Rescue Kittens, Career Change & Hiring a Team: Our Wild Journey

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Hey, my name is Kat,

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and I'm Lee,

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and welcome to the

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Wildly Wealthy Life podcast.

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In this show, we explore the journey of what it means to live a truly

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exceptional and fulfilling life.

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Each episode focuses on how a foundation of brilliant minds and

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brave hearts nurtured through the arts leads to lifelong success.

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Get inspired with actionable tips to foster a growth

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mindset, leadership values.

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and creativity and children and adults turning their potential into lasting

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contributions for their communities.

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We hope you embrace the challenge to shift your perspective as we equip

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you and the next generation for a

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wildly wealthy life.

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Hey, everyone.

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My name is Kat

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and my name is Lee

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and welcome to the wildly wealthy life podcast.

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And this is our baby

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smokey.

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Smoky is a, uh, rescue kitten.

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She was found inside a car engine.

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Looks like she needs to be

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rescued now.

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And, uh, she had her chest burnt because she was inside the car engine.

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And, uh, when we found her, she was covered in soot.

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We thought that she was a, um, And we watched her and she is this beautiful,

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gorgeous white flame point and Siamese kitten, red ears, red tail, blue eyes.

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But anyway, that's beside the story.

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If you're listening to this on your podcast platform, you have

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to watch it on YouTube because you'll see how beautiful Smokey is.

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So babe, uh, it is now 2024 and we started this podcast in 2021.

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What do you have to say about that?

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That is four years ago.

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That was four years ago.

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We kind of fell off the radar when it comes to our podcasting from four

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years ago because of a lot of things.

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We actually planned the podcast back in December of 2019.

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And we already had a launch date in April of 2020, not knowing that the

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world was going to end in March.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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And then, uh, also in February, uh, my dad died, so that put the brakes

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on a lot of things, took the wind out of my sails for a while, and, uh, we

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still had done quite a few recordings up to that point, uh, we had another

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seven, eight guests after that, and then we had to start pivoting, so.

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Cat was in the stunt and dance world and she had to pivot to teaching piano.

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I had recently shifted jobs as well.

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And then with the pandemic, just taking on new responsibilities, being

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at home, not be able to go into the office as much working with students.

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I'm in higher education.

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It was a lot of just changes for us.

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And we had a lot of things going on at the same time.

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So we had to make a decision on something to cut

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for the time

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being.

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And what I learned though, is that.

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If we had help, we probably would have been able to continue with it,

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but we didn't have help at that time.

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So we kind of just let the show go, although I've really felt that we got

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up to 30 episodes and I really felt that every single guest we had in, in

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all of those episodes were amazing.

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And our old episodes are still in YouTube.

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So if you want to check that out, it's still Spotify.

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Uh, we had some amazing, uh, guests like Olympians, uh, stunt

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women, uh, real estate investors,

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power lifters, TV and movie producers, a lot,

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a lot.

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Yeah.

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Europeans.

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Americans, Canadians,

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we also had Mexicans, Filipinos.

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No, we didn't have a Filipino in our guest except for me in our show.

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Indians.

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Yeah, we did.

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Aditi Shekhar was our representative from India.

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That was really awesome.

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So a very diverse group of people with very diverse backgrounds when

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it comes to work and their pathways.

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To financial freedom.

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We learned a lot.

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It was amazing to talk to the guests.

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And now we're back doing the show.

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And I think the journey from 2020 all the way to here, we have learned a ton.

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Um, one of them again was like not having help and, uh.

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You know, not hiring help is really difficult when you're in an

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entrepreneurial, you know, side of things.

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So I was doing everything myself.

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And the reason why we're back doing the show is because I finally have three

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assistants that I'm so happy about.

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So I know that, um, my audio, uh, my, my audio guy, my podcast manager, Brian,

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he's going to be listening to this.

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So again, shout out to Ryan Sheena and ACE because I literally have, I'm not even

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kidding, I have so much hope right now with what I'm doing in my business and

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the trajectory of where I want to bring my business because I finally have help

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and not just any help, but amazing help.

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So right now, one of the things I'm reading is this book called

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Attraction by Gino Wickman.

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And it's about your entrepreneurial operating system and how it's not

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really about having A players in your team, because it really doesn't matter

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if you have A players if they're not sitting at the right seats.

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So he talks about how you have to have the right people at the right seats.

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That's it.

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And I do feel like my team, every single one of them, are

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pretty much in their right seats.

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I am telling them one of the things I tell them is you are in your

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seats because you are good at what you do at this particular things.

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But I also want you to be a Swiss army knife, meaning, you know, if

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someone is out and we need to jump in, you need to be able to shift roles

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and switch gears if I need you to.

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So I'm just really thankful for that.

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Um, anything that you learned out of your journey of the podcast

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into now in the last few years.

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For myself, I just really enjoy seeing the guests grow.

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Every single one of the guests in some way, shape, or form has, uh, grown.

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I think one of the biggest ones I've watched is Erica.

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Erica, what's up?

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Erica Kohlberg.

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Yep.

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Uh, from lawyer to YouTube superstar and, uh,

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4 million followers.

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Now, when we interviewed her, she was,

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I think 20, 000, 30, 000.

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She was at like a hundred thousand when we interviewed her.

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I think,

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I don't know.

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We go way back.

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Other people make transitions also.

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So we've seen some of our, uh, Uh, podcast guests, uh, who were on this,

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um, independent wealth journey kind of shift and go after something more,

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uh, meaningful for their own lives.

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Uh, they added members to their families.

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They've had, um, new homes, first homes, second homes, third homes, multiple.

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Properties, Gino and the boys have, uh, blown up over on the East coast

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with different properties that they've been managing and running

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with.

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Yeah.

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That's a great episode.

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You guys, if you ever check out our podcast, Gino Barbaro,

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the he's a family man.

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It's just amazing to kind of, he's got like what, five kids, I believe, right?

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Yeah.

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Uh, it's just, it's just amazing.

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And he's a real estate investor.

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Matt

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Faircloth.

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We ended

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up partnering with him on a syndication deal on a 256 unit

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apartment building in Kentucky.

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So that was really cool to kind of have those relationships

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form through the podcast.

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So we're excited now to form new relationships, meet new people, um,

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with our new podcast that's coming up

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and continue with our friends and people that we know.

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And actually, I just realized, I said, you know, meet new people, but

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Oh, hold on.

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Yes.

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What have you learned

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in

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the last four years?

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What have I not learned in the last four years?

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Let me tell you.

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I feel like I'm learning so many things.

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It's ridiculous.

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So, 2020, happened.

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I was already teaching piano before 2020, but 2020 was really the full blown.

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This is what I do now.

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I have stopped doing the entertainment thing, and I went full force

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into teaching piano full time.

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And in a year and a half, I was able to grow this my studio

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from zero to 75 students.

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So that was incredible.

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And think about Where do

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you have students?

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From around the world, all over the world.

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Europe, we have some European students.

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Point out where

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your students are.

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Um, we have a map behind that.

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She doesn't know

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geography at all.

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Shut up and be

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on the spot.

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It's

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the best to watch.

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It's in Switzerland.

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It's

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somewhere here.

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Where's Italy?

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Italy is there.

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We went there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And

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then what's above it early?

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Um, uh, Switzerland right there.

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See, there's even like a thing there.

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Cause I did go there.

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I performed there in Switzerland, guys, long, long time ago.

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Um, so yeah.

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So anyway, I learned that entrepreneurship is nonstop.

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24 7.

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It's your own thing.

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It's like, yeah, I don't want to work for a boss.

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I want to be the boss of me.

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And then guess what?

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You're a slave to your own business.

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Okay.

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But however, um, it doesn't have to be that way.

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And I am now learning that it does not have to be that way.

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And I'm really excited about the growth that's coming because

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as I said, I now have help.

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Um, I've shifted.

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I'm actually in the middle of shifting my business model from,

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you know, just a piano teaching.

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Model, which is really what I feel I've been teaching is not just piano.

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It's really life skills to these kids.

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I feel like they are getting coaching on what it means to be committed, how to be

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consistent, their creativity, you know, that aspect of that, but realizing that

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the thing that I enjoy the most teaching is life skills and just, I keep telling

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Lee that I can't believe that as children, we were never taught How our minds work.

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So understanding that we have a conscious mind, a subconscious

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mind that are our brains can go in so many different directions.

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If we don't control them, if we don't control our thoughts, it can control us.

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And by the time you know kids turn 67 teenagers and into teenage years,

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they have so much comparison in them.

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They doubt so much they they lack confidence.

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And so realizing that I really love teaching that part, I'm actually shifting.

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My whole programming into teaching life skills like it's a life coaching

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for kids, but through music education still, but really, really having

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that exercises and talking points and stories that I can teach them that

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can help them understand their mind.

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So I'm excited about that.

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I talked to me about lessons and how to teach kids how to say no to peer pressure.

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Um, there's lessons, uh, teaching kids on what integrity is all about.

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Um, what is.

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Responsibility taking ownership for your actions.

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And the other lesson that I'm really excited about teaching is this lesson

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on power shifting, like shifting when a situation comes your way.

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And it's not something that you really expected.

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Like, it's an unexpected event, right?

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You have the power to do.

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shift it to, to switch your mind frame about it.

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And so I'm excited about that because I just feel like it's going to

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change the lives of a lot of kids.

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And, uh, what better way to teach that than through storytelling and music?

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I think it's going to be incredible.

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I think some of the things that we're looking forward to in this next

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season is just bringing in the creativity and leadership into this new season.

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And we found guests that all come from different backgrounds.

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Different creative backgrounds are used creativity in the roles

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that they're established in.

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Currently, um, they have excellent leadership skills and capabilities

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and are going to be coming to you guys to help showcase what it means

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to be a awesome creative leader, but also how to live your honest and true.

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Wildly wealthy life, and we're really excited for this upcoming season.

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Yeah, I think what I also realized, babe, is that how blessed are we that

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right now we haven't even reached out to other people that we don't know.

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All I did was go through my phone, go through my friends in Instagram,

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and I was able to list out 80 people.

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I'm not even kidding.

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80 people.

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That our potential guests, because these 80 people have been successful

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in what they do, whether it is in the arts, in real estate, in their

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own businesses, in their lives as parents, uh, it's just incredible that

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I have, we have 80 people that we're reaching out to just from our network.

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Just from my phone.

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We haven't even tapped into your phone yet.

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There's a large library of people that we're hoping to bring to you

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guys so that you have just different points of view and little nuggets

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that you're going to be able to steal.

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Cause we're all on a different journey and every step, every glance that we take,

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every breath that we make, it's, it's leading to that next phase of our life.

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And we're looking to really just deepen and strengthen

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that for you as best we can.

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And.

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Yeah.

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We're just really excited about bringing the best of the world to you guys.

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Yeah.

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So the old angle of the show, uh, it's still wildly wealthy life.

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The show is still widely wealthy life.

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So the old angle of the show is really exploring financial freedom

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through intentional generosity.

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So that's why a lot of the guests that we had on the show are guests who are either

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on their trajectory towards financial freedom, or they're already there.

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We have had guests who are literally like, they're like, we don't

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literally don't need to work and we don't want to, but they are working

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because They love what they do.

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And what we loved about those guests is when we asked them, you know, what they're

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doing for generosity, they, they've given so much, I mean, I still remember

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Michelle Bosch, she was one of our very first guests, she is a land investor and

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because of her financial freedom, she put up a school in Central America and

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really just gave back to her community.

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So I just love that our guests have.

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A heart for service and a heart for generosity and the shift this time, as

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I said, it's still wildly wealthy life, but the shift this time is just really

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actually focusing more on what does it mean to be able to equip our kids to live

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their own version of wildly wealthy life.

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So in our show this time around we will be asking our guests questions

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about leadership skills How did they learn these leadership skills?

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Did they learn these as kids?

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Where did they have mentors that really helped them when they were kids?

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What were the mindset shifts that they had to do when they were

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children all the way to adulthood?

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We talked about how How can we develop brilliant minds and kids and brave

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hearts through creativity, through the arts, because I believe that

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the arts really give us that voice.

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It's a way to be able to speak your own truth, I think.

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And so it's really amazing to be able to speak to our guests.

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We've already recorded some episodes and we're so excited to share them with

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you, because I realized, at least in my work that I do, and I know, Babe,

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you do a lot of work with students as well, although yours is more higher

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education, so they're a lot older, but I mean, it's still the same.

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The, the, the students that you deal with, even if they're at higher

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education, they're older, they still have self limiting beliefs.

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They have confidence issues.

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They have,

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yeah, I've with 20 years of education experience, just being in

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higher education with bachelor degrees.

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And now most recently working in a business school for

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master's programs, the level of.

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Doubt, fear, frustration, just not knowing, you know, what that next

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phase is in life, uh, can be pretty crippling for a lot of people.

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And it's, um, having a coach, having somebody behind you, kind of edging you

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along, moving you forward, but also you really have to turn that switch on inside.

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It's finding that internal switch that, that fire within finding a way to let that

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burn bright so that you can overcome a lot of the obstacles and challenges that are

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out there in life that you have to face.

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Now, the other thing is, is that.

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I think that creativity, pressing into the arts, whether that's

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painting, drawing, building models, um, dance, gymnastics, playing music,

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piano, guitar, whatever, um, a lot of the different thought processes

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and just different ways of looking at the world through unique perspectives

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really helps shape, uh, great leaders.

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Um, in the business world or just in life itself, uh, I've seen so many

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times different challenging situations come up for different companies.

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And then you have somebody where there's just.

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Different mindset, different, um, upbringing, different training that

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is able to look at this particular problem from a unique perspective.

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And then all of a sudden finds a solution for it.

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And it's just incredible to see.

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And we're really excited about this set of guests that we have, because

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we have guests from all Facets, uh, painters, dancers, drawers, animators,

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voice actors, actors, producers, directors, finance people, just a

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wealth of different backgrounds that we've just been associated with.

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Some of them are like students that I know that have grown up, that are moved off

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and gotten into different companies like Guess, Marvel, Disney, and um, bringing,

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being able to connect with them again and, and give them a, a, a piece of Podium

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to kind of like share their thoughts and their hearts with you guys is, is

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really exciting for this upcoming season.

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Yeah, so we really hope that you join us and check it out because

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we're just so excited that we finally are able to keep this show going, um,

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because we have, um, so stay tuned.

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Um, we're releasing five episodes, uh, right off the bat.

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So as soon as you're done with this, you can go to the next and

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the next and the next and the next.

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And then after that, it will be one episode per week.

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And, uh, we're excited about that.

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So.

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Stay tuned and make sure you check out the show.

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Yep, and we hope you guys have an amazing, wildly wealthy life.

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Woo!

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Alright friends, that's a wrap on today's episode of Wildly Wealthy Life.

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We hope you're feeling fired up and ready to take on the world with

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your brilliant mind and brave heart.

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Also, if you know someone who could use a little guidance on growth,

Lee: 00:18:30

mindset, leadership and creativity, share this episode with them.

Lee: 00:18:34

Sometimes that one conversation can spark up a whole new direction.

Kat: 00:18:37

Thanks for hanging out with us today.

Kat: 00:18:38

Go out there, live wildly, be wealthy in all the ways that matter to you.

Kat: 00:18:41

And we'll catch you on the next one.