Girlhood → Sisterhood → CEO Era

Some people find business partners.
We were born with ours.
Talking about sisterhood, growth, and what it really looks like building something together.
This episode is us — unfiltered and real. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Hi guys, this is 702 Cheese May. I'm Samantha. And I'm Sabrina. So we decided to change up this episode. We were going to talk about being women and owning a business, but we decided to switch it up about being sisters and owning a business together. Because now that our faces we're showing more face, people are surprised it's two sisters that own 702 Market. So we want to talk basically about the good, the funny, the hard, and the very girly parts of it. So this week has been kind of stressful. I mean, we just finished the last event that was a pretty big event. We had the road closure. Well, I think we need to give like the sad news that we decided to do this every other week instead of. Oh no, don't give the sad news. So guys. Emotional moment here. Yes. We spoke too soon. I guess you can say. We spoke too soon and we made promises and we're like that one X, and we're sorry that we didn't keep our promise. We're 1X. And we all have that. So we said we were gonna do it every week, but not thinking that we have events like every other week. So we're gonna instead of doing the podcast every week, we're gonna change it to every other week, and we're gonna have enough time to promote it so you guys can actually listen to it and don't miss it. But not even promote, it's more for you guys to get like the anticipations every other week. So that's the That's the first, the sad news. So the sad news and then the good news is we had the first road closure, which is really exciting. We were on the news. What else happened? And then we're having our next event, which is our Valentine's event, which is the first time that we've had on Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_04 2:40

That is true.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

Obviously, we've never had that in the three years of markets. We don't do Valentine's ourselves, so Yeah, we're gonna be working instead, but so we have that going on, and I don't know. How do you feel about this week, Snatha?

SPEAKER_04 2:55

Uh stressed. I think what we've been saying it's always stressful the week of the events, even like the two weeks, it's stressful.

SPEAKER_03 3:04

Yeah. It's nonstop. We're doing the next road closure, so it's like we're gonna be able to do that. We just had the city meeting and that one's approved for sure. So it's one thing after another, and then we have new ideas that we keep putting on our plate. Yeah, new ideas, and then we're also doing like dealing with our life too. Yeah. So it's like hard to do. And honestly, we don't even get into our personal life. I feel like we get boring and all we talk about is business, business. And we don't want it to just be about business, we want it to get personal with you guys and like have you guys learn more about us also.

SPEAKER_04 3:39

Yeah, because you guys always just hear about the market and maybe it could be boring. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:45

And some of you guys might not relate to it, so we want to be more relatable. Yeah. And we're females, so we're just gonna get relatable in that way though. And maybe a little too personal, like you're like TMI, like I didn't mean to know that. There might be some moments like geez, they didn't have to say that. But overall it's been good. Can't complain. Good year. Yeah, good start of the year. Good start of the year. Stress grateful, but can't complain. Okay, so this week, Samantha, what's something that made you laugh? Girl, I don't think you asked me. What do you you didn't ask me back the question. Sorry. What was your question? What's something that made you feel what I don't know. What was the question again? How has your week been? Honestly, I can't complain. Very grateful. I feel like I've been tired. My arm has been hurting. I got this random pain on my arm. So I feel like something I lifted out of the trailer, I must have pulled like a nerve or like a muscle. So that happened, and that's it. Yeah, pretty. Just tired, relaxing, catching up on business. Okay. So back to the question, what's something that made you feel emotional this week? Emotional? Nothing yet. Yeah, nothing yet. I I think I was more emotional last week because it was the first road closure. So it was like a really big deal to us. Something that's Well, not last week. It was like it was two weeks. No. No, it was last week. No. Do you not know your weeks? We're recording this week's Mantha. Yeah, it would have been I don't know. Oh my god. Guys, and then I had a breakdown during the event, so that like mentally mentally exhausted me. My dad was getting mad at me for the trailer. Even though it was even though we're adults, we still get in trouble. I feel like to an extent, we still get in trouble. But during events, there's always like one argument we have with someone between the four of us. So it's like bound to happen. We know it's coming, and now we're workers they hear the rest of it. So they know it's coming too. Yeah. So last event, I guess, it was too quiet. My dad handles the speakers. It was too quiet in one section. I was arguing with him. You need to put music, the vendors are gonna feel left out. He's like, Well, I can't do anything, Sabrina. It's gonna have to be like this. I'm like, where's the box? He said he couldn't find the box. We were arguing about him about this box, which he the box was there, guys. It was there this whole time.

SPEAKER_04 6:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:31

Cause I went back later and I'm like, the box was right there. What did he say? He said it magically showed up there. I'm like, who's gonna carry around this damn box that weighs like over 60 pounds of cables? Yeah, we're gonna carry it back and forth and play hide and seek with you. Like But it's something he never looked, basically. That's the answer. He never looked and he found the box and I cried because he was yelling at me. But it's bound to happen every event. So if you see us walking away mad or tears running down.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

So because this episode is about talking about us being sisters and you know owning a market together, we want to get into first like a deeper level to kind of show like how we were growing up as sisters. I know Sabrina's gonna talk hella shit on this side. She I already see it in her eyes.

SPEAKER_03 7:53

Well, anyways, um, what were we like growing up? What can you say? Um We were not close. I wouldn't say that we were close. No, I think until like a certain age we did become close.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

I can once you realize before Sabrina tal starts doing her talk. Yes, I was a bully when I was clear your name. I'm gonna clear my name right now. I was a bully.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

But isn't that like all older siblings though? Trying to find an excuse to make it sound better. No, I'm not gonna talk shit. I mean I'm gonna talk the truth. Just kidding. Um, no, she wasn't a bully. I think in the beginning she was like a teenager while I was like still a kid. I was still like playing with Barbies and baby dolls, and during that phase she was boy crazy, so she was like her head was somewhere else. And I was stuck in the playroom. And I wanted there's like multiple times that I was like, Samantha, play with me, please, please. And she would say no. And she'd walk away, but I think that was like puberty, maybe? Or what is that? Like just teenage, girl teenage. We're a six-year difference. Yeah. So six years. Six, Samantha?

SPEAKER_02 9:10

I'm 27. 22. You're 22. Oh, you're 22. I keep thinking you're 21. Oh, five year, that tells you a lot.

unknown 9:18

Five years.

SPEAKER_03 9:18

I'm not gonna math.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

Plus two is seven. Draw it out for me on the whiteboard.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

Five-year difference. So girl math. So five-year difference. So yeah, when she was in high school, I was barely in elementary. I don't know. I don't know. But it was just the age difference. We were both going through our own things. So, like she was getting in trouble and I was busy like in my own mama land, basically. I was busy doing my own thing. I we did sports together. We did um we did taekwondo for like a little bit. We got up to Orange Belt. I remember I remember. Um, what else? We did softball at the same time. Yeah, Samathan went to the tournament. Yeah. And my dad was the coach. Yeah. He was the coach of my team. But he ended up being the coach of the team. Uh I didn't soccer for a little bit. Yeah. Freaking hated soccer. It wasn't for me. Yeah, we did soccer, but that was really hard. I think we left halfway season. I don't remember finishing the season.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

No, I don't think we did.

SPEAKER_02 10:27

But that was like a little bit of like what we did. But we were more like into like Sabrina's with the toys. My also for me at a certain age, like 15. I don't know. We were playing we play teacher. Oh. We would also do um, we were really we went into a phase where we liked recording ourselves. Like on that.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

That was when we were like really young. I we both were young. You're maybe like 10, 11, 12, and I was I was younger because I remember in the video I couldn't pronounce. Well, I still was like 13, I think. Yeah. Around 13, and my mom was working, so my dad was at home what we're doing. She would work um night shifts. Yeah, so my dad had to figure out like ways to entertain us because we would get bored. So he's like, Well, let's try doing like um iCarly.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

Make little clips like that. We did an iCarly episode. We did a haunted house and ghost ghost hunting. And I would say it's so what did I say? It's so scary. No, it's so scary. It's so scoby like that. But we found it. Those are secrets. No, they're cute. Keep it in the door. Hunting, we're like our dog at the time was white. And we were like, oh no, we see a ghost. And it was the dog. Yeah. It was just white. Childhood. But I think that we weren't close until we started becoming more like once I started becoming an adult, more mature, more like Samantha knew I was cool and not a snitch. That's when she started like, Oh, I can hang around her basically. But then also I think after she had her child. Yeah. I think that's become really close. Cause I don't know what happened. We just it shifted. The relationship shifted and we became more more closer, more like sisters, and then even having this business now. I mean, we can proudly say that. I would probably say I don't know if Samantha would say the same, but she would is my best friend. I mean, she's my only friend. We're each other's only friends. Yeah, we don't have friends, and it's like we're very selective with the friends that we do have. Well, we don't have any friends. So we're very selective in general with friends.

SPEAKER_04 12:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

So she's my only friend, and that's how the relationship is.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:57

But that pretty much sums up how we are, I think.

SPEAKER_04 13:01

I mean, we got it mature, we got in more older. Um gr I think growing up, I wasn't really a girly girl. I can say I wasn't really.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

Well, yeah, you're bullying me. You're bullying me like a boy. I didn't like the dresses or anything like that. I think once I had my daughter, that's when I became more like the girly-ish, and I like pinks, but unfortunately she's not a girly girl. So Yeah, she's her own little person. I have to do it myself. But I think looking back, I think um the most dramatic person though. Oh, we're getting into that. The most dramatic person. Who is more dramatic? Um I think we're both evenly dramatic. Honestly, I would say you, but I'm not gonna take the I'm not gonna say that. I think that we can both be dramatic. There's moments that Samantha is like stressing out about something and she's crying, and I'm like, Samantha, like everything's okay, don't worry. But then at the same time, I can have those moments. Yeah. So I think both. Both of us. Who's more bossy? Yeah, I was gonna say that. You. Yeah. Samantha is bossy. Her with her damn checklist, her and her damn notebook. She's bossy. She likes to have everything in check. I mean, I can I have OCD, but like not the cleaning OCD. I have the OCD where it's like thoughts. I feel like she has OCD where she has to have things her way. If not, it's a problem. Yeah. Yeah. I can agree. I can. Who's the crybaby?

SPEAKER_04 14:42

I think it's both of us.

SPEAKER_03 14:44

Yeah, I think we're both. When we get into arguments, arguments are bad. Yeah. I would say they they get into it. I mean, I've told you guys before, like, it turned into a fist fight one time. That was the only time. Punch her. Um, when we were little though, guys, put the sad music. When we were little, she would be mean to me, guys. I don't know if every like little sibling went through this, like the bigger sibling being the bully. But um, I remember at one point I was a bully to her. Yeah, she really was. I was. I would talk shit to her and I would make her cry. Remember, there's like a short period of time that I was, but I think that was my way of getting back.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

Yeah, that's true. That's true. But I think we both cry.

SPEAKER_04 15:34

Yeah, we're both crypties. But I think that dynamic definitely shows up in our business too.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

Yeah, it does. I think that we push our differences aside and we focus. Like we put like even if we're in an argument, we'll put it to the side to focus on what we have to do.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_03 15:53

Like we'll never we'll never work with personal feelings. I don't know how to explain that.

SPEAKER_04 15:58

I don't think we've had to deal with that though. I think the day of the events we like forget everything and we're mind our focus on other things.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:07

But I don't think we've ever like gone into an event arguing.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

No, I think there's like times that like we do little small arguments, but like a debatable like disagreement. Yeah. But nothing big where it's like we won't talk to each other. I don't think it would ever get to that point. Yeah, I don't think so. So being sisters and working together, I mean that's not difficult for us. It's not like we bump heads every day. But how do you think business changed the sister relationship? I think it's made us both stronger. Do you think it's made us confident? Um, I think it has. I think we're still working on it.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

It hasn't like, oh my god, 100%. Like fully. I mean, it's it has changed us in more like a little bit of the confidence, um, more mature and also just more not scared to speak our mind and put our roles down, kind of thing.

SPEAKER_04 17:21

But as sisters, it really hasn't changed us in any way of sisters.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

Yeah, I think that like I said, when we've already been close, so having the market, I mean, I guess you can say it's made us closer in a way because like we have each other, we have something that we're always talking about, something that we both relate to, are both going through being the owners. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

And I think it helps also that we have the same vision. Yeah. So it's more like we're on the same basis, and it's not like, oh, you have one vision and I have another. It's more we all have the same vision, so it's easier to work with together.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

Yeah, like when we have ideas, we just bounce each other bounce off each other with the ideas. So it's like it makes it more fun instead of like me having to explain to Samantha. Or there's moments that Samantha gets after me like you're being slow because I'm not understanding something. But I don't think it's it hasn't made us closer. I guess it's made us more stronger, probably of a relationship. Stronger. I think it's there it's made it a little bit hard also, though, working together. There is times that I want to strangle you where I'm just like Sabrina. When it's please listen. I think because when she's like explaining something, or there's times I used to be like not to like make fun of anyone, I used to be like dyslexic. So when she would spell out certain words, I would be like D E S. And then she'd be like, No, it's this letter. I'm like, which letter? I I'm just like N-O, and she's like, N-O.

unknown 19:01

N-O.

SPEAKER_03 19:02

I'm like, I don't know. Oh my god. I think I wasn't like mentally there at the moment. I'm a I'm a visual learner. I have to see everything. Her and my mom can like bounce off each other because they can like explain it to each other without having a map, but me and my dad have to have a map to see. Yeah, I can't explain. Like, we've been doing this for two years.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

We've been at fantastic for like a year already, and she still doesn't understand when I say the map out loud. She's like, Can you draw for me? And I'm like, girl, we've been doing the same map for a year.

SPEAKER_03 19:33

No, because we start getting technical. You and my mom get technical. Yeah, we get technical to the point where we're like 90 degree, 40 degree. No, I just say the front entrance. And Sabrina's like, Where's the front entrance?

SPEAKER_00 19:46

No, that is not true, guys.

SPEAKER_03 19:48

That is not true. I just I'm a visual learner. My dad's the same way. And I get like when he's like, Don't draw it out for me. I'm like, no, picture it. There's moments like that. I'm impatient with him too. I think we all are more impatient with each of them. We are. There's moments that like, yeah, we're mean. We're mean.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

But I think that's the hardest part of working together, honestly, is we're just impatient. We have those moments where it's just like we don't want to fuck around.

SPEAKER_03 20:14

And then also just, yeah, we just get annoyed sometimes with each other. And then there's times that like my dad has I'm bringing up my dad about my dad has said, like, oh, I feel left out because there's been conversations. It's like you guys talk, all three of you talk in the closet. We're like, what closet? Why would we be in there? No, we don't talk in there. It's because he's there, but sometimes he doesn't he likes to be on TikTok or watch Instagram. He doesn't fully listen to us. Our mom too. Yes. Oh my god. That's I don't know if you guys deal with that with parents where it's like you try to talk to them and they're like in a different world. But going off subject, I feel like, um I feel like it's even made us stronger because we defend each other. So like if a vendor or like a customer would go and fight with us, then we're quick to like defend each other. I mean that's how families should be.

SPEAKER_04 21:15

Yeah, that is true.

SPEAKER_02 21:16

I mean, one of us usually jumps in, usually it's my mom that jumps in. Yeah. But when we're handling something, my mom's always there, also.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

So it's like she'll be like across the parking lot, but ends up that there's something going on. She senses it. She senses it.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

But I think that's the best part also of being sisters is running a market together.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

Mm-hmm. It makes it more fun because it's like something that we both, like Samantha said, we have the vision for something that we both truly love. We have the same ideas, the same the love for it, so it makes it easier. Like I couldn't do this with a partner, a f a friend. It wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't. It wouldn't.

SPEAKER_04 21:55

I don't think that's much effort would be put into it as well.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

That is true.

SPEAKER_04 21:58

It'd be like half assed, I feel.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Yeah. And we don't do that. Yeah, we don't. Like we put our 100% in both of us. Yeah. And then what would be like all of us? Yeah. What would you say would be um what do we have to learn the hard way? The hard way in running a business. I think that taking breaks, like Samantha's always on a like a a hundred speed, like she's always like wanting to work, like she's a work workaholic, I guess you can say. And I'm more like, okay, like chill, like let's take a little bit more. It's like an hour nap break. Like no hour nap break. Yeah, and then yeah, so I kind of like I have to tell Samatha. I'm always reminding her, like, take breaks. Like it's okay to take a break. And she has those moments and she's just stressing now. And I think that's a we are learning the hard ways. It's okay to take breaks.

SPEAKER_04 22:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

I agree. I think we're always on a roll. Even after the event, we're talking about the next event. Like it's always something.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

Well, honestly, in the beginning, Sabrina would always get mad because she's like, is all our dinners about 702 Market?

SPEAKER_03 23:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

But no, now she wants to also talk about 702 Market.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

Yeah, but I limit. Like I feel like Samantha wants to have oh my god. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. We have to have a meeting. A meeting. We have to. We have to schedule a meeting. We all have to think and talk about it. And I'm like, Samantha, just do one meeting and we'll like talk about everything. True. So what do you think we're still working on? Um I think making time for ourselves. And what else? I think we're good with communication. We communicate everything between ourselves. I mean, everything that's going on since I deal with social media most of the time, so Matha deals with it too. But if there's like a vendor disagreement or a vendor complaining, then I quickly update her, my mom, and my dad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:06

We're all on the same basis.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

But I think we're still working on what are we work? What would I say we're working on still? I don't think anything. I think we still have it down. Yeah. I think it's the minor things we're like, oh, we need to change this or we need to do this. Yeah. Like little tiny things. What we're working on is our makeup routine. Yeah, we need to figure out our makeup routine for events, because some reason the sweat and makeup just doesn't coat, it doesn't do well together. So we're figuring that out, but That's the major thing.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

Yeah, that's the only thing that's a good thing. That's it. We're I don't know. I was gonna say one thing, but I forgot.

SPEAKER_04 24:44

I think like you said, um learning how to time manage everything.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:49

I think that's what we're still struggling with is how can we still do deal with our life but also handle business.

SPEAKER_03 24:57

I think that Samantha is I mean, I give her props because she does really well on planning and like scheduling things, she's on top of it. I personally have to do better. Like I she reminds me of a lot to do things, so I think I need to I need to do better myself, but yeah. So I might sound like a sissy or a crybaby, but being sister also means being very emotional.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

And also as females, I guess that's it.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

It's normal, it's normal to have emotions. But that it doesn't stop in business, also. There's no like I don't think we cry often when it comes to business. I think when we're like stressed out, like super, like where it's like one thing after another, we're like, God damn, we need a crying break.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:56

I mean it's they say that crying helps, honestly. Scientists have said improving that. Yeah. Yeah. So I think with me and Sabrina, I think our emotions show very differently sometimes. I get um I can't deny, I get frustrated quickly. Okay. I do. Um, I think with like uh honestly vendors, I do get frustrated. I think we all do. I think that customer service is not my my strong forte. Yeah. I if I can avoid it at all costs, I will avoid customer service because it's like I think because nowadays people have changed. Like their attitudes. I don't know if like back then when you're working, like back in the day. Back in the day?

SPEAKER_02 26:48

I mean like a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

Freaking when dinosaurs were walking. What's next? Like, did they were they as mean? Would you say? Because when you're working, I mean you did more, I think, customer service than I did when I was working. Yeah, I did customer. Well, first well, little fun fact, my first job was Starbucks.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

That's exciting. Yeah, so I learned all the little coffees and all that. She's a barista. I was a barista.

SPEAKER_03 27:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

If you I can I can't make drinks, I don't remember how to. They're gonna expect no. Make us a drink.

SPEAKER_03 27:23

What? Okay, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

When I was working, that was back in like 20. That my first job was.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

You're making sure to say the age of my friend clarifying the map. Actually, guys, I was 22 when I started working. Like they don't even care.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Back in 2018 was my first job. So no, people are nice, but I still had those rude ass people.

SPEAKER_03 27:44

Yeah, I just feel like vendors feel like they're very entitled. No, like I don't know if people in general, I mean, even sometimes guests. Yeah, guests too. Sometimes the guests can be very mean. Like when we did that last hot girl market last year. Last year. Like we're going to we didn't want to go out there because like we'd be like 702, we want to take a picture. No. Who are you? I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 28:06

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:07

So it's like we're preparing ourselves mentally, guys. We're counting down the days. We're kind of like, oh, I hope we don't bring like mean people. I know. Like hopefully it's not that again. But yeah, I think that's where I think people have changed.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

But I think that's where our emotions show very differently. Is I get frustrated very quick.

SPEAKER_03 28:29

Sabrina's more like, who cares? kind of thing. Like not who cares. You're the one who says who cares more than.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

I say who cares, but when it comes to certain things, I get frustrated. I'm like, are you fucking serious? Like that's how I am. Sabrina's more like just handle it and who cares? Like stop.

SPEAKER_03 28:43

Yeah, I'm more like I'm more reactive in that way. Like, if something I'm the PR, I guess you can say of them the group. My mom and well, my mom is the same way. She's very reactive. So like in a situation, everyone's going back and forth yelling, Oh my god, what do we do? Like that one episode from SpongeBob when he's he's on fire in his head. Which one? There's like an episode in Spongebob and he's like going crazy and the little people in his head, little versions of him running around and going, everything's on fire. That's how like everyone would be, and then I would be like, Okay, well, what are we gonna do about it? Like we have to do this, we have to do this, guys. Let's think about the future. Like, I think I'm more like the overthinker. Yeah. And Samantha, when it comes to overthinking, she's like, Who cares? Yeah. Like everything, like, don't worry. Like certain subjects, I guess you could say she has that mentality. And then it gets Sabrina mad because she's like, Start you need to care more. You and my dad need to care more.

SPEAKER_02 29:43

But yeah, that's how we show up differently with emotions, I think.

SPEAKER_03 29:47

Yeah, I think that's Amatha, like she said, she gets frustrated easily. I do too, but I think it has to be really like get underneath my skin to get me frustrated. I mean, even like this last event, we had the uh a food truck, guys. Usually it's vendors, but a food truck this time gave an issue about parking and lining up and straining out, and we had like a whole technical difficulty in the beginning, so we had to park all food trucks on the opposite side instead of the planned area. So we are running back and forth, sweating. I was carrying heavy boxes, and then they didn't want to park where they w wanted to be. I I don't know. It gets so that part it did get underneath my skin because I don't like when people act like entitled or they come off very rude. Rude or they just act like they I don't know, privileged. Yeah. Like they're better than us.

SPEAKER_04 30:42

Yeah, and that's something that we've deal with as sisters as females too, but as young females, is a lot of people don't take us serious. Yeah. Like they like arguing with us. And then once an adult steps in, oh, I'm not gonna argue anymore.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

And it's like really it's annoying. Like there's been many times that I was called, like, oh, that little girl. Yeah. And that gets underneath my skin. Like it does. And Samantha's laughing, but it I've we've I've gotten it multiple times where they've called me little girl, or they're just like they try to get away with more things when it's just me and Samantha who are two young girls dealing with them. But then when more people step in, then they get more quiet, like, oh shoot, I have to listen. Or that's when they get offended also. Because we're speaking up. Yeah, we're speaking, so they get offended as well. So that's like the little things that we deal with, guys. Yeah, but it's nothing like I would say dramatic. Yeah. It's like stuff that we already kind of have an idea and we handle already. But then it goes into like there's those moments like we have to cry and then we just get back to it. Yeah, I think that emotions run high during like I say we handle situations very well. We do. We handle situations very well, but there's some situations where we have to cry. Yeah. And we have to just let it out. Because if not, I mean it's good to cry, it's good to let it out. But that goes into I think stress, us handling stress. Can we handle stress? I think we can.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

You think so? I think so. Uh for example, I mean, I'm a single mom and I running helping run 702, but I also have things my life.

SPEAKER_03 32:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:29

I it is stressful. I mean, I don't have a little teenager, I have a little kid. So, you know, it can be stressful for me, but I think I handle it well.

SPEAKER_03 32:39

Not only that, I mean Samantha are the little ones teacher. Yes. Another fun fact, guys, we are teachers, by the way. She is homeschooled. Uh we Samantha made that decision of putting her into homeschool because how the world is right now and how the world's been getting worse. I don't agree with the whole public school kind of thing. Going into public school for me, like growing up was. That was scary. Like when I mean, I just like two years ago. I just got out of the way. But it was like when I transferred from a charter school, like a kind of like private school, to a public school. It was like very intimidating.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

It was like that episode of uh Mean Girls where they're in the mall.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

Oh my when they're the m monkeys, yeah. When they're you hear all the zoo effects. It was scary.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

Serena's like, what did I just get into?

SPEAKER_03 33:35

I'm like, that's school for you. No, it was scary. Um, including with these whole like shooting and threats and all that. So we homeschool her and we're teachers. We split up the work. So Samantha's like the math teacher and all those courses, and I'm the English teacher.

SPEAKER_02 33:51

So that's what we handle also.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

It's 702 school. So yeah, so that's what we're doing. I think, like she said, time management, we have to work on that. That's something we do well, but at the same time, it's like we could do better. Yeah, we can.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

And then that goes into like the whole self-care and then like the girly stuff too. Like, we're just not there with it. Like, we're like, oh, this is the plan.

SPEAKER_03 34:16

We're gonna do yoga tonight, Pilates, and like, hell no, we're tired. No, yeah. And Samantha's like, I'm gonna wake up early and go working out, and I'm like, no, you're not. Like that will happen.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

So just like I can't. I can't.

SPEAKER_03 34:29

It's understandable when I like we go to sleep, including there's random nights that we deal with the vendor. Because you guys want to argue with us at night. We deal with vendors and we're up late talking about it or reassessing it. Cause that's what we do. Like, after a situation, we go in a group and we just talk about it. We talk about everything, and me and my mom are overthinkers, so we'll like stay up late dissecting the conversation. Dissecting it.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

But that goes into like the whole I think just being females, sisters, kind of thing. It's just so much goes into it.

SPEAKER_04 35:10

Like we talked about. Like, so much goes into it.

SPEAKER_02 35:13

The stress, the late nights, um, just dealing with us as females and how people act towards us, and then just like the little stuff, like the little stuff that we're like still trying to figure out. Like, for example, my freaking every event that we have, I have a breakout. Like my eyes get um, like what would you say? Like it's like a rash. It's like a freaking rash around my face. Like, I don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

If anybody has suggestions for eyelash glue, I can use. Yeah, I think she's allergic to latex, or she's allergic to something that to make you rash. I do my own lashes. I'm not about to go pay 80-90 bucks for lashes. And we are like glued in that's another fun fact. Yeah, so much fun facts about us. So, like those hints that those bakery like vendors who are try to offer. We actually have like a disease. Disease. We have celiac. So we can't eat any wheat. Any bread, every any gluten, any it like goes into it, but that's how it is.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

Yeah, my mom and dad can eat my daughter, can eat whatever you guys want to hook them up, go ahead. But it's more us, like it has to be gluten-free, guys.

SPEAKER_03 36:34

Yeah. So yeah, so if that's that's oh yeah, but she's having that rash, and it this time it got worse. It's spread my whole face. It's freaking a big thing. It looks like she gets into fights, like it looks like a bruise, and then after that, I'm usually the one that has like a pulled muscle or an aching limb because I pulled something. That's just how it is. Every event there's something going on.

SPEAKER_02 36:59

So, yeah, on top of dealing with market stress and getting these guides together, flyers together, and rails together, we're dealing with rashes over here around our eyes. Just you and them. Yeah, just me. Sabrina's dealing with pulled limbs. Like, I have freaking Charlie horses on my legs with events.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

When we're in events, she's like, I'm about to get one like Samantha snap out of it. I need you.

SPEAKER_02 37:23

She yelled at me at one event when I was getting like a really bad pain in my leg and I couldn't walk. I'm like, I can't walk. And Sabrina's like, deal with it right now, put it to the side. I'm like, I can't do this.

SPEAKER_03 37:34

No, you're making me sound bad. Okay. There's moments that Samantha's the same way. I'm crying, and she's like, Sabrina, I need you right now, focus. Or like, there's times that when the heat was really bad, I would be like not feeling good. And then everybody would be yelling at me, get it together, you need to focus, you need to be out there. Like we're in the sport or something. What a hard life. Yeah, it's pretty hard. So I think we should make it a little bit more fun and do like a who's more likely to game. Okay, with like the Jeopardy music? Yeah, like the Jeopardy music in the background. Let's see if he can do that. I know, or something similar to it. Okay. Okay. You or me first? Uh, I can go first. Okay. Okay, who's most likely to overthink a text? Overthink a text would be Sabrina, definitely. That was too fast, but sir. Uh why? Um, you're more like emotions behind it.

SPEAKER_02 38:48

Like you're worried. Like you're like, oh no, it sounds like I came off mean kind of thing. So there's been a couple of times where like you come and you're like, oh, how does this sound? And it sounds perfect to me. But Sabrina's like, ugh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

It sounds like it could be a little mean. I'm like, girl, how? I think that, yeah, I think that most like okay, let me give you an example. So like, let's say that I'm texting someone a vendor, we use a vendor, and I'm telling them no to something. But I don't want to come off mean, so I try to make it so like it's nice, but then I overthink and I ask them at that. I feel like it's too direct. But to her, direct is good, but to me, direct isn't good. Yes. And I can't give you like an example because that's like PETA or what's that? Who the hell's PETA, Sabrina? What is HIPAA? PETA is is the animal. What? PETA? Isn't that PETA? Like the an the animal? Oh hippa? HIPAA is for health. No, but like what is that when they there's nothing the privacy. There's no privacy. Yes, vendors have their privacy.

SPEAKER_02 40:06

Well, it's not like we're gonna go spilling secrets out to the world.

SPEAKER_03 40:10

Let's say like there's a vendor and I don't want to violate their privacy. So I'm not gonna. I've heard PETA before.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

PETA, I think is the animal thing. What?

SPEAKER_03 40:22

Like abused animals, I think. Isn't that PETA? Oh, I don't think you know what it means. I think PETA is that I don't I don't know. No, we don't have to like look at the definition. But I don't want to violate the privacy and give you like the read you guys a whole message and ask you guys. So I'm not gonna do that. But there's been instances where I think that the message is too direct, but Samantha thinks it's fine, so I overthink it. Me and my mom are overthinkers, and my dad and her are alike in that way because they're not overthinkers. You're straight to the point. Yeah, you're straight to the point. My dad's always saying, Don't read into text. Not everyone reads into text, and I don't know, maybe you guys can give me feedback. Like, do you guys read into text? Are you guys the type of people that put emotion behind text? So, like if we text you guys and you guys think we're mad, we're not mad unless we are mad. You'll know we're mad when we're mad. No emojis. No emojis and then bigger words. We start becoming more professional. Period. Yeah. With exclamations. No, we don't add exclamations. No, when we're mad. It would be a period. Period. Semicolons. It'd be professional. It'd be really professional with big words. Yes. Okay, next one. Who would be um who's most likely to change outfits five times? That's you. Before the events. Because now we have like matching hoodies, so it makes it so much easier in the morning than the night before. But I would say that it's Samantha because she has to like plan her outfit. I don't know. I strongly disagree. What? There's no disagree. I think it's an argument. It's like it's not our disagreement. Either it's someone yes or someone no. I do we like do we both have to like give an answer though? Who's more license? I've never played this game before, so yeah, I guess we both give an answer, an example. I strongly disagree. Why? I feel like you do too. Yeah, but weigh it out. Who does it more? Exactly. Well exactly. I guess. Exactly. Period point blank. So who is okay, who's most likely who needs a self-care day?

SPEAKER_04 42:48

You.

SPEAKER_03 42:48

What? Because my hair is dry. That's what you're saying. That's what you're saying. Why?

SPEAKER_02 42:58

I don't know. I feel like you just need you're like more into self-care than I am. But who needs one? You. You're drier than the desert.

SPEAKER_03 43:09

I just bleached my hair, guys, and I saw one a video recently of like a couple events ago, and I saw my hair and it looked like a camel licked back of my hair. Or like those people, not people, the animals that spit. Which ones are the llama? It looks like a llama spit on my hair. And I showed Samantha and she laughed. And then my mom said, No, it doesn't look bad. And Samantha's laughing. But I don't know. I think because I bleached it, it's just very dry, so I wouldn't recommend it. I bleached my hair. My hair is not dry like yours. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why. But I think, yeah, I think Sabrina needs more of a self care day than me. Yeah, and I strongly disagree there. I feel like Samantha needs a self care day. I think Samantha needs a big wheel. She needs to take a break. Yeah. And she needs to take a self-care day. I mean, I have my once a week I try to do a self-care day. So like I don't know, self-care days for me, it really helps me a lot. Like it I go into my own little world and it just makes me feel better about myself. So I think Samantha needs to. She always says she's going to, but she never does. I get busy and I forget. Yeah. And then I get tired.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

But I have been doing like reading at night before bed.

SPEAKER_03 44:29

So that can like reading what? I've never seen you pull up reading a book.

SPEAKER_02 44:36

What book? It's name the title right now. It's called like Bad Bitch um Bible. I'm actually reading. It's like a bad bitch Bible. That's what it is. And you're reading in the dark?

SPEAKER_03 44:50

I do in the light. Please. But that's something I'm doing. Okay, well, I guess that counts. Anything counts. It's the little things. Okay. Who's most likely to spill the tea first? Hmm. Hmm.

SPEAKER_02 45:06

I think the little snitch will read her. Who's the snitch? Sabrina's getting her old ways back.

SPEAKER_03 45:15

No, I'm not sure. When she was little. I'm not a snitch. I think that's Samantha. You know what? I strongly disagree again. I feel like Samantha likes to spill the tea first. She's quick to rat you out. Including like when it's like my dad. Oh, he has to be careful with her. Because she'll she'll quickly say, Oh, he said this. And I'm like, really? He said that. But I I wouldn't spill the tea. What tea? What tea are we talking about? Fine. What tea are we talking about?

SPEAKER_02 45:52

Like anything. Anything. I guess it's me. I like drama. No, you don't. It's not like you were gonna take it the wrong way.

SPEAKER_03 46:00

Like I like uh like I like uh gossiping gossip, like like hearing gossip, but being in gossip. I don't like being in gossip, but when we hear, when I hear something like, ooh, mama.

SPEAKER_02 46:13

Like I need to tell you something. Like I like the cheese meh.

SPEAKER_03 46:18

Yeah, I think we both are like we get excited, like did he? Yeah, and then I go but I go up to my mom and I'm like, Mama, did you hear this gossip?

SPEAKER_02 46:26

Yes, guys, I call her mama.

SPEAKER_03 46:28

We do with the way that you're saying it. I'm like, you meant like, ooh, mama, like the one catchphrase, it just sounded wrong. We call our parents, I don't know how we even got into it. This is embarrassing. Like, I don't even know. Because I spelled a tea first. Yeah, I mean, we call them we don't call them the basic names, mom and dad. We'll just say that. But then at work we call them by their first name because they requested that. Yes, we're not those children that like calling our parents specifically. So if you hear us calling them by their first name and you're like, damn. Like, damn, we're kind of like, no, guys, they requested this strongly from the very beginning. So that's on them. It's not something that we preferred. Yes, but spill the tea first, yeah. I guess me. I like the cheese ma. Yeah, I think some I don't know. I feel like the tea, we're all in the tea. Like we're all know about it. So it's not like the only foot feeling. You me. Yeah, it's you. I run around the house. Like, did you hear? Well, it's exciting. I think we all like I don't what kind of person doesn't like to hear gossip? Like when you hear gossip, you're like, no way that you're gonna be able to do it. You know the ones listening to this like the gossip. I mean, obviously you're listening for a reason. You want to hear what the Who's most likely to buy something they don't need? Sabrina. Why? I don't I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 47:51

Yeah, you bought in things, and I'm just like, why did you buy that? Oh. Clothes. What?

SPEAKER_03 47:58

Um Sabrina buys like some cute blouses, and then I'm like, oh you should wear that. Uh the vibe's not there. It's it's like, uh, so yeah. I have to buy something. I have to be in the mood. I have to be like, I go through phases where I'm like, this is the aesthetic I want to pull, and then after a while I'm like, I don't want to pull that aesthetic no more. And then actually, guys, Samantha's coming to me because she wants to change her outfits and her aesthetic. Just FYI. I just wanted to say that. I just wanted to say that. But I guess, yeah, I guess I buy things, but I'm becoming more aware of my budget. Like, I'm becoming more aware, like, damn, I have credit cards to pay, I have things to pay, I can't be buying this no more. Yeah. Well, I'm like, so Mattha's very strict with her budget. Sabrina, there's like no cost. Uh, when it comes to gift giving, there's no cost, but when it comes to buying myself things, I have a cost, I have a limit. But for me, I'm just like, no, do I really need it? Like, do I really need new jeans at this point? Yes, you do, girl. I can't. Your jeans are ripping. Your jeans are falling apart. You do. But we need new shoes. We need we need specific shoes for events. I feel like we can't find that one good pair. Yes, we can't. Right now it's like Converse, and we know like Converse are the worst shoes. I couldn't walk on the last event. I I wanted her freaking like crawl around. Her feet were swollen. Yes. I don't know how, but she said that. She was like trying to convince herself that she was wearing the wrong size. And I'm like, no, we're wearing the same size, Samantha. But she's like, check your check your shoe. You're size three. I'm like, yes, I'm size. Can you edit that out? That was not animal guys. It sounded like an animal. It was not an animal, my mom called. They're like, what zoo are you in? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 50:14

What animals do you have at all?

SPEAKER_03 50:19

Sounded drier than the dense. Drier than your hair. Anyways. Yeah, I'm the one to buy. Yeah, I am. We'll end it. Point blank. Point point point blank period. Point blank.

SPEAKER_02 50:49

So what's that catchphrase that you use? Lessons for the baddies? Yeah, educate the baddies.

SPEAKER_03 50:54

Educate the baddies. So first lesson would be as sisters, we've learned to talk things out. I think that if you're in a business, I mean, touching the subject of like relationships, I think if you're in a business with your partner, a significant other, if you're in the business with maybe family member, we know a lot of people that are in businesses with either one of those. I think that you guys need to learn how to talk things out. I think that we're not the only ones that go through this stuff. I mean, when you work with someone, it's not it's not just a relationship, it's more than that now. You're business partners. You're so it's it's more it's a bit it's a different dynamic, I guess you can say, because now you're becoming more it's not about relationship, it's not about feelings, it's not about hurting each other's feelings or saying, Oh, I don't want to say this, I don't want to hurt them, or I want to agree because I have to agree, I don't want to hurt their feelings. No, this becomes business like it becomes where to do it. There's so much involved already. Yes, there's so much on the line now, so it's like we have to be straightforward, we have to say things that might hurt each other's feelings, or say things be what is that word? You have to be more um give uh critical? Uh criticism. You have to take criticism like a grain of salt. Yes. That was a good that was a good phrase. Okay. But I think that a lot of people don't understand that, and that's when you have to like really communicate, because if you don't, that's where things will go downhill from there. If you don't know how to communicate things, if you don't know how to tell the person, hey, I didn't like the way you talk to me like that, or hey, maybe we should do this instead of what you're doing, that's how your business will grow. That's how your relationship will grow. I won't be here giving advice now. Like you have to just remember there's like time and money involved. Yes. And you have to like really communicate at the end because things can just fall apart like that quick.

SPEAKER_02 52:54

And uh thankfully, you know, me and Sabrina have learned like we have to communicate over everyone. We have to be on the same page. We have to, because if we're not on the same page, we've done it before where we're not on the same page and it just tumbles down.

SPEAKER_03 53:09

Not only that, I think that we have to be on the same page because we're we have policies and we have rules that we tell people so that if we're not on the same page when we come with these strict p rules and policies, it doesn't look right for the vendors to be, hey, you told me this, this person told me this, that's not good communication. Yeah. So everything needs to be we need to be communicated and needs to be talked through before preaching it and wanting other people to listen to it.

SPEAKER_04 53:38

And it's okay. I think it's okay to say that it is fine to have arguments at the end of the day. Sometimes it is fine.

SPEAKER_02 53:45

Not everything's gonna be butterflies and rainbows. Like there is those days. Honestly, I changed it. Sunshine and rainbows. Sunshines and rainbows, but honestly, at the end of the day, we do have our arguments.

SPEAKER_04 53:58

We can be honest and say, like, there is times where we are like my mom has to get involved and be like, you guys need to stop ready. Yeah. Because that's just how sisters are.

SPEAKER_03 54:07

Sometimes we're not really arguing, we're just disagreeing, and she gets mad. She's like, Okay, enough. And we're like, we're just disagreeing. Like disagreeing. It's nothing bad. But we've even heard stories from our vendors and our food trucks that they argue because most of them are family-owned, so it's like they work with family, and we've heard stories like we need to step out or we need to take breaks because we want pets. And imagine being in such an enclosed space working, you know, like I would be irritated too. As a food vendor, yes. When we were doing funnel cakes, there was times we were in each other's ways and there was a lot of arguments. But there's a lot of arguments between me and my dad because like I would be like presentation is key. And he wouldn't like do the whipped cream, he would make like symbols with the whipped cream. Instead of doing like the pretty dots, he would make like weird symbols, and I had to tell him, like, make it this way. It we it would be a disagreement all the time, but I guess that's normal. The good thing is that we're communicating it to each other and then we resolve it. So basically we've learned to talk things out. I think the second thing is we've learned to separate emotions from decisions. Yeah. And I think that's a big thing in business world too, is basically whatever, sorry, but whatever's at home that you're dealing with, when you're out there and you're dealing with business, you do not bring that to business. Yeah. You don't bring that to you. Whether you're going through a breakout, whether you're going through a personal issue, that is left behind at home. Yeah, and we've seen that a lot in the vendor world. Dealing with vendors is a lot of people come to the markets upset already, and it's like and then they take it out on us, and it's like, wait, like what the hell do we do? Like we didn't do anything, we're being kind, we're being nice. If you're having issues at home, that's not our fault. And that's something that we would never do. If we're having issues at home or if we're having issues between each other, we would not bring it to the event where we're taking it out on you guys because you have guys have nothing to do with it. So why would we take it on on our vendors or our guests? It just wouldn't be fair to them. So we've learned at the end of the day that any decisions that we need to make as a business has to be with a clear, positive mind.

SPEAKER_04 56:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 56:24

And then I think the next one would be um learning boundaries. Explain further. What do you mean by that? So as sisters, we've learned that we have boundaries as to business.

SPEAKER_02 56:38

So like I handle this part, Sabrina handles this part. So we have each hour boundaries. Like we don't involve our life into our business. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:48

Like there's boundaries like that. No, but we've learned. Going into what Samantha's saying, she's right. I mean, there's been times that Samantha tries to touch like the area that I work in, and I'm like, no, like, let me do it. And then there's times that I try to go into like the city permits, and then she's like, no, like, just let me do it. I know what to do. So we kind of know like our own boundaries when it comes to our own little jobs, I guess you can say. But going into like the other type of boundaries, our relationships or whatever, like we said before, whatever's going on doesn't touch business. Mm-hmm. And we would not like when it comes to personal relationships, we might have like a relationship with a vendor. Mm-hmm. Like maybe we're friends, or maybe like we've grown together for we've been vending together for three years, so it's more than just a vendor. To you guys to us, it's you guys are like our family now. Mm-hmm. Because we've seen each other grow. I mean, we've seen our vendors be a kid to a teenager, and it's crazy to see that. So but we don't treat them different because of that. You guys are still a vendor. We have to treat everyone fairly equally, because if not, that's goes into like a different story. Yeah. That's um, what's the word? Favoritism? Yeah. Preference. Preference, yeah. So we don't want that either. And then I think the last lesson that we've learned is we protect our relation our relationship first. Yes. We have each other's back at the end of the day. Yes, we've had a worker that she came I say worker, but I guess that's not the right term. A crew member. Crew member and she came first day and she tried snitching on Samantha. And I mean, Samantha's my sister, so I'm always gonna have her back. I'm not gonna take anyone else's side, so I'm over here fighting battles for her. Defending her because to me it's not right. Like you shouldn't come in between and try to make one person sound bad because you're being told what to do. Like that should never be the case. So I think those are the four main lessons that we've learned in being sisters, running a business, and yeah, just being sisters together. Okay, that's it for today. I think we touched the subject of being sisters and working together. I hope that you guys kind of see a different side of us. I hope you guys see us more than just business owners. We're actually people. That's what we wanted to share, and that's how we're kind of trying to we're trying to change the whole field of podcast. We don't want it to just be business, like like we said in the beginning. We want it to be personal level too. Something that you guys can relate to. So from now on, just a reminder, we will not be doing it once a week. We will be doing it every other week, but we will keep to our word on that. And then from now on, we also won't be saying at the end of the episode what the next episode will look like. It'll be a surprise. It will be a surprise. So we just want to create anticipation and excitement. And um, yeah, come to our markets February 14th and for our Hello Kitty theme at Fantastic. Yes. And then February 28th for our Babe Market. Our Babe Market at Ferguson's for our street closure again. Yes, it's another street closure. I mean, we're we just want to say thank you guys. I mean, the last event meant a lot to us. Everyone that did show up. For you guys who listen, we know that a lot of people do listen in the comments that we do get. So we're just very thankful, grateful for you guys. Yes. And we will talk to you guys soon. Thank you. Bye. Thank you.

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