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Capítulo 057: Shop Latinx · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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  Speaker 1: Radio, a radio radio commies, a myth and Bullshit radio
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  Speaker 1: and we are less mammy's of myth and bullshit. Last
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  Speaker 1: We have a full cap for y'all. Today we have
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  Speaker 1: an amazing interview. So as always, we're just going to
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  Speaker 1: jump into some announcements and then get into our interview.
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  Speaker 1: So like, can you start us out? Yeah, we want
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  Speaker 1: um okay. And then so by now, I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: you'll have seen our video if you haven't already, but
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  Speaker 1: we did our very first ever unboxing video and we
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  Speaker 1: want to shout out and thank the Blue me. They
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  Speaker 1: sent us these amazing sex toys that we have been
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  Speaker 1: wanting to try. But in addition to UM sex toys,
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  Speaker 1: so they there, they are a website where you can
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  Speaker 1: purchase uh, feminine products that you need, feminine hygiene care,
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  Speaker 1: sex toys, UM, any other type of educational material that
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  Speaker 1: we definitely check them out and if you are going
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  Speaker 1: We have a new email address, yes we do for professionalizing.
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  Speaker 1: So our new email is ola at radio dot com. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: no more Gmail account, we have our own so ola
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  Speaker 1: if you want to send us things, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to fly us out, university gigs, talks, workshops, fem see,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the effort is. Yes, then we have a few
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  Speaker 1: coming up that will be talking about later. Absolutely, so
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  Speaker 1: we're a little bit sad about this next announcement, but
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  Speaker 1: you know what things happen, should happens, whether happens. Pop
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  Speaker 1: up has been postponed due to rain, so umla, I
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  Speaker 1: loved you, but I love me more. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: do our pop up February. Yes, and it will be
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  Speaker 1: the same time, eleven am to four pm, same place.
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  Speaker 1: Everything will be the same, literally, it's just a different date.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have your photos, gardo ready, hang onto them,
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  Speaker 1: keep you know, keep them safe, um and just come
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  Speaker 1: ready to discard them like we said. And we're also
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  Speaker 1: going to have our little selfie station that's super cute,
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  Speaker 1: so please come through. It's going to be so amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna have a really fun way for y'all
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  Speaker 1: to dispose of your excess belongings or gifts that they
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  Speaker 1: gave you that you do not want in your home anymore. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do spring cleaning. We're gonna do it with style. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be cute, it's gonna be fun, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a community clean. So February, bring those things
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  Speaker 1: next to look forward to the LAMA series with the
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  Speaker 1: l A Public Library. Yes, this is we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about this and this is UM something that we're so
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  Speaker 1: excited about, and now that we're closer, we can announce
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  Speaker 1: it our very first workshop of intro to podcasting. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be February and that's a Saturday at one
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  Speaker 1: pm and it's going to be at the Hollywood Branch Library.
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  Speaker 1: It's free and we're basically going to do an intro
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  Speaker 1: to podcasting. So if you've been thinking about starting a podcast,
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  Speaker 1: or if you just want to start some type of
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  Speaker 1: creative media, some type of creative platform, this is definitely
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  Speaker 1: for you. It's a beginner, it's one on one and
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  Speaker 1: just look out for the flyer will be posting that
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  Speaker 1: in the in the next week. And you know, I
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  Speaker 1: really love UM all these local podcasting workshops that we're
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  Speaker 1: doing because we do get people who d m us
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  Speaker 1: or email us, hit us up to ask about basics
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  Speaker 1: of starting a podcast. If you're one of those people,
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  Speaker 1: it can be hard for us to respond to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't necessarily put out any type of like a
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  Speaker 1: written guide, but this is where you can go to
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  Speaker 1: really access that information for free and locally. So hope
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  Speaker 1: to see you there, Yes, come through, and if you
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  Speaker 1: if you can't make that one. We're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a few others in the upcoming months, um, but Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: is definitely a local one. And then we will be
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  Speaker 1: at the Benjamin Franklin Library, I think sometime in March.
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  Speaker 1: So as always, just some reminders for our listeners. The
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  Speaker 1: best way you know to really support the podcast is
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  Speaker 1: to love us out loud. A really good way to
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  Speaker 1: do that is to like subscribe and comment. Um. For example,
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  Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts, we really do go and look at
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  Speaker 1: listener comments for feedback, to look at what people like,
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  Speaker 1: what people want to hear more about. Right, And we
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  Speaker 1: recently shared some on the Instagram some of our favorites,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be sharing more in the upcoming few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And um also, if you don't follow us, you should
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  Speaker 1: be check out our Instagram feed. It's super beautiful. Definitely,
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  Speaker 1: our visuals are like coming together, tying into each other.
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  Speaker 1: I'm loving the like subtle rebrand that we're doing. It's
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  Speaker 1: not even a rebrand, it's just a we're changing our
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  Speaker 1: visuals a little bit. We're going through a visual evolution,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a great way to cut it. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: before we get into our song break and introduce our guests.
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  Speaker 1: We do want to shout out one of our sponsors,
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  Speaker 1: Therapy for latin X. So Therapy for latin X uses
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  Speaker 1: for people to find therapists, life coaches, emergency mental health centers,
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  Speaker 1: look tho. We really are all about the glow up,
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  Speaker 1: which includes going to therapy and talking about mental health candidly.
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  Speaker 1: So check out Therapy for latin X, yes, and follow
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  Speaker 1: them on Instagram if you don't. All right, so we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go into a song break or castera belly ros
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  Speaker 1: and and and and and and and and and and
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  Speaker 1: and and and and and um um um um of
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  Speaker 1: it and ship and we are back and we are
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  Speaker 1: so excited to introduce our guest. Today. We have the
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  Speaker 1: wonderful ladies of Shop latin X, which is a tech
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  Speaker 1: startup and digital platform dedicated to the growth and visibility
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  Speaker 1: of small Latino X businesses. They've done this by creating
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  Speaker 1: the first national latin X Business directory, which features over
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  Speaker 1: five hundred businesses, content creation and providing marketing services. We
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  Speaker 1: have with us Brittain Bree of Shop Latin X. Can
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  Speaker 1: you say hi to our listeners? Utners, how are y'all
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  Speaker 1: doing today? I'm great. I'm actually recovering from a little cold,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm I'm just off of like a high from
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  Speaker 1: this last half of presents workshop that my homegirls Ju
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  Speaker 1: Lisa Proud of Resource Curls and Patty Delgado oft On.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm feeling really great. I'm good. Yes, yes, how
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  Speaker 1: are you breathe? Um? Hey, y'all two girl Brie and
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be outside my house. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations on the last half host panel. Thank you. So
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  Speaker 1: we were watching on Instagram and we saw that it
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  Speaker 1: looked packed, really well attended, amazing energy. Can you tell
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit more about it? Yeah, So this
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  Speaker 1: panel started off, as we told the Chief's Matthew event UM.
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  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be a forty person panel and
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  Speaker 1: it was put on by UM. It was it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be hosted at an event space in the
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  Speaker 1: West Side. It was like a predominantly white space, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and they forgot to put a cap on the event.
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  Speaker 1: So they kind of underestimated our power and our influence
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  Speaker 1: and within two hours we got over a hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty r s v ps UM. It was crazy, So
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  Speaker 1: we had to in the At that point, the workshop
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  Speaker 1: was like six days away, UM, and we were able
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  Speaker 1: to secure an event space at Philosophy and Santa Monica.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Jessica, UM. Shout out to Jessica because
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  Speaker 1: without her, like it wouldn't have been possible, because the
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  Speaker 1: text space prior to that was like, oh it could
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  Speaker 1: be first come, first serve. So forty people were allowed
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  Speaker 1: in these space, but we had a hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: attendees confirm, and so you just you just want to
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  Speaker 1: leave a hundred and forty women of color out in
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  Speaker 1: the coal that don't even live in the West Side.
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  Speaker 1: They're hanging from Well Heights. They're coming from l A.
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  Speaker 1: We had girls fly from Virginia. We had another girl
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  Speaker 1: come from New Orleans. We had a girl drift from
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  Speaker 1: Sacramento for what so can you first come, first serve
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  Speaker 1: and them not coming because they're late due to traffic.
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  Speaker 1: So we had six days UM long story shore. We
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  Speaker 1: secured sponsors, We got Twisted for Sugars Turo service to come.
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  Speaker 1: We got the the Verde there, we got selver right Rum,
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  Speaker 1: we had sponsors and it was just such a lit
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  Speaker 1: empowering that, Like it was amazing, and there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be more latinox on sponsors. We love disrupting those spaces.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always always always proving in our experience, had
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  Speaker 1: always been men proving the men wrong about our listeners
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  Speaker 1: and the power that they have, and that the way
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  Speaker 1: they really show out and show up for us so
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  Speaker 1: we can relate and congrats on you know, having to
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  Speaker 1: secure a bigger venue. That's amazing. Yeah, tell us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about the journey to shop latin X,
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  Speaker 1: Like how did we get here? You guys are a brand,
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  Speaker 1: You're a presence. Okay, let me yes, of during the
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  Speaker 1: height of the presidential election, um, I was on Facebook
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  Speaker 1: a lot, and I was a part of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of women's groups on Facebook. But during this time on
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  Speaker 1: my feed, you know, in between all the posts of
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  Speaker 1: people who are like really concerned and scared, um, we're
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  Speaker 1: some really great post by like Afro Punk and say
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  Speaker 1: Karen and Bravity that were showcasing different black owned businesses,
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  Speaker 1: and um, I remember there was this guy put on
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  Speaker 1: by st here on like here's a guide where you
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  Speaker 1: could support black owned businesses and have like a great
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  Speaker 1: day in l A. And then I came across sources
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  Speaker 1: like sites like we Buy Black and like all these
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  Speaker 1: black owned directories UM, and it was really empowering and
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  Speaker 1: through these through this content, I was able to support
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  Speaker 1: and find black owned businesses that I could purchase from
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  Speaker 1: and give my money to. UM. One night, I was
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  Speaker 1: in my bed and I was looking up Latino businesses
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  Speaker 1: to support. I had, you know, some extra coins, and
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  Speaker 1: I found nothing. I came across absolutely zero. UM. What
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  Speaker 1: I did find though, was like Nielsen Reports and Forbes
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  Speaker 1: articles written by white men on how to attract the
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  Speaker 1: Hispanic market right, but there was nothing being written by
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  Speaker 1: us for us. There was no go to marketplace or
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  Speaker 1: go to directory of Latino X businesses that I could
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  Speaker 1: directly get my money to directly. So going back to
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  Speaker 1: the women's groups I was a part of, I had
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  Speaker 1: this idea and I just put it out there and UM,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Hey, I have this idea for shop
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  Speaker 1: Latin Next, what do y'all think? And the response was amazing. UM.
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  Speaker 1: We received a crazy response from like, Hey, my my
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  Speaker 1: sister runs this Latino owned business. Can you post them?
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  Speaker 1: So we created an Instagram We started off on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: and started off as like shop Latino X Businesses. That
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  Speaker 1: was the handle, and we were posting different Latino X
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  Speaker 1: businesses every day. Within weeks, we received an outpour of
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  Speaker 1: followers d ms of like hey can you post me
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah um and it was beautiful. UM. Bree
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  Speaker 1: reached out to me via d M and was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if y'all need anything, I'm here. Brie and I met
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  Speaker 1: at my house. I thought she was trying to kidnap,
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  Speaker 1: trying to kid at her because I gave her the
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  Speaker 1: wrong address, but we ended up meeting. It was like
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  Speaker 1: an abandoned like truck yard or something. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, I really messed up this time, guys. And
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  Speaker 1: then she was like, oh I just gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: wrong address. I'm like, oh, thank god not today. So
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  Speaker 1: Brie and I met and yeah, she was on board
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  Speaker 1: like I didn't. So at this point it was like
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months in, I was like, this needs
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  Speaker 1: to be something bigger, like we Instagram is great, but
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  Speaker 1: we need a larger platform. So that's when we decided
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  Speaker 1: to create a directory, an online directory UM which also
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  Speaker 1: features content such as like listicals and articles where we
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  Speaker 1: interview these business owners that would never get the recognition
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  Speaker 1: from like an l a times, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But they're amazing and they're powerful, and they deserve to
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  Speaker 1: be heard and they deserve for their stories to be told. So. Um,
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  Speaker 1: when we launched Shop Latin Next, we had a directory
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  Speaker 1: of about I think we had like maybe a hundred
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  Speaker 1: of businesses sign up. Yeah, and um, we had content
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  Speaker 1: created by people from the community who were just felt
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  Speaker 1: super empowered by our movement. And now yeah, and now we're,
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  Speaker 1: you know, two years later, we're kind of pivoting and
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  Speaker 1: we're leveraging tech. Um. I think, just like you ladies,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lack of representation. I'm sure in like the
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  Speaker 1: podcast scene, and for us, it's like I felt this
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  Speaker 1: sort of imposter syndrome, but it was mostly due to
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  Speaker 1: lack of resources, right, I'm like, how do I monetize
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  Speaker 1: this shop at the next is growing at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm broke, you know what I mean, We totally understand.
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  Speaker 1: It's so frustrating, you know what. I'm sure you're here.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a weird feeling when you're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I look up to y'all thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: what you do. I'm like, thanks, I literally just got
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  Speaker 1: an overdraft fee and I don't know how I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: get my next paycheck. Um so I think now after
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  Speaker 1: I actually went to a conference into the con Valley
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  Speaker 1: called Latino x in Tech, and that was the first
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  Speaker 1: time I was like, I listen, we're tech, We're fucking tech.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a tech startup. High They are canda lists that
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  Speaker 1: were at this conference that worked at Airbnb, that worked
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  Speaker 1: at Slack, that worked at all these dope tech startups
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  Speaker 1: that literally got off stage and was like, yo, I
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  Speaker 1: follow shop at the next They're creeping on us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're creeping on us. You're making an impact, Your present
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  Speaker 1: are pressing, And I'm like, Okay, you know what, the
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  Speaker 1: last two years we did a really good job. I
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  Speaker 1: pride myself on the authentic relationships that I've created with
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  Speaker 1: people in our community, with you, with like all these
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  Speaker 1: women in our community. And now like the next phase
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  Speaker 1: is like we need to acquire funding, right. We were
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  Speaker 1: just talking about that all of us right before we
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  Speaker 1: started recording sponsorships and where is the money sponsorships VC money,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Grants crowdfunding. These are things
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  Speaker 1: that we're never we haven't been taught, you know, Like
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  Speaker 1: these workshops that these tech companies put on, people like
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  Speaker 1: us aren't invited to go. We haven't got an invitation,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, so it's very real.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's very real. And so I think even for me,
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  Speaker 1: like my dream for shop boty next, like I want
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  Speaker 1: to help. I want us to all glow up together.
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  Speaker 1: I want us to get the money, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. And it's like, in order for me to
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  Speaker 1: do that, in order to make these ideas in my
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  Speaker 1: head happen, we need to get funding first. And when
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  Speaker 1: I get it, I'll help you'll get it and I'll
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  Speaker 1: teach you how to get it. But first, like I
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  Speaker 1: need to get it, You need to get it so
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  Speaker 1: that you can help other aspiring podcasters, women of color
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  Speaker 1: who listened to this radio show get it too. It's
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  Speaker 1: so true. You have to. It's kind of like on
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  Speaker 1: the airplane, you have to put your Oxford mask on first,
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  Speaker 1: and the funding is the oxygen mask for your project. Like,
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  Speaker 1: we needed to keep going. And you know what we
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  Speaker 1: talk about all the time is that what we noticed
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  Speaker 1: is that of the latin X projects, creators, business owners,
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  Speaker 1: people who are really making the biggest waves. They are
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  Speaker 1: mohere is always the majority, Like there are men doing
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  Speaker 1: cool things like la la la la la here and there,
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  Speaker 1: but overwhelmingly whether it's Bella Donna or someone like the
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  Speaker 1: Hood which collective you guys us like it's Mohetts Julisa,
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  Speaker 1: like Rizzles Curls. The list goes on and on. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot name men that are making the same I can't either.
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  Speaker 1: I can't, couldn't if I wanted to, and I don't
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: want to. But they're not doing it like we're doing. Listen,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: men out there, we have tried to find John and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: if you are out there, please are not looking at
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: isn't what we are because we've put out there like, hey,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: do you know any man? And literally it's like I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: can't the career sounds. So as far as the directory
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and the latin X businesses that you all are seeing,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: would you say that they're predominantly women? Ren, Yeah, it's
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: very much. It's there. It's their side hustles that they
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: want to turn into passions, um and it's them. And
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: and earlier this year we asked, I'm starting to ask
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: more questions in the Instagram stories like UM and that,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, that's like a great way to do
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: market research. Good tip good tip good. We said that
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: at the last half of US crew workshop utilize Instagram
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: surveys UM and one of the things, I'm like, what
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: is y'all's goal for twenty nineteen and a majority of
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: an overwhelming majority of the responses where like, I just
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: want to be in the green. I need I need
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to just I want to be profitable, And like a
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: lot of us Latino US, we have so much influence, right,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: but it's like we need we need to be we
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: need to be paid, you know what I mean. There
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: has to be some say we need to be paid
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: for the influence. We need to figure out revenue streams,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you know. UM. But Latina's there is this amazing report
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: written by UM Publishing Nielsen called Latina two point oh
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and that basically reaffirms our power as Latina's and our
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: influence on the internet on the college campus. You know
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: what's so crazy is like Latin there are so many
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: subcommunities on Instagram. There's there's veggie mihas, you know, like
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: vegans Latin x vegans. There's latin X, which is there's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: latin x, UM graphics design, graphic designers, whereas UM clothing
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that we want to plug. So I'm also a part
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: of it, wearing many hats as well. UM it's called Laddie,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the latin X Association of Designers and Illustrators, And I'm
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: trying to think up to my head, it's like a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: stupid amount of a stupidly small amoun the latin X
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: artists and designers in that space. It's like over eighty
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: percent white male dominated in graphic design industry, and graphic
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: design is everywhere. It's on you know, chip stickers. I mean,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you all know about that. So it's really we're trying
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to highlight that within our and then talking about more
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: about the shopolin Next database. I write a lot of
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the listicals and when he goes on our website, please
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: go on shoplin next dot com and um, while Bernie's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: out here like doing a thing with the VCS, I'm
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: on Instagram and I'm creeping on you guys because I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: think specifically my goal with shop latin X is to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: highlight the diversity of the latin X community. Because I'm
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: actually not from l A. I grew up all around California,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and I only grew up with like Mexican folk. I
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: think remember one salvy kid and I moved to Virginia
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: for a high school and college and I met like
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a South American person for the first time in my life,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and I was like, wait, what there is a life
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: like what like they? I didn't know Papusa was. I
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: had no idea. I was so ignorant, you know. And
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I think especially in l A, we're so dominated by
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: like one culture. Like my mission in chop Latin X
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: is to find the like different sub groups these different countries.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: You know, after Latin X, we like highlight you know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: queer Latin X. We try to highlight every type of
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: different group. We are giving them a voice, like you
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: hear active soul time, Like We're not going to do
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the work for you do the work. Well, guess what
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do the work I'm trying to find
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: up so y'all can look at it. And you you
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: wrote that really great article that listical about gone Chatz
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: right and like, and it was like I hate and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: miss right, Like some folks are obviously really upset because
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: that's what Mexican HEGEMONI does right, you know, I want
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to say, yes, I really like admire you because I
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people who are like part
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: of like Mexican and part another type of Latino culture,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: like kind of cling to their more Mexican side. But
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I feel like you really like embrace both because I'm
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: not Mexican American, but I admire that about you. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I think and I feel like a lot of people
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: out there, they're not represented, you know, because it's so dominant.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: And then you hear the Mexican I can say, y'all
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: on part y'all so defended um that that's so dominating.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: And so I think that count article was kind of more.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It's the representation of it. It's like it's so dominanting.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I get it. It's cute, but there's other desserts. And
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you know, I got my car taken away Edward James
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: almost and even Mongory and cheach men and choked to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: my house. So like give me a check kin of
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: card and they took it, you guys, they and Mario
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Lopez was in the car. I am love. That's true.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: It's true. Even within this is the thing that I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: noticed too, So like online, even representations of Mexicanida and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Mexicans are super limited, and there's so much more, even
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: with a huge country. I think there's so much more,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and it's like this very stale, sort of repetitive like
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: series of iconographies that were limited to and we don't
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: need to be, you know. And I think that's what
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: we try to do with our project, is not used
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the same ship over and over again, but like digging
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: deeper and finding what else is in there. I think
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: another reason as to why I created Shop Latina X
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: was I never really I I think for some like
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I identifies after Latina Um growing up in the valley
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I grew up in. I grew up. I lived in
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: North Hollywood, North Hollywood, North North and it was predominantly
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: working class Latinos. But I went to school in Sherman Oaks,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: was mostly Jewish, rich Jewish and black kids were my friends.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: The first time I ever met another Guatemalan was my
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: My Jewish friend was really excited to introduce me to
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: her nanny, who was Guatemalan who lived in the small
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: corridor in the west wing of her huge mansion and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Encino Um. I didn't have Latin X friends growing up.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I never felt I know that there's a say like
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: need the ecky need the I don't speak Spanish, so
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: like for me, I'm like, I'm neither here or there.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I can't relate. Um. I think growing up listening to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of you know, hearing people that the word
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: chicano I couldn't you know, on college campus, I know
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: that there was like a Chicano Center. I didn't feel
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Latin x enough to enter those spaces. Um. At the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: same time, I didn't feel black, like I was just
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: very confusing for me growing up. I think I've always
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: longed for community and and now I built it. Yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it's really cool. And I think to um, you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I'm Central American. There aren't a lot of publications that
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: are created created by Central Americans. I believe that it's
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: mostly Mexican, which isn't bad. But at the same time,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: like no bout us, I can't relate to um chinginga.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I've never said that word in my life, Like I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: think I probably said it like five times. Like I've
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: never been like, oh my gosh, you're ching gona Like
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I can't relate, but it's really fine. Like the gone
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: shy I can't relate, So I want to reiterate what
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Brees said earlier is like Shop Latinas, it's definitely our
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: mission to showcase all spectrums of Latini Dad. There's you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I think it's there's power in there in Shop Latinas
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: being owned by a woman Afro Latina, who Central Central American,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: who had a different experience in her Latini Dad growing up,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: you know. And it's just incredible to me how just
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: like Instagram continues to just like come through and like
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: bringing folks together and making these things even a possibility
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: at all. Could we talked about not having funding, not
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: having money, this free platform and just the engenuity to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: utilize it in the this huge variety of ways. And
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it's just really amazing to me how like the Latino
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: communities have like latched on and like made use of
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: this because we're so resourceful. We're so resourceful. It's a
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: free everyone who has. If you're an influence, you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a micro influencer and influencer, if you want to monitor,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: if you want to learn how to make you can
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: make money off Instagram. You can grow your own profitable,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: profitable business off Instagram. You know. Um, it's a free resource.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You can create community in Instagram, like it is a
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: genius platform. I'm sure you know what I mean. Use it,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: just use it to I found you well, best friends
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: don't press play. Um. And so when back in two
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen when I met Brittany, right, I just
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: moved back, um to California. I told you all went
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: to school in Virginia. It was there's a lot of
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: South America Kins and Central Americans there, but a lot
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: of them are like born not in the United States.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And I was, I'm like fourth generation, like I'm related
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: to the real life Zoro. That's how much we've been
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: in America. So I just kind of I kind of
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: don't relate. It's like, oh, you're not from hearing that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: from there, like when you we were here and y'all
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: just changed it. Right. But anyway, so I was like
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: excited to be back in California, like excited to be back.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And I started following through Instagram. I saw like Belladonna,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and then I saw sand One and then she's having
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a conference a workshop. So I go to the workshop
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: because she was sand One was like listen, don't be shy,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and if you don't have an idea, there's probably somebody
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: out there that you can help. So I was like,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm not going to be shy. I knew
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I wanted to design. I didn't have an idea, but
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I wanted to work for like women and like my community.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: And I just so happened to find the shop Lane
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: next Bits at the time hashtag and that's where so
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: really Sandone inspired me and Lalla Ramaro inspired me. So
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I d m Brittany was like, Hey, you guys don't
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: have a website. I can make websites and I can
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: make logos and all that. And she's like, hey, I
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: can't pay you, Like I don't care. I just want
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to be a part of this. And now two thousand
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: nineteen I was. I was the bouncer slash checking lady
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: her workshop, inspiring other people. So it's kind of like
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: all comes full circle. So even if you might not
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: think like someone might inspire you to go somewhere else
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: and then you'll meet somebody there like like shoutout Instagram,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: sisterhood and mentorship from you know, women who've been doing
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: it longer. It's amazing to like La La has been
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: for all of us. She's like Yeah, she reaches out.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: She reaches out like she cares, Like she'll text me
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to see how I'm doing. I remember Shop a the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Next is just starting out. One of my friends connected
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: me with La La and I did a La La
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: brought me onto a photo shoot and every caption that
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: she you want to cry because like, you know what
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I mean like sisterhood because in every caption she would
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: be like follow shop at the Next, you know what
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a directory, Like she would plug me
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: every time she post me like she plug me. And um,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I did an interview with a lot like I interviewed
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: La La on shop at the Next and she was
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: like so happy to just contribute in any way she can,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you know, sister sisterhood, sisterhood. I'm trying, no, no, because
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: it's real. I mean, having that support and it does
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: make a difference. But does somebody helps to put you
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: on because there's like community trust in that person are.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: The very first person that wrote an article about us
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: was King when she was working on Latina and that
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: was our very first feature. And she's like one of
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the mommies, you know, So she was the first woman
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to put us on. It makes a difference, And I
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: mean like we have to also get to a point
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: where when folks are reaching out to us or thinking
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of ways that we can contribute to even though we're
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: not making money at that level, but we've learned things
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: and how can we pass things on? Because yeah, that
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: full circle stuff is real, and you don't know where
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: folks are going to end up in twenty years. You know,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: we're just started. But I think like when we think
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: about who's going to make long lasting impacts, whether it's
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: an entertainment, in business, be us, I feel like we
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: have to keep track of each other because where are
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: we going to end up? You know? Yeah for sure? Yeah,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I actually posted that on my Instagram caption yesterday when
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I was posting photos like recap photos of the last
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: half US event. Is basically like, when you're in a
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: position of influence, especially as a Latino or like a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: woman of color, just know that there are young girls
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: watching you, watching you, wondering how you did it. You
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? I think taking the time aside
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to be a mentor two, host events, host workshops, to
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: make yourself accessible to these young women and show them
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: how you did it, because we need more people in tech.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: We need more women of color in these spaces that
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: we're in, you know, so always just using your even
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: for us to like we're not profitable. But at the
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: same time, like you said, I learned some things that
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I can definitely share. That's why even with like the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: podcasts that I listened to that I know dis is
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: starting to you know, she she's listened to some podcasts
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: because I posted it, And for me, I'm like, I
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: find the things that you find beneficial, like if you
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: have the time to post it or share it, like
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: do that you know, absolutely absolutely. This also brings me
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: um to kind of the theme of today, Like we
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: wanted to talk a little bit about gold digging and
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you know, because as as you both have seen and
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: as you shared already, there's so many Latinos creating their
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: own businesses and hustling and trying to create revenue streams.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: And what we like to do on this podcast is
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: take like old like stereotypes and negative tropes about women
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and flip them and actually show like the other side
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: of the coin. So like we have this notion like
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: socially of gold diggers and women out to take men's money,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: but then we look around at our actual lived experiences,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and there are no fucking men with money around them.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: There are no men and the ones that are around
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: don't have any sucking money. Gold digging war where's the gold?
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: You know? And we see women out here, working, working, working, hustling,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: trying to make it on our own, and I'm just
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: kind of wondering, like thoughts on that. Um, well, I
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: was we were just talking about earlier. There's this YouTube channel.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I forgot what it was, but they were talking about
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the term gold digging and they're like, it was invented
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: by men who are fives that are mad that women
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: who are intends won't date them without money. And I
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: was like, I have to find that later and tell
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you because that was like that makes a lot of fusions,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Like oh my god. But I think we want to
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: talk about two that like gold digging and sugar ing
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: are two different lanes, and I think people confuse that
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: like seeking arrangement, that's not gold digging, that's sugar and
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the people who sign up, the men and women sign
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: up that want there, they know they're going to pay
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: money for that experience, Like that's a totally different arrangement.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Cause I think people get confused with that. No, sir
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: or madam or whoever they may be, you know what
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you're getting into, correct, And there are men that actually
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: enjoy being doing the sugar ng right, are they? Like
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you want to exactly? There's a splendid Yes, I have
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: a splendid daddy. My man is a slender daddy for sure.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: You know, Steve, every person that you date should be
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: your splendor. Yeah. So there's this guy that's been following
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: me on social media for years and I've never met him.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: He lives out of state, but he dems me one
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: day and he asked me. He's like, hey, like, would
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: it be okay with you if I sponsored your nails?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: And so he sends me money every two weeks on
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: ben Mos, I can get my nails done. Yes, bitches
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: shout out. And so it's true there are, contrary to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: popular belief, there are men out there who want to
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: spend their money on women, even with nothing in return.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Because I don't shout him out publicly or anything, and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: it's not pract well, you give him a little nail view,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: like a little I'm not tagging him. It's like private
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: on Venmo, you know what I mean. But it's just
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the satisfaction of knowing that he's contributing. And so what
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I find too is if you kind of put that
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: intention out there right, or you're open to it, or
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: you're kind of let it be known that, like, look,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: if you want to correct the wage gap and send
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you money, there's an opportunity to do so. And there
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: will be a man out there eventually and that wants to,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that wants to, and they only want to. Yeah, every woman,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: every fem should have their cash shop, Venmo, PayPal and
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: their bio. And I can't stand people who are like,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know who shame it. Oh my gosh,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: she posts your cash ap that's so cheesy. Okay, but
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I'm so that's why because I've definitely all my birthday.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: You know, there's some you know, I posted my Venmo,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I posted my cash shop, and men not me money
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: goods it? Or even the other day my car got
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: totaled and I'm so all good, it's all good, but
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I just wrote my car got totaled, and um, I
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: had someone send me forty dollars, you know, and he
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: was just like, go go take yourself out to eat,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and um, yeah, So I had my I have so
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: um do you know that link It's called a link tree,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: so link tree. I have that in my bio and
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: then I write, I just I think it's just like coffee,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: money or something I have, and then that leads to
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: my papal good nice tips, listeners. Tiznetized your life, especially
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you know you're posting those thirst traps. And Instagram is
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: a free platform, a free account. Are you not entertained? Right?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Like the leaf you can do? You know you can
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: do is buy me coffee? Right. I quote you guys
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: all the time, like when I'm with one of the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: one time a week when I go outside because like, oh,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: like this dude wants to buy me food or whatever.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I feel bad and I'm like, listen if you actually
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: listen to localtor radio to talk about the wage gap
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: all the time, and it's kind of like how you
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: feel it, you guys, And they're like wait and I'm
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: like a wage gap and then they like, I don't
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: feel bad more exactly, don't feel bad and if you know,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: if you don't want to spend the money, then go
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: back to you. I tell my man all the time,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I make fifty two cents to your dollar,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: like literally, like, please buy me the number. Like it's
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: it's solid that it's not making up out of asses,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: like and I mean, let's talk about doing it. You
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: you guys brought up r O I return on investment. Yeah,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: let's talk about it, Okay. I think, Um, if you
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: take anything away from today, is it every relationship you
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: need a return on investment. You're investing your I think
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: time is the most valuable thing that you can give someone,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: your time. If you're investing your time, attention, energy, energy,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: nice fucking texting, you don't entertaining out makeup, makeup the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: time it takes to drive from point A to point
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Do you gas money on a person, especially a man
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: and expensive? And I got some hoops okay, and I
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: go bad. I told them, I'm sorry, madam, I have
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a hook for a point. It's not that bench like,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: oh my god. And then you know I need a
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: tip money. Yeah, that you need to really look at
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: your return on investment? What is Like I said this earlier,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: we are all queens, okay, and we should be addressed
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and courted as such. We need to stop letting ancient
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: men in our lives. When patriarchy, Yeah, the patriarchy. Like,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: if you're putting all of this out, you need to
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: be getting shipped in return. You need to be taken
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: out on nice dates. Don't settle for cups of coffee, um,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: don't settle for cafe like, no queen. You need to
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: be taken to no boo. You need to take it
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: out on a date. You need to go to concert.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: You didn't go on trips, you know what I mean? Like,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: I was in a relationship for two years in my
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: r o y, I'm not seeing it. I invested everything.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I invested monogamy. I invested in not going, not being
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: able to go on other dates and seeing other people.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I was cooking, I was
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: acting like a wife eat to an ancient man that
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: was going God knows what, you know what I mean.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: And it was putting in emotional labor I was. And
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: what did I get in return? It was nothing? It
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: was nothing. Right. One thing that I was, you know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: we were talking about before we started recording, was like,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: so the women, right, the fens are putting in all
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: of this work, right, all this emotional labor, this mental labor,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: everything right, And the men that especially the ancient men, right,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: are not giving anything in return? Right, it's not reciprocated. Um,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: so who's actually the gold digger right now? He's actually
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: like taking advantage of the labor. That's labor. Where the goal,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: that's what it is. Where the gold? So who is
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the gold digger? Actually? Exactly? Our youth, our energy are youth.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: And because women we get so easily devalued when once
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: we start aging, we have a limited amount of time,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: is right, and to waste that when men are allowed
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: so many more years of being considered young and smart
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and like you know, like important, right, and we get
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: written off when we enter our thirties and ship I was,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I don't have the time to wait, I was going
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: to touch on that. I'm glad you said that on
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the thirties. Like there, Well, I don't know what it
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: is about. I mean, I know what it is that societal, right,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the implications of a woman turning thirty, right, of not
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: being an old maiden. But there's like this horrible, horrible
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: like timer that we're on that we have to accomplish
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: all these things before we're thirty. But why, you know
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: what I mean, why like why do we have to
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: be married before thirty, have kids before thirty, have hell
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: of money invested, like in our savings and stocks and
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: all that ship before thirty, Like why and men are
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: out here fifty trying to bag barely get barely, like
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: getting by, like have barely emotionally matured guy at fifty.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: But I love what you said, you know, so we're
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the gold. Yes, we need to start treating ourselves as
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: sadly you know what I mean, like or like in
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: expecting more, you know exactly, you know what I was.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: You'all seen that movie. Um, he's not just that into you.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I think what people think about because we hear these
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: cases like oh this guy is paying for this girl's
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: apartment and like surgerence, Like you know, that's the exception.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: The rule is that men are not giving you that much.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe some gas money, maybe somenail money, if they're into it.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Nothing wrong, We do not kink shame here, but that
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: that's not that's the exception, you guys. And that's what
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: people like think, like, oh, they're getting this stuff all time,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Like no, they're very much not. That's a professional girlfriend.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: That's a very rare job. I would love to be
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: professional girlf But like but like, you know, there's not
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: that many women, Like I don't know anyone who's like
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: that's their full time job. They exist, but it's very
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: like it's the exception, it's not the rule. Yeah, you
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: know this is and and it's so complicated because it's like,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: we want these things for ourselves, right, but you can't
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: get a man to want to take care of you
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: and to want like that desire needs to come from within,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the things that's so
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: hard to find. It's a genuine desire from within to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: take care of their fami, their female partner, and um,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: when you find that person, right, then it's also like, okay,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: but are you also providing everything else as far as
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: partnership goes, because that's important, but it can't be everything
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: or they'll do it and they'll have like string attached world. Okay, everything,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna need you to stay at home. You're
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: not gonna have any friends, like you know, Like that's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: when it becomes abusive, right, It becomes this leveraging of power.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Who has the power what he does because he has
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: the money, right, and I can't go anywhere and I
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: can't leave also because now he has all the power,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: you know, so exactly. It has to like exactly what
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: mall said. It has to have all the other things.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: It can't just be the money, right, And that's very
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: rare to fine. That's why I don't know. That's why
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not dating right now. I'm like, stay away, demons.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not dating right now because no one's asking me.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm too busy. I remember Brie and I spoke,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: what are the kind of guys that you attract? Oh
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: my god, So y'all ever seen spring Breakers? Okay? Um,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: y'all know that rapper riff raff. Yes, don't please Okay,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: because like everybody tried to certain types. So like the
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: time that likes me is like super tall, super skinny,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: like white boy probably has a grill. It's like I
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: don't and they come to me like flies the honey,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, what is it about me that? Like
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: she was like the other day, like a couple of
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: months ago, She's like, yeah, I attract like former meth
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: heads for sure. Oh yeah, yeah, I can't. Like I
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: don't like you guys, Like, I'm sorry that I don't
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: know what And then't you like hoppits or like meatballs,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: like what's your type? Because I'm not and they're always
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: like stupid tall like six four plus and I'm like, no, sir,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I am a hobbit. No ude, Well I can't wait
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: to see who you end up with me, dude, like
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: I it was like a gift challenge and it was
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: like rushing its like it's me. I'm loving me right
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: now unless you're gonna get me a surloan misteak right,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: and we can to wright and some cold stone like
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: you said, yes, so got a habit size. This is
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a good segue into kays. We want to know about
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: ho kis? What does your ho k it look like? So,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: if you're new to the podcast, hok it is, you
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: know what you're gonna put in your bag for your hotivities? Right,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: you can keep it in your car and your bag
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: at your booze place whatever wherever that may be, right,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: and it has your your very specific essential your accouterments
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: for your Okay, so I think for me, toothbrush, toothpaste, yep, breathmans.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: I always like to lotion lotion from like Bathom body
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Works like very Melly. I like rub it on myself,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: you know, on my cards and all that and um
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: condoms because we need to be safe out here, and
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: you cannot expect them to provide them because they won't.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: They'll run out supposedly supposedly us like with the condom
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: on right. That's the other problem with the whole other car.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Another pocast day. Do we got time? What clean? Like?
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I don't liar, I don't give a fun I don't
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: belieber exactly y'all lie exactly. They literally I assume that
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: they're all lying to me at all time. You should.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I assume they all have kids at home, they have
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: a wife and a girlfriend, they tend to and they
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: haven't been tested in five years because I do attract
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: like guys who have like a girlfriend or wife at home.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I don't looking for that. Like what about me? Says
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: side Ho and love riff raft What is it about me?
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that happens to me constantly. Dude. What's in
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: your home kit? Brief? Okay we talked about earlier, but
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: essentials Um is a sampler perfume. So if you need
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: to throw it away, it's like, don't worry about it's
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: not your good perfume. And just till like this year.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I'd never had an iPhone, so I couldn't count if
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: they had a charger, so I bought my own charger,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: and then I always bring out like a taser or
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: a stun gun or something to protect myself with. Yes,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: and you have your your with you? Yes? Yes, Okay
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: should I put it this close? Okay? You guys ready, yes, ready, yeah,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: because I love it. I grew up in a very
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: like um well, both my parents are taurus Is, so
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: you know, very stubborn protective. But on my mom's side,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: random story, they my grandfather and all like there's like
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: siblings mastered in kung fu San Su and they were
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: like the first people in America to like master that. Yeah,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: so she's bad. She thinks she's Batman. So I came
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: up with like ninja stars throwing in my face and
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: she had sad my sword side. And my dad is
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: just like crazy too because he's also a tourist, so
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: he taught us all these girls how to do so
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: it's it's a Filipino knife fighting technique and it's like
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: the three and nine. I think I think you guys
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: talked about survival are so literally imagine my five year
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: old little like half sister who was like blonde with
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a practice knife, going to like a dummy bobby like
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: jugular juggular side like a part twist intestines like, so
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: both sides like they were very like into like self
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: defense important, really important to teach your children. Yeah, Like
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: it was kind of disturbing because she was doing at
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: school and they're like, dude, you can be honest. You
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: can also teach them that. She was like, I love it.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Teach your daughters how to use the knife. Yeah, another
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: thing and other things. Damn that's a good home best.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I love it. Oh my god, this has been an amazing,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: amazing interview. Thank you so much for coming so much.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: This interview has been long overdue, and I'm so happy
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that y'all have finally made it on. It's you know,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: the synergy. It finally worked itself out and we love you.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Both were so like inspired ear and awe of you.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Both were inspired in all of you. What I told Brie,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: I was like, guess what We're going to be a
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: local go to riga And I was like, I'm famous.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Like we were both kind of like like little girls,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I promise you. Like he's been long overdue. I think
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: I was like really nervous. I'm like, what do I
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: have to say? Like what, I'm here, and I'm really
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: truly blessed. No, Brie, I mean Brie and Bread. You're
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: both like you two as a duo as a tem
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: are so amazing and like you're just a natural born speaker,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: like you're born to do this, like to talk about this. Yes, really,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, thank you so much. Y'all are definitely
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: one of our favorite duos. So like we're so happy
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: to here. Yes. So can you just share with our
• 49:48
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