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Speaker 2 (00:12):
What's going on, guys ?
Welcome to another or one ofthe episodes of the more than a
silo podcast, where we helpnon-offers create more impact,
income and influence outsidetheir jobs.
If you guys haven't been here,my name is Anthony.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And I am Janoka and we are back, we are back.
I'm just thinking of a TikToksound.
What sound is that we should doit actually the content to show
us being back.
Anyway, we should actually.
Yeah, we can do it after.
Anyway, we are back from abreak.
I think the last podcast Lasttime we sat down here was like
(00:47):
May.
Maybe three, four months, I didone, maybe three, four months
it's been since we last sat downhere and this episode we are
going to provide All the lifeupdates that's been happening in
our lives and did we quit thepodcast.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Did we quit the show?
Did we quit the show?
Did we quit the content?
We did not quit, we just took anecessary and needed break and
the problem with a break is-?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Did we do two years, two and a half years straight,
or was?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
it we did two and a half years straight of episodes
and the problem with the breakis that we didn't tell you, guys
, we were taking a break, sonumber one.
I want to apologize on behalfof.
I was saying thank you forsticking around If you did, but
some people did we lost a lot ofviews because we weren't
keeping up with the content, andthe problem was is that we
didn't tell you guys that wewere going to take a break and,
(01:35):
honestly, we didn't know, wedidn't know we were going to
take a break every week.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You're like, well, we don't get back in there.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like one of those
things when life happens it justkeeps going and then it doesn't
become a priority for you.
But we do appreciate you guyswho stuck around.
The viewership has droppedtremendously, but anybody who's
been listening and tuning in wedefinitely appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
But listen, it's quarter four.
We're getting ready for the newyear.
We're ending the year with abang.
Come back here we are back tocontinue to show up.
So we started our podcastaround this time.
We did start our podcast indecember, last week, in november
, about three years ago.
Yeah, why would we be startingin the holiday season and being
pregnant and buying a house, Idon't know, and changing jobs?
(02:17):
No idea.
But whatever it works, it worksso we didn't quit.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We are here.
We were taking a necessarybreak and listen, and life
continued to happen.
As you guys know, your livescontinue to happen.
We know whether we were in it,whether we were not in it when
you guys were consuming thecontent.
Life continued to happen,especially for us, and this
episode is going to be aboutthose life happenings, because a
lot has changed in the lastthree months, I would say yes,
what this, the changes, hastaught us is that life doesn't
(02:45):
stop for anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yes, you know that, obviously, but when things
happen that feel like knocks youout of breath or knocks you
down and you're like I still gotto show up in my business, or I
still got to show up at my job,I still got to show up as a
parent, as a spouse, all thesethings.
Life does not wait for anybody,and I guess that can be a good
thing, but sometimes it feelslike I need it to slow down.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yo life don't care and people don't care.
Honestly, yes, you guys waslike listen, we still.
We don't care what's going onin your lives.
We still want our emails, westill want our content, we still
want our social media.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
We still going gonna ask you guys questions and
that's totally fine.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, and you have to be, okay with knowing that.
You know whatever happens inyour life.
You know people really don'tcare and that's totally fine.
You gotta be okay with peoplenot caring, because once they
don't care you realize that yougotta keep this stuff going yeah
, so let's start off with someof the the major things that I'm
talking.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
These, the things that just happened in our life,
which we're gonna get into rightnow, is the biggest things that
can happen in your life.
All happen within really like atwo-month span or less, but
that's that.
So we'll start with one um.
We lost um Tony's youngerbrother, around July 4th,
holiday season.
That was a week after we had ababy shower down here in Dallas,
(04:06):
celebrating with family andfriends.
Less than a week days later, wefound out that his brother
passed away.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, man.
So that was a very tragicincident.
A lot of people was askingquestions about you.
Know where were you closed, sowas this like a far?
away, brother, he was like no,this is my youngest brother, my
baby, so I lost him um to a, anaccident that happened in new
york and it was a freak accident.
You know it was a.
It was an incident at a poolparty.
You know situations happen andI think one of the biggest.
(04:34):
You know I'm the type of personlike all right, I've lost, like
I lost my father growing up, soI've experienced the closest
people that you could lose yourbest friend and my best friend.
So I lost my father when I waswhat 13 or so and I found him,
you know, passed away.
So I've I've experienced deathat a very young age and the way
I process it might not be thesame way other people probably
(04:55):
the whole episode's not gonna beabout this.
So if you guys like, oh, it's agloomy episode and it's not, we
talk about life and we talkabout death.
So let's say this episode mighthave been condolences and
congratulations yeah, exactlythat's what we wrote down.
I had to check that because alot of people were saying
condolences and congratulationsat the same time and, um, as I
was saying, like I experienceddeath at a young age, so, um,
the way I process it might notbe the same as most people,
(05:16):
because I'm the I'm of themindset, like I understand life
goes on.
Because I had to experience itat a young age, like when my
father, father passed.
I was like all right, you know,you can't stay out of school.
You got to go back to school,like that's like you got to get
back to school, you got to getback to work and things like
that.
So when my youngest brotherpassed, I was on a.
(05:38):
I literally had a zoom call.
I went to the gym the day hepassed, Like I got the news and
I was like yo, I got you gottaprocess and you gotta think
through things.
And I understand that.
But for me I don't.
Most people don't want to justsit in that type of stuff right,
they want to be able to gettheir lives going.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So it's not that you don't care, it's just that it's
hard to just sit, sit in it, sitin that silence and just think
about it so I have my moments.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know I'll be watching the tv show and it's
like damn, and it's sometimesdon't even feel real right, we
was watching the tv show.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'm like yo, this is too close to home and that's the
biggest thing that you've saidthat it doesn't feel real yeah,
and that's a part of grievingright you had that, uh, what's
it called?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
denial denial and I'm I'm in denial.
Sometimes I'm also in the likeyeah, this is, this has happened
, like I understand it doesn'tmake sense, so it's not like I'm
completely oblivious of ithappening, but I'm like it
doesn't make sense.
And then it's like, well, it didhappen and it did make sense
because I went through the wholeinvestigation and everything so
.
But the thing that I was sayingwas that kind of relates to it,
(06:31):
life doesn't stop.
Because I had a coaching callwith somebody that same day or
the day after and they weretelling me how you know, shout
out to them for showing for thatcall as well because, like I
said, we all process thingsdifferently.
And they were saying that Ialmost didn't show up to this
call because I had someone in myfamily try to commit suicide.
And I said I commend you foreven showing up to this call
because I can understand howdifficult that could be.
(06:53):
But I was like on the brightside, they tried to commit
suicide and they're still here.
And I was like I'm not going togive you the inner workings of
my life, but I literally justlost my younger brother and I'm
still here and I'm able to sharethis story with you and your
life is still able to go on withyourself and your family, your
family member that tried tocommit suicide.
So, at the end of the day, lifedoesn't stop for anyone.
(07:13):
So that was a huge, huge, hugelife update that happened
throughout this time.
Unexpected of course, and Iposted on social media.
I said yo, if y'all commentcondolences, Y'all going to get
the mini chat automation thatsends you to my webinar and I
still been doing my liveworkshops go to
cleaningbusinessmasterclasscom.
That's been happening everysingle week.
That's another thing that'sbeen going on.
(07:34):
So business.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, so that was that, that um happened and we
kind of was like wait and that,what?
and that didn't just happen tome, it happened to you as well,
so well yeah, yeah, but at thesame time it's like one I am
weeks away from delivering,maybe maybe two weeks away from
delivering.
So you don't want to get tooworked up because you don't want
to stress yourself, have anearly delivery, things like that
(07:57):
.
Then Anthony had to fly backhome to kind of be with his
family.
So I was here alone, pregnant,very pregnant, with Alani, and
so we utilized our communityhere and babysitters and friends
and family stuff like that toassist if I needed anything.
So that was just a processwithin itself, because then two
(08:17):
weeks later, july 18th, our babygirl came, our baby girl Amaya
Hartzog.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Second kid came two weeks after the death of my
younger brother.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, she's now three months, so we really haven't
sat down here.
She's now a little over threemonths.
She came and a week after thatwe had to fly back to New York
to bury him and do his servicesand everything like that.
So that was a whirlwind of likebeing sad and happy at the same
time.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's why Anthony said that people were saying
like condolences andcongratulations at the same time
.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's why Anthony said that people were saying
like condolences andcongratulations at the same time
in the same sentence at thefuneral.
They're saying it.
You're like, you know, and itwas a whole thing of obviously
we don't want to travel with ourkid.
All of that, we don't want towithin days me traveling, you
could get bloke, all thesethings, but we had to um show up
and be there during that time.
Thankfully, we we all were safeand healthy and came back home
(09:12):
and were well, but we lostsomeone.
Two weeks later, we delivered ababy girl.
A week later, we had to go backto new york to kind of close out
, if you will, um the losing ofhis brother and then come back
so that really, you think youhave tough times in life and
then, when things like thishappen, it's like, okay, all
(09:33):
right, lord, you ever seen whenpeople say like I don't want to
be your strongest soldieranymore, take me off that 2025
list.
That's kind of what it feltlike during this time and it
didn't let me be clear, itdidn't end there, but that's
what we were dealing with Julyessentially Just grieving with
that, trying to be happy andthen also showing up for your
(09:55):
other child, because it's notjust one, now there's two of
them showing up for our otherchild.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And that's the importance of community as well,
because, like Janoka said, ourfriends and family showed up for
us crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
They're talking about just bringing us food, making
sure we're good.
Checking in.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
When I was unavailable or I was out of town
, our family down here, ourfriends that became family down
here, made sure Chinooka wasgood.
So having a community is superimportant outside of this like
social media thing, like havingreal people around you who could
support you, who could step inin times of need, is so
important, especially in thisday and age.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
So that is condolences and congratulations
at the same damn time, at thesame time, and then in the midst
of that, we had our pair comeand we're going to do a whole
episode on what is our pair.
But it's really a cultureexchange program where someone
comes from another country andthey live with you for a year or
two years in exchange for theculture exchange and also they
(10:51):
are taking care of your children.
Um, they, they do live with youand so there's a whole process.
I know you're probably likewhat the hell?
It's a whole background processthat we'll get into another
episode.
But we had our peer come.
Um, she came from columbia andthat's an adjustment too, right.
You have a new baby, you'redealing with grief and now you
have to get someone comfortableliving in your home and you have
(11:13):
to get comfortable with someoneliving in your home.
The rules, cultural differences, personalities, all of that we
dealt with during that time also.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, that's been a huge adjustment for because I'm
of the mindset.
I'm not of the mindset, I'm atypical person.
I like my personal space, yeah,yeah.
So it was very, very differentfor me to be able to say you
know, we're gonna have somebodylive with us and, yeah, you know
, she's been living with us forthree months now.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's been three months has?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
she came two months after maya, yeah so we have
somebody living with us threemonths and now we got to do an
episode on that because there'sbeen a lot of questions.
We've learned a lot about theprocess, but everyone has been
asking questions about what isit.
So I think that's going to bejust like we had our doula on
and she told us what the doulaprocess is.
I think this could help a lotof people who may not know what
(12:01):
this process is and what itentails.
And the availability of it?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
yeah, and things that happen that you could.
You could actually this isattainable for anyone to do, so
yes, we'll do.
We'll get to catch you guys upon that one.
So that's been, that's been ahelp.
That's been a help, as you know, like you.
Like we said, we've had, we hadit with alani.
We had a nanny for two yearsand so, um, now we have someone
living with us for a year thathelps with both of the children,
and that was that I.
We didn't even touch on thiswas an adjustment, but Alani has
(12:26):
been adjusting well to babysister.
We should kind of say thatbecause I know a lot of people
ask like how she's doing.
She's pretty obsessed with herright now.
People always say when the babystarts moving and kind of
taking toys and stuff, maybethat's when things will change.
But I don't want y'all negativestuff on my family but she's
been doing well.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't want y'all N-word stuff on no negative,
Negative Whoa she's doing well.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Once in a while she may pop a bow off her head or
take a pacifier, but other thanthat she's adjusting well and
very excited about her babysister.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Alani's been doing pretty good in school too.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
She's been doing pretty good in school Getting
her Spanish up.
Habla, that's been good.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Inglés, she's been doing pretty good in school
Getting her Spanish up.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, that's been good.
Habla ingles.
Yo no se Mañana Como te llama.
What the hell?
You already know the vibes.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Anyway, you sound like a typical New Yorker, you
already know the vibes.
Anyway so that's that.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So we had our RPR come.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Because New York is going to the World Series.
Yes and the.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Liberty.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Just one.
I mean, new York is up.
New York is always up, butcongratulations to New York.
So our pair came.
Next up in our list of lifechanges was three weeks.
So a week after our pair came Igot a call and I was laid off
from my job Nine years you justhave to laugh at things like
that.
Nine years at this company.
(13:49):
There was a reduction in force,which just means that there's
multiple layoffs, which was thesecond one in less than a year.
The first one was last yearOctober and they eliminated my
position and that was kind of it.
They told me they gave me amonth to kind of really stay on.
So it wasn't like an immediatething.
I was on for a month and thennow I just have like a package
(14:12):
with them that I'm kind ofgetting paid till January, but I
am going through theunemployment process, things
like that, and that was anotherbomb.
Now you may say you guys havespoken about this, blah, blah,
blah, and yes, we have spokenabout this.
I think the biggest thing was Idon't know if it's going to be
a separate episode, but thebiggest thing was the season and
(14:34):
the timing, of course, allthose things that we just
explained.
We just went through to nowhave this happen.
It's like, okay, I don't knowhow much more we can take.
However, I'm not that upset.
I think there would be likethere was like a 20 of me.
That was like damn, after nineyears, that's it.
Your job does and career doesbecome your identity, so it kind
(14:55):
of feels like what, what next?
Um, but 80 of me says like allright, now we can go all in on
some of these things that wesaid we were going to do.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Y'all might get more content on the podcast.
We'll see, but that leaves us.
Well, I don't know, do you wantto do a whole episode on that
one?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I don't know if it's a whole episode worthy of thing.
You think you got a wholeepisode on that.
I don't know, maybe 10 minutesyou got to let us know.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So yes, we did an episode on when you will leave
your job and we were alwaystalking about you know, when you
leave your job.
I think it can be an episode,and the scariness about it and I
think one of those things isthat you will never be ready,
like you will never be ready.
Even when I left my job I wasnot ready.
I was scared.
It was like, okay, we're goingto do it, we're going to do it,
(15:48):
we finally doing it, say, oh mygod, am I ready?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
and you still have that uneasiness.
So I know some of you guys aresaying like well, you guys got
this, you guys got that it makesit easier.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
No, it doesn't make it easier.
No, because I would have doneit before.
Yeah, it allows you to say okay, I'm at.
I feel a little bit more atease about it, but it doesn't
make it easier to do it.
Yes, so sometimes you got torip off that band-aid, which is
what they did.
And another lesson is that Idon't care how much tenure you
think you think you got at yournine to five, they can come in
and get rid of you the next dayyeah, absolutely I worked in my
job for just about the sameamount of time as you did, but I
(16:14):
had the ability to leave my job.
If I would have kept going, Imight have gotten the boot as
well.
Eventually might be like youknow, and you don't want to be
here.
So I don't want you guys tothink that you got all the
security in the world I don'tcare how much money you make, I
don't care how long you've beenhere.
There is, if you do not own it,they can come and take it from
you.
So that that's the lesson thatanybody could take from having a
job.
Is that, yes, we never tell youthat.
(16:35):
We never, never on this show wesay you guys should quit your
job.
No, never on our, never on our.
If you can find it, you let meknow and we'll delete it.
We'll remove it.
Never on our social mediaplatforms.
We said you should quit yourjob.
We said you should have othersources of income so that when
this day comes, you will beprepared and, even though it
won't make it easy, it will makeyou feel more at ease when it
does come, or if it does come.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Because the day could come three weeks into maternity
leave.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
That's when they did that.
They fired you three weeks intomaternity leave, but hey, I
fired someone right after theygave they, right after they
dropped their baby yeah, but she, we spoke about that yeah but
I'm still still you had the babyand all right, cool, I had to
fire you, like yeah, it is whatit is, the baby's just another.
It is what it was like that wasthe nature of my role as an
anthony.
You can't keep giving thisperson these chances and, like I
(17:21):
, only control so much.
So I know your boss onlycontrols so much, yep, and at
the end of the day it's just ajob to them.
They're like you know what.
We're gonna replace you withsomebody else, so your job is
replaceable.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You are replaceable yeah, so that that also happened
.
That took us, uh, by a shockerand, um, did it really?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
that's why I'm like this could be a whole other
episode, because I wasn'tshocked by it.
It was kind of like there wassome there was some writing on
the wall where they had.
It was kind of like there wassome there wasn't writing on the
wall where they had.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It was a shocker and that didn't expect it.
But when you look at it it'slike okay, yeah, it makes sense.
Yeah, there was some writing onthe wall that was happening I
was.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I was pointing some things out like oh, they want
you to write this down and writethis, okay, yeah the excuse
could have been because you'regoing on maternity leave, but
these other suits could havebeen because they were looking
to document okay, they werelooking, which I did.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
know that before I left that we were.
The company was probably goinginto another reduction in force.
I was aware of that.
A riff, a riff, as they like tocall it.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I learned about that.
I didn't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I didn't know either, and I did and I had let someone
go last October and I'm likehuh, that's why we talk about
having that second stream ofincome having something else
thing.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
so if you guys want to learn more about that, you
could check out cleaningbusiness masterclasscom, where
we teach you how to start andscale a cleaning business, which
we still have to this, so wecould make another episode as
well.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I agree, because we can speak about like our
dynamics now that I'm not atwork.
That's okay.
Okay, you guys like it.
You guys like it you knowcomment it.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yo we back baby, we in here.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So now we can have another one.
Hopefully I'm not jinxing.
It.
And another thing is oh allright, jinxing us showing up.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, so we'll leave it at that.
So that was another, that wasanother.
We're talking about strongestsoldiers.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
That was another situation.
Yeah, that was anothersituation.
Now, that was another situation.
Now, the last situation and Ipray to God that is the last for
a long time was that Anthonyhad to have back surgery.
Yep, so you want to speak aboutthat?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I had back surgery as recent as a week ago.
So two years ago you had.
Yeah, so two years ago I had ahernia.
I think I did an episode onthis Two years ago.
I had a herniated disc and Ihad to have a disectomy, which
is essentially them, removing apart of your disc and your and
your spine.
So I felt better, I felt relief, and then I ran.
As you guys know, I ran a halfmarathon in April, april.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So that was like one of my big goals for the year.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I wanted to get back out there and get running, so
that could have started thisprocess all over again.
But essentially April, may.
But essentially April May, june, june I had an MRI because my
back was hurting again and thenJuly I started like really
feeling this pain and then,August was like, when it was
like all right, I can't evenmove.
It's been six weeks if you'renot working out or something
(19:56):
like that.
Yeah, I was like I can't move.
So I went to get the MRIs.
I went to get the x-rays, ptsand the doctor she showed my
disc and essentially it lookedlike a big balloon in my back.
So I essentially had surgeryabout a week ago and they
removed the balloon and I'mstarting to feel relief again.
So I learned a lot about.
I'm going to specifically do anepisode on that.
It might just be an audio-onlyepisode Because I learned a lot
(20:19):
about what happened over theselast two years and things that I
could have until I didsomething about it, because I
could have did something back inJune.
June I had the MRI.
It wasn't as bad, but I waiteduntil it was so severe so I
think I'm gonna do an episode onthat, but that I had surgery
and I'm I'm moving again.
I can't even sit down in thischair, for I was in the bed.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That was another reason why we there was a few
weeks back.
We're like we're ready, but youcouldn't sit down, so we
weren't ready.
We couldn't.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, so that was uh, but I'm recovering.
Now I'm moving again.
As you guys can see, I'msitting up.
I'm a little uncomfortable here, but I'm showing up, guys, like
we still showing up at the endof the day now that I'm
listening to all these things,I'm like was there some type of
juju on us?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
you ever hear people say that?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
hopefully y'all don't think about us like if y'all no
, no, no, no, no, when you hearall these stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
It's kind of like whoa, what was happening in that
household?
But either way, we have comeout on the other side of it.
We wanted to let our audienceknow as we're very transparent
as possible what has been goingon.
We didn't just stop because wejust stopped, but we just wanted
to let everyone know what lifehas looked like.
But our businesses have notstopped because it can't.
We got people, we got to pay.
(21:31):
We got money, we got to make,we got students, we got
communities.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
We got to show up for Things like that.
I was taking my community callsin the bed, like laying down
camera off.
Like yo, I'm still showing up,we can still show up through all
of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah.
And so with the loss of my joband the question happens like
what's next for us?
And I think we both realize,especially me, that we want to
continue to show up online, butnot just the cleaning business.
And that's been a hard kind ofconversation of how do we
transition our audience?
Does our audience even want tohear that?
(22:03):
Do we have to do somethingseparate?
All of that those questionskind of come up of I don't only
want to talk about the cleaningbusiness, but are they going to
listen or should we just focuson this?
So that's something that we'realso figuring out.
As you know, this podcast hasalways been, yes, business, but
personal things.
We speak about things that wefind that can be helpful for our
audience.
We talk about it.
(22:23):
I have personally started myown TikTok page outside of the
heart, trimony she started herown content.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, I'm doing my own content of um the heart
trimony.
She started her own content.
Yeah, I'm doing my own content.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
We'll put that link in the bio somewhere.
Yeah, that's exciting link inbio, so follow me, uh, you can
follow my personal page oninstagram too.
But just it's funny because theweek before page about see, I'm
trying to figure it out.
So that's the thing, what you'vebeen doing so far.
Let me tell you a week before,or the week up shut up the week
of um, the week we had our babyI had, uh, posted a video on
(22:55):
heart trimony, just saying likeI want to do things outside of
Anthony, which he has alwaysencouraged.
But I just was like ain'tnobody want to hear nothing.
So I just said I want to domore and, um, people gave a lot
of feedback, which thank you,and I'm using some of that as
well.
But I decided to finally likejust start my own TikTok page to
just come out with information.
(23:16):
So what am I talking about onthere?
I've spoken about my fertilityjourney.
I've spoken about the loss ofmy job.
I spoke about working out, um,going out as husband and wife,
getting back to that, datingeach other just a plethora of
things.
I don't really have a niche yet.
I'm just putting it all outthere and seeing what sticks and
I'm enjoying yeah, I'm enjoyingmaking the content, um, I had a
(23:38):
challenge.
So all those things I've beendoing on my personal page, more
on TikTok, but I've beenbringing some of it to Instagram
as well.
So that's the season that I'min, just figuring out.
Yes, still doing cleaningbusiness, stuff.
That's not going to change, butthat's not all I want to do.
I want to do more.
So that's part of what we as aunit yes, it's a me thing, but
(23:58):
it impacts both of us of how weboth show up and what we do
together.
So this podcast will continue, Iconsider doing my own podcast,
so it's a lot happening.
It's a lot happening here, sowe'll see what it turns into.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Definitely go check her out.
Tiktokcom slash Janoka.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay, we'll put the link in the bio.
Where's Jan?
I think it's Janoka.
We'll see.
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We'll make sure they go check it out.
But yeah, man, so we still,we're going to keep this thing
going.
So to make sure you guys justgot caught up before we dove
into topics and segments and allof that stuff.
So yes, life is still going on,we still continue, we are still
here and those who stuck aroundappreciate it.
Everyone who is brand new,that's still that's starting to
tune in.
Welcome, welcome, welcomewelcome.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Go back and bend some of our stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
We have a lot of information yes, so we keep
these episodes going now again,it might not be every week we
still got to figure out thecadence of what it looks like
but we want to show up in a waythat is not forced.
I think when you have to showup every single week it kind of
makes it forced.
We got something to talk about,we'll come and talk about it.
If we don't, we might not, butwe've done over two years of
(25:04):
just consistency.
But we also didn't want to justleave y'all hanging.
So We'll drop some episodes,because we're not saying we're
quitting the show.
But it might not be as weekly,right, it might be every other
week.
It might be a new update, itmight be a quick Five minute
segment.
It might be Janoka's segment,like her motherhood segment.
Might be about entrepreneurship.
Might be about cleaningbusiness.
Might be a guest.
So we're doing it all.
(25:24):
Listen, we've always done it all, yeah, we're gonna Thank you
guys for just tapping in, tuningin, dropping comments, and
let's keep this thing going.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Bye-bye, leave us a review.
Y'all, it's been a little bityo.
Oh, I should go check to seehave we got any new reviews.
I don't know, but probablybecause it's been a bit Y'all
like, I ain't leaving no reviewbecause they ain't seeing it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And they ain't shouting me out.
Listen, if y' there might besome new ones there.
It might not be, but we like toread the reviews on the
episodes, so make sure you guysgo check them out.
And Janoka's still trying tofigure it out.
You think she understood thisby now.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
No, I do, but I just can't say it.
All right, y'all, if y'all haveto do it, we should be the next
one.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
We'll see you guys next time and thank you for
tuning in in.
Bye, bye, peace.
What's going on, guys ?
Welcome to another or one ofthe episodes of the more than a
silo podcast, where we helpnon-offers create more impact,
income and influence outsidetheir jobs.
If you guys haven't been here,my name is Anthony.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
And I am Janoka and we are back, we are back.
I'm just thinking of a TikToksound.
What sound is that we should doit actually the content to show
us being back.
Anyway, we should actually.
Yeah, we can do it after.
Anyway, we are back from abreak.
I think the last podcast Lasttime we sat down here was like
(00:47):
May.
Maybe three, four months, I didone, maybe three, four months
it's been since we last sat downhere and this episode we are
going to provide All the lifeupdates that's been happening in
our lives and did we quit thepodcast.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Did we quit the show?
Did we quit the show?
Did we quit the content?
We did not quit, we just took anecessary and needed break and
the problem with a break is-?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Did we do two years, two and a half years straight,
or was?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
it we did two and a half years straight of episodes
and the problem with the breakis that we didn't tell you, guys
, we were taking a break, sonumber one.
I want to apologize on behalfof.
I was saying thank you forsticking around If you did, but
some people did we lost a lot ofviews because we weren't
keeping up with the content, andthe problem was is that we
didn't tell you guys that wewere going to take a break and,
(01:35):
honestly, we didn't know, wedidn't know we were going to
take a break every week.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You're like, well, we don't get back in there.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like one of those
things when life happens it justkeeps going and then it doesn't
become a priority for you.
But we do appreciate you guyswho stuck around.
The viewership has droppedtremendously, but anybody who's
been listening and tuning in wedefinitely appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
But listen, it's quarter four.
We're getting ready for the newyear.
We're ending the year with abang.
Come back here we are back tocontinue to show up.
So we started our podcastaround this time.
We did start our podcast indecember, last week, in november
, about three years ago.
Yeah, why would we be startingin the holiday season and being
pregnant and buying a house, Idon't know, and changing jobs?
(02:17):
No idea.
But whatever it works, it worksso we didn't quit.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We are here.
We were taking a necessarybreak and listen, and life
continued to happen.
As you guys know, your livescontinue to happen.
We know whether we were in it,whether we were not in it when
you guys were consuming thecontent.
Life continued to happen,especially for us, and this
episode is going to be aboutthose life happenings, because a
lot has changed in the lastthree months, I would say yes,
what this, the changes, hastaught us is that life doesn't
(02:45):
stop for anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yes, you know that, obviously, but when things
happen that feel like knocks youout of breath or knocks you
down and you're like I still gotto show up in my business, or I
still got to show up at my job,I still got to show up as a
parent, as a spouse, all thesethings.
Life does not wait for anybody,and I guess that can be a good
thing, but sometimes it feelslike I need it to slow down.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yo life don't care and people don't care.
Honestly, yes, you guys waslike listen, we still.
We don't care what's going onin your lives.
We still want our emails, westill want our content, we still
want our social media.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
We still going gonna ask you guys questions and
that's totally fine.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, and you have to be, okay with knowing that.
You know whatever happens inyour life.
You know people really don'tcare and that's totally fine.
You gotta be okay with peoplenot caring, because once they
don't care you realize that yougotta keep this stuff going yeah
, so let's start off with someof the the major things that I'm
talking.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
These, the things that just happened in our life,
which we're gonna get into rightnow, is the biggest things that
can happen in your life.
All happen within really like atwo-month span or less, but
that's that.
So we'll start with one um.
We lost um Tony's youngerbrother, around July 4th,
holiday season.
That was a week after we had ababy shower down here in Dallas,
(04:06):
celebrating with family andfriends.
Less than a week days later, wefound out that his brother
passed away.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, man.
So that was a very tragicincident.
A lot of people was askingquestions about you.
Know where were you closed, sowas this like a far?
away, brother, he was like no,this is my youngest brother, my
baby, so I lost him um to a, anaccident that happened in new
york and it was a freak accident.
You know it was a.
It was an incident at a poolparty.
You know situations happen andI think one of the biggest.
(04:34):
You know I'm the type of personlike all right, I've lost, like
I lost my father growing up, soI've experienced the closest
people that you could lose yourbest friend and my best friend.
So I lost my father when I waswhat 13 or so and I found him,
you know, passed away.
So I've I've experienced deathat a very young age and the way
I process it might not be thesame way other people probably
(04:55):
the whole episode's not gonna beabout this.
So if you guys like, oh, it's agloomy episode and it's not, we
talk about life and we talkabout death.
So let's say this episode mighthave been condolences and
congratulations yeah, exactlythat's what we wrote down.
I had to check that because alot of people were saying
condolences and congratulationsat the same time and, um, as I
was saying, like I experienceddeath at a young age, so, um,
the way I process it might notbe the same as most people,
(05:16):
because I'm the I'm of themindset, like I understand life
goes on.
Because I had to experience itat a young age, like when my
father, father passed.
I was like all right, you know,you can't stay out of school.
You got to go back to school,like that's like you got to get
back to school, you got to getback to work and things like
that.
So when my youngest brotherpassed, I was on a.
(05:38):
I literally had a zoom call.
I went to the gym the day hepassed, Like I got the news and
I was like yo, I got you gottaprocess and you gotta think
through things.
And I understand that.
But for me I don't.
Most people don't want to justsit in that type of stuff right,
they want to be able to gettheir lives going.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So it's not that you don't care, it's just that it's
hard to just sit, sit in it, sitin that silence and just think
about it so I have my moments.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You know I'll be watching the tv show and it's
like damn, and it's sometimesdon't even feel real right, we
was watching the tv show.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'm like yo, this is too close to home and that's the
biggest thing that you've saidthat it doesn't feel real yeah,
and that's a part of grievingright you had that, uh, what's
it called?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
denial denial and I'm I'm in denial.
Sometimes I'm also in the likeyeah, this is, this has happened
, like I understand it doesn'tmake sense, so it's not like I'm
completely oblivious of ithappening, but I'm like it
doesn't make sense.
And then it's like, well, it didhappen and it did make sense
because I went through the wholeinvestigation and everything so
.
But the thing that I was sayingwas that kind of relates to it,
(06:31):
life doesn't stop.
Because I had a coaching callwith somebody that same day or
the day after and they weretelling me how you know, shout
out to them for showing for thatcall as well because, like I
said, we all process thingsdifferently.
And they were saying that Ialmost didn't show up to this
call because I had someone in myfamily try to commit suicide.
And I said I commend you foreven showing up to this call
because I can understand howdifficult that could be.
(06:53):
But I was like on the brightside, they tried to commit
suicide and they're still here.
And I was like I'm not going togive you the inner workings of
my life, but I literally justlost my younger brother and I'm
still here and I'm able to sharethis story with you and your
life is still able to go on withyourself and your family, your
family member that tried tocommit suicide.
So, at the end of the day, lifedoesn't stop for anyone.
(07:13):
So that was a huge, huge, hugelife update that happened
throughout this time.
Unexpected of course, and Iposted on social media.
I said yo, if y'all commentcondolences, Y'all going to get
the mini chat automation thatsends you to my webinar and I
still been doing my liveworkshops go to
cleaningbusinessmasterclasscom.
That's been happening everysingle week.
That's another thing that'sbeen going on.
(07:34):
So business.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, so that was that, that um happened and we
kind of was like wait and that,what?
and that didn't just happen tome, it happened to you as well,
so well yeah, yeah, but at thesame time it's like one I am
weeks away from delivering,maybe maybe two weeks away from
delivering.
So you don't want to get tooworked up because you don't want
to stress yourself, have anearly delivery, things like that
(07:57):
.
Then Anthony had to fly backhome to kind of be with his
family.
So I was here alone, pregnant,very pregnant, with Alani, and
so we utilized our communityhere and babysitters and friends
and family stuff like that toassist if I needed anything.
So that was just a processwithin itself, because then two
(08:17):
weeks later, july 18th, our babygirl came, our baby girl Amaya
Hartzog.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Second kid came two weeks after the death of my
younger brother.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, she's now three months, so we really haven't
sat down here.
She's now a little over threemonths.
She came and a week after thatwe had to fly back to New York
to bury him and do his servicesand everything like that.
So that was a whirlwind of likebeing sad and happy at the same
time.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's why Anthony said that people were saying
like condolences andcongratulations at the same time
.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's why Anthony said that people were saying
like condolences andcongratulations at the same time
in the same sentence at thefuneral.
They're saying it.
You're like, you know, and itwas a whole thing of obviously
we don't want to travel with ourkid.
All of that, we don't want towithin days me traveling, you
could get bloke, all thesethings, but we had to um show up
and be there during that time.
Thankfully, we we all were safeand healthy and came back home
(09:12):
and were well, but we lostsomeone.
Two weeks later, we delivered ababy girl.
A week later, we had to go backto new york to kind of close out
, if you will, um the losing ofhis brother and then come back
so that really, you think youhave tough times in life and
then, when things like thishappen, it's like, okay, all
(09:33):
right, lord, you ever seen whenpeople say like I don't want to
be your strongest soldieranymore, take me off that 2025
list.
That's kind of what it feltlike during this time and it
didn't let me be clear, itdidn't end there, but that's
what we were dealing with Julyessentially Just grieving with
that, trying to be happy andthen also showing up for your
(09:55):
other child, because it's notjust one, now there's two of
them showing up for our otherchild.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And that's the importance of community as well,
because, like Janoka said, ourfriends and family showed up for
us crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
They're talking about just bringing us food, making
sure we're good.
Checking in.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
When I was unavailable or I was out of town
, our family down here, ourfriends that became family down
here, made sure Chinooka wasgood.
So having a community is superimportant outside of this like
social media thing, like havingreal people around you who could
support you, who could step inin times of need, is so
important, especially in thisday and age.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
So that is condolences and congratulations
at the same damn time, at thesame time, and then in the midst
of that, we had our pair comeand we're going to do a whole
episode on what is our pair.
But it's really a cultureexchange program where someone
comes from another country andthey live with you for a year or
two years in exchange for theculture exchange and also they
(10:51):
are taking care of your children.
Um, they, they do live with youand so there's a whole process.
I know you're probably likewhat the hell?
It's a whole background processthat we'll get into another
episode.
But we had our peer come.
Um, she came from columbia andthat's an adjustment too, right.
You have a new baby, you'redealing with grief and now you
have to get someone comfortableliving in your home and you have
(11:13):
to get comfortable with someoneliving in your home.
The rules, cultural differences, personalities, all of that we
dealt with during that time also.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, that's been a huge adjustment for because I'm
of the mindset.
I'm not of the mindset, I'm atypical person.
I like my personal space, yeah,yeah.
So it was very, very differentfor me to be able to say you
know, we're gonna have somebodylive with us and, yeah, you know
, she's been living with us forthree months now.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's been three months has?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
she came two months after maya, yeah so we have
somebody living with us threemonths and now we got to do an
episode on that because there'sbeen a lot of questions.
We've learned a lot about theprocess, but everyone has been
asking questions about what isit.
So I think that's going to bejust like we had our doula on
and she told us what the doulaprocess is.
I think this could help a lotof people who may not know what
(12:01):
this process is and what itentails.
And the availability of it?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
yeah, and things that happen that you could.
You could actually this isattainable for anyone to do, so
yes, we'll do.
We'll get to catch you guys upon that one.
So that's been, that's been ahelp.
That's been a help, as you know, like you.
Like we said, we've had, we hadit with alani.
We had a nanny for two yearsand so, um, now we have someone
living with us for a year thathelps with both of the children,
and that was that I.
We didn't even touch on thiswas an adjustment, but Alani has
(12:26):
been adjusting well to babysister.
We should kind of say thatbecause I know a lot of people
ask like how she's doing.
She's pretty obsessed with herright now.
People always say when the babystarts moving and kind of
taking toys and stuff, maybethat's when things will change.
But I don't want y'all negativestuff on my family but she's
been doing well.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't want y'all N-word stuff on no negative,
Negative Whoa she's doing well.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Once in a while she may pop a bow off her head or
take a pacifier, but other thanthat she's adjusting well and
very excited about her babysister.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Alani's been doing pretty good in school too.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
She's been doing pretty good in school Getting
her Spanish up.
Habla, that's been good.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Inglés, she's been doing pretty good in school
Getting her Spanish up.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, that's been good.
Habla ingles.
Yo no se Mañana Como te llama.
What the hell?
You already know the vibes.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Anyway, you sound like a typical New Yorker, you
already know the vibes.
Anyway so that's that.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So we had our RPR come.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Because New York is going to the World Series.
Yes and the.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Liberty.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Just one.
I mean, new York is up.
New York is always up, butcongratulations to New York.
So our pair came.
Next up in our list of lifechanges was three weeks.
So a week after our pair came Igot a call and I was laid off
from my job Nine years you justhave to laugh at things like
that.
Nine years at this company.
(13:49):
There was a reduction in force,which just means that there's
multiple layoffs, which was thesecond one in less than a year.
The first one was last yearOctober and they eliminated my
position and that was kind of it.
They told me they gave me amonth to kind of really stay on.
So it wasn't like an immediatething.
I was on for a month and thennow I just have like a package
(14:12):
with them that I'm kind ofgetting paid till January, but I
am going through theunemployment process, things
like that, and that was anotherbomb.
Now you may say you guys havespoken about this, blah, blah,
blah, and yes, we have spokenabout this.
I think the biggest thing was Idon't know if it's going to be
a separate episode, but thebiggest thing was the season and
(14:34):
the timing, of course, allthose things that we just
explained.
We just went through to nowhave this happen.
It's like, okay, I don't knowhow much more we can take.
However, I'm not that upset.
I think there would be likethere was like a 20 of me.
That was like damn, after nineyears, that's it.
Your job does and career doesbecome your identity, so it kind
(14:55):
of feels like what, what next?
Um, but 80 of me says like allright, now we can go all in on
some of these things that wesaid we were going to do.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Y'all might get more content on the podcast.
We'll see, but that leaves us.
Well, I don't know, do you wantto do a whole episode on that
one?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I don't know if it's a whole episode worthy of thing.
You think you got a wholeepisode on that.
I don't know, maybe 10 minutesyou got to let us know.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So yes, we did an episode on when you will leave
your job and we were alwaystalking about you know, when you
leave your job.
I think it can be an episode,and the scariness about it and I
think one of those things isthat you will never be ready,
like you will never be ready.
Even when I left my job I wasnot ready.
I was scared.
It was like, okay, we're goingto do it, we're going to do it,
(15:48):
we finally doing it, say, oh mygod, am I ready?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
and you still have that uneasiness.
So I know some of you guys aresaying like well, you guys got
this, you guys got that it makesit easier.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
No, it doesn't make it easier.
No, because I would have doneit before.
Yeah, it allows you to say okay, I'm at.
I feel a little bit more atease about it, but it doesn't
make it easier to do it.
Yes, so sometimes you got torip off that band-aid, which is
what they did.
And another lesson is that Idon't care how much tenure you
think you think you got at yournine to five, they can come in
and get rid of you the next dayyeah, absolutely I worked in my
job for just about the sameamount of time as you did, but I
(16:14):
had the ability to leave my job.
If I would have kept going, Imight have gotten the boot as
well.
Eventually might be like youknow, and you don't want to be
here.
So I don't want you guys tothink that you got all the
security in the world I don'tcare how much money you make, I
don't care how long you've beenhere.
There is, if you do not own it,they can come and take it from
you.
So that that's the lesson thatanybody could take from having a
job.
Is that, yes, we never tell youthat.
(16:35):
We never, never on this show wesay you guys should quit your
job.
No, never on our, never on our.
If you can find it, you let meknow and we'll delete it.
We'll remove it.
Never on our social mediaplatforms.
We said you should quit yourjob.
We said you should have othersources of income so that when
this day comes, you will beprepared and, even though it
won't make it easy, it will makeyou feel more at ease when it
does come, or if it does come.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Because the day could come three weeks into maternity
leave.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
That's when they did that.
They fired you three weeks intomaternity leave, but hey, I
fired someone right after theygave they, right after they
dropped their baby yeah, but she, we spoke about that yeah but
I'm still still you had the babyand all right, cool, I had to
fire you, like yeah, it is whatit is, the baby's just another.
It is what it was like that wasthe nature of my role as an
anthony.
You can't keep giving thisperson these chances and, like I
(17:21):
, only control so much.
So I know your boss onlycontrols so much, yep, and at
the end of the day it's just ajob to them.
They're like you know what.
We're gonna replace you withsomebody else, so your job is
replaceable.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You are replaceable yeah, so that that also happened
.
That took us, uh, by a shockerand, um, did it really?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
that's why I'm like this could be a whole other
episode, because I wasn'tshocked by it.
It was kind of like there wassome there was some writing on
the wall where they had.
It was kind of like there wassome there wasn't writing on the
wall where they had.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
It was a shocker and that didn't expect it.
But when you look at it it'slike okay, yeah, it makes sense.
Yeah, there was some writing onthe wall that was happening I
was.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I was pointing some things out like oh, they want
you to write this down and writethis, okay, yeah the excuse
could have been because you'regoing on maternity leave, but
these other suits could havebeen because they were looking
to document okay, they werelooking, which I did.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
know that before I left that we were.
The company was probably goinginto another reduction in force.
I was aware of that.
A riff, a riff, as they like tocall it.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I learned about that.
I didn't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I didn't know either, and I did and I had let someone
go last October and I'm likehuh, that's why we talk about
having that second stream ofincome having something else
thing.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
so if you guys want to learn more about that, you
could check out cleaningbusiness masterclasscom, where
we teach you how to start andscale a cleaning business, which
we still have to this, so wecould make another episode as
well.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I agree, because we can speak about like our
dynamics now that I'm not atwork.
That's okay.
Okay, you guys like it.
You guys like it you knowcomment it.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yo we back baby, we in here.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So now we can have another one.
Hopefully I'm not jinxing.
It.
And another thing is oh allright, jinxing us showing up.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, so we'll leave it at that.
So that was another, that wasanother.
We're talking about strongestsoldiers.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
That was another situation.
Yeah, that was anothersituation.
Now, that was another situation.
Now, the last situation and Ipray to God that is the last for
a long time was that Anthonyhad to have back surgery.
Yep, so you want to speak aboutthat?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I had back surgery as recent as a week ago.
So two years ago you had.
Yeah, so two years ago I had ahernia.
I think I did an episode onthis Two years ago.
I had a herniated disc and Ihad to have a disectomy, which
is essentially them, removing apart of your disc and your and
your spine.
So I felt better, I felt relief, and then I ran.
As you guys know, I ran a halfmarathon in April, april.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So that was like one of my big goals for the year.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I wanted to get back out there and get running, so
that could have started thisprocess all over again.
But essentially April, may.
But essentially April May, june, june I had an MRI because my
back was hurting again and thenJuly I started like really
feeling this pain and then,August was like, when it was
like all right, I can't evenmove.
It's been six weeks if you'renot working out or something
(19:56):
like that.
Yeah, I was like I can't move.
So I went to get the MRIs.
I went to get the x-rays, ptsand the doctor she showed my
disc and essentially it lookedlike a big balloon in my back.
So I essentially had surgeryabout a week ago and they
removed the balloon and I'mstarting to feel relief again.
So I learned a lot about.
I'm going to specifically do anepisode on that.
It might just be an audio-onlyepisode Because I learned a lot
(20:19):
about what happened over theselast two years and things that I
could have until I didsomething about it, because I
could have did something back inJune.
June I had the MRI.
It wasn't as bad, but I waiteduntil it was so severe so I
think I'm gonna do an episode onthat, but that I had surgery
and I'm I'm moving again.
I can't even sit down in thischair, for I was in the bed.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That was another reason why we there was a few
weeks back.
We're like we're ready, but youcouldn't sit down, so we
weren't ready.
We couldn't.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, so that was uh, but I'm recovering.
Now I'm moving again.
As you guys can see, I'msitting up.
I'm a little uncomfortable here, but I'm showing up, guys, like
we still showing up at the endof the day now that I'm
listening to all these things,I'm like was there some type of
juju on us?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
you ever hear people say that?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
hopefully y'all don't think about us like if y'all no
, no, no, no, no, when you hearall these stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
It's kind of like whoa, what was happening in that
household?
But either way, we have comeout on the other side of it.
We wanted to let our audienceknow as we're very transparent
as possible what has been goingon.
We didn't just stop because wejust stopped, but we just wanted
to let everyone know what lifehas looked like.
But our businesses have notstopped because it can't.
We got people, we got to pay.
(21:31):
We got money, we got to make,we got students, we got
communities.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
We got to show up for Things like that.
I was taking my community callsin the bed, like laying down
camera off.
Like yo, I'm still showing up,we can still show up through all
of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah.
And so with the loss of my joband the question happens like
what's next for us?
And I think we both realize,especially me, that we want to
continue to show up online, butnot just the cleaning business.
And that's been a hard kind ofconversation of how do we
transition our audience?
Does our audience even want tohear that?
(22:03):
Do we have to do somethingseparate?
All of that those questionskind of come up of I don't only
want to talk about the cleaningbusiness, but are they going to
listen or should we just focuson this?
So that's something that we'realso figuring out.
As you know, this podcast hasalways been, yes, business, but
personal things.
We speak about things that wefind that can be helpful for our
audience.
We talk about it.
(22:23):
I have personally started myown TikTok page outside of the
heart, trimony she started herown content.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, I'm doing my own content of um the heart
trimony.
She started her own content.
Yeah, I'm doing my own content.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
We'll put that link in the bio somewhere.
Yeah, that's exciting link inbio, so follow me, uh, you can
follow my personal page oninstagram too.
But just it's funny because theweek before page about see, I'm
trying to figure it out.
So that's the thing, what you'vebeen doing so far.
Let me tell you a week before,or the week up shut up the week
of um, the week we had our babyI had, uh, posted a video on
(22:55):
heart trimony, just saying likeI want to do things outside of
Anthony, which he has alwaysencouraged.
But I just was like ain'tnobody want to hear nothing.
So I just said I want to domore and, um, people gave a lot
of feedback, which thank you,and I'm using some of that as
well.
But I decided to finally likejust start my own TikTok page to
just come out with information.
(23:16):
So what am I talking about onthere?
I've spoken about my fertilityjourney.
I've spoken about the loss ofmy job.
I spoke about working out, um,going out as husband and wife,
getting back to that, datingeach other just a plethora of
things.
I don't really have a niche yet.
I'm just putting it all outthere and seeing what sticks and
I'm enjoying yeah, I'm enjoyingmaking the content, um, I had a
(23:38):
challenge.
So all those things I've beendoing on my personal page, more
on TikTok, but I've beenbringing some of it to Instagram
as well.
So that's the season that I'min, just figuring out.
Yes, still doing cleaningbusiness, stuff.
That's not going to change, butthat's not all I want to do.
I want to do more.
So that's part of what we as aunit yes, it's a me thing, but
(23:58):
it impacts both of us of how weboth show up and what we do
together.
So this podcast will continue, Iconsider doing my own podcast,
so it's a lot happening.
It's a lot happening here, sowe'll see what it turns into.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Definitely go check her out.
Tiktokcom slash Janoka.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Okay, we'll put the link in the bio.
Where's Jan?
I think it's Janoka.
We'll see.
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We'll make sure they go check it out.
But yeah, man, so we still,we're going to keep this thing
going.
So to make sure you guys justgot caught up before we dove
into topics and segments and allof that stuff.
So yes, life is still going on,we still continue, we are still
here and those who stuck aroundappreciate it.
Everyone who is brand new,that's still that's starting to
tune in.
Welcome, welcome, welcomewelcome.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Go back and bend some of our stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
We have a lot of information yes, so we keep
these episodes going now again,it might not be every week we
still got to figure out thecadence of what it looks like
but we want to show up in a waythat is not forced.
I think when you have to showup every single week it kind of
makes it forced.
We got something to talk about,we'll come and talk about it.
If we don't, we might not, butwe've done over two years of
(25:04):
just consistency.
But we also didn't want to justleave y'all hanging.
So We'll drop some episodes,because we're not saying we're
quitting the show.
But it might not be as weekly,right, it might be every other
week.
It might be a new update, itmight be a quick Five minute
segment.
It might be Janoka's segment,like her motherhood segment.
Might be about entrepreneurship.
Might be about cleaningbusiness.
Might be a guest.
So we're doing it all.
(25:24):
Listen, we've always done it all, yeah, we're gonna Thank you
guys for just tapping in, tuningin, dropping comments, and
let's keep this thing going.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Bye-bye, leave us a review.
Y'all, it's been a little bityo.
Oh, I should go check to seehave we got any new reviews.
I don't know, but probablybecause it's been a bit Y'all
like, I ain't leaving no reviewbecause they ain't seeing it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
And they ain't shouting me out.
Listen, if y' there might besome new ones there.
It might not be, but we like toread the reviews on the
episodes, so make sure you guysgo check them out.
And Janoka's still trying tofigure it out.
You think she understood thisby now.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
No, I do, but I just can't say it.
All right, y'all, if y'all haveto do it, we should be the next
one.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
We'll see you guys next time and thank you for
tuning in in.
Bye, bye, peace.
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