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Tyra Myricks talk multitasking being Director of Design for Drake's OVO and aserial entrepreneur · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Service and the accounts of My next guest is Tyra
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Speaker 1: ma Rex. She is a Brooklyn native or love Brooklyn,
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Speaker 1: New York for five years Manhattan, so I never lived
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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, but I know Bob Brooklyn. She's a Brooklyn
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Speaker 1: neighbor who's the design director of design and merchandizing and
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Speaker 1: development and OVO and an entrepreneur craft in her own land.
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Speaker 1: As the only daughter of hip hop legend jam master
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Speaker 1: j of RUNDFC, she quickly understood her aptitudes and the
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Speaker 1: impact that she created within this world. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people don't do that. That's why I wanted to go
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Speaker 1: on the show to talk about that. Amongst her many endeavors,
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Speaker 1: Tya was working alongside Tiana Wallace, daughter of rapper Biggie Smalls,
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Speaker 1: to create Juicy Pizza. Now you got me at the
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Speaker 1: pizza park, right. Juicy just made me want to land
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Speaker 1: stand in line. The Eaters came as a cammerer and
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Speaker 1: the biggest smallst to bring back the embodiment of Brooklyn
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Speaker 1: to l A. Do you know what I'm saying, y'all.
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Speaker 1: They're bringing the East Coast to the West Coast. Were
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Speaker 1: plans to get back to the local homeless community. Juicy
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Speaker 1: Pizzas is scheduled to open your twenty twenty one. We'll
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Speaker 1: talking about that. Tyra Marrix is a serial entrepreneur, which
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Speaker 1: means that she got her hand in her hand, her
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Speaker 1: hand and a lot of things. At the age of
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Speaker 1: twenty one, she sought out her first venture of Wealth.
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Speaker 1: It's called Wealth, a streetwear peril brand with a simple
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Speaker 1: sentiment of being happy. Originally on this flight New York
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Speaker 1: Flight NYC of Flight New York City NYC is the
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Speaker 1: logo that was on their flight in NYC. Soon to
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Speaker 1: be international brand Game more than two point three million
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Speaker 1: dollars in sales within the first three years of business.
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Speaker 1: You know who you're talking to. Please welcome to money
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Speaker 1: making conversation. Tyra my Rex. How are you, Tyra? I'm great?
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Speaker 1: How are you well? You know, if people are listening
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Speaker 1: to the show, they can't see this amazing view in
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Speaker 1: your back because you're based in Los Angeles, California. You know,
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Speaker 1: I know you're New York City born, but you can't
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Speaker 1: get that view. Can't get that view I'm watching behind
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Speaker 1: you in New York City. No, no, you can't. So
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Speaker 1: tell me about yourself. You're you're still relatively young as
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Speaker 1: an uh an entrepreneurship in the in the I guess
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Speaker 1: the millennial space has really taken control. It's a technology
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Speaker 1: that has allowed young people to dive into the entrepreneurial
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Speaker 1: role so quickly, or just a different desire, a different
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Speaker 1: time that we live in right now with internet and
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Speaker 1: video phones. And I grew up with the rotary with
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Speaker 1: don telephone. It's the ear as I grew up with tyra.
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Speaker 1: I lived through the rotary without telephone. Then I would
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Speaker 1: live through the text then I lived through the giant
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Speaker 1: cell phones, and now in the in the nanties, I
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Speaker 1: got a little small rotor motor roller telephone, which at
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Speaker 1: the time when I purchased it with twelve dollars at
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Speaker 1: the time. And then now we're living in an age
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Speaker 1: where you know, you basically tap your phone and see
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Speaker 1: somebody across the world and visually. So talk about how
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Speaker 1: technology plays a role in your life and it's made
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Speaker 1: you so motivated to win. I think that technology and
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Speaker 1: the advancement of social media is definitely playing a huge
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Speaker 1: role in um the amount of entrepreneurs we have today.
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Speaker 1: I feel like the generation that I grew up in specifically,
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Speaker 1: like we saw the crossover from you know, not being
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Speaker 1: able to be on the house phone and the internet
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Speaker 1: at the same time, from dialupe to wireless um from
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Speaker 1: three G two four G two five g UM and
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Speaker 1: now you know, the technology is is getting even more advanced,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like social media has a huge influence
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Speaker 1: where you know, before when you had to set out
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Speaker 1: a press release or anything like that, it was something
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Speaker 1: that was effects or you know, scheduled or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: Now we can share information with just the touch of
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Speaker 1: it button and influence the masses. Um. You don't have
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Speaker 1: to subscribe to magazines, you don't have to subscribe to
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Speaker 1: anything that is a subscribtion, subscription cost um. So these
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Speaker 1: gems and these tools that may not have been as
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Speaker 1: relevant and resourceful um ten years ago or at the
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Speaker 1: tip of our fingers, which is pretty much influencing the
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Speaker 1: human mind in an entirety. So I feel like it
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Speaker 1: does play a huge role in the amount of entrepreneurs
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Speaker 1: that we have today. And it's it's a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 1: So basically, uh, and I have a clear understanding this.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I ask questions not because I don't know, it's
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Speaker 1: because I want to make sure that people who are
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Speaker 1: listening or watching have a clear understanding of your gifts,
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Speaker 1: your ability to take advantage of was made available because
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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't do that. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people are still working on traditional ways of trying to
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Speaker 1: purchase media on radio or trying to pull up a
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Speaker 1: billboard or still putting up signs and barbershops and beauty salons,
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Speaker 1: which still work, by the way, but because of social media,
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Speaker 1: it effects and creates engagement, sometimes with thousands and sometimes
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Speaker 1: with millions. When did you realize social media can be
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Speaker 1: used for you effectively tyra and and putting together your
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Speaker 1: dreams and also building your brand. So luckily for me,
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Speaker 1: I was on Twitter before everybody was verified. Um, Like
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Speaker 1: I was like on Twitter, like one of the first people. Well,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say the first people were, Like I was
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Speaker 1: on Twitter before the wave. Um. And then Instagram. I
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Speaker 1: actually stumbled upon Instagram thinking was apt to just like
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Speaker 1: edit pictures. Um. And that was before the algorithm. So
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Speaker 1: Instagram used to the way my brand actually like got out.
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Speaker 1: There is Instagram. Now, if you masked follow people on Instagram,
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Speaker 1: you would for sure get blocked. But um, when Instagram
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Speaker 1: first started, we would just sit there all day and
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Speaker 1: like follow a bunch of people, um, and that just
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Speaker 1: translated into sales um. And eventually Instagram, I think we
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Speaker 1: were like maybe following like six hundred thousand people were
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Speaker 1: like two hundred thousand people following back. But um, Instagram
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Speaker 1: eventually shut that flight NYC page down. But it grew
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Speaker 1: that audience that stuck with us UM and allowed us
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Speaker 1: to just reach out to celebrities before you know, an
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Speaker 1: algorithm happened, or you know, they could. They were getting
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Speaker 1: paid to be brand ambassadors and just hone and create
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Speaker 1: those relationships. UM. So like DM ing a celebrity in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve was very accessible. It wasn't h oh,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to you, Oh, here is
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Speaker 1: my rates. It's you're doing those things. Everybody is following you.
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Speaker 1: You know that's back when the popular page was a
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Speaker 1: thing on Instagram. Now we have to explore before it's
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Speaker 1: like the popular page. If you've got a certain amount
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Speaker 1: of likes in a certain amount of time, you're on
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Speaker 1: a popular page. So we understood that algorithm and UM
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Speaker 1: just like back during people who followers like celebrities and
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Speaker 1: learning your market, Like if we want to sell close
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Speaker 1: that we're from Brooklyn, We're going to everybody who follows
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Speaker 1: FAB and follows everybody that they that are that's following
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Speaker 1: Fab because we have that network. So it was pretty
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Speaker 1: much just being young but understanding that this in tech
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Speaker 1: is going to go to the next level and abusing
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Speaker 1: what they had to offer before they knew the potential
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Speaker 1: or had that that range to be able to be
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Speaker 1: a platform that blocks you for this and blocks you
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Speaker 1: for that. Because if Instagram came out the gate with that,
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Speaker 1: nobody would have Instagram. It wouldn't be where it is today.
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Speaker 1: So um, just taking advantage and learning, learning the market
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Speaker 1: and how to use tools before you know we can't
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Speaker 1: use them anymore. Because I'm gonna tell you right off
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Speaker 1: the bat. I know, I was still managing Steve Harvey
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Speaker 1: club members, and I would I would look go TV
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Speaker 1: and I see the little Twitter logo and next to
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Speaker 1: the CNN anchors or sports anchors, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: and I was resistant to change. And that's why I like,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about it, because when
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Speaker 1: you were resistant to change, other people in the process
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Speaker 1: of participating, and you're kind of like getting behind the line,
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Speaker 1: that line is getting longer in front of you, and
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Speaker 1: so and so I was resistant. Eventually came over, of course,
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Speaker 1: but it probably about a year took me to realize
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Speaker 1: that I should start investing my time and start growing
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Speaker 1: and participating with social media. And so so many people
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Speaker 1: are resistant to change and your business change is that's
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Speaker 1: kind of like the norm? Why is that? And how
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Speaker 1: did you stay ahead of the curve tyra? I think
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Speaker 1: that at first, I was pretty much reluctant to change. Um.
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Speaker 1: I'm still a person that had has trouble with change.
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Speaker 1: But the only thing in life that is constant is change, um,
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Speaker 1: and we have to constantly move and adapt to that change.
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Speaker 1: If I would have been a person that's just like
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay on Facebook and you know, not go
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Speaker 1: over to Twitter in two thousand nine, I probably wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have had that jump ahead of the curve um that
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Speaker 1: I have today. And um, I think that a lot
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Speaker 1: of that success can be credited to just you know,
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Speaker 1: jumping onto things. Um. There was an app that you
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Speaker 1: could go live. I think it was like you stream
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Speaker 1: or something like that, where like celebrities will go live
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Speaker 1: and engage with their fans and and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: And I was like on those apps, and you know
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Speaker 1: before Instagram had a live um. You know, so it
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Speaker 1: was like before you could just tweek Twitter pictures out,
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Speaker 1: you know, we had to store them in butt locker
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Speaker 1: anything that was being used by someone influenial. I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm a big personal bragging about my time management.
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Speaker 1: But you kind of like putting me in a I
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Speaker 1: just curl up when I talk to you, How do
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Speaker 1: you do it? How do you pull it off? Um?
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Speaker 1: I would say My main thing that I had to
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Speaker 1: learn to adapt to it is not being afraid to
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Speaker 1: ask for help. UM. When I first started out, I
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Speaker 1: was a person who thought that, you know, not having
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Speaker 1: you know, just like the the little cliche things that
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Speaker 1: just stopping along the way and say, hey, I need
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Speaker 1: it come out. Wow. You know when I I think
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Speaker 1: about when I look at my life, when I try
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Speaker 1: life is so important. I've done so many different things,
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Speaker 1: but also I try to learn from an interview an interview,
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Speaker 1: but you should also apply to who you are. Because
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Speaker 1: life so you can do it equally successful without burning
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Speaker 1: yourself out. Because I don't see as a person who's
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Speaker 1: going to burn herself out. Why is that? UM? I
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Speaker 1: feel like quite often we just get caught up in
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Speaker 1: like this person is successful, so Oprah successful, she's a millionaire,
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Speaker 1: Let me mimic her lifestyle. But there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: successful people. And you know, Oprah's path is for Oprah,
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Speaker 1: and it works for Oprah because that's the way that
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Speaker 1: God ordered her steps. Um, it's not gonna work for you.
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Speaker 1: So you have to pull different pieces of different people's
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Speaker 1: Don't like, I feel like life is too short to
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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta figure out what works for you, um,
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Speaker 1: which for you is going to be for you? Well,
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Speaker 1: that's that's really important. Now when I mentioned earlier that
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Speaker 1: she's a serial entrepreneur during the pandemic. During the pandemic,
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Speaker 1: now she opened the gym called Method uh Method Gym
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Speaker 1: down and down first black owned by the way in
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Speaker 1: downtown to l A. Which is what you know. I'm
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Speaker 1: going like, okay, really really, so first of all, doing
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, you're gonna open a business, Okay, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about that decision. And then being the first black owned
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Speaker 1: gym in downtown l A. Which is which is revitalized,
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Speaker 1: by the way, if you go down there, I remember
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Speaker 1: we're back in en eighty with Steve already. Now I
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Speaker 1: did a broadcast outside of Staples. It was like parking
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Speaker 1: lots and cars. Now you go down there l A Live,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't even look the same anymore. It's like crazy
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Speaker 1: beautiful down there. So when when you talk about you
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Speaker 1: a visionary, and I got to put the word vision there,
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Speaker 1: attached it to your name, Tyra, because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that you make in the decision not based on what
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Speaker 1: the situation is currently about what it will be in
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Speaker 1: the future. That's what visionaries are So to open the gym,
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Speaker 1: why you wanted to open the gym? And why did
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Speaker 1: you choose downtown l A. Um. So I kind of
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Speaker 1: came in on the project when the location was already chosen,
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Speaker 1: so I didn't really have too much saying that. But
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Speaker 1: I thought downtown LA was a good area because it's
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Speaker 1: pretty much where everyone who comes to l A. Um
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Speaker 1: they moved to, like Downtown LA and Koreatown all in
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Speaker 1: that area. Um. I too when I first came to
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Speaker 1: l A lived in that area, so I know, like
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Speaker 1: downtown of is is coming up. Um, you know, the buildings,
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Speaker 1: the luxury buildings and things like that, And that's pretty much.
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Speaker 1: If I had to pick an area to have that mix,
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Speaker 1: that melting pot of you know, a market, it would
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Speaker 1: be downtown l A. So that's why the location once, Um,
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Speaker 1: you know they told me where it would be. I
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Speaker 1: was like, yeah, absolutely, I think exchanges. Now, what classifies what? What?
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Speaker 1: What's the gym? Is it? Like I said, is it? Wait?
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Speaker 1: Is it exercise classes? There's a cycling classes? What qualifies
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Speaker 1: method gym as a gym? And what attracts people to
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20:02
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20:11
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20:16
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20:29
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20:31
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20:37
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20:39
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Speaker 1: Pizza in Los Angeles? And where do we start? Uh?
20:46
Speaker 1: With the menu? Absolutely so Juicy Pizza is basically a
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Speaker 1: New York experience. Yes, so we are bringing straight New
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21:02
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21:09
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21:11
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21:13
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21:15
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21:18
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21:26
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21:30
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21:33
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21:35
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23:31
Speaker 1: And does it come as a small medium, a lodge
23:33
Speaker 1: and a twelve inch or are they supersize size pizza?
23:37
Speaker 1: What do we have here? So we have the standard
23:40
Speaker 1: new York eighteen inch pizza. Um, that's we only sell
23:45
Speaker 1: one side just so you know, make it. Keep the
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Speaker 1: only orferring twelve inch pot I mean sorry, eighteen inch
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Speaker 1: fives as well as slices. Now, slices are a great
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Speaker 1: so you will do you won't. You won't get into
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Speaker 1: any strong bowlies and all that stuff. Just we have
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Speaker 1: a side salad and New York there's a infamous Delhi
24:18
Speaker 1: sandwich called the chop Cheese, So we have chop cheese,
24:21
Speaker 1: egg ros and a side salad in addition to those
24:23
Speaker 1: eighteen inch fives. I'm talking to a Vision version. The
24:27
Speaker 1: Vision are a serial entrepreneur Tyra MYRICKX. You know there's
24:31
Speaker 1: always a passion in everybody. I think when you when
24:34
Speaker 1: you see so many things done a certain way, it's
24:37
Speaker 1: always a desire to give back. And uh, that's part
24:40
Speaker 1: of your aguesst Dna. I know you you you know
24:43
Speaker 1: you're tied to your your father's foundation. But talk about
24:46
Speaker 1: the whole process of giving back and what's the goal
24:50
Speaker 1: of giving back. I feel like just it should be
24:55
Speaker 1: our second nature, you know. Um the goal of giving
24:59
Speaker 1: back there really isn't a goal, it's it's pretty much
25:02
Speaker 1: just my intuition to try and change and help as
25:05
Speaker 1: many people as I can. There's things that I do
25:08
Speaker 1: that I don't. I don't vocalize or or as acts
25:11
Speaker 1: for accolades. Um from I just feel like when we
25:15
Speaker 1: are when we have so much, you know, put in
25:18
Speaker 1: a position where we have so many blessings, it means
25:21
Speaker 1: nothing if you don't share them with other people. You know,
25:24
Speaker 1: like you can be used as a catalyst to change,
25:27
Speaker 1: and you know, you may be put in this position
25:29
Speaker 1: just to change the lives of those around you. Like
25:31
Speaker 1: how many lives can you change? How many people can
25:33
Speaker 1: you touch? It's really not about the money, because the
25:35
Speaker 1: money can be made and be spent and be made
25:38
Speaker 1: and made over again. If you have somebody and you
25:40
Speaker 1: come across the life, it maybe your your duty and
25:43
Speaker 1: your calling to just you know, change that life or
25:46
Speaker 1: or or be a piece of the change in that
25:51
Speaker 1: person's life. Um. So I think that you know, just
25:54
Speaker 1: inspiring and helping and and moving through you know, my
25:58
Speaker 1: trials and tribulations, like I didn't just get on this
26:02
Speaker 1: road and it's been smooth sailing. So even in the
26:04
Speaker 1: in the aspect of just sharing my story and helping
26:07
Speaker 1: other people not go or hit the same bumps in
26:09
Speaker 1: the road that I hit. Um, you know, that's all
26:12
Speaker 1: a part of giving back and and trying to you know,
26:15
Speaker 1: be a catalyst for change. You know, when I when
26:18
Speaker 1: I when I'm interviewing you, tire the interesting thing that
26:21
Speaker 1: pops up because there's so many young people who want
26:23
Speaker 1: to be you, especially when you hear the words celebrities,
26:26
Speaker 1: uh like Drake and party next door. You're doing the
26:30
Speaker 1: merchandise for them. Explain the process of that, because I
26:33
Speaker 1: know the merchandise and the people immediately just think T shirts.
26:37
Speaker 1: But that is a multibillion dollar business for artists, not
26:41
Speaker 1: just musical artists but athletes but also entertainers of so
26:46
Speaker 1: many different elks talk about being the head of merchandise
26:49
Speaker 1: for their tours and how exactly does that work? So um,
26:54
Speaker 1: pretty much, you you know, have to first thing comes
26:58
Speaker 1: first is knowing the artist and knowing the market, the
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Speaker 1: artist's market. Um, because I've bummed a lot of collections,
27:06
Speaker 1: you know, just going with my design background, like oh
27:09
Speaker 1: this is genius, and you know it doesn't really appeal
27:12
Speaker 1: to uh, the artist's market. So just knowing your artists
27:16
Speaker 1: and knowing their market and what they like and then change,
27:20
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27:23
Speaker 1: artistic background or just you know, things of that people
27:27
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27:29
Speaker 1: infusing it all together and creating a collection. UM. Tour
27:32
Speaker 1: merchandise is essentially, I would probably say the easiest because
27:39
Speaker 1: it's you don't change. So we can be on tour
27:43
Speaker 1: for three months, clip take a month's break, and go
27:45
Speaker 1: back on tour for three months and we're still selling
27:47
Speaker 1: the same merch um as far as like day to
27:50
Speaker 1: day operations with O v O. Every Friday or every
27:53
Speaker 1: other Friday, we're rolling out a new collection, and that
27:56
Speaker 1: new collection has got to be based off of the
27:57
Speaker 1: numbers of the last collection and what's old more and
28:00
Speaker 1: what regions sold more um. And then you also have
28:03
Speaker 1: different regions where like you know, in the UK and
28:07
Speaker 1: Germany and things like that, they actually like are still
28:10
Speaker 1: wearing the jeans with the rhyme stones on it. So
28:13
Speaker 1: you gotta really know every market and how you know
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Speaker 1: the best way to get an R o I. Um,
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Speaker 1: and not even just get a R o I, but
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Speaker 1: get R o I and make it influential, make it cool.
28:27
Speaker 1: We don't want to just put out stuff because look
28:28
Speaker 1: this is selling. It's just like, look this is the market.
28:31
Speaker 1: We can switch this up. We can change it and
28:32
Speaker 1: be that game changer. Um, and and make this different.
28:36
Speaker 1: She's in the pizza, she's in the physical fitness, she's
28:39
Speaker 1: into clothing, she's into giving back. Uh, you know what
28:45
Speaker 1: have I missed anything? Time? Giving back? Your into clothing,
28:49
Speaker 1: your the pizza, your the physical fitness. Whatever I missed? Um,
28:54
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty much it. And you're cool and
28:57
Speaker 1: you laid back and you know how to manage your time.
28:59
Speaker 1: You want to lose your will. You will go crazy
29:01
Speaker 1: trying to do all these things. The blessing of this
29:03
Speaker 1: interview is that, first of all, I always tell people
29:06
Speaker 1: that being young allows you to change things, allows you
29:11
Speaker 1: also recover from mistakes. And I'm not saying she's made mistakes,
29:14
Speaker 1: but what she's doing is she's living a life based
29:17
Speaker 1: on what she feels that she can do, based on
29:19
Speaker 1: her efforts, based on her She's not You know, when
29:21
Speaker 1: when you look at people who's I'm sure you've heard this,
29:25
Speaker 1: Tyra girl, You doing too much. You need to sit out.
29:29
Speaker 1: What do you say to people who tell you that? Um,
29:32
Speaker 1: I think that's crazy because my grandmother used to tell
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29:36
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29:39
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29:43
Speaker 1: that generation. Where and and it's understanding. But I have
29:46
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29:48
Speaker 1: when they say, you know, my mother is not supportive this, this,
29:50
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29:52
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29:54
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29:57
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30:00
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30:03
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30:08
Speaker 1: So I would just say because personally, like I had
30:13
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30:17
Speaker 1: And I decided to make this venture. Like my mother,
30:19
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30:22
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30:25
Speaker 1: That entrepreneurial spirit I got from my parents. But my
30:28
Speaker 1: grandparents didn't quite understand it, and so I started paying
30:31
Speaker 1: their bills and it's like okay, you know, and then
30:33
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, my grandmother's bragging about me. You know,
30:36
Speaker 1: Like you gotta prove yourself, just like you would in
30:38
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30:41
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30:43
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30:45
Speaker 1: nurse to like the head nurse, you have to prove yourself.
30:48
Speaker 1: And it's no different in the industry or the being
30:51
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30:54
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30:56
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31:00
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31:02
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31:20
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