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Vanessa Gordon - The HAMPTONS Party of the Summer · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 3: This is the Cats in Footing Podcast, a melting pot
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  Speaker 3: of footing. And now here's Jen. Good afternoon, everybody, and
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  Speaker 3: welcome to this episode of Kats and Pudding. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: Jennifer Delando and today I have a very special guest,
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  Speaker 3: Vanessa Gordon. She is the founder of east It's East
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  Speaker 3: End Taste, east End Taste Eastern Taste magazine. And she
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  Speaker 3: is a event coordinator. She's a mom, she's a bus
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  Speaker 3: this woman, she is all around a phenomenal woman. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy to have you here today. Thank you,
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  Speaker 3: welcome to my show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to.
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  Speaker 3: Be here I'm happy to have you here, So tell
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  Speaker 3: us a little bit about yourself and tell us about
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  Speaker 3: the magazine and your events.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, so starting with the magazine, so I founded it.
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  Speaker 4: It's so funny as it was, truly, as they say,
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  Speaker 4: a passion.
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  Speaker 2: Project, if you will.
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  Speaker 4: I have a background in teaching English as a second
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  Speaker 4: language and freelance writing.
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  Speaker 2: But I wanted something to call.
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  Speaker 3: To teach me English as my first language. I have
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  Speaker 3: every having Brooklyn accent, I get correct on.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, let's see, so all encompassing with my freelance
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  Speaker 4: writing background and teaching, and you know, my daughter was
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  Speaker 4: born at the time. I wanted perhaps something to call
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  Speaker 4: my own that I had control over. I didn't grasp
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  Speaker 4: the concept of working for someone else very well. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I never I actually do not hit hard.
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  Speaker 3: I have my own business too. I hate it. I
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  Speaker 3: worked for other people and I work for myself. I
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  Speaker 3: much rather work for myself, even though it's harder to
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  Speaker 3: work for yourself, because people think that because you're the
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  Speaker 3: business owner, you work three times as hard as everybody else,
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  Speaker 3: and you're there from the beginning, and you're there till
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  Speaker 3: after everybody else is gone, right, and you're there and
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  Speaker 3: weekends and everything else, so you must work very hard.
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  Speaker 2: I don't take a day off.
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  Speaker 3: And how old your daughter for you?
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  Speaker 4: So she's ten now, and then I have a son
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  Speaker 4: who's six as well, so I started when she was
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  Speaker 4: quite young. But I it was you know, constant pitching,
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  Speaker 4: constant you know, you know, delva into a creative process
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  Speaker 4: that not necessarily those that you're pitching to could align
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  Speaker 4: with or agree with. And it was just you feel
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  Speaker 4: like you're doing so much but with no return. So
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  Speaker 4: I said, I want to start something where the oly
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  Speaker 4: I would say, this is the only person I could
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  Speaker 4: blame is myself if I'm not executing this the right way.
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  Speaker 2: So, but that's not why I start. I started because
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  Speaker 2: I love what I do.
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  Speaker 3: I love writing.
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  Speaker 4: I love you know, putting, you know, things out there
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  Speaker 4: that I love and creating perhaps a space.
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  Speaker 3: I love foods all. If it's about food, it is
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  Speaker 3: like it is, that's like one of my best things
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  Speaker 3: in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it started off with more food sustainability practices
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  Speaker 4: and wine and you know, culture on the East End
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  Speaker 4: and all that fun stuff. But then I said, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you can only write so much about the region that
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  Speaker 4: you live in and it's you know, technically where I live.
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  Speaker 4: It's a seasonal destination. So I expanded it in twenty
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  Speaker 4: eighteen to include like destinations around the world that perhaps
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  Speaker 4: emulate like a Hampton's like aesthetic. Perhaps areas of Ireland,
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  Speaker 4: southern Portugal, the aligar areas of Greece, Croatia, even as
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  Speaker 4: far as you know, Bowen Island and you know, out
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  Speaker 4: outside of Vancouver anyway, just different destinations that people perhaps
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  Speaker 4: may escape to or want to go.
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  Speaker 3: To, like like you said, like a Hampton The typeost.
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  Speaker 4: Feel exactly Hampton's ask exactly, and I discovered them very organically.
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  Speaker 4: I just was very keen on reaching out, putting myself
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  Speaker 4: out there as much as I could, but being smart
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  Speaker 4: about it too.
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  Speaker 2: For instance, you know, if I'm not necessarily going to.
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  Speaker 4: Accept a trip that's more adventure focused and off the
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  Speaker 4: beaten path, that's not necessarily my you know niche so
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  Speaker 4: to say, so what I got invited to do a
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  Speaker 4: six week opportunity to travel through Ireland and England in
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  Speaker 4: late twenty nineteen, I need to do something like that,
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  Speaker 4: And it was in such self caire Its beautiful there right,
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  Speaker 4: it is that is that's on my bucket list, highly
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  Speaker 4: recommend So I did that through Tourism Ireland and Visit Britain,
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  Speaker 4: and I curated the whole experiences. I joke, I said,
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  Speaker 4: I did seventeen afternoon teas in a thirty day period,
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  Speaker 4: which Iland too, they do. Yeah, they're they're into the
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  Speaker 4: afternoon tea experience. They're not as well known, but it started.
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  Speaker 2: Actually.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I did my first trip to Ireland in September of
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  Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, and I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: So much I went back in November of that same year.
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  Speaker 3: How's the cuisine.
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  Speaker 4: It's act surprisingly very good. It's funny how I.
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  Speaker 3: Have no offense to anybody from Ireland or Irish, but
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  Speaker 3: it just doesn't. I mean, you don't hear about Irish cuisine,
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  Speaker 3: so I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I was pleasantly surprised with the seafood, quality of the
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  Speaker 4: seafood and the bread, and honestly, the butter is the
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  Speaker 4: best I've ever.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Irish shoulder bread. If you, if you, somebody
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  Speaker 3: makes it very well. It's probably the most delicious with
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  Speaker 3: some butter. With the Irish butter so delicious.
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  Speaker 4: That's the way, that's the way, it's the way to
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  Speaker 4: go and yeah, that opened up a lot of new
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  Speaker 4: opportunities and such, and you know, of course, you know
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty hit and things. You know, I decided to
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  Speaker 4: just stay at home or I did a lot of
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  Speaker 4: gardening that year and did.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of self focus, if you will.
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  Speaker 3: But then I did a lot of drinking that yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think there was so many a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did a lot of gardening.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: And then we adopted another cat year. So that's that's
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  Speaker 2: our Linda.
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  Speaker 3: And you have cat and you have a couple of
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  Speaker 3: I had a recent so I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 4: You meant no, yes, no, but thank you for your
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  Speaker 4: contlent says, yes, that was that's Abby. We had her
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  Speaker 4: for many many years and she was the rock, so
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  Speaker 4: to say, of our you know, my my husband and I.
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  Speaker 2: We we moved in together.
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  Speaker 4: We adopted a cat, I think less than a week later,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll never forget it was Abby. Who is this
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  Speaker 4: lone cat in a enclosure? So I say, because she
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  Speaker 4: would attack the other cats like other cats.
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  Speaker 3: She was that was she ruled the roost basically to.
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  Speaker 2: She did she did, And then Linda are the Catlyn
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  Speaker 2: I love.
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  Speaker 3: I love I named my cat's human names too. I
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  Speaker 3: have Paulie and Camela, like those are my cat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Other for, I was on a zoom call with someone
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  Speaker 4: happened or it was with one of the people's named Linda.
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  Speaker 4: All of a sudden, Linda starts scratching on one of
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  Speaker 4: my upholstery and I said, Linda, you know, I'm so sick.
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  Speaker 4: Would you cut that? She think she was corect Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And I had to literally pick up a cat.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is Linda.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's hysterical. I love that. I love naming
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  Speaker 3: out most human names. It's funny, it's good. You know
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  Speaker 3: it's a John. This is my cat John. As we
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  Speaker 3: do so so tell me about like the I love
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  Speaker 3: the Hamptons. I have a house in Hampton's and I
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  Speaker 3: my my experience is is that, I mean, I like
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  Speaker 3: Hampton Bay's much better than the other areas, the towns
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  Speaker 3: of the Hamptons. I feel like it's not as I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to say, I guess I do want to
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  Speaker 3: say snooty. But I think it's up and come. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's also now up and coming. Now Hampton Beae
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  Speaker 3: is where they're opening up a lot of Michelin style
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  Speaker 3: restaurants with a lot of Michigan chefs are coming, and
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  Speaker 3: the Canoe, the Canoe Lounge, and I mean I love cowfish,
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  Speaker 3: which is great. Please, how do you feel about like
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  Speaker 3: the areas in the Hampton.
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  Speaker 4: I'm actually so glad you brought up Hampton Bays. Not
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  Speaker 4: only I have several friends who live in Hampton Bays,
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  Speaker 4: but also what's cool is that there was there's actually
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  Speaker 4: a big project.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it actually went through or not
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  Speaker 2: so very quickly.
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  Speaker 4: I guess they're planning to do a whole right innovated
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  Speaker 4: concept in in that hamlet. I want to say, it's
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  Speaker 4: like an over twenty million dollars plus project. They're trying
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  Speaker 4: to make Hampton base like sag Harbor. Yeah, which I'm
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  Speaker 4: hoping is a success. If you got there's a new
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  Speaker 4: there's a new place called the Wine Room at the Cottage.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: There's another place, wonderful guy that I know named Mark
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  Speaker 4: who owned the cottage at Hamlet Green and all of
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  Speaker 4: that there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no can new place. I have not been to
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  Speaker 2: believe it up, but I'd love to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get over there. It's beautiful, it's beautiful. It's I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're really building it up. I just feel like it's
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  Speaker 3: so much closer to come in from the city coming
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  Speaker 3: to Hampton Base, because then you have to drive. It's
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  Speaker 3: like another hour or sometimes even an hour and a
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  Speaker 3: half to get down like Montauk Highway just to get
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  Speaker 3: to Southampton or East Hampton. So I just feel like
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  Speaker 3: it's I mean, for me, I love you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: easier to get there, so, but I do. I love
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  Speaker 3: the Hampton It's just a different feel, it's a different vibe.
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  Speaker 3: It's a different vibe. Hampton Base is definitely a different
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  Speaker 3: vibe than Southampton.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, I do like escaping to Hampton Base though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a nice area. Now Where do you Where
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  Speaker 3: do you live? Where are you originally from?
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  Speaker 4: I originally interesting. I originally from East Hampton. My grandparents
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  Speaker 4: had a home in north Haven and then I moved
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  Speaker 4: away and moved to Knockut for fifteen years. I met
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  Speaker 4: my husband who's also from East Hampton and we decided
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  Speaker 4: to come out east and originally we had a place
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  Speaker 4: in sag Carbor and then.
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  Speaker 3: I love I used to live in Sanakaba too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were on Hampton Street.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't far from there, and I years ago,
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  Speaker 3: I remember seeing Christy Brinkley and Billy Joel on the
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  Speaker 3: beach and they were the first celebrities that actually lived
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  Speaker 3: in Sakhaba. They would they I think they like started
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  Speaker 3: the trend because San Kaba was more residential like people
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  Speaker 3: who lived in New Hampton's lived in Sanahoba. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: like the summer place. But they kind of started the trend.
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  Speaker 3: This was like an early This was like probably like
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  Speaker 3: eighty eighty seven. And I used to see Christie Brinkley
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  Speaker 3: on the beach where how beautiful we have little overalls
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  Speaker 3: and noticed that and makeup up and breathtaking and the
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  Speaker 3: nicest person like just you'd walk up, You're like, hi,
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  Speaker 3: how are you? Like like You're like you're Chrissy Brinkley.
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  Speaker 3: And here's Billy Joel like uptown girl, like there she is,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, nice, nice, nice people, but beautiful area. Now
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  Speaker 3: that's Hampton Be's I feel like, like you said, is
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  Speaker 3: up and coming, like the place to go now for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Now what made you start the brunches and the and
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  Speaker 3: the events that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so totally so I started the Hampton's Interactive Brunch
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  Speaker 4: in the spring of twenty eighteen. So I brought the
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  Speaker 4: concept to my then event team and I said, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'd love to do an event. I've always attended in
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  Speaker 4: your events. I always had a great time. And I said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if I'm going to execute it, you're the
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  Speaker 4: ones I'm going to You're the individuals I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: speak with it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad I did.
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  Speaker 4: So with that being said, I had just a vision
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  Speaker 4: of just a simple networking lunch or brunch or concept.
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  Speaker 4: I think I chose brunch because I didn't see any
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  Speaker 4: events that encompassed that in any way. They all were
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  Speaker 4: like dinner parties, a lot of late night parties out there.
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  Speaker 3: And it would really make more sense to do a
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  Speaker 3: brunch there too, because it's it's summer, it's nice, you
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  Speaker 3: could sit outside like so that's I mean, that would
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  Speaker 3: make more sense to me to have that type of
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  Speaker 3: event there definitely.
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  Speaker 4: And I also chose brunch as well, so we had
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  Speaker 4: the leeway, so to say, or freedom to with the
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  Speaker 4: time of the event, so right, we could do like
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  Speaker 4: ten thirty, eleven am all the way up to like
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  Speaker 4: four five even so that was really cool. So it
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  Speaker 4: was also a void in Saturday afternoon events. In addition
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  Speaker 4: to that, I always like to say that the Hampton's
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  Speaker 4: interactive brunches in lieu of a magazine cover party. Because
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  Speaker 4: East End Taste is all digital, we noticed they have
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  Speaker 4: that opportunity to get in front of people physically. So
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  Speaker 4: this is our opportunity to put actually physically interact networking.
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  Speaker 2: That's really that's it. And then we rotate beneficiaries every year.
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  Speaker 3: How how do you now it's a sponsored event and
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  Speaker 3: you also have vendors there sometimes too, because I went
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  Speaker 3: to the one two years ago. Was really nice.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That place was nice. No, not a lot of walking there,
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  Speaker 3: so we's paying the butt it is it is out there.
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  Speaker 2: We did that. We did at the same location the
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  Speaker 2: fourth year.
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  Speaker 4: We I ensured that there was valet because I said, guys,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you got to give us a exactly,
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  Speaker 4: give us a break here.
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  Speaker 3: No, totally, that place is beautiful And that was I
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  Speaker 3: forgot what the place was as beautiful, beautiful And where
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  Speaker 3: are you going to be having it this year?
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  Speaker 2: We're having had a private estate?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? And where this we can't really say where? Who
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  Speaker 3: could you say what?
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  Speaker 4: I can only say what after people purchase tickets that
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  Speaker 4: we released the somebody famous. Uh, I would say, it's
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  Speaker 4: a it's a it's it's a beautiful there'll be famous
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  Speaker 4: people there for sure.
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  Speaker 3: But who is going to be on the guest list?
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  Speaker 3: Can you give us?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I will The only one I can,
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  Speaker 4: I could say is Deborah Cox is our co host.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, that's amazing. Yeah and what how how
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  Speaker 3: the what about the vendors? What kind of vendors are
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  Speaker 3: you seeing coming in? Oh? My gosh. The sponsor.
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  Speaker 4: We have my Good brands, including Pietro Simone's skincare. We
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  Speaker 4: have new Hydration which they're doing like B twelve shots.
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  Speaker 4: We have doll Cakes who you may have seen her,
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  Speaker 4: she was on the view recently, wonderful woman. I've known
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  Speaker 4: her for a while and she's doing custom cakes and
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  Speaker 4: cake kits with a cute little little dolls like like
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  Speaker 4: barbies and the small little dolls inside really cute.
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  Speaker 2: And we have the Sushi class who's doing a whole sushi.
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  Speaker 3: Speeally and how long does the event?
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  Speaker 4: So eleven up to three thirty, so it's a walk
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  Speaker 4: through style, so it's gonna be past our derves and
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  Speaker 4: such as well catered by Tulula.
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  Speaker 3: You have to eat the sushi we did. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: can we bake? Can we bake? Or no? No baking though,
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  Speaker 3: just like no, no. I wish we're gonna have an
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  Speaker 3: easy bake oven there that we could bake. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you're probably too young for this, but women,
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  Speaker 3: I was a kid, I had an easy bake oven,
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  Speaker 3: but I never put cake in it. I usually would
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  Speaker 3: put like something that shouldn't go in there, Like I
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  Speaker 3: would like melt everything in the house that should go
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  Speaker 3: in there. That did you know that wasn't cake or
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  Speaker 3: a pastry?
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  Speaker 2: It was bad.
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  Speaker 3: I would like one of those now because there used
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  Speaker 3: to be a lot of to play around with. So
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  Speaker 3: we can't. So we're not going to bake any cakes there.
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  Speaker 2: Then not this, not this time. But yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be great. I'm just so I'm just so
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  Speaker 2: so excited.
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  Speaker 4: There's and then I'm you know, known for you know,
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  Speaker 4: surprising people. So I always love to keep certain elements,
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  Speaker 4: you know, under wraps until people arrive.
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  Speaker 2: We may have some notable partying gifts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you gonna have a good swag bag at
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  Speaker 3: the end. Oh that's So I love swag bags. That's
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  Speaker 3: my face.
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  Speaker 2: It's my face.
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  Speaker 4: It's my favorite thing to curate put on and there's
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  Speaker 4: nothing like it.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. And I have to say most of
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  Speaker 3: my best swag bags came from Hampton parties. I have
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  Speaker 3: to say, every time I come to one to a
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  Speaker 3: Hampton event, I would get such great and stuff that
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  Speaker 3: like you don't always get like that, Like it's just
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  Speaker 3: something that would be that you wouldn't buy for yourself,
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  Speaker 3: or you would't to get for yourself. Get some good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Last time I got a I got a great curl
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  Speaker 3: and iion like a beach waiver. It was like I
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: got something like that that was at my event. Yeah
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: m hm, that was a great. That was a great
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: I still use it. I use it all the time.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: I love it. So I say I utilize my swag bag.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I just didn't throw it in the corner. And now
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: how is this doing all this? I mean, having young children,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: it's a lot. It's gotta be rough, it's it's it's
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: I'm actually looking.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: I'm so glad I'm doing the event early this year,
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: so it'll give an opportunity to take a break.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: And be with my family this summer. So I'm really
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: looking forward to that.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: And you're gonna spend time. You're gonna be able to
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: stay home with them a little bit this summer.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're gonna being camp. They do tennis and my
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: son does jiu jitsu, but they'll be in camp. And
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: I intend to be at the beach almost every day.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Help. And because these days the kids are so involved
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: in so many activities, I can't even imagine having to
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: pick up and drop off your you guys, it's amazing
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: what they what they do these days. I'm like, I
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: would never my parents would never take me anywhere. I
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: would have to walk everywhere. So any event, any type
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: of activity I did, I would have to find my
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: way to get there. So today these kids do so much,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: so it's probably it's probably fun to they do.
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  Speaker 4: My gosh, even I just told myself I'd love to
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: do more than I had the opportunity to do as
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: a child.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: And I hope they're, you know, more than satisfied.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: And one and ten and sex, yes, right, those are
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: funny ages. They are. Oh, they're the funny ages.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: They are funny.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: I no more, that's it. You got your boy and
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: your girl, your done, boy, and girl, I'm done now.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Your baby is your maga, is your magazine.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: It's my events exactly, my business and your business and
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: my forecats and yeah.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: But that's what you that's what you want to focus
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: on now too. Yes, but it's going to grow with
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: your family. Everything intends to grow together. Yes, you find
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: as as a woman in business, you know it's it's
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: not easy. It's not easy juggling all those jobs.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: There's a lot that people don't say on the back
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: end that they are taken completely for granted, which you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: so it comes all I'm the same, but I enjoy.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: What it comes down to is I love what I
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: do so much.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: And that that drives you to two to do it right.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're gonna do if you love something. You know,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: my grandma she didn't say it, but she always used
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: to say this quote, you'll never work a day in
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: the life in your life if you love what you do.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: And that's so true, and if you enjoy it, then
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: it's it's just it's just that's just a plus if.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: You get to do that right totally.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: But with moms like I, most people don't realize how
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: hard it is to be a mother Like it is.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: It is the hardest job in the world. And that
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: might sound so cliche and sold old fashion, but it is.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I would rather work fifty sixty hours a week that since. Seriously,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: when I used to be home with my kids, I
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: was a better mother working. I was because when I
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: was home, I was like mommy dearest, like everything had
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: to be in place, everything, and I would be focusing
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: so much on that. I felt like I was better
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: with them when I was out at work because I
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: was able to spend more quality time with them, and
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I was better, you know. I mean, when I was younger,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: it was it was I was home a lot with them,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: But when as I got older, I just I didn't
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: have the patience anymore. Right, once they were in school, though,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: that was good. But it is. It's a hard job,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: and it's not it's not recognized. You know, they don't.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: You don't think about being a stay at home mom
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: as being it's hard. It's rough. I feel I look
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: at these women like, I don't know how you do it.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: And then the homeschool they had kids on top of it.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: That I did.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I did do that for a year with my daughter
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: when we traveled, she traveled me to Ireland in England
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: and ironically, you know, twenty twenty happened and I'm like, well,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: you're already homeschool.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Oh. I mean, I think it's great for them to
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: have the option to do that. I mean I could
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: see maybe doing it with a couple of parents, but
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: not myself just doing it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: What I did.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: It was hard.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: It was hard.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: It was hard.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: The only thing that supplemented it was just that opportunity
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: for her to travel and you know, see different places.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: She was learning and we were doing you know, work
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: and and such as we were on the trains and
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: airplanes and all that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: So she got this. She got to not be in
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: one environment. You got to be moving around with us.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: So that was good because I don't know, I could
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: not handsley. And when during COVID was so funny. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: mean I used to forget that my daughter would be
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: on screen and I would walk by the camera and
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: be like, curse, and like, what the fuck did you do?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Go take the laundry out of the law, out of
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: the lord and basket and the whole classes listening to me.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: When I used to do that all the time, When
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: during cold was so fun. She's like, Mom, the whole
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: class urder my teacher. And I said, ah, tell him,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: tell him to let you get up and move and
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: put the laundry away. So yeah, I remember those days.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: That was Those were I never I hope those never
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: happened again.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: But it won't.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: No, I hope not. Oh not, but I leave. But
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: you you are, you are doing it. You are your
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: your amazing woman. I mean the things that you're doing.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Is there anything else on the horizon for you besides this?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Well, I started a It's called The Hampton's Brunch Interview series,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: So I'm interviewing you know, individuals, notable people over over
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: brunch essentially, so we would go to like different restaurants.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: We might I might launch one of the episodes in
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: The Hampton's probably due to this summer, and then bring
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: it back into New York City and I'd ideally like
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: to bring that around the world and then develop it
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: into a larger project, so we'll see where it goes.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I would love to be invited to any one of
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: those that you do around the world, especially if you
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: go to Island, because I'd love to go to Island.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Awesome.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I love to do that, and where where is your
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: next that you think is going to be the next
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: place you're gonna go.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: For travel travel, I'm actually going. I'm going to curous
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Out in a couple of weeks. I'm gonna I decided,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: you know what, I'm gonna take it. It was it
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: was another pressure of that was offered to me, and
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I said, I want to go. I'm gonna go, even
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: though it's like literally a week before my event.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I said, it's not done. If it's not done.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Now, it's not happening to all.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I'm out.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I have to do it. You have to do I
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: mean something like that. When you get an opportunity like that,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: you gotta do it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Exactly as far as the larger I'm going to be
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: traveling with a friend of mine through Italy and Spain
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: in October.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I love Italy.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: We're going to be going to Tuscany again.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: We're going to be going to Florence summers. Yes, actually Florence.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Did you ever go to Florence?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, several times.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably one of my favorite cities in Italy.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: We'll go to the Dolomites and then we're gonna go
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: over to Majorca, Valencia, Madrid.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: That's a that's a great trip. Yeah, I can you can? You?
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Can you stow me away in the suitcase? I love? Yeah,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Itarly is great. Well, you're gonna have a great time,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: and I'm so excited for your events in the in
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: this in and can we tell people when it is
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: absolutely yes you may okay, So it's June tenth. Where, oh,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: June twenty sorry, June twentieth. What is June tent is
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: my daughter's birthday? No, I'm thinking, I'm so sorry. That's
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: ABA's birthday. If anybody wants to give gets June twentieth, right,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: June twenty second, twenty second? I keep saying the wrong day.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: So it's Saturday, June twenty second, and then the rain
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: dates the following day Sunday, June twenty third.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: So that's so exciting and I'm excited. I'm going to
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: be there now I know the date is June twenty second,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: and thoughts at what time eleven am? Eleven am till
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: three thirty that's right? See I remember that good well
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: it was so it was so exciting to have you
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: here today, and I'd love to have you back here
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: again and we could talk about some more of your
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: adventures and more of your endeavors.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: You're so lovely and I thank you, I do, I
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: do send my condole and says, I know you went
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: through a lot yesterday and I appreciate that you still
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: made it here today. That's very professional of you.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: No, it's a pleasure.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't miss it for the world.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: And let everybody know where they can find you on
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Instagram on social media.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, you could find me at Hampton's Interactive Brunch
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: for the event and then if you'd like to connect
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: with me, I'm Vanessa P.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Gordon on Instagram.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much Vanessa for coming on the show.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: And everybody please watch the whole show. You can find
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: this on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. Not just the Schwatz,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: the whole show. And please, if anybody wants to fund
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: me going to one of our events, you can also
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: be one of my sponsors. Thank you everybody, and have
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: a great day. That was good.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, do you want to.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Can we can? We can? We can? We do that too?
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Can we add that? Okay? All right, so we're gonna
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: ask about the event again.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'll do I'll do that.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I'll take care, Okay, So what should I say? So
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: just go roll? Okay, okay, So tell us about the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: events and where we could get tickets for the event.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Sure, yes, So the Hampton the fifth annual Hampton's Interactive
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Brunch is taking place on Saturday, June twenty second at
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: a private estate and watermill. Once individuals purchase tickets, then
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: the address will be revealed to them or within about
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: within a week of the date of the event. So again,
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Saturday June twenty second, rain dates Sunday June twenty third,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: and people can buy tickets Hampton's Brunch dot com slash tickets,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: and then I created a special code Cats and Pudding
• 23:52
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• 23:54
  Speaker 3: It's like the unmasked singer. We're gonna unmask the the
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: the way the event is. That's exactly. So everybody please
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: check out check out her Instagram and your website too
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: to buy to buy tickets, and please watch us again
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: like I said, YouTube, Spotify and Apple and watch the
• 24:13
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• 24:17
  Speaker 3: have a great day. Kats and Pudding