Transforming Marketing: Rhiannon Franz's Journey from Ads to Authentic Growth

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Rhiannon? Rhiannon like Shannon. Rhiannon like

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Shannon. Yes. Okay, everyone, just take a second.

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Just breathe for a minute and look at the beautiful

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face next to, yes, this is Rhiannon. I can tell

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you three things. All I know about her is she's

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brave, bold, and beautiful. And I had a guest

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before you that didn't come on. She wanted questions

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and I said, questions? I don't ask questions.

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First of all, it's no prep needed. So like, I'm

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not prepping so I don't know it because life

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is not always about having it be like that like

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steel kind of like question. So questions, right?

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Exactly. Yes. So I don't know anything about

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you. So what I love is two things. Introduce

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yourself. So this way we get to hear your elevator

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speech. And where are you from? Where are you

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right now? I am from Revive marketing is my marketing

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company that I started about a year ago and I

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am calling from Los Angeles, California. Oh,

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what a yucky place to be. I'm kidding you. There's

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so much going on there. I love it. So OK, so

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a year ago, so what were you doing before you

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started and why? Yeah, so I have been working

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in advertising at the top four of the top four

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holding companies for the last 20 years, working

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for big brands. Yeah. Like an ad agency? What

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do you mean like a holding company? Yes, sorry.

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So yes, holding company of the ad agencies. So

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if you think of big brands I've worked on are

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like Lexus, Warner Brothers, Microsoft Xbox.

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Yeah, big, big names. Johnson and Johnson in

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New York City. Like I worked in New York, LA

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and Detroit. So I've worked across three major

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markets at the top ad agencies in the country.

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Amazing. So were you a member of AMA? Like, is

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that the? Advertising, marketing, and social.

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Yeah, we had different local groups in different

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cities. So like in New York City, it was called

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2 -1 -2. And in LA, it's called Think LA. And

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I'm actually part of Think LA and the American

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Advertising Federation of Los Angeles. We just

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started a chapter here in LA as well. All right,

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so before I go to the next question I'm kind

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of curious about this because this is this is

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really interesting Have you ever ordered promotional

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products while you were working for these big

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brands? Um, yeah, definitely. Yeah Yeah, it's

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cool logo merchandise and did you work directly

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with a distributor? Um Yeah, I mean I think more

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so I was working with like sponsorship things

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because I worked in media so I had access to

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you know people who had printing and products

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and promotional products and things like that.

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The only time I did it for myself was actually

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for my wedding. So you know, it was like I had

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to do these promotional things. And for my baby

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shower, because I had a pandemic baby. So we

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had a virtual baby shower, which was like a blessing

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and a curse. But I ordered promotional products.

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And like I had little boxes custom printed with

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custom cups and like mailed to everybody so they

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felt like they were a part of the baby shower

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even though it was all virtual and on zoom yeah

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i was that's my industry 35 years okay promo

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peeps is that fun to hear what did you have for

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your um for what was the other thing you had

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the wedding the wedding shower and then you said

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something else Yeah. So my baby shower and then

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my wedding. And so for my wedding, I did a custom,

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you know, you have like a leave behind thing

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that you, you know, leave at weddings. And so

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I did glasses. I had one sitting here a second

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ago. I've been married 13 years and I still have

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some of the glasses because they were little

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like rocks glass, like a cocktail, you know,

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like a short one. And I had our logo printed

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on it and the year of our wedding. And our husband

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and I joke that we forget the year we got married

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and we would go look at our glasses in our cabinet

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and be like, oh yeah, it was 2012. Oh yeah, it

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was 2012. So. Oh, I love that. I love that. Favors,

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the wedding favors are so great. Mine was a,

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since I took a leap of faith, mine was a frog.

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So it was a stuffed frog with our, you know,

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like whatever the copy said, they, we took a

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leap and same thing. My girlfriend will send

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it to me and say, Hey, it's your wedding anniversary.

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I'm like, Oh my God, thank you. So you make this

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big change now. So you're because you must have

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really enjoyed it. So what was the catalyst that

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really made you pivot to wanting to open up your

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own business? A couple of things. One was that

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I had a baby and so I had to figure out a pivot

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sort of in my life of what sort of things. What

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was my priority? I think we all go through that,

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especially if you're, I call the pandemic the

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great reevaluation. We all had to take a moment

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in all of our lives. It doesn't matter what life

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stage, what, where you're, what the entire world

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took a look at their life and decided what pivots

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or change or reevaluation that they wanted to

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make. And so for me, that was right in line with

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me finding out I was pregnant. And for the first

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time, my one and only, we're only having one,

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but to find out you're pregnant during lockdown

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was pretty transformative of like, okay, not

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only am I reevaluating my life as an individual,

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but now I'm reevaluating my life as a mom. And

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so how going into the pandemic affected the jobs

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that I took and then once the baby came and then

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what does that mean and then now my son's almost

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four right because it's been it's been about

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five years since since the start of the pandemic

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and through that journey I figured out what my

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priority for myself was having work flexibility.

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I'm very privileged to live near the beach in

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Los Angeles and have these opportunities ahead

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of me in this career that I've built for myself

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and figuring out like my priority is I want to

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be able to pick my son up from school at three

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o 'clock and I might still have some work to

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do and my husband and I juggle with what to do

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between three and five and you know he's it's

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a balance but at the same time it was Making

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that priority and working in corporate for 20

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years as much as they want to say you're like

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schedule and you know work from home a couple

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days a week, you know that that Really changed

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for me to become like this stay at home slash

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work from home mom Like how do you balance? There's

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no balance like that that sort of mantra of like

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you can have it all is like no it's still it's

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still a priority of every hour of the day Yeah.

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I can't even imagine how you must have felt.

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I want to go into your business, but I want to

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just personally, you're having a baby. You must

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have been so scared. So what was going on in

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your head that you'd end up having to go to the

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hospital? And was COVID still at the height of

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COVID when you actually went into labor? And

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was your husband able to go with you? Yeah, so

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my husband was able to go with me at least no

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no family. No visitation No, nobody else was

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allowed with us, but it was so it's just he and

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I and also he couldn't leave You know to go do

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anything and come back. There was no Leaving

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or whatever and my son was born Early, so I had

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a scheduled c -section. He was Frank breach.

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So it was like he's breach we're gonna have to

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have a, you know, C -section. So I had sort of

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most of my hospital bag packed because I knew

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that I was gonna have a scheduled C -section,

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but it wasn't all packed. Like I tell women all

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the time, I'm like, just pack it a month early.

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I know it sounds like, what? Like it's, I have

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all this time. It's like, just pack it a month

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early, just in case, because like it was go time,

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your water breaks and you're off, right? And

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it's like, whatever was in that bag is what goes

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with you. And we couldn't leave. No one could

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come meet us. Like the only thing we could do

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was we could at least get food delivery. you

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know at the location but it was like what we

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had is what we had for my husband and I so we

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had to pack you know the hospital bag for him

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and I for however many days you know we needed

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to be there and when I got there it was like

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I was in full labor and they're like doing COVID

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tests down my nose you know remember the ones

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that like went all the way no yeah and so I'm

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like they put one in and I had a contraction

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as they're like pulling it out and they went

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to go to the next one and I was like you wait

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Until I am done with this contraction as I'm

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like, oh, you know that they did the second one

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and I was like, oh my god So yeah, it was what

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was this? What was what's the October 29th of

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2020? So, oh, okay. So it's weird because I'm

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in Florida. So that you know things were a lot

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They were lighten up. But if I'm correct in California,

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very very strict very strict. Yes, very strict

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Oh my god, I hope you write your story. I think

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people would be more interested in how you got

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through that kind of fear that you must have

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had. And that must have started right when you

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found out that you were pregnant with COVID.

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And oh my god, so you're always balancing the

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good things, like being home, and the bad things

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of getting sick. And God forbid, what would happen?

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Were you watching TV at the time, too? Yeah,

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yeah, so it was yeah, it was very scary and where

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we lived in Los Angeles was adjacent to a lot

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of the riots so we weren't as involved with some

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of our friends who lived in neighborhoods with

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riots and who were legitimately protesting the

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things that we should be protesting for and and

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our rights and things like that and and as much

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as I wanted to go do these things I was like,

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oh but I'm pregnant now like I'm pregnant now

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like I can't I can't go be an activist for these

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things. Like I have to think about my belly.

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Like there's so many different layers of like

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being pregnant during this, you know, very pivotal

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moment in our world. And yeah, so being even

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adjacent to it, feeling like I couldn't go outside

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to walk our dog in our specific neighborhood.

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And so that prompted us to want to move during

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the pandemic. And so it's just, yeah, there's

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a lot of things. Are your parents alive? Uh,

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yes. Yes. Oh my god. They must your mom. I just

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kind of feel for her It must be so hard to is

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she close to you. Um and live by close or no

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No, no. No, so i'm in california. My family's

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in texas. So it was oh even worse. So they had

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to they had to My husband and I did it, you know

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ourselves and it brought us closer together I

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mean the amount of things that we did I mean

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from the baby coming in and you know, we're still

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like wiping down our groceries when they come

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in, you know, you don't getting grocery delivery

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and just that that whole thing that happened

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and you know, we didn't have anyone no one could

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come in your house like no one could be helpful.

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So, you know, it's kind of in a weird way, like,

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well, my husband and I did it all, you know,

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we did. It's like you and I against the world.

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Yeah, yeah, basically. So it bonded us a lot

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and my husband got to do a lot more. you know,

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things than a typical, you know, the world before

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the pandemic where he would have had to be in

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the office a lot and he would have to, you know,

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go and do these things. I mean, now we both have

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jobs, we work from home. And, you know, that

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was the impetus of me starting my own company

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was like, I want to be able to work from home.

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I want to have that flexibility. I want to be

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able to have that time with my son. I mean, my

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husband was home to be able to watch, both of

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us were to watch our son's first steps. We were

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there the moment that he did it, you know, and

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it was the middle of the day and he'd woken up

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from a nap and you know, like the nanny was there

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and we're checking on him. But it was like we

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got to we got to see that, you know, and so I

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think that comes back to like having this business

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and him and I making decisions to be able to

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make that a priority where one and only family,

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you know, it's to have one child probably because

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of the traumatic experience of having a baby

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during the pandemic for me personally was like.

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Yeah, I don't want to have that again, but My

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heart goes out to you yeah, but at the same time

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like the the the glorious like you can't explain

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Being a mom until your mom it like or you know

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a dad or whatever like the the hardness But the

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joy at the same time like you can't explain that

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unless you know you until you feel that but uh

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But having this business has enabled me also

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to be able to say look I have all this years

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of experience working in corporate. I've worked

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for 20 years in New York, LA, Detroit, like all

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these places. And one of the main things that

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I have learned out of this great reevaluation

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is wanting to use, I kind of joke, like using

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my powers for good and like being able to help

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people. And one of the things I've discovered

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was like the the advertising world kind of has

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that bad like sales the sort of idea of like

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selling things to people that they don't need

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and sometimes I felt like that like what am I

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selling what why am I you know working all these

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hours to make rich people richer and Doing this

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now You know is like giving people value and

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actually helping people so helping professional

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services helping service business helping small

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business is helping Somebody be able to get forward

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be able to move forward in their business be

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visible It's really marketing getting themselves

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to be visible and doing things like this doing

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alive being out there gets us visible and that

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connects us then with the people our ideal clients

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who need us and That right there is like that

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gives me joy that gives me like reasons to get

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out of bed every day There was a joke from a

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comedian, I can't remember which one, but he

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said, it's not Mondays that are the problem,

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right? Like it's your life. Like Mondays are

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not the problem. It's what you're doing on Monday

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that makes Mondays the problem. So those of us

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who are privileged to be able to get ourselves

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in that position and have that drive and motivation

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to say, I want my Monday to be enjoyable. How

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can I make that happen for myself is like? It

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changes Just just that one mindset shift right

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can help you guide you in decisions that you'll

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make One step one foot in front of the other.

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I love it. So I want to know about your name

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So revive like so share the story of your name

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because I have a feeling there's a good story

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behind it Yeah, so my name is Rhiannon, which

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is a song by Fleetwood Mac And I was named after

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the Fleetwood Mac song. It was very popular in

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1981 when I was born. And it's one of those songs

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that you hear it and you go, that's what she's

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saying. Or like, I know that song. I didn't know

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that's what she was saying. I tell people, you've

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heard it. They play it in the grocery store.

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They play it on the elevator music. Like it is

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just one of those songs. You're like, okay, I've

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heard that before, but maybe didn't recognize

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that that's what it was. In fact, one of my...

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new mom friends, her son and I are like the same

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exact age. Her mom named her after the song,

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but named her Breanne because she thought that

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the song was saying Breanne, which it does kind

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of sound like that, right? And so Breanne and

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Rhiannon were both named after the song. Anyway,

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super, super famous song. One mother knew to

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look it up first to make sure. Yeah, my mom was

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super into music. I mean, yeah, a music aficionado.

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So that was a big deal for her to name her daughter

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after a song. And so for me, the idea for my

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business was how can I take that first part of

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my name, Ree, and, you know, kind of make it

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fun and catchy. Like, so people kind of get a

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little bit of like my personality when they see

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Ree Vibe. And it's like, oh, that's Rhiannon

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with Ree Vibe. And it's like, Oh, she must be

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fun or approachable. Like it kind of gives you

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a little bit of humor. It was. I can't believe

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I didn't realize it though. Like I literally,

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it went over my head because I'm like, well,

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what's the meaning of REVIVE? I didn't even think

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RE, RE. I love that. What I want to learn now.

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So first of all, it looks like you got a podcast

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set up. So you've been doing a variety of interviews.

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Yes. Yes, I have. I've been starting to push

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myself to be more of an authority and talking

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about marketing in that. in the internet world

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and getting my message out and being a speaker.

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I mean, I eventually wanna push myself even more

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to do that as I get more and more clients and

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more and more case studies and examples of things

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I can do to help people. I wanna be able to spread

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this message. I love it. What services does Revive

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Marketing offer? So my services I say are from

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brands to ads. And a lot of people will come

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to me saying, oh, I know I need to... push some

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ads on social media, or I know I need to be like,

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am I supposed to be on TikTok? You know, and

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so I get these questions first of like, I'm supposed

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to advertise stuff, right? And then I kind of

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look at their business and I go, Okay, wait a

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minute. What is the consumer's actual journey?

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What is does your website look like? What are

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people landing on digitally when they're looking

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for you? And then what is that path in order

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to get them to convert? So what is the product

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that you're selling? And how are you What is

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that path? So that's why I named my business

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with marketing because yes, my background is

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more advertising having worked at advertising

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agencies, but for small businesses, it's really

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about the entire marketing purchase funnel and

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making sure that from the brands to the ads,

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everything is cyclical and you have an entire

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marketing machine to be able to optimize that

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process. Amazeballs, amazeballs. Like, I'm just

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so impressed with you right now. I do want to

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share with you. Have you ever been on, I'm sorry,

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if you've been listening to me, I've been doing

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a little pitch because I'm not a paid at all.

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I went from private beta to a public beta tester

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on something that I think is going to take the

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world by a storm. Have you ever been on Clubhouse?

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Clubhouse, I have heard of it, yes, but I have

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not been on it. Okay, so Clubhouse is a social

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audio app. Okay, very, very neat. There's a new

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one now that a man that was on clubhouse 20 started.

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I think it was like 25 Really knows and understands

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social audio Realized all the it was big draws

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like he had the biggest rooms of the biggest

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houses on spaces He created what's called chatter

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social I do have some invites if you want it

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chatter social is social audio and video Amazing

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so you can stream on it. So yeah, and then you

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could have a podcast interview like this and

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then and I'm doing it after the fact because

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it's still in like a little it's still in the

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beta testing right yeah but you can have a podcast

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like this so it could be streaming live on your

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phone and then people can ask you questions that

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are in the audience perfect That's amazing. I

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love it. It's perfect for you because you're

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going to meet a lot of professionals for collaboration,

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but also a lot of people in LA. There's a whole

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LA community out there and a lot of film for

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entertainment, a lot of singers. They just had

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the voice, a challenge. So fun. I was just lying

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in bed on my phone and then they would come on

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the screen. Oh, it's so lovely. So very, very

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unique. So I'll send you the invite. You're on,

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where could people find you? Are you on Instagram?

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Yes, I have an Instagram as Rhiannon revives

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your biz. Oh, OK. Oh, wait, hold on. Let me just

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let me let me write that down. So I have it here.

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Let me put it in the chat. So yeah, hold on.

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Yeah. And that is our H .I .A. and then oh, and,

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uh -huh. And then revive our H .I .V .I. V .E

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.S. your biz. It's a little long, but it's also

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like difficult to get your. my big belief is

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like, if you're the face of your brand, you need

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to be the face of your brand. So as Rhiannon

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and my business revive, it was like, how do I

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bring that together in like a way that's memorable?

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So Rhiannon revives your biz is kind of a way

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that it is my brand, I'm the face of the brand,

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and then my business is revived. So bringing

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that together. Beautiful face of the brand. Hopefully

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I did it correctly. Otherwise, I'll go in once

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I find you I'll double check myself to make sure

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because we're live on my Facebook page Adrian

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Barker speaks on my YouTube channel and my LinkedIn

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so You know what? I'm so glad I really I'm really

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like proud of you and the work that you have

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done and Just how lovely you are and just you

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made I mean my god growing up people didn't really

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understand that they could actually make a life

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for themselves But you've made a life and a living

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for yourself and you're just in your purpose

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and you have a beautiful four -year -old. Every

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age is fun, I will tell you. You know what the

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worst age is? When they leave the house, that's

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the saddest age. I got pregnant at 44, so I had

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my last one. And so she's just turned 18, but

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she, it was weird during COVID. I had her birthday

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party kind of like on Zoom. So my heart goes

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out. I'm glad you have a good story. I'm glad

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everything worked out. Yeah, and I I definitely

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want your information afterwards a show notes

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This is live and then i'll turn it into a podcast

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afterwards. I'll send you a message Thank you.

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No, you're amazing. Thank you so much And if

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you need any help or anything I could do for

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you. Um, linkedin is my thing I don't I'm you

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know i'm on other channels, but I am a linkedin

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guru and was named top um Top 13 linkedin experts

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in orlando and I didn't pay for it Okay, great.

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Yes, I am also on LinkedIn and I need to be doing

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more of it. But you know, yes, I love that. And

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I'm so glad to have connected with you and done

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this with you today. So thank you so much. I

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really appreciate it. Because you are you're

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really truly brave, bold and beautiful. It's

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not easy to do this, but yet you're doing it.

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And it is what makes us stronger and kind of

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keeps our mind sharp. So thank you so much. You

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have made my day. Thank you. Thank you. Have

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a great day. Nice to meet you.