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How To Set Yourself Up For Success In Your 20s · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on Gadigle Land Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land. Hey Chicks, I'm sal and I'm
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  Speaker 1: out and this is two Broke Chicks to show that
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  Speaker 1: shares life lessons and tips to help make you a
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  Speaker 1: rich in life. And today we are joined by content creator,
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  Speaker 1: founder of the brand Night Sweet Thing, and all around
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  Speaker 1: inspo Bridy Drake.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are so sweet. I'm so excited to be here.
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  Speaker 3: We're so excited to have you on today.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get into it, we like to start
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  Speaker 1: with a life lesson of the week.
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  Speaker 3: So, as our guest of honor, would you like to
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  Speaker 3: kick us off?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 2: I got back from America like three days ago, and
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  Speaker 2: what I have learned this week is that when you
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  Speaker 2: get back from a vacation, you need a vacation at home.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's it's a thing. I got home and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I'm going to get straight back into work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've been rested for two weeks. I got
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  Speaker 2: home and I'm like, I need to go. I need
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  Speaker 2: to go have another vaca at home. It's a thing.
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  Speaker 2: So that's my life lesson.
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  Speaker 4: It's like how to come back the holiday blues?
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, completely because we actually put that on
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  Speaker 1: our story when we came back from Europe.
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  Speaker 3: We were like, we need.
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  Speaker 4: Tips for the post holiday blues because we.
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  Speaker 3: Know they're setting in. I was crying like the day
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  Speaker 3: that we were leaving.
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  Speaker 1: Before yeah, yeah, And the most common response was book
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  Speaker 1: another holiday.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, but after Yearpe. I was like, so that's
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  Speaker 3: why I had loved too.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but a domestic getaway that isn't too hard
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  Speaker 1: on your bank account.
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  Speaker 2: Even just at home, like a stay in Vaca, like work,
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  Speaker 2: just relaxed, because like traveling can be so exhausting as
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  Speaker 2: well at the same time that it is like so
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  Speaker 2: much fun, like just at home, a little bit of Vaca,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of something in Australia, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, yes, totally romanticized the vibe. Yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: What about you?
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  Speaker 1: Sal oh okay, So my life lesson of the week
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  Speaker 1: is something that I stumbled across on TikTok shock I know,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody was saying, you know how we send memes
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  Speaker 1: to our friends, always send them like posts and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and be like, this reminded me of you. That is
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  Speaker 1: called pebbling and it's like, you know, when penguins will
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  Speaker 1: get a special little pebble and they like waddle over
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  Speaker 1: and drop it off to their soulmate to be like,
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  Speaker 1: this is a pebble, life fan, and I.
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  Speaker 4: Brought it for you.
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  Speaker 3: That is the equivalent for humans. How cute is.
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  Speaker 1: That it's not sending memes and yeah, because it's like
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  Speaker 1: I thought of you when I saw this, and it's like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course, it's like silly, haha, goofy gird.
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  Speaker 3: But really every.
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  Speaker 1: Time somebody tags you in something or sends you a
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  Speaker 1: meme or a TikTok and it's like, this.
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  Speaker 3: Is so us. Yeah, that's them pebbling you. That's cute.
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  Speaker 3: How cute?
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  Speaker 2: Does that appreciate a meme so much more?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not right?
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  Speaker 2: So sweet?
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  Speaker 3: What's your life lesson?
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  Speaker 1: You know? The saying ask for forgiveness, not for permission,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I am. I think it works in
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  Speaker 1: some ways, but I think I'm starting to transition a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more towards like us for permission rather than
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness more because I get.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is like a people pleasing thing.
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  Speaker 1: Though I never want to upset someone, Like my intention
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  Speaker 1: is never to upset someone, which is why I think
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  Speaker 1: it is a case by case thing, right, that it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you do have to taste take risks and if there's
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  Speaker 1: never an ill intention like then yes. But it's like,
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  Speaker 1: for example, this is the weirdest example, but we got
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  Speaker 1: a cameo from like our favorite TikToker. His name is
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  Speaker 1: both m and he does a hello Fwiaky Princess.
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  Speaker 2: Actually pay for it?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, can you make a video for our live show?
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  Speaker 1: And anyway, it's linked by it exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And he made it, and then I was like, oh shit,
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  Speaker 2: do you have.
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  Speaker 1: To like tell people that you're going to post their
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  Speaker 1: cameo online?
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  Speaker 4: I was like do.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if that was in like terms or
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  Speaker 1: conditions or something. And normally what I would do, I'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh fuck it, I'll just post it and
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  Speaker 1: they'll tell me if there's an issue. But then I
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  Speaker 1: got worried and I was like, oh, but what if
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  Speaker 1: they see and yeah, then I was like, do you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I'm just going to send them a message
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  Speaker 1: and just check. And I did that and they are
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  Speaker 1: like the nicest person. I also didn't realize they were Australian, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which was wild. But then like then, going from that
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  Speaker 1: through that experience of posting it, I'm like Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: I've got nothing in the back of my head being like,
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  Speaker 1: oh what if this, what if I'm not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do this or what if Like yeah, you know this
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  Speaker 1: is going to upset someone, But then I get to
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  Speaker 1: go through the experience actually being able to enjoy whatever
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  Speaker 1: that is.
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  Speaker 4: So I do think it's a case by case thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a time and place.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm like, if there is that like seed of
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  Speaker 1: anxiety or anything that would actually take away from like
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  Speaker 1: the joy of an activity, I think sending a message
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  Speaker 1: or doing like the thing that takes five minutes to
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  Speaker 1: like get rid of that is actually going to help
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  Speaker 1: you rather than because then like in the Virgin like oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's not that big a deal, and then you're asking
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness and then you've got to go through conflict, whereas
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  Speaker 1: this way and do you know what the other thing?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry she's jumping, But people like to feel like they
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  Speaker 1: had a bit of control in something, or they like
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  Speaker 1: just even being asked or they like that. So I
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  Speaker 1: feel like more often than not, when you ask someone something,
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  Speaker 1: they'll always give a positive reaction rather than if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't include them in the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just been considerate. Yeah, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I never thought about it like that.
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  Speaker 3: That's really good. Okay, Okay, let's get into the episode
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  Speaker 3: to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got your on, Brady, because we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: how to set yourself up for success in your twenty
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  Speaker 1: years and who better to have on to talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're twenty three, right, yeah, point of you.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like a personal attack. I would say, like.
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  Speaker 1: To be going through the topics that we're going through,
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  Speaker 1: that is incredible, That is incredibly impressive.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to like.
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  Speaker 1: Tap into all your knowledge because to be twenty three
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  Speaker 1: and you know, have your own brand and your own
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  Speaker 1: property and be working on doing that up. And also
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  Speaker 1: like from you know, your media and your personality on
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  Speaker 1: social media, an amazing person with amazing people around you.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm sure there's highers and loads of your life
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  Speaker 1: of course, but like slaying.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much, laying and up so much.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's what that's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just incredible, and I think there's so
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  Speaker 1: many learnings that you would have. So we're gonna tap
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  Speaker 1: into the first topic. There's a few, but buying your
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  Speaker 1: first property, yes, right, So we all love your renovation
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  Speaker 1: and home content. I like watching all of it in
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  Speaker 1: my rental.
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  Speaker 3: Like this is so me.
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  Speaker 1: But what was the process like for buying your property
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  Speaker 1: and what steps did you take beforehand in order to
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  Speaker 1: make that happen.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is just my personal journey. I think
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  Speaker 2: when buying a house, everybody's got a different journey. But
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  Speaker 2: I really did it the wrong way. Number one, I
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  Speaker 2: did not walk through the house before I bought it.
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  Speaker 2: I drove past it, saw the front of it, and
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  Speaker 2: when I've got to get that, the auction was that
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  Speaker 2: day they had no viewings. So I went to the
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  Speaker 2: auction and I bit it without looking inside the house.
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  Speaker 2: So that is what I would not recommend. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 2: not what I would do if I was buying a
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  Speaker 2: first home. Again, I didn't even know if there was
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  Speaker 2: running water or electricity.
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  Speaker 5: Great story there, Yeah that was so I Literally when
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  Speaker 5: I got the house, I walked in there and I
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  Speaker 5: almost cried because I was like, there's hot, crazy, but.
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  Speaker 2: What a thrill? My thrill?
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  Speaker 1: Like I bad advice, but the risk of it all
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, like I'm like, but I'm like I like it,
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  Speaker 1: but such bad advice.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do it. But what I would recommend is like
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  Speaker 2: finding a house that you can afford that is actually
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  Speaker 2: not as good, and then you can do it up
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  Speaker 2: if you have the time and the skill. But for me,
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  Speaker 2: what happened is I had to go into this auction
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  Speaker 2: and I had a number, and when I raise my
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  Speaker 2: hand with number, I say I mean my hand with
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  Speaker 2: the number, I say the price. And if I say
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  Speaker 2: the price, I have to legally pay it. So it's
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  Speaker 2: so daunting. So I'm sitting there and there's another couple
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  Speaker 2: next to me and they're bidding as well, and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm like bidding, They're bidding. The price is going up
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  Speaker 2: higher and higher. I reached my budget, and my dad
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  Speaker 2: and my mum were helping me out with it. They're like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, educating me on what to do. My dad said,
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  Speaker 2: stop there, don't buy the house. My mom pops her
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  Speaker 2: head out behind my dad and goes got one higher.
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  Speaker 2: So I went up one higher and I got the house.
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  Speaker 1: That would have been such a thrill, but also completely
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  Speaker 1: daunting because it would be because as well they were
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  Speaker 1: they being like a well, yes, oh my god, in
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  Speaker 1: the fear of regret.
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  Speaker 3: What was it?
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  Speaker 1: Was there like something in your like tummy that.
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  Speaker 4: Was like, this is it, this is the house.
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  Speaker 2: Adrenaline. I didn't. I didn't really process wanting to throw up.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of research had gone into the area where
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  Speaker 2: I bought, so I wanted to make sure that it
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  Speaker 2: was a good return on investment. And I also wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that I like the town and that
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  Speaker 2: the street was nice, and that I'm on the right
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  Speaker 2: side of town and that so a lot of research
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  Speaker 2: did go into it. So when the right property did
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  Speaker 2: pop up, I was ready to go, But I was
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  Speaker 2: ready to go too quickly that I kind of just
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  Speaker 2: fully sent it.
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  Speaker 1: But I really do like the look for something that
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  Speaker 1: isn't like the dream home yet. Yes, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: that's definitely something that we can fall short of when
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  Speaker 1: looking at houses or apartments or when we want to buy.
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  Speaker 1: We look for something that you know is ready. But
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  Speaker 1: half the fun of it is making it yours and
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  Speaker 1: turning it into like your dream home. Was it difficult
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  Speaker 1: to learn how to renovate?
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  Speaker 2: No, I will say, though, I do have a dad
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  Speaker 2: who's a builder, so that that alone like makes me
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  Speaker 2: be able to buy a really bad house and do
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  Speaker 2: it up really nicely. But when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: minuscule stuff and like just doing like dii wys YouTube
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  Speaker 2: is your best friend with that, So there's so much
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  Speaker 2: more that you can do even without having like the knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: But having a dad who's a builder of course does help.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. But that's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people find that really daunting
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, where would I begin?
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  Speaker 3: How do I start?
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  Speaker 1: But knowing that you can do a lot of those
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  Speaker 1: things yourself. And I think a lot of people who
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  Speaker 1: are doing renovations or you know, different upgrades in their
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  Speaker 1: home like they've never done it either. No, And I
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  Speaker 1: think that especially being you know, somebody who's in their twenties,
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  Speaker 1: it can just it can feel really overwhelming and people
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  Speaker 1: doubt themselves before even giving themselves a shot. Do you
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  Speaker 1: have any tips for any other people listening who are
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  Speaker 1: also in their twenty years and have a goal of
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  Speaker 1: buying their first home?
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  Speaker 3: Where should they start?
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  Speaker 2: That's where I was at twenty one. I bought my
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  Speaker 2: first house and I went, all I want to do
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  Speaker 2: is get into the property market. But where I live
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  Speaker 2: houses range from eight hundred thousand to two million, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I can't do this, So what I
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  Speaker 2: did is I started with what I could do, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm going to go out back and
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  Speaker 2: that was the best journey of my life. Like my
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  Speaker 2: mum's from the outback, and I bought in a town
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  Speaker 2: I could afford, and it's been life changing. But I
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  Speaker 2: had to take that risk, and I had to take
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  Speaker 2: that chance to go in a place I wasn't familiar
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  Speaker 2: but I could afford, and I had to start somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: and so I couldn't buy the one million dollar house,
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  Speaker 2: but I could buy the three hundred thousand dollar house. So,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, if you want to get into the
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  Speaker 2: housing market as a twenty year old, start where you can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, even if you start in a town that
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  Speaker 2: you're not familiar with, at least you're just starting somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's that's with our generation. It's so
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  Speaker 2: hard to go, oh, I want a house, but it's
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  Speaker 2: two million dollars.
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  Speaker 4: It feels so far away.
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  Speaker 2: It does, but it's not as far as you think.
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  Speaker 2: If you go to the right town with the right pricing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, outbackscheper. So it got me in the property markets.
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  Speaker 1: When you're looking at places to was there like a
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  Speaker 1: certain checklist that you're like, Okay, this is a good
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  Speaker 1: area or this is like how did you decide on
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  Speaker 1: that town?
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  Speaker 2: Well, like, as I mentioned before, my mom's from the outback,
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  Speaker 2: so I had a little bit of an understanding of
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  Speaker 2: the outback towns and where I ended up going was
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful town. I drove through there. It was lovely.
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  Speaker 2: I got such a good vibe for it. But essentially
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  Speaker 2: I did a lot of research. So my checklist was like,
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  Speaker 2: is it a good return on investment? So if I
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  Speaker 2: put money into this house and if I rented out
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  Speaker 2: part time, am I going to get banged from my buck?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: And I found that the town that I did end
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  Speaker 2: up buying in was number one in New South Wales
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  Speaker 2: for a return on investment? Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Was there anything that.
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  Speaker 1: You wish you knew before or any like any mistakes
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  Speaker 1: you made that you're like, fuck, that was expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Little things in the house. Go through the house and
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  Speaker 2: make sure you know what you're buying. I bought a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful house, but it didn't have air conditioning. So to
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  Speaker 2: get an air con installed is a hefty allowed a
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  Speaker 2: hefty amount of money. I think it was like maybe
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  Speaker 2: twenty thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow for a house as an apartment and in
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  Speaker 1: the outback like you'd need it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I had no idea.
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  Speaker 2: I could be wrong. I could be wrong. Off the
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  Speaker 2: top of my head is twenty thousand and guess what
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  Speaker 2: you can.
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  Speaker 4: Do crocs asterisk? How much was the roo?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean the roof?
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  Speaker 4: Like the tile roof to get the roof free done?
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  Speaker 2: The roof ree done, the whole roof forty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: That's a deposit right there, you know. So it was
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  Speaker 2: good because I put a lot of value on the house,
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  Speaker 2: so if I was to sell it, I could give
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  Speaker 2: money episode true, but it wasn't something I was aware of.
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  Speaker 1: Oh why did you have to redo the whole roof?
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  Speaker 2: It was it's an old house, and it was like
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  Speaker 2: not not eligible?
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  Speaker 3: What's the wore wild?
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  Speaker 4: See I don't know any of this shit?
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  Speaker 3: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Why is it a property surveyor that can come and
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  Speaker 1: look at the house for you, yes, for you buy
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  Speaker 1: and they can sort of give you an outline of
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  Speaker 1: some of the potential costs that could come into it.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think that's also something that people don't realize
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  Speaker 1: if they've never bought a property before.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the deposit is just one thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many other hidden costs that you may not realize,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, getting a lawyer to come look at
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  Speaker 1: it and look over the contracts and everything, and then yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not running into an auction and you actually
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  Speaker 1: do have time to.
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  Speaker 3: You're not doing your drive by through.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a good story and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: worked out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wellfare crazy, but you can get like a building
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  Speaker 2: inspection as well before you buy, just to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you know, even the flooring's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: uneven and the foundations of the building is okay. So
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  Speaker 2: there's lots of checks you should go through that I
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  Speaker 2: didn't go through.
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  Speaker 1: I think as well, though there were a lot less
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  Speaker 1: regulations for houses that were built like twenty plus years ago,
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  Speaker 1: or buildings that were built twenty plus years ago, So
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  Speaker 1: I always say make friends with a building surveyor So
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned that you bought your house at twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: which is so cool, But what were the compromises you
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  Speaker 1: had to make in your lifestyle or how did you
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  Speaker 1: decide on, you know, what to spend money on and
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: what not. To spend money on because you're obviously saving
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: for a deposit. And I feel like that's one of
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: the hardest things to do because people are doing that.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: But then it's like, ooh, but Cindy's brunches on Saturday,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: and I want to do that. So how did you
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: say yes and how did you say no to things
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: during that process?
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: During the process. And I think this might be a
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: bit controversial because I hear the saying, you know, you're
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: in your twenties, go live your life to the best,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: go travel everywhere. But I actually had a different approach,
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Like in my twenties, I'm going to knuckle down. I'm
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: going to of course spoil myself, but I'm not going
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: to like take myself everywhere and buy designer handbags and
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: dresses and everything like that. I just said, my house
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: is my goal and I'm going to try my best
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: and be really disciplined in that. But I know that
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: some people have a different opinion, which I totally understand.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: But for me, like it really worked. I knuckled down,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I got really disciplined, and I you know, saved up
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: for my deposit, and it it didn't take me too long.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: It was it was pretty good, but yeah, it was
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: a place to start. But I would also recommend if
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: you can knuckle down and get disciplined at twenty That's
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: my advice because I think a bit of both, a
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: bit of a mixture is actually really good because especially
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: when you don't have a family and children, it's the time.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: To do it.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have those responsibilities.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: And I think you know, when we're in our early twenties,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: we think that our twenties is like it like this
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: is our peak period. It's going to be the best
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: years of our life. And I think that's definitely true
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: in some instances, like your twenties are amazing, but you
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: also have so much life left to live after that,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: and the things that you do in your twenties or
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: in your thirties can really set you up for the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: rest of your life. And I think also, you know,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: learning those habits and those skills that comes with you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: being a bit more frugal and being responsible with your
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: money and having a financial goal is only going to
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: help you later in life, whether that is you know,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: saving for an emergency fund or saving for a property.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: So you've not only bought a house by twenty three,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: but you've also set up your own incredibly successful business.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: So I feel like this whole episode is like the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: asking for a friend. Yeah a friend, Yeah, one hundred percent.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about how that baby
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: was born.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what a story that was. So I've
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: loved business since I was eight years old, and so
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I'll just give you like a little recap of like
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: where it all began.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: So when I was eight years old, I remember staying
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: home from school because I was sick. I wasn't my
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: mom was just like, Okay, you can stay home. By
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: the end of that day, I made eighty dollars and
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: that's because I sold calendars to like friends and family.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: So that was the first inkling that I was really
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: business minded. And my mum saw that and she was like, Okay, wow,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: she's really good at this business thing. But she allowed
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: me to be creative and she like drew that out
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: of me. And so at twelve years old, I was like,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: business is what I want to do for the rest
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: of my life. I don't care about anything else. I'm
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: going to be a business woman. At twelve years old,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm going to be a millionaire by fourteen, Yeah,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: dead set. I believed it with my whole heart. I
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: got to fourteen and I was like, oh crap, that's okay, like.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: A little far away for that. I'm in jet. I
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm actually minus.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, I've done it a little
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: bit wrong. That's fine. Sixteen, I'll be a millionaire. I
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: get to sixteen, I'm like, oh my gosh, this business
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: thing is so much harder than I thought when I
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: was twelve. But that was that was just me growing
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: and failing and changing. And I did so many businesses.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: What were some of them?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I made candy jars, which I would sell to like people.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I knew blinker Kid, which is a wallet and the
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: outer layer you could insert an a four sheet of
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: paper and I would sell them to preschools so for
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Mother's Day and Father's Day, so the kid could draw
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: an insert it into the wallet and they could have
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: like a wallet with the kids drawing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: That's so true.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: I know that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know what happened to one, but so it's
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: always been in me to create a business. And then
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I got to I think it was eighteen nineteen and
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I was working at Gloria jeans at the time, and
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: it was only my little casual job, but I knew
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: in my heart. I was like, I'm doing business. I
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: can't give up now. So I met my coworker at
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the time and I was like, look, you want to
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: start a pajama business with me? And she's like, yes,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: let's do it. So we joined together. We went to
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: markets originally and we had nine hundred dollars each and
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: we're like, okay, let's buy a first round of pgs.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: We bought one hundred sets and we're like, let's go
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: sell them at the markets. We did two markets and
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: we sold about fifty sets altogether. That got shut down
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: because of COVID and I was like, that's it. I'm done.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I hate business.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: How does I dream?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Wait, so you both started with nine hundred dollars each.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you started your.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Business with nine hundred dollars each.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: And I had eighteen hundred dollars and.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I have not put any more money, Like, I've just
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: reinvested and invested and reinvested. People don't understand that you
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: can start little and grow big. Yeah, you started.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Your business will less than two thousand dollars. Yeah, Bridy,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that is fucking amazing.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: That's what unheard of.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: That is so inspirational because I need like three to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: five business.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: That is so incredible.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So you started with that amount, and your strategy was
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: start little, yes, make profit, and then keep reinvesting.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Yes. So when I would make a profit on the PG,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: every pger that we sold were like, let's just take
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: that money, buy more. We'll sell those, take that money
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: and buy more, and before you know, it's like tripling
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: and quadrupling in all of that. So it was COVID
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: times and the markets were shut down, and I was like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I'm so done with business. This sucks. I've tried since
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I was twelve, and I'm not a millionaire. But it
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: was a lot of character building within that, which was
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: really good. It taught me the value of money through
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: those through those times. But I got those pjs, the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: fifty remaining peace. I put them in a box and
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: shoved him under my bed and I said, I'm done.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I'm so done. And then I was I was so
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: embarrassed because I brought my coworker, who hadn't done business
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: before along for the journey, and I was like, I'm
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: so embarrassed. Like I asked her to do this and
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: it's not working out, and I've wasted her time and
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: her money. You know, she put in the nine hundred bucks.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: So it's a really time of like, oh my gosh,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I'm so embarrassed. But then that's the time it changed
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: everything because I posted a video on social media and
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I was like, look, I just want to get rid
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: of the rest of my pjs. I'm done. I just
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: want to make the money back on what I spent.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So I took out the pjs and I made a
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: video online on TikTok and they sold out instantly. The
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: fifty remaining pjs, I put them on a cheap ass
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: website and sold them, and I was like, I'm going
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: to keep this going. I was like, they sold out instantly,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: So then I reinvested that money and then reinvested, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: then we sold out again, reinvested, sold out again, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: then the stock was getting bigger and bigger, and I
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: was selling out and selling out and selling out, and
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the business grew to a point that it was it
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: was getting really successful at this point, and that's when
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: my coworker and I went our separate ways.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: We did it really well.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: We are very civil about it. But she was like, yeah, business,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: this business is not really my thing.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not fair, and that's fine.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: It's not for everyone. Yeah yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: So we just went our separate ways and I took
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: it under my wing and it is where it is now.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: That's so incredible.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that stops a lot of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: people from going into starting their first business is they're thinking,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I need cash to start something, And I think, of
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: course it depends on the type of business that you're
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: going to be doing how much cash you'll need. But
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: knowing that you started with less than one thousand dollars yourself.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Twenty twenty.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen, twenty twenty one, yeah, yeah, which isn't that
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: long ago, So it's not like it's not like you
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: you know, jumped into something ten years ago when you
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: were actually fourteen, Yeah, and like you got to something
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: like you know, that's the first thing. It's like, you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: because sometimes I think we think that it's like I've
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: got to be the first to have, you know something,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: And I do think what you have is actually incredibly
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: original and unique to what it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Is, but it's pegs at the end of the day.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: But do you know what I mean like you've done something,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: You've taken it, and you've done it really really well.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you, And that's like what the difference is. And
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that's what I think people. It's really really motivating to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: know that because it's like you don't have to, you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: sit at a desk at two A and being like, Okay,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: watch my app, you know, like, and I think sometimes
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you can.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Get wrapped up in that. Yeah, totally.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for someone that you know wants to start something
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and they don't want to sit at the desk at
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: two A and being like, what's my app?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: What's like the.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Step by step process or what's like the first thing
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you would do that's like, Okay, I want to start
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: my business.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: This is what I'm doing.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, for sure I can give you advice on
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: what not to do.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: I love that it's more really big.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I made this mistake myself. Yeah, that's why I'm a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: pro at this mistake. Okay. I overordered. So when I
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: was like fourteen and sixteen and I would do all
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: these random little businesses, I would over order stock. But
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: the thing is is when you over order the stock,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you've got to sell it. But what you'll find is
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: that as soon as you start selling it, your customers
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: will be like, look, I don't like this. I want
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: this to be changed. Let's maneuver this. What about this?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So when I had all this stock at home, but
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I wanted to change the product because it wasn't perfect.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: So I would always recommend order a low quantity of stock.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: If you're ordering or if you're making your product, make
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: it so low. Maneuver it, test the market, change it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: That's what I would recommend.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: That's such a good tip because I think, yeah, I
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: think because as well, when you're ordering units, it's like
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the more units you buy, the cheaper it is, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: it will actually end up being more expensive because you'll
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: be left with dead stock.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Start small, Do not over order your stock. I've spoken
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to so many business people and they all have the
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: same advice. So I'm like, start small, you know, fifty
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: sets that'll do. Test it out another Oh. This is
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: a great tip though, if you're wanting to start a
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: business and you're not sure what direction you want to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: go into. This is a tip from the nineteen fifties
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: and it still works to this day. So what you do,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I call it, you research it, you let it go.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: And then you let it flow. So research like crazy
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: for two weeks, get what genre of business that you
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: want to go into, and flood your mind with everything
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: and anything about that genre, and get all of your
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: mind so full to capacity with that particular thing that
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: you're wanting to go into, and then all of a sudden,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: let it go. Don't think about it, don't research it,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: let your subconscious like ponder over what you've been filling
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: your brain with. And then what you'll find is, two
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: weeks later the ideas will be coming out of nowhere.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: So it's called research, Let it go, let it flow.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Oh that's so incredible.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I love that you mentioned that you started posting on
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: TikTok with your brand, and I think obviously, as you
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: would know, social media has become such a woven part
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: of branding and marketing and small business as well. What
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: are your tips to like starting what are your tips
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: for small businesses that want to lean more into social
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: media and TikTok but they don't know where to start.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: When you don't know where to start, just start like
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: that's like, I don't know how else to put it.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: But I never ever tell my followers to go buy
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: my pjs. I have never once mentioned the name of
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: my brand. So what I do is I just tell
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: them my journey and my story, and I tell them
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: where I began, and I bring them along for the journey.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: So if someone's a small business, bring them along for
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the journey. I think you're like I think small businesses
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: or like the people behind it. You know, you're not
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: as boring as you think you are. You know you've
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: got a story, you've got a journey. Share it, be authentic,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: bring people along, keep it captivating.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's such good advice, because I do think you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: can get wrapped up.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: In being like, oh this is on tail, go buy this,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: And I.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Think that's actually so interesting that you're like, don't you
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: don't mention the brand name?
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: You don't, And it's just is it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: More about like a lifestyle, It's more about building the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: lifestyle and you and how that ties into everything.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. So I just tell people how our
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: designs are created and bring them along for the journey,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: and then they're like, oh my gosh, these pj's are
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: actually really cute. And then I also, like, not to
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: be cocky, but I love my pjs so much. But
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I've got the best pgs for the lowest price and
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the best quality. So I believe in my product as well.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: So I don't ever tell people to buy it. They
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: can buy it if they like. If they don't, that's
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: so fine. I'm just glad they hear the journey too.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Is it ever nerve racking?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: You know, when you're reinvesting and you're reinvesting profit, do
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: you ever get a like in that process?
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Obviously?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I feel like you've probably grown past this a bit now,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: But at the start in your journey when you were reinvesting,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: was there ever nerves of being like what if people
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: stop buying it? And like what if I don't make
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: this profit back?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Not really, to be honest with you, like, because I
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: was so committed to it, and also for me that
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: it was only reinvesting that nine hundred dollars even though
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: it wasn't and.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: That's a good way to think about it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just about reinvesting, and and because it
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: was just staying within the business, I didn't feel like
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: it was out of my own pocket. So it wasn't
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: hard for me. But I think when you get older
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: and have a family and kids, that's when things start
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: to get really tough in business because at the end
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: of the day, you do have to provide for a
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: whole family. And I'm like, I'm twenty. I was twenty
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: when I did it, and I was like just providing
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: for myself, but I really give it to like mothers
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: and fathers who do it for the family. That's got
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to be tough, and like, good on them for giving
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: it a go to.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Other than overordering stock, were there any other like money
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: mistakes or things that you were like, oh that was expensive,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: or anything that you would avoid doing.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I think it's just surrounding yourself with the right people
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: who believe in the dream.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: That you have.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Because there's that quote that says your five closest people
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: will show you your future. I don't know if you've
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: heard that.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, I just got goosebumps. I'm going to put
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: that on my phone.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I love that because it is like you are the
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: company that you keep.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, which is so important like with the business as well,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: like we have the most beautiful employees, but especially like
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: with my inner circle when creating the business, it's like
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: do they believe in my vision or they going to
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: tear me down? Are they going to limit me, are
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: they going to flood my mind with their own opinions
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: because they're not big dreamers and believers, and so it's
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: really important the inner circle that I have. I'm very
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: tight knit with my inner circle. I've got like an
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: outer circle, which I love and I love people and
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: everything like that. But your five closest people have to
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  Speaker 2: be on your side. Yeah, even in the business world too,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: So like your five closest employees have to believe in
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  Speaker 2: the business, have to want to be there, and that
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  Speaker 2: has to be part of what their destiny is as well.
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  Speaker 2: And we try to, you know, cultivate such a wonderful
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: environment within the business to you know, unlock everyone else's
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  Speaker 2: giftings as well who work there.
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  Speaker 4: That is such great advice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Because yeah, it's like I know that people often say
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it's business, it's not personal, and I do believe in that,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: but I do think that at the end of the day,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: we are human and it does come down so much
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to how you click and the energy that you bring
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and if you believe in the brand and the business,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: because when times get hard, that's what you need. The
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: people who are like in your corner being like no,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: like this is amazing, keep going, keep going, because you
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: can't always do that for yourself. You can't always be
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: your number one cheerleader. So you're like, come on, good,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: get out here.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: How need you gas?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Absolutely? And I think also you spend so much time
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: at work, So like our mindset for the business is
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: if they want to spend every single day for the
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: rest of their life at night, sweet thing, we will
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  Speaker 2: love that, we will cherish that, we will motivate that.
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  Speaker 2: But if this is their stepping ground into something more
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: or to something different to what they're called to, we
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: will absolutely motivate that, and we will say, go achieve
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  Speaker 2: your dream and we will be their stepping stone to
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: what they're called to. So I think it's business, but
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: it's also we want people to feel like it's a
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: family and a home and a place where they can
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: come back to if they go out and that's not
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: what they wanted. It's always a place to come back
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: to or a place to stay forever if they want to.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Oh that's so beautiful.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: And this is a perfect segue, I think because the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: next topic that we wanted to cover was surrounding yourself
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: with people you love, and even just from following you
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and seeing your content. You have amazing friendships. You have
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: an amazing relationship with your siblings and with your family.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Can you talk us through though, how you manage that?
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Because you are incredibly busy, So how do you make
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: time to spend with the people that you love while
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you're running a business and renovating a home and also
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: being viral on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: I think it just comes down to my priorities, because
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: when you prioritize something, you've always got time for it.
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  Speaker 2: So my number one priority is my family and friends.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: And like I said before, I keep my circle really close,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: and to be honest with you, that's the capacity I
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: have because I am so busy, but with the people
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: that are in my inner circle, I really work hard
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: to cultivate such a beautiful, strong friendship, relationship, whatever it is.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: And I come from a really, really beautiful family, so
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: that helps too, because I come from a family who's
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: like you are what each other's got in life, like
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: the siblings, So we've come from parents who really want
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: us to have a beautiful relationship and to back each
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: other up. So I think that comes from my parents
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's so lovely.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: What's one way that you do prioritize that time? So
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: for anybody who is listening and is like, I really
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: want to make more time for my friends and my family,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: but I just really struggle. I can't fit it into
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: my calendar, you know, I feel so burnt out. What's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: one thing that they can do to prioritize their loved ones.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I think as well as having really strict boundaries if
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: you need to, boundaries are important, but also just making
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: a chunk of time and sticking to the time and
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: having boundaries within that. I think that'll if you're feeling
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: overwhelmed by you know, people around you, it's just like
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: good to have the boundaries, but have a chunk of
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: time that you can go see them and be really
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: present in that as well. I think it's quality over quantity.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: I think that's that's what I would advise to.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, time block that time with your loved ones. Yep.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: And what about time for yourself? Do you have any
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: rituals or anything that you do to prioritize that self
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: care and self love time.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I'm a morning swimmer. I do it all the time.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: So every morning I'm going to swim, but it's not
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: just to swim to me. Of course, I dip in
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the water and I feel like a mermaid. But I
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: sit in my car and I just sit there and
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: I debrief and I this is something I do and
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: it works for me because I live a very public life,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: which is such a beautiful thing and I love it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I have the best online community in the world, Like,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: no one has a better online community than me. I'm sorry, cocky,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I know, but I don't.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: But that's amazing as well. I think that's like the
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: best way to feel about it too. Yeah, I think
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: everyone should feel that way.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, So when I sit in my car, I do
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: get negative comments from time to time. Of course I'm online,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: you know, But when I sit there before my morning swim,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I just allow all those words to come off me,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: if that makes sense. It's like a little bit of
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: soul search. And you know, I just I don't carry
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the words of others on me, otherwise I'm not going
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to be my true self. So every day it's a
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: day in, day out refreshment. And if you don't take
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: every single day a chunk of time to refresh yourself,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: your capacity is going to get smaller and smaller. So
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: that's what I do. I just sit there and I
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: just allow like everything to come off me, and then
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I go for a swim and wash. That's how I
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: see it, and then I'm ready for my days.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: It's so true.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: And we always like say, and I always say, there's
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: actually nothing that an ocean swim can't fix, whether it's
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: a hangover or a breakup, a bad day at work,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: there is nothing that's swimming in the ocean can't fix nothing.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: What has been your biggest life lesson on your journey
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: so far?
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Number one, No amount of money, no amount of fame,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: amount of recognition, will ever ever give you peace in
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: your mind. So I think that's the biggest thing I've
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: learned is that nothing will, nothing will ever make you
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: happy unless you have your peace in your mind and
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: you try your best within yourself. So I think, like
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: peace of mind is like priceless, and that's something that
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I strive because I struggle with anxiety, and so something
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I strive for is just peace in my mind. And
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I'm like, that is the biggest life life lesson that
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I've learned, is that you can have it all, but
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: if you don't have peace, there's there's, there's not much
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: more than that.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: And then one thing in that as well, that what
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you said is like you tried your best. And I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: think we expect way too much from ourselves sometimes yes,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: like your best is good enough, Like we think I
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: should have done more if I did this, and it's like.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, you did your best. Like how Good's that?
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: You should be so proud of yourself.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: You are so wise for such a young person, and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I think that you know, you have so much experience and.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: So much wisdom to share. So thank you so much
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: for coming on the show.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Go and thank you to you chicks for having us
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: in your ear holes.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: We love to be here.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: And thank you to m ik Made for making this
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: episode of Two Broke Chick Chicks happened next Tuesday. Bye Chicks,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Bye bye