Gizelle and Robyn answer listener questions about family life and starting off as entrepreneurs.
Clipped from Episode 19: “These Streets Are Hot!”
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We have a segment that we we are now loving.
It's called you ask and we answer, And there was one.
There's a couple that we're gonna get to. We're actually
running out of time. We just having so much fun today. Um,
so you got one? Are you okay? So? Um? And
people ask me this a lot because I have three
girls that are around the same age. Grace is eighteen
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months older than the twins, and so the question is
how do I manage spending time with each of your
daughters and not leaving anyone out. This particular person has
three kids six, ten, and twelve, and they have very
different personalities. So let me tell you something that is
extremely hard. So I have to intentionally work on spending
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individual time with my kids. Um. It's a little easier
because I have twins, and the twins want to do
things together with me, but they still want their own
individual time. So I can say that every day. You
know that I'm home pretty much at night. Um, the
girls always come into my room, but they come in
one by one. So Angel comes in first, and she
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and I have like a time to like just go
over our day. What happened. She wants to tell me
her highs and lows. She wants to give me what
happened in her classes. Angels very smart, She's gonna break down,
she's gonna use several words I don't know the definition of.
And we're just gonna have our like all one time.
Um Adora will come in and and then Grace will
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come in. I I typically go to Grace's room and
spend time with her. Um. She doesn't she doesn't really
require much. Grace just you know, she wants a quick
hug and she wants me to tell her she's beautiful
because she is. And she's off a door. I get
hurt um alone time with her because like on the
weekends when I run errands, she's like my road dog.
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So if I have to go to the cleaners or um,
whatever I need to do, she's in the car with
me and she's in my little errands and she loves
to do it and we just talk and laugh. And
that is the way. It doesn't happen all the time,
but it happens organically that but you do. You do
have to be intentional about like giving your children their
own moments, because they're looking for it, they want it. Yes,
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it's always great when we're all together, but they definitely
want their own individual time. Yeah. And I saw you
recently post um you and the twins went to tea
right now, Yes, And I thought that was so nice.
It was like your time with the twins. And I
know I've seen you do stuff one on one with
Grace and I think that I mean, gosh, like you're
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already so busy, and so the fact that you make
it a priority to spend time with each individual or
you know, the twins and Grace or whatever like, that's
that's so admirable. Thank you. Yes, And I think that's
going to like just your girls will forever remember that
you appreciate that. Before the pandemic, I decided we were
going to go to like different places for high tea
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because because they like it. They're a little bougie kids,
little bougie, so we're exposing them to the finer things. Ye.
So um, I couldn't get a reservation at the Mandarin,
that's like a really nice one, and so the pandemic hid,
of course we didn't do anything. But now the Mandarin
they have all kinds of reservations available, So that's where
we went, and that's actually where we have been trying
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to go before the pandemic. So it was great. And
now we're we're on a quest. We'll be on we'll
be doing high tea all the time. Now that's the
type of stuff that I hear that makes me want
a little girl. Yeah, it's a little girls are special.
I mean, like I keep my boy. Can I take
my boys to high tea? No? You cannot, No, we cannot,
but I love my boys. Yes. UM, all right, so
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let's see I have UM how hard was it to
start your business? How did you know that it was
what you wanted to do and where did you start? So? UM,
I think I'm glad you asked us. I actually had
a lot of questions about business, and I know we
talked about business and another UM episode. But just for anyone,
like starting a business is not hard, you know, like
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it's it's it's a matter of doing your research and
just doing it. And so if you're going to start
a business, I recommend, of course, you know, forming your
your LLC, um, you know, whatever the name of your
business might be, researching and making sure it's not taken
from you know, somewhere else. Um. I have an e
commerce business and so I sell online and Shopify has
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made it's so easy to build a business. You know,
you can just it doesn't matter. You can have one product,
you can build your go to Shopify, follow the instructions,
build your website, and bam you have a business. So
you need a tax ID number to to officially run
a business. UM, and you get that with your state. Well,
you get the tax ID number from the FED. Yes,
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and you get your state one. So you get your art.
You form your articles of incorporation with the state. UM,
but make sure you get a tax ID number with
the FED UM and then UM. Honestly, I think when
people think about starting a business, they think it has
to be like super successful right out the gate, or
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that they have to you know, achieve a certain amount
of sales or whatever. I always tell people it's okay
to start very very very small. Just start with small
goals and say, you know what if I just I
want to make one sale this week and then you
next week, Okay, I want to make five sales and
then next month I want to make thirty said whatever
it is, so don't overthink it. Just start it, just start,
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just get started, just do it. And literally, if you
just start working on your website. If you're not ready
to launch it, just you know, work on it at night,
if you have a day job, you know, after the
kids go to sleep, whatever, hop on your computer, start
working on your website, one little, you know, task at
a time. And so don't make the mountain bigger than
what it is. Just just tackle it in little, small
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doses and don't overthink it. It's don't overthink it because
all you have to do is just get started. Yeah,
And I mean, I'm telling you we're so blessed to
live in the age that we do now. I would
not have my business if this was probably five years
ago or ten years ago. There's so many resources out
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here for you to have a business. I mean, of
course you have social media and stuff, but I'm telling you, like,
building a website and starting a business is very easy.
So don't let us stop you. So I love that. One.
One last one because we gotta wrap up is somebody
asked me, and I get this a lot, and it's
very weird. Um, where did you get your green ice from? Okay,
we're talking about like who in your family? And so
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my dad's father had blue eyes, my mom has like
olive colored eyes because it was on both sides of
the family. Then I got green eyes now when Grace
was born, so all the nurses are looking at me.
They see I have green eyes. When my Grace was born,
every nurse on the floor of the hospital came into
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the room to see to see, yes, if this if
this baby was gonna have green eyes. And the moment
they looked at it, they all left the room and
I was like, damn, I mean, but she beautiful. Why
I gotta do her like that? It was not right,
but anyway, it was, it was. It was. It was funny,
but it was interesting to see, like they just they
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and they were all interested. They were talking about it.
Mind you, I'm jogged up, I'm pushing like it's the
last thing that you want to even deal with. But
I do remember, and it did not pass down to
any of my children, but hopefully it'll pass down to right. Yeah,
And that's so funny. Of course I share you know,
similar story. So my green eyes. My my mother has
hazel eyes. My father is brown eyes, but his mother
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has blue eyes. There it is my cousin on my
father's side has blue eyes. My brother has hazel eyes.
So it's like coming from both sides and it's so funny.
Remember a previous podcast we talked, I talked about the
story about like when people would tell me I had
the eyes and I'm like, what are you talking about?
My cousin texted me. She says she listened to the podcast.
She was like, oh my gosh, I felt that happened
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to me. I had no idea what people were talking about. So, like,
I think because we looked around our family and everyone
had light eyes, like we just thought it was normal.
But um, when I was pregnant and I knew I
had boys, I was like, I hope they don't get
light eyes, because they're gonna boys with light eyes. Yeah, yeah,
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I didn't want my boys to have light eyes. And
so you know, Corey's got brown and Carters like like
a lighter brown. So they're good. But I just don't
I don't know, it's just something about it, like sometimes
I think they get picked on, like you're a pretty boy.
I didn't want my boys to be pretty boy. Well
they are anyway without the light eyes. Yeah they're they're. Yes.
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