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Laura Foos (5th Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: heart my next friend. Uh. She's a talker. She's from
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  Speaker 1: d C. One of my favorite people. I met her
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  Speaker 1: and uh during the Hoodie Awards to the Neighborhood Awards.
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  Speaker 1: She's a personal in business tax season. Because the tax
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  Speaker 1: season never ends. She's there a personal and business taxes.
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  Speaker 1: You come to this late in the DC area worldwide
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  Speaker 1: if you want to. And she's a serial entrepreneur and
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  Speaker 1: the owner of Foods Financial Service LLC. She provides tax
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  Speaker 1: preparation services for individuals and small businesses all year long.
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  Speaker 1: Who's working with the money making conversation one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite on my anniversary show, Laura Foods Good. I'm so
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  Speaker 1: excited to be with you on your anniversary. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I hand picked people I want on my show, and
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  Speaker 1: I had to get the talking, you know, just cause
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  Speaker 1: I get tired. I can do pretty Laura on the show.
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  Speaker 1: She should take old my show. Now, I will, I will,
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  Speaker 1: I could probably take over. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to stick to the questions and now question, How's
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  Speaker 1: your how's your daughter, Let's get the family time. How's
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  Speaker 1: your daughter? The daughter is doing great. We are just
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  Speaker 1: finishing up her first year at Temple University UM and
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  Speaker 1: she is doing job interviews and as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: she has UM a phone interview with w H you
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  Speaker 1: are tomorrow for an internship with them through you know
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  Speaker 1: the station we work with so much through the Hoodie Awards.
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  Speaker 1: But no, so she's doing She's doing great. She's that
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  Speaker 1: temple with straight AI's in college, so I'm very excited
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  Speaker 1: about that. So thank you for always checking on her,
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  Speaker 1: Guys to check on there, I also have to check
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  Speaker 1: on you some time because you always go you always
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  Speaker 1: go live and so I surprised every's a much while
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  Speaker 1: I did little. No, I'm watching her. Yes, I could
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  Speaker 1: be all over the place sometimes. Yes you are, and
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  Speaker 1: I love it. So what are you working on now?
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  Speaker 1: I just want to just highlights some of the things
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  Speaker 1: you're doing and just keeping you in the know. On
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  Speaker 1: the people that I talked to on a regular basis,
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  Speaker 1: she's one of my favorite. Like I said, she's a
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  Speaker 1: serial entrepreneur, a fantastic tax expert, and also she understands
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  Speaker 1: the value of multiple levels of income. So what what
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  Speaker 1: are you wanting? Of course, well, well, right now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we are just wrapping up the tax season, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure for most of your deaths. You know, we all
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  Speaker 1: were already concerned about the tax changes UM, and I
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  Speaker 1: did see quite a few people, even though we warned
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  Speaker 1: them last year about all the changes and checking their
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  Speaker 1: with totings and getting things right, we did have quite
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  Speaker 1: a few people that were unhappy this tax season. So
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  Speaker 1: of course I still always want to encourage people to
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  Speaker 1: visit my Instagram page, ask foods um to make sure
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  Speaker 1: they stay into with tax tips, get the tax prep checklist.
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  Speaker 1: This week will be adding UM so they can use
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  Speaker 1: it with holding calculator, because that's what I'm finding happened
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  Speaker 1: this season. You know. They told us that we would
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  Speaker 1: be start getting more on our paycheck, which was great
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  Speaker 1: and we were all excited. But what that minute tax
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  Speaker 1: time was that we withheld less money. So then at
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  Speaker 1: tax time people came out owing. So I'm really encouraging
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  Speaker 1: all of our listeners to go and do the tax
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  Speaker 1: withholding check up to make sure that they're withholding enough taxes.
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  Speaker 1: So of course that's always my first love is taxes
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  Speaker 1: and making sure everyone is doing right by their taxes. UM.
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  Speaker 1: The next thing, UM, And I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: and I have talked since I started UM in the
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  Speaker 1: past probably eight months or so. UM, just because we
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  Speaker 1: have so many women in the DC area, we're all
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  Speaker 1: over that I interact with, and of course I'm only
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  Speaker 1: one person. UM. So I have started recently UM my
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  Speaker 1: women's growth called Confessions of a Boss Lady. UM. It
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  Speaker 1: is a private Facebook group that you can join by
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  Speaker 1: answering a couple of questions related to business. And we
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  Speaker 1: do have meetups in the DC area, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: other women looking to start their businesses, needing support, needing encouragement,
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  Speaker 1: needing resources. UM. So I'm very excited about that group. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And that's been fun too, just meeting a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of women. So that part has been fun too. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And then what else has been going on? And then
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  Speaker 1: I'm working on now you know, we only to have
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  Speaker 1: something else in UM in store. I'm also working on
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  Speaker 1: now like a monthly subscription site signific people and business owners,
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  Speaker 1: tax help and financial and budget help also, so that's
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  Speaker 1: coming up. Mishuged. You know you know you just stop,
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  Speaker 1: did you? Did you mention did you mention the other
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  Speaker 1: business that your businesses that you already have, so people
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  Speaker 1: understand why I've laughed, can you talk about them? There's
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  Speaker 1: a launch store, there's Lune shop. You know bi a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, that's right. So that's how we all
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  Speaker 1: got introduced was with the Neighborhood Awards. Those Cilantca Tours
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  Speaker 1: are full service salon that I also own with three
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  Speaker 1: other my three other business partners. UM. We've been in
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  Speaker 1: the Slanti has been in business of Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: For over eleven years now. We won five Hoodie Awards
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  Speaker 1: for best Mail Salon, Best Hair Salon in the country UM.
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  Speaker 1: And then a few doors down from the beauty soon
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  Speaker 1: also have a ten thousand square for beauty supply store
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  Speaker 1: UM with all kinds of beauty supplies as well as
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  Speaker 1: we have private suite for other small businesses who maybe
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  Speaker 1: aren't able to you know, have their own store front
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  Speaker 1: at this time, so they can kind of partner with
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  Speaker 1: us and have a store within our store. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course always have to bring up the foundations Clanca
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  Speaker 1: Tour and Beauty coatour. So it's kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the spaces, kind of like sharing you're
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  Speaker 1: selling space within your space exactly exactly, because there's so
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  Speaker 1: many business people that have great businesses or offer great
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  Speaker 1: services or have great products, but maybe they just are
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  Speaker 1: not financially able to have their own storefront at this time.
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  Speaker 1: So we, you know, provide them a space for a
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  Speaker 1: weekly rental fee, so then they can start their business
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  Speaker 1: within our business. That's very small, it's very popular. I
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  Speaker 1: know that we are talking. She's talking about developing things
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  Speaker 1: like the gathering spot, which is popularly in Atlanta. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're going to d C then because you have
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  Speaker 1: the work and then you also have spaces. And I've
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  Speaker 1: noticed a lot of African Americans are taking advantage of
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  Speaker 1: that that type of space is being made available to
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  Speaker 1: them because they can't afford long term lease. They can't
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  Speaker 1: afford the standard brick and mortar, and they sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: just chasing the dream, and a dream may not be
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  Speaker 1: tied to a five year lease or a seven year
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  Speaker 1: lease exactly exactly exactly. So how is that working out?
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  Speaker 1: And how you promoting the fact that you're making available uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, workspace. Sometimes the workspace can be an actual office.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it just can be a dead sometimes it just
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  Speaker 1: be a locker room. So how are you, how are
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  Speaker 1: you laying out the space? UM? Well, I think just
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  Speaker 1: because of the network that we've developed, so of course
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  Speaker 1: we are, I mean all of us. Hopefully everyone in
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  Speaker 1: any type of business has some type of social media platform.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully they're using some type of email marketing. And then
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  Speaker 1: of course for us, just because we've been in our
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  Speaker 1: community for you know, we've been licensed mail technicians and
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  Speaker 1: licensed stylists for over twenty five years, so we also
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  Speaker 1: have just a large network of people. So still I
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  Speaker 1: think one of the best things, UM is encouraging people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the face to face and referrals and word
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  Speaker 1: of mouth. I mean, I think sometimes with entrepreneurship we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten a little lazy because of social media. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we think that we could just post on social media
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  Speaker 1: all day and our business will grow and grow and grow.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not the case. UM. I've certainly found you
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  Speaker 1: know through you encouraging me. What was that almost two
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  Speaker 1: tax seasons ago? Like boost, all I want you to
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  Speaker 1: do was go live every Tuesday and the tax tips Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: UM and share information with people as well as continue
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  Speaker 1: to network and be out and about so you always
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  Speaker 1: see me at different events different kind of events and
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  Speaker 1: still meeting people face to face. And I think each year, um,
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  Speaker 1: the business has This year grew eighteen percent. Last year
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  Speaker 1: I grew. UM. So I still encourage people the one
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  Speaker 1: on one and face to face and developing those relationships
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  Speaker 1: is still most important. Alright, tax Tuesday on your social
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  Speaker 1: media have been working for you? Um, it has been good.
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  Speaker 1: Last year was very very good. This year, I think
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  Speaker 1: because now everywhere I go, people says, Okay, you're the
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  Speaker 1: tax lady. This year I did like one or two
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  Speaker 1: and then tax season started and everything just when became
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  Speaker 1: a blurd because I got so inundated with new clients,
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  Speaker 1: and especially with these tax star changes, everybody really wanted
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  Speaker 1: a tax to pair and not necessarily them doing it
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  Speaker 1: on their own. UM. So I remember that I was
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  Speaker 1: probably not as consistent of season with tax tip Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: just because the business, I mean, people were coming out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere that I have never met, never heard of, um,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great thing. But certainly I think that
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  Speaker 1: that is how I've become so well going to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: you yourself of social media. You ran yourself off your
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  Speaker 1: own show, what you canceled your own show through the
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  Speaker 1: popularity but I just got too busy. I didn't from
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  Speaker 1: that and that was my fault because you know now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you also know I have a corporate full
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  Speaker 1: time career as the business finance manager where I take
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  Speaker 1: care of forty two locations at the same time, so
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  Speaker 1: all the businesses we talk about our aside from you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have a twenty three year corporate career as well. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so juggling all those things. But no, I certainly think
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  Speaker 1: it was from you encouraging me that you know, Foosh,
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  Speaker 1: you have to stop being scared. You just have to
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  Speaker 1: go live every Tuesday, share information and people will come.
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  Speaker 1: And as a's that you have continued to come, just
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  Speaker 1: like you told me they would. Well, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: amazing that your energy and your your belief in yourself
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  Speaker 1: so proud of what you're accomplishing as a mom with
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  Speaker 1: your daughter, your you know, you understand the balance of life,
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  Speaker 1: of having a balance life not only with your daughter
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  Speaker 1: but with friends and family members. You know, you you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the That's the one thing that's always shined in
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  Speaker 1: my relationship with you is that you just you just
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  Speaker 1: enable me to say other people, yes, you can do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of your accomplishing a lot of dreams. You
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  Speaker 1: can be very busy, but you have to make time
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  Speaker 1: for family, have to make time with people who are
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  Speaker 1: helping you get there. So any party, any any party
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  Speaker 1: words Uh, Lauren foods Um. I think that the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing is to continue to be fearless, continue to make
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  Speaker 1: yourself uncomfortable so that you're willing to do those things.
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, this guy is a limit and drink.
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