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Episode 85 - Healing and Recovery When Comes To You Financial Health and Wellbeing. · You Minding Your Own Business

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Speaker 1: Hello, hello, hello.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to You Minding Your Own Business radio podcast. I'm
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Speaker 2: your host, Goddess Asha Mariama. Thank you guys for joining
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Speaker 2: me for this episode. If you guys like the commentary
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Speaker 2: slash You Minding Your Own Business.
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Speaker 1: A little bit about me.
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Speaker 2: I'm a certified recovery, healing, recovery, addiction, and mental health
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Speaker 2: practitioner coach. It's all about helping people on their paths
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Speaker 2: and their purpose and their journey to a new and
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Speaker 2: better youth through self-discovery. I'm all about helping people in
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Speaker 2: their mental, psychological, emotional, spiritual, financial, their overall health and
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Speaker 2: wellness internally and externally, but also the critical thinking, common sense,
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Speaker 2: and common judgment, morals, values, principles, and ethics when it
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Speaker 2: comes to weighing the pros and cons of things. when
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Speaker 2: it comes to consequences, repercussions, and karma, when it comes
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Speaker 2: to researching, validating, and verifying information before making any decisions, choices,
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Speaker 2: and acting and behaving on something which can have a
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Speaker 2: cause and effect that will impact in your life negatively
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Speaker 2: or positively. I also help people when it comes to
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Speaker 2: making better decisions, when it comes to decision making, better choices,
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Speaker 2: when it comes to the way you act and behave.
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Speaker 2: also letting go of what was and focusing on what
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Speaker 2: is and what will be. But this particular podcast is
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Speaker 2: all about the financial recovery, which is something we do
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Speaker 2: not talk about. People act like healing and recovery isn't
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Speaker 2: also financial.
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Speaker 1: Oh, but it is. It's very much so.
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Speaker 2: But if you want to be a guest on my podcast,
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Speaker 2: if you want to send me your Asha letters about
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Speaker 2: financial things that you're going through, if you want to...
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Speaker 2: sponsor or you want me to endorse any products and
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Speaker 2: services please reach me on my email address asha.mariam01 at gmail.com
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Speaker 2: that's asha.mariam01 at gmail.com now I've been gone for about
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Speaker 2: three weeks because I've been having throat issues so I
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Speaker 2: had to take a little break for a little bit
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Speaker 2: but I am back but I wanted to say this
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Speaker 2: um When it comes to financial healing and recovery, it
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Speaker 2: is completely different than mental, psychological, emotional, your health and
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Speaker 2: wellness internally and externally. Also, it's different than your family relationships.
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Speaker 2: And then also it's very different than self-love, self-esteem, self-worth, um,
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Speaker 2: when it comes to overeating, when it comes to bullying,
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Speaker 2: it's a completely different thing. Right now, there are millions
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Speaker 2: of people right now that are homeless right now. I
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Speaker 2: just heard about 140,000 people in Atlanta that are about
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Speaker 2: to be evicted right now. There are people that are
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Speaker 2: losing their jobs every single day. I lost mine January
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Speaker 2: 9th and I have been out of a job since then.
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Speaker 2: So what made me decide to do this particular podcast
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Speaker 2: episode was what happened yesterday I got a phone call
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Speaker 2: now mind y'all before I start let me do back
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Speaker 2: let me backtrack I have years experience in child care
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Speaker 2: I have years experience in warehousing I worked at restaurants
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Speaker 2: I have worked in a medical field for almost about
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Speaker 2: 12 years since 2015 I went to school in 2013
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Speaker 2: and graduated in 2015 and then I went for early
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Speaker 2: childhood education when I was in my early 20s after
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Speaker 2: I had my son Now, I.
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Speaker 1: Will say this. I have billing and coding experience.
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Speaker 2: I have referral experience. I have authorizations experience. I have
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Speaker 2: credentialing experience. I have denials and revenue cycle experience in
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Speaker 2: the medical field. So I want to talk about this
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Speaker 2: from a few different avenues. We're going to talk about
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Speaker 2: the financial issues when it comes to health, when it
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Speaker 2: comes to health care. And we're also going to talk
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Speaker 2: about it when it comes to losing jobs, okay? Because
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Speaker 2: I'm in the middle of both, okay? When I lost
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Speaker 2: my job on October 17th of 2025, it was because
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Speaker 2: they decided that they did not need our department anymore.
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Speaker 2: And they told us in June that we were going
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Speaker 2: to be switched over to a different department. Now, mind you,
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Speaker 2: you have physician's billing. And then you also have hospital billing.
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Speaker 2: They were getting rid of their physician's billing department because
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Speaker 2: they figured they were going to make more money in
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Speaker 2: hospital billing. So they got rid of a lot of
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Speaker 2: accounts for physicians billing. So when they decided to switch over,
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Speaker 2: they thought they were going to have all of these
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Speaker 2: different people coming in for physicians billing.
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Speaker 1: That's not what happened.
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Speaker 2: So when they switched us over to physicians billing, they
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Speaker 2: did not think that even though we have experience in
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Speaker 2: hospital billing, that we still didn't need to be trained.
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Speaker 1: They just put us in that department.
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Speaker 2: We had really no training, not really. And now the
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Speaker 2: managers don't do the trainings. The other employees do the trainings.
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Speaker 2: And I noticed this in the past couple of jobs
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Speaker 2: I've had Since about 2015.
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Speaker 1: That the managers no longer trained. No, I take that back. 2017.
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Speaker 1: Because 2015 and 2017. Through 2017.
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Speaker 2: The manager trained me. It wasn't until 2018. Well, in
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Speaker 2: the 2017 going to 2018. That managers start training. And
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Speaker 2: I noticed that in a lot of jobs. That managers
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Speaker 2: no longer train employees. Not only that, after 2016, when
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Speaker 2: I left my medical billing job in a pediatric clinic
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Speaker 2: because of bullying, what happened was staffing companies started calling me.
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Speaker 2: And this was in 2016 was when staffing companies started
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Speaker 2: calling me. And then the jobs I had after that
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Speaker 2: were staffing jobs. These were jobs where you don't get PTO,
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Speaker 2: you don't get sick leave, you don't get medical insurance.
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Speaker 1: You only have to work.
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Speaker 2: And then not only that, you have to make up
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Speaker 2: the hours when there are holidays. So for example, if
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Speaker 2: you're going to be out for Christmas and Christmas falls
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Speaker 2: during the week, guess what?
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Speaker 1: You have to make up those hours.
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Speaker 2: So now you're working 10 hours to make up for
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Speaker 2: the days that they're going to be out.
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Speaker 1: So if they're going to.
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Speaker 2: Be out for example, for two days, guess what? You
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Speaker 2: got to work 12 hour shifts just to make up
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Speaker 2: that pretty much. And one 10 hour shift. That's what
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Speaker 2: you're going to have to do, but you have to
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Speaker 2: make up those hours. Sometimes you may have to work
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Speaker 2: on the weekend to make up those hours. When the
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Speaker 2: pay period starts, sometimes you work during the week. So
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Speaker 2: you may work on a Saturday or Sunday and you
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Speaker 2: might work Sunday through Thursday and to make up those
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Speaker 2: hours and then you have Friday off. And there were
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Speaker 2: times I did work 10 hour shifts. So if I
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Speaker 2: was out on Thursday and Friday, Friday wasn't going to
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Speaker 2: be an issue. Thursday was, so I had to work
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Speaker 2: Sunday or either Saturday. But more than likely it was, yeah,
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Speaker 2: Sunday I ended up working. So I'd have Friday and
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Speaker 2: Saturday off. There are a lot of people that work
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Speaker 2: 12 hour shifts where they have three days on, four
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Speaker 2: days off, four days on, three days.
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Speaker 1: Off for their 40 hours.
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Speaker 2: So it's just crazy how, you know, we don't talk
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Speaker 2: about the staffing jobs in the medical field that are
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Speaker 2: pretty much taking over the whole medical field. So now
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Speaker 2: it's almost impossible to really get a job in the
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Speaker 2: medical field as a receptionist, as a medical biller, as
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Speaker 2: a front desk person, unless you.
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Speaker 1: Work for a staffing company.
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Speaker 2: And now the companies want you to work 12 months
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Speaker 2: with the possibility of extension, six months with the possibility
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Speaker 2: of extension. You're never going to be permanent. And then
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Speaker 2: when that job is over, it's over. I've had jobs
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Speaker 2: where when change healthcare ended up having that breach, we
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Speaker 2: were out of work for four months with no pay.
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Speaker 2: I think it was like two or three months without pay.
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Speaker 1: And we couldn't get unemployment either. It was crazy.
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Speaker 2: So when you have a job that's unstable, where you
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Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen, you're going to start
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Speaker 2: looking for another job. Why?
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Speaker 1: Because that job is not stable.
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Speaker 2: Now, in the medical field, you'd be amazed how many
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Speaker 2: claims that we have to adjust off for many different reasons.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to get into that. when it comes
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Speaker 1: to um.
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Speaker 2: My happier you leads to a healthier you um in
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Speaker 2: a few weeks but um what I will say is
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Speaker 2: today um like before I get into today I had
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Speaker 2: people calling me about jobs but I would never hear
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Speaker 2: nothing else back from them I would never hear anything
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Speaker 2: else back from them as far as the job but
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Speaker 2: you want the last four digits of my social security
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Speaker 2: number I'm not giving you the last four digits of
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Speaker 2: my social security number that's just not gonna happen so
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Speaker 2: now I'm back at home my mom And luckily, my
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Speaker 2: father made sure I was okay.
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Speaker 1: But still, I still got to pay bills here.
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Speaker 2: So I got to try to make up the money
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Speaker 2: that I spent, you know, basically, essentially, you know, since
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Speaker 2: I've been here.
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Speaker 1: So what I will say is this here.
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Speaker 2: If I was in Florida, it probably would be a
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Speaker 2: little bit easier to start back working. But then when
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Speaker 2: you have anxiety and you can't drive.
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Speaker 1: To work, guess what? You have to take Uber. Ubers
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Speaker 1: ain't cheap. Every single day.
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Speaker 2: And when I was in Florida, that's what I did.
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Speaker 2: I took Ubers instead of driving. Even though I had
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Speaker 2: a car, I couldn't drive. Because I had anxiety. Now,
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Speaker 2: as of today, yesterday I got a phone call about
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Speaker 2: a job. They wanted me to do an assessment. And
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Speaker 2: the assessment was to answer the questions. I didn't know
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Speaker 2: that it had to be that I had to write
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Speaker 2: it out perfectly. I just answered the questions. So the
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Speaker 2: lady said, you can't have a job because your punctuation.
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Speaker 2: And I'm just sitting here like, I didn't think it
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Speaker 2: was about my punctuation. I thought it was about, you know,
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Speaker 2: me answering the question. So my whole thing is just
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Speaker 2: because I answered it that way and I might have
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Speaker 2: had some punctuation that wasn't there doesn't mean that my
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Speaker 2: answers weren't correct. So I think it should be more
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Speaker 2: about it being correct than it is about my punctuation.
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Speaker 2: Punctuation can be worked on when I get the job.
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Speaker 2: But like I said, they'll find little things to keep
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Speaker 2: you from getting a job. So now it's to the
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Speaker 2: point where I tell my mom, I don't even want
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Speaker 2: to work for nobody no more.
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure there's a lot of y'all that's going
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Speaker 2: to hear this podcast that's probably going to feel the
12:04
Speaker 2: same way that I feel to be personally honest.
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Speaker 1: My whole thing is.
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Speaker 2: The way that things are right now, The way this
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Speaker 2: younger generation is right now, the fact that they're being
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Speaker 2: basically no child left behind that George W.
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Speaker 1: Bush put into place.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of these kids that's not.
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Speaker 1: Even going to have fourth grade reading. And they graduate.
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Speaker 2: Most of them can't even handle college right now. Most
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Speaker 2: of them are going to college for.
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Speaker 1: Two weeks and then quitting.
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Speaker 2: You got people right now that They leave, go somewhere else,
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Speaker 2: and then go right back to Walmart. There are people
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Speaker 2: right now that can't even get a car right now.
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Speaker 2: There are people that can barely pay their bills because
12:52
Speaker 2: certain states, like North Carolina, only want to pay you
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Speaker 2: $ 13 an hour.
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Speaker 1: And yet, I'm in a military town. I'm just saying.
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Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, not only that,
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Speaker 2: you also got to look at taxes. You got to
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Speaker 2: look at that too.
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Speaker 1: So it's a lot. that you have to deal with.
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Speaker 1: So I decided, you know what?
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Speaker 2: I'm going to put the trigger on building my businesses
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Speaker 2: and building my brand. And I said, once I started
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Speaker 2: feeling better, I'm definitely going to get back to creating
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Speaker 2: my courses, creating my blog, creating my travel agency, creating
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Speaker 2: my courses, my trainings, my one-on-one coaching, getting all this
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Speaker 2: paperwork done, and then trademarking doing taxes on it and
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Speaker 2: start my business because this is absolutely ridiculous. People now
13:47
Speaker 2: are to the point now where they're trying to start
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Speaker 2: something that is of their own, whether it be writing
13:52
Speaker 2: a book, whether it be making jewelry, designing clothing, whether
13:57
Speaker 2: it be going into cosmetology.
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Speaker 1: But even then, it ain't as simple.
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Speaker 2: But not only that, people now are realizing they're going
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Speaker 2: to have to start making money in other countries in
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Speaker 2: order to make money, just like these billionaires do, that
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Speaker 2: I have to start making money out of the country.
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Speaker 1: Meaning I had to start doing like.
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Speaker 2: Tony Robbins and I got to go out and start
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Speaker 2: getting on panels and doing things like that.
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Speaker 1: So don't get me wrong. I do try.
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Speaker 2: To keep my social media up and running, but even
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Speaker 2: that's getting to the point of being annoying at this point.
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Speaker 1: So, you know, at the end of the day, There.
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Speaker 2: Are a lot of people on social media that are
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Speaker 2: content creators that right now are quitting because of the harassment,
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Speaker 2: the bullying, the stalking, the doxing, and all of those
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Speaker 2: things like that. There are people that it's harder now
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Speaker 2: to make money on social media.
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Speaker 1: Why? Because they want you to go back to work.
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Speaker 1: They want you to go.
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Speaker 2: Back to these jobs where you work McDonald's and work
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Speaker 2: out there in these farms and work out there in
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Speaker 2: construction and working in warehouses. So really, that's why all
15:14
Speaker 2: of this is happening because restaurants right now are the
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Speaker 2: most to have hiring signs out of every job that
15:22
Speaker 2: is out there. What's even more crazier is they lay
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Speaker 2: all these people off. right before it's time for them
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Speaker 2: to get their pensions, right before it's time for them
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Speaker 2: to retire, just so they won't get it. There are
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Speaker 2: jobs now, from what Donald Trump and them are saying,
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Speaker 2: to where.
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Speaker 1: They're not going to be giving you insurance.
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Speaker 2: Now, last year, right before I lost my job, I
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Speaker 2: was going to get insurance. But then when he said
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Speaker 2: he was going to cut the discounts and the subsidy off.
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Speaker 1: My insurance was $ 200 and something a month. I just
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Speaker 1: lost my job. There's no way I can afford that.
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Speaker 2: And this was right before, right when they told us
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Speaker 2: we were about to.
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Speaker 1: Lose our jobs.
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Speaker 2: I was like, you, my insurance went from 115 to
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Speaker 2: 206 a month. And now they're saying jobs don't have
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Speaker 2: to give you insurance. So you have to actually go
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Speaker 2: through the insurance company. Go and get insurance outright and
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Speaker 2: it ain't cheap every month.
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Speaker 1: It's not. With no substance that you can't claim it
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Speaker 1: at the end of the year. It's crazy to me.
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Speaker 2: So Then in the state of Georgia, you only can
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Speaker 2: get $ 275 in unemployment, regardless of how much you make.
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Speaker 1: $ 275 in unemployment. That's all you can get.
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Speaker 2: Not what you should be getting based on the amount
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Speaker 2: of time that you work.
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Speaker 1: Don't matter. You only get $ 275 a week. That is
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Speaker 1: not enough to pay your bills.
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Speaker 2: Then you have the car industry really having issues because
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Speaker 2: now they have to lower the Mercedes.
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Speaker 1: They have to lower the BMWs. They have to lower.
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Speaker 2: Cars that they never thought they would ever have to
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Speaker 2: lower just so they can sell them. And then what's crazy,
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Speaker 2: you got to pay for everything. So even though they're
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Speaker 2: lowering the cars, you're paying for everything to use it.
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Speaker 1: It's electronic anyway.
17:43
Speaker 2: Then they talk about Elon Musk and the flying car,
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Speaker 2: but technically the car really didn't fly. It just was
17:49
Speaker 2: able to hold for a couple seconds before.
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Speaker 1: It went down.
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Speaker 2: And then, you know, you got people voting and a
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Speaker 2: lot of states are turning blue, which is fine. But
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Speaker 2: the question is, what are these Democrats going to do
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Speaker 2: to fix everything these Republicans done done? Especially when you
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Speaker 2: have a president and a Supreme Court that's going to
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Speaker 2: veto everything. I tell people all the time, it don't
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Speaker 2: matter whether it's Democrat or Republican. What matters is, are
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Speaker 2: all these people on the same page when.
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Speaker 1: It comes to what's best for the American people?
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Speaker 2: Because we are going to go through a recession, whether
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Speaker 2: we like it or not, we're going to go through one.
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Speaker 1: And whoever ends up becoming president.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you now they have a whole lot
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Speaker 2: they're going to have to fix. But they have the
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Speaker 2: Republicans behind them. That's going to be a problem.
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Speaker 1: A huge problem. So I'm hoping the.
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Speaker 2: Democrats get in and make some major changes. I'm really
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Speaker 2: hoping that they do something to fix this issue. But
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Speaker 2: I highly doubt that's going to happen. Because to me,
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Speaker 2: I don't care which one it is. By now, like
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Speaker 2: I said, the Democrats, hopefully the ones that are going
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Speaker 2: to be in office, actually going to do something. They
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Speaker 2: actually going to start fixing what these Republicans broke all
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Speaker 2: these years.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully.
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Speaker 2: So I would say to the younger generation, work until
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Speaker 2: you're able to build something and then quit your job.
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Speaker 2: Don't quit your job when you start making money. Don't
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Speaker 2: quit until for three years you're making that money for
19:32
Speaker 2: three years.
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Speaker 1: Then quit your job.
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Speaker 2: Do not quit your job just because you making money.
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Speaker 2: When it gets to the point that the orders are
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Speaker 2: so much to the point that you're going to have
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Speaker 2: to quit your job, then quit your job. Do not
19:46
Speaker 2: tell your employer that you are building a business. or
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Speaker 2: you have a business because they're going to let you go.
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Speaker 1: Why?
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Speaker 2: Because I've seen it happen where one girl lost her
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Speaker 2: job because they found out she had a business.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the.
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Speaker 2: Day, these jobs act like beggars can be choosy when
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Speaker 2: it comes to who they hire and then the crazy
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Speaker 2: part is if you go on indeed if you go
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Speaker 2: on all these different apps and you look at the
20:16
Speaker 2: reviews all they talk about is management and the way
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Speaker 2: management treats their employees that's the only thing they talk
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Speaker 2: about they talk about how they're doing two or three
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Speaker 2: jobs only getting paid $ 13 an hour if you somebody
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Speaker 2: been working $ 24 an hour Why would you go back to.
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Speaker 1: $ 20 an hour? Because you're scared.
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Speaker 2: And that sad part, people are so afraid of being homeless.
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Speaker 2: They're working two or three jobs and messing up their health.
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Speaker 2: But then when they get sick and then something happens
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Speaker 2: to them, guess what happens? They put somebody else in
20:54
Speaker 2: your place. You are replaceable when it comes to them.
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Speaker 2: So my whole thing is, when did it start.
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Speaker 1: To where we're supposed to work until we're 65?
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Speaker 2: When I was in Germany, last time I checked, you
21:06
Speaker 2: were only supposed to work until you were 40. When
21:10
Speaker 2: they did staffing companies in Germany, what they did was
21:12
Speaker 2: they actually placed you somewhere. You didn't have to fill
21:16
Speaker 2: out an application. They just placed you there. Why, when
21:19
Speaker 2: you're at a staffing company, why do I have to
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Speaker 2: send my resume to this job?
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Speaker 1: For what?
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Speaker 2: If you're a staffing company, the whole point is for
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Speaker 2: me to be placed there and for me to work
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Speaker 2: for 90 days.
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Speaker 1: Okay, cool. But staffing companies also need to have insurance.
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Speaker 2: But they don't. Staffing companies should also pay for PTO.
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Speaker 1: They don't. Then not only that, they strip this of.
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Speaker 2: Basically getting raises every 30 days. or every 60 or
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Speaker 2: 90 days, now you have to wait to the end
22:02
Speaker 2: of the year. Now they don't give you a raise.
22:04
Speaker 2: They give you bonuses now. That's what they give you.
22:08
Speaker 2: They give you bonuses at this point. And then your
22:12
Speaker 2: bonus is taxed.
22:14
Speaker 1: I remember when bonuses weren't taxed. Now they are. So
22:19
Speaker 1: guess what? At the end of the year, you're going
22:21
Speaker 1: to be owing money.
22:22
Speaker 2: You got women that can't even put their children on
22:26
Speaker 2: the bus or go get their kids and their kids
22:30
Speaker 2: are over the age of 13. Daycare is so expensive
22:37
Speaker 2: to the point that a person that makes $ 24 an
22:41
Speaker 2: hour can't even go to get assistance. There are people
22:45
Speaker 2: making $ 34, $ 35 an hour that can't even afford their lifestyles.
22:52
Speaker 2: There are people that can't even, I went to the
22:54
Speaker 2: grocery store and I think we spent about 300 and
22:59
Speaker 2: something dollars. If y'all seen what we bought compared to
23:03
Speaker 2: 15 years ago, what you could buy, it's insane.
23:07
Speaker 1: Then you can't go to the doctor.
23:10
Speaker 2: You got to use your PTO to go to the doctor.
23:15
Speaker 2: But if you work in an office, you can't make
23:18
Speaker 2: up hours. So if you just started your 90 days,
23:23
Speaker 2: you don't get any paid time off. Then if you
23:29
Speaker 2: want to go on a cruise, you got to use
23:32
Speaker 2: your PTO for that. Back in the day in the
23:35
Speaker 2: early 90s and early 80s, you got sick leave, you
23:38
Speaker 2: got PTO and you got two weeks off. You don't
23:43
Speaker 2: get none of that. And then the maternity.
23:47
Speaker 1: Used to be six weeks. Now it's two.
23:51
Speaker 2: When I tell you the greed that's in this country
23:55
Speaker 2: that is the United States of America is absolutely ridiculous,
23:58
Speaker 2: the greed. So there are a lot of people that
24:04
Speaker 2: have been out of work since 2015 and they said,
24:06
Speaker 2: I'm never going back to work. They have went back
24:09
Speaker 2: to their parents' house and are now living in their
24:13
Speaker 2: parents' house that they paid for. And the only thing
24:15
Speaker 2: they got to pay for is the electric and the
24:17
Speaker 2: water bill. It is so bad that you got people
24:20
Speaker 2: that are literally sleeping in their car because they've been
24:25
Speaker 2: evicted from their house and have to go to Planet
24:29
Speaker 2: Fitness to go and take a shower. It is to
24:33
Speaker 2: a point where now people are YouTubing being homeless and
24:39
Speaker 2: are getting paid very nicely for being homeless because They're
24:45
Speaker 2: showing their experience of sleeping in their car. There are
24:48
Speaker 2: people called nomads that have been living in their cars
24:51
Speaker 2: who have went and got RVs, went and got campers,
24:54
Speaker 2: went and got vans and turned them into places to
24:57
Speaker 2: sleep with showers and a kitchen, all of that. And
25:04
Speaker 2: they're riding around and they are, you know, seeing beautiful
25:09
Speaker 2: parts of the world and even driving to Canada and
25:11
Speaker 2: Mexico and to Alaska. And now it's to the point
25:15
Speaker 2: where they're charging people for being homeless. They're going to
25:19
Speaker 2: jail if they're out there on the streets. But you
25:23
Speaker 2: don't want to fix the issue. All these jobs that
25:27
Speaker 2: need people, but these people can't get a job because
25:31
Speaker 2: they don't have an address. So they can't get the job.
25:36
Speaker 2: There's no place for them to clean up and go
25:38
Speaker 2: put on a suit to go look for a job
25:41
Speaker 2: because nobody's thought to create.
25:43
Speaker 1: Something where people can go and look.
25:46
Speaker 2: For a job and be able to have something nice
25:50
Speaker 2: to wear and then have a place where they can
25:52
Speaker 2: wash it and then go back out again. No, they
25:55
Speaker 2: have no places where these people can go without them
25:59
Speaker 2: being kicked out because they smell to be able to
26:02
Speaker 2: go look for a job.
26:05
Speaker 1: So it is sad.
26:08
Speaker 2: When I went to Wendy's with my mom and I
26:11
Speaker 2: saw this man out there in the pouring rain asking
26:15
Speaker 2: for money.
26:15
Speaker 1: My mama did not open the window.
26:18
Speaker 2: And then right around the corner, I saw his girlfriend
26:21
Speaker 2: or wife out there crying because they're homeless.
26:25
Speaker 1: I have seen children that are homeless.
26:28
Speaker 2: I've seen children go to school with torn up shoes
26:33
Speaker 2: and being picked on Because they're homeless. They can't even
26:37
Speaker 2: get free lunch. That is the only thing they have
26:41
Speaker 2: to eat is free lunch.
26:42
Speaker 1: That's it.
26:45
Speaker 2: Babies, mothers sleeping in their cars and the baby daddy
26:49
Speaker 2: won't even take the kids.
26:51
Speaker 1: The family won't even take the kids. But they're out
26:54
Speaker 1: there homeless.
26:56
Speaker 2: With nowhere to stay. Absolutely nowhere to stay. And this
27:02
Speaker 2: is where we at.
27:05
Speaker 1: And what's sad about it all is that.
27:09
Speaker 2: No matter how much you try to heal yourself, as
27:13
Speaker 2: soon as you walk out there, all that healing going
27:16
Speaker 2: to go out that window because the people that's going
27:19
Speaker 2: to try to dismantle your healing, your recovery, your inner
27:24
Speaker 2: peace and tranquility, your self-esteem, self-worth, self-value, the love that
27:30
Speaker 2: you have for yourself, the confidence, the self-care that The motivation,
27:36
Speaker 2: everything that you did to not only have confidence, but
27:39
Speaker 2: you to believe.
27:40
Speaker 1: In yourself goes out the window.
27:44
Speaker 2: So while you are in that isolation, cocoon, and hibernation stage,
27:52
Speaker 2: build something. And when you go back out in the world,
27:56
Speaker 2: understand the world is against you. Because the world will
28:01
Speaker 2: only accept people that are who they feel should be accepted.
28:08
Speaker 2: There'll be millions of people that will be alone the
28:11
Speaker 2: rest of their life. There'll be millions of people that
28:15
Speaker 2: will be broken and will be broke. There'll be millions
28:18
Speaker 2: of people like my son that have autism and Down
28:22
Speaker 2: syndrome and multiple other ADHD and other mental and psychological
28:29
Speaker 2: and physical disabilities. There'll be millions of people where your
28:37
Speaker 2: flaws and imperfections will be thrown and used as a
28:42
Speaker 2: weapon against you. Your embarrassing moments, your past, the mistakes
28:48
Speaker 2: you've made in your past will be used against you
28:52
Speaker 2: as a weapon against you. So healing and recovery isn't
28:59
Speaker 2: just about I got over it.
29:00
Speaker 1: Nope.
29:02
Speaker 2: You got over it, but once you get out in
29:04
Speaker 2: that world, you will be reminded of it. I mean,
29:08
Speaker 2: there are people right now every day putting in applications
29:11
Speaker 2: and haven't heard anything from anybody. There are millions of
29:14
Speaker 2: people that can't even go to the doctor because they
29:16
Speaker 2: don't have an insurance and they can't afford to go
29:18
Speaker 2: to the doctor.
29:20
Speaker 1: We don't have universal health care.
29:22
Speaker 2: We don't have a community where it's one nation under God,
29:27
Speaker 2: regardless of race and creed and gender. No, we're still
29:32
Speaker 2: talking about male versus female. Well, right now that don't
29:36
Speaker 2: matter at this point because there is no male or
29:38
Speaker 2: female as far as who's head of household is who
29:41
Speaker 2: makes the.
29:41
Speaker 1: Most money it i mean it's to the point they
29:45
Speaker 1: don't even want.
29:47
Speaker 2: Children the younger generation don't even want kids at all
29:51
Speaker 2: they don't want kids periods And the powers that be
29:56
Speaker 2: are so pissed off about it. It's not even funny
29:58
Speaker 2: how pissed off they are about it. But these kids
30:01
Speaker 2: are not playing with these employers. Because you got this
30:04
Speaker 2: younger generation that's like, you're not going to mess with
30:08
Speaker 2: my mental health.
30:09
Speaker 1: This younger generation.
30:11
Speaker 2: You're not going to pay me and I can't pay
30:13
Speaker 2: my bills and expect me to work and work three
30:15
Speaker 2: jobs and work three different positions.
30:17
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it.
30:18
Speaker 2: This new generation is not doing it. You're going to
30:22
Speaker 2: pay me for all three jobs. You're going to give
30:23
Speaker 2: me medical benefits.
30:25
Speaker 1: These kids quit college within two weeks. These kids are
30:31
Speaker 1: not playing with this government. These kids nowadays.
30:34
Speaker 2: Ain't the same as my generation was because these kids
30:39
Speaker 2: are not having that. These kids are to the point now,
30:42
Speaker 2: they don't even want to date. They don't even want
30:45
Speaker 2: to be in relationships. That's how bad this is. All
30:48
Speaker 2: because of greed. All because of the seven deadly sins.
30:52
Speaker 2: All because you want to keep people down.
30:54
Speaker 1: Well, guess what?
30:55
Speaker 2: Now that they're down, they're like, okay, I'll just be
30:58
Speaker 2: down then. These kids do not care because they will
31:02
Speaker 2: go right back home to their parents. It's bad when
31:06
Speaker 2: Gen X can't even retire at this point. It is
31:09
Speaker 2: bad when the millennials can't even retire. The baby boomers,
31:13
Speaker 2: some of the baby boomers can't even retire. Why would
31:16
Speaker 2: this younger generation want to work for companies when they
31:21
Speaker 2: cannot move up? Because the people that are older than
31:24
Speaker 2: them can't retire because they may not get their pensions.
31:31
Speaker 1: It happened to a bunch of truckers.
31:35
Speaker 2: People that were about to get their pensions lost their
31:38
Speaker 2: jobs and got laid off right before they got their pensions.
31:43
Speaker 2: They're laying people off and then got hiring signs for
31:46
Speaker 2: new people. And then they tell you, you can apply for.
31:50
Speaker 1: A different position. Then when you apply, they say, well,
31:52
Speaker 1: you used to work here and they let you go.
31:54
Speaker 1: Won't even hire you. See, it's the lies for me.
31:59
Speaker 1: It is the lies for me. It really is.
32:01
Speaker 2: It is the purity and complete lies of it all.
32:06
Speaker 2: So when you start.
32:07
Speaker 1: Seeing things for what they are, and you're saying, okay,
32:12
Speaker 1: this is what it is, this is what it's going
32:14
Speaker 1: to be. Some people ain't trying to change nothing. Come
32:21
Speaker 1: and see what happens when you do.
32:24
Speaker 2: When you try to change something, there are people above
32:27
Speaker 2: you that make way more money than you that's going
32:29
Speaker 2: to tell you and remind you that's not going to happen.
32:33
Speaker 2: The only way that you can change something is if
32:35
Speaker 2: you do it and you don't live in that same
32:37
Speaker 2: country and you do it. And they can't touch you
32:40
Speaker 2: because you don't live here. They can't touch you because
32:44
Speaker 2: you ain't from here. But if you look in China
32:49
Speaker 2: and everything that's going on, China does everything to make
32:52
Speaker 2: sure none of their people end up homeless. You don't
32:56
Speaker 2: be seeing a bunch of people in China out there homeless.
33:00
Speaker 2: You don't see too many people in Japan homeless. They
33:04
Speaker 2: don't play that when it comes to that because they
33:06
Speaker 2: are not going to sit up there and have the
33:08
Speaker 2: reputation of treating their people bad. Not to say that
33:11
Speaker 2: they don't, but still, they don't. Their technology is way
33:16
Speaker 2: better than ours. Then you got that they took over
33:19
Speaker 2: TikTok and it has been a complete mess since they
33:22
Speaker 2: took it over. So at the end of the day,
33:25
Speaker 2: I don't know why. And then, wait, let me go
33:27
Speaker 2: back because I just thought about something. Donald Trump had
33:29
Speaker 2: the nerve to say That black folks, the Latina.
33:33
Speaker 1: Community, and the Asian community, and all these.
33:36
Speaker 2: Minorities, the fact that our poverty, as far as being poor,
33:41
Speaker 2: has went up.
33:43
Speaker 1: And that's a good thing.
33:44
Speaker 2: So it's good that minorities as a whole are broke.
33:48
Speaker 2: That minorities are poor, but yet y'all want us to
33:51
Speaker 2: work the jobs that y'all don't want others to work for?
33:55
Speaker 2: Y'all don't want to work these jobs, but you want
33:58
Speaker 2: minorities to work it. So the whole reason to all
34:02
Speaker 2: of this is because y'all want people to work jobs
34:06
Speaker 2: that we don't want to work. But when there was
34:09
Speaker 2: Mexicans and all these Hispanic community working these jobs, y'all
34:14
Speaker 2: was like, you sent.
34:15
Speaker 1: Them away and now you're regretting it.
34:18
Speaker 2: And now you're trying to force other minorities to work
34:21
Speaker 2: those positions and we just don't want to do it.
34:25
Speaker 1: Now they got a problem.
34:27
Speaker 2: People leaving outside the United States is at an all-time rate.
34:30
Speaker 1: It is insane what is going on.
34:33
Speaker 2: So financial recovery is not.
34:35
Speaker 1: As easy as you think it is. Because even if
34:38
Speaker 1: you get.
34:39
Speaker 2: Another job, there's no guarantee that you're going to be
34:41
Speaker 2: able to retire. There's no guarantee that you're going to
34:43
Speaker 2: get pension and there's no guarantee that you're going to
34:46
Speaker 2: be able to travel like you want to. Because pretty
34:48
Speaker 2: soon they're going to make it where it's almost.
34:50
Speaker 1: Impossible to retire. And it's sad. It really truthfully is.
34:56
Speaker 1: But this is what we're dealing with, unfortunately.
34:59
Speaker 2: And the sad part about it is nobody's trying to
35:01
Speaker 2: change it.
35:01
Speaker 1: But what's even.
35:02
Speaker 2: More bizarre is you got millions of people that are
35:07
Speaker 2: business people, wealthy people that said they will pay taxes. Now,
35:14
Speaker 2: it's more important to make sure that the rich and
35:17
Speaker 2: wealthy don't have to pay taxes. But guess who got
35:21
Speaker 2: to clean up the mess when they screw up the deficit?
35:24
Speaker 1: Guess who's paying that?
35:26
Speaker 2: Taxpayers we are paying them every time they screw up
35:30
Speaker 2: because we're paying it we're paying it everyone's paying it
35:35
Speaker 2: and yes i have seen in france and all these
35:38
Speaker 2: other countries where they're protesting and that's all well and
35:42
Speaker 2: good this country ain't gonna do that why they're not
35:46
Speaker 2: gonna do that because we are not one nation under
35:49
Speaker 2: god because there is so much diversity just discrimination And
35:55
Speaker 2: racism in this country, that's not even funny.
35:59
Speaker 1: So it's racism, discrimination, diversity, and division. That is why
36:05
Speaker 1: that's never going to happen.
36:08
Speaker 2: But they expect my community to do it, to protest. So,
36:17
Speaker 2: I mean, if we're going to be 100 here, we
36:19
Speaker 2: have to be 100 because a part of healing and
36:21
Speaker 2: recovery is seeing things for what they are And not
36:25
Speaker 2: what we want to be.
36:26
Speaker 1: On some James Scott Farron.
36:28
Speaker 2: I want what I want and I want it now.
36:29
Speaker 2: Because that's not the way it's going to work financially.
36:32
Speaker 2: Financially don't work like that. I don't care how much
36:35
Speaker 2: you want something. That don't mean that financially. You're going
36:38
Speaker 2: to be able to afford it. Just because. You want
36:42
Speaker 2: to get something. Doesn't mean it's meant for you to
36:44
Speaker 2: have it.
36:46
Speaker 1: Just saying. I'm just saying. So financial is not the
36:53
Speaker 1: same as.
36:54
Speaker 2: You wanting a man or you want a woman or
36:57
Speaker 2: you want friends.
36:58
Speaker 1: And all this other stuff.
36:59
Speaker 2: No, opportunities don't work like that because these people don't
37:03
Speaker 2: have to hire you. These people don't have to give
37:05
Speaker 2: you an investment or stock because everybody always talks about
37:09
Speaker 2: a stock exchange.
37:10
Speaker 1: Everybody always talks about crypto. Well, guess what? All of
37:13
Speaker 1: that's about to.
37:13
Speaker 2: Be affected too because they're about to take over that.
37:17
Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, everybody thinks they're
37:19
Speaker 2: safe because they have an investment. Everybody thinks they're safe
37:22
Speaker 2: because they have crypto.
37:24
Speaker 1: But they're already talking about getting involved in that.
37:29
Speaker 2: And then what's going to happen when the banks end
37:32
Speaker 2: up going broke?
37:35
Speaker 1: That means if you don't take your money out, you're
37:36
Speaker 1: going to be screwed.
37:37
Speaker 2: But then the crazy part is the dollar is not
37:40
Speaker 2: going to be of value. And then you get all
37:44
Speaker 2: these people that's leaving the United States going to other
37:46
Speaker 2: countries thinking it's going to be better.
37:48
Speaker 1: But see, here's the problem with that.
37:50
Speaker 2: You're going overseas to live in another country.
37:54
Speaker 1: Where every six months, you got to go and register
38:00
Speaker 1: to basically get a.
38:03
Speaker 2: Visa for another 160 days. Well, 120 days, which is
38:08
Speaker 2: 90 days.
38:10
Speaker 1: 90 days. So for six months, you got to.
38:17
Speaker 2: Basically re-register your visa.
38:20
Speaker 1: Now, some countries you can get a work visa.
38:24
Speaker 2: And if you work there for a certain amount of time,
38:26
Speaker 2: you can become a citizen.
38:27
Speaker 1: But here's where the problem is.
38:30
Speaker 2: You still got to pay the Americans taxes. So even
38:32
Speaker 2: if you leave the country, you paying taxes twice.
38:36
Speaker 1: Not once, twice.
38:39
Speaker 2: So unless you are a citizen of France and you
38:43
Speaker 2: decide you do not want to be a dual citizen,
38:47
Speaker 2: that's the only way you can stop from paying taxes.
38:52
Speaker 2: If you decide not to be a dual citizen. Which
38:55
Speaker 2: means you'd have to do paperwork saying you no longer
38:58
Speaker 2: want to be an American citizen. So even if you
39:02
Speaker 2: go out of the country, you still ain't safe because
39:04
Speaker 2: you still got to pay taxes over here.
39:07
Speaker 1: And I remember there was this one girl.
39:11
Speaker 2: That went overseas, was working remote overseas.
39:16
Speaker 1: Husband had to move.
39:17
Speaker 2: They told her she had to come back to the
39:19
Speaker 2: United States. And if she didn't, she was going to
39:22
Speaker 2: have to send that computer back and lose her job. So, again,
39:26
Speaker 2: when I think about my dad and I think about Germany.
39:30
Speaker 2: I wish my father would have stayed over there. I
39:33
Speaker 2: really wish my father would.
39:34
Speaker 1: Have stayed over there.
39:35
Speaker 2: There are some countries where it is easier to become
39:39
Speaker 2: a citizen. If you marry somebody over there, then you
39:42
Speaker 2: can become a citizen.
39:44
Speaker 1: And you can give up your U.S. status.
39:48
Speaker 2: But the only thing about it is when you go
39:50
Speaker 2: back to the United States, you're going to have to
39:51
Speaker 2: have a visa to go back into the United States.
39:54
Speaker 2: But yeah, you will be paying taxes twice. And that
39:58
Speaker 2: unfortunately is sad part about all of this. So at
40:02
Speaker 2: the end of the day, you're not safe because you
40:04
Speaker 2: live outside the United States.
40:05
Speaker 1: You're not safe.
40:07
Speaker 2: You're not safe in or out of the United States
40:10
Speaker 2: because with everything that is going on right now, they
40:13
Speaker 2: are about to start sending Americans back to this country.
40:16
Speaker 1: It's coming.
40:18
Speaker 2: Because even in Barcelona, that's what they're doing right now.
40:22
Speaker 2: Because Americans get over there and their cost of living
40:25
Speaker 2: goes up because of Americans.
40:28
Speaker 1: And that is why they send Americans.
40:30
Speaker 2: Overseas, which is the reason why in Thailand, you can't
40:35
Speaker 2: become a citizen over there. You can't because for the
40:39
Speaker 2: simple fact of the matter. their cost of living will
40:42
Speaker 2: go up. The only way you can become a citizen
40:45
Speaker 2: is if you own a business. If you contribute to
40:48
Speaker 2: their country financially, that's the only way you can become
40:51
Speaker 2: a citizen over there. Other than that, you cannot become
40:54
Speaker 2: a citizen in Bali either. So all of these places
40:57
Speaker 2: these people are going, they cannot be a permanent citizen
41:01
Speaker 2: over there unless they own a business over there.
41:05
Speaker 1: If you own a.
41:06
Speaker 2: Business over there, or for example, you decide to be
41:10
Speaker 2: a therapist, and you decide you want to start a
41:13
Speaker 2: therapy company to where you're helping bringing money into their country,
41:19
Speaker 2: then yeah, excuse me, they will absolutely let you, you know,
41:25
Speaker 2: be a citizen.
41:26
Speaker 1: Absolutely. But that's the only way.
41:30
Speaker 2: I have a friend of mine now that has a
41:32
Speaker 2: house in Costa Rica and can't really even enjoy it
41:36
Speaker 2: because his situation with his children. As far as how
41:40
Speaker 2: their custody agreement is. And he's getting to the point.
41:45
Speaker 2: He's getting sick of it as well. There are people
41:48
Speaker 2: right now. Like I said. Are going through it in
41:51
Speaker 2: every way shape and fashion. Whether you got money.
41:55
Speaker 1: Whether you're poor. Whether you're middle class. You're screwed.
42:00
Speaker 2: So at the end of the day right now. With
42:02
Speaker 2: everything that's going on. The world has gone mad. And
42:06
Speaker 2: greed is slowly destroying this. Destroying this world. The seven
42:10
Speaker 2: deadly sins of destroying this world left and right. And
42:13
Speaker 2: the crazy part is they don't want to understand that.
42:17
Speaker 2: That's the problem. Because instead of making sure everybody is
42:22
Speaker 2: able to eat, everybody's able to provide. No, you want
42:27
Speaker 2: to suck the life out of people until there's nothing left.
42:32
Speaker 2: But then when people decide to say, you know what?
42:34
Speaker 1: I've had enough of this. And they're tired, which is
42:37
Speaker 1: what's going on in France and these other countries. Will
42:40
Speaker 1: there be change? No.
42:43
Speaker 2: It'll just be a temporary, yeah, we're going to give
42:46
Speaker 2: you what you want and then go right back to
42:48
Speaker 2: the same behavior. That's what a liar does. A liar
42:51
Speaker 2: will tell you what you want to hear just to
42:53
Speaker 2: calm you down and then start the behavior all over again.
42:55
Speaker 2: It's just like a domestic violence victim that the man
43:00
Speaker 2: is sitting there telling her that he'll change and then
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Speaker 2: she go back and at first he change and then
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Speaker 2: go back to the same behavior.
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Speaker 1: That's what's going on right now.
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Speaker 2: And that's all a lot of these politicians are doing,
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Speaker 2: telling people what they want to hear and then turn
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Speaker 2: around and screwing them over at the same time. What's
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Speaker 2: even worse is the fact that you got people that
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Speaker 2: are willing to destroy themselves just to keep racism alive.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy to me.
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Speaker 2: So racism is more important than doing what's best for
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Speaker 2: this country.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to talk.
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Speaker 2: About financial recovery, I'm trying to understand how can we
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Speaker 2: have financial recovery when you can't even kick the door
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Speaker 2: down to even get an opportunity? How can you have
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Speaker 2: financial recovery when you don't know whether tomorrow you're going
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Speaker 2: to end up having a job or whether they're going
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Speaker 2: to fire you or not? How are you going to
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Speaker 2: have financial recovery when you got to pay on your
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Speaker 2: retirement and your children can't.
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Speaker 1: Even get their social security?
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Speaker 2: So you're putting all this money in Social Security that
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Speaker 2: your kids can't even touch. So if you don't spend
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Speaker 2: all your Social Security, ain't no point. But if you
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Speaker 2: make over $ 2, 000 in retirement and Social Security.
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Speaker 1: Guess what? You're paying taxes.
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Speaker 2: My father's an example of that. So what makes any
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Speaker 2: of this worth it financially? That's the part where recovery
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Speaker 2: and healing comes in it. Because now it's about, do
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Speaker 2: I want to go down the rabbit hole to Alice
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Speaker 2: in Wonderland and go through chaos and have the.
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Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts off my head?
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Speaker 2: Or do I want to go down the Matrix and
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Speaker 2: go through chaos and destruction? Or do I just want
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Speaker 2: to not be in some ignorance as bliss?
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Speaker 1: Which one? That's the question. With that being said, that
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Speaker 1: is the end of my episode for today. We're going
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Speaker 1: to go into part two.
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to leave you pondering. With that being said,
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Speaker 2: I appreciate y'all.
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Speaker 1: I love y'all.
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Speaker 2: And without y'all, there is no me. I'll be nothing
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Speaker 2: without y'all. But the one thing I learned about healing
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Speaker 2: recovery is about honesty. It's about seeing things for what
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Speaker 2: they are and not what you want them to be.
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Speaker 2: And deciding based upon what it really is, do you
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Speaker 2: want to deal with it at all? And at the
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Speaker 2: end of the day, a lot of people just don't
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Speaker 2: want to deal with it at all. A lot of
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Speaker 2: people are realizing a lot of stuff just ain't even
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Speaker 2: worth the time that's invested in it.
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Speaker 1: It's not worth it.
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Speaker 2: People around realize they've been living a lie their whole
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Speaker 2: entire lives. Everything from being single, from being parents to marriage,
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Speaker 2: to working, to all of it. Is any of it real?
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Speaker 2: That's the question of it all. And that's what happens
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Speaker 2: when you open Pandora's box. negativity was the only thing
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Speaker 2: that left, but the only thing that was.
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Speaker 1: Left was hope. With that being said, I will see
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Speaker 1: y'all next time. Bye, y'all. See y'all next week.