January 4, 2026 • 22 mins
In 2025 we had so many amazing people stop by Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. Here's one of our favorites!
Barbara Corcoran blesses us with not just her presence, but much needed financial advice... plus, someone from the show pitches their idea!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Unforgettable stars, shocking confessions, and hilarious moments.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
These are the year's.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Best celebrity interviews on Elvis Duran in the Morning Shows
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You know you have that friend or two in your life.
You can go a month or two, maybe six months,
maybe a year without seeing them or talking to them,
But once you see them again, it's as if time
didn't pass. Yes, yes, Barbara Corquin is not that person.
Oh please, Barbara Corkran. We start over fresh. Every time
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we see each other. It's a new friendship.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We like siblings. We raise each other, and we love
each other.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
We do. We love you, we miss you, and we're
so glad you're here today.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Barbara, so happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Sorry, my allergies are like, oh.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You're forgiven. People love you anyway.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And you did. You came in the first thing you
did was you grabbed my crotch.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
No, I did not, you did my crotch. Well, then
let me tell you there was there.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yet, there's something there where, just it takes time. It
takes time. It takes time to find it.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It's time to find it.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Barbara is so much to talk about let's first of all,
this started out with Shark Tank, of course, season sixteen.
Of course Friday's nationwide on ABC eight Central and eight
East Coast time. Whatever you'll find it. Uh, this is
a lot of seasons in under your belt with Shark Tank.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
When I went out there, I thought, I'll give you
two seasons and I'll go into something else because I
love change. That I'm still there's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Why are you still there? Why why don't you change
and do something else?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I love the entrepreneurs most of all, and I love
my fellow sharks. You get to be a family, just
like you guys leaving each other. You know what to
do with yourself. You're part of a unit. Have you
ever thought about leaving when I get tired?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
For sure?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, it doesn't really work.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I don't want you to leave. You're my favorite sharks.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Thank you very much. You've got good taste.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I thought, so. She does, thank you, except for you know,
coming to work with us. Yeah, that was her bad
taste moment. On a sad note, and I want to
hear from you. Of course you have to go out
to Los Angeles to shoot sharks. You lost your home
in the fires, I did among many, And yeah, and
what'd you.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Say among many people?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Among many? I think you said you lost many homes? No, No,
And you actually had a camera with you and you
were showing bits and pieces of what was left. And
how heartbreaking was that for you? And heartbreaking for other
people that you know out there that lost their homes.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It was a killer because I love the community I
was in. I never knew, being in New York that
your neighbors mean a lot, because in New York you're
not really friendly with your neighbors. Out there, I knew
every single person around me. They invited me into play checkers,
have a glass of wine, let's play bingo. I mean,
they were so authentic and they lost everything. Everything they
had was in their little trailer home. For me, it
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was a piet of terror and it was heartbreaking. But
I just kept telling myself, look what everybody else has lost.
I mean I couldn't. I didn't feel I had the
right to complain. But have I lost a lover something
I love so much? I sure did. That was the
only place my husband wasn't allowed. Is the only place
that had no TV or no radio that I could
find peace every day of the week. But I really
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dearly miss it. But I don't think they'll be building
it again.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
No, no, but your husband really wasn't allowed never.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I told him on David, this is a girl's house.
You can never come out.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, and that's okay if you have your own it's
like you're having your own treehouse, you know, in the backyard.
You got it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And he's used to rejection, he said, okay, he knew
he didn't have a chance.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I like that all you did, you did well, I
don't know. You said that that's the only place your
husband was not allowed. Yes, but let's not forget your pants.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh, this is true.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
He's not allowed in my bedroom, in fact, except by invitation,
which never comes.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But you know where his bedroom's located, so you can
always find it.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I'm never looking for it. He's such a good guy,
but I'm never looking for that bedroom.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Really, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
God, does he have a man cave that you're not
allowed to come into?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah? His bedroom? Okay, no, I'm allowed in, but I
never invite myself. He invites, you know, I say a
little bit later, honey.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And sep He's like, he's a great guy though, and
I know you love him very much.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And every day I crawl in his bed at night
and I give him a kiss good night. I have
to crawl up because he's got safety bars on the
side of his bed because he has Parkinson's disease that
I'm afraid he'll full out of the bed. So I
crawl up, and each crawl gets so much harder every day.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That's love. That is love. Hey, So there's so much
going on.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
And I.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Know that people who know you, Barbara Corkoran, they know
that you are plugged into all things finance and all
things investment, this and that, entrepreneurial lives and things and that.
But with what's going on right now with the economy,
and it's affecting everyone in different ways, yes, at all
levels of income, and say, people who have savings, people
who don't, whatever, what is your number one go to?
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And so it asks you to how to weather this storm.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I think it's more attitude than his factuality because facts,
because if you look at the facts, there's nothing to
be optimistic about. Honestly, everyone's struggling. The more lower class
you are, the more you pick up the burden of inflation,
of not being able to find a home for yourself
at an affordable rate. Everything really sits on your chest
more than they have a person. But even if you're
a rich person, people are afraid to invest because the
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stock markets full and ten percent in two days. So
everybody's feeling the pain. But who's feeling the pain the most,
I can tell you are the entrepreneurs themselves. The little
businessmen that are working by themselves have a staff of
three people. They're firing people. They don't know how to
order their goods differently, they can't call the SBA, they
don't answer their phone. They've reduced their people by forty
six percent. I think as of saying and cutting off
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more people, there's no way to turn. They are so
alone and they're so panicked and needy. And these are
really great people who have their heart in the right place.
They employ half of Americans are employed by small businesses.
Everybody gives the credit to the big businesses, but they
pick up the phone and negotiate their rates with their suppliers.
In China, little guys don't have the option to do that,
so they're left alone and they're struggling so hard. And
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they just came through COVID and made it through and
now they get hit by a cyclo. Wow, where do
we turn? Actually, I'm bringing all my entrepreneurs into New
York next week, the middle of next week, and we're
brainstorming like crazy. Because more than coming up with actual
solutions to their problems, which you'll all share and they'll
get them, what I want them to do is share
the support for each other.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You know, there's a trickle down issue going on to
You're talking about entrepreneurs who are already struggling to get
their businesses still get their businesses off the ground this
and they are letting people go. Keep in mind, the
people they're letting go are people who are struggling with
the day to day problems of trying to find money
to put food on the table. So it is affecting everyone.
And but I hear from others saying, Okay, no, this
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is temporary, It's going to be great before you know it.
Just just buck up, sister. I'm like, well, it's not
easy for everyone to buck up time.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm the most optimistic person I know, bar none. But
I don't think you can buck this up. I think
you got to look us straight in the face. You
got to deal with the best you can, and I
think it's a hard time, hard time for everybody, and
coupled over the actual changes that are affecting everybody, attitude
is so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Talk talk about how we need to turn that around,
and what looks like, Well, I don't know how to.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Turn it around. I'm making my attempt to turn around
by being bringing people together who are having the similar
problems talking about it. What can we do feeling like
they have some control and they're proactive and can make
a difference to their ownselves, their business, their lives. So
that's my little piece of what I That's the only
thing I thought of. But if you're by yourself, you're
paying more for your goods, you can't find housing, whatever
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typical day that that people go through, how do you
stay optimistic? Think? I think you just should know that
in the end it passes. I mean, I said, is
it sounds like some of my mother would tell me,
which is terrible, But in the end it passes. But
how do you keep your attitude? What I do is
I don't read the paper unless I'm preparing for something
like this that I read, I get up to date.
I don't let that kind of attitude affect me. I
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keep in my little place of happiness and come out
when I have to.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Do you think we should be looking at our like
four oh one k's and stuff, because you know a
lot of people this week are like to my four
oh one k, oh, my gosh, or don't even bother right.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Don't even look at it. Even worse than that, a
lot of people are having a knee jerk reaction and
taking from their four o one k. And if you're
fifty nine or older that you won't get a penalty
anything out of fifty nine. You get ten percent penalty
to begin with. But why take out a four one
k when it's diminished by ten percent in the stock market?
It doesn't make sense. Why not wait that out? I
mean that's a matter of holding still.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, holding still, and don't just don't look at it.
Don't looking at it's not tear it up anything, tear
it up.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Put blinders on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
So let's say you have saved some money and this
was your moment you know it's going to be this year.
You've got let's say ten thousand, fifteen thousand dollars and
you want to do something with it. What do you
even recommend doing with something right now.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, you could put in a four to one k
it's probably a good thing and lock it up so
that you can't be tempted to use it. Or it's
certainly not enough for any down payment on the house.
Maybe you could buy a two family house with a
partner and get two units in it and have them
pay off the mortgage. I mean, there are things you
could do, but it's for the brave of heart. People
want to take a risk, But I think right people
are risk aversive. They're waiting and seeing and with so
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much coming out of Washington and so wacky, they don't
know what's coming next. They feel like they're living in
a funny farm, and I think they are.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We are not very funny right now. I'm going to
tell you, though, keeping this in mind, if you will
look at everything from a broad perspective. Uh, the overarching
theme I'm thinking of, if this is affecting everyone, from
the wealthy to the struggling. Everyone's going to be down.
Everyone is down everyone, and it's gonna it may get
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a little worse. And so to be aware of that
and to try to lift people up as best as
you can through the things you say to them, the
way you treat them. It's needed now more than ever everyone.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
But it's not enough optimism, it's not enough reaction.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
You know who's here? Do you know? You know Andrew? Andrew? Andrew.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We'll get you over to look like a chipmunk exactly.
Who doesn't like a chipmunk?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I don't know you. I'll take it chip monks, and
I will, I will. We know this about Andrew. Chipmunks
are rodents as well, all right now, So entrepreneurial Andrew
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the chipmunk is what we call. He started a business
and did his best to like scrape and and beg
and plead and whatever to start this business. And tell
tell her what he's not pitching you. He's gonna talk
about something else.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
This is Ince twenty twenty three. Me and two of
my friends. We started a business. It's called brew Pants.
We sell on Amazon. It's a baby bottle plus a koozie.
So look, it's like you're drinking Duncan. The baby looks
like it's drinking like Dunkin Donuts. See like little muchkin.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
It's cute.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
But the problem is that now with the tariffs, we
don't know what we're going to do because we get
all over our inventory from China. So we're kind of
just in a position right now where we're waiting to
see what to do next.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Do you have any advice?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I would have to ask you two things. What do
you pay for this little cup holder?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
So we pay probably like two bucks dollar fifty yeah,
way less, like maybe fifty cents at most.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
So, and what do you charge for the cup when
you sell it to as a consumer?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
We sell it for twenty bucks, wow, fat cats. But
by the time we get it, we sell on Amazon,
so we have to give them their portion all the
sales and everything. The hustle culture online makes it seem
like drop shipping all this stuff it's quick money. It's
really not, because you have to take so much and
reinvest it in. So we're selling it for twenty bucks,
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but we're only seeing maybe like ten dollars of profit
out of that sale.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
But can I tell you that's still a wide margin?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You should wear up.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But you know what, the main question is how many
are you selling? How much do people want it?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I mean, they did go viral on TikTok, which is
really cool.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
That lasts about a week or two exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
So we're kind of back to square one again where
we have to come up with new designs and keep
on top of the market. But it's really hard to
know if we should be buying more product with everything
that's kind of going on. Last year, we did three
hundred thousand worth of profit.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Okay, not enough to really make a living at If
you did this exactly year, it's going to be a
tougher year. You could afford the margins is no problem,
but I would really question how could I sell more products?
Three hundred thousand? We'll never make go of it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, it also suppliers. He needs to shift a supplier strategy.
So I mean, China's not it.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So no, Vinom's not it, Cabody is not it. You
have to look to America to'll cuss you twice as much.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Exactly. I've tried to do that and can afford it.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
You can afford it. And what happened when you.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Looked they were going to do a dollar fifty for
just one sided with no color printing.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Oh, they're going to take advantage. But it sounds like
you only talk to one. You have to chalk to six.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Six Okay, six is the minimum? Got it?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Good luck? I bet you don't find any You're not
going to do it anything with.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You're calling a failing ship monk.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You know it's a good product, obviously, it's well made.
How old to here in my hand? It's phenomenal, well
not phenomenal, but it's good.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
But it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
But the question is always how many people want it?
You always have to be real serious about that question.
How many people will buy it? What will they pay?
That's it's all businesses that way. Yeah, then worry about
your overhead, you cast blah blah blah blah. How many
people will buy it? It's got to be sold to
a lot of people to make a business a business.
Other than that, it's a hobby. Something wrong with a
hobby if you take join it, but you don't make
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a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
We wanted to go to the next level and where
we thought about maybe going off Amazon selling independently.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Try it. Nothing nothing solst by doing both at once.
That's true, there you go, but Amazon exposes it for
swamp business. It's hard to do it without them.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Very true, Andrew the shipmunk.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Everyone to go find it on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
High question.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yes, so when you're on the shark tank, right, there
were a couple of times you weren't there for, like
some big ones, like you weren't there for scrub Daddy Poppy,
Like do you feel like if you were there, you
would have made you know, made a bit.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
On these things? You know. I was there for scrub Daddy. Oh.
When I looked at that stupid smiling face on a
spongers said who the hell would buy that thing? And
I was wrong? Eight million people bought it within the month.
Oh yeah, yeah, in that Laurie, I haven't talked to
your since.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I met scrub Daddy. He gave me some scrap guys.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Scrub Daddy still hustler, Oh recent that product is sell
them because of him, as it always is the entrepreneur
every time.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Hey, So for those who are trying to think out
of the box unquote, with what's going on with the
economy right now and where it's going, what opportunities are
there right now? Is it best just to lock down?
If we lock down everything, the economy is really going
to suffer. But if people are ready to take some chances,
if they have a few dollars that you want to
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spend and they're saving right now, just to see if
it'll do something. What are those opportunities?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You know, when you look back at COVID. We went
into COVID thinking everything was trouble. What really happened in
COVID people came out as new companies, winners. Doing business
is a different way. Every time there's a dramatic challenge
in a marketplace, there's a dramatic equally strong opportunity. What
they are right now, I don't know. But if you
had a passion for something, you've been stolen about it,
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now you can reinvent. Really, people are open to anything.
You're gonna lose most of your competition. Many companies are
going to go under, and that happened in COVID, which
is good for the companies that came up. You know.
So I couldn't say to someone what's your specific opportunity,
But if it's an inkling in your mind that you
think of something like my little chipmunk friend over there, Andrews.
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But no matter what happens with Andrew's business, you ask
him a year from now, what do you think angel
He'll never regret having that business. Now's the time to
try it, to try something and see what happens. And
it is that kind of environment. The world is open
to newcomers. It always is when it's trouble times open
to newcomers. You have no excuse to say, wait, I'll
wait a year or so. What's going to you know?
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Just get it out there.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So, with what you know about everything that's going on
right now, do you see an end date to this?
Do you have any idea how long people are going
to be struggling?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Have no idea?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I mean, I don't know. If the politicians don't have
an idea, unless stock market traders don't have not gear,
who the heck knows. I'll get a pit and tail
on the donkey and throw a.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Dart and tell you all right, so it'll be over
when it's over.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, So what it's your attitude in carrying your chest
in your heart the whole time between now and then.
That's that's the important part that getting.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
There you are from, of course, the foundation of real estate,
that's where you start game. So what what does this
mean for people who are looking for that first house
right now, or any property not Maybe maybe selling a
property is now the time just to put a lock
on all of the above. Don't buy, don't sell. Let's
wait this thing out.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Well, buying and selling our opposite opponents in the marketplaces.
You know, most of the people two thirds of Americans
are sitting on four percent interest rates, So is now
a time to sell? And what is it six to
seven percent interest rates?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Because who wants to give up the four percent interest
rate and sign them for a seven percent interest rate?
And that's the problem in the market. That's not enough
houses because sellers don't want to sell. Who's to blame, really,
But it's a good time for buyers. With the shortage
of listening, it's not good for them either. It's not
enough houses to go around. But right now, everybody's scared.
And what my gut always tells me in a real
estate market is when people get scared because of the
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general economy, they stall. They don't put in the new kitchen,
they don't buy the new house, they don't buy the
new car. They just waited it out. That's an opportunity
to have less competition. You could go in and put
a lower offer because the person hasn't heard he offer
in six weeks. You go into the spring break when
everybody's away and have no competition. That's the really best,
best week of the year to shop. Nobody's out there
because they're too busy vacationing with the kids of minding
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the kids.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So a good time to buy, not to sell.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, good time to thank you for saying it. Why
don't you say that up front?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I couldn't say. I want to know what you were
going to say. Well, you just said it better. Here's
nothing about Barbara. She doesn't care, and I'll tell you
I do care. I can't deeply about you. She cares
about the important things. But she walked in and it's
aw scary. And before she even said hi to her
to scary him, she punched him in his big belly.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I said, hold that in. I did your favorite. You
look so much better when you're holding your belly.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Like the Pillsbury Dome. Boys have to say, what's up?
That's you said? I never said it. I don't say that,
you know the piburg.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I've been wanting to poke somebody in a belly like
yours for a long time.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
There, you got I.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I know this.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I know that in about an hour or an hour
from now, you're going to be on the Jenniferdson Show today.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yes I am.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
She's lovely.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
She's really a nice interview. She makes you feel like
you're the most important girl in the world, and you
know she makes everybody feel that way.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
So what are you talking about today with Jennifer Sen?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I don't remember. I taped it about him month ago.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Did you dance down the hallway?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Oh, thank you for reminding me. Dancing down the hallway
is the most fun part. But I can't dance, so
I looked really clumsy, and I felt it. I knew
how I looked stupid. They were pitying me. I took
off my shoes. Well I was the first one eliminated.
Oh remember that? Okay, but I took off my shoes
and dance barefoot, and everybody took off their shoes and
dance barefoot, and that's what saved me. They were giggling
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so hard they didn't notice how bad I was dancing.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
There you go. Okay, what are you doing for fun
besides work? I know you love your friends and you're
a very friend centric person. I haven't had my invitation
to the house lately. I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
That's not true. I've invited you twice. I've said give
me two nights. I'll pick one. You did yes twice.
I'll send you the email and i'll put on top.
Didn't you see this?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay? Put it to the top. Okay, But what do
you do for fun? Are you still surrounding yourself with friends?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I always do, because the best time in life that
you never regret is around people you love. If you
have two friends only in your whole life, hang out
as much as you can with them. It's no fun
doing anything or discovering anything for me anyway alone. I'm
just a people person. So I would feel sad if
I discovered a new plant or pretty arrangement and nobody
looked at it and said, wow, you know it's terrible, isn't?
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But I need that kind of feedback. And if my
friends are happy, I'm thinking I'm contributing in life. And
if they're not happy, and you should come and contribute
to me, and I'll contribute you back at a dinner table,
you're never going to be happy, and that really is
the best shared experience.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I need some of that. Clam clam uh link anyway, clamsaws.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I make the best.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
He does, he makes the best. What's up, Nate, Mike? Okay,
quick question for you?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
You are a big motivator for a lot of people
here in this room and a lot of our listeners.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What is your biggest source of motivation? Barbara?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Good question. God, I've never been asked that, certainly not.
You know what, I don't know what it is now.
I had to take a second. I'm motivated by my
staff because I see them happy, getting ahead where teamanship
just like we have that. You have that spirit right here.
It's clear you're walking the door, you're feeling everybody wants
to come to work, not because of the work you do.
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I don't think probably has to do with it, but
because of each other. When I walk into my office,
Hey guys, you know how I know how everybody likes
to feel love ru MIC's back because he likes physical touch.
I give a compliment to Emily. She likes compliments. I mean,
we have such a nice camaraderie going back and forth,
and that gives me great joy. Like I leave the
workday thinking everybody's happy. That's really what motivates me. That's awesome.
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That sounds too soupy, I know, not at all, not
at all.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You know a lot of people heard that just then
and just realize, Oh, my god, that's why I actually
like my life. I go to work and work with
people just like she's talking about. So maybe we need
to be reminded of that from time.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Maybe it made a boss think, oh my gosh, I
don't do that. Maybe I need to go to work
and do.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That for my forget it. They don't change. A bad
boss is a bad boss.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Somewhere some boss heard it and they're like, oh, I'm
going to touch more people.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Today's a day for touching, all right, So today Jennifer Hudson,
and of course you're bringing your friends and we're not
invited to this, but you're bringing your friends in.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Thank you stated you might want to come to that.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's your entrepreneurial will get away one.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Of the evenings. We're gonna have a lot of fun there.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So you're doing like like a three or four day things.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, of course, come on, you can't discuss all your
ideas one day. It's too rushed.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I know you have to.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
And besides which, we have to drink a lot. That's
the key to friendship, drinking and drunk.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, I know. I go to to Barbaro's house. We
usually have a cocktail er too.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Stone by the time you're there for an hour.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Probably one time I walked into her kitchen she invited
me or for lunch, and there was no The sink
wasn't working. Yeah, there's no spig no spiggott on the sink.
Who has a life in a kitchen with no spigging
on the sink? I said, where do you go to
get your water?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
To the bathroom?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The bathroom. She's washing your dishes in the toilet.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
No, I didn't. Oh, stop it, stopping now anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
We we love you, and I know even though you
started the day by grabbing my crotch and poking Scary
in the stomach and made fun of Chip, butoks, I
should be arrested. We love you, Barbara.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
We love you.
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You know you have that friend or two in your life.
You can go a month or two, maybe six months,
maybe a year without seeing them or talking to them,
But once you see them again, it's as if time
didn't pass. Yes, yes, Barbara Corquin is not that person.
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we see each other. It's a new friendship.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
We like siblings. We raise each other, and we love
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Speaker 3 (00:42):
We do. We love you, we miss you, and we're
so glad you're here today.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Barbara, so happy to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Sorry, my allergies are like, oh.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You're forgiven. People love you anyway.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And you did. You came in the first thing you
did was you grabbed my crotch.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
No, I did not, you did my crotch. Well, then
let me tell you there was there.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yet, there's something there where, just it takes time. It
takes time. It takes time to find it.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It's time to find it.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Barbara is so much to talk about let's first of all,
this started out with Shark Tank, of course, season sixteen.
Of course Friday's nationwide on ABC eight Central and eight
East Coast time. Whatever you'll find it. Uh, this is
a lot of seasons in under your belt with Shark Tank.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
When I went out there, I thought, I'll give you
two seasons and I'll go into something else because I
love change. That I'm still there's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Why are you still there? Why why don't you change
and do something else?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I love the entrepreneurs most of all, and I love
my fellow sharks. You get to be a family, just
like you guys leaving each other. You know what to
do with yourself. You're part of a unit. Have you
ever thought about leaving when I get tired?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
For sure?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, it doesn't really work.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I don't want you to leave. You're my favorite sharks.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Thank you very much. You've got good taste.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I thought, so. She does, thank you, except for you know,
coming to work with us. Yeah, that was her bad
taste moment. On a sad note, and I want to
hear from you. Of course you have to go out
to Los Angeles to shoot sharks. You lost your home
in the fires, I did among many, And yeah, and
what'd you.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Say among many people?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Among many? I think you said you lost many homes? No, No,
And you actually had a camera with you and you
were showing bits and pieces of what was left. And
how heartbreaking was that for you? And heartbreaking for other
people that you know out there that lost their homes.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It was a killer because I love the community I
was in. I never knew, being in New York that
your neighbors mean a lot, because in New York you're
not really friendly with your neighbors. Out there, I knew
every single person around me. They invited me into play checkers,
have a glass of wine, let's play bingo. I mean,
they were so authentic and they lost everything. Everything they
had was in their little trailer home. For me, it
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was a piet of terror and it was heartbreaking. But
I just kept telling myself, look what everybody else has lost.
I mean I couldn't. I didn't feel I had the
right to complain. But have I lost a lover something
I love so much? I sure did. That was the
only place my husband wasn't allowed. Is the only place
that had no TV or no radio that I could
find peace every day of the week. But I really
(03:09):
dearly miss it. But I don't think they'll be building
it again.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
No, no, but your husband really wasn't allowed never.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I told him on David, this is a girl's house.
You can never come out.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, and that's okay if you have your own it's
like you're having your own treehouse, you know, in the backyard.
You got it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
And he's used to rejection, he said, okay, he knew
he didn't have a chance.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I like that all you did, you did well, I
don't know. You said that that's the only place your
husband was not allowed. Yes, but let's not forget your pants.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh, this is true.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
He's not allowed in my bedroom, in fact, except by invitation,
which never comes.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But you know where his bedroom's located, so you can
always find it.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I'm never looking for it. He's such a good guy,
but I'm never looking for that bedroom.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Really, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
God, does he have a man cave that you're not
allowed to come into?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah? His bedroom? Okay, no, I'm allowed in, but I
never invite myself. He invites, you know, I say a
little bit later, honey.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And sep He's like, he's a great guy though, and
I know you love him very much.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And every day I crawl in his bed at night
and I give him a kiss good night. I have
to crawl up because he's got safety bars on the
side of his bed because he has Parkinson's disease that
I'm afraid he'll full out of the bed. So I
crawl up, and each crawl gets so much harder every day.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That's love. That is love. Hey, So there's so much
going on.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
And I.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Know that people who know you, Barbara Corkoran, they know
that you are plugged into all things finance and all
things investment, this and that, entrepreneurial lives and things and that.
But with what's going on right now with the economy,
and it's affecting everyone in different ways, yes, at all
levels of income, and say, people who have savings, people
who don't, whatever, what is your number one go to?
(04:46):
And so it asks you to how to weather this storm.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I think it's more attitude than his factuality because facts,
because if you look at the facts, there's nothing to
be optimistic about. Honestly, everyone's struggling. The more lower class
you are, the more you pick up the burden of inflation,
of not being able to find a home for yourself
at an affordable rate. Everything really sits on your chest
more than they have a person. But even if you're
a rich person, people are afraid to invest because the
(05:12):
stock markets full and ten percent in two days. So
everybody's feeling the pain. But who's feeling the pain the most,
I can tell you are the entrepreneurs themselves. The little
businessmen that are working by themselves have a staff of
three people. They're firing people. They don't know how to
order their goods differently, they can't call the SBA, they
don't answer their phone. They've reduced their people by forty
six percent. I think as of saying and cutting off
(05:34):
more people, there's no way to turn. They are so
alone and they're so panicked and needy. And these are
really great people who have their heart in the right place.
They employ half of Americans are employed by small businesses.
Everybody gives the credit to the big businesses, but they
pick up the phone and negotiate their rates with their suppliers.
In China, little guys don't have the option to do that,
so they're left alone and they're struggling so hard. And
(05:55):
they just came through COVID and made it through and
now they get hit by a cyclo. Wow, where do
we turn? Actually, I'm bringing all my entrepreneurs into New
York next week, the middle of next week, and we're
brainstorming like crazy. Because more than coming up with actual
solutions to their problems, which you'll all share and they'll
get them, what I want them to do is share
the support for each other.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You know, there's a trickle down issue going on to
You're talking about entrepreneurs who are already struggling to get
their businesses still get their businesses off the ground this
and they are letting people go. Keep in mind, the
people they're letting go are people who are struggling with
the day to day problems of trying to find money
to put food on the table. So it is affecting everyone.
And but I hear from others saying, Okay, no, this
(06:39):
is temporary, It's going to be great before you know it.
Just just buck up, sister. I'm like, well, it's not
easy for everyone to buck up time.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm the most optimistic person I know, bar none. But
I don't think you can buck this up. I think
you got to look us straight in the face. You
got to deal with the best you can, and I
think it's a hard time, hard time for everybody, and
coupled over the actual changes that are affecting everybody, attitude
is so bad.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Talk talk about how we need to turn that around,
and what looks like, Well, I don't know how to.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Turn it around. I'm making my attempt to turn around
by being bringing people together who are having the similar
problems talking about it. What can we do feeling like
they have some control and they're proactive and can make
a difference to their ownselves, their business, their lives. So
that's my little piece of what I That's the only
thing I thought of. But if you're by yourself, you're
paying more for your goods, you can't find housing, whatever
(07:27):
typical day that that people go through, how do you
stay optimistic? Think? I think you just should know that
in the end it passes. I mean, I said, is
it sounds like some of my mother would tell me,
which is terrible, But in the end it passes. But
how do you keep your attitude? What I do is
I don't read the paper unless I'm preparing for something
like this that I read, I get up to date.
I don't let that kind of attitude affect me. I
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keep in my little place of happiness and come out
when I have to.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Do you think we should be looking at our like
four oh one k's and stuff, because you know a
lot of people this week are like to my four
oh one k, oh, my gosh, or don't even bother right.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Don't even look at it. Even worse than that, a
lot of people are having a knee jerk reaction and
taking from their four o one k. And if you're
fifty nine or older that you won't get a penalty
anything out of fifty nine. You get ten percent penalty
to begin with. But why take out a four one
k when it's diminished by ten percent in the stock market?
It doesn't make sense. Why not wait that out? I
mean that's a matter of holding still.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, holding still, and don't just don't look at it.
Don't looking at it's not tear it up anything, tear
it up.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Put blinders on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
So let's say you have saved some money and this
was your moment you know it's going to be this year.
You've got let's say ten thousand, fifteen thousand dollars and
you want to do something with it. What do you
even recommend doing with something right now.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, you could put in a four to one k
it's probably a good thing and lock it up so
that you can't be tempted to use it. Or it's
certainly not enough for any down payment on the house.
Maybe you could buy a two family house with a
partner and get two units in it and have them
pay off the mortgage. I mean, there are things you
could do, but it's for the brave of heart. People
want to take a risk, But I think right people
are risk aversive. They're waiting and seeing and with so
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much coming out of Washington and so wacky, they don't
know what's coming next. They feel like they're living in
a funny farm, and I think they are.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We are not very funny right now. I'm going to
tell you, though, keeping this in mind, if you will
look at everything from a broad perspective. Uh, the overarching
theme I'm thinking of, if this is affecting everyone, from
the wealthy to the struggling. Everyone's going to be down.
Everyone is down everyone, and it's gonna it may get
(09:33):
a little worse. And so to be aware of that
and to try to lift people up as best as
you can through the things you say to them, the
way you treat them. It's needed now more than ever everyone.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
But it's not enough optimism, it's not enough reaction.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
You know who's here? Do you know? You know Andrew? Andrew? Andrew.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We'll get you over to look like a chipmunk exactly.
Who doesn't like a chipmunk?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I don't know you. I'll take it chip monks, and
I will, I will. We know this about Andrew. Chipmunks
are rodents as well, all right now, So entrepreneurial Andrew
(10:25):
the chipmunk is what we call. He started a business
and did his best to like scrape and and beg
and plead and whatever to start this business. And tell
tell her what he's not pitching you. He's gonna talk
about something else.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
This is Ince twenty twenty three. Me and two of
my friends. We started a business. It's called brew Pants.
We sell on Amazon. It's a baby bottle plus a koozie.
So look, it's like you're drinking Duncan. The baby looks
like it's drinking like Dunkin Donuts. See like little muchkin.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
It's cute.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
But the problem is that now with the tariffs, we
don't know what we're going to do because we get
all over our inventory from China. So we're kind of
just in a position right now where we're waiting to
see what to do next.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Do you have any advice?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I would have to ask you two things. What do
you pay for this little cup holder?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
So we pay probably like two bucks dollar fifty yeah,
way less, like maybe fifty cents at most.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
So, and what do you charge for the cup when
you sell it to as a consumer?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
We sell it for twenty bucks, wow, fat cats. But
by the time we get it, we sell on Amazon,
so we have to give them their portion all the
sales and everything. The hustle culture online makes it seem
like drop shipping all this stuff it's quick money. It's
really not, because you have to take so much and
reinvest it in. So we're selling it for twenty bucks,
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but we're only seeing maybe like ten dollars of profit
out of that sale.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
But can I tell you that's still a wide margin?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You should wear up.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But you know what, the main question is how many
are you selling? How much do people want it?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I mean, they did go viral on TikTok, which is
really cool.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
That lasts about a week or two exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
So we're kind of back to square one again where
we have to come up with new designs and keep
on top of the market. But it's really hard to
know if we should be buying more product with everything
that's kind of going on. Last year, we did three
hundred thousand worth of profit.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Okay, not enough to really make a living at If
you did this exactly year, it's going to be a
tougher year. You could afford the margins is no problem,
but I would really question how could I sell more products?
Three hundred thousand? We'll never make go of it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, it also suppliers. He needs to shift a supplier strategy.
So I mean, China's not it.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So no, Vinom's not it, Cabody is not it. You
have to look to America to'll cuss you twice as much.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Exactly. I've tried to do that and can afford it.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
You can afford it. And what happened when you.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Looked they were going to do a dollar fifty for
just one sided with no color printing.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Oh, they're going to take advantage. But it sounds like
you only talk to one. You have to chalk to six.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Six Okay, six is the minimum? Got it?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Good luck? I bet you don't find any You're not
going to do it anything with.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You're calling a failing ship monk.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You know it's a good product, obviously, it's well made.
How old to here in my hand? It's phenomenal, well
not phenomenal, but it's good.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
But it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
But the question is always how many people want it?
You always have to be real serious about that question.
How many people will buy it? What will they pay?
That's it's all businesses that way. Yeah, then worry about
your overhead, you cast blah blah blah blah. How many
people will buy it? It's got to be sold to
a lot of people to make a business a business.
Other than that, it's a hobby. Something wrong with a
hobby if you take join it, but you don't make
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a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
We wanted to go to the next level and where
we thought about maybe going off Amazon selling independently.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Try it. Nothing nothing solst by doing both at once.
That's true, there you go, but Amazon exposes it for
swamp business. It's hard to do it without them.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Very true, Andrew the shipmunk.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Everyone to go find it on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
High question.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yes, so when you're on the shark tank, right, there
were a couple of times you weren't there for, like
some big ones, like you weren't there for scrub Daddy Poppy,
Like do you feel like if you were there, you
would have made you know, made a bit.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
On these things? You know. I was there for scrub Daddy. Oh.
When I looked at that stupid smiling face on a
spongers said who the hell would buy that thing? And
I was wrong? Eight million people bought it within the month.
Oh yeah, yeah, in that Laurie, I haven't talked to
your since.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
I met scrub Daddy. He gave me some scrap guys.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Scrub Daddy still hustler, Oh recent that product is sell
them because of him, as it always is the entrepreneur
every time.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Hey, So for those who are trying to think out
of the box unquote, with what's going on with the
economy right now and where it's going, what opportunities are
there right now? Is it best just to lock down?
If we lock down everything, the economy is really going
to suffer. But if people are ready to take some chances,
if they have a few dollars that you want to
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spend and they're saving right now, just to see if
it'll do something. What are those opportunities?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You know, when you look back at COVID. We went
into COVID thinking everything was trouble. What really happened in
COVID people came out as new companies, winners. Doing business
is a different way. Every time there's a dramatic challenge
in a marketplace, there's a dramatic equally strong opportunity. What
they are right now, I don't know. But if you
had a passion for something, you've been stolen about it,
(15:19):
now you can reinvent. Really, people are open to anything.
You're gonna lose most of your competition. Many companies are
going to go under, and that happened in COVID, which
is good for the companies that came up. You know.
So I couldn't say to someone what's your specific opportunity,
But if it's an inkling in your mind that you
think of something like my little chipmunk friend over there, Andrews.
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But no matter what happens with Andrew's business, you ask
him a year from now, what do you think angel
He'll never regret having that business. Now's the time to
try it, to try something and see what happens. And
it is that kind of environment. The world is open
to newcomers. It always is when it's trouble times open
to newcomers. You have no excuse to say, wait, I'll
wait a year or so. What's going to you know?
(16:01):
Just get it out there.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So, with what you know about everything that's going on
right now, do you see an end date to this?
Do you have any idea how long people are going
to be struggling?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Have no idea?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
I mean, I don't know. If the politicians don't have
an idea, unless stock market traders don't have not gear,
who the heck knows. I'll get a pit and tail
on the donkey and throw a.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Dart and tell you all right, so it'll be over
when it's over.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, So what it's your attitude in carrying your chest
in your heart the whole time between now and then.
That's that's the important part that getting.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
There you are from, of course, the foundation of real estate,
that's where you start game. So what what does this
mean for people who are looking for that first house
right now, or any property not Maybe maybe selling a
property is now the time just to put a lock
on all of the above. Don't buy, don't sell. Let's
wait this thing out.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Well, buying and selling our opposite opponents in the marketplaces.
You know, most of the people two thirds of Americans
are sitting on four percent interest rates, So is now
a time to sell? And what is it six to
seven percent interest rates?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
No?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Because who wants to give up the four percent interest
rate and sign them for a seven percent interest rate?
And that's the problem in the market. That's not enough
houses because sellers don't want to sell. Who's to blame, really,
But it's a good time for buyers. With the shortage
of listening, it's not good for them either. It's not
enough houses to go around. But right now, everybody's scared.
And what my gut always tells me in a real
estate market is when people get scared because of the
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general economy, they stall. They don't put in the new kitchen,
they don't buy the new house, they don't buy the
new car. They just waited it out. That's an opportunity
to have less competition. You could go in and put
a lower offer because the person hasn't heard he offer
in six weeks. You go into the spring break when
everybody's away and have no competition. That's the really best,
best week of the year to shop. Nobody's out there
because they're too busy vacationing with the kids of minding
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the kids.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So a good time to buy, not to sell.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, good time to thank you for saying it. Why
don't you say that up front?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I couldn't say. I want to know what you were
going to say. Well, you just said it better. Here's
nothing about Barbara. She doesn't care, and I'll tell you
I do care. I can't deeply about you. She cares
about the important things. But she walked in and it's
aw scary. And before she even said hi to her
to scary him, she punched him in his big belly.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I said, hold that in. I did your favorite. You
look so much better when you're holding your belly.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Like the Pillsbury Dome. Boys have to say, what's up?
That's you said? I never said it. I don't say that,
you know the piburg.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I've been wanting to poke somebody in a belly like
yours for a long time.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
There, you got I.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I know this.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I know that in about an hour or an hour
from now, you're going to be on the Jenniferdson Show today.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yes I am.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
She's lovely.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
She's really a nice interview. She makes you feel like
you're the most important girl in the world, and you
know she makes everybody feel that way.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
So what are you talking about today with Jennifer Sen?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I don't remember. I taped it about him month ago.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Did you dance down the hallway?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Oh, thank you for reminding me. Dancing down the hallway
is the most fun part. But I can't dance, so
I looked really clumsy, and I felt it. I knew
how I looked stupid. They were pitying me. I took
off my shoes. Well I was the first one eliminated.
Oh remember that? Okay, but I took off my shoes
and dance barefoot, and everybody took off their shoes and
dance barefoot, and that's what saved me. They were giggling
(19:16):
so hard they didn't notice how bad I was dancing.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
There you go. Okay, what are you doing for fun
besides work? I know you love your friends and you're
a very friend centric person. I haven't had my invitation
to the house lately. I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
That's not true. I've invited you twice. I've said give
me two nights. I'll pick one. You did yes twice.
I'll send you the email and i'll put on top.
Didn't you see this?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay? Put it to the top. Okay, But what do
you do for fun? Are you still surrounding yourself with friends?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I always do, because the best time in life that
you never regret is around people you love. If you
have two friends only in your whole life, hang out
as much as you can with them. It's no fun
doing anything or discovering anything for me anyway alone. I'm
just a people person. So I would feel sad if
I discovered a new plant or pretty arrangement and nobody
looked at it and said, wow, you know it's terrible, isn't?
(20:07):
But I need that kind of feedback. And if my
friends are happy, I'm thinking I'm contributing in life. And
if they're not happy, and you should come and contribute
to me, and I'll contribute you back at a dinner table,
you're never going to be happy, and that really is
the best shared experience.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I need some of that. Clam clam uh link anyway, clamsaws.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
I make the best.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
He does, he makes the best. What's up, Nate, Mike? Okay,
quick question for you?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
You are a big motivator for a lot of people
here in this room and a lot of our listeners.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What is your biggest source of motivation? Barbara?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Good question. God, I've never been asked that, certainly not.
You know what, I don't know what it is now.
I had to take a second. I'm motivated by my
staff because I see them happy, getting ahead where teamanship
just like we have that. You have that spirit right here.
It's clear you're walking the door, you're feeling everybody wants
to come to work, not because of the work you do.
(20:58):
I don't think probably has to do with it, but
because of each other. When I walk into my office,
Hey guys, you know how I know how everybody likes
to feel love ru MIC's back because he likes physical touch.
I give a compliment to Emily. She likes compliments. I mean,
we have such a nice camaraderie going back and forth,
and that gives me great joy. Like I leave the
workday thinking everybody's happy. That's really what motivates me. That's awesome.
(21:22):
That sounds too soupy, I know, not at all, not
at all.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You know a lot of people heard that just then
and just realize, Oh, my god, that's why I actually
like my life. I go to work and work with
people just like she's talking about. So maybe we need
to be reminded of that from time.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Maybe it made a boss think, oh my gosh, I
don't do that. Maybe I need to go to work
and do.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That for my forget it. They don't change. A bad
boss is a bad boss.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Somewhere some boss heard it and they're like, oh, I'm
going to touch more people.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Today's a day for touching, all right, So today Jennifer Hudson,
and of course you're bringing your friends and we're not
invited to this, but you're bringing your friends in.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Thank you stated you might want to come to that.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's your entrepreneurial will get away one.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Of the evenings. We're gonna have a lot of fun there.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So you're doing like like a three or four day things.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, of course, come on, you can't discuss all your
ideas one day. It's too rushed.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I know you have to.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
And besides which, we have to drink a lot. That's
the key to friendship, drinking and drunk.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, I know. I go to to Barbaro's house. We
usually have a cocktail er too.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Stone by the time you're there for an hour.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Probably one time I walked into her kitchen she invited
me or for lunch, and there was no The sink
wasn't working. Yeah, there's no spig no spiggott on the sink.
Who has a life in a kitchen with no spigging
on the sink? I said, where do you go to
get your water?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
To the bathroom?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The bathroom. She's washing your dishes in the toilet.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
No, I didn't. Oh, stop it, stopping now anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
We we love you, and I know even though you
started the day by grabbing my crotch and poking Scary
in the stomach and made fun of Chip, butoks, I
should be arrested. We love you, Barbara.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
We love you.
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