.
• 22:37
  The level of stability that I'm going to need in order to start from scratch.
• 22:41
  No, it has to be longer.
• 22:43
  And that's why, maybe that's why I don't like to be too stringent on making my plans,
• 22:50
  because when you really sit on a pencil, all the things that you need to achieve,
• 22:56
  you kind of need to be a little more realistic.
• 22:59
  I already have in my mind how long I'm going to give that company.
• 23:03
  And I'm excited to give them those years, because I, I think why I'm so excited is because I've always had to
• 23:14
  pinch from the money that I earn in Jamaica and live off of that versus having to get it from somebody else.
• 23:20
  Yeah.
• 23:21
  Give me.
• 23:22
  Want it.
• 23:24
  I don't have nobody giving me handouts back in Jamaica.
• 23:28
  I don't, I mean, apart from the support from my parents, and I don't ask them for money like that,
• 23:32
  is when we really need it mask.
• 23:36
  And so for me to have to actually not say, okay, I have to do a client today to get money,
• 23:42
  or I have to be, I have to make sure that this week is full like, boy, don't, I don't have to worry about those gymnastics.
• 23:49
  I feel like that is why I'm so excited to experience this new way of making money,
• 23:57
  because back then, even though yes, I love being an entrepreneur and not having to depend on, as you said,
• 24:03
  like somebody else to tell me when to get a vacation, there's still some downsides of being an entrepreneur.
• 24:13
  You're broke.
• 24:15
  You're broke.
• 24:17
  Okay, it's like a serious level of brokenness.
• 24:21
  But yeah, like you're getting your paycheck every, every month.
• 24:26
  I want to get ready for you.
• 24:28
  Yeah.
• 24:29
  Yeah, man, I'm excited for that.
• 24:33
  Are there any misconceptions about your life here in Dubai?
• 24:36
  Yeah, man.
• 24:37
  People, I'm sure of it.
• 24:38
  They're like, oh, you're moving.
• 24:40
  Like, what did I tell people that I'm moving to Dubai?
• 24:43
  Dubai?
• 24:44
  Yeah, you have money.
• 24:46
  I'm coming here to look the money.
• 24:48
  What do you mean?
• 24:50
  Yeah, that's definitely a misconception for sure.
• 24:54
  I'm coming here to be where the money resides more, because money's in Jamaica.
• 24:59
  There's no doubt about it, right?
• 25:01
  But I definitely feel like I want the inspiration of,
• 25:06
  I feel like the architecture here alone inspires me.
• 25:10
  I feel like I am in this big jungle.
• 25:15
  And I'm a baby lion.
• 25:18
  And I'm growing into this big jungle, like just like going through the phases,
• 25:22
  learning the jungle, learning where to get food from, you know,
• 25:26
  learning the different parts of the jungle.
• 25:28
  And I'm enjoying the journey.
• 25:33
  It's funny that you describe about the architecture, because I was saying to my dad this morning,
• 25:37
  I feel like for some people being here can go one of two ways, right?
• 25:42
  You either get deeply inspired by the wealth that you see,
• 25:46
  or it can feel really daunting about what you don't have.
• 25:49
  And it sounds that you are the former.
• 25:51
  You're inspired by seeing what people have and the growth and the potential.
• 25:58
  I am kind of daunting sometimes, because I'm not used to this level of luck.
• 26:07
  Because it's a big sacrifice to leave what I'm so used to to come here,
• 26:13
  to be in a whole new world, not be earning as much question for you.
• 26:19
  If your life was a postcard, what would the picture look like?
• 26:26
  That's what the picture would be.
• 26:29
  And it would probably say a note, have a note that says just do it.
• 26:37
  Thank you very much.
• 26:39
  Thank you for having me.