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Megan Eddings Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: I heart him. My next guest was born and raised
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Speaker 1: in Rhode Island, major in chemistry at the University of
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Speaker 1: Virginia and moved to Houston, Texas fourteen years ago to
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Speaker 1: pursue a medical equipment sales representative career. That was back then.
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Speaker 1: She was raised in the family because when I got
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Speaker 1: a bio, you know, I was really moved by her honesty.
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Speaker 1: She was raised in the family where they did not
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Speaker 1: have a lot of money, but they were never aware
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Speaker 1: of it as kids. That's very similar in my background.
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Speaker 1: Her dad made twenty six thousand dollars a year and
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Speaker 1: her mom stayed at home with her two brothers. I
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Speaker 1: had six sisters and two brothers. She worked in science
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Speaker 1: labs at university at the University of Virginia and Brown
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Speaker 1: University and had and has had a job since she
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Speaker 1: was ten years old that was a paper route. She
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Speaker 1: has been called a positivity enthusiast. I mean, I only
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Speaker 1: met this youngerly at one time, and she's always she's
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Speaker 1: impacted me personally. UH. Police working the Money Making Conversation
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Speaker 1: to founder and CEO or Sale Lifestyle and author of
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Speaker 1: the book Seven Secrets to Start Up Success. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: Megan Eddings. Well, I what an introduction. Thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for Sean. Good morning to you. Who is that
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Speaker 1: person that's me? Well, you know what the thing about
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Speaker 1: it is that when I when I when I set
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Speaker 1: up interviews, I like for people to know there's a
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Speaker 1: story behind them, there's a journey to the conversation we're
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Speaker 1: about to have on money Making Conversations. And before we
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Speaker 1: get started, please let everybody know how did Megan come
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Speaker 1: into Rushan McDonald's life. Yeah, you know, I always say
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Speaker 1: you never know where you're gonna meet someone who's going
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Speaker 1: to change your life. I was in the Male Mayor
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Speaker 1: Sylvester Turner's List off New Business competition last year and
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Speaker 1: I made it to the finals and I was on stage,
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Speaker 1: made to the finals, and you were actually the u,
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Speaker 1: the moderator, the host, and the comedian of the event.
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Speaker 1: And that's how, yeah, we first met. And then you
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Speaker 1: were gracious enough to have the winners on your on
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Speaker 1: your Money Making Conversation show following week. Yes, and uh,
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Speaker 1: did you win any money? Sure? Did it. I want
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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars for best new Product in Houston and
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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars for fan favorite. Yeah, you know. The
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Speaker 1: the great thing about it is that tell me to
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Speaker 1: tell us favor because your product was still in the
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Speaker 1: Uh what I could I say, development stage and tell
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Speaker 1: everybody about your product? Yeah, for sure, for sure it was.
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Speaker 1: I've definitely come a long way since last November. But essentially,
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Speaker 1: I was tired of throwing away my husband's workout clothes
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Speaker 1: about three years ago because they stunk, and obviously pretty
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Speaker 1: much almost everyone has this problems with my science background,
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Speaker 1: I decided to create fabric that basically keeps you smelling
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Speaker 1: and feeling fresh or longer. And yeah, as actually, since
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Speaker 1: we last spoke, the fabric's now patent pending in a
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty countries and uh yeah, still it's beyond
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Speaker 1: the development stage, but I'm still working on it. Those
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Speaker 1: workout clothes don't stink. Well, that's important to know now
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Speaker 1: before we get deeper into your conversation about what you're
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Speaker 1: doing currently. What stood after me was this live when
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Speaker 1: you say your dad made twenty six thousand dollars a year,
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Speaker 1: Because I could, I can relate to that come from
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Speaker 1: inner city. I'm not saying you came from the inner city,
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Speaker 1: but I did. I knew my father he was drunk drive.
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Speaker 1: He was drunk drive. Sixcesss, two brothers, and my mom
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Speaker 1: was to stay at home mom. But we we had
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Speaker 1: a Christmas every year. I can there was always fruit
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Speaker 1: underneath that tree, the candy. Uh. I had toys to
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Speaker 1: play with. And I know we weren't living a good life.
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Speaker 1: So please tell me to impact your parents had on you. Man.
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Speaker 1: You you hit the nail on the head. You know
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Speaker 1: the funny thing about the twenty six thousand dollars a year.
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Speaker 1: I did not know that until I was an adult,
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Speaker 1: probably until I was in college, because my parents never
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Speaker 1: talked about it. Um my dad worked usually seven days
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Speaker 1: a week, but in my mind he was always present.
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Speaker 1: If he had to go to work super early, uh
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Speaker 1: and be home for our baseball games or softball games,
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Speaker 1: he would be. So we didn't grow up and be like,
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Speaker 1: oh dad's never around and oh we don't have money,
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Speaker 1: because just like you, there was always a home cooked
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Speaker 1: meal on the table. There was always, you know, gifts
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Speaker 1: under the tree. They were never the nicest gifts that
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Speaker 1: like you know, my friends received it, setera. But we
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Speaker 1: didn't think about that. We were just blessed to even
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Speaker 1: have gifts at all. Um. And so really, yeah, we
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Speaker 1: went out to eat once a year as a family.
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Speaker 1: We went to Pizza Hut on New Year's Eve. That
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Speaker 1: was our family tradition. Um. So now whenever I say
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Speaker 1: a Pizza Hut, you know, just makes me smile. And
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Speaker 1: uh yeah, so we but we didn't think about, you know, oh,
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Speaker 1: let's go out to eat, because it was just never
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Speaker 1: an important thing. So being raising the family that we
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Speaker 1: were raised in, it was all about hard work and
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Speaker 1: you know love really just just a simple definition and
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Speaker 1: act of kindness and love and and that's what really
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Speaker 1: brings joy, not the materialistic stuff. We know, they always
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Speaker 1: say that as a child, you take you take a
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Speaker 1: little bit of each parent. So what did you take
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Speaker 1: away from your mom? Yeah, so my mom is the
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Speaker 1: oldest of eleven children. Uh so she is a just
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Speaker 1: born matriarch. She's kind, Um, she puts others before her
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Speaker 1: all of the time, and just a kind human being
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Speaker 1: and honestly doesn't complain, doesn't talk ill of people, never has,
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Speaker 1: and just a really just generous, kind person. And then
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Speaker 1: my dad. Um, he has since passed away, but he
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Speaker 1: was the comedian, he was outgoing. Um, he definitely cuss
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Speaker 1: a little, So I got that from him. That's what
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Speaker 1: we give for a little bit. Yeah, so I guess
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Speaker 1: I could say I'd like to think that I picked up,
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Speaker 1: you know, most of the best quallites for my parents,
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Speaker 1: but from both of them. Mostly they were just, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind kind people that like to have a lot of
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Speaker 1: fun and like to give back. Okay, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: your product. Okay, you you have a chemistry degree, and
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Speaker 1: so you went to college University Virginia. Why did you
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Speaker 1: choose that degree? And why aren't you doing that degree? Now?
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Speaker 1: Why don't you? Why don't you? Why would you selling
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Speaker 1: medical equipment products? Now? Why? Why? Why have you changed?
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Speaker 1: What went what went right? Or what went wrong? What
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Speaker 1: went wrong? So yeah, tenth grade high school, I took
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Speaker 1: my first chemistry class and boom, fell in love with it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I wish I had a sex to her story,
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Speaker 1: but that's kind of it. I thought about all this
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Speaker 1: stuff that goes on with things that we can't even see, um,
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Speaker 1: but yet we're around it every single day. So I
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Speaker 1: was fascinated in the tenth grade, so I do chemistry
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Speaker 1: would be my degree. Um. I chose U v A
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Speaker 1: because it was kind of close to home, but not
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Speaker 1: too close to home, like you had to hop on
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Speaker 1: a plane to get there. Um. And I was blessed
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Speaker 1: that I got accepted. And uh yes, I moved to
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Speaker 1: Houston too. After I work in the science labs. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, Um, there's no money in this There's
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Speaker 1: no money and you know it working. I mean, if
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Speaker 1: I'm keeping it real, Uh, there's no money and you know,
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Speaker 1: working in these science labs. So what can I do?
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Speaker 1: When this guy told me, he's like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: you'd be great in medical sales. You get to dress cute,
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Speaker 1: you get your own company car, your company phone. So
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Speaker 1: I applied to all these, you know, companies, every single
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Speaker 1: company I could possibly research and find, and I ended
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Speaker 1: up getting this job with this this company I had
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Speaker 1: never heard of before called Siemens Medical. Little did I
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Speaker 1: know it was a multibillion dollars you did you sounded
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Speaker 1: like that was a little small company. But landing with
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, they have a funny name, but I
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Speaker 1: guess I'll see what they do. And I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 1: So moved down to Houston work in the Houston Medicenter
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Speaker 1: doing the medical equipment. Absolutely loved it. So I always
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Speaker 1: tell everybody, I'm like, I didn't quit medical sales because
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Speaker 1: I hated it or because I didn't like it. I
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Speaker 1: I resigned from it about a year and a half
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Speaker 1: ago because it wasn't fulfilling every every part of my life.
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Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned my dad passed away. That was
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Speaker 1: kind of a joel and it just happened suddenly. And
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Speaker 1: when that happened, I said to myself, you know what, God,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, help help the sister out. I'm like, I
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Speaker 1: will not be doing medical sales the rest of my
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Speaker 1: life because it's not fulfilling my passions of giving back.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I love fashion and fitness, and so
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Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna own my own company someday. I
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Speaker 1: have no idea how I'm gonna do it. I don't
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Speaker 1: have a business degree, I don't have millions of dollars.
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Speaker 1: But help me start my own company was something that
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Speaker 1: really matters and combines everything I love. Well dot dot
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Speaker 1: dot Fast forward two months after my dad passed the
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Speaker 1: way randomly, nothing's random. I meet my now husband. On
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Speaker 1: a blind day, I would say. He didn't have social media,
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Speaker 1: didn't even have Facebook, so I couldn't stalk him. But uh,
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Speaker 1: we got married. He's super into cross that we're both
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Speaker 1: really into fitness, and his clothes basically just smelled horribly,
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Speaker 1: his workout clothes, and so it was bothering me and
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Speaker 1: bothering me that was bothering you. He had been cool
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Speaker 1: with it all up the time he met you. He
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Speaker 1: been even even out there doing it. Do you even
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Speaker 1: smell you got it? You got it? I'm like, he'd
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Speaker 1: be crushing goals in the gym and crushing everyone around
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Speaker 1: it with that smell. And uh so I'm gonna I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna send this clip to him, but do you said
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Speaker 1: it to him in person? So I met him. He's
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Speaker 1: a nice guy. So when she dollars, he was clapping
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Speaker 1: harder than anybody. He was. You know what. And it's
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Speaker 1: so funny whenever I described how excel Lifestyle was born,
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Speaker 1: always because my husband's clothes stunk, like hunt you Okay?
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Speaker 1: Then I say that, He's like, if it, if it
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Speaker 1: helps excel lifestyle, knock yourself out. So yeah, basically decided
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Speaker 1: to um custom create my own fabric because when I
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Speaker 1: did a bunch of research, you know, step one of
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Speaker 1: ever ever trying to figure out how to start your
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Speaker 1: own company. What's out there today, there really wasn't anything
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Speaker 1: that was awesome science that really keeps you smelling fresh.
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Speaker 1: And then also something that is ethically made, so no sweatshops.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's really important to me as well. Now
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Speaker 1: here's something that always Uh, you did the steps, but
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Speaker 1: you said the word patent correct, patent pending. Okay. I've
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Speaker 1: had people on the show, and I always like them
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Speaker 1: to go through that step because a lot of people
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Speaker 1: she realized why you need to patent things, and so
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Speaker 1: please tell people the process you did and why it's
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Speaker 1: important to patent what you are, what you created. Sure. Sure,
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Speaker 1: So basically, if you have am I guess, proprietary information,
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Speaker 1: if you create something that no one else has, it's
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Speaker 1: important to patent it because if you don't patent it,
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Speaker 1: people are going to It's it's very easy to say,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of technology out there, a lot of
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Speaker 1: super intelligent people, and if they can copy your product,
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Speaker 1: and if they copy your products, of course that's not
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Speaker 1: good for the person that actually invented it. So I
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Speaker 1: h via advice of many mentors and advisory board, you know,
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Speaker 1: pieces that I found along the way. They're like, mag
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Speaker 1: You've got to get this patented. I mean, who's to stay,
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Speaker 1: you know, one of the big boy Fitness of Power
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Speaker 1: companies wouldn't just come in and try to copy it.
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Speaker 1: And so now is it patent pending. My plan is
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Speaker 1: obviously move it from the patent pending status to the
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Speaker 1: patented status. And I actually have a call this week
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Speaker 1: with my patent attorney to experite the patent process here
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Speaker 1: in the United States. So if all goes as planned,
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Speaker 1: which usually things do or don't, we'll see. Um, it
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Speaker 1: should be patented within the next few maybe four to
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Speaker 1: six months here in the USA. So once that fabric
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Speaker 1: gets patented, UM, I can honestly say that I own
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Speaker 1: a patent and people legally can't copy it. And then
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Speaker 1: I can do a side hustle job or I guess
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Speaker 1: not only tell the workout clothes. I can license the
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Speaker 1: fabric now to other companies. That's what is that? Your
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Speaker 1: ultimate goal just to license it or just to become
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Speaker 1: a distributor. My my ultimate goal is to be worldwide
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Speaker 1: domination health and wellness but to initially start, I definitely
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Speaker 1: wanted to fitness the power I'm starting, you know, the spanks,
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Speaker 1: worldwide domination in spanks. I don't know why it can't
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Speaker 1: happen with you, So please I chuck away what you said,
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Speaker 1: but hey, the reality is is that your product can't
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Speaker 1: become dominant in this area because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: you once you get that patent pendant approved, because you
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Speaker 1: had to go to a lawyer, and then when you
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Speaker 1: go through when you went to the lawyer, you have
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Speaker 1: to take designs or anything. What would you take to
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Speaker 1: that lawyer? Yeah, well, the great news is you wanted
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Speaker 1: to believe it. I got introduced with a patent attorney
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Speaker 1: you also who has a PhD in science, so he
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Speaker 1: speaks the language, and just you know, everything is kind
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Speaker 1: of just fallen into place. And so, h this is
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Speaker 1: a utility patent, So it's not a design patent. It's
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Speaker 1: actually utility meaning what the fabric actually does um and
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Speaker 1: inhibits that smell causing bacteria. So I don't have a
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Speaker 1: design patent yet because my styles are pretty uh pretty
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Speaker 1: I say basic um. But it's the pattent around the
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Speaker 1: actual functionality of the fabric. Cool now coming up in
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Speaker 1: the next break. You have an e book called Secrets
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Speaker 1: to Start Up Success, which I think is right in
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Speaker 1: line with Money Making Conversation, and I want to I
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Speaker 1: want to delve into that a little if you don't
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Speaker 1: mind get the worried out. Plus, I'd like for you
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Speaker 1: to send me a banner so I can put it
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Speaker 1: on my social media, because you know you follow me
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Speaker 1: on social media. You know, Rushan McDonald's post and you post,
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Speaker 1: and he gets the word outs and we come back.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have more with Megans and an incredible journey.
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Speaker 1: We're following this so we won't be a part of it.
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Speaker 1: So everybody keep winning. Keep listening more money Making Conversations. Hi,
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Speaker 1: you're listening to Rushan McDonald interviewing Um. She's been called
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Speaker 1: the positivity enthusiast UM. She's a founder and CEO of
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Speaker 1: a Seral lifestyle and author of a book. Answered me
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Speaker 1: interesting questions to know if it's an e book, Seven
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Speaker 1: Sea Grids to Start Up Success, Megan Eden, Because my
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Speaker 1: show Mighty Making Conversation is about entrepreneurship and the words
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Speaker 1: startup is associated with small businesses. Why should I listen
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Speaker 1: to you about the Secrets of Success for Startups. Oh man, Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to listen to me, but
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Speaker 1: I hope you do. I guess we'll start with that
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Speaker 1: some kind of forced anyone to but basically, yeah, so
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Speaker 1: my you know, my corporate job when I moved down
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Speaker 1: here to Houston for fourteen years with medical equipment sales,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I was doing the side hustle excel
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Speaker 1: lifestyle for a while before I put it out to
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Speaker 1: the public and a k before I threw it on
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Speaker 1: social media. But it may be announcement a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago that I was gonna resign for medical sales
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Speaker 1: and you know, become an entrepreneur. People were like freaking out.
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Speaker 1: They were like, what what But you love your job, etcetera, etcetera.
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Speaker 1: So I decided, I guess I'll say about maybe about
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Speaker 1: a year eight months to a year into my startup
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurial journey, to write this book Seven Secrets to Start
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Speaker 1: Up Success, based on my own experiences, because you know
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Speaker 1: how people it's super cool, but people were reaching out
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Speaker 1: all the time, like hey, Meg, let's grab coffee, let's
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Speaker 1: grab lunch, etcetera, etcetera. I want to know how you
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Speaker 1: got started, how you had encourage to pull the plug
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Speaker 1: from your corporate job to pursue something you really want
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Speaker 1: to do, because I'm scared to do it. So where
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Speaker 1: did you even turn Well, that kind of started turning
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Speaker 1: into there's only so many hours in the day, and
15:25
Speaker 1: if I had coffee and lunch with everyone, I'd have
15:27
Speaker 1: no time for Excel lifestyle. So I remember was driving
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Speaker 1: one day and I said, well, I really want to
15:32
Speaker 1: help people because so many people have been just wonderful
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Speaker 1: helping me, you know, giving up their time and their
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Speaker 1: expertise on this entrepreneurial journey. How can I then pay
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Speaker 1: it forward and help everybody else but also still have
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Speaker 1: time for my own job. So I said, well, I
15:46
Speaker 1: like I will write a book, but not like a
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Speaker 1: three D page or anything like that, even though there's
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Speaker 1: there's great big books out there, but something short into
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Speaker 1: the point and basically to tell people the seven secrets
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Speaker 1: that I believe, well now I believe I experience have
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Speaker 1: gotten to me to where I am today, but not
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Speaker 1: only telling people about it at the end of each
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Speaker 1: of the seven secrets, giving them an action item to
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Speaker 1: really kind of put them on their journey to quit
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Speaker 1: their corporate job and and you know, follow what they
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Speaker 1: really want to do. The word just stood out in
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Speaker 1: your conversation out here all the time, fear fear. People
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Speaker 1: are just going to work. People are just they just
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Speaker 1: don't They're just frozen. They're frozen in careers that they
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Speaker 1: really don't have a plan to change, but they don't
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Speaker 1: want to be there there you know what, the coffee
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Speaker 1: bug or the water cooler, just complaining and talking to
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Speaker 1: co workers. They don't want to be around fear. How
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Speaker 1: can one walk through that wall of fear? Are the
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Speaker 1: emotional block of fear? I always called it a stop sign.
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Speaker 1: That stop sign sits in front of your face every
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Speaker 1: time you wake up in the morning. And it's called
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Speaker 1: fear of fear of change, fear of not being able
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Speaker 1: to see what I want to do next. Man, you're
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Speaker 1: exactly right. And so when I was leaving or sick
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Speaker 1: thinking of leaving my corporate job, that I I literally
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Speaker 1: would have crippling moments for like a split second of fear.
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Speaker 1: Like Megan, you can't start your own companies. So we
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Speaker 1: all have this negative chatter that you know, happens in
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Speaker 1: our head, and some of us were able to guess
17:13
Speaker 1: handle it better than others, And so I actually turned
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Speaker 1: to a lot of podcasts, which is funny you mentioned
17:19
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17:22
Speaker 1: turned to. Read a bunch of books, and everything mentions
17:26
Speaker 1: the word fear. So I said, all right, it's not
17:27
Speaker 1: just me. So the first thing I tell everybody is
17:30
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17:33
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17:35
Speaker 1: everybody has fears. What you how you mentally channel that
17:39
Speaker 1: fear to kind of keep pushing forward. So I remember
17:41
Speaker 1: I read it. I wish I remember what book I
17:43
Speaker 1: read it in, but it said something like, if you
17:46
Speaker 1: really think about it, whatever you're fearful of, like oh,
17:49
Speaker 1: I don't have the knowledge, I don't have the money.
17:51
Speaker 1: You know, whatever you're fearful and fearful of in life,
17:54
Speaker 1: whether it's business or not, nine times out of a hundred,
17:57
Speaker 1: whatever you're fearful of doesn't even happen. So the fear
18:00
Speaker 1: is kind of just conjured up in your head, and
18:02
Speaker 1: you're giving yourself your own roadblocks pretty much because your
18:05
Speaker 1: ego wants to keep you where you are. But I
18:07
Speaker 1: tell everyone, we all have fear. You're not alone, So
18:11
Speaker 1: just kind of push that fear aside and just start
18:13
Speaker 1: taking small steps each day. You don't have to quit
18:16
Speaker 1: your job overnight, but just kind of keep taking small
18:18
Speaker 1: steps and eventually it becomes easier and the fear kind
18:21
Speaker 1: of dissipates. Now, with that being said, Miss Enthusiastic, Miss
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Speaker 1: miss you know positivity, because my story was very similar. Okay.
18:34
Speaker 1: I worked at IBM, my degrees in mathematics and very successful.
18:40
Speaker 1: People felt I was right on right while I was
18:41
Speaker 1: supposed to be. And I told him, hey, I want
18:44
Speaker 1: to be a comedian. I'm gonna resign to be a comedian.
18:46
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna walk away from this world
18:48
Speaker 1: that everybody told me. I need to be a I
18:51
Speaker 1: need to continue in. And when I made the decision,
18:54
Speaker 1: I made the decision one year prior to leave an IBM,
18:57
Speaker 1: and I remember I was, I was, I was crying.
19:01
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19:16
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19:19
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19:22
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19:25
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19:28
Speaker 1: what do you do with your medical benefits? How do
19:30
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19:32
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19:35
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19:39
Speaker 1: what does afforded our work week when you're working for yourself?
19:43
Speaker 1: I had to figure that out. That was the key
19:45
Speaker 1: right there. What does a forty hour work week when
19:48
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19:53
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19:55
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19:58
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20:01
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Speaker 1: at the same time every day. I made a commitment
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Speaker 1: to be doing something at a scheduled time every day,
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Speaker 1: which I do. And so once I started putting in place,
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I started moving forward in
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Speaker 1: a more positive and much more controlled environment because guess what,
20:21
Speaker 1: I had rules in place about how to be successful,
20:24
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20:27
Speaker 1: opportunity by prop through proper planning, that a lot enabled
20:31
Speaker 1: me to overcome my fear. Megan, Oh yeah, and I
20:35
Speaker 1: shot laughing. I mean, to go from a successful career
20:38
Speaker 1: at IBM with a master degree to a comedian. I
20:42
Speaker 1: mean that. I'm sure you had feared. I'm sure some
20:44
Speaker 1: of the people even closest to you in your own
20:46
Speaker 1: life thought you were nuts for doing it. Absolutely absolutely,
20:49
Speaker 1: But you know, but you know, they see me on TV,
20:51
Speaker 1: They're seen the names and credits. You know, they always
20:53
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna happen. They always knew. But I
20:57
Speaker 1: didn't even know. I'm just letting everybody know. I did
21:00
Speaker 1: even know. But I knew that working where I was
21:02
Speaker 1: at was not gonna was not gonna satisfy me. I
21:05
Speaker 1: could see the end of the road, I could see
21:07
Speaker 1: I could see that darkness, and I could see the
21:09
Speaker 1: light coming at the end of the tunnel, So I
21:11
Speaker 1: knew I could see it. When I became an entertainer,
21:14
Speaker 1: there was no light at the end of the tunnel tunnel,
21:16
Speaker 1: but there was also no point of saying I should
21:19
Speaker 1: go in any direction. So for the first time of
21:21
Speaker 1: my life, I said, you know, I'm gonna take advantage
21:23
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21:27
Speaker 1: And that's what when you're working for the hour job,
21:30
Speaker 1: it will restrict you because you're only gonna do what
21:33
Speaker 1: they allow you to do. So that's what locks people in.
21:37
Speaker 1: That's why entrepreneurship is so big nowadays, because it's designed
21:41
Speaker 1: to you being able to do what you feel comfortable doing.
21:44
Speaker 1: I look at people all the time and tell them,
21:46
Speaker 1: if you're afraid being successful, and my number one quote
21:50
Speaker 1: is stopped reading success stories and start writing your own
21:54
Speaker 1: success story. That's very important to understand. And so when
21:58
Speaker 1: I when I wanted you to come on the show, Oh,
22:00
Speaker 1: I just felt your story was was every day. It
22:03
Speaker 1: was an everyday story in your life. How you grew
22:06
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22:10
Speaker 1: an ordinary young lady who went to college. I got
22:12
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22:15
Speaker 1: wouldn't fearless. You saw an opportunity and Houston, way away
22:19
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22:21
Speaker 1: being afraid to relocate and then all of a sudden,
22:24
Speaker 1: when at ultimate ultimate test of what you want to
22:28
Speaker 1: do with your life, you said, you know something, I
22:30
Speaker 1: want to be an entrepreneur. That's why you wrote that book,
22:34
Speaker 1: and that's why you should read that book. Thank you,
22:39
Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah. And you know, and I tell everyone
22:41
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22:43
Speaker 1: what's that quote that someone says, like, you know, entrepreneurs
22:46
Speaker 1: work eighty hours a week for themselves. They have to
22:48
Speaker 1: work fourty hours a week for someone else. I'm like,
22:51
Speaker 1: so true, so true. But you know, if you're successful
22:54
Speaker 1: in your day job like you were, you already had
22:57
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22:59
Speaker 1: a happ into new tools to be successful. What kind
23:02
Speaker 1: of different tools? Ish, but you had the hustle because
23:05
Speaker 1: you know it was already in you. Um. But yeah, entrepreneurs,
23:08
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs today versus probably I don't know it's twenty years ago,
23:12
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna say it's easier, but there definitely
23:14
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23:18
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23:21
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23:24
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23:27
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23:30
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23:32
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23:34
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23:37
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23:38
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23:41
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23:43
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23:46
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23:52
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23:55
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23:58
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24:01
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24:05
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24:09
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24:12
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24:20
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24:23
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24:28
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24:30
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24:32
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24:35
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24:38
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24:40
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24:43
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24:44
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24:48
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24:50
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