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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, you love done to the censure?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wow for you you.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio and this is our
Positively Pipeman segment with the Pet health Guru and Man.
We're gonna talk today about cat nutrition. First thing I
have to ask you Bill right off the bat is
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why is it that dogs like to eat cat poop.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Because it's more nutrition than dog food?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Wow? Wow, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
So tell us a little bit about cat nutrition because
I think most people don't even really know.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
They just give their cats.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They buy something off the sh they don't even know,
and they just give it to them.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, that's the problem. That's the biggest problem. I mean,
commercial pet foods, of course, have been around for about
seventy five years now, and it's just a convenience food
as all it is. It's no you know, it's not
nutritionally sound. It's not going to provide them with an
ultimate sense of health or anything of that nature. The
problem with cats, they're very unique animals in that they're
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obligate carnivores, which means they can only basically break down
animal fats and proteins, so that you know, with that
being said, they need a meat diet. They're also they
originated in the desert, and because of that, they have
to get all their moisture from their food. They don't
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drink very well out of a dish or anything of
that nature, so they're always when you're feeding dry food,
they're always in a state of dehydration, and of course
that creates all kinds of problems with the kidney and
the liver. That's why we see so much diabetes, why
we see so much kidney fail your UTIs and cats.
It should just be a raw meat diet. And when
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we stop and think about it, we're the only creature
on the face of yours that cooks our food. And
you know, if your choice was only to have dry
cereal every single day of your life, just not think
about that, how long would it take?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Only if it was Count Schocula, then I'd be good.
I could deal with Count Schocula the rest of my life.
But he gave me cheerios for the rest of my life.
I might become a serial killer.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
There you go, right now, right?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I didn't you know? You said that? And I was like,
oh crap, I did that and didn't even notice I
did that. So here's a question I have for you.
I don't see it nowadays, but you used to be
that cat owners only gave their cats milk, not water.
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Why is that and is there a reason why it's
not as popular today.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, first off, our melk gets you buy in the
supermarket is no longer milk, so the animals quite often rejected.
When it used to be whole raw milk, that was fine.
It was actually very nutritious because we're doing it as
part of the overall feeding program back then, and so
what nutritious foods did we want it? We're animal based,
and milk was happening to be at the top of
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the list. Of course, our water today too, is so
highly toxic with chemicals and that sort of thing. That's
what again, why these animals will not drink the tap
water because it's just really horrible. You know, we have
to keep the body hydrated, so we do need good water.
Living water is found in live foods, and that's that's
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what you know. Raw meat basically is a living food.
And the other thing is you have to do variety.
You have to do a rotational diet. Every day should
be something different because every food brings different nutrients to
the table, and it also food is a dual transport system.
It's bringing in nutrients, but it's also taking out very
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specific toxins. And of course, with our animals living basically
in such a toxic environment, I mean it's not something
they live on the floor and you're using all kinds
of you know, deadly chemicals on your floor. It was
funny I maybe mentioned it on the previous show, but
when we look at even the dishwashing detrogens and that
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sort of thing that we have, the toxicity of that
that leaves a film on the on the dishes and
on your utensils and all of that. So every single
day you're just getting more toxins, more toxins, more toxins.
And then you know people go around sticking these supid
you know, send things into their plug. They make the
room smell goodness right at nose level for your cat
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or your dog, and so they're breathing in the fumes
every single moment of every single day.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And I want to add to this because I'm sure
there's people out there listening or watching that like think
that it's being dramatic and like what's the big deal
or even people would reference what we did when we
were going, Oh, we drink a garden hose, what's the
big deal? And we know what the big deal is today.
But here, here's the thing is, like you you're toxifying
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these animals and they don't even have a choice.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That's number one right now.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Number two, I'm gonna give a perfect example of what
you talked about the dishes.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
So I was in Bali, as you know, for like
two to three months, and they have what's called their
Bali belly, which is the same as Mexico Manzuma's revenge.
It's basically, don't drink the water, okay, and otherwise you
get food poisoning. What's interesting is I and I did
have Bally belly like three times while I was there,
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and I was extremely careful. Here's the problem. If one
drop of that tap water gets on the plate of
the food you're eating, you get Bali belly. And that's
how it happened to me.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
One time.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was like basically there was probably just a drop
of water on the plate. There was nothing wrong with
the food, there was nothing wrong with anything else. It
was from washing the plates.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah, absolutely, And you know the thing is that you
get all these build up of all these different chemicals
and they all interact completely differently. You know, the EPA
lists something like one hundred and twenty thousand different chemicals today.
But good news is that it is say nine of
them are safe. Yeah, a good government, you know, really
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on top of things. But that's just it. I mean,
there's so many different chemicals that are involved in this,
and of course the number of what they've actually did
a number of years ago they were actually testing the
cats for toxins, and the number two toxin that they
found in their body was flame retardant. Because you love
the lay on the carpet, love the lay on the furniture,
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all of which has been treated, you know, with all
these toxic chemicals, you know, to prevent a fire. So
when so we're going to prevent the house from burning
down if it does catch fire, and in the meantime,
we kill everything in the place, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
So I just thought of something.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I'm kind of curious, and maybe other people are curious.
I'm highly allergic to cats. Question is could that chain
and could that also be part of what they're being
fed and if they were fed properly and with the
right nutrition, maybe people allergic to cats wouldn't have such
a problem.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Is that true, Yes, that's true. Basically, cat dander, of
course is part of the cause of that allergen because
it's a dust like particle. But the basic part of
that is that the skin is a major detoxifying organ
so all the poisons that are in the foods, in
the environment, everything else that went through the cat's body
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are coming out in that toxic as a toxic dust
basically is what it really is. And of course we're
exposed to it too through the you know, through the
same chemicals that are in our environment that they're living in.
So now you're kind of getting a double dose or
a concentrated dose of it. So, you know, if we
detoxified and we make sure that our cats are being
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fed clean, not being over medicated, all of that sort
of thing, most people that were allergic to cats no
longer are.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
They just go away, Wow, and you know, to go
off the subject of nutrition for a bit, and but
stay on the cat thing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I wanted to know. It just came to me, what's
your opinion of the hairless cats?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Another genetic wreck, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Thinking that's what I'm thinking. It was like, that's man
mad science, Frankenstein stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Right, that's what it really is. Unfortunately, you know, we've
with all of our pets. We keep trying to you know,
we love the dogs, we love the cats, but let's
change them. What that made makes no sense to me
unless you were doing it for an economic reason, you know,
like when we breed cattle. Of course we're breeding dairy
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cattle for melt, you know, it's one characteristic, you know,
beef cattle. Obviously we breed for heavy muscles, so we
get good steaks. That's a little bit different. That's a
lot different than you know, most of the dog and
cat breeds, especially cat breeds, because cats, really, except for
farm cats, you know and pharaohs that are keeping the
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mouth population and rat population the lizard population down, they
don't really have a functional job. I mean, what functional
job can a person cat really have? They can't. It's
lucky you can clean itself.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Well, let's talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
What is the difference between the different cat breeds and
what their nutritional needs might be.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That and you know, the basic needs are gonna be
the same. But when again, when we look at commercial foods,
they're deficient to start with. So you know, you take
a long haired cat obviously needs more fatty acids, you know,
you aminos and stuff like that, and more protein collagen
to grow a good heavy coat. You know, same thing
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with that. Animals that live in you know, the more
northern climates, you know, they're going to be able to
build that winter coat. So they need the high amounts
of good animal protein and to maintain that. And you know,
when we talk about fats, everybody thinks, well, if I
feed them too much fat, they're going to get fat. No,
they burn fat, they don't burn sugar like we do.
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But yet commercial pet foods are nothing but carbohydrates and sugar,
and cats are very very addictive. You know. That's that's
one of the reasons why when you try to switch
the diet from X y Z you have trouble. Cats
are finicky, Well, they're not finicky, they've been hooked on
drugs basically. Yeah, yeah, that's the synthetic sugars, you know,
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the aspartains and neotames, all of those, and so each
company has its own so that therefore the cat will
not accept a competitor's product.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Well, and to validate that point, my youngest daughters, I've
said before on the show, she has gotten big time
into cats recently and alas our house, and she's very
into researching what they can have, what she's like ocd
about what they can have, what they can't have. But
she does give them one thing that in a very
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small amount. Did I watch these cats freak out when
they see it, like just freak out and that and.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Then eating it? Whipped cream?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
What is it in whipped cream as driving these cats nuts?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
It's the sugars. It's a synthetic sugars. They're addicted to it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Huh, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Cream is in whipped cream anymore? I mean, you know
most of the whipped cream supposedly on the market it
doesn't have any cream in it at all.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I know, right, that's weird. It was.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
It was like I saw and analysis on I think
it was Subway on their tuna subs and they tested
the tuna fish you know that they put on the
subs itself. There was zero percent of tuna, actual real
tuna in that slurry of whatever they put on there.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Wow, that's wild.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So what other sage advice can you give our listeners
about how they should be feeding their pets and what
they well their cats and what they should be doing
to have a healthy, long life for the cats and
stop giving them poison.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, the main thing is that feed them the poisonous
commercial foods. That's number one. Number two, that rotational diet,
so every day they're getting something different. It should always
be wet, it should never be dry. Do not leave
the dry food down there for them the munch on
and graze, because what you're really doing is upsetting the
whole that just a system. And the reason that they
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you know, they have a tendency to graze a little
bit at a time is because they know that's not
what they're supposed to have. You know, they're just trying
to stay alive. And of course the other thing is
you know, environmental tops, you know, make sure you've got
good cleaning products, they are safe and you know, essentially
then you will have a healthy cat. You know. And
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when you notice that something is off, correct it, then
don't run to the veterinarian because they don't know anything
except it's just going to make that body more toxic.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I say they should run to Bill at my Paleo
Pet that's.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
What I say.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's what I say too.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Would they how would they do that? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
They can. They can contact me obviously through my Paleo Pet,
which is our retail store and our website for commercial stuff,
and the numbers are all up there on the website itself,
also through Pet Health Cafe, which is my podcast, educational
every single week, brand new episodes available twenty four to
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seven on YouTube, and a number of other venues when
you go onto the website as well. On the my
Paleo Pet one there's also a media center for the
number of hundreds of magazine articles I've written over the
years on all of this, so you you've got the
topics there. And of course a lot of this also
extends on to the pet parents. That's an important thing.
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If we don't keep the pet parents healthy, you know,
they don't have any understanding them and you know you
see it in their kids. You know, they just keep
getting fast food. That's what pet food is, fast food,
and they don't thrive. You know, cats should be living
twenty thirty even longer in a good state now where
if a cat hits like fifteen, they think it's a
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major major accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, I know somebody in their cat just passed away
at seventeen and they're like, Wow, what long life the
cat had.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's really not. That's really not a long life. And
you have to wonder, you know, because of the cat
foods and that sort of thing, how much of that
was what we were, you know, like an ultimate state
of health where they're not in pain, where they're not
you know, having digestive issues, you know, going blind, going death,
you know, all these things are all signs of toxicity.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah, yeah, totally. Well, you are a superhero for our
pets out there, and everybody's got to go check out
my paleopet dot com, check out pet health Cafe, wealth
of information. Tune in next Monday on the Positively pipe
Man segment of The Adventures pipe Man, where we will
now switch gears to dog nutrition and talk about that.
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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four Cy Radio. And once again I'm here
with our resident expert with some powerful business strategies on
the Positively pipemin segment with the Adventures of Pipe Man
here on W four Cy Radio.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
So let's welcome to the show. Michael Barbarita from Next
Step CFO, how are.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
You fantastic date? Thanks for having me again. So today
we're gonna talk about mindset.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
My favorite subject.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You know, a couple of weeks ago, I talked about
the critical six things that you have to have to
have if you're going to scale and grow your business,
and one of them was mindset, and it's probably one
of it's clearly one of the most difficult things that
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a business owner has to face because the mindset that
it took to go from zero to two hundred and
fifty thousand, as an example, it's a completely different mindset
to go from two fifty to a million, and a
million to three million. And part of that mindset is
less reliance on you part of it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
And the other thing that's so important is that in
order to grow, you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable
because mindset changes in mindset that are required to grow
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are uncomfortable, just totally uncomfortable. And if you're comfortable right now,
you're probably not growing. And so I have clients, for example,
that are real comfortable where they are. The problem is
if you know, business declines and so forth, you know
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they've got to deal with that because they're not growing
and they're going to deal with that stress.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yes, but.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
All in all, they're comfortable because they don't have to
hire employees necessarily, they don't have to change what they're
doing necessarily, and they they're able to get referrals to
grow their you know, to not grow their business, but
to maintain status quo, and everything's just running along and
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they're comfortable. Yeah, and that's not a good place for
a business owner to be. You have to get comfortable
being uncomfortable because in order to go from that two
fifty to a million or a million to three million,
there's a lot of changes that you have to make,
and changes uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Change is really uncomfortable, and it's.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Uncomfortable for a lot of business owners. But unless they
can get uncomfortable and be comfortable with that discomfort, they're
not going to grow, they're not going to progress, they're
not going to be able to get out of their
own way, and it it their business is going to stagnate.
Which the problem with stagnating businesses is inflation. You know,
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it's it's and maybe they can increase their prices according
to inflation and so forth, but normal, normally comfortable business
owners who don't really want to change their mindset to
grow don't even increase prices.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Mm hm.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
So you know that because they're comfortable doing what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, that you don't succeed in comfort.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
That's the that's the issue. That is the issue of
the show. That's the problem that business owners have. There's
a lot of when when when they stop working with me,
they stop getting uncomfortable. And I tell them in advance,
I said, you're going to be uncomfortable. If you want
to grow, you're going to be uncomfortable. And uh, it's
you know, because there's things that you have to do
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that are different than what you've been doing in order
for you. The if meant business and financial strategies that
your competition isn't doing, which is basically what we help
business owners with. In a nutshell, it's going to be
uncomfortable because it's change, and change is uncomfortable and it's
going against the grain a little bit. If you're just
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copying your competition, that doesn't feel like you're going against
the grain. But when you do something different than your competitors,
that feels like it's going against the grain. Yeah, I
mean the mindset that we had to have when we
did a risk reversal where Skeeter ski three times you
don't like it, bring it back for a brand new pair.
That took. That took a shift in mindset because the
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employees didn't like it. Their mindset was always, you know,
the same, and so they didn't like it. But it
was it's up to the ownership to make the decision
to implement something like that and take you know, take
the calculated risk. And it's uncomfortable, and no one else
is doing and it's uncomfortable and and and there's a
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school of thought out there. If no one else is
doing it, then it can't be good.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
That's usually when companies come out of nowhere and blow
away everybody.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Right, that's right, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
And I think mindset is important in every aspect of life,
no matter what you're doing, because your mindset will also
determine what happens next, whether it be limiting beliefs or success.
You know, and even in simple little things that you
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wouldn't think matter.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Business owner's minds are full of fear doubt, limiting beliefs,
as you mentioned excuses, so fear doubt excuses limiting beliefs.
These are all These are the mindset shifts that I
have to help business owners with in order to implement
the strategies that the competition isn't doing that it's going
to allow them to get to the next level exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
And like I'll even give a personal example of how
it works because it just came up in conversation last
night when I was at a restaurant and talking to
the people next to me because the hockey game was on.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And a few years ago, well, with my skating coach I.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Was he said something to me that I took as
a compliment that was not a compliment, and he was like,
you never fall And I'm like thanks, and he's like, no,
not thank you. Because the fact is is if you're
not falling, that means you're not taking a risk and
you're never going to get better, right, And that really
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is true of anything you do in life, business or personal.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
That's why they always say no risk, no reward, right.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
And sometimes it doesn't work out, and that's.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Okay exactly, but refresh, maybe it works out in a
better way that you take that risk, you find out
it failed, and so now you try different risks.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That does succeed, right, that's my opinion.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yeah, no, I totally agree with that. You find, you know,
one you find out one way that doesn't work, so
that you can have another opportunity to What does I.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Mean, Let's look at a perfect example, post its. Post
Its are like one of the biggest mistakes that ever
happened in history that became one of the biggest successes ever.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, they were trying to make the strongest glue on
Earth and it ended up into post its instead of
the strongest glue on Earth. So you know, you gotta
take those risks. You look at inventors. You know Edison
he failed at like at least a thousand inventions before
he invented the light bulb.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Believable, Yeah, I know, absolutely, And you know I forgot
how many times he failed. There's a recorded number of
how many times he failed.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Right, Well, look at and look at KFC.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Colonel Sanders went across the whole country, went to a
thousand different places and got turned down before KFC was.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Born one thousand and nine, to be exact.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
He can see and Ray Ray Kroc another story. And
look at this.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You take those two people alone and they were like
sixty five sixty six at the time, which mindset would be,
You're not going to create one of the biggest successes
of your life at that stage in life, right, But
there it is, and it happens quite.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Hard, that's right, colonel. So that seventy two, wow, yeah,
but he started it, but but he got tracked. His
traction began at sixty six.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yep, and then Ray Kroc sixty five. I think it
was right. So there it is. You got to look
at those examples. History repeats itself.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Look at the positive examples in the mindset of the
successful examples, not the mindset of the failures.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
That's right, absolutely, well, that's that's how it's done.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
How do people reach out to you from more mindset
that they need to succeed in business?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Well, they start by going to NEXTSTEPCFO dot net In
the right hand upper right hand corner, there's an orange
button that says find hidden revenue in less than ten minutes.
And what that is it's an AI diagnostic and it
will in less than ten minutes, it will spin out
three strategies that your competition isn't doing. And the impact,
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the financial impact that those three strategies would have along
with a summary implementation plan and so and that's all free.
And so you go to NEXTSTEPCFO dot net. You click
on the range button that says find hitting revenue in
less than ten minutes and you're on your way. Because
it's just a great opportunity for you to understand the
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revenue that's hiding in your business.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
It is so important and I'm so glad we had
you on here once again to help our businesses. You
are a resident expert for a reason, and people need
to reach out to Michael Barbarita and next Step CFO
for more business strategies. If this one isn't the one
you need, there's plenty of others that he can help
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you with and their organization can so you can succeed
in twenty twenty six and beyond.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
We'll see you next We'll see you next month.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Thank you, yeah, but right, Thank you, Jane looks Forth.
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man
on w for CUI Radio.