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Hi, welcome to Jewelry is your side hustle with Sugar Gay Isber.

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This is our podcast that's for jewelry makers to talk to their clients and kind of their head and

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kind of like just get to share with other jewelry makers different things that they're working on

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how they got started in their journey and the path of where they want to go and it's just a

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friendly fun space. So today we have Kayla Acevedo. Did I say that correctly? I have another friend

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who's an Acevedo so I thought, oh, I got this one. So welcome and I'm so glad that you're here today.

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It's going to be great to have you and please start off by telling us your name, your company's name.

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I think you're in my area so you probably hear the thunder roaring. I'm like, I do right now.

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And I'll let you just take off. Let's get started. Well, first of all, thank you so much for this

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opportunity. I read your message and I was just like, this would be so fun to do. Like it would be

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such a fun adventure more than anything. My name is Kayla Acevedo and I am a proud owner of a one

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year old business as of last Saturday. It's called Casa of Youth Jewelry and we do permanent jewelry.

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So we cut our customers pick a chain and then we measure, we cut it, we add anything, any charms

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or anything special that they want to add to it and then we weld it together so it becomes an

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infinite piece without a class. So that is the idea of it. So how do you weld it on them? So we,

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there's a little jump ring that we use and then with a little tungsten pen, we kind of spark it

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and then it melts and stays on. Oh, that's so exciting. It is fun. How did you start this?

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And by the way, you're in Round Rock, Texas, correct? Well, I am in Leander. In Leander,

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which is just right down the road from here. Yes. Yeah, so we're neighbors. So anytime you want to

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come over, you know, you can always come over. Same. So congratulations on one year. How is the

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journey going? You know, it's been an adventure. It's been an adventure because I am actually a

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fifth grade teacher. So this is definitely a side hustle. And what do you, what do you teach in your

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fifth grade class? What is your language? So I do reading and writing. Yeah. You do a bilingualy?

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Yes. So I do reading and writing at a dual language school and we do both English and Spanish. So

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I teach reading in Spanish one day and writing in English and then the next day we flip up.

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That's hard. It's hard on the kids too, I'm sure, but they're used to it, I guess. Really important.

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You know, I'm a day 700 and, I mean, 470 something on Duolingo Learning Spanish. So

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it's in my heart. So don't test me. But I do love learning and I've been trying my whole life to

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really conquer Spanish. But you know, it's hard. Like I feel for those students too, because I know

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it's hard, you know, it's hard for them, but as fifth graders, it's really important.

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Yeah. It's very awesome how by the time they get to fifth grade, I think that they kind of like

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discover that being bilingual is a superpower and how awesome it is that they have two languages,

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but also two cultures. Like they're part of this two worlds that they have found a way to merge

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and they find a way to belong, you know. So it is powerful. It's so fun. I absolutely have loved

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being a teacher for the past 11 years now. Wow. I hope that you really get that message to them

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about how unique they are and how important they are just for the whole going forward process. My

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grandkids, which are like little, like, but they've been in a Spanish immersion since birth,

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basically. So, you know, it's like they were put right into it and our family really believes in

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knowing languages as a huge part of just being good, like just because it's good to know another

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language. Like seriously, it opens the world to you. It is. It absolutely does. I think that I see

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it through, I mean, I was born and raised in Puerto Rico and I moved to the United States when I was

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14 and I did not know a lick of English. And like I probably could say hello and goodbye and maybe

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pencil and that was it. So me just being in their shoes and learning the language of such an older,

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you know, older teenager years that were definitely rebellious and not fun took a lot from me. It,

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I feel like it sheltered me and it didn't allow me to be my bubbly personality and the dancer and

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actor that I was back in Puerto Rico. So I hope that in the past 11 years, I've been able to,

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you know, allow my students to know that this is a stage of their life and then they'll know both

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languages and they'll just be able to connect with so many people. And I see it through my own son,

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like he's going to be 13 at the end of this month and we travel with done a little traveling here

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and there and when we go to Hispanic countries, like just being able to see him interact with

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people and communicate with people and translate for people, like it's just awesome to see that,

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for sure. You have a very big heart and I definitely know that empathy is one of the most

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important skills of being a teacher and certainly from you being right there. It wasn't that long

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ago that you were in the same boat. I did the reverse. I went to Spain to learn Spanish,

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not knowing anything, basically. So that was, and then by the end of my semester, I was like,

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this is my new address, this is where I want to live. I'm just never coming by the city. I was like,

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so loving living in Spain. But I do remember and I think about my grandkids, how hard it is to,

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you know, reach for a word and you're like, I have no idea. That's why I'm still learning words. I

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learned, I think I learned 10 new words today. So, it attracts it for me. But I certainly am,

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you know, it's a challenge to remember them all, like it's hard. We should be trying, we should try

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to do it in Spanish today. You're going to use it so you can remember. Okay, Nessa, tell me more

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about how you got into jewelry, because that's a big jump, you know, you had some downtime,

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somehow or another, I don't know how, but somewhere off maybe. You know, I don't know about downtime

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because I decided to start a business and go back to school and continue to teach. So I don't know

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that I had the downtime, but I made it happen. So it's okay. Yes, if we're motivated, we can just

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get up earlier. It's okay. You know, we just have hours today. It's okay. However, this started a

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couple of years ago, I went to one of the little bucket things in my son's and I's, you know, buckets

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where we wanted to go to New York City. So I woke up one day and I was like, I'm going to surprise

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him with tickets to New York City. And I had read online that Catbird, the store that kind of made

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permanent jewelry famous, is there in New York City. And I was like, I want to go get a bracelet.

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Like, I really want to go do this. So we finally were able to find the store and I went inside and

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their line was like a lot of people, there was a lot of people waiting and just the vibe in there

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was so neat. Like there were people there, but that bachelorette parties, birthday parties,

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and just wanted to go through this experience of having the same bracelet or picking a bracelet and

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then bonding, right? So then I came back home to Texas and my sister owns a mobile Metspaw. And at

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one of the activities she was at one day, there was a permanent jewelry to girls that were there.

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And she calls me, she's like, you've been talking about permanent jewelry since you came back here

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to New York City. Like, I think you should do this. Like, this would be so good for you. And I

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thought about it for a little while. And I never ever envisioned myself as a business person, like

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ever in my life having my own business. And then I just woke up one day and was like,

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I'm going to try this. I'm going to do this. And I kind of fell in love with the idea of this role

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of chain being cut into different pieces that go to all these people and the way that we truly are

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united in this world that, you know, feels so huge, but it's truly so, you know, so little when

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you really think about it, like you get to know all these people as now as, as I go to markets and

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do parties and, you know, book events at little boutiques. I've gotten to know people and their

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story and how we're all connected in so many ways. So I just truly fell in love with that idea of

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how we cut this chain and it goes different places, but somehow we're, we continue to be connected.

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So that's where it started from. I absolutely love that idea. And we are all connected. We are all,

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all connected. And DNA is part of what we're connected to. And jewelry is a huge part of our

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DNA because it was one of the very first things. I think it was like, they probably figured out

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some clothes, some shoes, and then the accessories were next.

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It's like, here we go. I mean, there's just nothing about it. I've even found like really,

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really old bone beads in our ranch from when the ancient people were there and had, you know,

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no metal. They were using stones, sharpening stones to, you know, slowly drill out a bone to

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create a hole in there so they could string it on some sinew or a vine or however it was. I mean,

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that's ancient for sure. And I even have some samples around here somewhere of the really old,

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the oldest known beads, which were ostrich beads. And if you've ever tried to break an ostrich egg,

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you have to get like, I had to get a tile cutter to cut it because it's so thick and it's so hard.

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Wow. Can you imagine that those people back then, they didn't have metal and yet they were able to

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snip out little tiny little beads and put a hole in them. We were motivated when we didn't have TV.

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Yeah. Oh my gosh, absolutely. That is amazing. So wait, it's not a question about your chain.

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So it's actually soldered on and it's not supposed to come off. So it's welded on, yes.

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So it's not supposed to come off. So they don't have a class. And I have one of them that has a

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class because my sister and my mom got it for me even a long time before. But so this one has a

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little class on it. But all my other chains are seamless. So there's no ending or...

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They have to be like gold because you don't want to tarnish on you, right?

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So they're gold filled. Gold filled chains. Gold filled. So that way they are still good quality

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and it's tarnish and water resistant and they won't go ugly on you. I also have a silver,

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sterling silver options for those people that prefer the silver chains. So those are also an

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option. Well, I'm so proud of you. Like seriously, you just got up and got it done. Like, wow, you

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figured out how to do all this. And I found you because I was invited to an event that I couldn't

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attend. Really, I think because I was just on LinkedIn as a jewelry person in this area.

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And then I saw, oh my gosh, you're going to be there. So that's why I reached out to you. I'm

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like, well, look at you. You did good. You got listed and there's something on LinkedIn and somebody

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connected to you from LinkedIn. That's pretty good. And now you're going to go... I can't remember

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what the event is, but it's on a Saturday afternoon. Coming up, is it coming up? It's coming up. It is.

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What is it called? It's the Girl Flug Party Gala. Yeah, it wasn't on a Saturday morning.

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No, it is on a Saturday morning. I think it's 11 to 2. Yeah, something like that. It's pretty

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fast. There's a lot of stuff planned. It looked like a really great event. Yes, those girls are so

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fun. I got to know them a little bit over. We've done a few events together and I randomly found

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them one day and I talked to a couple of them and they're just their spirits and their happiness.

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And they just have this aura of positivity. So you definitely need to come to one of the events

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on Sunday. Yeah, now when was the next one? I can't remember. What was the date? You just said?

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April 27th. April 27th. So I'm two weeks, two weeks. This weekend. Okay, well, I'm really...

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I know that y'all are going to do really great. So tell me about... So that's your next place we

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are going to be. Tell me about some big challenges that you've had and what's the hard part about

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being an entrepreneur slash teacher slash mother slash... It just keeps going, right? We're a lot

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of things. We wear a lot of hats. So many hats. For sure. Well, actually, I was going to say the

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next... My next event is this upcoming weekend. I'm going to be at the Burnett... I may say this one.

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Burnett. And Burnett, Texas? Burnett, Texas at their Blue Bonnet Festival. I'll be there

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Saturday and Sunday. So that'll be a fun little... Yes....well to go to, for sure. Yes, for sure.

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And the Blue Bonnets are great right now. So... Yes, they're so beautiful. I went earlier today and

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I think that they're starting to... Well, a little bit... Don't go away yet. Yeah, well, maybe this rain

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will kind of... We're having a good little shower right now. So maybe that'll either... It'll either

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smash them down or it'll give them a little bit more life. Did you see the eclipse yesterday,

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by the way? Did your students get to go outside? Magical. How cool was that? I know. The clouds

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just parted at the right time. Oh my gosh. It was amazing. We were all outside with the little

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glasses on and I mean it was just cool. And then it got so dark. It was crazy. It did. It did, but

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it just... It kind of like allowed us to reflect a little bit because the kids, you know, they say

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some funny things and we were just sitting there for a minute and like whenever it started to...

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After it was complete totality and then it started to, you know, move to the other side,

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we were talking about how just so little light, like a little bit of the sun came and then it came

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right again outside. And like some of the kids were like, well, that's what happens when you're a

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good person. Sometimes like when you're a good person, you're able to shine. And I was like,

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like how cool is it that just a little bit can reach so many places? In fact, the fifth graders

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came up with that yesterday. I was like, man, that is such a magical outcome for that. People

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that missed it because they're like, I'm gonna get it. It's like you really missed it. Like you

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really missed it. It had a lot of significance. And were you able to see like the red on the bottom

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and the green on the... It was so cool. It was so cool. It was so cool. Are you gonna add any...

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Let's just talk about your jewelry. Do you do charms at all? We do. It's a very special life.

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There are chains. We have lots of little different charms. I have little airplanes. I have flowers.

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I have little bow ties. Rainbows, birth stones are a big one. Initials. Let's see what else we got

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on there. I mean, I think that there's a lot of options. Yeah. A lot of... There's horse shoes.

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So they're making like charm bracelets or just adding like one to kind of like for the memento

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of whatever that one is. Depends on what they want. I think that there's a... That really neat

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thing about it is that you can make it whatever you want it to be. Right. I recently did a necklace

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this weekend and she did birthstone initial, birthstone initial, birthstone initial for her

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three kids. Yes. So it was so neat. Totally a one of a kind for her and she never has to take it off.

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So she's always got her memento on her. Very cool. Even the necklaces don't come off.

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I do offer a class because even like for me, for example, for me, I like switching my necklaces

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around too much. Right. So I put a class on all of my necklaces. So she put a class on her yesterday.

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But I also have them necklaces that are hermene. So it's neat either way.

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Yeah. Well, that's okay. Like everybody wears jewelry. Like it's just cool that they do that.

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I remember the first jewelry show that I got into. It was a big one in New York City,

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but I didn't even know how to make earrings by then. I was just making like one thing and it

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was good. So I was like, oh, they just want this one thing. How are your earrings? Are you making

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earrings too? I'm not. I wish that I used this challenge. Even this right here, like I love them.

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I love big earrings. But I do not do earrings. Maybe in the future, I'll go into that. But we

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do bracelets. We do enclets. We do necklaces and little rings. So a lot of people, I think that

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the most special that I've done so far is three ladies that were having a baby and their fingers

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were getting swollen. So they're wearing rings that didn't fit. And they were like, it's so sad

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that I can't even wear my rings. And I was like, we can change that. So we measure the finger and

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then we cut the chain and well did it. And then they were able to roll it on. So even though it's

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not permanent, it's not like a semi-permanent thing, they were able to roll it on and off as needed.

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So I think those three ladies have made the whole, I think rings are the hardest to make for me.

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And they make it worse. But it was just really cool that they were able to have a ring on.

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Oh, that is so cute. That is so cute. Now tell me about, are you running your own website? Or

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how else can people find you? Tell me about that. Oh my gosh. And you asked me about challenges. And

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then we got into a eclipse. So let me tell you about how to find Casa. We do private events when

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it comes to like birthday parties, bachelorettes, I did a or Mishka one, ones I think I may have said

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that wrong. It's okay. And then what else? We've done a quinceañera, a baby shower, girls night in,

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just like girls get together having some wine or mimosas. So we do little private events like that.

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And then I am mostly at different boutiques. So there is a boutique in Georgetown,

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blushing bell that I'm often at. There is a boutique in Marvel Falls. There is a hair salon

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blow bar that I was recently at this weekend and I've come there a few times down in San Antonio

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called Hello Darling. And so those are some of the boutiques. And I absolutely love going to

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little boutiques because there's nothing that fills my heart more than being able to buy from small

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businesses. So it just fills my bucket to be there. Yes, of course. We're lucky that we live so

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close to all these places like this next weekend, I got to go to San Antonio because I have a booth

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at the Pana Tree. And so you got to constantly like go check on things. And so I get it. It's

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nice. It's just like an hour drive, like really, maybe a little bit more. It's nice to be close

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to everything. Yeah, we're very lucky in Houston's right there, Dallas was right there, like a huge

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amount of people are right here in our, you know, our little area, which is really it's very rich.

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When I actually moved from Canada back to Texas again, on the seventh generation Texas, but there

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was more people in Texas than there was in all of Canada. So you can imagine the amount of people

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that we have here. It really has, it's great for entrepreneurs. Like the world is really our oyster,

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right? Yes. And I think that Austin has this spirit of support and supporting the small

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businesses and the local businesses and just, you know, being there for one another and that has

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just made it easier. So the challenges that have been there, which have been many, are nothing

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compared to the support of the people that live around us. Like it's so neat to experience that.

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Now, how are you getting the word out? Because you're doing a lot of great stuff. Are you doing ads

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on social media? Are you doing like, how are people finding out about you? Because people

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would want to know that. My best friend has been Instagram. And I think that that's where you can

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see the most pictures and pictures of the events and pictures of people. And what's the name of

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that Instagram? It's at Casa K-A-Z-A, views jewelry. And that's, yeah, spell it out. Okay,

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spell it out. Puse. So, spell it out. K-A. K-A-Z-A-F-U-S-E-D. And then jewelry. Yeah. And then, and there,

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the, I post my upcoming events. I post them on there. And then people can go in there and

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send me a message if they're interested in doing a private event. And then we also do markets. So,

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the one that I'm going to be at this weekend, I've done lots of markets downtown Austin at the little

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wineries and breweries. And just everywhere that has a little market, I try to be there once in a

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while. So, that's the best way to get a hold of Casa. Well, that's great. And how did you say you

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have a friend that's also helping you? What's her name? A friend. Oh, no, on Instagram, you're

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talking about. My friend is Instagram. Oh, your friend is Instagram. Yeah, mine too, I get it.

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I love how you say that because it does seem like that's, you know, that is essentially a huge

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audience, right? Like, oh my gosh, and are you on Facebook too? I am on Facebook, but for some reason,

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for the longest time, I thought that they had, they were connected where if I posted something

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on Instagram, it would automatically go to Facebook and it wasn't. So, my Facebook looks

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very sad compared to Instagram. It's hard to do it all. So, you have the little box checked at the

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bottom, but it's still not going to go post. Yeah, so now it does. But I guess at that point, I didn't

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realize that it wasn't checked. Right, it's okay. Like, it's so hard to do it all like seriously.

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The challenges, right? The challenges are there. So, I feel challenges that I've come across. I know

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that you asked that earlier. What a, I mean, my whole career has been education and children and

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never adults. So, that has been interesting to manage. You know, I think that as a business owner,

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you have to expose yourself. You have to be out there. You have to talk to others. And that has

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always come really easy when it came to kids, when it came to kids, but not always so easy when it

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came to adults. And I mentioned a little bit of this earlier, just coming to the States as a teenager

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kind of put me in this little shell where I wasn't necessarily myself. And even now, having an accident

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at times, it stops me. It stops me from, you know, saying what I want to say or thinking the right

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word or translating in my head at times. Like, what is it that I'm trying to accomplish here?

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So, it has been, that has been a challenge at times, just not, I'm proud to hear my dog going

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crazy down there. I'm so sorry. But, you know, I do get that. I don't really hear a big accent on

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you. Like, it's very, very slight. Like, you really conquered English perfectly. Thank you.

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Thank you. I feel like my Rs are, they still roll every once in a while. I was like, who don't like

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a rolled R? Like, seriously, it has been a challenge to be able to accomplish that. And when it comes

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to the world of the business world, learning what an LOCA is and learning what an insurance is and

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when to go do that and where to find inventory and where to find good change. And unfortunately,

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there's people out there that don't have the best intentions so that people that don't sell the good

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things. And so just always wanting, you know, always getting better at finding the right places and

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the right people to get, you know, supplies from. That was a challenge. And I feel like it's still

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a challenge because I want to grow and I want to be better and I want my pieces to be the best it

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can be. So it continues. I think that's, you know, it's that part of us that never stops growing.

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And I'm glad that I have that within me that I want to grow and I want to learn and I want to be

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better. So just whatever challenge comes across, let's do it. Let's tackle it. Yeah. So you've been

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there for one year and you've come really far in one year. Where do you want to, where do you,

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where would you like to like point yourself in a direction? So to say like, four or five years from

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now, like, where are you? Like, what would that goal be? What would that vision be? My goodness.

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I know it's hard to think, isn't it? But we're saying it's a safe space. You can dream big.

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You gotta dream that to make it happen. So let's dream big for you. I think that I have been able

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to connect a little bit of my education background with the permanent jewelry. And I had the opportunity

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to train two girls a couple of weeks ago, maybe three, three weeks ago. And they came over to the

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house and we did a training and they left here just feeling really good about, you know, knowing

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how to do what I do. So I am thinking that I will probably continue to do that in the future and kind

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of like expand Casa and not and be able to be at different places at the same time, but not just me.

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So I think that's the goal for now. Just try to get some people feeling confident and feeling good

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about it and just getting out there, the message of the connectivity between people in the world.

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Well, and you know, I teach at Austin Community College. I teach jewelry design and at the continuing

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education kind of level, which is the lifetime learners, anybody can teach. Like, you could go

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and you could teach other people there to become permanent jewelers. And then while you're there,

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you can talk to them about maybe, you know, multiplying you. So I mean, it's a win-win for

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the community because they're learning skills. But then if they even had someone that could, you know,

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if you spy somebody that had talent and potential, and then you could like, you know, handpick them

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from the group and go, hey, you can come to work for me. You know, like, it's just a, it's just

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an interesting thing to think about because since I'm an educator too, and I've also written two books

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and, you know, I have a TV show in this podcast, et cetera. But for me, it's all about connecting

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with those people and sharing the things that I've learned because that's really, it's kind of like

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the matriarch, because of my age, the matriarch of the jewelry making here in the Austin area,

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because I've been doing it for so long. I think it's really part of my job kind of

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to pass along things and to teach people and all that kind of stuff. So put that in your pocket and

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go, oh, maybe I could teach them. You only have to do it like one night a semester. It's not like,

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it doesn't have to be, and it can just be like two or three hours. It can just be like one hour.

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Like it can be whatever you make it out to be. So, as an educator, you're already in that pool

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that you would be qualified to be able to teach there, but anybody could really teach. And you

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don't have to have a teaching certificate, but I know they would love to have somebody like that.

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And you'd be teaching, and we both be in the jewelry department because I think it's good to

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have more people. More than better. Yeah, well, the other thing is that the, all the ACC employees

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get three free classes per year. So they're incentivized to take classes. And I really,

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you know, I used to have a lot of ACC employees take my classes right now. They seem to be kind

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of like not very many people are signing up from the school. I think they're just like a little

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scared of their whatever. I don't know what's going on there, but definitely it's something I really

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try to promote to other people is think about ACC if you're thinking about a little bit of a side

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hustle because you can teach anything. You can teach anything how to help your fifth grade or

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read. Like that could be a one night class that you could really like enrich some parents that

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are really struggling or like the world is your oyster. So teaching is such a great thing.

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Because people would like to learn. That you have a book and show. Like, I mean,

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I've been doing this a long time. I've been doing this a long time. So that's why, you know, so that's

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all that's all good. But I really am doing this show so that I I looked for shows to be on and I

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really couldn't find anything about, you know, jewelry makers, entrepreneurs. And, you know,

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I really so this is kind of like something that I really think that has potential of a lot of people

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joining this conversation. And we all share our knowledge because why not like there's all different

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kinds of jewelry out there. Like I'd never heard of your kind of jewelry until now. I thought it was

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going to be Fuse Glass because of the name. I was like, Oh, look at this. It's like something totally

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different. And the guests that we had on Monday, she did Katie Kismet, she does use jewelry. So

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I'm like, Oh, that's cool. Like, you know, a different take on Fuse Glass, but it has nothing

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to do with that, which because even cooler. So, you know, always be surprised. That is awesome. Yes.

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Yeah, I guess it wasn't on Monday that I had around there. Most of it last Friday, because we didn't

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do anything during the Eclipse, that's for sure. But yeah, so that's really fun. Well, you know,

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there's a lot of grants out there too. I don't know if you've had time to look into some of the

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small business things that are available, especially being Latino, especially being a small

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business person, small business person, not a small person, but a small business person.

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And also, you know, being an entrepreneur, there's definitely a lot of different things in there.

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So I hope that you'll subscribe to my newsletter, which is on my website, gayasper.com. And then

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we can stay connected. Of course, you can come over anytime. I'm always here. I'm not very far

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from you, like just zip down 79 or whatever it is. And I'm here. But there's definitely

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a lot of good will here for you. And I definitely could, if I could help you in any way, you know,

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point you towards resources that are, you know, US made resources, something like that.

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And especially looking out for you now for any gold bill jewelry that I see, because I know

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that's its own little some stuff. I send things off to be plated, but that's different than what

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you're doing. Because mine's starting off as brass. Yes. Or copper. And then yours has actually

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got the gold in there. So a little bit different. But you know, thank you very much. Yeah, well,

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for sure, for sure. And then also, let's see anything else that you want to talk about. We

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have a little bit more time. I just would love for you to like say anything to your customers about

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any new products that you have coming down the line or some other things. What are you going to

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do this summer? Because it does get hot here in those outdoor markets can be really hard. Can you

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do them on summer and you can see that heat? I did a pecan street festival last year. Oh, I'm

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proud of you. That was a lot of sweat. Yeah, because it was awesome. I think it was also

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raining here. It was it was extreme. Was it like super hot? Was that what it was? It was something.

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On Saturday, it was very hot. It was raining. It was actually like stormed on us on Saturday.

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And then Sunday was just hot. Yeah. I just remember it was interesting because people would

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would say would come to me like, I'm so sweaty. Like, I don't know how you're like, I got this.

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We will figure this out. Here is some water. But I think that I prefer the boutiques in the summer,

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for sure. Yeah, AC is magical. Yeah. So that is the plan for the summer. I am getting married in

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November next year. So I'm hoping that I'll get to do some wedding planning. I love this summer.

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Oh, that's a lot. That's a lot. Yes. Have you picked out your dress and all that?

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I did. I actually got my dress from a boutique right here in Lander. It's called

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Lays and Grace or Grayson Lays. Beautiful, beautiful place with lots of sweet girls.

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And I met them at a pop-up downtown. So just like, you know, connecting people.

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Yes. Yes. It works both ways, right? Like, if I'm the only thing that you like to deal with,

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then you're going to go with them. So that's nice for you. Nice for you.

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Beautiful. And I got to do some pop-ups there at their bridal boutique. So I've been there

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a few times and it's just an awesome place to be at and some girls to get to know. So I did get

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my dress from there this past summer and, sorry, last summer. Yeah, that was us here. So I've had

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my dress for almost a year now. Kind of makes sense. It still fits, right? Oh, we're going to make sure

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that it fits. So I'm doing that. And other than that, I hope to be at lots of new boutiques. I'm

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trying to continue to, you know, create relationships, build relationships and

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some connections with small business owners around here so that I can offer their clients

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remnant jewelry and then they can, you know, bring in some people for me too. So it's just a two-way

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street always. Yes. And where are these great entrepreneur skills coming from? Did you grow

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up in a family where people were entrepreneurs because you're doing a great job? That is funny.

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I did not. My mom has been a teacher for 28 years. My parents actually live in Qatar,

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so they're far, far away. We're trying to convince them to come back to the States this summer.

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And then my dad did a little bit of everything growing up. He, his big thing is,

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he's a handyman. He can fix anything that you can think of. So I don't know where they came from.

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They kind of just showed up one day and wanted to stay. Well, that's quite the thing. And,

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you know, you must have gotten something from your parents, but who knows? Like,

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maybe this is just something you've just been like with students has been a burning desire inside

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you and you're now found your product and you're soaring like seriously. Thank you. Thank you very

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much. Yeah, I just did a TV show for entrepreneurs. It was a game show. It was a reality game show.

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It'll show on Amazon Prime. It was called The Blocks. And that was a group of 100 plus entrepreneurial

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companies, entrepreneurs that have companies or in different stages of business, it could be beginning

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to multi-million businesses. And we all did a week of this game show and it was five of us. I really

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learned a lot. And, you know, if we ever get together and have a cup of coffee and, you know,

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we can like just, you know, talk about in depth some of those things. I can't tell you who won

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the show or anything like that right now, but it'll come up. But yeah, I'm just saying like the world

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is your oyster because there are so many like this is the time when we're really celebrating

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small business owners, you know, Etsy and Shopify and all these companies. I wouldn't even think

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the meta, you know, I think that all these things are really trying to push us and push people to

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trying to think more of the sustainable made in the U.S. small business person. Like I kind of feel

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like it's our time. So how do you think about that? Absolutely. I think that there is whatever it is

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that changing the minds of these people, like it's for such a good cause and for such a good reason.

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I think that that little saying of when you buy from a small business owner, like that person

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does a little happy dance. Like it's so true. Like it's, I remember my first sale, which it's

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interesting because I had a pop up and had no one, my very first pop up, like nobody came to my table

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and it was at this little brewery and I've been back since and has been very successful now,

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but it was such a, oh, it's a moment like I worked so hard to put this together. But regardless of

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that, like the fact that it has worked out, you know, throughout this year and it has been able

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to be kept up and it's been so good for me and my family. Like, and it's because of all these people

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that think let's support our small businesses. Let's make sure that those people are doing the

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little happy dances and allowing their families to go and flourish. I love that. I think that does

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very apropos to what we're doing. And I know that when you're out there, people love your bubbly

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personality and your little kind soul. So that really speaks for itself that people will want

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to keep coming and adding to their stack of forever jewelry. I did have, I had a bracelet

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a long time ago. It was very meaningful to me and it was gold filled. I kind of think of it and I

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wore that bracelet for I don't even know how many years. These bracelets I've had, these are carnier,

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but I've had these on now for more than 20 years, never taken them off. So I think it's that, well,

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unless you get through a metal detector and then you got to like somehow either get them off.

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What happens to people that do that at airports? How does that work? It doesn't, you can still go

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through the airport and it doesn't pop up on the little machine. Oh, okay. That's pretty good.

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That's one of my biggest questions actually. Like what happens when I go to the airport? Like you

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have no problem. Like I've been traveling with some of these for a year, two years, no three years

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since the one in New York City. Well, that's probably because of their gold inside them.

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These bracelets send off the, this is the Trinity bracelets, but they do send off the metal detectors

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and I've been told, oh yeah, you know, they've got real metal in there. It's like, okay, whatever.

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I'm not going to argue with Cartier. Like I know they're not solid gold, but they got something in

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there that keeps making those things go off and I got to like slide them off. And how many times

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I've almost lost those bracelets because, you know, you're racing through the airport and it's

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like, oh no, my bracelets run back. You know, somebody's holding on going, yeah, I almost forgot

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these. So how sad. Yeah, I know. Well, you know, you just get busy and things kind of happen, you

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know. Okay, so one more little thing about your wedding. I want to hear just a tiny bit more.

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Well, how did y'all get proposed to? How did you get proposed to? Oh my gosh. So I actually asked her

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first. Oh, that's exciting. Crazy. I don't know. I think that by now you probably know that I just

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wake up one day and I'm like, I want to do this. You know? That's exactly how it was. I woke up

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one day and I was kind of writing on my journal and I have been married before and I said that I

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was never going to get married again. And I am really good friends now with my ex-husband, my

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son's dad. And we have a really good relationship with co-parenting and unit relationship and he

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loves my my fiance and it just it's really good and healthy. And I truly just woke up one day and I

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was like, I never thought that I could have this healthy relationship again, you know, in my life

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or ever in my life. And I never thought about wanting to marry someone again. And then I said,

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I want to do this, like I want to spend the rest of my life with this girl and which is was completely

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new to me to begin with. And you know, that aspect of it. And I found a ring that I loved and I thought

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she's going to love this. And I got her family and my family together after five years have been

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together and I asked her to marry him. So that is special. I'm so glad that I asked that because

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that is quite a thing. And so now y'all we're going to have a big wedding in November. And you

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know, if you need me to teach you how to make earrings, I will like come out. I love that.

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Well, how about jewelry making party at Sugar's house? Oh my gosh, yes, absolutely. Yeah, I mean

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it's my own wedding earrings. Oh, yeah, there you go. There you go. Like when you have one that offer.

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I do have I do have millions of pearls and you have pearls show up really well in

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in photographs so more than sparkle. So go for those pearl earrings. I'm like, you know, you

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have a choice. That would be my little one to bid, of course, but you're pretty here. You definitely

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could use a pearl earring and it would show up right like I don't have any pearls on right.

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But that's kind of fun. That's very exciting. Now where else can people they really have to

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see you at a live event, right? To kind of get it put on. Yes, so I don't have a website because

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of that reason it has to be like a thing or something. So there's nothing that they can

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there's not a place that they can go and buy things online. There's a place where they can go

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and send me a message which is Instagram and then I'll be there. We love Instagram for that.

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That's it was, you know, it's something I have to get used to checking because sometimes I forget.

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I, you know, I kind of forget and then somebody that I was talking to says, no, let's just do

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everything right here on Instagram. I'm like, okay, just give me your email address and we

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could like, I'm just like, no, that's not how we do it. It's like, okay, I was actually in a class

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too this past week and I asked somebody for a pin. We needed it for rolling something and they're

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like, that's a different generation. We don't carry pins. I'm like, gay. I don't know. Everything on the

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phone now? I didn't know there was a time in your life that you could stop carrying pins. Now I can

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stop carrying a pen. It's just what it is. We all just take pictures of everything or text it all out.

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Exactly how it is. It's crazy how times have changed. Yeah, times have really changed.

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Yeah. Well, and I just wanted to really open my doors to you and if there's anything I can

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ever do for you, please let's get together. And I work from home. So, you know, I'm always here,

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but you're always at school, but you'll be off this summer maybe. I know.

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You want to see me go to events and this is the time of the year to be applying for those

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events that are coming in the Christmas time. Are you applying for any of those?

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So, I have not applied to anything for Christmas yet. I will be doing the Leander Festival on

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June 1st downtown Leander in the little square area, which I did their festival in the fall and

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it was amazing. It's such a great experience. So, I had that going and I have some of the other

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projects in the makings, places that I want to be at. So, those will be coming up in the upcoming

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events pretty simple. Well, that's great. Well, that's great. Well, I certainly want to give you

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the last floor, last thing just to wrap up and tell your customers one more time where you're

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going to be next and slowly spell out the name of your Instagram so we can capture it. We'll try

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to do a title here right here for you so that that will also show up. But just so if anybody's

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listening, they can go to your Instagram, which is it's at Casa K A Z A Fused F U S E D Jewelry J E W E L R Y.

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Fabulous. Fabulous. And this has been a great little almost an hour to spend with you and get

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to know you. I feel like we're friends now and it's been a wonderful time and I look forward to

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coming to one of your events and maybe I'll get a forever thing to go with my forever thing.

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Thank you so much for this opportunity. I truly enjoyed this time with you and really thank you.

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It's fun to have you. It's fun to meet you and we're friends forever now. So please reach out to

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me. You're my friend. So, let's just always know that. Thank you again and have a lovely evening.

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You too. Have a great evening.