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Welcome back people.

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Hello, hello, hello, how are?

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you. Welcome back to the sober up podcast. Good Wednesday with that consistency.

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Season 2 episode.

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You almost messed that up, it's all good, though.

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That's what this is about. But, yeah, welcome back Season 2, episode 3.

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Got another guest on here and this is one that I was really excited about.

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When I heard we was going to have this guest on my best friend also, my co-host said hey man, this guest right here.

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Look, she has so much energy. When I saw her and she's young I see she has a good head on her shoulders.

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Janiah, let's welcome Janiah everybody.

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Hey y'all, Janiah thanks for having me.

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Thank you for being here.

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Janiah is in the house.

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Janiah, hey, we want to welcome you.

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Thank you, I'm so excited.

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Man, we were excited to have you. First off, let's just say look, all the sober up guests that we have on have a story that we want to bring to anybody that's listening, and it's a blessing to have somebody like this on here, just because she didn't know us, but she made a commitment to come to the sober up podcast and give her a story, and I like her story and she's young, got a good head on her shoulders and, as far as I can see, god's blessed us with this message that she's going to give.

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So again, welcome to the sober up podcast, thank you.

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I'm so excited to be here y'all. So, janiah, I'm going to start off.

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Just give us a little background when you from, how old you are.

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I know sometimes women don't like to always give their age, but I want to give your age because you're young and doing your thing.

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So just give us a little quick background and let our audience know who you are a little bit.

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Okay, hey guys. I'm Janiah. I own the whitening lounge.

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It's a teeth whitening lounge in Delaware and we do travel, but we are recent.

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I am from Philly originally, but I lived in Delaware.

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I think we moved here when I was like 10 and I'm 22 now, so 12 years.

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Yeah, the majority of my life in.

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Delaware Okay.

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I'm not sure if you're saying I'm from Delaware, Right right, me too.

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I was born in Jersey, but I've been in Delaware for almost 25 years.

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I feel like at this point it's kind of like that.

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It's kind of like hey, I still rep Jersey.

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I would never go back to live. No hate on it, it's just a lot going on over there.

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I'm cool with Delaware. It's not the most exciting place to live, but yeah, it is what it is.

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I feel like it's up and coming, especially in Middletown.

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Middletown is definitely up and coming. When me and A Black Aaron came here when we were 14, 15 years old, it was nothing here, nothing.

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But then it's blowing up. Yeah, but Middletown is also small, so it's just like blowing up, blowing up.

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It's like I was just on a railroad coming down here.

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It was so congested I was like oh my goodness. I remember you just, I don't even think there was a light when we first moved here.

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Probably not, probably not. I believe it.

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I believe it. So you say you moved here 12 years ago.

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I mean, how do you like it in Middletown? I mean not Middletown, well, you're not from Middletown, but Delaware.

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How do you like it in Delaware?

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I like Delaware. I feel like I don't really have much to compare.

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To Shout out to no Taxes that's my favorite part.

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Because every time I go somewhere else.

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I'm like I forget about it too.

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Yeah, no Taxes.

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That's how it is.

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I went to high school. I really went to high school, middle school and elementary school.

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Here I went to Hudson Votek.

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Okay.

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I graduated 2020 and I was a dental.

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Well, I am a dental assistant, rather, so that's the shop I was in there.

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That's where you got your dad from Hudson, yeah, nice.

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So you went there, because my kids are still my youngest was about to go to high school next year With his brother, his older brother and his older sister.

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He still decided, like, what does he want to do? But he wants to play football with his brother.

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But we're thinking about tech too, like a tech school, just because you may not want to go to college afterwards, you may just want to do your own thing.

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So I mean, was that process in choosing to go to Hudson, was that in your, in your thought process?

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Was that like I want to go here so I may not want to go to college, or is it?

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So I'm super grateful that I went to a Votek school because I wanted to go to William Penn.

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But my mom was like no, you're not going to William Penn.

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So I think she just applied to them for me and I got into early college, high school.

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I want to go to state too and I was like I don't want to go there because I'm going to have to wake up too early.

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And I'm actually really grateful that I went to Hudson because like my shop that I'm in and just the career field that I'm in, even though it's not what I want to do forever, but it's something.

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I remember picking dental assisting and it was because, like I was like I don't know exactly what I want to do in college.

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So then at least I won't have to work like a minimum wage job, which there's nothing wrong with them, I just want to get paid a little bit higher.

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That was a smart move, Like how old were you when you could say you made that decision?

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14.

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14. That's awesome, I ain't going to lie.

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When I was 14, I was kind of doing the same thing. I had like a map written out in ninth grade on what I was supposed to be doing.

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I wanted to go to McDonald's to work at 14.

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Couldn't get a job at 14. I actually got a job at Dunkin' Donuts at 14.

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Made a little money $90 a week. $90 a week, but yeah, 14, that's awesome.

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You'd be able to have that thought process.

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And then when you say, let's say, like 11th grade, 11th, 12th grade, was your mindset still set the same way?

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Or did you have any other things that were like, ah, maybe this is not it?

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So, honestly, when I was like, I remember being in like elementary school and all that stuff and always having like my plans set up, but I was always that person who, like, changed what I wanted to be when I got older.

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So I remember I used to say like I'm going to be the first African American female president of the United States.

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Ain't nothing wrong with that.

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And then I think it was when I got to high school and like picking dental assistants, like I don't think I'm going to be going to Stanford living in the camp, I was like I don't think that's the life I'm going to have for myself.

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So really I think by 11th grade I was in my shop and I think I was working at a dental office.

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So, and my first job I got at 16, I worked at K-Mart.

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Okay.

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I always remember liking to make money, but I don't think I remembered like my playing was completely teens, because I don't think I really have one.

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Yeah, it's, it's and that's what we. We actually discovered, not discovered Well, at least I know I discovered Between that age of 14 and 18 why you're in high school.

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That's hard. Yeah it's hard to be able to.

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You're like you're, there's so many things out there that you're not able to grasp and Touch and make that decision on.

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So when you're trying to figure that out, it's, it is, and that's what I want to try to develop within the sober up podcast is to help that age group Just to get a better Outlook on making those decisions.

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It is, it is. It's hard to make those decisions at that age when you have so many other influences, but not really direct, that you can grasp on, and those want to say Mentors or people out there that you, like a, have those conversations with.

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That's why having you on this podcast Give me your insight on what you're doing with your business and how you got into it.

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In that Passion and that and that's what I think they did you have to discover through those ages is that passion.

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I'm like I want to start a business, I want to create something and, again, it may not be something you do for the rest of your life, but you're, that's that vehicle that's gonna drive you to where you want to go, and a lot of people can't make decisions because they're either, they're scared, I don't know about it.

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So is that like when you started it, and I'll let you get in ask a question on that story.

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When did you started doing things?

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Right out of high school when you got that, or did you, like you had to, obviously your 22?

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You just started your own business just recently.

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So how'd you go about after high school?

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What did you get into?

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So I remember my senior year. Everybody like applying to colleges and stuff.

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I don't. I think I only applied to Delta.

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Okay, nothing wrong with that, yeah.

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I was like I don't, cuz I knew I didn't know what I wanted to do.

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So I'm like, well, I'm not gonna play and like go to a four-year and try to figure it out, wasting all that money.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that had been a lot of bills.

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And I think I remember enrolling in Delta.

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I graduated the COVID year.

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Yeah, oh, I know, that was tough.

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Yes, cuz I was gonna be prom queen. I'm not letting that go.

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I heard that.

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So yeah, I remember Graduating and it was kind of weird cuz we're all on quarantine for two years, I mean for two months.

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I remember. Like I graduated but I didn't feel like it's like COVID took it away from you, yeah so I remember I enrolled in Delta and, but I was already working at a dental office.

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Mm-hmm like, yeah, I still don't know what I really want to do.

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I think, before that semester even started probably changing my major like oh yeah.

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I was like, but I knew I wanted to be a teacher, right like being in high school.

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It always told me that I want to be a teacher cuz, like you were saying, yeah.

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That's like a really pivotal age for trying to find it is, it is and I did not have a good Mentor in that area, and I feel a lot of them don't.

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Yeah, I was like. I feel like, had I had that, I probably would have a different direction, even though I'm super 100% for the way I went, but I just like that would have been a lot better to have somebody in school editing clutch.

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Yeah, pulling me or telling me like okay, well, you might want to try this or do this, or even just trying something different.

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Um, no, no, I agree 100%. I wish and I think we said it on the last podcast if I had that mentor.

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Don't get me wrong.

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I think everything happens for a reason, um, and it happens for us, not to us.

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But just going back, no regrets, have no regrets.

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But Having that mentor, it put me in just a step, a lot of steps ahead of where I'm at now.

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Just because I would have some of those rows, I would have been like yeah, you're right, I'm not gonna take that way.

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Or that role looks good because you, hey, twine, you should take that route but it's also about having a good mentor, yeah.

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Yeah.

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To have a mentor 100%. That's just doing their job.

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That's what I said. You did see the idea.

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Information on these.

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Yes, I meant you can't mentor everybody, because a lot of people think you can mentor and people just gonna watch what you do.

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It's not. Some people just can't really grasp by just watching what you do.

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So you got to really give them a little bit of guidance, give them the pointers, set them up with a little Some success, like give them the right Direction, not just direction because you can, somebody can follow you.

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They can follow the, the break crumbs, the trails that you leave.

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But sometimes you gotta map it out for them and that's what good mentors actually do.

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And that's why I think you had in your mindset of the teacher aspect, because you saw, you saw through the high school thing like thing Ain't nobody really, because you got guidance counselors but they're like oh, yeah, you should take this course, yeah, you should take that course, but it's not really into one of guiding you where you need to be.

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Yeah, and then I feel like with a good mentor, you have to take into account People's like home lives, where they've been through, like the way they go I remember so, like I remember being in high school, like accent Going to the guidance counselors, and I'm still being like giving me kind of a generic answer.

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That's not gonna work. That's not gonna work generic is just like alright, so take this course.

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Why? Oh yeah, it can help you get it.

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How's it gonna help me like? you need a Right and a lot of people don't and a lot of people did do they're still paying.

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They're my age, still paying those college debts that they have and it's like you're not going to.

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You put yourself in a hole like again and I'll say it on every podcast it's for doctors, colleges for doctors, definitely for lawyers too.

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You got to go get that knowledge to pass the bar, um, but it's not for everybody, it's not really for everybody.

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You really got to decide what you go, what you're going to.

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Want to wake up every morning and be like I'm about to go hard with this, like once you find that if, if that can be taught in high school, that that's the thing that's going to eliminate the process of you wasting your time on something you're not passionate about.

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That's what needs to be taught, cause if you can wake up in the morning and be like again, it's not something you're going to do the rest of your life.

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It may not be or it may, but you need that drive in the morning Like I'm going to wake up and do this, but if you're waking up like I don't feel like doing this, then that's not it.

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You're wasting a lot of your years, until your thirties, until your forties.

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It's pointless, it's pointless.

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You wasted your time Like there needs to be a class on process of elimination Cause.

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Then you can eliminate a lot of processes that you don't need to go into and just focus on your career.

14:14

So you have a uh, you have a teeth whitening.

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You said a teeth whitening business. So what makes you passionate for that business?

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So shout out to my high school because, believe it or not, before I picked dental assisting as my shop, I didn't know anything about that.

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I just remember going to the dentist growing up and I always liked going and I really had too much to get done.

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So I was like, okay, I'll just do that. Like how hard could it be?

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And then I went through the shop and then I started actually working in the field and like my favorite part is talking to my patients and like meeting my patients, stuff like that and being able to help people, um, just become confident in themselves again and really the help people, their overall health, because I feel like people don't realize like teeth are a big part of your health too.

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Um, I was going to ask you how important is that self care of your teeth.

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Oh be, I'm just just. I want to point that out, being a diabetic, my my doctor said that's huge.

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But yeah, go tell us, tell us why Important.

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It's so important, cause you all have to think like your teeth, even though it's like your mouth is connected to your head and it's like close to your heart and all that stuff.

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So you just even just that in itself, any infection in your mouth is closer to your brain, it's closer to your heart and all that stuff, so and you don't think of it the same as something in your body, cause I feel like I don't know, maybe that's just more potent in society.

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It's like taking care of your body, but your teeth cannot attend.

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Super important, and you don't want your breast to sink.

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That's a fact.

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That's a fact, that's a fact and it's a lot of people I know as far as in Delaware, it's a lot of young kids that's on like pergocets and all those type of drugs, so half of the teeth is kind of shot anyway, you know, I mean, if you're not on those type of drugs, it's definitely important, cause to me I feel like when you do drugs you know they're not looking at your face.

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Yeah.

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You're looking to get high. So yeah, I mean, when you're out here and you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, I think that's definitely important for you Breath to be smiling good when you're talking to people and you're doing stuff.

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Even this when you look at somebody, the first thing you look at is your smile.

16:15

Yeah, Right yeah.

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I just want to make sure I'm taking care of. But I will say I feel like the biggest problem is not even people not wanting to take care of their teeth, but it's something that just wasn't taught.

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Take care of your teeth, like even growing up and like as a child.

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So then you're being more reactive instead of proactive as an adult, trying to get everything worked out because growing up you didn't know that you were supposed to fall asleep every day or brush twice a day, or whatever the case may be.

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So you're reacting as an adult, you're doing more react and then you're in proactive Because you, you weren't taught that Exactly.

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I get that.

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Because every time I go to the dentist they always telling me a way, that I should be brushing my teeth a certain way, and it's like I thought you just brush your teeth Exactly.

17:00

Yeah, I didn't even know all that until, honestly, just just recently, like the top of your grill, your thumbs, normal growing up, you're just like doing all this flossing.

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So I mean that's something that, that you know, that education that you can give the kids, especially for families, that again, if they're growing in, if they're growing up with families that don't get to get that information and as and your business, you're getting that information too.

17:31

Yes, I am.

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Okay.

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I actually really love my clients that come in, so, like I'm saying, I do white and teeth guys.

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Yeah.

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And I do two gems and then also adding stuff, so just stay tuned for that.

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Stay tuned. We'll definitely shout her out every time for that.

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Really just making sure and then I like to, I like to smile.

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So then just seeing people will be super confident in their smile.

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Like even just when I'm taking before and afters on my patients, they'll come in with their teeth looking a certain way like yellow or not as white, and then afterwards, when I'm showing them, they're like smiling before and after.

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Yeah, oh, you just want to be back.

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You can tell the difference in a smile from the before and after like after they're all bright, before they're like a little Timmy Song.

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Yeah, oh, that that he feel like, they feel like Superman.

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Now they ready to go out and they ready to hop on a podcast.

18:21

And I was going to say usually that's like, that's like that when we get a haircut.

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Oh yeah. I go and you get a haircut.

18:26

You're looking rough and as soon as we hit that chair and he give you that back, you're like oh back, shout out to shout out to.

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Uncle Mills. Shout out to Uncle Mills for the barber, Always been there.

18:36

But no, that's the same thing.

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Like I'm pretty sure when they're hopping out of your chair they're like oh man, you just brought me back, I'm going to be an actor now.

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Like it's a whole, like a whole run all the time.

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No, that's the fact. I believe it. I believe it, so all right.

18:53

So let's get back to when you started your business.

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When you started.

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I actually started February 18th of 2023.

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So we're still fairly new.

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Shout out to that big shout out what's that?

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I got bumped out. I got found a button.

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I'm not going to find a button from which is going to shout you out for Big ups.

19:10

Yeah, Now, what? Now being a, being a business woman?

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What is something that you can say to younger black woman?

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I mean black, white, it don't really matter.

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Young women period. As far as starting a business with some gyms that you have further.

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Um, probably just start.

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It doesn't matter what it looks like, what it's going to look like, Of course that's a bar.

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By the way, just start, just start, that's a bar.

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Just, of course, don't put out something that you wouldn't do or like wanted partaking yourself, but just start.

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That's the hardest part is starting. But after you get over starting, I feel like everything else becomes fun, because it's like 100%.

19:52

Okay, like 100% and get him clients to come to you and just have having everything come together.

19:59

That's like just starting.

20:01

No, that's a bar enough to be like.

20:03

I realized that, just as it's going through a delt hood, you just got to start.

20:09

Yeah, yeah, you just got to start. If you sit there and procrastinate about it, you'll never do it.

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Just start, you're going to go through. You just fell forward.

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Even if you're not doing the right things in the beginning, you start.

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You're going to learn from it. But if you don't start, you're just going to regret it.

20:25

And now and now, when you, as far as just starting, cause, uh, you know, it's people out there who don't know where to start from Uh, I know me, I do vision boards.

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I'm not a person who can just remember everything I want to do, but I go to a vision board and I see every morning, or I see this guy with a suit, so my vision is, hey, my next step, whatever I do, ceo working I want to have a suit on.

20:48

I mean, like as far as just start. For people out here, like, what do you think is that like going to school?

20:54

You know, if it's starting to go to school, starting to so I guess I guess.

20:59

In other words, when you wake up in the morning and say I was going to start this, what was that process?

21:04

What did that look?

21:04

like. What did that look like? I you know what I'm going to do it.

21:07

How did how did that happen?

21:10

What did it look like? It is bars.

21:13

I was good, good when I started my business.

21:17

Honestly, I had the idea like maybe last year.

21:23

Mm-hmm in the winter months and honestly, I got all the stuff, like my majority of stuff.

21:28

I remember I brought my light and, like my products, I'm gonna need to actually white in people's teeth and I got it and it like sat in my closet for like three months and that wasn't my wasn't you start, it was you was.

21:39

You was preparing, you was preparing remember actually starting.

21:44

I feel like it started with the prayer.

21:49

Awesome, absolutely.

21:51

Yeah, I remember asking God like I need something.

21:54

Yeah.

21:55

I was in the process of just working and I was going to school, but just going to school.

22:00

Cause I wanted something else to do. Right, I'm like I need something.

22:04

Yeah, show me, show me guy. I need God. I was waiting for it.

22:07

I mean, you know?

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I'm a believer in God.

22:11

You need God first. Yeah, that's to me. That was.

22:13

That's a start. My start is I'm a pray as God, with what I'm supposed to be doing yeah, and then he gonna give me the vision and that's why I said for me my start was praying, but then God gave me the vision board to put stuff on there for me to actually shoot for yeah, and actually see it.

22:28

and I'm big on writing stuff, okay, so like I have a journal, so I've write down Everything like business ideas, everything, sorry, remember.

22:37

And then I also realized one thing I do is I'll talk about something a lot before I actually like Start to realize, like what you keep talking about that.

22:46

So I remember you do you talk about it, the people are you just talking about it like again you and God, like me.

22:50

I think I did too much of. Some people don't need to hear that dream.

22:54

Some people just just shut it up.

22:57

But there are people in your life like this guy right here, my best friend.

23:00

I knew I can tell him my dream and he's not gonna play.

23:02

Oh yeah, I don't know about that's one I know I can tell me he's just gonna pick me up.

23:06

Yeah there's certain people you just want to keep your mouth shut about it, but talk to yourself writing it down.

23:11

I'm a big person as this guy.

23:14

I sent him like a whole Whole list laundry lists of stuff.

23:19

The next five year? Plans that what we plan to do?

23:21

Like I send it to my late. Look, this is. This is what it looks like.

23:24

Yeah, he's like he did tell me slow down a little bit.

23:26

He's like I, I get it that's.

23:29

Let's focus on the podcast first. Yeah, I was like he had to bring me back a little bit, but you got to have that.

23:34

You do have to have that person, though. Um.

23:37

I remember I was talking, I'm a talker, I love to talk.

23:40

Yeah, I was telling everybody and it was really remember anybody saying like don't do it, but I felt like the hardest thing to get over was like actually starting, yeah.

23:52

Yeah, really just have to start, just got start and then so.

23:55

So your start was getting your supplies, getting stuff that you need, so that you can see alright, I'm getting this, I'm getting that.

24:02

It didn't put your personality, I just feel like I'm sure you can market to anybody.

24:05

Yeah.

24:06

I actually do my best marketing, like just out talking to people.

24:08

Yeah, I got you.

24:09

Yeah, that's what I I mean from our area.

24:12

Yeah, that's what people did, you went out and you talked to people at the mall and I face the face, yeah.

24:17

I mean, it wasn't just the social media.

24:19

I mean, don't get me wrong.

24:19

That's. That helps huge now, but it's nothing like just talking to having a conversation with people and getting them.

24:25

I'm a vibe person.

24:26

Yeah, I feel the vibe. It's like, oh no, that person's for me, but online Anybody yeah.

24:32

I mean until you get in the room when I'm like energy.

24:36

Energy's a little crazy here, I feel like with me it's the opposite, like sometimes I'll be like DM my clients or something like that.

24:43

Yeah, that don't really sound.

24:46

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right now, I get that.

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I mean, it sometimes is even on the phone, sometimes I'll get a conversation in, but it's nothing like as you can get the, the, the hand movements that you get.

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Everything when you're in person, like you can see, divide the eyes, the Everything like it's.

25:08

You can see it more in person, but I understand where you're coming from on that aspect.

25:13

But I think to go back on the start, as you started getting out of equipment and you started looking at it, just it motivates you a little bit more than it.

25:21

Yeah, so yeah.

25:22

I remember cleaning out the space and Seeing it go from, because I do it in my garage okay.

25:29

No, apart of my garage, and I remember seeing it before it was cleaned out and it was kind of like hard to grasp, yeah.

25:35

But then when I clean up, okay, wait, I know we're all this stuff's gonna go, and it literally just started.

25:40

The vision started just bone and I remember every day I would get off of work and then, cuz I still work at the dental office, I would get off of work.

25:46

Yeah and then I would just go in the garage.

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I would go in my room and like order stuff and piece stuff together.

25:53

And I actually have another job. I work at Domino's. I worked at down those delivering pizza, yeah, so I remember I would be at Domino's like looking up stuff in between delivery.

26:01

Yeah, you was focused.

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Yes, definitely. Yeah and I remember it took a lot, like there was, I remember, for my wall.

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There was the first way I wanted to do.

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It didn't work so I had to like go back to the drawing board.

26:12

So it was a lot of like discouraging stuff that was trying to come up.

26:16

But I remember be like that was trying to get in you, where you said nah.

26:21

I was gonna ask you what kind of do you, or if you'd have came across any type of pitfalls in your Process of growing like this, that does things happen.

26:33

Everything happens, but I feel like for me, the main thing is keeping faith, because I feel like I would never give me too, much or For no reason like.

26:43

I feel like when I go into my space I remember over the summer I didn't really have a lot of clients and at first.

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I was like I don't have a lot of clients, I would catch myself like wait a second.

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But now my girl, they're coming.

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They come in everybody.

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I just know that God would have never gave me my space or the equipment.

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I need to put into all of that.

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Focus to put into all that cuz. When you really think about it, when you have a dream or a vision, there's so much stuff in the world for you to do so you could have a vision or dream about you doing anything 100%.

27:13

So it's like for God to put something like that on your heart or on your mind.

27:16

Have to follow through with it, because why would he give you that vision compared Like why would he give me a teeth white in a business?

27:23

Compared to like being a painter.

27:25

Yeah, president.

27:28

And that's how we actually put it on one of the Episodes about what really helped us with this.

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Honestly, this is the most committed I've been in my life to something.

27:39

When you make it a non-negotiable and you just say this is what I'm doing, that's what really, and I think that's what you did, what's starting your bender, you put it in your head like this has to happen.

27:51

There's going to, there's gonna be pitfalls, there's gonna be obstacles, there's gonna be things to get in your way, but when you make it a non-negotiable, you're gonna be able to hop over those obstacles, hop over that wall that may have getting you away, and I think that's Kind of what you did.

28:05

Right, you made it a non-negotiable.

28:07

Um, I, I definitely could say that, because I remember going through the period like when I really locked in on my business.

28:14

It was, I want to say, october 6, when I finished cleaning out the space and I remember I Like kind of lost friends and everything like I just was in my zone use focus.

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I wouldn't. I really didn't talk to people.

28:27

I deactivated my Instagram like I was just focused.

28:30

Yeah, my business, because I was like happens like that.

28:33

It was just so strong to me. Yeah and then the way it all played out and came together, it was like, okay, this has to, it has to be something.

28:41

Yeah, yeah, I ain't do this for nothing.

28:44

And today, like I was leaving the house this morning, I like walked into the lounge and it's just like Wow, thanks, god.

28:50

Absolutely it's like this was not just me and I always say like God is literally my business partner, because Before I do anything like asking about brand ambassadors or sales, I'm like gosh, we're okay.

29:03

Am I doing too much of this or not enough for this?

29:06

Yeah, it's trying to see confirmation.

29:08

Yeah, every single time.

29:10

That's awesome yeah.

29:12

Now. So where does most of your support come from?

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Um, I want to say well, god first, oh copy that.

29:21

And then I want to say my family and my friends, like they're a good support system too.

29:28

Okay, yeah, my family and my friends, that's awesome.

29:33

And that's usually how it happens. Some people might find a random stranger that might be their biggest support system because they see the vision.

29:39

But your family if you got your family and your friends, your close friends, in your corner supporting that vision, that is definitely a that should be a non-negotiable, Especially if you've got good family members, Because some people do it without anything.

29:53

But when you have that support, it's such a strong and, like Aaron said, and I believe it too that God support, yeah, that's something that you got to have it Honestly, that's all you need.

30:03

You know what I mean. But at the end of the day, having that good and we did that on the show- yeah, we did.

30:08

That's having that strength of team.

30:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that team, the people who got your back, even when they don't see the same vision that you see, it's still them rooting you on being there for you.

30:21

Yeah, because they see how passionate you are about it.

30:23

Because people won't hop even family friends if they don't see you actually putting in the work and believe that you can do it.

30:30

It would be hard for somebody to hop on like here goes another idea.

30:35

I'm pretty sure I've been through that and when you, they see the passion that you have and something they start seeing that vision.

30:44

It's not even drawn out yet. They're like they actually going hard with this.

30:48

She serious. And that's where that support and the belief, not saying they hopped on a little bit later, but they need to see you yourself believe it and doing something about, not just I'm going to write this down and talk about it every day.

31:01

What are they doing with it? Actions and that's one thing that we wanted to go on into the second season of the Sobrout podcast is we can have all these visions, all these plans to write down, but you're somebody actually took action and what you did and that's why you're here, that's why you're here and this season, episode three you took action, you took action, you had that vision, you didn't let anything get in your way, you started and you started, you took action.

31:29

You have to take action after that vision is there especially to grab the support.

31:34

If you don't take action, it's hard to gather.

31:37

It's hard to gather momentum for yourself, but once you start taking action, on fire and it's like you become unstoppable Cause like I said for me it was like I was getting excited, like when I started buying stuff little by little.

31:50

I'm like, wait, this kind of looks cool. Yeah, same thing we did with this it looks good when you start doing it.

31:57

Yeah, 100%, taking action is the biggest thing, like I probably have journals from 20 years ago that I've written on stuff that I had planned to do and switched it up like five, six different times but I didn't take action on it because I was switching my mind so much.

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But when you finally take action on something and you believe it yourself and you just start feeling yourself already there being successful, then you take action.

32:22

Oh man, it's, it's a game changer.

32:25

10 out of 10. Game changer Like it's going to be a game changer all the time, cause you can talk about it as much as you want, but until you start moving them feet, moving them hands and putting things in place, it's just written.

32:38

It's just written down. That's it. You got to take action and I think that's what you did.

32:42

You say that's what you did. Right, it is that's what you did Absolutely.

32:47

And now I got a two more questions for you, so this one is kind of like a true or false I put on here.

32:53

Uh, is it true that when you get a business, usually most of the people who you encounter who help you are usually not the people who are your friends or people who you know?

33:10

That is and this is all, whatever.

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However you feel is 100% true or false.

33:15

I think I feel like they mostly support constant people you don't know, so always from you know other people who support you.

33:23

I will say that is true, cause in the process of me starting, my business I kind of had friends that I feel like didn't support me, and I'm that person.

33:34

Like I feel like I'm just extremely supportive. Oh yeah, I'm in support.

33:37

Yeah, all the time.

33:39

I don't like wait a second.

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Hey, if you started something, you know I'm going to be behind you.

33:44

But where's that support at?

33:46

So I will say that starting a business probably showed me who's really there for me to really my friend.

33:53

Yeah.

33:55

Um so, but I have friends that support to true or false, true and false.

34:01

I thought you just want to say that.

34:03

Yeah, so I guess it's like a give or take when it's like you're right, that was a good question.

34:07

Uh, most of the people I see I mean I, I ain't gonna lie, my family supports all of this.

34:13

The friends around us support everything we're doing with this over our podcast because they see they were not stopping.

34:18

It's been consistent. But a lot of times it is that stranger or somebody just sees yeah, Random person that sees like oh man that's cool.

34:26

And then they see it again and like, oh, you still doing it, right, okay, yeah, right.

34:30

So I get that. What's the?

34:32

second question Uh.

34:35

My last one is uh, uh. Where do you see yourself at in three years?

34:39

Okay, so I remember saying in the beginning of podcasts like I remember my plan that I had for myself when I was like younger- like oh.

34:46

I'm going to be on campus and all that stuff.

34:49

So when I kind of realized like that wasn't my goal, I really just been walking by faith every day.

34:53

Okay no-transcript being able to like look ahead.

34:59

Yeah and I don't really. I just know that I'll be Happy, okay, successful, and I I'm hoping that I'll have like a building for my business.

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I'll space for it. I'll be adding my products.

35:13

I want to have girls, so stay tuned to that.

35:16

Stay tuned for the grill. Shout out for that. It's coming, it's coming.

35:20

Hopefully back in school, because I do want to be a teacher.

35:22

Okay, we're saying I want to be that support person for kids and this very pit, pivotal age 100 probably in school, but they'll do my business.

35:32

Yeah, absolutely Okay.

35:34

Good, I definitely see you doing Big things.

35:37

I see it in the next year. I see it. I feel the energy like I'm a big energy person, like I vibe off energy if the energy is bad and somebody's been I hate being around negative people and you bring I can that, that or you bring that to positive energy in the room.

35:53

Yeah and I can see you doing in the next three to five years Snapping with your thing.

35:59

And I see, is I see it still tucked in your head about the Combat, this school, to be a teacher and being able to give what you didn't get while you were in school that's huge too.

36:09

But also y'all. I just want to say Prayer is really the number one thing, because yeah even from me starting my business to like right now, in this exact moment.

36:18

Yeah, I would have never thought I was gonna be in the pocket. Yeah, I got you the way it came about was like so random.

36:24

I'll just tell the story really quick. Yeah, I was coming back from Bible study.

36:28

Yeah, let me get something to eat and I went to.

36:30

I was gonna go to Longhorn Like I was in the parking lot for one year.

36:33

Yeah, I think this is so crazy. And then I was like, should I go along more?

36:37

Like that's how close me and God is yeah, yeah she's not even going there.

36:40

I was someone's like no, so I'm like okay.

36:43

So I started driving like let me just go to Hibachi, and I started to order my food.

36:46

Yeah fine and I was like we're on the phone.

36:49

I was like, no, let me just go in. And I went in and the air I was sitting over there with his mom and I'm like, okay, and I introduced myself right my business cards and they were actually leaving like yeah when I was walking in, they were giving their check awesome.

37:02

They probably. By the time we were done talking, my food was in front of me Right and I was invited to a podcast, so I, that's amazing walking by faith and I don't know what God has in store for me.

37:16

But, like you guys are saying, I really do.

37:18

I see some positive in the future.

37:20

Yeah, definitely. So shout out to that shout out to you hey thank you for coming on the podcast and committing to it, man.

37:30

It's a blessing for us. Man, I have some my positive like you young driving now and A bright future ahead of you.

37:40

Man, I like it, just it just something to see.

37:42

I'm, worse, so blessed to have you on a podcast to be able to give that insight to some young girls out here that Female point of view.

37:49

Yeah, it's just like look, go at it, don't, don't wait just do it and then don't, don't say that's gonna be the oh, the ceiling for my vision.

37:57

It's still more in store, I mean, but walking by faith.

38:01

And again, prayer, big, big, big, big.

38:03

We pray before the podcast and I think that blessed us a lot.

38:07

Man, we got a lot. You were nervous in the beginning but you opened up.

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Shout out to God.

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Remember what I said earlier was just start.

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After starting, don't get discouraged if it gets slow, because it may be slow.

38:23

But it will start and just keep going.

38:25

Absolutely. Everybody says keep going, you be like, okay, that sounds so cliche, but no really, you just have to keep going.

38:31

And like trial would say consistency.

38:34

Consistency breeds success and I will say it.

38:37

I'm gonna continue to say that the in-ear podcast, cuz that's the sober up podcast motto Consistency breed success big time.

38:45

Like, if anything, at the end of the day You'll see the consistency.

38:50

I don't feel like it's discipline.

38:53

Also, when you say consistency, I don't feel like don't know, but when you do it anyway, that's the people did succeed because they do the things that people don't want to do.

39:00

Consistency breed success.

39:02

So to wrap up the podcast, Thanks for being all here.

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Stay tuned for the grills and everything else, stay tuned for the girls.

39:28

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39:32

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39:42

John, it's Wednesday, get through this week.

39:44

Yes, do what you got to do.

39:46

Okay, let's get through it, baby. Push through it no matter what and stay consistent at the end of the day.

39:51

That's what's gonna make it happen. We love everybody.

39:54

Yeah, y'all, peace out. I'm a winner.

39:57

I go to distance. They might hate, I know they smell me.

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I'm a intense, real aggressive.