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Forget Book Club. Moms Are Playing Mahjong · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: This is not for the faint at heart.
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  Speaker 2: It is hard to learn, and it's almost like once
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  Speaker 2: you learn you're part of this group, it's like a sorority.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, you play mamashaan Like it's hard, it's
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  Speaker 2: not easy, but it makes the winds so much bigger.
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  Speaker 2: You creating like it's it's like you're given chaos and
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  Speaker 2: you have the opportunity to organize and to create organization
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  Speaker 2: in chaos, which I feel like, as moms is really
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  Speaker 2: hard to do.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome Moms, Welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm Monica,
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  Speaker 3: Samuel is your host, and I'm here with my lovely
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  Speaker 3: co host, Julie or Caday.
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  Speaker 4: Julie, Monica, so good to be with you again again.
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  Speaker 3: We were together last week, Yes little moms retreat, our
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  Speaker 3: own little moms, Yes, with our kids.
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  Speaker 4: And we did bring the little monsters with us and.
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  Speaker 3: It was so much fun to see how we each parents.
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  Speaker 3: And so I got to say parents her and we
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  Speaker 3: both agreed. So we have a youngest child issue that
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there were visits. So your daughter Emmy
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  Speaker 3: kept saying that she wanted to go to Italy and
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  Speaker 3: you kept saying no.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we were on vacation already.
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  Speaker 3: Well, right, and so what did emmy say.
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  Speaker 4: She basically said, I really want to do this, and
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  Speaker 4: I said, you need to be working. And that's not
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  Speaker 4: exactly how it went down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what I heard, too is I heard her continually
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  Speaker 3: say we'll just talk about it later. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's what my son Chase does all the time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the word no, I don't know how.
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  Speaker 5: You put that in his vocabulary. It does not.
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  Speaker 3: Exist in his world, right, And the biggest example of
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  Speaker 3: that was one time he texted me and said, can
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  Speaker 3: I go skydiving?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? And I said absolutely not.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely no.
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  Speaker 3: Next thing I got was a text from him with
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  Speaker 3: a picture of him flying through the air he had
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  Speaker 3: already done.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is a crossover, but having adult like
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  Speaker 4: teenagers too, right on the fine line of adult children.
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  Speaker 4: They can't pay for themselves, but they want to do
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  Speaker 4: what they want to do, right, And so I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 4: for Emerson, parenting is a mere suggestion.
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  Speaker 5: I think.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so today she's in Italy somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, woke up Monday morning and she was gone, yeah, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 4: well so we'll deal with that later, lady.
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  Speaker 3: Is the parenting problem so we had another issue, which
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  Speaker 3: I thought was a great idea.
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  Speaker 5: So our friend Leslie is really.
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  Speaker 3: Good at board games, that's kind of her thing, very smart,
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  Speaker 3: but she wins all of them too, So I said,
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  Speaker 3: can you learn to play Majeoh? And teach us to
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  Speaker 3: play Maje?
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  Speaker 4: That was your first mistake, That was.
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  Speaker 3: My mistake, because she she rod, I got the majo
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  Speaker 3: on everything.
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  Speaker 5: I was all set, yeah, and she said we had
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  Speaker 5: the hats, I had everything, yeah, she said.
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  Speaker 3: I looked at everything. I looked at the rules and
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  Speaker 3: all that she said. And I just feel that there
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  Speaker 3: are some in our group who wouldn't quite grasp this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, now, which one who is it? Which one
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  Speaker 4: is the one that's not going to grasp it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Because I wanted to learn. So if she thought
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  Speaker 5: it was me, then I don't know what to tell her.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're a lawyer, yeah, I'm a nurse.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it had to be one of those other people.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I'm willing to admit it's probably me she's talking about,
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  Speaker 4: but we.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't get to learn. So now we have to learn.
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  Speaker 3: But I understand there's a lot of different ways to
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  Speaker 3: do it, and it's super popular right now. This is
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  Speaker 3: why I'm so excited. I have played about our guests,
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  Speaker 3: you have played that I started, and I've actually gone
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  Speaker 3: shopping for the tiles because I'm a big shop. I'm
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  Speaker 3: so thrilled when I found that the Gatsby Trials are
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  Speaker 3: back in at It's so mage on. Yeah, you need those,
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  Speaker 3: You need those because I don't. I don't play yet,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm going to have a really nice mash On
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  Speaker 3: set pretty soon.
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  Speaker 5: Listen.
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  Speaker 4: We have a long list of things to do once
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  Speaker 4: they really really leave the kids.
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  Speaker 5: So this is one of them.
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  Speaker 3: So we are excited to to have the founder and
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  Speaker 3: owner of Gina Feeds Catering, a boutique catering company in
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  Speaker 3: Southern California. Yes, she is a wife, mother of three daughters,
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  Speaker 3: and a business owner who understands the balancing acts mom's
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  Speaker 3: face every day. She will be sharing her culinary talent
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  Speaker 3: at the Majong Supper Club, Los Angeles and experimental Dining
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  Speaker 3: and Gaming event, which combines three hours of social majeon
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  Speaker 3: with three hours of a great meal, drinks, and community networking.
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  Speaker 3: Please welcome Gina Siegel.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, the Mom's Club.
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  Speaker 1: Gina Ladies, so nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 4: So nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 3: This is so exciting. This does combine two great things,
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  Speaker 3: great eating and Majeong, which is super popular.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well it sounds like my kind of night. And
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  Speaker 4: I have to say I have played maj On and
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  Speaker 4: I do better with a couple of drinks, I've decided,
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  Speaker 4: So that's a yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I did ask the question. We have a lot
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  Speaker 5: of questions.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the questions when I was going through this,
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  Speaker 3: I said, drinking with Majoon, don't you have to be
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  Speaker 3: really thinking, really hard to play this game? And Julie
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  Speaker 3: tells me no, the more you drink, the better you do.
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  Speaker 5: So that's just her take on it.
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  Speaker 3: But you're the expert, So tell us, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: how did you come up with this concept? Because I'm
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  Speaker 3: here it's like incredibly popular in Los Angeles that this
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  Speaker 3: is very successful. So share with us how the Majong
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  Speaker 3: Supper Club got started.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so, yes, Majong. I have been playing Majong for
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  Speaker 1: over twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: My grandmother playing, so my children all play. I taught
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  Speaker 2: them during COVID. Since I have three girls, we have
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  Speaker 2: a foursome and we play on family vacations. We've been
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  Speaker 2: playing for years, but just recently it's gotten so popular
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  Speaker 2: and more amongst young moms. And when people play, they
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  Speaker 2: don't just play for an hour, they play for like
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  Speaker 2: four or five hours. So food naturally becomes part of it.
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  Speaker 2: A meal is a part of it. It's very social,
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  Speaker 2: it's very it's just the right amount of social. It's
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  Speaker 2: like it cuts away all the small talk. You're you're
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  Speaker 2: there for a common goal to play, but it's just
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  Speaker 2: it's all the adult asmr that you could want. It's
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  Speaker 2: the mucking of the tiles. It's the visual how beautiful
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  Speaker 2: the tile sets they really are. It's the camaraderie in
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  Speaker 2: the community you build, and the laughter around the tables
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  Speaker 2: and the stories told through the tiles, like I have
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  Speaker 2: my grandmother's tiles, and it's so nice to see all
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  Speaker 2: the different like personalities shine through the tiles. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's it's just enough to make it's hard
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  Speaker 2: enough that like all the chaos that's going on in
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  Speaker 2: your mom world goes away.
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  Speaker 1: It really does. You have to focus. This is not
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  Speaker 1: for the faint a part.
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  Speaker 2: It is hard to learn, and it's almost like once
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  Speaker 2: you learn you're part of this group, it's like a sorority.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, you play mamasong like it's hard, it's
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  Speaker 2: not easy, but it makes the winds so much bigger.
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  Speaker 2: You creating like it's it's like you're given chaos and
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  Speaker 2: you have the opportunity to organize and to create organization
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  Speaker 2: in chaos, which I feel like as moms is really.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to do. Like you could, like you said, by
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  Speaker 1: your kid, you could tell them no, you can tell
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  Speaker 1: them to clean your room. Is it going to happen?
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  Speaker 2: No, But you can control the chaos in the majong world.
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  Speaker 2: And my friend and I she is her name is
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  Speaker 2: Carolyn Lertzman, and she's a mom. We share our kids
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  Speaker 2: are in school together, and we started a working mom's
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  Speaker 2: Majong group because we are working moms and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the mothers that do play, they play during the week.
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  Speaker 2: Usually they're sometimes not working, so they have opportunities to
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  Speaker 2: play all.
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  Speaker 1: The time and we don't have those op so as
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  Speaker 1: working moms.
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  Speaker 2: I think our group has played like successfully twice together
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  Speaker 2: even though we all play. But she discovered that she
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  Speaker 2: found teaching to be so much fun and she needed
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  Speaker 2: a hobby that when she was diagnosed with crones something
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  Speaker 2: that did not stress her out, and her like, I
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  Speaker 2: guess a specialist told her, how about mallwalking?
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  Speaker 1: She goes, I'm not a mall walker.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, in Majong sounds kind of fun and so
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  Speaker 2: together the two of us, she's she was the one
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  Speaker 2: that kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Came to me, and she's like, you know what, food
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  Speaker 1: in Majong is something that really goes together.
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  Speaker 2: And we wanted to create a night where women come
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  Speaker 2: together and have a common purpose. And all of our
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  Speaker 2: Majong supper clubs have a rotating organization a charity of choice.
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  Speaker 2: So whoever's hosting the Majong you know supper club gets
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  Speaker 2: to pick a charity. So eighteen percent of the proceeds
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  Speaker 2: go to charity. Our first one's going to Tower Cancer
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  Speaker 2: Research Foundation. And yeah, it's been I mean it's gone
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  Speaker 2: an overwhelming like turnout for these that we haven't even
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  Speaker 2: had one and we kind of sold a week.
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  Speaker 4: It's fantastic. I mean, Monica and I might come when
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  Speaker 4: we're in California again. You never know, so you better come.
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  Speaker 4: We need patients and kindness and yeah we'll have cocktails.
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, there you go. There you go. What I
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  Speaker 4: was gonna say, So did you take did you take
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  Speaker 4: the food portion of this and your friend took the
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  Speaker 4: you know, the majon part, and you guys married it
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  Speaker 4: together and became this night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, basically we were thinking, like, wouldn't it be nice
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  Speaker 2: because when people host majong at their homes for their groups,
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  Speaker 2: usually they're.
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  Speaker 1: In charge of providing a meal.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes women bring in food, and sometimes hosting can be
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  Speaker 2: a pain, you know, Like when my friend Carolyn started this,
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  Speaker 2: she has been sponsored by tile companies, so she comes
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  Speaker 2: with like twenty twenty majeong sets, all these beautiful sets.
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  Speaker 1: We set up the tables for them.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing a long family dining experience and we really
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  Speaker 2: wanted a place where we and there's also so there's
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  Speaker 2: also going to be a theme to each supper club,
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  Speaker 2: and the women kind of have to guess.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell the Insect Moms group.
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  Speaker 2: The first one is flowers because that is a tile,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's a garden themed party.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone has to come dressed up in garden chic because
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  Speaker 1: that's what moms really want to do.
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  Speaker 2: We want to get dressed up and go somewhere and
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  Speaker 2: not just be in our sweats or our Lulu lemons
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  Speaker 2: and playing maj and.
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  Speaker 1: We want to like, I want to bring back the
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  Speaker 1: supper Club, I you know, and I think it.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't have well they're all different themed, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we want somewhere where you feel like you have a
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  Speaker 2: purpose and a play for purpose. And yeah, we thought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the supper Club can be kind of like
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  Speaker 2: an elevated you know, opportunity to play mage on and
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  Speaker 2: to give to a charity and for a nice mom's
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  Speaker 2: night out.
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  Speaker 4: It's not really maj On that stresses me out. It's
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  Speaker 4: the competitive play of people who really know what they're Well.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I was going to ask too, because we
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  Speaker 3: have some people in our groups that are very competitive,
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  Speaker 3: and I have to say that I'm kind of one
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  Speaker 3: of them. I'm there's a famous story in my family
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  Speaker 3: where we were playing Monopoly and somebody in our group
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  Speaker 3: got really upset they were losing and swept the.
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  Speaker 5: Board, swept the board in anger.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that kind of might have been me. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: but I've learned to control a lot of it.
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  Speaker 5: But I am competitive.
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  Speaker 3: So like, is it worth like social or what do
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  Speaker 3: you do with the people that are like that?
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  Speaker 5: Because there's always going to be people that want to
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  Speaker 5: win no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: Totally.
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  Speaker 2: There are those women that are very competitive. There are
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  Speaker 2: also women. So the way Carolyn does it, which I
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  Speaker 2: think is brilliant. She is an actual tea. This isn't
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  Speaker 2: just for people that know how to play majong and
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  Speaker 2: know how to play it well.
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  Speaker 1: This is also for people that maybe are just starting
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  Speaker 1: to learn.
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  Speaker 2: And so what she does is when people sign up
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  Speaker 2: for our supper clubs, we have a little the questionnaire
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  Speaker 2: that says, I like, how how well do you play majong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a seasoned player.
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  Speaker 2: I play all the time. I've never picked up a tile,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. So you're grouped with people that
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  Speaker 2: are of your skill level. So we have Carolyn there
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  Speaker 2: and we have actually some floaters that know how to
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  Speaker 2: play to help people learn.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not just for the season pros.
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  Speaker 2: And since this is a supper club, we did have
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  Speaker 2: to send out an etiquette letter that this is like
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  Speaker 2: that this is not we are not betting, because betting
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  Speaker 2: is part of it, but this is just for the
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  Speaker 2: fun of playing. We also that people you know that
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  Speaker 2: there is an etiquette, that this is a friendly game.
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  Speaker 1: This is not because I have I've.
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  Speaker 2: Seen people like I've sat at a table with one
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  Speaker 2: who clearly didn't play, hasn't played that much, and then
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  Speaker 2: a woman who plays all the.
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  Speaker 1: Time and someone tried to call a tile and she's like.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's gone, you know, like I would cry, we're
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  Speaker 2: here for a good time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have an umpire in the room, though, Because
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  Speaker 3: I mean I was a team mom and my son's
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  Speaker 3: baseball team, and we all signed all those parrot things
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  Speaker 3: how we're all gonna behave and everything, and the next thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the cow bells come out and the nasty
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  Speaker 3: taunts and you know, so you gotta have an umpire
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  Speaker 3: or somebody that'll just say, hey, let's all you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's carl.
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  Speaker 3: Or do you throw a little extra vodka in or
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  Speaker 3: drink or what do you do with that person that's
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  Speaker 3: being difficult like that?
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  Speaker 5: Is it just how do you enforce that?
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  Speaker 2: I know, I think you know what having a little umpire,
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  Speaker 2: someone to walk around and referee the group might be,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the way to go. Again, this is like
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  Speaker 2: our first one's coming up on June thirtieth, so we
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  Speaker 2: haven't done it yet, but we do feel like the
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  Speaker 2: women that are coming to this these events are women
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  Speaker 2: that they do, but they again are probably working moms
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  Speaker 2: because like my mother was like, my group would never
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  Speaker 2: spend the money for that, and blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, your group is also super.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, and I'm like, I don't want your group there.
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  Speaker 1: Mom.
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  Speaker 4: What is the time that you pick for maj on
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  Speaker 4: moms working working working moms?
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  Speaker 1: Five thirty in the evenings.
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  Speaker 4: That's perfect.
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  Speaker 5: So that's good.
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  Speaker 3: That's a nice time my fake to get the babysitter,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and go and have some fun with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, greatly.
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  Speaker 3: I So I've I've never watched people play it like socially.
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  Speaker 3: The only the only time I've seen it played is
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  Speaker 3: on that movie Crazy Rich Asians when the mother and
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  Speaker 3: future mother in law was like harassing the girl. So
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  Speaker 3: it seemed like intense, you know. That's that's how I
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  Speaker 3: picture it, But you're describing it more.
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  Speaker 5: You can be really social, relaxed, fun.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's conversational kind of atmosphere or.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the right amount of conversation.
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  Speaker 2: What I say about this is that you know when
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  Speaker 2: you're like, for me, I host a lot of dinner
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  Speaker 2: parties since I am a cater, I open up my
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  Speaker 2: house all the time, and when people host a dinner party,
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  Speaker 2: usually the host is pretty stressed or there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of conversation that has to be forced, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is just you have to concentrate. So any words
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  Speaker 2: that are coming out of your mouth are probably purposeful.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like just you know, shooting the proverbial, you
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  Speaker 2: know stuff. You're just kind of you're saying things with purpose.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just enough like laughter and banter to have
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  Speaker 2: a really good time and not so much where you're
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  Speaker 2: stuck to one person and you know, there's just yeah
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  Speaker 2: and there, you're, you're there, you're, you're off, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, it's a right amount of social well.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm super excited to hear how your first one goes.
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  Speaker 4: But I do have tons of questions for you and
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  Speaker 4: your business and how busy you are, and tell us
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  Speaker 4: your story about how you got.
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  Speaker 5: Started with catering business.
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  Speaker 4: Peter, Yeah, I mean, do you sleep? Do sleep?
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  Speaker 1: Do I sleep? Yes? Like a row?
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  Speaker 5: I do?
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  Speaker 1: I do? I see really hard.
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  Speaker 2: I started my business in two thousand and eight when
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  Speaker 2: my husband and I were all my friends were getting
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  Speaker 2: married and engaged and showers and I always love to
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  Speaker 2: entertain I always loved food. It was funny you were
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  Speaker 2: talking about your trip to Italy with your kids. I
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  Speaker 2: went on a trip to Italy with my grandparents, and
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: my mom encouraged me to write a journal, so I
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: remember this and it was like, if I looked back
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: at it, it's like, Okay, we went to the Sistine
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Chapel and then we eat this incredible mealing. Grandpa had
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: this and grandly, it's all about the food, and then
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: we went to the Tribute fountain and then we had gelatto.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It's like all about the fold.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: So forget the Sistine Chapel. Yeah, let's talk about the
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: food exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So I think food's always been a big part of
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: my life. Travel has always been a big part of
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: my life. And then people started to ask me to
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: help them out with their showers or engagement parties.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: And someone once asked me, do you do this for
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: a living?
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, why, yes, I do, Yes, I do
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: as right now.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was doing product placement at the time.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I was in the film industry, doing the swag houses
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: and gifting celebrities, and it just didn't fill me as
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: much as food did, and entertaining and to be honest,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: that's kind of what we're doing. Me and Carolyn here
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: is like building community and seeing people gather over food
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: and you know, and playing mom gens.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: So were you raised on the fact that food is
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: love the same way?
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I was?
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And I'm convinced if I didn't cook as
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: well as I as well as I did, I don't
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: think I would have gotten my husband to marry me.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I know that was a big, big draw. He was like,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, she.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Well, my husband must really love me because I can't
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: cook a thing. It's the that's it's frightening, how badly
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: my cooking.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: It's just.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I can't play maje on and we can't cook.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: But I know where to.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Get a good meal or who the good caterers are,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: so that's the that's the important thing. But yeah, food
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: is so important because my young my oldest son had
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: a lot of food allergies and we had to go
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: through this whole thing with a nutritionists where they did
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: this elimination diet and he has, oh, what's that.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Disease of celiac, so he can't eat anything.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: And the nutrition is one of the things that she
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: was very clear about. She said, we've got to solve
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: this problem for him because food is so much a
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: part of your social life, Like he can't go without
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: just eating, you know, pea shoots or whatever he would say,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: able to eat, and so we were trying to make it,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: you know, where he could engage more. So, yeah, it is,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: it's so important. Well, how did you start your actual business?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Because whenever you're watching a movie about someone that started
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: catering business, they're always cooking in their home. Yeah, and
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: they'd go from there, like, how did you what was
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: your first catering gig?
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: How did it start?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So it's funny you asked that because I was looking
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: for a commercial kitchen and I actually fell into Jewish
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: temples and churches, so because they all have kitchens, and I.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Was when I was looking up what places have kitchens available?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: And when I called a couple Jewish temples and I
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: called a couple of churches, this temple got back to
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: me and said, you know, what would you like.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: To cater or passover Satyr for two hundred people?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: And let's just say I it was the first time
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I've ever made so much brisket in my entire life
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: that I actually like coting the phrase I'm going to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: get my brisket on, and like I made a brisket
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: dance and I like it was that was like my
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: first you know, at back with catering, and I I
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: fell in love with it.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I did. I knew that this I was meant to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: do this.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I was like, if I could just chop onions in
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: d Vane shrimp my whole life, I think I'd be happy.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, bad.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, I wish I could have the same passion
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: I do like to cook. I just am my self
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: confidence is low on that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I like it or not, but
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: I'm bad at it.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: You know, it's not for everyone. But you know, like
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I always tell people, like when you open your homes
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: to people, it means the world.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: It really does. It's so much nice. So it's so
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to be everything.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I always like, so I love Ininergarten and she always says,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you know, you make two things, buy one. There's so
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: many ways that you could get outsourced for really good
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: food to make it. You know, it doesn't have to
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: be fancy. The simplest is best. And just having you
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: open your home, even if it's like ordering in it's
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: so people are really touch and I find that people
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: stay longer at parties most at home.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, what about your children? Have you come by?
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, like, has one child taken off with this
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: more than another? Or I'm assuming they're all good cooks
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: and are they part of the business.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It's funny you say that one of mine.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: It's I think it's the child who's least like me
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: and more like my husband. And I think her commonality
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: is that she loves cooking. I mean I could just
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: tell it in her bones, like she actually is taking
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: it a whole other like I actually love to cook.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I don't like to bake. Doesn't mean I don't do desserts,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: but it's just not my jam. It's not me because
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: it's a chemistry. It's a science and I.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Like to riff with things.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, So she actually just taught herself how to make
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: sourdough and a starter, and she's named her sourdough.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Starter and she feeds it, discards.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: It, and she started to like start watching like you know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: salt acid fat, just on her own. Like and she's
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: twelve years old and she's like all my kids are
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: very savvy in the kitchen. But she has a passion
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: that I think she she definitely wants she knows she
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: wants me.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Just like Majong.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Sourdough is having its moment, and I know and and
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: well y Taylor Swift is hugely into sour making sourd
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: over and I've noticed on all the social media stuff
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: because she got into it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Now every it's just a thing. So yeah, yeah, well.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: That's when I try.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I did try sourdough during COVID too, Yeah, and I
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: was like, it's not for me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I was like, this is I'm.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, my cousin has named her Natasha, so we
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: we hear about it a lot like her sour you know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: the whole the whole thing. So we eat a lot
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: of sour dough in the beginning of COVID all the way.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: There's all cons now.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Wait yet so anyway, so with comes catering events and
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: people involved, I mean, working moms are going to want
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: to know, I mean, give us like your what's a
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: worst day in catering, Like we know the whole wedding,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: caking falling over, but we would love to hear like
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: the hardest part.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I would say is so yes, I have a boutique business,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: but I have done some very large events, so we
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: do have a small team and outsourt. I would say
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: finding reliable help is the hardest. People that will show up.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Life happens, and some of my chefs are working moms
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: as well, so you know they have kids that get
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: sick or they have to call out of work, and
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I think that's challenging. I would say the hardest job
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I've ever done was a three hundred person wedding in
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Castaic Lake, which is up up up.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: The mountain kind of near Magic Mountain in Valencia in
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: La no reception No Alan has to build a kitchen.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: You can't just run down the street if you forget something.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: It is like you are in remote off the grid,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: which was challenging. And to get my staff up there
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: without having any cell reception, so having to tell everyone
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: so ahead of time how to get up there and
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: you won't lose reception, so you know you can't reach us.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: So we've had jobs like that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: You forget about the logistics part of all of that,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: so yeah, that would be challenging. Well, Gina, we have
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: some moms who have some questions for you, and they
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: are our Zoomer moms, So welcome Zoomer Moms. Welcome to
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: the Mom's Club. Ladies, welcome. I'm going to introduce each
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: one of you. Tell us a little bit about yourself,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: your name, and you have a question for Gina Janine,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Mom's Club.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: It's so nice to be here.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I'm the mother of a lovely.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Daughter and a beautiful step daughter, and I am married
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: and I have a similar story in that we hold
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: regular community dinners in our home. We invite twelve people
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: into our home. We try to on a monthly basis,
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: but with work sometimes we can't always do that. But
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: it's to develop community with people who have never met
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: each other before, so it's a it's truly a shared
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: experience around the table as well as in the kitchen.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: And we have had to learn, my husband and I
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: how to work together in a new way with running
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: this and with that. My question would be in regard
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: to you had mentioned your staff, and you know there's
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: there's a lot of work in running a business and
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: keeping your staff.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: My question is what what.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: How do you approach the needs of your staff out
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: the nurturing side of your staff.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: It's a really good question.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: What I've learned over the years is don't put round
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: pegs in square holes, like don't try. Sometimes people are
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: really good at a lot of different things with catering.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: They could be a bartender, they could be a chef,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: they could do a lot of things. But asking them
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: where do you want to be? Do you want to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: be front of house? Do you want to be back
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: at house? Do you want to be interfacing with you know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: with our clients and people, or do you want to
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: be behind the scenes. I think there's people that I've
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: seen excel in certain areas but not necessarily like to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: be there. So having to assess where they want to be,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: what jobs they want to work. You know, I have
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: some people that have said, you know what, I don't
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: want to be I don't want to be a server anymore.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I only want to our attend.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: So kind of assessing that and also knowing that, like
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: you know, people living in LA you need a lot
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: of hustles, even your side hustle, need a side hustle,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: like to make things work.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So I can't expect that, like I mean.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: My assistant, for example, she's also studying to be a
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: marriage and family therapist and she's actually I think some
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: of her her therapy has trickled into our business, which
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: has been so lovely.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: She's been like my therapist.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I find myself just like confiding in her and
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I'm like.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, you know, Isabelle, this isn't your job, but.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: You know, respecting that a you know, they're going to
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: be some of them are going to be mothers. She's like,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: you know, living with her boyfriend, I know that she's
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: gonna want to, you know, get married one day. And
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: then I have my head chef who's also a mom,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: and she's a single mom and divorced, and that comes
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: with challenges and respecting her schedule and trying to that's
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: another thing that we've been great about. She's actually my
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: head chef is one of my best friends. We've become
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: best friends working together, and we have this lovely dance
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: where like sometimes I'll be like, you know, what you
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: do the prep around your schedule. I don't care if
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: you shop at night, I don't care if you you know,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: prep six am, whatever works around your schedule. As long
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: as it's done by the timeline and it's fresh and
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: ready to go, we're good. So we've managed to talk
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to each other, and I think communication is key.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: That is, I think that's really smart.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: And I love how putting the right people in the
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: right place because I know I've been to some events
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: where very nice events where the servers didn't seem like
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: they really wanted to be be there, and you're kind
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: of like you want this piece of fish.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: It's like, you know, You're like, I don't know what's
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: shop for them?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Really, So yeah, no, I think that you make a
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: good point. You have to say It's true.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Sometimes we're just like I'll have sometimes we'll have such
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: big events where I'll just be like, I just need
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: some bodies to stand there. But then also, you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I think one thing that people have my clients have
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: told me is like, you guys have fun together.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, we love each other.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I really tried to continue to hire the same people
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: that I love, put them front and forward and where
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: they want to be. So, like you said, so because
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: it does you can notice when people are not having fun.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: It makes running a business oh so much, oh yeah,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: so much better when you're picking the ones that you
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: love the most.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Cassandra, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: bit about yourself and do you have a question for Gina.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: Hi, guys, I'm Cassandra Robertson. I am in Dallas, Texas.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I'm also a caterer for about thirty years.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a corporate caterer, so we cater about six
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: hundred to six hundred and fifty meals a week to
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: local corporations. Got started and really as a kid helping
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: out my mom and my.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Aunts in the kitchen.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: I feel like my family was like my big fat
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: Greek wedding and that I'm eleven.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Of twelve children, number eleven.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: I had an aunt who was a professional chef and
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: ever had children, so I was kind of like the
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: daughter she never had, and I just hung out at
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: her house a lot and developed a love for herbs
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: and seafood and the fish market and the meat market
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: and all the things. So my question to you is
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: I feel the passion when you're speaking about food, like
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: I really it comes through the screen that it's something
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: that you actually love.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I do believe food is love. So when I cook,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and I'm.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: Recently widowed, I need to say that my husband and
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: I were married thirty three years, but we were the
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: house that everyone came to. We were always hosting, and
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: I would lay out these elaborate mills. Everyone knew that
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: they were going to get, like a catered mills. Like
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: everybody showed up, Like even the people that never make parties,
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: they always showed up to ours. Right. But when I
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: started my business, here's what I found, Gina. I found
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: that because some of those recipes were airlom recipes, they
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: were handed down from my grandma or my great grandma,
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: or my aunt or my mom, I was.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Very married to them.
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: So when I started my business, it was hard for
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: me to kind of let go and delegate that authority
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: to other team members and you know, members of that
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: were working with us to really move the business forward.
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: I just had difficulty really letting it go and allowing
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: them to take the information and kind of run with it,
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: especially when the business started to really boom and we
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: went from two or three clients, you know, to you know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: over one hundred, and I couldn't with our small team
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: do it all. But I was so married to it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: So can you tell me what was that turning point
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: for you and your business where you realized, you know,
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: this is precious to me, but I'm going to have
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: to trust someone else to kind of take it and
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: run with it so that you know, the business can
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: really move forward to the degree that it needs to.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: It's a great question.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is challenging, especially when you have those recipes that.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Are like, you know, given down.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: That's been one of my biggest challenges is a writing
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: down my piece so people can follow. But also I'm
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: realizing when you give people, if I have to micromanage
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: everyone all the time, a they're not going to be
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: happy with me.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: They're going to feel like I don't trust them in
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the kitchen.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: And also I realize, you know what, when I let
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: them shine a little bit, sometimes they show me something different,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Like I'm so used to it, and I'm sure, Cassandra,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: are you the same way you've been doing it?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: So the same way and.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: The way you were taught, and you don't want to,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: you know, deviate, and you're like this works. I know
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: it works, and I don't want to try something new.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: But then when someone shows you something new, I'm like, oh,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I like the way you did that crut.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Te platter Okay, okay, mad at it? Like I can?
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I can? And then it's different pictures for my social
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: it's different, it looks different, and that's okay. Like so
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I think especially like I mean, for example, when I'm
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: on vacation and we have jobs, I have to trust
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: that it's going to get done.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I can give them.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Some you know, help, and tell them how I want
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: it done, but at the end of the day, I
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: have to let them do their thing.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Nancy, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about yourself, and you have a question for Gina.
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  Speaker 8: Oh Hi, my name is Nancy Price. I live in Dallas, Texas,
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  Speaker 8: and we moved here actually two years ago from Boston.
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  Speaker 8: And when we bought our house the gift we got
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  Speaker 8: from a real estate agent was a Mojong set.
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  Speaker 5: So I have this beautiful way.
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  Speaker 9: I have this beautiful unwrapped Mojong set sitting downstairs and
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  Speaker 9: it's really really popular and they keep inviting me. And
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  Speaker 9: I'm an ex finance professional, so I think they think
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  Speaker 9: it's because I'm competitive and I know they're competitive that
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  Speaker 9: they want to see if my finance can break their
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  Speaker 9: patterns or whatever. And so my question really is, what
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  Speaker 9: would it be like how do you balance the social
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  Speaker 9: aspect with the pair with the food and keeping the
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  Speaker 9: flow and not interrupting the conversation or the concentration with
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  Speaker 9: the delivery of the food and the timing of that
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  Speaker 9: to keep the whole thing flowing together.
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  Speaker 1: So we have actually, I mean, we haven't done it yet,
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  Speaker 1: so we're trying it out.
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  Speaker 2: But our idea was at five point thirty upon arrival,
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  Speaker 2: cocktails and appetizers, appetizers that we've actually gotten tables that
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  Speaker 2: are a little It's funny your people usually set at
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  Speaker 2: a card table, but a square card table leaves no.
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  Speaker 1: Room for one of the most important things, your.
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  Speaker 2: Beverage, and some like a gnash or food. So we
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  Speaker 2: actually have gotten around tables that have a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a.
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  Speaker 1: Lip so people could take their appetizers and sit down.
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  Speaker 2: They play for they're going to play from about five
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  Speaker 2: thirty to seven fifteen ish, and then we are all
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  Speaker 2: breaking together and eating at a long family style table
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  Speaker 2: and dining together. One of the big things for me
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  Speaker 2: and cooking and everything and having and being a mom
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  Speaker 2: is dinners together. I think that is so something that's
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  Speaker 2: missing in people's lives. And Cassan drums it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: you came from a family like a bye.
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  Speaker 1: We eat a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And we all eat together, and it's something where phones
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  Speaker 2: are off, and that it's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be something that's going to apply to the.
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  Speaker 2: Supper club too, that we don't want people sitting on
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  Speaker 2: their phones and to please put them away.
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  Speaker 1: During the meal and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So we're hoping that people will have enough time and
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  Speaker 2: then they could play after the meal as well, and
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  Speaker 2: dessert also be at the table, so finger appetizers, finger
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  Speaker 2: desserts that they could eat while they play, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then dinner together. So that's hopefully the flow of the evening. Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep you post it.
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  Speaker 3: On how it go. It sounds it sounds fun, and
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like Nancy and I and you, Julie, we
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  Speaker 3: need to learn to play mage on well, Leslie is
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  Speaker 3: not going.
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  Speaker 5: To teach us.
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  Speaker 3: How do you What do you recommend people do who
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  Speaker 3: don't know how to play mine? I've heard people like
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  Speaker 3: charging six hundred dollars or something to take Majong lessons
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  Speaker 3: or just.
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  Speaker 2: Each my friend, there's lots of instructors now out there,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure there's lots of Dallas you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Mashaw is huge in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: So my suggestion is to get a group together like
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  Speaker 2: you know and do it and split the cost and
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  Speaker 2: to commit to doing it a couple of times. It
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  Speaker 2: isn't for the faint of heart. You really it is
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  Speaker 2: like learning a whole new language. But once you get it,
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  Speaker 2: it just clicks and you're like, damn, this is fun.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I get why this is still fun. I get why
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  Speaker 2: people can play for hours. So it is you know,
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  Speaker 2: making a commitment and also finding a group of women
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  Speaker 2: you love doing it with. I have to say my
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  Speaker 2: working mom's maj On group that we've only now done
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  Speaker 2: it successfully twice because we can never find time to
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  Speaker 2: do it, have time. We're like, okay, guys, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to play. We're just sitting here talking and we have
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  Speaker 2: to like get to it because we love each other
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  Speaker 2: so much. So it's like finding women that you love
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  Speaker 2: doing it with. I think is really important.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom had a bridge club for many, many
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  Speaker 3: years and they finally quit playing bridge, but they always
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  Speaker 3: call because they love to socialize. But they called themselves
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  Speaker 3: the bridge club to the very end.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, I think Gina put it the
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  Speaker 4: perfect way. I mean, Damn, this is fun and Gina,
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  Speaker 4: you're fun. Yeah's just say that.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we need to get you over here to Texas.
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  Speaker 3: We've got all these women from Texas, all of us ladies.
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  Speaker 3: We can all get together Austin Dallas. We're not too
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  Speaker 3: far apart, and we can do an inaugural Texas.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: I actually spent Carolyn, my business partner in the Maaje
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  Speaker 2: on supper clubs. We've been talking about traveling and maybe
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  Speaker 2: doing you know, stuff, other places.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I love that you can think of a place.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a spot for you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, where does our audience find you? You're catering and
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  Speaker 3: your supper clubs.
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  Speaker 1: You can find us on social media. We're at so.
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  Speaker 2: My website is Gina feeds dot com if you want
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  Speaker 2: to go to my website and or Gina Feeds Catering
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  Speaker 2: if you want to follow us on Instagram, and it's
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  Speaker 2: called so Majong La is my partner in it. You
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  Speaker 2: can see the supper clubs under either my account or
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  Speaker 2: her account.
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  Speaker 1: And we're working on getting ace.
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  Speaker 2: We secured the Majong supper club like website, but it's
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  Speaker 2: all happened so fast that we're we're in the works
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  Speaker 2: of building it and hopefully traveling with it.
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  Speaker 3: So well, that's great that it sounds like so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: You'll have to share with us pictures.
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  Speaker 2: And well, if we go to Dallas, you know, Cassandra
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  Speaker 2: hitting you up, I'm gonna need a kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna need someone to help me do this like
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  Speaker 1: a staff.
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  Speaker 3: And all that Cassandra can help you, well will be
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  Speaker 3: Julie and I will definitely be there. It sounds like
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• 39:09
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• 39:16
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  Speaker 4: Now, I'm hungry and want to learn.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I forgot one important thing. What we're traveling. We're
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  Speaker 3: going on the road. I'm still thinking of wow, we
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  Speaker 3: can get over to that supper club. So thinking we
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• 40:58
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