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Entrepreneur: Created Full Bloom platform to help you overcome adversity, rejection, and negativity, Paris Fletcher. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: If you're about to make a change in your life
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Speaker 1: and you feel uncomfortable, that's the best feeling you can
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Speaker 1: have because for the first time in your life, you'll
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Speaker 1: make an a decision that's going to be best for
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Speaker 1: you and not what somebody told you to do, and
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Speaker 1: that's when all bets are off. Welcome to Money Making
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Speaker 1: Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host, Rushan McDonald. Our theme is
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Speaker 1: there's no perfect time to start following your dreams. I
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Speaker 1: recognize that we all have different definitions of success. For
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Speaker 1: you and maybe decide to your HM, it's time to
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Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stories to start living your
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Speaker 1: own keep winning. I am Rushan McDonald. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: and like she said, I do host Money Making Conversations
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Speaker 1: master Class every week. The interviews and information that this
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Speaker 1: show provides are for everyone. It's time to stop reading
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Speaker 1: other people's success stories and start living your own. My
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Speaker 1: guest owns Full Bloom. She is on a mission to
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Speaker 1: help you bloom into your self. Full Bloom invites people
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Speaker 1: to lan on the company for the support you need
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Speaker 1: throughout every stage of your life. Please work with the
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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Paris Fletcher, how are you going Paris.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing so good.
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Speaker 1: How are you where we located at Paris? Where you're
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Speaker 1: living these days?
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Speaker 2: I actually live in Douglasville, Georgia. I'm from San Diego,
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Speaker 2: but I moved to Georgia last year, so I'm here
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Speaker 2: now San Diego.
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Speaker 1: Good food over in San Diego. And now I've been there,
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Speaker 1: I know, I know I'm gonna hit that good food button. Boy,
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Speaker 1: tell you San Diego. You want to eat, you go
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Speaker 1: to San Diego. They got some They got some restaurants
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Speaker 1: waiting on especially seafood.
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Speaker 2: Yes see, I will say I'm allergic to shellfish, so
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Speaker 2: I don't really dabble on the seafood world. But you know,
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Speaker 2: they do have some great options, some great food they do.
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Speaker 1: So if anybody's traveling, you know, the West Coast and
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Speaker 1: you hear San Diego, go down there and try out
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Speaker 1: those great restaurants you got down. So what brought you
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Speaker 1: down to Georgia? Was it family? Was a job? Was
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Speaker 1: it education? Tell me Paris?
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Speaker 2: No, So it brought me to Georgia. My fiance is
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Speaker 2: originally from Augusta, and I met my fiance in La
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Speaker 2: when we were both doing the entertainment thing and you know,
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Speaker 2: his family's out here. His parents are a little older,
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Speaker 2: So we wanted to come out here, settle out here,
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Speaker 2: so if they ever need us, they ever needed him,
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Speaker 2: we could be closer to just be there for them
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Speaker 2: of any assistance that they might need.
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Speaker 1: Good. So let's talk about the entertainment thing, you know,
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Speaker 1: the entertainment thing, you know, like, yeah, you know, so
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Speaker 1: obviously like myself, you know, I dabbled into entertainment stand
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Speaker 1: up comedian, thought I'd be the next Eddie Burphy, Bill,
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Speaker 1: you know, Richard Pryor and you know, but in the end,
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Speaker 1: I realized that my true calling was you know, producing,
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Speaker 1: you know, being able to see talent and brand products
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Speaker 1: or talents and build those ideas and create change. And
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Speaker 1: so that was that was my shift. What was your
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Speaker 1: entertainment town that drew you to Los Angeles?
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Speaker 2: Well, so I grew up as a competition kid. I
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Speaker 2: had been dancing my whole life, and it just seemed
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Speaker 2: like a natural progression to get into the dancing professionally.
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Speaker 2: And it's something that I love to do, something that
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Speaker 2: I always knew. So originally, when I turned nineteen, I
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Speaker 2: went out to LA I got an agency and within
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Speaker 2: two months of signing with that agency, I was touring
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Speaker 2: the world with an artist, dancing worldwide, you know, backup
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Speaker 2: dancing and everything like that, which was such a blessing.
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Speaker 2: I was in college at the time, but it was
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Speaker 2: like a once in a lifetime chance. I'm like, you
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Speaker 2: know what, I'm just gonna put that on a whole
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Speaker 2: lidlen drop out and do my thing and see where
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Speaker 2: this could go. And from the tour when I got back,
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Speaker 2: I started doing TV shows and commercials, and then from
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Speaker 2: there I got into acting naturally, from commercial from a
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Speaker 2: commercial world, from dancing and started taking acting classes. Loved it,
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Speaker 2: and then from the acting classes, I started doing some
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Speaker 2: shows Can there how to co star? A couple of
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Speaker 2: co stars, and then you know, just just started doing
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Speaker 2: the whole thing, you know, the commercial acting and then
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Speaker 2: doing the didn't quite make it in the movies that
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Speaker 2: I was so close, you know, a mail on a
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Speaker 2: veil for all these different things, which is amazing. I
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Speaker 2: love entertainment, but similar to you, I I just for me.
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Speaker 2: I just felt like I needed to do something more.
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Speaker 2: I had always my whole life just well, let's.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. Let's talk about that little transition
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Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know, you know, there
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Speaker 1: was success for you in entertainment, yes, but there was
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Speaker 1: also a lot of frustration. Okay, you know, and I
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Speaker 1: know because that was in my line. Because anytime you
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Speaker 1: can walk in the room and you see you go
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Speaker 1: in for an audition, I'm just tell everybody how it works.
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Speaker 1: You know, you go in and they tell you come
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Speaker 1: into audition walking room. It's fifty people and now I'm
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Speaker 1: looking like you right, so right there, you don't know
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Speaker 1: what they want. And that's the part that frustrated me. See,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to know that I got a shot at something.
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Speaker 1: But then I had some friends who worked all the time,
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Speaker 1: but I wasn't working. You know, I was working as
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Speaker 1: a stand up but I wasn't working as a commercial
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Speaker 1: actor or theatrical actor. Theatrical actors sitcoms and movies and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff in theater. And so that's the part
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Speaker 1: that I went, I cannot allow industry to dictate me
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Speaker 1: based on how they feel or how I look. That's
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Speaker 1: the part that frustrated.
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Speaker 2: Me, right, yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: What were your thoughts on that? When you hear me
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Speaker 1: talk like.
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Speaker 2: That, Paris, Oh my gosh, I mean, it's like looking
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Speaker 2: in the mirrors. That's how I felt, you know. And
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Speaker 2: I will say I loved the process of auditioning when
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Speaker 2: I was doing it consistently. I loved going into those rooms,
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Speaker 2: even though I was nervous, so nervous, There's just something
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Speaker 2: about it that just this adrenaline rush that just it
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Speaker 2: felt good. And I love people, so going into these
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Speaker 2: scenarios where I'm meeting different casting directors and whatnot, I
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Speaker 2: loved making those connections. And I always had a great
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Speaker 2: time in the room and always had pretty much. I
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Speaker 2: can't there's been those auditions where I just bomb completely
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Speaker 2: and just lost all of the lines that I had.
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Speaker 2: But pretty much all of the auditions that I did,
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Speaker 2: I felt good connections with the casting directors and you know,
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Speaker 2: I was given those directions. So I will say that
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Speaker 2: I have had very positive experiences with auditioning. However, the
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Speaker 2: things like you I just I would get so close
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Speaker 2: to these auditions, being on a veil for months and
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Speaker 2: just knowing that this is my big break, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: do it. I'm gonna be a movie star. They end
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Speaker 2: up going with like a name or celebrity or someone
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Speaker 2: that has more followers than you just things like that,
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Speaker 2: and it just really started to kind of it starts
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Speaker 2: to kind of wear on you a little bit, you know,
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Speaker 2: and it starts to dim your life a little bit.
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Speaker 2: And me, I find so much security, like just in
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Speaker 2: knowing and I know that we're not always in control
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Speaker 2: of our lives and everything like that. But for the
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Speaker 2: things that I can't, I want to be able to
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Speaker 2: control and knowing that it's up to me whether rather
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Speaker 2: than it being up to this task director. That's just like,
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Speaker 2: you know what, your eyes aren't brown enough, So let
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Speaker 2: me go with this other person something just whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you bring it back horror stories, Paris
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Speaker 1: stopp Oh my good you're too tall, you're too dark.
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Speaker 1: You know, we want a ball head dude.
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Speaker 2: Could you?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god? Can you dance? Can you sing?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: I can't sing. Can you play an instrument?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: I can't play instrument. Oh can you? Can you do voices?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: I can't do voices. Okay, next, Oh my goodness, it
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Speaker 1: can only be me and gainst what me wasn't getting
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Speaker 1: booked Paris, And so I went, okay. I became a
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Speaker 1: fair successful writer in Hollywood. You started to produce television shows.
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Speaker 1: And manage talent. And so now I'm on our show
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Speaker 1: called Money Making Conversations Masterclass. So Paris, you have a
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Speaker 1: brand called full Bloom. It's full Bloom if you l
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Speaker 1: L Bloom, tell us about that.
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Speaker 2: Well, so what happened Just it's interesting how it kind
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Speaker 2: of played out. But I started Full Bloom about three
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Speaker 2: years ago now. But what how I started it? When
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Speaker 2: the pandemic happened, I was working with a casting director
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Speaker 2: and I was actually working on a show and it
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Speaker 2: was amazing because I was actually one of the leads
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Speaker 2: on that show. But then they just never ended up
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Speaker 2: coming out because of just I don't know, the producer
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Speaker 2: pulled out or something like that. So anyways, when the
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Speaker 2: pandemic happened, the casting director that had booked me for
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Speaker 2: that show reached out to me and said that there
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Speaker 2: was an opportunity. And you know, this platform was trying
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Speaker 2: to diversify, so they were onboarding creators and I was
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Speaker 2: initially onboarded to this platform to you know, just kind
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Speaker 2: of share my story with other people, just to provide
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Speaker 2: inspiration and motivation for whoever. And so I got on
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Speaker 2: this platform, I started posting videos mother gay. Well you
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Speaker 2: know there's nothing else to do. We're in the pandemic.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's just home doing nothing, So let me just do this.
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Speaker 2: And I was posting affirmation journal proms for people to
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Speaker 2: use a resource because we just had so much time
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Speaker 2: in that moment to sit with ourselves.
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Speaker 1: So because you're a fast talker, parents, I know you've
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Speaker 1: been told weberfore you can talk fast.
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Speaker 2: My mom's New York.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we do, you said, San Diego. So I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to work with that. San Diego speed. Okay, okay, cool
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Speaker 1: now California speed now you Now you started, this was
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Speaker 1: a platform, and it was a motivational platform soon because
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Speaker 1: you talk about affirmations and videos and.
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Speaker 2: And uh it was not necessarily so the platform was TikTok.
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Speaker 2: So they had the time so known as Yeah, they
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Speaker 2: were known as like the dance platform, you know, like
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Speaker 2: everyone's just on their dancing. But they were looking to
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Speaker 2: diversify their content because they wanted to be and now
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Speaker 2: they are more than just a dance platform. People go
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Speaker 2: there for a number of things.
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Speaker 1: So so it's a dance platform that they brought you on.
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Speaker 1: They want to diversify the content.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so they did not I won't say that they
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Speaker 2: were strictly a dance platform, but that's what they were
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Speaker 2: known for, okay, okay hmm, So they just wanted to
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Speaker 2: just bring more to the platforms. So it just had
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Speaker 2: just different niches and genres, if you will. And so
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Speaker 2: I was on board, as you know, motivation, and I
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Speaker 2: started posting videos and I started with affirmations and then
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Speaker 2: general prompts with people, Like I said, could just have
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Speaker 2: something to do with all the time that we had
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Speaker 2: on our hands during that time in the pandemic. And
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize how many people actually needed that. Because
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Speaker 2: self development, general prompt, self discovery, that's something that I've
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Speaker 2: always been just within my own journey. I've always done
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Speaker 2: because it was just so necessary something an outlet for
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Speaker 2: me in the intercim industry to always come back to
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Speaker 2: self because you can get so lost in all these
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Speaker 2: you know, the judgment, all those things. So anyways, it
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Speaker 2: resonated with a lot of people when I started posting
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Speaker 2: on TikTok, and I grew my following from zero. I'm
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Speaker 2: now around two hundred thousand followers on TikTok. But it
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Speaker 2: just became something that people just I guess that resonated
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Speaker 2: with them and something that they looked forward to. And
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Speaker 2: so I built my following or my community based upon
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Speaker 2: you know, self help and wellness and you know, like
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Speaker 2: I said, inspiration motivation. And so with that being said,
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Speaker 2: my journal prompts and affirmations, it just always played over
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Speaker 2: so well with people, and I had people reaching out
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Speaker 2: to me saying like this is amazing and you don't
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Speaker 2: understand how much you have helped me within my own journey.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to say if let's say, if
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Speaker 2: you if you sold these prompts, I would totally buy it.
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Speaker 2: And my mind, I never thought about, you know, creating
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Speaker 2: a resource for anyone to just to buy. And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: you know what, that's actually a great idea and maybe
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Speaker 2: I can put something together and you know, we'll see
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Speaker 2: what happened. So I started full Bloom on my company
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Speaker 2: so I could just have a name and have a business.
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Speaker 1: What why full bloom? Why full bloom? Why is that
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Speaker 1: the name of your company?
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Speaker 2: Full Bloom? I love plants, and I just feel as
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Speaker 2: though we are just journeys, journey wise and just just
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Speaker 2: life wise. It's just so similar to plants, you know,
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Speaker 2: in a way, because plants are just you know, you
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Speaker 2: have to put it in the right environment. You have
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Speaker 2: to give it the right nutrients, you have to give
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Speaker 2: it the right you know, just you know, the water,
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Speaker 2: just just take care of it in a way to
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Speaker 2: where if it's not in the right environment, it's not
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Speaker 2: gonna thrive.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: And so within people, ourselves, our lives, if we're not
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Speaker 2: in the right environment, the right headspace around the right people,
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Speaker 2: we're not gonna thrive. And so if we're in the
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Speaker 2: right environment and nurturing ourselves in a way that's just
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Speaker 2: empowering us, uplifting us and just giving us, like putting
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Speaker 2: good and positivity into us, we're gonna thrive and we're
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Speaker 2: gonna bloom, which is like the most beautiful versions of ourselves.
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Speaker 2: And so I just thought full Bloom was perfect because
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Speaker 2: it just it just encapsulates all this stuff everything, you
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Speaker 2: know that it's just that I believe and I know
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Speaker 2: to be true. So full Blooms And yeah, it's name,
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Speaker 2: that's the name. But I created a resource, a diat
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Speaker 2: journal called back to Me, the Journey Back to your Self,
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Speaker 2: and it's just over three hundred and sixty five prompts
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Speaker 2: for over a year, and it's just a prompt day
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Speaker 2: that people can use. And then you also have a
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Speaker 2: space for affirmation, so you can write a positive affirmation.
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Speaker 2: But things like that to just really nurture your relationship
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Speaker 2: with self and go on that self discovery journey, find
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Speaker 2: that self love, taking care of yourself or self care,
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Speaker 2: all those things. And I created that DIA journal about
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Speaker 2: three years ago, and you know, it has just it
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Speaker 2: it's history now, like it's like the rest is history
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Speaker 2: is I'm trying.
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Speaker 1: So you're saying that that has become a money maker,
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Speaker 1: that's what you're saying, parents.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't like to think of it like.
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Speaker 1: Money making. Conversation mash Okay, you know you you were
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Speaker 1: at that dancing you know, and you know covid hit
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Speaker 1: and now you have two hundred and five thousand followers
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Speaker 1: on TikTok you have three point five million likes. And
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Speaker 1: that's important to understand that because that's called engagement. Now. Now,
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Speaker 1: the inspiration behind this when you look at social media,
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Speaker 1: two things are very popular on social media. Food and inspiration. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I know because I'm involved in both of them. Food
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Speaker 1: people want to know how to cook stuff, and they
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Speaker 1: want to know to be inspired and motivated and uplift.
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Speaker 1: What do you think you're We're going to go to
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Speaker 1: break Paris when I come back, I want to get
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Speaker 1: in more details about you as an individual, the inspiration
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Speaker 1: and the patterns. And this is about money making conversations
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Speaker 1: because so many people are out there doing this and
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Speaker 1: people have told me about setting up subscriptions and books
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you I don't know and here
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Speaker 1: and you say, Richard, I didn't know either, but guess
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Speaker 1: what I'm doing it and you should slow down and
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Speaker 1: do it yourself. We'll be right back for more money
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Speaker 1: Making Conversation. I am talking to the creator of Full Bloom,
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Speaker 1: Parish Fletcher, and I'm the host of Rashawn McDonald.
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Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Parish Fletcher. She found a full Bloom
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Speaker 1: to remind others that having a clear sense of selfish
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Speaker 1: imperative when facing adversity, rejection and negativity that happens a
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Speaker 1: lot in our world. How have you say bottled it?
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Speaker 1: But how you using that and twisting it and making
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Speaker 1: it positive for people who need to hear what you
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Speaker 1: have to say? Paris.
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Speaker 2: You know, I just me, I just stare, my honest
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Speaker 2: truth of my journey and what I've been through. And
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Speaker 2: you know, that's that's where what I started with with
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Speaker 2: my social media, like my TikTok and everything like that.
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Speaker 2: I've just always been so honest with what I had
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Speaker 2: gone through. And we talked about the entertainment industry, but
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Speaker 2: just all the things that I had to deal with,
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Speaker 2: and I won't say like just the rejection that happens,
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Speaker 2: and that's just the natural, you know, circumstances that you
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Speaker 2: go through within the industry. Like I said, it just
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Speaker 2: starts to wear on you a little bit. And sometimes
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Speaker 2: when I was going through and I just really started
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Speaker 2: to question my my talents, my skills, myself, like man,
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Speaker 2: am I not talented enough? Am I not pretty enough?
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Speaker 2: But then what I found for myself just always like
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Speaker 2: I said, journaling, just you know, knowing my strengths, knowing
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Speaker 2: my weaknesses, and owning that and just loving every aspect
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Speaker 2: of myself and just really being able to have a
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Speaker 2: clear sense of self with what has kept me so
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Speaker 2: mentally strong and motivated to just, you know, regardless of
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Speaker 2: what I pursue, it's just a matter of what I'm
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Speaker 2: putting into it and how I view myself. And I've
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Speaker 2: just brought that to my platform and just it resonated
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Speaker 2: with people. And I think when we're talking about inspiration,
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Speaker 2: people are looking for inspiration. I think the biggest thing
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Speaker 2: is people are looking for real people that they can
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Speaker 2: see and say, Okay, I can do that too. And
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Speaker 2: so with social media, you know, there's always a facade.
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Speaker 2: People will post all of their their their wins and
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Speaker 2: sever their losses, and it's just it comes off so
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Speaker 2: dis genuine. And when you're finding people that are able
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Speaker 2: to post all aspects themselves. And I'm not saying you
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Speaker 2: have to post your whole life and put your whole
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Speaker 2: life out there, because I don't even do that because
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Speaker 2: it's just it's my life and I there still needs
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Speaker 2: to be some bound with and that. But I give
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Speaker 2: people just my losses as well, you know, because I'm
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Speaker 2: human just like everyone else, and so when people are
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Speaker 2: able to see that and be like, Okay, but how
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Speaker 2: did she bounce back? And she was able to bounce back?
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Speaker 2: So that inspires others to do that too, and so
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Speaker 2: you know, that's that's how I kind of pivot and
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Speaker 2: use my stories to inspire others now.
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Speaker 1: And now part of that is journally, you know, these journals.
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Speaker 1: How did that become the thought proces? Because was it
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Speaker 1: something you was doing personally and now you're sharing the
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Speaker 1: philosophy with your followers and anybody who who? Other people
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Speaker 1: recommend to buy your Booth journals because both it's hard
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Speaker 1: back and it's also digital.
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Speaker 2: Correct yes yes, yes, yes, yes yes. So that, like
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Speaker 2: I said, that's just something that I just have used
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Speaker 2: throughout my whole life and that has always helped me
18:52
Speaker 2: within you know, sometimes within my own mind, there's just
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Speaker 2: so much going on, and journaling has always been a
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Speaker 2: tool to just kind of let it out, you know,
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Speaker 2: letting my thoughts out, and really with the guide in
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Speaker 2: journal that I have a lot of us we have,
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Speaker 2: you know, these thoughts, so sometimes we don't we have
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Speaker 2: these questions that we don't even know to ask ourselves
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Speaker 2: and what we know, what we want to even try
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Speaker 2: to figure out within ourselves. And so this guided journal
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Speaker 2: is a really great tool because it gives you a
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Speaker 2: prompt a day questions that you probably wouldn't even think
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Speaker 2: to ask yourself, like I said, and it's just there,
19:22
Speaker 2: and you know, it allows people to have a deeper
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Speaker 2: level of reflection and allows them to just look at
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Speaker 2: so many different aspects of their life, within themselves, within
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Speaker 2: their friend groups, within you know, whatever it is, their
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Speaker 2: own career, like are you happy, Like is this something
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Speaker 2: that maybe that you truly wanted to pursue or is
19:39
Speaker 2: it something that you kind of felt not forced into,
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Speaker 2: but just kind of guided into, if you will. Like
19:44
Speaker 2: for me, I know, you know, my parents wanted me
19:48
Speaker 2: to be like a doctor, and that wasn't something that
19:50
Speaker 2: was that I was truly interested in. You know, Entertainment
19:53
Speaker 2: was always there because it's what I knew and what
19:55
Speaker 2: I love. And so it just allows people to just
19:58
Speaker 2: kind of think of their life from some of different
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Speaker 2: angles and it's just it's a helpful tool, and it
20:05
Speaker 2: continues to be a helpful tool. And that's why I
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Speaker 2: continues to just the journal itself is just so successful.
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Speaker 1: Right, you know, when I think about it, I'm joining
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Speaker 1: this protege program and for my company, and I realized
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Speaker 1: that I'm not a person who writes things down, and
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Speaker 1: they forced me to, you know, basically journals thing every month.
20:25
Speaker 1: They ask me what I'm doing, what I'm doing, what
20:27
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. Then I have to tell them what
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Speaker 1: I'm doing. And what I've discovered is that I'm better
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Speaker 1: for it. And so because it forces me to think
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Speaker 1: about the process, think about the experience of what I'm
20:42
Speaker 1: going through. And then it also I believe enhances my
20:45
Speaker 1: communication with my employees. So what you're talking about really
20:50
Speaker 1: I'm doing, but I'm doing it from a corporate standpoint,
20:54
Speaker 1: but it's enhancing my overall relationships with the people that
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Speaker 1: I communicate on a daily basics, which my employees as
21:01
Speaker 1: well as my clients. And so those affirmations and those
21:06
Speaker 1: motivation tools that you have really can be applied as
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Speaker 1: to in an entrepreneurial space.
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Speaker 2: Correct, absolutely absolu.
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Speaker 1: Now with that being said, entrepreneurs, you you are an entrepreneur.
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Speaker 1: You started a business. Did you have a budget, did
21:28
Speaker 1: you have an idea of what type of revenue you
21:31
Speaker 1: is going to generate? Or you just you know, jumped
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Speaker 1: out there on faith.
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Speaker 2: I wined it the entire way. I continue to win it.
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Speaker 1: You know, come on Fars, you're my motivating queen.
21:47
Speaker 2: You know, I just I just said, it's just what
21:50
Speaker 2: I'm being honest. You know. When I started the business,
21:53
Speaker 2: I had the vision for it, but with being new
21:57
Speaker 2: to business completely, it's just you know, when you try
21:59
Speaker 2: to go to banks with just you have a vision,
22:03
Speaker 2: but I not necessarily not having the financial just I
22:07
Speaker 2: guess record if you will to just show like, Okay,
22:11
Speaker 2: I'm looking for a loan for this much I entertain that.
22:14
Speaker 2: I went to my bank that I've been banking with
22:16
Speaker 2: for years, and immediately they're like, you know, you have
22:19
Speaker 2: to show this much income revenue within your business within
22:22
Speaker 2: the first year and we can give you that. I'mount
22:24
Speaker 2: and it just wasn't usible, and so I used my
22:28
Speaker 2: own funds what I was comfortable was putting into the business.
22:33
Speaker 2: And I was just like, you know what, this is
22:36
Speaker 2: something that I truly believe in. And if I believe
22:38
Speaker 2: in it, like I said before, like it's just you
22:40
Speaker 2: have to be confident within yourself and within whatever it
22:43
Speaker 2: is that you're doing and know that it's a good
22:45
Speaker 2: quality product and I can't stress quality enough because I
22:50
Speaker 2: paid more than certain people would, you know, for their
22:54
Speaker 2: first product initially, But I am such a firm believer
22:56
Speaker 2: in you if you can speak behind your quality then
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Speaker 2: and people will appreciate it. So anyways, I put my
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Speaker 2: money into the business not really knowing what was going
23:07
Speaker 2: to happen. But I knew I had two things. I
23:09
Speaker 2: knew I had a really good product, and then I
23:12
Speaker 2: knew I had a really good community and that it
23:14
Speaker 2: was a resource that people were looking for. And so
23:17
Speaker 2: I was going to leverage my community, not just my community,
23:20
Speaker 2: but just my my platform that I had, and just
23:23
Speaker 2: use that to market my product. And so you know,
23:26
Speaker 2: within a few months of me just putting it out there,
23:29
Speaker 2: I sold out and I'm like, Okay, let me just
23:32
Speaker 2: make sure that wasn't a fluke product. And you know,
23:36
Speaker 2: I tried it again and it happened again. I'm like, Okay,
23:39
Speaker 2: this is something. We have something here, and so I
23:42
Speaker 2: just continue with the money that I make from the product.
23:46
Speaker 2: I just just try to double up every time with
23:48
Speaker 2: how much inventory I'm able to get and which it it. Initially,
23:53
Speaker 2: I was bummed out because I wasn't being able to
23:57
Speaker 2: get a loan from a bank. But I think in
23:59
Speaker 2: the line grown for me from my vision for my business,
24:03
Speaker 2: it was beneficial because it's all within like my hands,
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Speaker 2: like I would put this into this the product in
24:10
Speaker 2: my business, and so I'm not having to deal with
24:12
Speaker 2: these crazy interest rates and just what I'm making from
24:16
Speaker 2: the product initially, I just you know, put it back
24:19
Speaker 2: into my business. And like I said, I keep trying
24:21
Speaker 2: to double up my inventory to just get continue to
24:25
Speaker 2: make more revenue. So like I said, I I wind
24:28
Speaker 2: it and I did the best that I could. I
24:30
Speaker 2: reached out to people when I had questions and gained
24:32
Speaker 2: as much knowledge as I could and just use that
24:35
Speaker 2: and it's been working extremely well. And yeah, so you know,
24:39
Speaker 2: sometimes I think a lot of us think we need
24:41
Speaker 2: to have the full package before we actually, you know,
24:43
Speaker 2: pursue something. But I am just you know, I am
24:47
Speaker 2: the proof that sometimes all you have to do is
24:50
Speaker 2: just just start. And I am such a believer if
24:53
Speaker 2: you take the steps and you're working hard and trying
24:56
Speaker 2: to get as much knowledge as you can, that the
24:58
Speaker 2: resources and the people and what you need will find
25:00
Speaker 2: you along the way and it's gonna work out. And
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Speaker 2: you know that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Speaker 1: Well, guess what, it's a fantastic story. How can we
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Speaker 1: get in touch with your Paris.
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Speaker 2: You can find my website online at full bloominsoll dot
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Speaker 2: social media platforms at full bloom ins so s U
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