Grace, Grit, and Growing an Empire | with CEO Leilani Anderson-Monroe MBA

In this powerful episode of the Allow Yourself Grace Podcast, we sit down with CEO Leilani Anderson for an honest conversation about what it really takes to build an empire, without losing yourself in the process.
Leilani shares her journey of leadership, resilience, and faith in the midst of growth, along with the lessons she’s learned about balancing ambition with grace. From navigating challenges to staying grounded while scaling, this episode is a reminder that success doesn’t have to come at the cost of peace.
If you’re an entrepreneur, leader, or woman in pursuit of purpose-driven growth, this conversation will encourage you to lead with intention, trust the process, and give yourself grace along the way.
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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hey girl, you are now tuned into the Allow Yourself Grace Podcast, the space where we get real, we get raw, and give ourselves permission to rise anyway. I'm your host, Courtney Kristen, and I'm here to walk with you through the moments that demand change, the seasons that force us to pivot, and the experiences that invite us to shift. Not just our mindset, but our entire way of showing up in the world. This space is for anyone learning to release perfection, embrace the process, and find power in the pause. Because growth isn't always pretty, but it's always possible when you allow yourself grace. So take a deep breath, settle in, and let's get into the episode. Hey guys, welcome back to the Allow Yourself Grace podcast. Thank you guys so much for tuning in, y'all. We are in season nine, and y'all, we're coming out with all the ladies that are bringing the heat. And I'm super excited to have my guest that I have today on because I went on her podcast for my first interview. And so I have the privilege of doing her first interview because she does have her own podcast, and that is none other than Miss Alailani Anderson. Y'all welcome her on. Wait, I know you have both Monroe and Anderson. Which one is the Anderson Monroe?

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Anderson Okay, Anderson Monroe. Okay. Because she is married. So I have to make sure I put that in there before he be like, What? What? That's not your name. But yeah. Um, so I want to welcome you. Want to welcome you. Um, y'all, Leilani is a real estate broker. Yeah, she is the CEO and the founder of the Boss Women Network. And so she has a lot going on. She's an author, she has so many titles and wears so many hats. And so I'm yeah, she does, and she wears them well. Okay. Thank you. And so I want her to tell us a little bit about who she is, where she's from, and kind of what she does.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Well, she gave me a warm welcome. I am Leilani. I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised right here in Houston, Texas. Um I got into business, not even realizing how I got into business because I started way in middle school. Well, let's take it back even further. My parents had business. My dad has been dog training forever, and he trained like celebrity dogs, had a whole candle where he was doing that. And then my mom went to fashion design school in Hawaii, and she had like two separate locations where she was she had businesses. So in high in middle school, I worked in the office. High school, I worked in the office, and none of that I didn't even realize as an adult where my business mindset came from. It took me a long time to start putting the pieces together. Because when you're young, you don't even understand what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Right, you don't understand what your parents are doing.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

You don't understand why you're so business minded so early. You know, I didn't even pay attention to that and realize that then. But I started wanting to, you know, when you work when you're young, you work at a lot of little small jobs and then you don't like the way you're treated. You see how employees treat people and then how you're being treated. So it's like, you know what? If I have my own business, I'm gonna be better than that.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

I'm gonna treat people better than that. So it made me go to school and go to school for business and learn how to be a business owner. So I got into business and just started again, also started seeing how women don't really support each other. So it made me want to create an organization like the Boss Women Network to show how women can come together and really build something positive. Um, but I can't say that I've always had the best experience.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Experience experience. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, when you get a bunch of women together sometimes, it's just like everybody wants to be the center of attention. Yes. Instead of, okay, you're good at this, sis, you got that, or I'm good at this, I got this, and trusting that you know, we can come together to make something great grow and great and be great. And so it is so hard to find that, but I'm so happy that you cultivated that because I, you know, I see when you post some of the women that come on your podcast, it is seems like you know, mostly everybody is kind of looking for that.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

So yeah, they are. Yeah. So I I never so it started out with me building the Boss Woman Network. I had I had got together with like five other women, and I I wanted to bring them in to be part owners of Boss Women Network, and you building your business, you're building, we're all building our business, and we can use the Boss Women Network as like the umbrella. We do events together, but we're branding our own businesses. All of our businesses are on the backdrop. We're promoting that, but everybody didn't understand the vision.

SPEAKER_01 4:54

They didn't understand the vision, and it's kind of like um that reminds me of kind of like the circle of CEOs in Atlanta, how they have all the guys have something different, but they're under that one umbrella. You know who they are, but I know I can tell you exactly what they do.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

And I I get, yeah, I get what you were trying to do. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

They didn't see the vision, you know, and hindsight 2020, as people would say, when I look back at that, I was a little upset at first that they didn't see the vision, they didn't understand. But then I had to look at myself and understand that I, even though people have college degrees or have been businesses, that doesn't mean they understand teamwork are pulling together. When you're in a master's program, that's kind of forced on you to work in teams to understand how to work with another person. And everybody didn't have that background. So I had that background. So I know that when it's time to show up, we show up. If we're not gonna be able to make it, you gotta let your other team neighbors know you're not gonna be able to make it. And in the in the master's program, when you have a project to work on, regardless if you don't show up, you don't have your part, you don't have your part, if you have your part and show up, you still gonna fail. You gotta be able to do their part, their part, their part, their part. You gotta have the whole project together in order for the grade. The bad part about it is even though you did all the work, everybody else still gets a benefit. Because even they even though they didn't hold their weight. So I was still doing that. I would do everybody's part and didn't care that everybody benefited because I wanted to see, I had a vision. God gave me a vision for the end goal. So I'm like, okay, maybe they'll see the vision eventually, even if I keep going. But they didn't understand that they it they felt like I was taking over, and that wasn't my intent. I just wanted to push the vision, push the vision forward, you know what I mean? So it just wasn't an alignment there, yeah, and that's just what it is.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

So I'll Yeah, it's kind of like I want to show up, whether y'all show up or not, because I wanted to keep going. Because if nobody shows up, it doesn't keep going. And I experienced something like that recently, trying to partner with somebody in a sense on something, and it just didn't work out because I can't. I'm the type of person like you, I don't really want to take breaks if I started because I feel like you lose momentum, right? And it's like we gotta keep pushing it, and it's like, oh, I need to take a break, you know. You got all these, so I totally get that, and it's hard sometimes because you really want those relationships, yes, and you want it so bad, like you get so excited, like yes, you're gonna get this done, and so yeah, and my husband's always like girl, I don't even know why you be trying it. Like, you need to stop. You need to stop, stop, just stop, just stop, yeah. So I get that, y'all. And I said this new year, I'm not doing that. I will I will collaborate, but partnerships, not those are different, yeah, yeah. I feel like that's two different things. Collaborations, I'm cool with, like, I'll come to your event, I'll show up. What you want me to do? But after that, I'm good because I've had a bad experience. So maybe later on, but like right now, I get that. Like when you say that and you say it with so much passion, because you've been hurt in the process.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

That's it being I was definitely it made me rebrand everything. Like, that's why, like, I was telling you when you came to my podcast, I'm no longer I'm still I still have Boss Women Network L L C Boss Woman Network owns the trademark for CEOS. Oh, okay. And C E O S means a female CEO, which is the person, which is who I am. And I had to take a step back from the Boss Women Network, which is community building women, helping women. CEOS is resting, building yourself, your mindset, your strength, yourself first before you can help somebody else. So that's what CEO became how it came about because of the things I experienced and realizing I gotta work on me first before I can help other people. And a lot of CEOs, women bosses, we want to help so many people, but then we slacking on helping ourselves, you know. We all have excuse me, life be life and for all of us. And sometimes we gotta deal with our own issues within before we can just start helping other people. And so that's where I'm at with it. And then COS is also as a female entrepreneur or as an entrepreneur in general, it's hard when you don't have a team, when you're not collaborating with other people, and you have to do so much by yourself. So that's why I started automating things.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

I was just about to say, I said that was one thing I forgot to say is that this is the automation queen, y'all, in the building. And so I do want to get into that because I'm falling in love with AI every single day. Every time I do something manually, I'm like, this is why I'm working on what I'm working on on the back end because I'm tired of this, like forgetting things, stuff off of your calendar. So I want you to talk a little bit about how you got into the automation space.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

Exactly. So, like I said, a part of the reason is the CEOs and focusing on myself became I can't depend on people. I can't depend on building with people because I like working with women. I I although my experience with working with men, because I do have business partners that are men, I don't have no problems. We make money, there are no issues.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

They want to get their money.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

We're not going to lunch. We're not over there talking about our problems. Yeah, we handle what you need to handle. You did this, you did this, I got this, you got that, it's done. And that's it. But with women, I think we want to go out to lunch, we want to talk about our personal problems, it get we get off track, and then all that other stuff interferes. We start not intentionally judging the other person based on what we're going through versus us actually getting to the business part, and sometimes that interferes, and I think that's the difference. Yeah, but especially with CEOS, it made me learn automation because once I figured out that they have all these AI agents and systems in place to where you can have your whole team collaborating, like if you were gonna collaborate with a lot of five women, like I was doing. Yeah, um, I have AI agents that can do the exact same thing versus now I have an AI agent, or my system is scheduling my appointments for me. Um my emails are being responded to without me doing anything. Um I have an AI phone person that answers the phone calls and can schedule it to the calendar. Um I have my podcasts, all my social media posts is being scheduled out. I'm not doing any of that. So if you see posts of mine on social media and my stories anywhere, I have not touched it since October. All that is going out on its own. I'm not doing any of that. Also, AI twins. I'm starting to allow my AI twin to kind of take over too to talk for me because sometimes we don't have ourselves made up. That's sometimes like I don't know if it's Monica or Brandy. That song just one of those days. Sometimes it's just one of those things. Okay, I want to be on camera, I don't want to pose nothing, I don't want to do anything but just lay in the bed and think or not think. Just just don't even focus on business. But the system is still going. You don't know, it's just going.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

And that is the key in business. Your system, yes, your system, it makes the business run. So having that in place is awesome. And I'm working on that because I'm like, uh-uh. All this stuff needs to be done, especially for the first quarter. Yes, like it needs to be done. Your people need to be in line, like you need to have all this stuff in order. So I do love what you've done with that because that is amazing. She also has a lot of resources. Um, yeah, talk a little bit about the resources that you have.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

So you can go to the website, bosswomannetwork.com, but it's officialce.com. Either way, you'll still end up at the same website because I didn't want to just cut off Bosswoman Network since I'm transitioning. But I may still keep the website, but officialce.com, and excuse me, you can learn a lot more about what I have to offer. I do have some resources on the Boss Women Network page if you're trying to start your business, um, how to start your business, your LLC, just different steps for that, your website. Um, I'm now starting to um offer where you can do an AI photo shoot because sometimes we don't want to go and get our makeup done, our hair done, buy clothes and do all that to get that to do a photo shoot. But now you can do a whole AI photo shoot and use that for your marketing material, your branding, and all those different types of things. And you can turn it into an AI talking twin. And you can use that. Like I wanna, I'm gonna be offering um you can do a con a whole podcast with your AI talking twin. So I'll do a whole 12 series with just your your AI talking twin or you to where your podcast is running, scheduled, and your twin is doing all the work for you. So it's I love it.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

I love it. It's so intriguing. Like it's just like, oh my god, this is possible. But yeah, it's possible because you do have the people that you know they may have a lot to offer, but they just don't want to get in front of the camera.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Yeah, they don't want to get in front of the camera. Matter of fact, I'm gonna start letting my AI do a lot of the podcasting for me next season. Do you know your solo?

SPEAKER_01 14:32

Your solos my solo sessions.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

I'm gonna let that one, but I'm gonna still do interviews and my round table discussions, but I'm gonna let the solo be the AI's twin doing all that.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

So your round table discussions, how did that come about? Like, was that something that you were just like, okay, I won't I wanna just get to interact with other uh CEOs, other women, you know, just get in their minds a little bit. Like, what was your thinking behind that?

SPEAKER_00 14:59

So my thinking was with Boss Women Network, since I was no longer trying to build community, like bringing women in and anything like that, but I want to still be able to give women the opportunity to network with each other and talk to like doctors, lawyers, business owners, all these different people that they can connect with. Um, so that's what made me do the roundtable discussion because every time I do it, the people are able to connect with each other after we get um finished. And I've had uh defense attorneys, I've had Doctor's Way in Tokyo, um Africa. It's different people from all over the world that are on these roundtable discussions, and we just have real topics, real talks about different things. Our last topic was I don't know the exact name, but I can say that it was about the benefits. Is it really beneficial to network meeting, uh building deeper relationships with women? If you're going to a restaurant, like what is the benefit of the restaurant and going to these meetups? Are you really developing?

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Are you getting work done? Like you mentioned a few a few minutes ago, like like I'm all for having a good time, but the business has to be cleared. Like, can we clear the business? Like, and I think that's the part we miss sometimes, especially in Houston. Yeah, like for some reason in Houston at the networking events, you're gonna see the same people. That's what I we spent a whole year, my husband and I going to networking events, not this past year, but the year before. We were going all of them, like hitting them up, hitting them up. But you eventually you start seeing the same people and you notice like the information is repetitive, yeah, and there's not really much being done. Like, I like workshops, I like actionable steps, like kind of like what you're gonna do when you're bringing women in to help them set their business up so that when they once you have the system, it's your job to just go, yep, create the content, market, have your AI to encrypt create the content. Like that's all you gotta do once your system's in place, right? But it's like we go and we're on these stages, we're doing all of this stuff, but the back end is not there, it's either non-existent or it's not set up properly. Yeah, um, when I went, because I always do research on my guests before they come. Of course, we all do that's good podcast hosts. I went, I didn't have to call her and say, Hey, I need a photo. There is a photo there. Um, I was like, I hope I chose the right one. She walked in, she said, Oh yeah, this is the one I use. I went and I looked at your website. I saw that you had resources, you had your offer, you had your landing page. Oh, yeah, you have content, I know where to find you. You know what I'm saying? Like it was easy.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Oh, well, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Yeah, because her system's in place, and so it just shows like what you're talking about, the things you're representing is real, right? And so, what I've noticed is at networking events, you start Googling these people that are on these panels and you start going in there, and it's not there. Really, it's not there. A lot of them, I'm not gonna say everybody, but a lot of them is it's not there. So, I definitely that's a good topic. I would have loved to um listen in on that one because I have to get you on another one because you had one before. Yeah, that's a good topic.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

Yeah, because it's yeah, a lot of the women were saying that they don't really fully see the benefit, it's not really a fully a benefit in going to these networking events. All these are they're not really establishing deeper connections with the women that they're meeting. They may exchange numbers and then after they leave, it's nothing after that.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

And it's like, did you really learn something? Did you really learn something? That you can take it back to your business and put it into action. So I I love that. Do you were you like um surprised by some of the feedback?

SPEAKER_00 18:43

I was, I was, and then they were talking about how it's hard to b build friendships as an adult, you know, how difficult that is, and then trying to go to lunch to try to connect with somebody and things like that. And I was like, most definitely, because I have the hardest time being an introvert, you know, you are an introvert too, so it's hard to connect.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

Y'all know they already know, they already know.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Introverts have the hardest time, okay?

SPEAKER_01 19:14

It's like an awkward energy. I don't know, I'm sure you felt that like you will go somewhere and then it gets awkward for a second, and then you're just like, oh shh, like it's just the feeling that you get. But I mean, I think that it's needed, but I would love to go to a networking event where it's like we got our laptops, we got our stuff, and we're like, okay, what you got going on? It's like a mastermind almost.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

Oh, that would be great. You know what I'm saying? You should create that.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

My other friend just told me that. She's like, Are we doing a mastermind? I'm like, Yeah, we should do one in February.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

We should. I'm gonna be there with my laptop.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

Yeah, bring your laptop because, like you said, sometimes you just want to run something by people that actually know something that can probably say, Oh, yeah, you can do this to fix that. Yep. Because we don't have all the answers.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

And I don't mind sharing, you know, a lot of people. Don't a lot of people gatekeep. I don't know if we were talking about that last time, but a lot of people gatekeep information. Of course, you still want to get paid for your services and your time. Yeah. But it's okay to share, you know.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

And the thing about gatekeeping is like I can tell you something. Like I could give you the plug, but it's up to you to plug it in.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Right.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Some people not even gonna plug it in anyway. You can give them the essay. They still like what? Like they still like, oh, I gotta do all that. They don't want to go through the process.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

You gotta have a drive.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Yeah, you do. It's mindset. It's the mindset with every single thing. So let's talk about Leilani outside of the brand.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Who is Leylani outside of the brand?

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Leilani outside of the brand. Like I said, she is a total introvert. Okay. She is at home. She is a nerd, always studying while everybody at the club or they out having drinks and they out partying. I am on my computer most times to like three and four in the morning. I'm researching something. I'm taking a course. I'm learning something new. I'm always learning something new. That's why if you were ever teaming up with me, every time we come to the table, this was happening when I was working with the women. Every time we come to the table, I told I'm there with something new I learned to share with everybody. I don't I didn't mind sharing it. If you need to learn it, I'm gonna teach you how to do it. Did I use it? But no, you know, sometimes people get intimidated by you coming with all this information, and then it kind of makes them. I think it can kind of make a person feel like they're not doing enough if every time you come.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

But I want to be around friends like that.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

Like make me feel like I ain't doing enough. Like, girlfriend, me too. But everybody don't have that mindset because it'll make me step it up. I'm like, okay, next time I come to the meeting, I'm gonna have some more.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

I'm gonna have some of my I saw this on Instagram yesterday. Uh, it was a group of friends that got together to to review the year, and so they each walked up and they put a flag in a cake, and it said, Oh, I lost 40 pounds this year. Oh, I love that. I I scaled my business to 100,000 this year. Like they all celebrated, they were celebrating what they accomplished this year and I thought that was so cool, so cool, and it was all like real goals, like real things. And so, wouldn't it be awesome to just do that?

SPEAKER_00 22:18

It would.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Like, I just I had one of my childhood friends on earlier as a guest, and she has a business now, and so we were talking about that, but we were just talking about how everybody's leveling up in some way, yeah, but yet we're all so independent that we don't ask for help, like we don't lean on each other when we really can, but we don't because we're so like we're gonna get it done, you know.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

I don't know, I don't have any entrepreneur friends like that, but if I did, I would definitely be calling. Yeah, I would definitely be called. Or I'll be if I see some, if I see you doing something, and I'll be like, hey, you know, you probably could do this, this, and this, and this. Or I'll show you how to do this. But by me being such an introvert, I don't really have any close business um friends. All my friends that I've had since school, I look at them as family now, so I don't look at them as friends, yeah. And we're all we see each other maybe once or twice a year for birthdays and stuff like that. But um, like close business friends, God has not aligned that yet. Yeah, it's coming with the right people that have the right the same mindset to where we actually have those little yeah uh luncheon with our computers and we're sitting there talking and giving out tips to each other. Not yet, but I'm gonna be at yours when you right.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

I'm gonna invite you to because I just love that you're about your business, and that's what I noticed about you. You're very like calm. You have this, she has this uh calmness about her, and I think you're so calm, y'all, because she has her system in place, she don't have no chaos going on all the babies.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Not anymore. Oh my god, I can't say I didn't have any chaos, not anymore. Okay, those systems have definitely saved me a lot of stress, and I'm still working on them because I I want to make sure that they're continuingly, continuously smooth.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Yeah, because sometimes you have to tweak it, you know, you have to look at some things and be like, okay, no, this is working, this is not, and I think that's just part of growing as a business owner, yeah, um, too. So Leilani outside of the brand, y'all. She's chill, she's at home, she's in the house.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Oh, yeah, and I'm a mom and a wife. I can't leave out the fact that I am a mom and a wife, so I have all those duties as well as being a business.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

And you're an age gap mom. So we talked about that a little bit when I came on your show.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Um, I'm not gonna tell my age.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

She's not gonna tell her age, but you know, she has she has some adult children and she has some younger children, and so I do have an adult son, and I have two younger children that are just now one is 11 and one is um my daughter is 13, but I will not tell you how old my adult son uh is because you're gonna try to figure out my age. You look good, y'all not gonna figure it out. I wanna see if y'all can get y'all not gonna figure out.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

I also have stepchildren too. My um, my uh husband had kids before we got married.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

So that's awesome. That's awesome. And now with the holidays, y'all all get to get together, you know. It's it's just a cool little vibe. So you get to kind of get out of CEO mode and go into the mommy hostess mode.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

But do you know what? As a business person, do you feel like you ever get out of it?

SPEAKER_01 25:32

No, I'm like, don't ask me even on dates, even on dates over here talking about the business. Yeah, that's crazy. I said I'm gonna start writing all these dinners and dates off because man, we're supposed to be chilling. We over here talking about the business. Um, even with my friends, I'm like, uh, I hate when they bring it up because I'm like, I'm trying not to be that person. Yes, but I'm glad you're asking. Well, I don't want to be the one like always talking about work.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

I can't help it.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

Yeah, it's hard. It's hard.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Then if you are that person, if you have family members that know you're a business-minded person, my family members call me for everything, especially my hate it though.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Do you like it? It it's cool, but then it can get a little draining because you feel like you're the only one that everybody depends on. That's the thing.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Yes, my mom got me being the lawyer, the um, the business manager. Uh I'm fighting cases for my God. It's all crazy because with real estate and and being a she has a landlord tenant situation going on that I have to help her with. Yeah. So now I'm researching different cases and putting stuff to putting paperwork together, packets together to take to court, um to fight on her behavior. Documentation. Yeah, so it's like it's crazy, it's crazy. And then with another situation, um, she had me putting a bunch of papers and packets together for her. I had to do that. Then I'm going back and forth with the people. I don't want to go too deep in her business, but then I'm always winning the the us. Yeah, that's why she keeps calling me.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

She's like, I'm gonna ask my daughter, she can do it.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

Yeah, she'd be like, My daughter's gonna handle it. This is her pamph.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

My yeah. My daughter's a real estate broker, she knows she's gonna handle it for you.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

She's gonna handle it for me.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Yeah, and then that was my look. We segue and right on in because the real estate, and so it seems like your family is into real estate. Like it started with your mom and dad.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

They're not in no my mom. Like I said, she was in fashion design school, so she's into clothes. Okay, like she's gonna make your outfit. Like when they were younger, when they would go out, she would make their whole outfits to be matching before they would step out to something.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

Oh, so that's where the style comes from, mommy. I guess so, because I didn't even realize it.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

Like I even make stuff for my husband, like the jackets with his logos and stuff like that. Nice. You designed with the logos and stuff like that. And the shoes, he had shoes, jackets, um, um, even had a duffel bag with all his logo stuff.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

She said, I guess so. Except for your mom, mom, except from you.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Sorry, yeah, she's gonna be like, uh, what? It did. Except for I'm not actually doing the sewing like you know, with the channel. You just designed a bit, yeah. The technology now, they make it a lot easier for us.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

She she can sew. She don't look like that. Oh, mama, mama's like she's like, was she like the you know how back in the day you could go to the fabric store and get those patterns?

SPEAKER_00 28:31

Oh, yeah. She was she's a real uh buying the patterns, making the pattern. Oh wow. When I was in elementary school, she sold all my dresses. I always had on a new dress. I used to be I used to like it, but didn't like it because when you're in elementary school, you want to play during recess. I don't have on a dress.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

With the stockings, don't forget the stockings.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

Run around and do all that with a dress on. So to this day, I don't even like to wear dresses as much because she always had me in dress. So if I have on a dress, that means I'm I'm feeling myself that day because I'm not she's like, I'm tired.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

Look, I'm done. My mama did look, she burned it out.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

She did. I do not like to wear dresses like that to this day, but I will put on a dress.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

Oh wow. So the um broker, how how did that come about? So when you first became a real estate agent, you were under someone else, correct? You have to be like, is it five years?

SPEAKER_00 29:26

How long it is four to five, but it could be longer. Now they it used to be two years. Oh, okay. Um, but after that they changed it. They would change it right when I get my license. Right. I would have got my broker license two years later, but they changed it to where um you you have to be in there at least four four to five years consecutively, but you have to have a certain amount of points. So that means you have to have sold a certain amount of houses, rental properties, lease leases, um worked with you know, buyers, sellers. You had to put people in property, sold some properties consecutively for five years before they will give you your broker's license now. At two when I first got in, all you had to do is have your real estate license for two years. You didn't have to they didn't care about the sales or any of that.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Now they made it harder.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

They made it harder, but it was better because you got more experience. You're not just becoming a broker. Because when you're a broker, you are over other realtors. You know, because when you're a new realtor, you have to be under a broker before you can just go sell real estate.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

So and if you got your broker license after two years, you don't know anything about the business after two years. I've been in the business for 15 years now. You're still learning. And still learning because the laws are changing. They're they're always changing. So it's always something new to learn. So yeah, I got into it a way when I was in my twenties because like I said, working at a job and you don't really like how things are being how you're being handled. Then one of the bosses was like, You should get into real estate. I say, Why? Because one of my friends was already, she already had her real estate license and I had had no interest in it. She had talked to me about it before I didn't have an interest. Um but he was just he just made it sound so great. So I just went on ahead and went to real estate school, paid for the classes, and did it. And then when I was there to get my um what was that? I was in orientation and there was a broker there and she was looking for some realtors. She had just moved from California to here because she had a real estate life, a real estate company in LA and Beverly Hills, and then she had was moved here so she can open up one day. And she was looking for some realtors and met me and another lady that I was sitting with and took us on and wanted us to be a part of her purse realtor. And what was so great about it was that she was a lawyer too, so she was very knowledgeable. And she was also a lawyer for Capitol Records. So she had been working with Capitol Records for a long time and helping, you know, them like Snoop and all these different people um with their record deals and then getting into the real estate and knowing about contracts and and very professional with her deals and things like that. It was she really helped me with marketing and branding and really knowing how to really just handle real estate because I worked, you know, a lot of brokers don't do this, but she was hands-on. I went with her to the open houses, I went with her to when she was closing deals, went with her to networking events, watched how she networked with people, just how she handled business all together, how she was putting together her marketing, had me sitting there watching how she was doing everything. So that helped me. Yeah, I'm one of those hands-on type of people.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

Yeah, I bet that was the best experience though. Because sometimes what I see is a lot of new agents, they get their license and then after a while they go back to work or they stop because they don't have anybody like taking them through the real process.

SPEAKER_00 32:56

She did, she did, and that was a major help. It helped me fully understand when we're going into those houses and she's showing her clients the properties, and I'm just watching how she handles her clients, you know, walking through the houses with them, talking about the property, having a little pamphlets together for them, just different little things like that. And when I but before her, I did try my hand with another broker, and she was like, I want you to do an open house for me. And I was like, Okay. I was like, What do I do? She was just saying it'll be open for you when you go in there and it'll have some um drinks and chips on the table.

SPEAKER_01 33:28

And I was like, Okay, but what do I do?

SPEAKER_00 33:32

What do I do? She didn't even she wasn't even there. Oh wow. So I didn't even know what to do. I was like, okay, and then her pamphlets, they were not professional looking, look like she just And then people are asking you stuff about the pamphlets. Yeah. So I was like, okay, this is not gonna work. Yeah. I don't she didn't even explain anything to me. I just did the open house by myself and I don't even know how to especially your first one. I was lost, okay. So that that taught me that when I do start working with realtors, I'm going to definitely hands-on trade them. Um, if I decide to go that route. But what I do want to do with my real estate business is become a silent broker. Because before I got my broker license, um, I had a silent broker. I want to help realtors build their own brand instead of coming under a brokerage and you're building their brand. Because when you start as a realtor, you have to promote the the broker brand the whole time. Their company, their company. But my silent broker, once I left the other, the lady that helped me, I branched out on my own and started my own real estate company as a realtor. I wasn't even a broker yet. I met a another broker along the way, and he was telling me, you don't have to have your broker license. You don't, yeah. Start your own real estate company. And he allowed me to have build a team under me before even having my license. And a lot of realtors don't know you can do that.

SPEAKER_01 34:55

They don't.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

So I started building my own real estate company, and he was just my silent broker, signing off on the contracts, doing all that got his little percentage and moved on. Yeah, while I have the brand, I'm building my own brand. And as soon as I got my broker's license, all I have to do is remove his name and put my name there, and I'm still promoting my real estate company.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Yeah, and that's how it should be. And then with you being knowledgeable now, you can educate the people, like you said, that come along. Yeah, that if they decide to come along, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

You'll be in real estate for 10 years building up a broker's brand, and you have to start over once you decide, okay, I don't want to.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

To go out on your own because they only know that brand.

SPEAKER_00 35:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

Because you've you've been promoting it. Like, um, there's one really popular one, KW. Oh, yeah. They are really popular, and everybody that like I don't see nothing else. That's all I see. So I get it.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Yeah, they like have the top training course. Yeah, they do things like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

They do, but again, it's possible to build your own brand.

SPEAKER_00 35:55

I mean, me being a small or boutique like firm, I like to have like I want my clients to feel comfortable, not like they're going to this big, huge organization. Um, be comfortable enough to where you can call me, we can talk about it, I can go with you to the properties. Because in these larger organizations, it's like going to a big corporate for a firm. You get lost in the sauce. You're not really developing any relationships with anybody per se, versus working with a small boutique firm. And that's what I learned by working with that particular broker. You're actually building relationships with people. Um, and it's not like you're just a a little small fish in a pond.

SPEAKER_01 36:35

Yeah, you and people love that, like they like to feel important, you know, they want to feel like you care, like you've done your research, not just trying to get a sale real quick so you can get your commission and move on. Yeah, you know, they want to feel like family, and so I think the smaller field does give you that. So I love that. I love that you're doing that. I love that you're you have the desire to just want to help and to bring people together. Now, I know you're you've you're brainstorming during this time that you're off because our brain is never really off as entrepreneurs. Your brain is never really off. And so, what does that look like for you moving forward? Like, do you feel like you're gonna continue to build your team in real estate? And also to on your um boss women's side, are you looking to expand again, or are you are you just trying to like build your online presence?

SPEAKER_00 37:29

Build my online presence. Yeah, I am not looking to expand again.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

She started laughing, y'all. She's like, didn't we just talk about that?

SPEAKER_00 37:36

No more, no more, no more. Okay, well, I'ma say when God aligns that for that to happen, then it'll happen like that. But for now, yeah, I'm on building my own myself and my online presence. Yes, building my brand about me instead of focusing on everybody else.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

And that's and and I think there's nothing wrong with that. Like, I think when we say it, sometimes we're like, are we being selfish? But at the same time, and I'm saying that because I'm speaking for me too. But at the same time, it's like it feels right for me. It does. Like, if God shows me something different, then yes, but it just feels right, it feels like I'm doing what I need to be doing because I feel like you don't have to be around tons and tons of women every single day in order to pour into their lives and build connections. Yes, like I don't have to be in your face every day, but I am in your face, right?

SPEAKER_00 38:30

You know what? How I knew that I was headed in the right direction, because the whole time I was trying to build with other people and do a podcast, I could never get past five or seven, seven episodes. Wow, maybe ten. But the minute last year till now I started doing it by myself, I have 112 episodes that I did one year. Okay one year just for myself by herself, yes.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

So that tells me that part God wanted me to do it by myself, and He designed and He equipped you for this, for this moment, for this year, to put that monkey on your back and be like, girl, you got this. Because I mean, to be honest with you, I feel like everything doesn't need a partner. Like, you don't need a partner for everything, everybody doesn't need a partner, especially when you have a certain type of work ethic. Yes, and it's like once you set your mind on something, you're like, I got that, I want that, I'm gonna get that. That's it. I don't know how, but I'm gonna go. This is what I have in place right now, and God, you're gonna have to do the rest. Yep. So you're just that type of person, and I feel like when you're self-motivated like that, you don't really need people to help you go forward, they will slow you down, they will slow you down if they do not have the same type of drive as you, mindset as you, hustle, work ethic, work ethic.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

Oh my god, they will slow you down. So obviously, that was being slowed down, and it was just not the right alignment. And God was trying to show me that. But I thought that what he wanted to do.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

You wanted to bring everybody along.

SPEAKER_00 40:03

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

I thought that's what I our hearts want to see everybody win, y'all. We really truly do.

SPEAKER_00 40:08

But we can't do the work for you. Nope, can't do the work for you. I can help you, but I can't do the work for you. You gotta you gotta be serious about your own your own brand. You gotta work just as hard for your own brand and then be coming to the table with something so we can build together.

SPEAKER_01 40:26

I think that's why it's hard for people to invest in themselves, like to spend money or to like me pay you, like show me how to do something. You know what I'm saying? I think it's hard for people to do that because they feel like, oh, you didn't you didn't give me anything, but give me doesn't mean doing, like, I can't do it for you. Like, I can guide you through this, but I can't do the work. In order for you to see the results, you have to do the work and you have to be consistent. So the thing about, like, for example, you just say you try to partner with somebody on your podcast and you got about seven episodes done. I'm assuming, and this is just me assuming, you can tell me if I'm wrong, that they couldn't record at this time, they have some going on at this time. Oh, I'm tired. You know, all the things that come into play when you're working with somebody sometimes, you know, all of their personal issues.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

We all have personal issues. I am not um just I'm I am not removed from having personal life problems. Life be life and for everybody. But when it's time to show up, I'm showing up. Yeah, I'm not gonna let my personal problems interfere in us getting the job done. Now I might gripe about it. If we're close enough, I'll tell you about some of the things I'm going through. But I'm still gonna get that work done.

SPEAKER_01 41:47

There you go. There you go. And somebody needs to hear that, okay? You're gonna always have something going on, but at the end of the day, you gotta get the work done. Like you just do it if you want to see growth, because we have to constantly be evolving, we have to constantly be moving, and when you're just sitting there watching everybody else and using everything you're going through as an excuse, you stay stagnant, stay stagnant, you stay stagnant, you don't move, and uh, you continue to watch Leilani like, oh, she's doing great. Oh my god, and guess what?

SPEAKER_00 42:20

Time is moving, and you're still sitting there, I'm still excelling, I'm still learning something new. You could have been working with me, and we could have been building together. I could have been showing you different things to help you excel in your business too. Especially if we're on the same team, I'm gonna make sure you win. I'm gonna make sure that you know, I'm not gonna just have this knowledge and not share it with you. I'm gonna push you. You're not gonna like me because I'm gonna push you. I'm gonna I'm gonna push you.

SPEAKER_01 42:47

Y'all, you gonna you're gonna get real mad because your friends that are doing something, they always gonna remind you of what you said you was gonna do that you're not doing, and that's being a good friend. Like to me, I mean I might get mad for a second, but I'm like, dang, yeah, keep bringing that up.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

Yep, you might not like it, right? But you're gonna sit back and think about it.

SPEAKER_01 43:06

You're gonna think about it, and you're gonna be like, Man, I need to do something. And so I feel like you are literally doing your thing. You show up every single day, like whether it's your AI twin or not. I just know that like Lonnie's gonna post something, yeah, something's gonna be posted every day, and I've seen your threads account just grow. Oh, yeah, people interacting with you. I I don't really like threads, but I when I get on there, guess who I'ma see? She's at the top. That's how I ended up connecting with her because I saw her on threads, and she was asking, you know, hey, she's has having a panel, and so that's how we connected. But just by you showing up, you've connected all these people, yeah. And that is so amazing.

SPEAKER_00 43:50

Now I do be on threads, I might not be on any of the other social media, everything is just posting automatically, but I do make sure I post on threads on threads too because it it requires you to be more interactive personally versus just some automated stuff.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

Yeah, and I like threads because it seems like everybody on there is kind of business minded. It's nothing like no craziness is on there.

SPEAKER_00 44:13

Well, well, I don't know. I did go through some craziness. I think I I went viral. Oh my god. I I got I don't know if I told you when you came on my podcast, but I got I went viral for I was totally disrespected. The the the the non-black people came for me. Oh my god, all because I said 70% of black women have master's degrees and the non-black people went crazy because I was celebrating myself and other black women that have master's degrees, you know, and 70%, but it was it's technically 70% amongst the black community. But I didn't go I didn't say all that. I just said 70% of black women have master's degrees, and I'm one of them. And so that made the non-black people go crazy. It was I was being called the N-word monkey. I was called so many things just because I said that. And they was like, do your research, do your research.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

I was like, wow, I didn't know it was that serious that they were all in my but it's like crazy how they and and I love all people, let's be clear. Me too. But it's like, you know, there's some stuff that we're not included in that they post that they do, and we're just not included, and we don't throw a fit, no, but it's like if we say one thing, it's like whoa.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

Yes, and I recently said uh Jasmine Crockett is running for US Senate, and they got mad at that. And I said they said, You don't know for sure she's not running for Senate, you don't know for sure. They would kept saying that, kept saying that, and I said, Well, I'm manifesting it. You gotta speak it into existence. That's how you speak things into existence. And look, yesterday, she announced it. She's announced that she's running.

SPEAKER_01 46:00

And I love the way I love the way she announced it. I was like, Oh my god, black girl magic is so real, y'all. I'm sorry to tell y'all, it is surreal because when we're clever, we're clever. Clever. That was marketing at its finest. I love the way she did it, but I mean, like you said, it's always gonna be something, but and most importantly, you have to keep going because you could have easily said, I'm not gonna post on here no more.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

Yeah, it did hurt my feelings. I ain't gonna lie, not the Jazz McCrockett thing.

SPEAKER_01 46:27

Oh, yeah, but I'm talking about the other one.

SPEAKER_00 46:28

Yeah, that was it, it definitely hurt my feelings because it got up to like I mean, it it did get up to like a hundred thousand wow views on that little on the, you know, it got quite a bit of people, and it was a lot of negative comments on there. Now, now I understand how when celebrities say it be some of that stuff on there be hurting their feelings when they feel like they're attacked, and I didn't even understand. I'm like, how you gonna feel mad about people you don't know?

SPEAKER_01 46:52

But now I see it can hurt your feelings, and I think it makes it worse because it's like, dang, this is what y'all think about me. And it shows you though that the things that we don't want to still exist, it still exists.

SPEAKER_00 47:05

It hurt my feelings for all people. I love everybody black, white, Asian, India, Pacific. I I don't care who you are because we all have a different struggle in some type of way, in some way, and we all have ways that we can help each other.

SPEAKER_01 47:20

Yes, we all have something to bring to the table, whether you're white, black, or whatever. But it's just crazy how if we celebrate our race, we get bashed for it. Yeah, and it's like, y'all, we don't even got that much stuff, right?

SPEAKER_02 47:35

We don't even have y'all.

SPEAKER_01 47:36

Come on, like the place that we're in now is our ancestors' wildest dreams, like the stuff that we're doing now, being women, CEOs, bosses, founders, you know, having all these accolades, having degrees, having bank accounts. Yeah, because that wasn't that long ago that women couldn't have bank accounts, like you couldn't even have a bank account of your own. So it's like women are making so many moves, and black women at that, that's just another thing added to the plate. And I just love it and it needs to be celebrated, and it's crazy because we would think that our other sisters and brothers would be able to celebrate that, but it's they don't, they don't and it's crazy because a lot of the kids who transfer from HBCUs to PWIs, their credits don't count, they have to start over almost. Wow, and that just shows you like it's still a real thing, like to say, oh, that means nothing when the professors have the same type of degrees, they have the same type of credentials, but because it's a HBCU, it doesn't transfer. And that's crazy to me. Find any kind of way to hold us down, to hold us down because um there's this kid, he has a um his degree was gonna be in engineering, but he transferred for football, but he didn't need that many credits. He was about to graduate, they didn't take half of his credits. That's horrible, it's horrible. So he's graduating, but not with that degree. But he is starting his electrician company still. He he just went to go get to be certified, but it's like dang, he only needed a full few credits. I I hope he goes back to the HC HBCU later to finish it, yeah, because it's all the same. Yeah, it is all the same, but it's all the same, but that's America for you. But that's crazy that that happened, but you're still not afraid to post. So y'all, y'all gotta be willing to take the good with the bad because it's gonna happen. I sometimes I don't even look at my comments. I I may take time. Sometimes I'll just say, let me look, but every now and then I'll I'll comment back. But I've noticed like I just kind of blocked that stuff out. Yeah. Because you're gonna get a mixture of both. I like the good, but you're gonna get a mixture of both. That's so true. So, what's coming up for the podcast? So what's coming up? What's new for your podcast?

SPEAKER_00 49:55

What's new for the podcast is my AI twin is going to be taking over. Oh, I'm excited to see it. She's gonna do all my individual um podcast episodes. But I'm also gonna be giving out doing like um training tips on some of the episodes to where I'm gonna teach you the different podcast, different automation things that you can use um for your business. So once a month I'm gonna do a whole Zoom session and podcast about maybe teaching you how to do your AI photo shoot or your your own AI talking to it. Um, how to set up your own um email to where it's responding to emails for you without you having your own AI assistant that's responding to your emails and scheduling your podcast, are your are your podcast interviews or your work, whatever you kind of work you do, they're scheduling it for you on your calendar. And all you have to do is show up to the meeting.

SPEAKER_01 50:53

I love it.

SPEAKER_00 50:54

Different things like that, and then still interviewing guests. Um but I want to take it up a notch with the guests that I'm interviewing, more established business owners, so they can um really give out some strong business tips for the viewers. Because this this year I interviewed a little bit of everybody, whether you were just getting started, hadn't started yet, wanted some business ideas, um, established, just a little bit of everybody. So I'm kind of narrowing it down so it won't be 112 interviews.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

This year is gonna be more it's gonna have more structure and streamline to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta get that way. Cause I I did that, I did that too. Like I just was interviewing a little bit everybody, and I was like, Oh, yeah. Sometimes you have to bet, like, you know, almost like a forum where you can look to see, like, so maybe adding a few more questions that are like asking certain things, so you kind of can figure out if this person's a good fit. Like, I realize what that means now. Yeah, because I used to be like, that's not cool, you know. Let me just, but it's like it may not be a good fit, and that's okay. Yeah, and that's okay, it's okay, y'all. Everybody that fills out a form doesn't necessarily fit the platform.

SPEAKER_00 52:06

Yeah, because yeah, I'm literally I was having like mental health specialists, which is great. I was having a literally a little bit of everybody, a psychic um people telling you about things. Um the coach talking to you about menopause and things like that that we go through, a coach talking to us about um postpartum depression after you have a baby, just a lot of helpful information that women actually go through. Um but I'm again gonna narrow it down. Those people don't I still have all those people on the round table discussion, whether you're just getting started, yeah, getting started, established, because that way you can network with people that are established, get some advice, yeah. So they'll be on the round table discussions, but as far as like the regular interviews, I'm kind of going leaning more towards more established business, and that's good because then that's gonna help.

SPEAKER_01 52:57

Look, that's gonna help us because I can get on there and be nosy to see who we can pick out to come to the luncheon. Like, oh yeah, I like her, she's on her, you know what I'm saying? It makes it easier, it makes it easier for you to vet through who's really her. Because I mean, I love giving women their credit. Like when you're doing your thing, you're doing your thing.

SPEAKER_00 53:15

That's what's up now.

SPEAKER_01 53:16

If you're not, then we need to talk. You gotta get on it, sis. You gotta get on it. You gotta get on it because it's easy to get on panels and to look cute. We all want to put on a suit, we want to put on our heels and get, you know, I'm saying that's cute, but make sure that what you're representing is really what you're representing. That's all, yeah, you know, and making sure that it's a good fit for your platform, yeah. Because you know, you may have a certain direction that you're going, and everybody is not gonna fit like a psychic, probably is not gonna be, you know what I'm saying? So not for this season, not for the season that you're gonna be in.

SPEAKER_00 53:49

But that was good, she was very helpful though, because I got some good information for her from her.

SPEAKER_01 53:53

Oh, I had a hypnosis, I had a what is it, hypnotist?

SPEAKER_00 53:56

Oh, you did? Okay, no, I've been in there.

SPEAKER_01 53:59

Oh, I'm telling you from it, a little bit of everything. Yeah, no, I had a hypnotist, I think she was hypnot, a hypnotist. I think that's how you say it. I think so too. Yeah, she was really cool, but I didn't know so much went into that, so I learned a lot like about your diet, all of that. So, no, I got some great information. I just did I just right now, like the more I evolve as a podcaster, yeah. I don't think that's where I'm going. But so we're on the it was great, yeah. Yeah, it and I don't do doubles. Do you do doubles? What do you mean? Like interviewing coming back again.

SPEAKER_00 54:28

Yeah, I have interviewed one person again. Okay, how was it? She wanted to come back. It was great. She was she's a professor at a college, like she's uh uh doc what's Dr. Michelle um Finnick. She came back twice. She was she gives out like really good helpful information. So it depends on who it is.

SPEAKER_01 54:44

Well, I was I'm asking because I was like contemplating whether I wanted to do that or not, because I did have a couple people ask, so I'm like, I think it depends on who it is and what kind of information that they're getting okay, but just not anybody done being coming back just for a random time.

SPEAKER_00 54:59

She's coming back for a third time, she's already trying to come back again.

SPEAKER_01 55:02

She's like, I gotta see where I'm at.

SPEAKER_00 55:04

I don't mind her coming back though, because she has some good information.

SPEAKER_01 55:08

See, and and if I'm learning something, then it's like sometimes I'm like, man, somebody else might need that. Like the automation thing. I know a couple people that are probably tuned in because they might be hitting you up because we've been something we've been talking about, because it's only gonna help you get better. And I feel like people are scared of it, but it's not anything to be scared of. Like AI scares people for some reason.

SPEAKER_00 55:30

What we we should be afraid of is doing it all by ourselves. It's hard trying to manage the phone calls, manage the emails, um, manage your calendar, manage your social media because we get stressed out making sure we post it on social media enough, especially like you said in the earlier in the interview when you're helping people.

SPEAKER_01 55:48

Yes, it's hard to be, you know, like balanced when you're trying to help people and then you're trying to help yourself. Yes, so it's a lot, but I love the space and the season that you're in. Thank you. Y'all make sure y'all go follow her at Leilani Business. That's it, right? That is right, it's gonna be up on the screen. Y'all go follow her, go like interact with her stuff. This episode is going to be dropping um in January, and so comment when it comes out, y'all are gonna see clips like y'all always do. Make sure y'all are following us on all platforms. And so I always ask my guests what's the last thing that you want the people to know or anything you want to leave them with. It could be a gym, it could be something you want them to know about you.

SPEAKER_00 56:30

Well, I will say two things one thing about me and one thing about a gym. Um the gym is never quit. No matter if you are struggling in business or you get you you get into a place where you feel stuck, even if you have a pivot and start on something else, and don't feel bad about having to restart and build a different brand than what you was already working on for some years. That could mean that God is trying to get you to focus on something else. And it's okay to start over and rebrand. So just never quit and keep going no matter what anybody says. Listen to God and let God guide your steps. As far as about me, um don't always believe what you hear, not just with me with people, get to know people for yourself and pay attention to their character and their integrity and their walk. Because that's what matters when you're dealing with people.

SPEAKER_01 57:33

That is so true. Experience people for yourself, yeah. Get the feel for yourself because they could be reacting away because of something else. Like, so you don't really know. So I love that. I love that. If y'all didn't take anything else from that from this episode, make sure that you're writing it down, those last two things she said, because that's key, y'all. When you when you're trying to do anything, it doesn't necessarily have to just be business, but don't be afraid to start over. Yeah, like don't be afraid, go get it, go out there, rebrand as many times as you need to. Yes, because sometimes it's just what we have to do. And our motto over here is change, pivot, and shift. Those are our three power words. Change, pivot, and shift as many times as you need to and give yourself grace always, y'all. Always again. I love you guys. That's it for this episode. Thank you so much, Leila.

SPEAKER_00 58:24

This place is beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 58:25

Thank you, and we'll see you guys in the next episode.

unknown 58:28

Bye.

SPEAKER_01 58:29

That's all, ladies. Thanks for tuning into another episode of the Allow Yourself Grace podcast. I'm so glad you took a little time today to grow, reflect, and give yourself the love you deserve. Remember, no matter what season you're in, you can change, you can pivot, and you can shift into the woman you're becoming with grace. If you love this episode, don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend who needs a little reminder that she's not alone. Until next time, give yourself some grace, girl. You're doing better than you think.