Oct. 23, 2024
Solving Tech Challenges for Businesses: Peter Banigo on Streamlining Operations with ICT
"Are technology challenges holding your business back from growth?"
In this episode, Peter Banigo, founder of Target ICT, shares how he helps businesses overcome technology challenges and streamline their operations. From working with multinational clients to managing tech solutions across industries, Peter offers insights on his journey, problem-solving, and the role of mentorship in his success.
Peter Banigo, founder of Target ICT, talks about the importance of technology in business success. He shares how his company helps businesses implement solutions to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and scale. Peter also reflects on his journey as a business mentor and his passion for helping entrepreneurs avoid the same mistakes he once made.
5 Key Takeaways:
- 🔑 Tech Challenges Simplified: Peter discusses how Target ICT solves complex tech issues, allowing business owners to focus on growth rather than tech headaches.
- 💡 Importance of Real-Time Data: Peter shares how his company built a system for a client across three continents, allowing instant access to crucial business data like inventory, sales, and payroll.
- 🚀 Personal Growth through Challenges: Peter opens up about overcoming personal limitations and how pushing himself to get comfortable with discomfort has led to professional success.
- 🎯 The Power of Purpose: Peter emphasizes how his purpose in life has driven him to volunteer and mentor other business owners, helping them avoid costly mistakes.
- ✨ Embracing Opportunities: Peter highlights the importance of saying "yes" to opportunities, even when they push you out of your comfort zone.
Peter Banigo’s journey from handling complex tech problems to mentoring entrepreneurs offers a great example of how aligning your purpose with your profession can lead to personal and professional success.
How to Reach the Guest: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/peterbanigo
Peter Banigo is the founder of Target ICT, helping businesses leverage technology to improve operations and achieve growth.
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I've got boyfriend Turkey. Hi, everyone. Oh,
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first of all, it's Friday. But what makes Friday
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even best that it's Friday and we all get to
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get to learn who is Peter. Oh, the last thing.
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Let me try because I don't know. I'm sorry. I
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never tried. Benigo, you get it. Yeah, that's
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good. I want to hear. How do you say? Tell me.
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OK, I say it's a bunny. It's almost the same.
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In my way? Yeah. Okay, I love it. So first thing
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I said was, ooh, I see a logo on your hat and
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shirt. So tell us about your business. Oh, okay.
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Okay. It's like ICT. I've always liked logos.
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Don't mind me. I have one on my chair too. Wait,
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you have a logo chair? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I
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do. My previous company. Oh, I love that, right?
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That's so cool. You'll always remember them.
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Was that a gift? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We did.
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All the chairs in the office have them. I think
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so. I don't even know. I just like them. I always
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like them. Me too, me too. So tell us who you
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are and your company. Okay, so I'm Peter, Peter
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Banigo. My company is Target ICT. Target ICT
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is just something I started back in 2018 after
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starting so many things that were unrelated and
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that were giving me high blood pressure and stressing
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me out. But yeah, 2018 I started Target ICT just
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to help businesses do more with technology. After
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2018, I stopped everything else I was doing,
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because at the point I started ICT, I had four
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businesses then. So by 2020, I stopped everything
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else, focused on this, and it's been a wonderful
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journey so far, much better than the chaos I
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had behind me. That's so funny. So where are
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you located? Oh, I'm in Port Harcourt currently.
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I was born, yeah, I was born actually, Port Harcourt,
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that's out of Nigeria. That's where I am currently.
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Oh! That's so cool. Wait, can you spell it for
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me? Okay, that's some ports. So P -O -R -C. Okay.
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Then a hyphen. Okay. Then H -A -R -O. A -H? No,
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no, H. H -A -R -O, har. Okay. Oh, port har course.
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yeah exactly but hardcore okay okay oh wow oh
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it's 77 degrees in case you didn't know it was
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outside i could get there in a day so if i leave
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now i will be there tomorrow at noon i like that
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idea and it's a capital largest city of river
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state in nigeria and it's the fifth most populous
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city in oh very very oh look at getting caught
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up in the zoo and the train and all the fun things.
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I love that. So how did you place your order
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for your map and your promotional products, your
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logo merch? Oh, okay. I have someone, one of
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my friends, but I'm actually a shareholder in
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the person's company. Yeah, so back then, back
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in 2010, when I started my business, I always
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loved having the t -shirts and the hats and everything.
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Then I think back in 2015, my friend started
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a printing business and then gave me 3 % of the
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company. And then I think that was just to guilt
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me to go on my printing there. That is really
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brilliant. Wow. And 3 % of the company gets big.
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That's great. I love it. That is so cool. And
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you're showing it off. So where you are, what
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is your niche when it comes to clients? All right,
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so when it comes to clients, it's basically we
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deal with businesses who are looking to grow
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bigger than they already are. So mostly we've
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had clients in different niches. Most of the
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clients currently are online, people that have...
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e -commerce business, online courses. But previously,
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before now we've had clients from manufacturing,
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we've had law firms, we've had, that was before
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the pandemic anyway, restaurants and co, but
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now we deal mostly with clients online. And that's
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because back then I used to live in the UK. So
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it was easier, easier dealing with them. But
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after the pandemic, I just decided to move back
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home. So I just visit once in a while. So I just
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deal with people I can deal with online. It makes
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it easier for me. What is your elevator pitch?
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Hmm. My elevator pitch. I think I have it somewhere.
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I can't remember it anymore. Should I look for
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it? Yeah, look yeah, yes, okay, just give it
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two seconds. Let me just get that out process
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the commands And then you have to memorize it
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because it's your elevator pitch I Suck at memorize
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and that's my problem Before then Peter I'm thinking
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that maybe maybe Maybe we can look at rewriting
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it because it should be in your words. So if
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your elevator pitch is hard for you to remember,
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it's probably because obviously, you know what
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you do. It's just probably you're using words
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that maybe like if it just flowed, like just
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let's don't look for it. Let's just tell me what
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you do. Like, I mean, I know you just did. But
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tell tell us what you're solving for whoever
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that client is, because that's what it's about.
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OK, so. OK, so let's go. So most businesses start
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out to solve a unique problem that they are really
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good at solving. But at the end of the day, they
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end up wasting a lot of time fixing annoying
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and time consuming tech problems because the
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way the world is, we have to use tech. So what
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we do is help you understand your challenges,
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implement solutions to the challenges, and help
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you get your mind off those challenges, those
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tech challenges. That's what we do. Okay. So
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then that makes sense. But can you give me like
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example of a tech challenge? Okay. So example
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of tech challenges. Okay. Let's say the textile
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manufacturer we talked about, they had branches
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on three continents and the founder was in one
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country. team was another country. The managing
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director was another country. So they had issues
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getting reports, getting them real time, knowing
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what was happening with the company. If they
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wanted the profits or the stock or inventory,
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they needed to wait for a week to gather reports,
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paper, Excel, and all that. So a challenge we
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sorted out for them was building a single system.
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that had their inventory, their accounting, their
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payroll, their sales and everything. So once
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anything happens, whoever does that thing puts
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it in the system. And if any of the founders
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wants to know what's wrong, what's up with the
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company, they just log in and they see everything
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live as far as everyone is putting in their data.
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So something like that. Wow, that is a great
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solution though. And that's, wow. It gives me
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a little bigger, bigger idea of what you actually
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do. So solving, so if you can put something like
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that into words of solving problems or for an
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example, or, um, Mitchell Levy says to be credible,
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to just give like a couple like points of possibility
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that you can use. And then like, so that you
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say just a few words and they're like, Oh wait,
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tell me more. And that's what you tell yourself.
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I like the whole, like, cause I'm not really
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as familiar with tech. But I am enjoying this
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new app, and I don't know if you're familiar
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with it, called Chatter. Do you like social media?
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This is a social audio video. Oh, really? Yeah.
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So do you have an iPhone or an Android? Oh, yeah,
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I have both of them. OK. All right. So if you
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go to Chatter Social. You can see, and I think
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the website is chattersocial .io. It's amazing.
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And the founder is from Nigeria, too. Oh, really?
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Yeah, great story. And the support of all people,
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I want to make sure, I'm just looking at my phone.
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I want to give you the right, I think it's social
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chatter .io. Let's just see. And nope. That is
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the, oh wait, I do have it in another area. Sorry,
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I want to give it to you correctly so you can
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see. It's so cool. All right, it is, it is, where
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is the chatters? Oh, that's weird. Oh, so you
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have to have, oh, I'll have to send this to you
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because you'll need, it's the chattersocial .io,
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but it should work. It's very cool. Yeah, I can
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see it's Nelson. Nelson is the founder. Yes.
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Yes. Take a look at that. And then if you need
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an invite, I could give you an invite. It is
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so cool because there's not only audio, but there's
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video. So you could stream live. You could use
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it. But he found a problem with social audio
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with clubhouse. I don't know if you're familiar
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with clubhouse. Yeah. So they came out, but so
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Nelson ran the million marathon room. along with
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Jonathan, who did debate the news. Really fun.
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Anyways, I'll send you more information, but
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if you're interested in learning more about it,
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because I think it's just a great way, again,
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to promote yourself, and it's global. So, which
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is very, very cool. Yeah, it really is. So, tell
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us about your day -to -day. When you wake up,
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do you have children? Oh, okay, so. Right on
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your computer. What do you do? All right, so
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when I wake up in the morning, I stay alone at
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home. I'm separated, so just me. So when I wake
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up in the morning, what do I do? I wake up like,
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I usually go to bed like eight or nine very early,
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wake up like four or five. Four or five. Yeah.
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So I wake up, I go out to water my plants. I
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have, I think I'm around Sweeney. Three years
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ago, I just started keeping so many plants. I
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have like a forest in front of my house. I think
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I have one here, one behind Sue. Okay. I love
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it. One, two, three. There's like a mini forest
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in front of my house. So I go out, water my plants,
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check my plants, then come into the office. So
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my bedroom is a different room. I just have this
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as my office. for my home office, so I come into
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the office, then I have a to -do list. It's on
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paper, because I'm a dinosaur. Wow, look at that.
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I love it. You're a dinosaur. So you can eat
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your forest, you can eat your trees if you're
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a dinosaur. Honestly. Eat your own plants. A
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couple of them, though. You're making your own
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food. Yeah. But is that is getting up early?
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Is that part of the secret of your success is
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like four or five? No, not really. I think I
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think one thing I've learned about that is that
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people just have different different times where
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they are most productive. So for me, I learned
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that mine was in the morning. I know back when
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I was in uni, back when I was in school, I remember
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I used to have my classmates go study at night.
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Throughout my four years, I never was able to
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do that because my brain just from six, my brain
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shuts down. So I realized I'm more productive
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in the morning. So what I do these days, everything
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intellectual, everything I need to think about,
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everything that's complex, I try to do it in
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the morning. And then from maybe 12, 1, 2 down,
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I just go to robot mode. I love I love here.
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I'm glad I asked you that question because you
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know people you said the keywords are it's what
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it's good for you like, you know that that's
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good I feel like I could get up at 637 and start
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working but any Earlier is hard, but I will tell
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you a secret I don't want anyone to hear this
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but so I want to be quiet when I tell you this
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so my secret is it takes me like a good 30 minutes
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for my eyes to like, clear up. Like, I wake up
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and I'm like, I put my glasses on, like I can't
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even see and because we're on the computer all
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day, right? I feel like I've been thinking I
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really so that's why I like social audio app
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or podcast because at night, you need to like,
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like lay down and close my eyes but still want
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to hear and listen to other things. I was told
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I was addicted to input, which is, I think you
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just made that up on the spot. But I do like,
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I can't just like, I like having things put in
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my head. Otherwise my brain will go. But so I
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love that. So you know yourself and that's key
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to your success. And what challenges are you
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facing right now in your business? I think what
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challenges am I facing right now? I think the
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biggest challenge I would say The biggest challenge
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I'll say is, okay, I think, let's say probably
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since I moved from the UK, I still have a Nigerian
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passport. So I think the most, the biggest issue
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I have is with banking. So most times I try to
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log into my bank there or I try to log into my
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PayPal and they block it and they're like cold
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because it's coming from Nigeria. And a lot of
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times I end up, I think there was once I had
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to actually go to the UK to fix, that was with
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Backlist Bank. They said they had to see me physically.
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I had to go to the UK. I think the account was
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blocked for like a month or so. So I think that's
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the challenge I've had, because a lot of times
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they just assume that any login coming from here
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is fraudulent or something. And yeah, I think
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that's the biggest one. Wow, that's amazing.
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I've wondered about that like how what like what
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happens because people are so quick to say oh
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my god Nigeria, it's But honestly if you are
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using the chatter social video app It makes you
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realize that that's such a silly way to think
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and that is really like in a box if you say like
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oh all people because none of us should ever
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have like a blanket like All people do this and
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I don't even like when I hear it. So that's crazy.
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So I know when I get from WhatsApp, I don't delete
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or I look to see, because maybe it's someone
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that I just met. So stop doing that, people.
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Don't be that way where you're, in essence, being
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prejudiced against the country because of a few
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bad eggs doesn't make sense. Yeah. And I think
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one thing I tell people about that thing is that
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it's actually true that a lot of people into
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those things, a lot of people into those sort
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of things from Nigeria and all that. But I tell
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people that if you're talking, which is karma,
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the person is not going to be telling you they're
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from Nigeria. The person is not going to use
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their real face or their real voice. They're
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going to have a, they're going to say they're
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from Atlanta or they're from Florida or from
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something. Right. So I think, yeah. You can't
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catfish. That's the one thing about this app.
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You can't catfish because you have to go out
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on video and you're looking like there's, you
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know, like you see yourself and you're like,
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oh, that's me. So yeah, you have to, I remember
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I had, at one point I was helping, I was helping
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a company with our, with, it was Iotomy Nonprofit
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and they were helping people that were coming
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over the border but had, but were able to get,
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oh my God, the terminology is getting to me right
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now, sorry. Anyways, so they, they're, they were
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coming in and we were helping them because it
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takes like 18 months before they can get a job
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and to get all the information. And so I was
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contacted by a family in Afghanistan coming through
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my WhatsApp and I'm like, It took me like 10
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days to be like, wait a second. And then when
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I put it together, it was so heartbreaking. He
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was so appreciative. He was left behind. So he
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really wanted to, so he sent me all of his visas
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and I tried to do whatever I could to send to
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the nonprofits to help them. but people are like
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their first thought was like well it's a spam
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it's a but he never asked me for anything that's
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like gave to him was like netflix um and uh some
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pdfs for his younger sister so he could have
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kindle and he could read them books he wasn't
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looking for money though but everyone else was
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trying to give me information and i was like
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no you don't understand these things happen and
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there was So usually find out how they contacted
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you or what that looks like so you can make an
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informed decision. I just think it's important
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because people are out there and they're amazing
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wherever they live. So that's important. So and
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how do you get new clients? What is it that you
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do to actually bring new clients in? New clients.
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OK, so I think there are three ways. One is SEO,
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that's search engine optimization, just puts
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up articles for what the clients are looking
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for. A couple of clients come once in a while,
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just do it at a rudimentary level. I won't say
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we are experts at that. Then there's, what do
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they call it, adverts to run adverts once in
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a while, especially when we are launching a new
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product. So run adverts once in a while, but
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that's a bit expensive. Then I think, yeah, SEO,
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adverts, and then outreach. Outreach just message
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people and tell them what we have and if they
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like it, talk to us. Do you have Google My Business
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there? Are you able to? Oh, yeah, we do. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah. Do you have a Google My Business
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account? Yes, yes, I do. I do. Nice, nice. And
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what way is just to remind them? I always think
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you have to just, you never know if they're ready
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yet for like what you're offering. True. But
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reaching out to them. And my friend Sheila, she's
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good about, you know, sending out like the reminders
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to her database to say, oh, hey, come, you know,
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I love working with you. Can you give me a little
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feedback? And then she gives a link to the Google
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page. So to get feedback, which is fantastic.
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She's killing it that way. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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It is nice. So I really appreciate that you're
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coming out with me and how can my little community
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support you? I think just, I think we can always,
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what would I say? How can they support? Okay.
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Okay. We have a podcast, Tech Your Business podcast.
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So if you have a business or you're just curious
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about technology, you can listen to the podcast
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or I think, generally, if you're interested in
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anything, I love talking about technology. I
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love talking about new technology, about different
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ways you can save money and co. So if it's something
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anyone is interested in, you can follow me. I
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think I only update my LinkedIn these days. I
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might add the rest later. But yeah, you can follow
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me on LinkedIn, Peter Banigo. I'm the only one
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for now with the name. I love it. Yeah, so we'll
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connect on LinkedIn too. And what a great smile
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you have, Mike. Gosh, you're handsome. Thank
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you. Great, great smile. It's funny with chatter,
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seeing how many like beautiful people are in
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the world that get like, there's so many people
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that exist that are good looking and have everything
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like perfect, but they don't actually need makeup
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or anything too. Like, you know, you don't need
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any makeup. So don't use it. You are really handsome.
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So I love talking with you today. So thank you
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so much for coming on and I look forward to my
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husband coming behind me, making some coffee.
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So have a great, what are your weekend plans?
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I think I just want to transplant some plants.
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I think I started this thing. I just had one
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small ivy, very just the size. And then I don't
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know what I put myself into because it's something
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else out there. So I think in the morning I want
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to transplant some of my plants to some fertilizing.
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These days I don't work on weekends anymore.
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I used to do that before, but these days I just
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try to stop work on Fridays. So, oh yeah, I have
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a, I just remembered I'm a Toastmaster. So I
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have. club officer training in the morning. That's
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by 11. So yeah, transplant some plants, have
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the club officer training and just rest throughout
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the day. Nothing serious Saturday. I love I'm
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a Toastmaster too. So I did. Oh, wow. I loved
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it. Loved it. I got my first pin. I think the
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direct communicator. But then I I went to China
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and then I didn't go back. But now I'm doing
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Toastmasters again, which is fun. And I love
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it. I really do. I love table topics, right?
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Yeah. I think my mind was the same kind of journey.
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I joined in 2016. Did it for like a year. Then
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I ran away. Then joined in 2021. So I think I've
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been steady since 2021. It is a great program,
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though, because it makes us like we count our
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odds and ohs and so's and it's like, yeah, we
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don't need a counter. We count them ourselves
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in our head. Oh, I said LOL or no. So like, I
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think I drive them all crazy because I'm more
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of the comedian of the group. I try to make everyone
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laugh, which I see. I love it. All right. Well,
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thank you so much. Have a great rest of the day.
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And what is your position at Spokes Masters?
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What is it? Let me take this. Are you thinking
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of taking capital officer? Yeah. I was the vice
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president membership for my club last year. Then
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for this year, I'm the area for my area. I'm
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the club group director for my area. I love that.
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It's amazing, right? All the volunteer work that
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you do. I really do feel that you have to have
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a purpose and a passion. So is that part of your
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passion and purpose? Is there something else
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that we should know before we say goodbye? I'd
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love to know. Yeah, I think I actually like helping.
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Like before 2016 until 20 when I got separated,
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I used to be a mentor, a business mentor. So
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there was this program where entrepreneurs submit
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their business plans that they are assigned to
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a mentor that looks over them and helps them.
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So I was doing that for like four years and I
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really enjoyed it. I wasn't paid or anything,
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but I really enjoyed talking to new people, guiding
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them, making sure they don't make the mistakes
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I had made and I was making. I think I'll go
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back on that, though. It's something I like doing.
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I love helping. I love being there for people.
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And I think I've had that issue a couple of times,
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where maybe I have a client, and I forget that
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I'm talking to clients, and I just give everything
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out. And later, they're like, OK, I thought this
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was supposed to be a conversation. Oh, that's
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so funny. So yeah, so I think I love helping.
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It makes me feel good. So I'm not really bothered.
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I love that we're similar. I actually just stepped
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off the board of score in the United States of
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course, they were certified business mentors.
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So I did it for eight years of an average of
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400 hours. And then I was like, what am I going
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to do? Because when you have that desire to help,
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right? And then so I am now a guardian at light
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in my community. And that is we are we represent
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the children. and the children themselves in
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child abuse and custodial issues with parents.
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So it really serves my purpose. I think that's,
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if I have to say, if there's one thing that we
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all have to have, and you just proved it because
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your purpose, your Toastmasters are things that
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maybe make you smile and just, you know, feel
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good. My mom used to say, I wish I had everything
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in the world. I wish I had all the money in the
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world to give away. But I don't know all the
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people, but I love the fact that I could teach
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people LinkedIn and certain things that I could
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do at no charge. I'm still mentoring a lot through
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sports so I can help. So yeah, that feeling,
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can you put it in words? I think it feels like
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just your floating, feels like you're weightless.
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Yeah. It really is. And to watch someone take
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your advice and then go on it and move. It really
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is lovely. When were you born? 1987. And what's
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your, what month? May, 9th of May. Oh, wait.
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Are you a height? No, you're May, so. Taurus.
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Oh, okay. All right, awesome. My husband's a
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Taurus too. What day? May what? 9th of May. Oh,
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very cool. Okay. Sorry. I am a cancer. Okay.
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I thought we were close, but we're close. All
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right. Have a great rest of the day. Is there
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anything else you'd like to add that I missed?
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No, no, no. I think, um, no, nothing else. I
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just, what made you so brave? What made you brave
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to do this? What made you so brave to go on a
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no prep needed? You didn't know who I am and
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you come on. to share for 25 minutes, and what
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made you do that? Do you know the funny thing
00:25:51.829 --> 00:25:54.710
is that two years ago, 2022, I couldn't have
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done this. I would have probably flicked out
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at the last minute. Because I used to, I think
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there's this thing I tell myself, I always say
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it's my journey of getting comfortable, doing
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uncomfortable things. And I started that in 2021.
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So. Public speaking, I was in Toastmasters but
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I never spoke outside my club. And then I was
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like, okay, why don't I start a podcast? Let
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me talk to people. Where did it start? It started
00:26:22.509 --> 00:26:25.190
when I started my fitness journey. So when I
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was young, when I was a child, I used to be this
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kid, I used to avoid everything physical. I remember
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on Wednesdays when they had physical education
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classes, I would either go late or hide in the
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toilet till it's over by nine or 10. That was
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me. So 2022, late 2022. I decided to just change
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because I was having hyper pressure. I had a
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lot of issues and all that. I decided to start
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going to the gym and everything. And I found
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out I actually enjoyed it. I was wondering why
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was I hiding? So I think that made me now, yes,
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that exploring other things I thought I was bad
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at, which is I used to think I was an introvert.
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I think my early career, when I used to be with
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my staff in the office, they would be like, I...
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I don't tell up to 20 words in a day. Like if
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I want to communicate with them, I text. Oh,
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that's funny. That's how bad I was. Yeah. And
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you're self -limiting beliefs. Like that's really
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exactly the problem. Yes. Yes. Yes. So you can
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see where you've come through. Yeah. And I actually
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enjoy it. I actually enjoy talking, meeting new
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people, having conversations. I think the first
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few, the first three or four times I came on
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podcast. if I have a podcast by 2 p .m. I'll
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be so tense I won't be able to do any work till
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2 p .m. but now I don't two minutes I'm in and
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I agree with you I did this part of this was
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during COVID but also just to kind of I came
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back to it just to keep my brain strong because
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I feel like it's sometimes I feel like it's slipping
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away or is there too many things in my head you
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know and I also believe so I'm here sitting for
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a lovely family for their cat. But I have a dog
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and cat sitter at my house, a young man from
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Germany, as he's watching my videos, because
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I did this as a favor. And I think to myself,
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well, why, Adrian? But I've always said yes to
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opportunities. And so I'm thinking, there's always
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something on the side of opportunity. If you
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say yes, you're on the same side of the street,
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right? If you say no, you close it. And now there's
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no opportunity. You just shut it down no matter
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what it could be. So I, uh, but I am waiting
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to find out what was the goal here, not being
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in my own comfortable home, but being in someone
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else's home. I don't know if even if I went back
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and looked, if I would have said no, because
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I am so prompted by this idea that I have to
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say yes and figure it out later but on the other
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hand you just said you did those are all yeses
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that you said to yourself and you figured it
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out and look where you are so I think that even
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though I still question it sometimes it's still
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the right way to go and if it feels good right
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like there was just something so lovely about
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this couple that I was like yes so um Anyways,
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I will talk to you later. I look forward to staying
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connected. So we'll stay connected on LinkedIn.
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And if you want the chatter invite, let me know
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and however. Yeah, don't forget that. I really
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love that. Okay. Oh, good. Okay. Then I'll send
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it to you. You have to download, find the app
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and download it. And then I'll connect with you
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on LinkedIn. Once it's downloaded, I could send
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you the invite. It'll go nice and easy. So it'll
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be chatter social. It's got little chatter bubbles.
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All right. I will talk to you later. Thank you,
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Peter. All right. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye. So
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nice to have you on.
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I've got boyfriend Turkey. Hi, everyone. Oh,
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first of all, it's Friday. But what makes Friday
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even best that it's Friday and we all get to
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get to learn who is Peter. Oh, the last thing.
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Let me try because I don't know. I'm sorry. I
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never tried. Benigo, you get it. Yeah, that's
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good. I want to hear. How do you say? Tell me.
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OK, I say it's a bunny. It's almost the same.
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In my way? Yeah. Okay, I love it. So first thing
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I said was, ooh, I see a logo on your hat and
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shirt. So tell us about your business. Oh, okay.
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Okay. It's like ICT. I've always liked logos.
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Don't mind me. I have one on my chair too. Wait,
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you have a logo chair? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I
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do. My previous company. Oh, I love that, right?
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That's so cool. You'll always remember them.
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Was that a gift? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We did.
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All the chairs in the office have them. I think
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so. I don't even know. I just like them. I always
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like them. Me too, me too. So tell us who you
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are and your company. Okay, so I'm Peter, Peter
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Banigo. My company is Target ICT. Target ICT
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is just something I started back in 2018 after
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starting so many things that were unrelated and
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that were giving me high blood pressure and stressing
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me out. But yeah, 2018 I started Target ICT just
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to help businesses do more with technology. After
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2018, I stopped everything else I was doing,
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because at the point I started ICT, I had four
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businesses then. So by 2020, I stopped everything
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else, focused on this, and it's been a wonderful
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journey so far, much better than the chaos I
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had behind me. That's so funny. So where are
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you located? Oh, I'm in Port Harcourt currently.
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I was born, yeah, I was born actually, Port Harcourt,
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that's out of Nigeria. That's where I am currently.
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Oh! That's so cool. Wait, can you spell it for
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me? Okay, that's some ports. So P -O -R -C. Okay.
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Then a hyphen. Okay. Then H -A -R -O. A -H? No,
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no, H. H -A -R -O, har. Okay. Oh, port har course.
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yeah exactly but hardcore okay okay oh wow oh
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it's 77 degrees in case you didn't know it was
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outside i could get there in a day so if i leave
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now i will be there tomorrow at noon i like that
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idea and it's a capital largest city of river
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state in nigeria and it's the fifth most populous
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city in oh very very oh look at getting caught
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up in the zoo and the train and all the fun things.
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I love that. So how did you place your order
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for your map and your promotional products, your
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logo merch? Oh, okay. I have someone, one of
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my friends, but I'm actually a shareholder in
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the person's company. Yeah, so back then, back
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in 2010, when I started my business, I always
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loved having the t -shirts and the hats and everything.
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Then I think back in 2015, my friend started
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a printing business and then gave me 3 % of the
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company. And then I think that was just to guilt
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me to go on my printing there. That is really
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brilliant. Wow. And 3 % of the company gets big.
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That's great. I love it. That is so cool. And
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you're showing it off. So where you are, what
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is your niche when it comes to clients? All right,
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so when it comes to clients, it's basically we
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deal with businesses who are looking to grow
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bigger than they already are. So mostly we've
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had clients in different niches. Most of the
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clients currently are online, people that have...
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e -commerce business, online courses. But previously,
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before now we've had clients from manufacturing,
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we've had law firms, we've had, that was before
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the pandemic anyway, restaurants and co, but
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now we deal mostly with clients online. And that's
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because back then I used to live in the UK. So
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it was easier, easier dealing with them. But
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after the pandemic, I just decided to move back
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home. So I just visit once in a while. So I just
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deal with people I can deal with online. It makes
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it easier for me. What is your elevator pitch?
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Hmm. My elevator pitch. I think I have it somewhere.
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I can't remember it anymore. Should I look for
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it? Yeah, look yeah, yes, okay, just give it
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two seconds. Let me just get that out process
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the commands And then you have to memorize it
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because it's your elevator pitch I Suck at memorize
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and that's my problem Before then Peter I'm thinking
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that maybe maybe Maybe we can look at rewriting
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it because it should be in your words. So if
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your elevator pitch is hard for you to remember,
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it's probably because obviously, you know what
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you do. It's just probably you're using words
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that maybe like if it just flowed, like just
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let's don't look for it. Let's just tell me what
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you do. Like, I mean, I know you just did. But
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tell tell us what you're solving for whoever
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that client is, because that's what it's about.
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OK, so. OK, so let's go. So most businesses start
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out to solve a unique problem that they are really
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good at solving. But at the end of the day, they
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end up wasting a lot of time fixing annoying
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and time consuming tech problems because the
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way the world is, we have to use tech. So what
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we do is help you understand your challenges,
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implement solutions to the challenges, and help
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you get your mind off those challenges, those
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tech challenges. That's what we do. Okay. So
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then that makes sense. But can you give me like
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example of a tech challenge? Okay. So example
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of tech challenges. Okay. Let's say the textile
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manufacturer we talked about, they had branches
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on three continents and the founder was in one
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country. team was another country. The managing
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director was another country. So they had issues
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getting reports, getting them real time, knowing
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what was happening with the company. If they
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wanted the profits or the stock or inventory,
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they needed to wait for a week to gather reports,
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paper, Excel, and all that. So a challenge we
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sorted out for them was building a single system.
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that had their inventory, their accounting, their
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payroll, their sales and everything. So once
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anything happens, whoever does that thing puts
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it in the system. And if any of the founders
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wants to know what's wrong, what's up with the
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company, they just log in and they see everything
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live as far as everyone is putting in their data.
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So something like that. Wow, that is a great
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solution though. And that's, wow. It gives me
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a little bigger, bigger idea of what you actually
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do. So solving, so if you can put something like
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that into words of solving problems or for an
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example, or, um, Mitchell Levy says to be credible,
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to just give like a couple like points of possibility
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that you can use. And then like, so that you
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say just a few words and they're like, Oh wait,
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tell me more. And that's what you tell yourself.
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I like the whole, like, cause I'm not really
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as familiar with tech. But I am enjoying this
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new app, and I don't know if you're familiar
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with it, called Chatter. Do you like social media?
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This is a social audio video. Oh, really? Yeah.
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So do you have an iPhone or an Android? Oh, yeah,
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I have both of them. OK. All right. So if you
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go to Chatter Social. You can see, and I think
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the website is chattersocial .io. It's amazing.
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And the founder is from Nigeria, too. Oh, really?
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Yeah, great story. And the support of all people,
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I want to make sure, I'm just looking at my phone.
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I want to give you the right, I think it's social
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chatter .io. Let's just see. And nope. That is
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the, oh wait, I do have it in another area. Sorry,
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I want to give it to you correctly so you can
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see. It's so cool. All right, it is, it is, where
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is the chatters? Oh, that's weird. Oh, so you
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have to have, oh, I'll have to send this to you
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because you'll need, it's the chattersocial .io,
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but it should work. It's very cool. Yeah, I can
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see it's Nelson. Nelson is the founder. Yes.
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Yes. Take a look at that. And then if you need
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an invite, I could give you an invite. It is
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so cool because there's not only audio, but there's
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video. So you could stream live. You could use
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it. But he found a problem with social audio
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with clubhouse. I don't know if you're familiar
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with clubhouse. Yeah. So they came out, but so
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Nelson ran the million marathon room. along with
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Jonathan, who did debate the news. Really fun.
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Anyways, I'll send you more information, but
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if you're interested in learning more about it,
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because I think it's just a great way, again,
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to promote yourself, and it's global. So, which
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is very, very cool. Yeah, it really is. So, tell
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us about your day -to -day. When you wake up,
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do you have children? Oh, okay, so. Right on
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your computer. What do you do? All right, so
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when I wake up in the morning, I stay alone at
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home. I'm separated, so just me. So when I wake
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up in the morning, what do I do? I wake up like,
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I usually go to bed like eight or nine very early,
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wake up like four or five. Four or five. Yeah.
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So I wake up, I go out to water my plants. I
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have, I think I'm around Sweeney. Three years
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ago, I just started keeping so many plants. I
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have like a forest in front of my house. I think
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I have one here, one behind Sue. Okay. I love
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it. One, two, three. There's like a mini forest
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in front of my house. So I go out, water my plants,
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check my plants, then come into the office. So
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my bedroom is a different room. I just have this
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as my office. for my home office, so I come into
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the office, then I have a to -do list. It's on
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paper, because I'm a dinosaur. Wow, look at that.
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I love it. You're a dinosaur. So you can eat
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your forest, you can eat your trees if you're
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a dinosaur. Honestly. Eat your own plants. A
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couple of them, though. You're making your own
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food. Yeah. But is that is getting up early?
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Is that part of the secret of your success is
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like four or five? No, not really. I think I
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think one thing I've learned about that is that
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people just have different different times where
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they are most productive. So for me, I learned
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that mine was in the morning. I know back when
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I was in uni, back when I was in school, I remember
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I used to have my classmates go study at night.
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Throughout my four years, I never was able to
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do that because my brain just from six, my brain
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shuts down. So I realized I'm more productive
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in the morning. So what I do these days, everything
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intellectual, everything I need to think about,
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everything that's complex, I try to do it in
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the morning. And then from maybe 12, 1, 2 down,
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I just go to robot mode. I love I love here.
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I'm glad I asked you that question because you
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know people you said the keywords are it's what
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it's good for you like, you know that that's
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good I feel like I could get up at 637 and start
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working but any Earlier is hard, but I will tell
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you a secret I don't want anyone to hear this
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but so I want to be quiet when I tell you this
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so my secret is it takes me like a good 30 minutes
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for my eyes to like, clear up. Like, I wake up
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and I'm like, I put my glasses on, like I can't
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even see and because we're on the computer all
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day, right? I feel like I've been thinking I
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really so that's why I like social audio app
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or podcast because at night, you need to like,
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like lay down and close my eyes but still want
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to hear and listen to other things. I was told
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I was addicted to input, which is, I think you
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just made that up on the spot. But I do like,
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I can't just like, I like having things put in
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my head. Otherwise my brain will go. But so I
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love that. So you know yourself and that's key
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to your success. And what challenges are you
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facing right now in your business? I think what
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challenges am I facing right now? I think the
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biggest challenge I would say The biggest challenge
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I'll say is, okay, I think, let's say probably
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since I moved from the UK, I still have a Nigerian
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passport. So I think the most, the biggest issue
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I have is with banking. So most times I try to
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log into my bank there or I try to log into my
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PayPal and they block it and they're like cold
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because it's coming from Nigeria. And a lot of
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times I end up, I think there was once I had
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to actually go to the UK to fix, that was with
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Backlist Bank. They said they had to see me physically.
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I had to go to the UK. I think the account was
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blocked for like a month or so. So I think that's
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the challenge I've had, because a lot of times
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they just assume that any login coming from here
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is fraudulent or something. And yeah, I think
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that's the biggest one. Wow, that's amazing.
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I've wondered about that like how what like what
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happens because people are so quick to say oh
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my god Nigeria, it's But honestly if you are
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using the chatter social video app It makes you
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realize that that's such a silly way to think
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and that is really like in a box if you say like
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oh all people because none of us should ever
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have like a blanket like All people do this and
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I don't even like when I hear it. So that's crazy.
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So I know when I get from WhatsApp, I don't delete
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or I look to see, because maybe it's someone
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that I just met. So stop doing that, people.
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Don't be that way where you're, in essence, being
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prejudiced against the country because of a few
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bad eggs doesn't make sense. Yeah. And I think
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one thing I tell people about that thing is that
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it's actually true that a lot of people into
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those things, a lot of people into those sort
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of things from Nigeria and all that. But I tell
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people that if you're talking, which is karma,
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the person is not going to be telling you they're
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from Nigeria. The person is not going to use
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their real face or their real voice. They're
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going to have a, they're going to say they're
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from Atlanta or they're from Florida or from
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something. Right. So I think, yeah. You can't
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catfish. That's the one thing about this app.
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You can't catfish because you have to go out
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on video and you're looking like there's, you
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know, like you see yourself and you're like,
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oh, that's me. So yeah, you have to, I remember
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I had, at one point I was helping, I was helping
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a company with our, with, it was Iotomy Nonprofit
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and they were helping people that were coming
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over the border but had, but were able to get,
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oh my God, the terminology is getting to me right
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now, sorry. Anyways, so they, they're, they were
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coming in and we were helping them because it
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takes like 18 months before they can get a job
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and to get all the information. And so I was
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contacted by a family in Afghanistan coming through
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my WhatsApp and I'm like, It took me like 10
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days to be like, wait a second. And then when
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I put it together, it was so heartbreaking. He
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was so appreciative. He was left behind. So he
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really wanted to, so he sent me all of his visas
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and I tried to do whatever I could to send to
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the nonprofits to help them. but people are like
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their first thought was like well it's a spam
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it's a but he never asked me for anything that's
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like gave to him was like netflix um and uh some
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pdfs for his younger sister so he could have
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kindle and he could read them books he wasn't
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looking for money though but everyone else was
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trying to give me information and i was like
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no you don't understand these things happen and
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there was So usually find out how they contacted
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you or what that looks like so you can make an
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informed decision. I just think it's important
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because people are out there and they're amazing
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wherever they live. So that's important. So and
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how do you get new clients? What is it that you
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do to actually bring new clients in? New clients.
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OK, so I think there are three ways. One is SEO,
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that's search engine optimization, just puts
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up articles for what the clients are looking
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for. A couple of clients come once in a while,
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just do it at a rudimentary level. I won't say
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we are experts at that. Then there's, what do
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they call it, adverts to run adverts once in
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a while, especially when we are launching a new
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product. So run adverts once in a while, but
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that's a bit expensive. Then I think, yeah, SEO,
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adverts, and then outreach. Outreach just message
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people and tell them what we have and if they
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like it, talk to us. Do you have Google My Business
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there? Are you able to? Oh, yeah, we do. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah. Do you have a Google My Business
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account? Yes, yes, I do. I do. Nice, nice. And
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what way is just to remind them? I always think
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you have to just, you never know if they're ready
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yet for like what you're offering. True. But
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reaching out to them. And my friend Sheila, she's
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good about, you know, sending out like the reminders
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to her database to say, oh, hey, come, you know,
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I love working with you. Can you give me a little
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feedback? And then she gives a link to the Google
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page. So to get feedback, which is fantastic.
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She's killing it that way. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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It is nice. So I really appreciate that you're
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coming out with me and how can my little community
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support you? I think just, I think we can always,
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what would I say? How can they support? Okay.
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Okay. We have a podcast, Tech Your Business podcast.
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So if you have a business or you're just curious
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about technology, you can listen to the podcast
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or I think, generally, if you're interested in
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anything, I love talking about technology. I
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love talking about new technology, about different
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ways you can save money and co. So if it's something
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anyone is interested in, you can follow me. I
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think I only update my LinkedIn these days. I
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might add the rest later. But yeah, you can follow
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me on LinkedIn, Peter Banigo. I'm the only one
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for now with the name. I love it. Yeah, so we'll
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connect on LinkedIn too. And what a great smile
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you have, Mike. Gosh, you're handsome. Thank
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you. Great, great smile. It's funny with chatter,
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seeing how many like beautiful people are in
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the world that get like, there's so many people
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that exist that are good looking and have everything
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like perfect, but they don't actually need makeup
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or anything too. Like, you know, you don't need
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any makeup. So don't use it. You are really handsome.
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So I love talking with you today. So thank you
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so much for coming on and I look forward to my
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husband coming behind me, making some coffee.
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So have a great, what are your weekend plans?
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I think I just want to transplant some plants.
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I think I started this thing. I just had one
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small ivy, very just the size. And then I don't
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know what I put myself into because it's something
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else out there. So I think in the morning I want
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to transplant some of my plants to some fertilizing.
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These days I don't work on weekends anymore.
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I used to do that before, but these days I just
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try to stop work on Fridays. So, oh yeah, I have
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a, I just remembered I'm a Toastmaster. So I
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have. club officer training in the morning. That's
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by 11. So yeah, transplant some plants, have
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the club officer training and just rest throughout
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the day. Nothing serious Saturday. I love I'm
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a Toastmaster too. So I did. Oh, wow. I loved
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it. Loved it. I got my first pin. I think the
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direct communicator. But then I I went to China
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and then I didn't go back. But now I'm doing
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Toastmasters again, which is fun. And I love
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it. I really do. I love table topics, right?
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Yeah. I think my mind was the same kind of journey.
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I joined in 2016. Did it for like a year. Then
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I ran away. Then joined in 2021. So I think I've
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been steady since 2021. It is a great program,
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though, because it makes us like we count our
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odds and ohs and so's and it's like, yeah, we
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don't need a counter. We count them ourselves
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in our head. Oh, I said LOL or no. So like, I
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think I drive them all crazy because I'm more
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of the comedian of the group. I try to make everyone
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laugh, which I see. I love it. All right. Well,
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thank you so much. Have a great rest of the day.
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And what is your position at Spokes Masters?
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What is it? Let me take this. Are you thinking
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of taking capital officer? Yeah. I was the vice
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president membership for my club last year. Then
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for this year, I'm the area for my area. I'm
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the club group director for my area. I love that.
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It's amazing, right? All the volunteer work that
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you do. I really do feel that you have to have
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a purpose and a passion. So is that part of your
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passion and purpose? Is there something else
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that we should know before we say goodbye? I'd
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love to know. Yeah, I think I actually like helping.
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Like before 2016 until 20 when I got separated,
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I used to be a mentor, a business mentor. So
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there was this program where entrepreneurs submit
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their business plans that they are assigned to
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a mentor that looks over them and helps them.
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So I was doing that for like four years and I
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really enjoyed it. I wasn't paid or anything,
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but I really enjoyed talking to new people, guiding
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them, making sure they don't make the mistakes
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I had made and I was making. I think I'll go
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back on that, though. It's something I like doing.
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I love helping. I love being there for people.
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And I think I've had that issue a couple of times,
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where maybe I have a client, and I forget that
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I'm talking to clients, and I just give everything
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out. And later, they're like, OK, I thought this
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was supposed to be a conversation. Oh, that's
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so funny. So yeah, so I think I love helping.
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It makes me feel good. So I'm not really bothered.
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I love that we're similar. I actually just stepped
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off the board of score in the United States of
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course, they were certified business mentors.
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So I did it for eight years of an average of
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400 hours. And then I was like, what am I going
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to do? Because when you have that desire to help,
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right? And then so I am now a guardian at light
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in my community. And that is we are we represent
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the children. and the children themselves in
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child abuse and custodial issues with parents.
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So it really serves my purpose. I think that's,
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if I have to say, if there's one thing that we
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all have to have, and you just proved it because
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your purpose, your Toastmasters are things that
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maybe make you smile and just, you know, feel
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good. My mom used to say, I wish I had everything
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in the world. I wish I had all the money in the
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world to give away. But I don't know all the
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people, but I love the fact that I could teach
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people LinkedIn and certain things that I could
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do at no charge. I'm still mentoring a lot through
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sports so I can help. So yeah, that feeling,
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can you put it in words? I think it feels like
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just your floating, feels like you're weightless.
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Yeah. It really is. And to watch someone take
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your advice and then go on it and move. It really
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is lovely. When were you born? 1987. And what's
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your, what month? May, 9th of May. Oh, wait.
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Are you a height? No, you're May, so. Taurus.
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Oh, okay. All right, awesome. My husband's a
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Taurus too. What day? May what? 9th of May. Oh,
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very cool. Okay. Sorry. I am a cancer. Okay.
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I thought we were close, but we're close. All
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right. Have a great rest of the day. Is there
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anything else you'd like to add that I missed?
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No, no, no. I think, um, no, nothing else. I
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just, what made you so brave? What made you brave
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to do this? What made you so brave to go on a
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no prep needed? You didn't know who I am and
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you come on. to share for 25 minutes, and what
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made you do that? Do you know the funny thing
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is that two years ago, 2022, I couldn't have
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done this. I would have probably flicked out
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at the last minute. Because I used to, I think
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there's this thing I tell myself, I always say
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it's my journey of getting comfortable, doing
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uncomfortable things. And I started that in 2021.
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So. Public speaking, I was in Toastmasters but
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I never spoke outside my club. And then I was
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like, okay, why don't I start a podcast? Let
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me talk to people. Where did it start? It started
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when I started my fitness journey. So when I
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was young, when I was a child, I used to be this
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kid, I used to avoid everything physical. I remember
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on Wednesdays when they had physical education
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classes, I would either go late or hide in the
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toilet till it's over by nine or 10. That was
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me. So 2022, late 2022. I decided to just change
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because I was having hyper pressure. I had a
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lot of issues and all that. I decided to start
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going to the gym and everything. And I found
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out I actually enjoyed it. I was wondering why
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was I hiding? So I think that made me now, yes,
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that exploring other things I thought I was bad
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at, which is I used to think I was an introvert.
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I think my early career, when I used to be with
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my staff in the office, they would be like, I...
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I don't tell up to 20 words in a day. Like if
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I want to communicate with them, I text. Oh,
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that's funny. That's how bad I was. Yeah. And
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you're self -limiting beliefs. Like that's really
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exactly the problem. Yes. Yes. Yes. So you can
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see where you've come through. Yeah. And I actually
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enjoy it. I actually enjoy talking, meeting new
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people, having conversations. I think the first
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few, the first three or four times I came on
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podcast. if I have a podcast by 2 p .m. I'll
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be so tense I won't be able to do any work till
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2 p .m. but now I don't two minutes I'm in and
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I agree with you I did this part of this was
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during COVID but also just to kind of I came
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back to it just to keep my brain strong because
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I feel like it's sometimes I feel like it's slipping
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away or is there too many things in my head you
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know and I also believe so I'm here sitting for
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a lovely family for their cat. But I have a dog
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and cat sitter at my house, a young man from
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Germany, as he's watching my videos, because
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I did this as a favor. And I think to myself,
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well, why, Adrian? But I've always said yes to
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opportunities. And so I'm thinking, there's always
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something on the side of opportunity. If you
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say yes, you're on the same side of the street,
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right? If you say no, you close it. And now there's
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no opportunity. You just shut it down no matter
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what it could be. So I, uh, but I am waiting
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to find out what was the goal here, not being
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in my own comfortable home, but being in someone
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else's home. I don't know if even if I went back
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and looked, if I would have said no, because
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I am so prompted by this idea that I have to
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say yes and figure it out later but on the other
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hand you just said you did those are all yeses
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that you said to yourself and you figured it
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out and look where you are so I think that even
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though I still question it sometimes it's still
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the right way to go and if it feels good right
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like there was just something so lovely about
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this couple that I was like yes so um Anyways,
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I will talk to you later. I look forward to staying
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connected. So we'll stay connected on LinkedIn.
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And if you want the chatter invite, let me know
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and however. Yeah, don't forget that. I really
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love that. Okay. Oh, good. Okay. Then I'll send
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it to you. You have to download, find the app
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and download it. And then I'll connect with you
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on LinkedIn. Once it's downloaded, I could send
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you the invite. It'll go nice and easy. So it'll
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be chatter social. It's got little chatter bubbles.
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All right. I will talk to you later. Thank you,
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Peter. All right. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye. So
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nice to have you on.
