Time has a funny way of slipping through our fingers, which is why seizing the moment is something I hold dear to my heart, especially as a businesswoman. This week, I'm peeling back the curtain on my own entrepreneurial journey, celebrating Women's History Month, and diving into the unexpected twists that come with reaching an audience I never imagined. From the challenges that accompany female professional achievements to the thrills of making our voices heard in the workplace, I'm revealing the essence of what it means to stand out in a crowd and the joyous realization that it's never too late to chase your dreams.
As I map out how I plan my podcast in quarterly segments, transforming downtime into empowering explorations, you'll see just how critical it is to have a circle of friends who lift you up. And for those moments when you need a good chuckle, I recount an unbelievable story of a roaming kangaroo in Florida—yes, you heard that right—which not only serves up a dose of hilarity but also sheds light on the state's peculiar kangaroo regulations. So, whether you're here for the empowerment, the support, or just to find out more about Florida's exotic pet policy, I promise this episode has something for everyone.
Time has a funny way of slipping through our fingers, which is why seizing the moment is something I hold dear to my heart, especially as a businesswoman. This week, I'm peeling back the curtain on my own entrepreneurial journey, celebrating Women's History Month, and diving into the unexpected twists that come with reaching an audience I never imagined. From the challenges that accompany female professional achievements to the thrills of making our voices heard in the workplace, I'm revealing the essence of what it means to stand out in a crowd and the joyous realization that it's never too late to chase your dreams.
As I map out how I plan my podcast in quarterly segments, transforming downtime into empowering explorations, you'll see just how critical it is to have a circle of friends who lift you up. And for those moments when you need a good chuckle, I recount an unbelievable story of a roaming kangaroo in Florida—yes, you heard that right—which not only serves up a dose of hilarity but also sheds light on the state's peculiar kangaroo regulations. So, whether you're here for the empowerment, the support, or just to find out more about Florida's exotic pet policy, I promise this episode has something for everyone.
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the gag is podcast. I am your girl, charlie shantae. Thank you for coming back and kicking it with your girl for another week. So happy to be here. Oh my gosh, like I was talking to somebody the other day and like how is it almost? Like Like it's the mid, middle of March and I was talking to somebody and it was like, yeah, girl, it's mother's day, stuff out already. And I'm like how, like we barely didn't, we barely in a scratch the surface in March, but Time is moving, time is waiting for no one. So, whatever you're gonna do, act on it, because time waits for no one.
Speaker 1:
So y'all know it's women's history month, so you know I'm gonna keep up with the history of the month, you know, and talk about some stuff and I I feel like, as a Podcaster, I consider myself a businesswoman now because my podcast is produced under me. My bad, I'm tripping. I jumped right into it. Today we're gonna talk about being a female in a professional aspect and we gonna take it from there. Now let's jump back forward a couple of pieces. As a podcaster, I consider myself a businesswoman now because my podcast is Produced underneath my company. It feels so good to say that under my company, like my name, is big and bold upon that thing. But you know there's a little bit of Of it can be scary sometime.
Speaker 1:
And if you watched last week's episode, you know I talked about female supporting each other and how I am big on that. And as a female professional, you know we have to self promote ourselves because I Mean we yes, we are women and we come in there, we have a nice tailored resume or what have you. However, that doesn't always translate into the best candidate, although we may be the best candidate. So we have to promote ourselves a little bit more and I was sitting thinking a couple days ago I'm like dang, I'm like I have my podcast, but I Realize I have to promote a little bit more. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:
I've talked in a previous episode about how my target audience crazy. Like I have a target audience and then I have an audience that listen and it's crazy because they don't match. Like my Target audience is a woman in her 30s who has children, you know, who's going through some things not Necessarily bad, but she's trying to raise her kids, she's trying to work and do things like that. But when it comes to the dynamics of this podcast, my Listening clientele, or middle-aged white man like I went and looked at the analytics in. That is really, really crazy. So we have to promote ourselves Just a little bit more so that we can be seen.
Speaker 1:
And so, as I was looking at my analytics and, like man, I've got to promote myself a little bit better because I don't know if people tell the truth or they lie. I give people to benefit of the doubt, but some of the people that I know they're like I didn't even know you had a podcast and it's like are you not on social media like that, are you telling me the truth? So I don't be like, well, how you ain't know and I'm always posting about it. Or did they genuinely not know? Because the day that I may have posted my content, they may not have seen it, they may have gotten on social media a couple of days later or it may not have hit their algorithm. So I'm like man, I got a post a little bit more. I gotta, I gotta have a little bit more visibility Out there. So I think I'm well, I don't think I know, I'm gonna practice doing that a little bit more so that I Can drink. Bring more traffic to the Instagram page. I can bring more traffic to YouTube. I kind of have like a Plans set in motion already so that I can get that. So your girl is working on it. I'm trying to so promote and if anybody has any tips or tricks, let me know. I'm always open to that.
Speaker 1:
Now, as women, we are less likely than males to celebrate or appreciate praise for an accomplishment. This is so true and I feel like I Feel like we downplayed, cuz it's kind of like oh okay, I got a raise, or oh okay. One of my biggest things that my best friends get on to me about is when I graduated. It's been wow. It's been two years now since I've had my master's degree, and that is something that I don't feel like I celebrated as much as I should have. I Was excited for it, but during a time that I got that degree like a couple of weeks later after I had got my degree I had finished my classes, because my I finished the classes in May and I had graduation in June, and within that stretch of six weeks I finished all my classes and turned in my final paper. A couple weeks later I had emergency surgery and, and then a couple weeks after that, I had graduation and then three days later my grandma passed away and I don't know if the like. I just felt like I was probably going through a lot at that time and I just wasn't in the mood to celebrate.
Speaker 1:
But now, like somebody asked me, I'm like, yeah, I'm educated, I got a whole master's degree. Like, yeah, like two of my own horn, and I don't think we do that enough because that's an accomplishment. To sit down and take six and a half years out of my life to get a degree. Like that's time, that's effort, that's dedication. Like we gotta excuse me, we gotta separate, you know, we gotta celebrate those wins because that's not a small feat. Like the average African-American woman, you know, may have some sort of post-high school training, but when you get into a four-year degree, a graduate degree and above, the numbers get smaller, smaller, smaller. And then, if you look at those numbers, for someone who was a teen mom, the numbers are extremely low, like so low that the latest data that I found was like from the early 90s, like there has not been any updated data for that, but even with that being said, the numbers were like less than 5%. So gotta start celebrating these wins. You know, over the last year I've gotten my flowers because people are like man, you started a podcast. Like you don't have a big you know podcast where you know people are just flocking, flocking, flocking. But you know that takes time and the fact that you put in the time, the effort and you do that on the daily, on the weekly, to research and produce content for us to come view, that says a lot, you know. So let's not sweep that under the rug.
Speaker 1:
And, like I said in last week's episode, celebrating a year of my company not a year of the podcast, but a year of the company. So I think I need to start celebrating a little bit more. I kind of sorta, kind of sorta a little bit, me and my best friend, we did kinda go out one day this weekend and we was it. Yes, we had our girls, one of our girls' brunches and we did celebrate. We did celebrate the company being a year old and she is quote unquote my manager. So we did celebrate that Imposter syndrome and I do have two episodes on imposter syndrome.
Speaker 1:
I will link those down below so you can listen to those. I have two episodes on imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome, I'm gonna say, plays a big part in why I don't celebrate a lot. I sometimes feel like I don't deserve. Tanks say, maybe I deserve. You know, I feel like sometimes I don't deserve the praise that I get because I feel like I'm just okay, I did something like big deal woop, do you do? But in the African-American community, as a female, we go through so much, so any accomplished needs to be celebrated.
Speaker 1:
My accolades are that I have a bachelor's degree in health science, because I was going to pre-med route. My first love is always science. I told y'all we previously. I'm a STEM girl, so I wanted to do epidemiology, I wanted to become an epidemiologist, but then, as I started getting into that, I discovered that my real passion and real joy is in public health, policies and procedures. So that is what my master's degree is in is in public health Administration, with the emphasis on policies and procedures. I wanna make sure that people are getting the care that they need and I wanna make sure that the policies and the procedures are there to assist them. Y'all. That's a big that's a big that's. That's something to be celebrated, because I want change for the people. So that's something that you know we should be celebrated.
Speaker 1:
A little known fact about why. Back in 2000, 2007 or 2008 I have to look because I don't don't remember off the top of my head I Was featured in glamour magazine. I have a photo in there and I have an article in there as well. I might have to put a picture of it because I don't know if it is online because it was done so long ago. But every time in that song, don't tell me model, don't tell me that you model if you ain't been involved. Does glamour count? Can somebody ask him does glamour magazine count? Because you know that's I Wasn't modeling, but do that count? But anyway, sometimes I get embarrassed a little bit because it's like I don't know why. Don't ask me why I get embarrassed, but I Know I don't know. But we got to celebrate the winds with the winds and you celebrate the else too, but not so much heavy emphasis on the L's but on W's. Oh Right, moving right along, I talked about this last week women supporting women and I feel like we don't do it enough. Yeah, but God, I was like mommy, you was on a rant. I'm like no, baby, I wasn't on a rant, I, I just I'm one of those people. I just want everybody to get along.
Speaker 1:
You know whether you support somebody or you don't. That that don't mean to hate on. You can get online every day and see the hate in what, the saying that I always hear. What is what good is going to come to you by dimming somebody else's. Like, like, how does that help you? Does it help you shine bright? Or how does that help you? Like I was always told if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. Like, how hard is that? Like that's like Child stuff. Like, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all.
Speaker 1:
My best friends make it a point and I do as well. They make it a point Weekly, because I talked to them weekly and every once in a while I jump on a FaceTime call with the both of them. But we always let each other know how proud of each other we are. They don't they support me. They don't support me just because they're my best friends and they have to. They support me because they're professional women and In both of them are on two different career paths, you know. But both of them are bosses, you know, like their bosses, and they're a few years older than me but since their bosses and their respective fields, already they pour in some me to help me and to ensure me that I can be a boss just like them. You know, I kind of can't call myself a baby boss. You know, even though I have a podcast, they don't look at me like, oh, you got a podcast and people hear you. They treat me regular the same, they treat me Boss. They give me information about what I can do and some of the stuff that I talk about on here. They know and some some of the stuff they don't know and I'm like, oh, I didn't know that about you. You know, but I'm proud of you. And they always make sure they're like, oh, I gotta go make sure I download this week, you know, and they, they download, they share and they support.
Speaker 1:
I have another big supporter, robin. That is like my, my ride or die right there like that. She gonna always stand up for me 10 toes down. She been a supporter since day one when the first episodes came out from unpredictable lifestyle and she like I keep people around me, that's gonna give me they, they gonna support me and they gonna give me the real feedback Like I don't want nobody around me. It's gonna be like, oh, yeah, it was good, yeah, it was good knowing it wasn't good, you know. And yeah, let, we can support each other late, like I'm gonna harp on that all month long. Ladies, we can support each other, it doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt, it's not gonna dim your light, it's not gonna take away from you. Like I said last week, by not supporting other females, you never know you may be hindering yourself. You know, if your females that you hang around, if they're not giving you affirmations, if they're not lifting you up, if they're not trying to give you advice for the better, you might want to read, you might want to relook at who you got around me.
Speaker 1:
There's an episode coming out in a couple of weeks that, if it wasn't for Nikki man it's. It's a finance episode if it wasn't for Nikki, but we'll get into that. In that episode, hillary Clinton once said women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. Omg, if that ain't powerful. She said. The largest untapped reservoir of talent, which means we can do anything, anything that we want to do. We just gotta put our mind to it, we gotta stay the course and we gotta understand that success is not overnight.
Speaker 1:
I don't want any overnight success because I feel like it's not genuine, although it catches like wildfire and people are like, oh, who is Charlie? Whatever, whatever. I want mine to. I don't want it to be stagnant like pond water, but I want it to be organic, I want it to be genuine and I want it to be relatable. And I want to be here for a while. I want to be in this arena, I want to be in this space for a while.
Speaker 1:
You know, there are days that I wish that I would have started this podcast sooner, as it's all it's been. It's been in the works for a minute and even though I didn't start sooner, it doesn't mean that I still can't get to where I want to go. So with that, I'm saying just because you haven't started your dream doesn't mean that your dream isn't achievable. Just because you haven't started your dream doesn't mean that your dream isn't achievable. Yes. So if you needed a sign to go ahead and get started, here's your sign Go ahead, get started, take baby steps.
Speaker 1:
I have a laptop, I have a tablet and I have a phone. In my free time I'm looking up. I've already had it built out. I build it out in quarters. What I want to do for the podcast. I'm like, okay, I want to do this. So, with me wanting to do this, I got to do x, y, z and I take my time and I do that the time that I use playing around, playing games on my phone or being on social media. I've turned that time into research time Because I want to be here in a few years. I want to be able to be there for other women, no matter what business they may have or what it is that they're doing. I want to be a support for them, for the people that I keep around me. I don't keep many females around me Because I don't want nobody feel like they're in competition with me. I don't want to be in competition with nobody. So if you feel like you got to be in competition with me, I don't want to be your friend. I don't want you in my circle because I feel like I would always have to watch my back because you might be trying to bring me down. That's just what it is. That is just what it is Now, my one of my favorite portions of this show.
Speaker 1:
You can't make this up. I thought about giving y'all a crazy story. Well, this story is crazy, but I thought about an alternate crazy story. But I feel like this one gonna do it, this one gonna do it. So y'all know I live in Florida I actually heard this on the news and I have a site that I go to where I look at crazy stories and kind of see what can I talk about to break up the seriousness of an episode. So let me just reach out a headline Kangaroo on the loose in a Florida apartment building again kangaroo, like Joey, on the loose in a neighborhood. And this is actually crazy because this, having where I live, this happened a good old temple, florida, and I was late at the bed and I was like I know they are not saying that there's a kangaroo on the loose. A kangaroo and escape bush gardens.
Speaker 1:
First of all, we as people got to stop taking our phone out for everything. But I get it If you don't film it. It didn't happen. This is one of those times that I'm glad y'all filmed it, because I would have told you whatever you were smoking. You need to stop. Stop it, because it is missing your mind.
Speaker 1:
So, peep, this Hilber County Sheriff's Deputy's got a call about an unusual animal moving around the pool area in an apartment complex. Now I'm gonna see if I can find a video, because the video is very wild. The video is wild and the commentary is even wilder because this kangaroo out here, he just these you can't make this up. That's what's a me call. The segment is called you can't make this up and you literally cannot make this up. It was a kangaroo and this is the confusing part, because there is a place called bush gardens over there and I know they have kangaroos and stuff, but in this case the kangaroo was reunited with its owner. If we lived in Australia I could get this, because I'm like kangaroos are native to Australia.
Speaker 1:
Who in Florida, outside the zoo and Bush Gardens, got a kangaroo and apparently it's legal? What do this kangaroo sleep? Do he sleep in the bed? Do he sleep outside, what, what, where do this kangaroo sleep? Because I got questions. I got real ass questions. There's a lot of like do he sit at the table and eat dinner with you? Like what do kangaroos even eat? Like? I Just got a lot of questions and they say once the police reunited it with the owner, the owner had proper registration For the kangaroo. Hi, you lost your kangaroo. I have him right here. Yeah, I guess he. You know he was tired and he just hopped away. He hopped out of a bad situation. I don't know.
Speaker 1:
I need, I need for Hillsborough County, I need for y'all to release the body cam footage of Y'all returning this kangaroo to the owner. I feel like we, the people, need to see this. We need to see this Because you can't you can't make this up. The kangaroo was I feel like I got to put this part in here the kangaroo was on the loose in the hood and I'm just glad that people Wasn't trying to put their baby in like the kangaroo pouch. And if you have ever seen kangaroo videos, kangaroos kick real, real hard and I'm just glad that everybody like just Filmed it with a phone or whatever. It took pictures, but they stayed back and they didn't harass this kangaroo, but like a kangaroo in a swimming pool. That's interesting, that's very interesting.
Speaker 1:
I I don't know what I would have did if I would have seen the kangaroo like Mmm-hmm, I Don't know. I Don't know because, like a kangaroo, I've seen a dog, I've seen a cat, I've seen a moose up close, but a kangaroo, I've seen a buffalo up close. I I've seen a deer up close. I've seen an eagle up close, a Kangaroo, a Kangaroo, listen, I Don't know Unhinged. We locked, unlocked.
Speaker 1:
A new level of Jumanji had to be because like, like was you in a bathroom or something. And then the kangaroo was like oh, my own is in the bathroom, let me just, let me just hop on, let me hop out. Like did he jump? You know what you can't ruin. He could jump. So like Was the like, did he jump the fence?
Speaker 1:
I Need to know how this kangaroo got out. I need no, I got, I got questions. I have questions, like serious questions. I don't know what to say. I'm glad the kangaroo back with his owner and I wonder if they got like a ticket For like, just like, how, if your dog get out, I Wonder if they got a ticket because they kangaroo get out, like that's a good question.
Speaker 1:
I'm like I looked a few places to see if I can get more information on the story, but there wasn't, so I'm gonna have to go back again. I was like I Think this is public information, so I might try to look to see if I can find a court record this or not the court record but to see no, cuz they didn't go to court. I need more information. I Need more information, like I'm gonna have to go over there to the hood and be like yo, so would you hear, when he's got your real, got out, like tell me more. I'm a girlfriend of scops so I might have to ask until I bro, like tell me about this kangaroo that escape. I'm intrigued, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 1:
All right, y'all, we come to the end of the road and before I let y'all go, y'all know I always give y'all a song lyric of the week, and so this week we're talking still talking about Women's history month and, you know, celebrating accomplishments and things like that. So I felt, like the song that I like and that I use to kind of uplift myself, I felt it'd be good for our song of the week this week. So that's gonna be Kalani. Be alright, I love that song. When the tie gets high, just go low. Really good song. So if you've never heard it, go check it out. All right, we at the end of the road. I am your girl, charlie Shantae. This is the gag is podcast, and I'm gonna see y'all next week. Peace.