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MONEY DIARIES: Big Below Deck Vibes! · She's On The Money

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Speaker 1: Hello, my name's Santasha Nabananga Bamblet. I'm a proud your
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Speaker 1: the Order Kerni Whoalbury and a waddery woman. And before
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Speaker 1: we get started on She's on the Money podcast, I
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Speaker 1: would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land
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Speaker 1: of which this podcast is recorded on a wondery country,
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Speaker 1: acknowledging the elders, the ancestors and the next generation coming
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Speaker 1: through as this podcast is about connecting, empowering, knowledge sharing
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Speaker 1: and the storytelling of you to make a difference for
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Speaker 1: today and lasting impact for tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
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Speaker 3: She's on the Money, She's on the Money.
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Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome to She's on the Money, the podcast
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Speaker 4: for millennials who want financial freedom. Welcome back to another
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Speaker 4: shot back Money Diary Monday, where we chat to a
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Speaker 4: community member about them, their life, their story, their money
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Speaker 4: and all the interesting bits in between. And Victoria, are
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Speaker 4: you surprised to hear that I have a good ear?
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Speaker 5: No, absolutely not, But I cannot wait because I heard
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Speaker 5: I heard on the grapevine.
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Speaker 6: You're gonna love this show.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that I heard on the.
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Speaker 5: Grape vine that this Money Diary is gonna send blow
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Speaker 5: deck vibes, and we all know how obsessed I am
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Speaker 5: with that show.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know if that's true or not, but
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Speaker 2: Anna Lisa let.
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Speaker 5: It slip before and I'm actually like, ooh, alrighty well,
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Speaker 5: let me tell you all about her.
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Speaker 4: So our diarist says. I'm currently thirty three living in
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Speaker 4: the Gold Coast, but grew up between South Africa, London
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Speaker 4: and California in a relationship, and I work as a
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Speaker 4: physio with a few twists along the way. Three years ago,
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Speaker 4: I took a leap of faith to quit my stable,
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Speaker 4: permanent government job working in Queensland Health to move to
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Speaker 4: on Tieps, France to be a yachty. The rest is history.
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Speaker 4: I had a great season on a beautiful eighty meter
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Speaker 4: motor yacht Milch around one hundred years ago, absolutely the
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Speaker 4: hardest job of my life, but some epic financial benefits
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Speaker 4: came alongside this. I returned home about eight months later
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Speaker 4: to head back into physiotherapy, happier than ever to be
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Speaker 4: in my regular job. Wouldn't take the experience or anything.
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Speaker 4: Now I know how to fold napkins and have some
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Speaker 4: fantastic bed making skills.
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, it does throw below deck vibes, you
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Speaker 5: love fun. Money Diarist, welcome to the show. I am
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Speaker 5: so excited to have you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks so much. Girls low key, how is
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Speaker 2: Auntie's cuse like? We're going here, You're gonna love it.
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Speaker 2: It's so stunning and it's such a fun area. Oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh, I have a good time.
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Speaker 5: I have some offline questions, but we really should get
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Speaker 5: into the money dory because I don't think anyone cares
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Speaker 5: about my travel plans.
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Speaker 2: All they care about is your money dory.
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Speaker 5: So let's jump straight into it with the first question,
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Speaker 5: which is always can.
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Speaker 6: You tell us a little bit about your money story.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I grew up in a single parent family,
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Speaker 2: so you know, we were always conscious of money. So
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Speaker 2: I think my whole life, I've just been you know,
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Speaker 2: a whare of my spending. I've always tried to save. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: going through UNI was really tough. I'm paying those fees.
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Speaker 2: I lived in Melbourne for those three years, so I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, I worked a ton outside of UNI, So
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Speaker 2: I think from you know, from the get going over
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Speaker 2: the last few years coming into physio, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: I feel like I just have always had a really
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Speaker 2: good saving mindset. But I've always, you know, worked really
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Speaker 2: hard to get where I am. Of course, how cool?
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Speaker 2: I love that?
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Speaker 5: All right?
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Speaker 2: Next question is.
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Speaker 6: What do you do for work and how much money
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Speaker 6: do you own?
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Speaker 2: So I am a physio. I'm a physiotherapist. I work
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Speaker 2: in Southeast Queensland slash Northern New South Wales. So I
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Speaker 2: have three jobs three three. I know it was four
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Speaker 2: last year, but I had to have down. So I
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Speaker 2: have one kind of full time job in aged care.
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Speaker 2: I locom so I do random shifts at one of
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Speaker 2: the local hospitals. And then I'm a sole trader in
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Speaker 2: the disability arena. So I have three and I make
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Speaker 2: about one hundred and forty thousand between those. Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 5: Cool we allowed to ask about an old job here, jess?
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Speaker 5: Or do you want me to wait till the end?
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Speaker 5: I commend to the end.
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Speaker 2: I really want to ask loud? Yes? Sorry? Sorry? Sorry?
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Speaker 2: All right? I want to know.
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Speaker 5: Next question, what is your big money goal. I think
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Speaker 5: it's more of a lifestyle goal for me. So I
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Speaker 5: just want to enjoy my life. I want to be
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Speaker 5: able to live comfortably. I want to be able to
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Speaker 5: have enough money to take you know, a good vacation
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Speaker 5: or to time off during the year to enjoy my life.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to be one of those people that
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Speaker 2: you know, waits until they're sixty five to be able
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Speaker 2: to take heaps of time off. So I think my money,
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Speaker 2: my financial goal is just being able to have enough
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Speaker 2: money to be comfortable in order to have the lifestyle
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Speaker 2: and the time off and the flexibility that I want,
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Speaker 2: but still able to comfortably manage my mortgage and those
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Speaker 2: you know, those yearly bills.
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Speaker 5: I love that. That's a good goal. How old do
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Speaker 5: you think you'll when you do want to retire?
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Speaker 2: I really love what I do, and I'm lucky that
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Speaker 2: it's a job that I can probably do until I retire.
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Speaker 2: There's so many different arenas of physio. I mean, earlier
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Speaker 2: the better, but I'm pretty happy working into my sixties.
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Speaker 2: But that is also being said, like, I want to
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Speaker 2: live a life where I can take time off every
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Speaker 2: single year, every few months. So I'd be happy to
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Speaker 2: work into my sixties. But if I could retire in
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Speaker 2: fifteen years, that would be great too. That would be
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Speaker 2: an absolute win.
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Speaker 6: That's the ultimate goal, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But I love what I do, so I never dread
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Speaker 2: going to work. I'm very lucky in that sense that
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Speaker 2: I don't mind working a little bit longer if I can,
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Speaker 2: you enjoy myself along the way.
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Speaker 5: That's so epic. Next question, do you have any investments.
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Speaker 5: If so, what are they.
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Speaker 2: My partner and I have invested money in crypto. I
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Speaker 2: would like to expand that a little bit more into
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Speaker 2: other things, maybe the stock market or things like that,
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Speaker 2: but one thing at a time. I need to learn
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Speaker 2: a little bit more about that and how to go
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Speaker 2: about it and the ups and the downs. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: right now, just cryptocurrency.
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Speaker 6: How did you peak crypto?
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Speaker 2: My partner's idea seems to be the way. Yeah, but
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty happy with the decision. It was a mutual decision.
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Speaker 2: You know, we're in a position where we have a
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Speaker 2: little bit of disposable income, so if we lose it all,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's not the end of the world. If
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Speaker 2: something comes from it, fantastic. You know. We live within
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Speaker 2: our means and we don't put in to crypto what
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Speaker 2: we aren't willing to lose. So you know, see how
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Speaker 2: things go in the next few years. Good time to
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Speaker 2: buy hippeak.
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Speaker 6: Next question is do you have any dates?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I owe a few thousand dollars for we just
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Speaker 2: were renovating. I have seven grand left to pay for
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Speaker 2: my Ikia kitchen. Exciting. Yes, yeah, that's zero percent interest
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Speaker 2: for the first year, so I'm happy just to pay
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Speaker 2: it off little by little in the next year. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's it, just the just the kitchen. How good?
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Speaker 4: And a mortgage as well?
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Speaker 2: Did you say the more? I was about to say,
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Speaker 2: how good?
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Speaker 6: And what's the debt on the property you're renovating.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, luckily not too much more than we would have
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Speaker 2: liked to have spend. But that's just the market at
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Speaker 2: this point. But yeah, we were very lucky finding the
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Speaker 2: place that we live where we live. Yeah, we were
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Speaker 2: happy with the price considering the market. So yeah, epic.
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Speaker 5: And does your partner have any debt or is it
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Speaker 5: just the kitchen and the mortgage between the two of you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just that airpic all right.
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Speaker 6: Next question is do you shot back?
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Speaker 2: Is that like the where you go to a shop,
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Speaker 2: Like you go to a shop and you kind of
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Speaker 2: put it on credit and then you can pay it back.
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Speaker 5: We're about to blow your mind absolutely, Okay, Jess, what's
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Speaker 5: shot back?
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Speaker 4: So shot back is a plug in. They also have
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Speaker 4: an app. It's a cash back site, so when you
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Speaker 4: shop online and sometimes in store as well, you essentially
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Speaker 4: get cash back on the purchases you make. So they
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Speaker 4: get essentially what you could look at as a commission
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Speaker 4: from the platform for sending you there, and then they
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Speaker 4: share that with you.
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Speaker 2: So it's a really good way if you.
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Speaker 4: Are an online shopping to make a little bit of
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Speaker 4: extra money back.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't. I don't do a lot of
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Speaker 2: online shopping, so I don't know if that's worth it
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Speaker 2: for me. I don't know something i'd not heard about.
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Speaker 2: So there you are right now, you know. Yeah, we'll
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Speaker 2: look into him more, you know, all right?
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Speaker 6: Next question is what is your best money habit?
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Speaker 2: M best money habit is also probably tied to my
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Speaker 2: worst money habit. I think my best money habit is
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Speaker 2: I just enjoy my life. You know. I save enough
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Speaker 2: to be able to go on holidays, go out for drinks,
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Speaker 2: go for dinner with friends, like, I'm not too stressed.
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Speaker 2: I think I have a really good balance. You know,
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Speaker 2: I have enough in my savings and I make enough
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Speaker 2: luckily that I can really enjoy my life and I
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Speaker 2: don't miss out on things because I have a savings
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Speaker 2: to pay for that, so on a whay am, I'm
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Speaker 2: able to go on a little holiday or a girl's
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Speaker 2: week and away. So I think that money habit of
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Speaker 2: just having money there all the time and being able
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Speaker 2: to enjoy it, enjoy my life, I think is a
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Speaker 2: really good habit. So just savings and making sure that
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Speaker 2: I enjoy my heart spend money.
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Speaker 5: Now, tell us how does it link to your worst
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Speaker 5: money habit? What is that I probably spend a little
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Speaker 5: bit too much on takeaway and dinners.
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Speaker 2: I think I could probably pull back on some of
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Speaker 2: that disposable spending of drinks and eating out. So something
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Speaker 2: that I can easily pull back on, and that's something that, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it could definitely work on some of those social activities
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Speaker 2: or just takeaway things like that could improve a little.
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Speaker 2: But I do enjoy my life and at this point,
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Speaker 2: twenty bucks here and there and takeaway is not the
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Speaker 2: end of the world.
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Speaker 4: It's finding the balance, right, like the things that you enjoy,
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Speaker 4: the goals that you have, and if it's within your means,
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Speaker 4: it's definitely not the worst thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, all right.
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Speaker 5: The last question in the structured questions that we always
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Speaker 5: ask money diarists is what grade would you give yourself
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Speaker 5: if we forced you to give yourself a grade?
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Speaker 2: Is that like out of five stars?
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Speaker 5: It could be five stars, it could be ABCDFG, it
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Speaker 5: could be anything.
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Speaker 2: Probably probably at this point four stars. I've been really
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Speaker 2: good this last few years about saving. We knew we
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Speaker 2: wanted to buy a house, we knew you were probably
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Speaker 2: gonna have to renovate. So I think my saving has
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Speaker 2: really gotten quite good. But I think I could still improve,
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Speaker 2: like learning a little bit more about financial literacy, investments, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: just those little things that are kind of the next
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Speaker 2: level of financial literacy I think I could improve on.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I've had a really good few years, thankfully,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, I just kind of want to take it
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Speaker 2: to the next level in the next year or two.
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Speaker 2: How good?
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Speaker 5: All right, Well, I cannot wait to get into boat chat,
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Speaker 5: and we will do that after this really quick break.
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Speaker 2: We are back money diarist.
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Speaker 5: I need to know, Jess said, I had to wait
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Speaker 5: until this segment of the show to ask you, can
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Speaker 5: you tell us about being a yochtie, like how much
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Speaker 5: do you earn?
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Speaker 2: How much do you actually have to spend? And what's
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Speaker 2: it like? It was the hardest job of my entire life.
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Speaker 2: I definitely earned every single penny on the job. So
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Speaker 2: I worked on an eighty foot boat. She was about
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Speaker 2: one hundred years old. She was actually a warship. She
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Speaker 2: was a hospital at one point. What. Yeah, it was
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Speaker 2: really an old historical boat. And it was awesome because
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Speaker 2: you could see like old photos of it. It used
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Speaker 2: to be a gunship, so old photos of it in
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Speaker 2: the war, and with all the old navy guys and
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Speaker 2: stuff on, like old photos on the wolf, that was amazing.
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Speaker 2: It is owned by like a quite wealthy British Italian
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Speaker 2: family and yeah, they were really great. We had fantastic guests,
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Speaker 2: we had fantastic owners. But it was really tough. You'd
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Speaker 2: be doing. I mean technically you got an eight hour break,
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Speaker 2: but you probably got about six hours of sleep some nights,
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Speaker 2: most nights, i'd say, and you would do like you
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Speaker 2: would rotate between laundry, housekeeping service. It was amazing, but
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Speaker 2: absolutely have never worked so hard in my entire life,
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Speaker 2: scrub toilets, making beds, detailing, vacuum cleaners. We were based
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Speaker 2: out of the Mediterranean, so that was amazing. Yeah, it
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Speaker 2: was an amazing season, but made me very thankful for
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Speaker 2: my physio job. Oh my gosh, how much did you
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Speaker 2: earn doing that? I was a green stew so it
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Speaker 2: was my very first yachting job, my first and last.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember what I earned. It wasn't very much.
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Speaker 2: I think I was on about twelve hundred euros a month.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's not that much, isn't. No, we were technically
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Speaker 2: not a charter boat. So if you say, work on
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Speaker 2: a charter boat where they're renting it out to new
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Speaker 2: guests every week or every fortnight, you're going to make
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Speaker 2: a ton of money and tips. That's where a lot
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Speaker 2: of the money is.
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Speaker 4: That's what I was going to ask.
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Speaker 5: I'm thinking, this is going to be like below deck
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Speaker 5: and then every week you go down below deck and
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Speaker 5: you count you tips.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's like that on a lot of the
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Speaker 2: other boats. But because we were a private boat, we
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Speaker 2: got a little bit of tips, but it was more.
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Speaker 2: We got to go hiking with the families, We got
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Speaker 2: to go to dinner with the families. You got to
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Speaker 2: go like tubing and swinging from like the boat swings,
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Speaker 2: and it was a really like boat to work on.
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Speaker 5: Enjoy being there instead of being like yeah all the time,
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Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, doing that and getting to hang out
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Speaker 5: with a billion dollar family, that's pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. What's the worst?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, get literally getting paid to hang out with billionaires
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Speaker 5: like that's her job.
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Speaker 2: Yess. Well, we definitely had to clean their toilets and stuff,
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Speaker 2: so kept you humble. Yeah, but it was great. But
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Speaker 2: you know, you didn't have to pay for rent. You'd
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Speaker 2: never had to pay for food. You always had Seven
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Speaker 2: Star food leftovers that you could always eat. Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 2: how cool. Yeah, so it was amazing. Would probably have
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Speaker 2: continued to do it had my personal situation at home
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Speaker 2: been a little bit different, I probably would have done
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Speaker 2: another season or two and gone to maybe a charter
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Speaker 2: boat where you can make more money. But you know
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Speaker 2: some of my friends, they are making thousands of dollars
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Speaker 2: of tips in a fortnight.
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Speaker 6: Wow, had a fine today's job.
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Speaker 4: Because I'm sure there's probably some people listening, going, I
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Speaker 4: can do I want to do that? Yeah, yeah, what
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Speaker 4: I did.
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Speaker 2: I'm really lucky I had a British passport or have
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Speaker 2: a British passport, so it was quite easy for me.
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Speaker 2: I didn't have to worry about the visa side of things.
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Speaker 2: But you do have to get a work visa for
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Speaker 2: wherever you want to get a boat, whether America can
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Speaker 2: be a little bit tougher to do that. So I
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Speaker 2: started in the Mediterranean, so I just went to France.
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Speaker 2: I did my training over there. You have to do
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Speaker 2: like a week long like fire rescue basic safety skills course,
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Speaker 2: and I actually met a beautiful chief stewardess. She was
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Speaker 2: renewing her training and that was my first training, so
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Speaker 2: we actually met and bonded and she got me a
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Speaker 2: job on her boat. So that was really very very
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Speaker 2: lucky for me. But I think what most people do
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Speaker 2: is they would go over there, and I actually did
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Speaker 2: interview for other jobs. You basically walk the door, so
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Speaker 2: you take your CV with you and you go to
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Speaker 2: where all these boats are parked. You might have to
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Speaker 2: talk your way in or sneak your way into some
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Speaker 2: of the locked ones jeky, and you literally just go
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Speaker 2: knocking boat to boat, You ring bells, you knock on
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Speaker 2: the doors, and you say hi, can I speak to
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Speaker 2: sow and Sew the chief stewardess or chief deck and yeah,
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Speaker 2: say hey, I'm looking for a job. Do you guys
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Speaker 2: have any stewardess jobs available? So that was yeah, also
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Speaker 2: very humbling.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you have to really hustle up a job, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you definitely have to work for it. There are
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Speaker 2: also other like job agency like yachting agencies that you
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Speaker 2: can sign up for, but as a Green stewardess, there's
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Speaker 2: not that many jobs that I was offered through there.
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Speaker 2: It was more you have to like just meet people.
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Speaker 2: It's all about who you know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so you ended up lucking out and finding a
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Speaker 6: boat with an.
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Speaker 2: H Yeah, it was amazing.
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Speaker 5: Are you still in contact with the family, Like, do
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Speaker 5: you contact them? Like you spend so much time with
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Speaker 5: them if you're going hiking and hanging out with them,
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Speaker 5: is that an ongoing relationship or is it like Noah,
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Speaker 5: it was just fleeting.
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Speaker 2: I was only there for a season, so I didn't
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Speaker 2: spend you know, I was only there for six months,
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Speaker 2: so I don't personally, but I know a lot of
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Speaker 2: the staff who were there, Like some of the people
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Speaker 2: on the boat had been there twenty years. Oh my god,
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Speaker 2: that family was like family to them. So yeah, a
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Speaker 2: lot of the people on the boat, I think, do
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Speaker 2: keep in contact with some of them. That's so sweet. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're still their employee, so you have to tread carefully
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Speaker 2: in those kind of scenarios.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, of course was that ever Really, I
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Speaker 5: guess hard.
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Speaker 6: To manage being so on all the time.
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Speaker 5: Like, one of the things that I really value, love you, Jess,
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Speaker 5: is being able to go home and just like curl
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Speaker 5: up in my bed and ignore absolutely everyone. You then
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Speaker 5: having to like share rooms and like be with your
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Speaker 5: co workers twenty four seven, Like, how did you distance yourself?
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Speaker 2: You live in each other's pockets. I was in a
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Speaker 2: like a three bed little dorm room, and I kid
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Speaker 2: you not. There was one single bed and like a
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Speaker 2: bunk bed, two little bunk beds. I think we had
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Speaker 2: like a foot and a half of space between the beds.
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Speaker 2: We had a tiny room, but we did ever own bathroom.
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Speaker 2: I was very lucky. I adored the people that I
17:21
Speaker 2: shared a room with. But yeah, you live in each
17:23
Speaker 2: other's pockets. They will rotate your break so some people
17:26
Speaker 2: will break from eleven to two, some people break from
17:28
Speaker 2: two to four, and so on, so you do get
17:31
Speaker 2: a few hours of alone time. But yeah, you definitely
17:34
Speaker 2: want to value those that you work with. Yeah, everyone
17:37
Speaker 2: really got along on our boat. It was a lot
17:39
Speaker 2: of family and a lot of couples, on the boat.
17:42
Speaker 2: So yeah, very very lucky to have had a very
17:45
Speaker 2: good crew. There's always little nitpicky things, and people get
17:48
Speaker 2: tired and you get a little bit short of people.
17:51
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you know that like, Okay,
17:53
Speaker 2: well I'm spending the next six months with these people,
17:57
Speaker 2: like in a teeny tiny boat, so we better kind
17:59
Speaker 2: of any issues. I think being on all the time
18:04
Speaker 2: was tough, but I really liked to do the laundry
18:07
Speaker 2: and the ironing. So you can kind of tuck yourself
18:09
Speaker 2: away in the laundry room, play your music, and you
18:12
Speaker 2: could just kind of like hang up by yourself and
18:14
Speaker 2: do laundry and clean for you know, eight hours at
18:17
Speaker 2: a time. So that was a really nice shift to
18:19
Speaker 2: do because you didn't have to like on have a
18:22
Speaker 2: smiley hair perfectly done the whole time. You could just
18:25
Speaker 2: kind of like relax and get into the groove of things,
18:28
Speaker 2: where say, if you were doing service that day, you
18:31
Speaker 2: would have to like.
18:32
Speaker 4: Really be honn did you ever get to swap your
18:35
Speaker 4: like if you were rusted on service and someone else
18:37
Speaker 4: was on laundry, were you allowed to be like, hey,
18:39
Speaker 4: like can I have your I'll do your laundry? If
18:41
Speaker 4: you do my service.
18:42
Speaker 2: You could kind of tell the chief stews like, oh,
18:44
Speaker 2: I don't really want to do service, like I'd prefer
18:47
Speaker 2: to do laundry. We had a girl who was one
18:50
Speaker 2: of the other stews. She loved doing service, so that
18:54
Speaker 2: was really good. I had had a lot of hospitality
18:56
Speaker 2: jobs before being a stewardess, so I was very happy
18:59
Speaker 2: just to do house keeping the laundry where she really
19:01
Speaker 2: wanted to do service. So just yeah, the chiefs sus
19:03
Speaker 2: would kind of figure who was better at this, what
19:06
Speaker 2: their strengths and weaknesses were, and kind of allocate accordingly. Yeah,
19:11
Speaker 2: how cool. Yeah, it was awesome.
19:14
Speaker 6: So I tell us about the nitty gritty. Did they
19:16
Speaker 6: tip you when you left?
19:17
Speaker 2: You do get a tip at the end of season,
19:19
Speaker 2: so it was nice. We had a few little guests
19:22
Speaker 2: here and there. It was more friends of the owners,
19:25
Speaker 2: and they would tip you on our boat, not that much,
19:29
Speaker 2: a few hundred bucks each at the end of the season.
19:32
Speaker 2: It's kind of an incentive to stay on that one
19:34
Speaker 2: boat the whole season. So for your bigger tip, you
19:37
Speaker 2: have to wait till the very end of the season
19:39
Speaker 2: and then you get tipped. I think I got a
19:41
Speaker 2: few thousand dollars, maybe three thousand dollars at the end
19:44
Speaker 2: of that. Thank you, We'll take that. Yeah, I was
19:48
Speaker 2: happy with that. I mean, no complaints. Granted, I was
19:51
Speaker 2: definitely you know, I was on a lower earning boat
19:55
Speaker 2: because one I was agreen stew two I wasn't too
19:58
Speaker 2: picky about my mind, just wanted for the experience. And
20:02
Speaker 2: three we weren't a charter boat, so we had the
20:04
Speaker 2: owners on board most of the time. If you do
20:07
Speaker 2: work on a charter boat, you'll earn literally like six
20:10
Speaker 2: times the amount. Wow. So it's really you know, if
20:13
Speaker 2: you're in it to make make kind of money and
20:17
Speaker 2: make bank, which you absolutely can work on a charter boat,
20:21
Speaker 2: you're gonna I don't know how you would work Tripoli
20:23
Speaker 2: as hard, but you do, you really, really really you
20:27
Speaker 2: earn every single penny that you make. It's really tough.
20:31
Speaker 5: I have to ask, though, I didn't grow up in
20:33
Speaker 5: a family with a yacht. Yes, no, definitely men as
20:38
Speaker 5: peasants over here. A season? What does that mean? So
20:42
Speaker 5: is that like a family goes and like spends a
20:46
Speaker 5: season on the boat like or is it like a
20:48
Speaker 5: week or is it a month? Is it like an
20:50
Speaker 5: entire year, like, how does it work? Do these people
20:52
Speaker 5: just go stay on this super yacht yea summer yep yep.
20:56
Speaker 2: So generally, I mean not that I'm like, yeah, a
21:00
Speaker 2: nodle about this, but you would generally have your like
21:04
Speaker 2: your Mediterranean season and that may be from you know,
21:07
Speaker 2: May until October, and you would generally be around, you know,
21:12
Speaker 2: around Europe, so whether that be like Croatia or you know, France,
21:16
Speaker 2: Italy that area for their summer, and then you would
21:20
Speaker 2: generally the flip side of the year, you would be
21:23
Speaker 2: most of the boats would generally be around Florida and
21:26
Speaker 2: the Bahamas, so you would do like a US season.
21:29
Speaker 2: So in between, like the boat is going to be
21:33
Speaker 2: on the dock getting fixed or any little you know,
21:36
Speaker 2: things that need to be upgraded. Our main dock was
21:40
Speaker 2: in Barcelona, so we were you know, renovating the boat
21:43
Speaker 2: and tidying things up for the first few months of
21:46
Speaker 2: my season. But you know, some of the boats that
21:48
Speaker 2: they might be like an adventure boat and they may
21:50
Speaker 2: go to like Iceland, or they may go South Africa.
21:54
Speaker 2: It really depends on the boat you're on. But I
21:55
Speaker 2: would say the large majority they would have a Mediterranean
21:59
Speaker 2: season for the Yearuropean summer, and then the flip side
22:02
Speaker 2: of the year, they would be around Florida and the Bahamas.
22:05
Speaker 6: And these families just stay on the boat year round.
22:07
Speaker 2: Is that so? Yeah, we had maybe four or five
22:13
Speaker 2: primary guests, like primary flicks, there was all one family,
22:16
Speaker 2: but they kind of used it like a time share.
22:18
Speaker 2: So one of the siblings and her family and her guests.
22:21
Speaker 2: They would maybe come on for three weeks and then
22:23
Speaker 2: you might get like a week off. You'd have to
22:25
Speaker 2: flip the boat. You'd have to clear out everything to
22:28
Speaker 2: a deep, clean, big detail of the whole boat, and
22:31
Speaker 2: then you might have like another extension of the family.
22:34
Speaker 2: You may have the other brother, his family and all
22:36
Speaker 2: their guests. They'll come on for a week and a half.
22:39
Speaker 2: Then you'd have to flip the boat detail it have
22:41
Speaker 2: two weeks off to do that, and then you may
22:44
Speaker 2: have like the other extension of the family or like
22:46
Speaker 2: and their guests. So you caught. You know, you might
22:48
Speaker 2: have a few weeks for one section of the family
22:51
Speaker 2: and then you know different guests. It's nice you get
22:54
Speaker 2: a variety of people, but it's very long to have
22:58
Speaker 2: the boss on board for several weeks time that would
23:01
Speaker 2: be so challenging. You're going at one hundred percent, one
23:05
Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour for weeks on end. Yeah, just
23:08
Speaker 2: to impress them. Oh my gosh.
23:09
Speaker 4: Also flipping it entire like resetting an entire boat, every
23:13
Speaker 4: fire boat. It's giving me really strong flashbacks, like when
23:16
Speaker 4: my mum would have people come over to the house
23:18
Speaker 4: and she'd be like, we musculan everything, and you're like
23:21
Speaker 4: shoving things into cupboards, and but you guys are doing it.
23:25
Speaker 6: On like another whole level.
23:27
Speaker 2: Literally right, No shoving things into cupboards on the super yocht. No,
23:31
Speaker 2: you're detailing the cupboards and you're folding every single you
23:34
Speaker 2: have to like fold and color coordinate all the rags.
23:37
Speaker 2: Everything was clean with like Q tips. What clean with
23:41
Speaker 2: Q tips? Not just your years. I'm going to get now,
23:44
Speaker 2: I'm going to get slammed for that.
23:45
Speaker 5: Obviously, you should put Q tips in your ears. Children
23:48
Speaker 5: don't do that. But oh my gosh, that is wild.
23:51
Speaker 5: It's interesting to ask pervy questions about how the other
23:53
Speaker 5: half live because it's just.
23:55
Speaker 2: So foreign to me.
23:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me tell ya, Like, I've into France, I've
23:59
Speaker 5: into the south of France. I'm very very lucky and
24:02
Speaker 5: grateful for that experience. But yeah, I stayed in hostels,
24:06
Speaker 5: So when you said bunk beds, I was like, yeah,
24:08
Speaker 5: I get vug beds.
24:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get vung beds. Yeah. It was nice because
24:12
Speaker 2: like we had to try out some of the beds
24:16
Speaker 2: and make sure. You know, before the season like officially started,
24:19
Speaker 2: we had detailed everything and we had to make sure
24:22
Speaker 2: that everything flowed perfectly in the rooms. So our chiefs
24:25
Speaker 2: do it that. Okay, everyone pick a room. You have
24:26
Speaker 2: to spend a night or two in there. Make sure
24:28
Speaker 2: the air con works, make sure the TVs work, make
24:30
Speaker 2: sure the music works, make sure the beds are comfortable,
24:33
Speaker 2: everything's clean. So you kind of got forty eight hour
24:36
Speaker 2: luxurious experience sleeping in the guest cabins. Don't mind if
24:41
Speaker 2: I do back to bunk beds after that.
24:43
Speaker 5: I'm happy to test anybody's guest cabins on their super yachts.
24:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, if anyone needs a hand, you just call me.
24:49
Speaker 5: I've got your back, yes, absolutely, yeah, yeah, my goshene
24:53
Speaker 5: as well.
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