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Capítulo 49: The Brow Guru · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. You know what. I'm actually looking
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Speaker 1: I'm screaming, so there was that. We have more people
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Speaker 1: things that are happening clearly, they've been happening for a while.
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Speaker 1: We've been working on. These announcements are not just necessarily
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Speaker 1: things that sprung up overnight, including our website launch. Yes, um,
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Speaker 1: website designer, Marianna Martinez Um. She actually approached us a
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Speaker 1: now and we've been chatting with her. She's from l
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Speaker 1: again to Mariana. Our website is beautiful and it's only
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Speaker 1: going to keep expanding. This is like the soft launch,
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Speaker 1: to book us. It's another way to get in touch
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Speaker 1: with us, to contact us, and to really see all
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Speaker 1: of our work in a more centralized, easily searchable location. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: to really see all the components, all the parts of
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Speaker 1: look because we're not just a podcast podcast. Mariana even
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Speaker 1: was able to include like our written work that Jos
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Speaker 1: and I have each published, you know, independent of the podcast,
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Speaker 1: but no doubt contribute to it. So that's really exciting.
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Speaker 1: And Mariana's handle is at a toast which is so cute,
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Speaker 1: Which is so cute. So if you need a website,
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Speaker 1: believe she works in the tech industry, so she's like, what, like,
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Speaker 1: designing websites is like what she does. She knows what
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Speaker 1: she's doing. She's doing UM. We also joined a really
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Speaker 1: really exciting we are now in beautiful company as some
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Speaker 1: new members of the Everyday Feminism Speakers Bureau. Yes, so
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Speaker 1: you know, look, we're gonna be We're gonna be doing
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Speaker 1: somewhere speaking gigs. We like to talk. We're just going
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Speaker 1: to talking. We're going to keep talking. And it's so
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Speaker 1: amazing because I have been reading Everyday Feminism articles since
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Speaker 1: I was in college, since my undergrad days. Like they're
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Speaker 1: like when I was like feminist one on one, you know,
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Speaker 1: like learning the new language and the new concepts and ideologies.
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Speaker 1: Like Everyday Feminism was definitely a new source for me,
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Speaker 1: aside from like learning during my feminist studies classes and
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Speaker 1: all of that. So super excited that we're actually a
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Speaker 1: part of their Speakers Bureau. Now it's like wild and Mama,
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Speaker 1: you have your own relationship with Everyday Feminism as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people do, you know, so many
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Speaker 1: people do. I wrote a few articles for them that
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Speaker 1: were published on the Everyday Feminism website, and they focused
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Speaker 1: primarily on rape culture and sexual violence in Latin X communities.
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Speaker 1: And I want to thank Michelle Zena Rosa, who was
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Speaker 1: my editor on those pieces. And it was Michelle who
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Speaker 1: also reached out to us about having us on the
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Speaker 1: Speakers Bureau, So thanks Michelle, Thanks day Feminism. Quere Chicano
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Speaker 1: Cheeseman is also on the Speakers Bureau. Do you know
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Speaker 1: there's a whole host of amazing people Melissa Fabello who
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Speaker 1: talks about yes, eating disorders and disordered eating, so that
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Speaker 1: was really cool. Other than everyday feminism, we also visited
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Speaker 1: our friends at Snapchat. Yes we so there are latinoxt
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Speaker 1: division called Low Snaps. UM put on this event called
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Speaker 1: a Moment Contigo and it was panelist five panelists, yes, um,
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Speaker 1: pelist five panelists, and we spoke about relationships, self love, spirituality, sex,
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Speaker 1: dating and it was a really romansting arrays. So there
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Speaker 1: was us, we were the podcasters and everything else that
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Speaker 1: we are, right Um. There was also the Astro Fashionista
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Speaker 1: so which I had just learned about her that day
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Speaker 1: and she's phenomenal. Check her out. We had Spicy Pattie
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Speaker 1: whose relationship expert Relationship Grow has her own matchmaking firm.
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Speaker 1: all woman of color panel. And then there was thea
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Speaker 1: saw Thea's poetry when she was on Death Poetry Jam
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Speaker 1: the time in similar sorts of fields. She's a therapist
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Speaker 1: and then there was us and then us. It was cute. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so many different perspectives and we all brought something different
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Speaker 1: look us, what do our listeners want to know about?
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Speaker 1: So thank you to everyone that submitted new questions on
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Speaker 1: the i G. So this question is have you ever
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Speaker 1: got in your cards read? Can you talk about that experience?
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Speaker 1: So we both have, we both have. Mine was over
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Speaker 1: a year ago now, which I actually want to go
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Speaker 1: to the same move ahead and get them redone. But mamma,
9:27
Speaker 1: you know yours was a little more recent. Yeah. I
9:30
Speaker 1: this summer went to Colleive Scalpe Collective. Um, shout out,
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Speaker 1: jewelry and clothes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all that good stuff.
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Speaker 1: Collep Scalpe Collective. So I got my cards read and
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Speaker 1: it was my first time ever getting my cars read,
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Speaker 1: and it was eerie, like the things that she put
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Speaker 1: her on and predicted, you know, someone that I've never
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Speaker 1: met before, and I didn't like give her any background
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Speaker 1: information on myself before I spoke to her. But the
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Speaker 1: things that really stood out to me is she told
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Speaker 1: me that in the next couple of years, just career wise,
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Speaker 1: everything's taking off. Everything's taking off. It's obviously true, true, true, true, true.
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Speaker 1: She started a job Better Job podcast is thriving. And
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Speaker 1: then and then, um, she told me that I have
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Speaker 1: an ex who has sticky energy, who was always right
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Speaker 1: on top of me, who monitors all my social If
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Speaker 1: you're listening to this X, you know who you know,
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Speaker 1: exactly who you are, because there's well there's only one
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Speaker 1: could be help right now and stop listening. Stop listening.
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Speaker 1: You're not welcome here anyway. So um, I got So
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Speaker 1: that was like another big thing that she pointed out
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Speaker 1: and it was true. So that same day I leave
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Speaker 1: my card reading, I'm hanging out with Monica after you know,
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Speaker 1: the woman told me that my X has sticky energy
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Speaker 1: and is always watching me. The same day, he calls
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Speaker 1: me three times and at the time I had um uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, a Samsung and Android, and you can see
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Speaker 1: you're blocked numbers. You can see when they're trying to
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Speaker 1: call you. It doesn't um ring, but you it's in
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Speaker 1: your call log like recent calls, missed calls, and it'll
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Speaker 1: have like the blue cross out symbol next say, while
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, so you can actually a
11:24
Speaker 1: good feature iPhone to do that. It's a good feature.
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Speaker 1: So you're not getting notified that the call is coming in,
11:28
Speaker 1: but you can clearly see there. So I got like
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Speaker 1: two misscalls from dude, and I was like, sticky energy
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Speaker 1: is correct. So she again dragged me for filled through
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Speaker 1: the mud, through the dirt, through hell, and through high water,
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Speaker 1: and I came out better for it on the other good. Good, right,
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Speaker 1: that's good. It was good. I'm going to need another,
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Speaker 1: you know, twenty six years of life before I can
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Speaker 1: get my cards read again. That's going to be my increment.
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Speaker 1: But you know, so, yeah, that was my experience getting
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Speaker 1: my cards read. I got my car. It's read over
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Speaker 1: a year ago, like I mentioned, And for me, the
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Speaker 1: purpose of getting them read was actually because I wanted
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Speaker 1: a Limbia because I had had some like wow, that
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Speaker 1: ship happened to me. I've like finally like the relationship
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Speaker 1: that would never end finally ended. And um, I felt
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Speaker 1: like my life was like just a mess, you know,
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Speaker 1: in spite of like the podcast was like still growing
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Speaker 1: and doing well. This is like we were still like
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Speaker 1: a younger, Like in our first year of podcasting, we
12:27
Speaker 1: were younger then yeah, yeah maybe just like yeah, a
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Speaker 1: couple of months into podcasting. Anyway, I went because I
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Speaker 1: went to get Olympia. And what she does is she
12:37
Speaker 1: actually reads your cards before you get Olympia and will
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Speaker 1: determine if you even need Olympia. Yeah, so I went,
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Speaker 1: got my cards read, and she basically told me, like,
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Speaker 1: the universe has been sending you messages to get this
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Speaker 1: person out of your life and been ignoring it, which
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Speaker 1: is why now there's this huge blow up. Literally it
12:56
Speaker 1: took catastrophe for you to finally get it. So that
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Speaker 1: to your bad, because the universe has been sending you
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Speaker 1: messages and you know this person may or may not
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Speaker 1: come back into your life, but not in a romantic way. Um.
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Speaker 1: And she also told me that I was on path,
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Speaker 1: which was really affirming because I was still at the job,
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Speaker 1: my former job, but the podcast has still and has
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Speaker 1: been the priority, like my main were like all my
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Speaker 1: heart and passion is so she basically told me I
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Speaker 1: was on path and then my fam I had a
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Speaker 1: really strong foundation and what I was doing was what
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Speaker 1: I was meant to be doing and that I was
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Speaker 1: only going to keep growing and thriving and basically to
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Speaker 1: like listen to the universe when I'm getting messages sent
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Speaker 1: to me and stop ignoring them. So the same thing,
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Speaker 1: like I feel like she dragged me. She like, you know,
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Speaker 1: and she told me like everything that I needed to
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Speaker 1: hear was very affirming. And also at the time I
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Speaker 1: was questioning, like am I a shitty person? Like I was?
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Speaker 1: Really I felt like like, oh my god, like I'm horrible,
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Speaker 1: you know, And yes, like I was doing some shitty
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Speaker 1: things right, um, but like learned from these mistakes and
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Speaker 1: these like toxic patterns and have obviously been working through
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Speaker 1: that and changing, so like shout out to myself in
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Speaker 1: the therapy, right. But then so then anyway, so then
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Speaker 1: she's like, you don't need Olympia, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: are you sure. She's like she said, I mean I
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Speaker 1: can hit you with some leaves if you want, with
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Speaker 1: some palms, like I can. I can beat you up
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Speaker 1: if you want me to, but you don't need it.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, I mean if I don't
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Speaker 1: need it, then you're telling me I don't need it, right,
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Speaker 1: And she was like a trusted healer, like came highly
14:36
Speaker 1: recommended from one of our friends. So that was why
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Speaker 1: I went good question. Thank you for that question. Um. Next,
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Speaker 1: next question shout out to Edith. She's one of our listeners,
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Speaker 1: a fellow Petwana, one of my i G friends, and
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Speaker 1: she asked on the Instagram, how do you manage balancing work, relationships, family, love, housework, podcasting,
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Speaker 1: and self care. I love to know how you both
15:01
Speaker 1: manage to be so productive and stay so fly. I'm
15:04
Speaker 1: out of breath just reading that, because we do all
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Speaker 1: of that, don't wait, we do all these things. I
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Speaker 1: mean all of us, most of us listening. I can
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Speaker 1: say we probably all do this. Yeah. You know what
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Speaker 1: I try to do is, UM, I try to compartmentalize
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Speaker 1: and sometimes, UM, I don't see my family as much
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Speaker 1: because I have all this other ship going on and
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Speaker 1: I'm working, and you know, part of it is like
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Speaker 1: we're working all day. Maybe I stopped by the house
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Speaker 1: before doing second shift, which is podcast stuff, you know,
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Speaker 1: So I'm home, but I'm leaving in five minutes. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: I love you all. Get to see is high and by.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of high and by. But then when
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Speaker 1: I have stretches of time when I can just like
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Speaker 1: put my phone down and just be like with my grandma,
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Speaker 1: be with my parents, I try and then separate and
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Speaker 1: dedicate that time to them. So I've sort of had
15:55
Speaker 1: to just kind of compartmentalize, but they understand, and I've
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Speaker 1: sort of had brief conversations with my family about like,
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Speaker 1: you know, like I'm this is not the first time
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Speaker 1: I've had to leave to go do something awesome, even
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Speaker 1: though you see me like I'm not here. Like when
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Speaker 1: I went to college, I left and I didn't come
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Speaker 1: home for Thanksgiving for four years. And then when I
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Speaker 1: studied abroad in London, I left and I wasn't home
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Speaker 1: for Christmas. And so they are very much the type
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Speaker 1: of people who because of like wanting me to do
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Speaker 1: well and explore and sky's the limit is their sort
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Speaker 1: of attitude like with their kids, which I appreciate. They're
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Speaker 1: like no go, like my grandma will give me, will
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Speaker 1: give me, ship, will give me a hard time that
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Speaker 1: I'm never at home, and you know, that's when I
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Speaker 1: hear the guy I had at comments. But from my parents,
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Speaker 1: especially my mom, she's like, now is the time, go go,
16:46
Speaker 1: go go. My dad used to always say, you know,
16:48
Speaker 1: we raise you so you can leave. We raise you
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Speaker 1: to leave. We don't raise you to keep you here
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Speaker 1: under our thumb. We raise you to leave. So they
16:56
Speaker 1: I appreciate that from them, and I think they also
16:58
Speaker 1: know that, like um, family and life is very It
17:02
Speaker 1: comes and goes in stages and in cycles, and there
17:05
Speaker 1: will be a period of time where I have my
17:07
Speaker 1: kids and I'll be around them all the time, you know,
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Speaker 1: where there's down seasons and I'll you know. So I
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Speaker 1: appreciate their flexibility in that way. So they helped me
17:15
Speaker 1: a lot to remain uh, to diversify my life and
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Speaker 1: to productive and all that good stuff. UM I would say, UM,
17:24
Speaker 1: I try my best to have a schedule that I
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Speaker 1: stick to, whether that be like in my passion planner
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Speaker 1: or on my phone. UM I try to, like, for instance, Tuesdays,
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Speaker 1: I try to not send. It doesn't always happen. But
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Speaker 1: I try my best not to schedule any meetings UM
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Speaker 1: on Tuesdays, like after work, because those are my therapy days.
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Speaker 1: So my therapy days are when I go to therapy
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Speaker 1: and I go grocery shopping and i'm meal prep and
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Speaker 1: I clean and I try to read before bed, like
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Speaker 1: I really try to make Tuesday evenings like mine, um,
17:55
Speaker 1: which is not always possible. Sometimes we do have to
17:57
Speaker 1: take meetings on a Tuesday, you know, And but I
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Speaker 1: do my best to make Tuesday's mine. So that would
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Speaker 1: be how I balance the housework and the self care
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Speaker 1: and even just being at home is being home on
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Speaker 1: Tuesday after therapy UM. And I will say that sometimes
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Speaker 1: it gets kind of kind of kind of sticky, kind
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Speaker 1: of messy, kind of sad. And I would say that
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Speaker 1: people that are in grad school, people that are have
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Speaker 1: like side hustle's probably experience this that we as well.
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Speaker 1: But you're not always going to be there for family stuff.
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Speaker 1: Like it was my Madrina seventie seventy third birthday on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: which is when we were at the snapchat like you
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Speaker 1: know thing, and my family was like sending me pictures
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Speaker 1: saying like, oh, we missed you and we missed you.
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Speaker 1: And it's like, I know you're not trying to guilt me,
18:43
Speaker 1: but I also feel a little guilty. But I also
18:45
Speaker 1: had this really great opportunity for work for the podcast,
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Speaker 1: you know, So it's like kind of like a give
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Speaker 1: and take, like I'm not going to be able to
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Speaker 1: be there for everything, and you're my family is not
18:55
Speaker 1: always going to understand the why, you know, but it
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Speaker 1: is what it is, and I'm going to have like
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do what I have to do to
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Speaker 1: keep growing and surviving, and I'm trying not to feel
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Speaker 1: bad about it. And this isn't like every single time, right,
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Speaker 1: but there are times where it's like, oh yeah, I
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Speaker 1: do feel a little guilty. I couldn't go, you know,
19:13
Speaker 1: but it is what it is, Like, I'm going to
19:15
Speaker 1: keep this is my this is my career in in
19:18
Speaker 1: some ways, you know, in many ways. And it's well,
19:20
Speaker 1: the podcast is increasingly becoming more and more more and
19:26
Speaker 1: more professional for us, and so then meaning that there's
19:29
Speaker 1: more um at stake if we don't go, if we
19:34
Speaker 1: don't keep going. And it's interesting because I think with
19:37
Speaker 1: family and friends, like I haven't had any issues with
19:41
Speaker 1: friends as far as like anybody making comments or trying
19:45
Speaker 1: to make me feel guilty for missing things. Like my
19:47
Speaker 1: friends are very supportive and our friends are often with us,
19:50
Speaker 1: involved in our events and stuff anyway, So like our
19:53
Speaker 1: friends are part of the podcasting. But um, you know,
19:56
Speaker 1: people like are like to be able to say like,
20:00
Speaker 1: oh my friends do cool things or friends with X,
20:02
Speaker 1: Y and Z people, or my niece does this or
20:04
Speaker 1: my daughter does that. But you only get bragging rights
20:08
Speaker 1: once we get there exactly, So what about like all
20:11
Speaker 1: the work it's to actually get there, you know what
20:13
Speaker 1: I mean. So it's that it's that balance. But I
20:16
Speaker 1: definitely have not mastered a balance. I get very time
20:19
Speaker 1: working on it. I Yeah, and I've been trying, Like
20:22
Speaker 1: I'm not dating, so that's not a part of the
20:25
Speaker 1: balancing act right now at all. It's really all podcast work,
20:29
Speaker 1: family friends, podcast work, family friends, like as much as possible. Yeah, well,
20:33
Speaker 1: I think like in my relationship, um, we both really
20:36
Speaker 1: value what we do. Like he he knows that the
20:40
Speaker 1: podcast is a really big part of my life and
20:42
Speaker 1: is supportive, so knows that Saturdays are off limits right
20:45
Speaker 1: Like Saturday's are are my podcast days, and he also
20:48
Speaker 1: works Saturdays because he works in the community, so he
20:50
Speaker 1: has events, you know, so we both get it. Um,
20:52
Speaker 1: we're both really supportive of our careers and what we're doing.
20:55
Speaker 1: So I mean, if your partner's not supporting how you
20:59
Speaker 1: want to grow, then I think you need to reevaluate that,
21:02
Speaker 1: you know, because ultimately, I think your family and this
21:07
Speaker 1: isn't always the case, but your family and your friends,
21:09
Speaker 1: your partner should want to see you grow and thrive.
21:12
Speaker 1: And they can't keep up with you, well, then that's
21:14
Speaker 1: on them. That's really on them. And sometimes people grow
21:17
Speaker 1: just in different directions and we're just going in different directions.
21:21
Speaker 1: We need, you know, different things, and that's okay. Yeah,
21:25
Speaker 1: it's really really fine. I agree complete any other or
21:30
Speaker 1: you look ask questions or we good there. I think
21:32
Speaker 1: we're good there. We do. We do have a guest.
21:35
Speaker 1: We do have a guest coming up, so I think
21:37
Speaker 1: we'll pause here to go into our song break. So
21:40
Speaker 1: I just want to say, also, like, if you asked
21:43
Speaker 1: a question in the recent instagram like, we will be
21:45
Speaker 1: answering them throughout the next couple episodes, So if your
21:49
Speaker 1: question has not been answered yet, it will be, So
21:52
Speaker 1: just keep that in mind, keep tuning in and keep
21:55
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22:01
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22:16
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22:42
Speaker 1: of it and we ship and welcome back, welcome back.
22:49
Speaker 1: So we're so excited to have our next guests for
22:52
Speaker 1: the second half of our interview or the second half
22:55
Speaker 1: of our law So we have with us in the
22:58
Speaker 1: studio the brow Google row Ak, Leslie Mendoza, and I'm
23:03
Speaker 1: going to read her bio so y'all can get to
23:05
Speaker 1: know her and what she's about. So Leslie Ak, the
23:08
Speaker 1: brow Guru, has been catering to her loyal clientele with
23:11
Speaker 1: Couldtour Makeup and Taylor Browse for over twelve years. Celebrities,
23:15
Speaker 1: blessing brides, models, and many others have applauded her artistic skills.
23:19
Speaker 1: Leslie has worked from retail to marketing and purchasing to
23:22
Speaker 1: working on movie and video sets. After teaching at various
23:26
Speaker 1: beauty schools and working in a salon for six years,
23:28
Speaker 1: Leslie decided to branch off and make a little store
23:31
Speaker 1: front of her own. Prime badour is her living dream,
23:33
Speaker 1: and she is happy to take her brow and beauty
23:36
Speaker 1: artistry to another level. Leslie loves making her clients feel
23:39
Speaker 1: beautiful and invited. She also loves to give back to
23:42
Speaker 1: her community by donating her time and services to many associations,
23:46
Speaker 1: including the American Cancer Society. She truly believes that if
23:49
Speaker 1: you choose a job you love, you will never have
23:51
Speaker 1: to work a day in your life. Welcome to look
23:54
Speaker 1: at our radio, Leslie. Thank you so much you guys
23:57
Speaker 1: for having me. I'm so like I said earlier on
24:00
Speaker 1: and Girling right now, I was excited. No, We're so
24:03
Speaker 1: happy to have you here. Thank you for making the time.
24:06
Speaker 1: And I know we've kind of been trying to make
24:08
Speaker 1: this happen for a little yeah, so it's really exciting
24:12
Speaker 1: to like, actually to be here. I'm really excited, super exciting.
24:15
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely, and also
24:18
Speaker 1: I want to say congratulations on your recent storefront opening
24:21
Speaker 1: and Wittier, thank you. I was. You so graciously invited
24:25
Speaker 1: both of us to the opening and I was able
24:27
Speaker 1: to attend, and it was so beautiful to see all
24:29
Speaker 1: these latin As in the industry, like they're business owners
24:33
Speaker 1: and entrepreneurs also there, so it was it's such an
24:36
Speaker 1: amazing group of women that were there. So I want
24:38
Speaker 1: to say congrats on that. It was really amazing. I'm
24:41
Speaker 1: actually like, I was really excited at the turnout. There
24:43
Speaker 1: was a lot more people than I expected. And everyone
24:46
Speaker 1: it was just like all kinds of like very strong
24:49
Speaker 1: Latin you know, business owners and women just who are
24:52
Speaker 1: doing something with themselves, makeup artists, just anyone in the
24:55
Speaker 1: beauty industry. It was. It was awesome. I'm really happy
24:58
Speaker 1: for the turnout. Yeah, and I love how I think
25:04
Speaker 1: Latinaz we've always had like a love for beauty, beauty products,
25:08
Speaker 1: beauty everything culture. But to also see us on the
25:13
Speaker 1: business side of things, which just as consumers, it's really exciting. Yeah,
25:17
Speaker 1: really important. Also. Yeah, so for you, what was that?
25:21
Speaker 1: Was there a turning point for you where you said like, okay,
25:25
Speaker 1: I want to get into the business side of beauty,
25:27
Speaker 1: Like how did that come about for you? Um? I
25:30
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know. It's so funny because I
25:33
Speaker 1: never really saw a ceiling. I never was like, no,
25:36
Speaker 1: I can't do that. I was always like, you know,
25:38
Speaker 1: why can't they do it? Like why why are they?
25:40
Speaker 1: Why do they have a store, why don't I have
25:42
Speaker 1: a store. Even when I was younger, I was like
25:44
Speaker 1: dreaming of opening my own salon. So when I finally
25:47
Speaker 1: was getting busy enough where I'm like, I think I
25:49
Speaker 1: can do this. I think I can train girls under
25:51
Speaker 1: me and do it, you know, my way, and hopefully
25:54
Speaker 1: create like a team and just open my own place.
25:57
Speaker 1: And it just snowballed. And thank god, that just kept
26:00
Speaker 1: going and going and we never, um, well We've had
26:03
Speaker 1: a few hiccups, but never anything where I'm like I
26:05
Speaker 1: need to close. It's just it's just so much a
26:07
Speaker 1: boil from everybody that it's just been doing so good.
26:10
Speaker 1: So I opened my second one and I'm so happy.
26:13
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm so excited to even have like the
26:16
Speaker 1: support from the Hispanic community. So how did you get
26:20
Speaker 1: into the beauty industry? Like, how did what is your
26:23
Speaker 1: origin story? How did you start? I've always liked makeup
26:26
Speaker 1: since I was a little girl. Um, Like I said,
26:28
Speaker 1: I used to like like play with barbies and make
26:30
Speaker 1: make them like be in a little beauty salon. Um.
26:33
Speaker 1: And then just what always do my friends makeup? I
26:35
Speaker 1: would do like their eyebrows ejinior high um and just
26:39
Speaker 1: always wanted to be in the beauty industry. Unfortunately, you know,
26:43
Speaker 1: in the Hispanic maybe in other communities, UM, a lot
26:46
Speaker 1: of like our elders are like, oh, this is like right.
26:50
Speaker 1: So I actually went to school UM for health information
26:54
Speaker 1: management and that has absolutely nothing to do with this,
26:57
Speaker 1: and but everybody was like, you have to teach your degree,
26:59
Speaker 1: you have to you know, be a nurse, be a doctor,
27:02
Speaker 1: like you know, do something else. So I was like, no,
27:05
Speaker 1: I want to do makeup and eyebrow. Well. I think
27:08
Speaker 1: also in the last few years being a makeup artist,
27:11
Speaker 1: we've seen like the actual career like business part of
27:16
Speaker 1: and I would say that that's really due to social
27:18
Speaker 1: media that we've been able to see the business side
27:21
Speaker 1: of being a makeup artist, being um, a brow like specialist, hairstylists,
27:26
Speaker 1: like any type of beauty, cosmetology, artistry is like really,
27:30
Speaker 1: I feel like we're at a point where we can
27:33
Speaker 1: really value it for its artistry and it's you know,
27:36
Speaker 1: also economic side of it. Yeah, it's just crazy. Like
27:40
Speaker 1: back in the day, you thought you can never make
27:42
Speaker 1: a living off of um, you know, eyebrows. You would think, yeah,
27:46
Speaker 1: a hairdresser, but never just a makeup person or a
27:49
Speaker 1: hair I'm sorry brow artists, Like I never thought it
27:52
Speaker 1: would get to where it was. And thank God for
27:54
Speaker 1: social media because that's where I really started, um you know,
27:57
Speaker 1: branching out and getting more and more clients and um
28:00
Speaker 1: most of my clienteles and meeting amazing people throughout the way.
28:03
Speaker 1: So that was a big, big health Yeah, for sure.
28:06
Speaker 1: Do you do you see a lot of other Latina
28:10
Speaker 1: beauty experts, makeup artists really thriving off of social media.
28:13
Speaker 1: Is that like a place where like you're in good company? Yeah, definitely.
28:18
Speaker 1: I feel like just Latinas in general, I feel like
28:21
Speaker 1: we're taking over, Like we're really like doing everything. Um like,
28:25
Speaker 1: not not to dis men, but I really think Latinas
28:28
Speaker 1: are taking over and social media is a way to go.
28:31
Speaker 1: That's just the way to get your audience, um, to
28:34
Speaker 1: pay attention and to see all your work and you
28:36
Speaker 1: have a big big audience for marketing and stuff there
28:40
Speaker 1: and just we are were all about dissing men here
28:43
Speaker 1: on this podcast. I don't have to preface it. Girls
28:46
Speaker 1: taking over, you know what I mean. There's a lot
28:49
Speaker 1: of women business owners and Latinas are like we have
28:54
Speaker 1: a lot of economic power in like what we put
28:57
Speaker 1: our money to, which is why I mean, I think
29:00
Speaker 1: we're big proponents of like reinvesting it into our community.
29:03
Speaker 1: So like supporting local businesses, local artists, like that is
29:07
Speaker 1: something that we're really about because it really does come
29:09
Speaker 1: back to our community. No, absolutely, and I even think
29:13
Speaker 1: about like like my grandma and my mom even used
29:18
Speaker 1: to sell like avon, So there's even historically there's that
29:23
Speaker 1: inclination of dipping into the beauty industry to supplement your income.
29:27
Speaker 1: That's not foreign to us, like elders like Modes and
29:30
Speaker 1: our community have worked in beauty, not with this such
29:33
Speaker 1: autonomy though an ownership over it. But I feel that
29:38
Speaker 1: big time. I feel like UM and word of mouth
29:40
Speaker 1: too is big in our community too. If if you
29:44
Speaker 1: hear like your you know she's really good, and then
29:47
Speaker 1: you're gonna go yeah. Or then if you just go
29:50
Speaker 1: and yelp and reading y'all review, you're going to go
29:52
Speaker 1: to who your friends you know, refer you to. When
29:54
Speaker 1: I was looking for somebody to cut my hair, I
29:57
Speaker 1: went to Tons person a beauty box. Um because it's
30:01
Speaker 1: Latina owns and all the stylists are all Modes or
30:07
Speaker 1: Latinas beauty box on sunset plug plug plug Yeah, absolutely,
30:13
Speaker 1: So the mouth is really powerful. Where the mouth is powerful,
30:16
Speaker 1: that goes into and you know, uh kind of bringing
30:19
Speaker 1: it back to other themes we've talked about on the
30:21
Speaker 1: podcast before. We've talked about cheese Man on the podcast
30:23
Speaker 1: before there's good cheese Man, Oh my god, spreading business,
30:27
Speaker 1: Yeah good, And then we've also talked about fem tech
30:30
Speaker 1: and makeup from tech. Yes, so there's a science behind
30:33
Speaker 1: If you haven't into that Capitolo, it's one of our
30:35
Speaker 1: earlier ones. That's like I think foundational caplo what we're about. Um,
30:39
Speaker 1: but there's so much science and math and chemistry and
30:43
Speaker 1: physics and all that ship. Like makeup is like incredibly scientific,
30:48
Speaker 1: like not only the production but even just like the
30:51
Speaker 1: symmetry in putting your winging your eyeliner and finding the
30:55
Speaker 1: perfect shade, Like there is so much science to that
30:57
Speaker 1: and we value that and we value you that are
31:00
Speaker 1: well as I've been doing it. Our ancestors have been
31:03
Speaker 1: playing with makeup in some type of artistic and scientific
31:07
Speaker 1: way for centuries. Yeah, So like for you and as
31:12
Speaker 1: far as like perfecting your craft and your training and
31:14
Speaker 1: thinking of like makeup and symmetry and brows like you know,
31:18
Speaker 1: as being like a technical skill, Like what is your
31:21
Speaker 1: sort of take on that? Like where do you see
31:24
Speaker 1: like that really technical side of makeup? Um, I really
31:27
Speaker 1: feel like I like where we're at right now. I
31:29
Speaker 1: like that there's like I feel like throughout the years,
31:32
Speaker 1: like we have gone through like the eighties, and we've
31:34
Speaker 1: gone through like the Cholas, and we've gone through like
31:37
Speaker 1: you know, getting nuts for it's really thick in certain communities,
31:40
Speaker 1: and then now I feel like we just kind of
31:42
Speaker 1: are all across the board whatever saw you want. They
31:44
Speaker 1: have glitter brows, they have you know, just all the
31:47
Speaker 1: people are just like have you guys noticed there's just
31:49
Speaker 1: like not one trend now, there's just like everybody has
31:52
Speaker 1: their own trends. So I feel like that's that's for
31:55
Speaker 1: what I love right now. But the beauty world that
31:57
Speaker 1: it's so just multiversal, like everybody is just doing what
32:01
Speaker 1: they want and it's very um how do I say
32:03
Speaker 1: very like your that's how you express yourself, like the
32:06
Speaker 1: autonomy to choose how your brows even look like either
32:09
Speaker 1: thin or bold or however even the color. And I
32:13
Speaker 1: just love working with people on their eyebrows too. It
32:16
Speaker 1: just brings out their face, can make you look younger, right, right,
32:21
Speaker 1: can you talk about um for you? I'm I can
32:25
Speaker 1: imagine that you see a lot of this, like that
32:27
Speaker 1: confidence boosts that you see in your clients when they
32:29
Speaker 1: get their brows done, or even how that is also
32:32
Speaker 1: empowering for them. UM. I really love to just have
32:36
Speaker 1: them smile afterwards, and just like the way their eyebrows,
32:38
Speaker 1: Like I'm certain I brought their eyes irows at. Um.
32:43
Speaker 1: It's just like especially with microblading. Um, you know, we
32:46
Speaker 1: add hair to where they didn't have hair. We have
32:47
Speaker 1: a lot of women who did over tweets you know
32:50
Speaker 1: high school. I did too. UM, And it just really UM,
32:54
Speaker 1: it's very fulfilling. Although it can I mean it is
32:57
Speaker 1: a little superficial, you know when I think about it,
33:00
Speaker 1: but it isn't because at the end of the day,
33:01
Speaker 1: you know, it makes someone feel better about themselves. UM.
33:04
Speaker 1: We try to do a lot of stuff like I
33:06
Speaker 1: was saying earlier, like the what you were saying the
33:08
Speaker 1: American Cancer Society, So we do a lot of stuff
33:11
Speaker 1: for them, and UM, get back to cancer patients. Um,
33:14
Speaker 1: We've done all the piecia of patients and we try
33:16
Speaker 1: to do some provo and stuff. There are people, So
33:19
Speaker 1: that makes me feel so good that I mean, I
33:21
Speaker 1: don't think there's anything superficial about wanting to feel good.
33:24
Speaker 1: So I like, I know, like, so my mom actually
33:27
Speaker 1: has like very thin eyebrows, and we were trying to
33:29
Speaker 1: figure it out because none of us have thin eyebrows
33:31
Speaker 1: like my mom like barely has like any So we
33:34
Speaker 1: were trying to figure out, like, Okay, when did this start?
33:37
Speaker 1: And we found we realized that back in the day,
33:39
Speaker 1: in the nineties, my mom used to dye her eyebrows
33:41
Speaker 1: with like the hair products that you would put in
33:43
Speaker 1: your hair. So I'm like, you burn your eyebrows off essentially, right,
33:48
Speaker 1: So I know, like some like my mom was too
33:50
Speaker 1: afraid to do tattooing, like I wrote tattooings. So I
33:52
Speaker 1: feel like now the microblading is a thing, like that's
33:55
Speaker 1: something that she could do and would she would feel
33:58
Speaker 1: better about her eyebrows. That's happy media. Yeah. Yeah, and
34:01
Speaker 1: it doesn't last as long, so it's not as permanent, right,
34:04
Speaker 1: um so, but it definitely has hair. It looks great,
34:08
Speaker 1: it looks very natural, it does microblading is beautiful. I
34:11
Speaker 1: kind of love this because how much of like, like
34:14
Speaker 1: the beauty technology now kind of allows us I'm thinking
34:18
Speaker 1: older women especially. This is where this conversation is going back.
34:20
Speaker 1: How much of the current technology is allowing like older
34:23
Speaker 1: women to like still participate in beauty and revive the
34:27
Speaker 1: damage that's been done from years of like old beauty
34:30
Speaker 1: practices that are more damaging. Right, my mom used to
34:33
Speaker 1: put baby all on her skin and go out in
34:35
Speaker 1: the sun like to cook. Yes, the skins you have
34:39
Speaker 1: like all these freckles on her back because she would
34:42
Speaker 1: put baby al on in the speech, So do you
34:44
Speaker 1: see a lot of that, like older women coming in
34:45
Speaker 1: and women you're able to kind of bring it back exactly.
34:48
Speaker 1: That's um. That And again that's something that I love
34:51
Speaker 1: to do, is you know, make them really happy about
34:53
Speaker 1: looking good. Um. And most of my clients are older women,
34:56
Speaker 1: Like you would think I did have a lot of
34:58
Speaker 1: younger women, but honestly, most of my clients are older there,
35:02
Speaker 1: you know, between thirties and up. That's amazing because I
35:06
Speaker 1: love that we need to like value the beauty in
35:09
Speaker 1: our older women and older meaning like not twenties and
35:13
Speaker 1: not thirties, because there's so much emphasis on that in
35:16
Speaker 1: any market right, prime, our prime right. And so I
35:20
Speaker 1: think that's amazing that you made that point that your
35:22
Speaker 1: clients are older women and are probably mothers, probably even grandmother's,
35:26
Speaker 1: you know, and they are also still taking care of
35:28
Speaker 1: themselves and like I mean, I know, like Mala, you
35:32
Speaker 1: like our mom's like six to month in and Sequi
35:34
Speaker 1: and Muncho like they love to be And my mom
35:39
Speaker 1: has always taken very good care of herself and has
35:43
Speaker 1: continued to participate in the glam she she loves it.
35:47
Speaker 1: So it is my mom. Yeah, and I think that
35:49
Speaker 1: also you can see that in us because Marma exactly.
35:53
Speaker 1: It does trickle down, for sure, it does trickle down.
35:55
Speaker 1: So what is the future for the brow guru? Like
35:58
Speaker 1: where do you see yourself off? And how do you
36:00
Speaker 1: want to grow this or like what's the what's the future? Like,
36:03
Speaker 1: I have a couple of things in the works, um,
36:06
Speaker 1: and we're just gonna kind of give a little bit
36:08
Speaker 1: of hints away because I don't want to like totally
36:10
Speaker 1: say it, but we do. I've been trying to start
36:13
Speaker 1: to do a lot of microblating classes, um, and I
36:15
Speaker 1: love teaching. It's actually like awakened, like something else in
36:18
Speaker 1: me that I'm like, I really like this, So I
36:20
Speaker 1: feel like I want to do a school eventually, but
36:24
Speaker 1: I want like a real school. Like I'm not saying
36:26
Speaker 1: like there are real schools out there, but I wanted
36:28
Speaker 1: to be like fast, but like I want to be
36:30
Speaker 1: able to the government to recognize the UM. I want
36:33
Speaker 1: women to be able to get college loans. I want,
36:37
Speaker 1: like any loan that you can get, I want to
36:39
Speaker 1: be able to tap into that and be able to
36:41
Speaker 1: provide it to the community. UM like an accredited, accredited
36:46
Speaker 1: school school and not just like you have schools that
36:50
Speaker 1: are like like your Marianello's or your Western Media where
36:52
Speaker 1: you're getting your education, but then you take all your
36:55
Speaker 1: extra courses out of your pocket and you're learning from
36:57
Speaker 1: you know, these big gurus like mac Daddy or whoever,
37:00
Speaker 1: and you're paying him separate. And then it's like, no,
37:02
Speaker 1: I want to have both of them together. And I
37:05
Speaker 1: see that's my dream, and I want to have like
37:09
Speaker 1: all the best you know hairdressers, all the best micropladers,
37:12
Speaker 1: all the best proud artists or makeup artists there, and
37:15
Speaker 1: that you're actually learning, like you're the craft, that you're
37:19
Speaker 1: not just learning. Hey, let me pass day board and
37:22
Speaker 1: try to. I wanted to be like leg Do you
37:26
Speaker 1: know are there any schools run by women of color
37:29
Speaker 1: or like independent beauty schools that I knew of? There
37:33
Speaker 1: was Western Beauty they just opened UM in Chatsworth in
37:36
Speaker 1: the Valley. I'm sure there's some more out here. Um
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Speaker 1: but a lot of these schools are mainly like community
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Speaker 1: colleges right now or UM or they're just like Barbara.
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen like any like really big schools lately.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of hard to get funding. Very interesting, life interesting.
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Speaker 1: I love that. I love that vision. I love that
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Speaker 1: dream that you have. Yeah, and then I have one more. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Um So we want to start like a this is
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Speaker 1: not going to be the legit name, but like a
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Speaker 1: boss babe seminar for women kind of like you guys
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Speaker 1: went to one recently. It was the we um is
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Speaker 1: it we All Grow? Or there was another one? There
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Speaker 1: is a We All Grow? I don't we didn't attend
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Speaker 1: that one. Boat. Yeah that's a big but that is
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Speaker 1: a big conference we've done. Yeah. Um So I want
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Speaker 1: something like that, but I want it very business base
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Speaker 1: because I feel like a lot of women are doing
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Speaker 1: things like you know, baking cakes and like making cake
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Speaker 1: pops or um they make jewelry, and I just feel
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Speaker 1: like they don't know where to go for the next step.
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Speaker 1: And I want to have a conference where it's like,
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Speaker 1: this is how you get your business license, this is
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Speaker 1: how you open a corporation, this is how legally we
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Speaker 1: need that, and that let us know we've been talking
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Speaker 1: about those things. That's so funny. It's a lot of work,
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Speaker 1: and I try to It took me years to figure
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Speaker 1: this out all of my own. Nobody helped me. I
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Speaker 1: just and I even pulled out so many licenses and
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Speaker 1: permits and all the stuff that I even got fined
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Speaker 1: because they're like, you shouldn't have even pulled that out.
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Speaker 1: You don't need this, and so out Like I feel like, okay,
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Speaker 1: did this all on my own. Let me give back
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Speaker 1: and teach people how to do it. Brilliant that that's amazing. Yeah, definitely,
39:08
Speaker 1: you're obviously giving back to the community, and a skill
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Speaker 1: share and knowledge share is really important. Especially I feel
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Speaker 1: like so many Latinas have the capacity and ability to
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Speaker 1: open up their own businesses. But it's like you said,
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Speaker 1: where do I start? Where do I start? And even
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Speaker 1: little things like how do I know if I'm not
39:23
Speaker 1: getting screwed over on this rent right, you know, like,
39:25
Speaker 1: how do I sign a proper contract? You know, who
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Speaker 1: do you ask? Like that? Yeah? Absolutely, this is all amazing,
39:33
Speaker 1: and this is amazing. I wanted to ask one final
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Speaker 1: question for our locomotives, for our listeners, UM, are there
39:39
Speaker 1: any brow tips or beauty tips you can give away? Um?
39:44
Speaker 1: The biggest brow tips is if you are doing your
39:47
Speaker 1: eyebrows on your own. I just recommend that if you
39:50
Speaker 1: have spaces or you over tweets, we make a product
39:54
Speaker 1: made out of castor oil and essential oils. You guys
39:56
Speaker 1: can make it yourself. You guys can go to like
39:58
Speaker 1: Sprouts or Whole Foods or wherever bas sell um you
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Speaker 1: know organic and natural things, and by um Co Castro oil,
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Speaker 1: sorry and apply castro. It works like amazingly to help
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Speaker 1: your eyebrows even your lashes grow, So I always, UM,
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Speaker 1: we have it at the shops. Chi doesn't even just
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Speaker 1: give it away super cheap. Um doesn't break you out,
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Speaker 1: So that's the biggest thing. UM. Try if you are
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Speaker 1: getting your brows and professionally, don't tweet before or after.
40:23
Speaker 1: Just let your brow girl do her thing. Um, and
40:26
Speaker 1: really that's it. Don't doll these baby oil ever preced
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Speaker 1: put STF on everybody. Oh my goodness, great tips, Yes,
40:39
Speaker 1: great tips. Is there anything else you want to share?
40:41
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts? I did want to share that, like, um,
40:45
Speaker 1: well about the music. Yes, So one of the songs
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Speaker 1: I picked was Selena. That's one of my husband's favorite
40:54
Speaker 1: songs because he's from Texas and he's like in love
40:56
Speaker 1: fully shout out makes sense, and I just like wanted
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Speaker 1: to let you guys know all of my brow commades
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Speaker 1: that we carry are all named after women of color. Um.
41:06
Speaker 1: When I first got the packaging, they were named after
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Speaker 1: non women of color, and I was like, I could
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Speaker 1: have kept it, but I'm like, these are mine. I
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Speaker 1: want to like repackage them. So, um I named them
41:17
Speaker 1: Like we have um Aaliyah, we have air Kaba do
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Speaker 1: we have Jlo Selena and imagines them too. It's not
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Speaker 1: like j Loo's black. It's like j Loo's like a
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Speaker 1: pretty like dark blonde. We have Mariah. Selena's like our
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Speaker 1: most like top selling color. It's like a medium brown.
41:33
Speaker 1: Um Aaliyah's like a really pretty chocolate. So yeah, so
41:37
Speaker 1: then we picked Selena. Um kind of in homage. I
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Speaker 1: love it. I love And if people want to check
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Speaker 1: out one of your stores, one of your locations, where
41:47
Speaker 1: can they find you? How do they support, how do
41:49
Speaker 1: they follow? How do they get their brows done? Yeah?
41:52
Speaker 1: So we're open Tuesday through Saturday, ten to seven. We
41:55
Speaker 1: have a shop in uptown Whittier. Um right now, thanks
41:58
Speaker 1: shout out to witter. You guys have been absolutely amazing
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Speaker 1: to me. You guys are so nice. Um. And we
42:03
Speaker 1: have a shop in Granada Hills, which is my first
42:06
Speaker 1: shop and also open tennis seven Tuesday through Saturday. If
42:09
Speaker 1: I'm not there, we do have full staff to always
42:11
Speaker 1: take care of you guys. We do lashes, microblading, um,
42:14
Speaker 1: body waxing, eyebrows, and we also sell products. Um. We
42:18
Speaker 1: also saw other products too, so just stop by if
42:21
Speaker 1: you even want to look. We have candles UM. I
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Speaker 1: try to carry only things that are handmade and made
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Speaker 1: from women of color. Very amazing. And your socials where
42:29
Speaker 1: can people find you online? Um? So I'm the browd guru.
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Speaker 1: UM and my uh sorry, my website is prime budor
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Speaker 1: dot com. So that handle is prime at prime budor
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Speaker 1: on Instagram and Facebook. Amazing. Well, thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for joining us, Thank you guys for having me, thanks
42:48
Speaker 1: for visitings for being here. Um So, before we close out,
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