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Hi, I'm Sugar Gay Isper, and this is the podcast Jewelry as your side hustle.

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I love talking about jewelry, and I love that it's my side hustle.

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Pretty much my side hustle, but really I consider it my full-time job, but I haven't

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had a job.

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But it is a full-time part of my life.

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I really, I dream about it, I think about it, I work on it every day to try to get better.

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And that's what I want to share with you.

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I want to share with you my dreams, your dreams, and then bring in all the community

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that also makes jewelry or supports businesses with their knowledge or help, you know, consultants.

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It's going to be fun.

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I wanted to show you a couple things that I like to make an usual jewelry.

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These are raccoon penis bones.

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I think you need those because they're a conversation starter.

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And that's really why I make really great big jewelry or interesting jewelry or jewelry

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that has a conversation because that's what it starts.

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I make interesting jewelry for interesting people.

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This is not the little dot jewelry.

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If it's not for you, that's okay.

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It's just about making friends.

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When you go out into the workplace, you can wear the same outfit like every day and nobody

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would notice.

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They don't even care.

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But you wear a piece of jewelry.

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It's the red pear syndrome.

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Are you bringing some other thing that they can at least have something to say to you?

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A conversation starts in the elevator.

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Oh, what a nice necklace.

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Thank you very much.

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Always say thank you.

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Don't ever like say, oh, I got it on sale or don't say anything negative.

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Start off positive.

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Thank you very much.

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I got this from Sugar Gay Isber.

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She's famous.

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Do you know her?

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She's an Austin.

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I always tell everybody to say that because why not?

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I am famous and you have a piece of jewelry for me, then you need to be telling the story

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because it's part of the interesting part of what you're wearing.

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It might not be raccoon penis bones.

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That might be an interesting necklace or an interesting ring or bracelet or this.

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But I do want you to be proud if you do have one of my pieces because they are heirloom

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quality and I try really hard to make them with the best ingredients with China.

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China.

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Don't say that very loud.

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But I'm not trying to be like discriminatory.

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What I'm saying is I use US made sustainable products.

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They're from old warehouses.

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There was a man in New York City.

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I have a little thing on him somewhere.

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I don't know where it is right now.

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But he had a store.

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It was like on 8th Avenue, like right in downtown.

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And he was like a jobber.

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If you were in the fashion industry in New York City during the 50s, they made a lot

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of jewelry because you had to have your hat pin.

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You had to have your little clip on earrings.

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You had to have a little necklace.

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You had to have a little bracelet.

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You had to have a little ring.

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You had to have a little pin.

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What else?

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All of those things made an outfit.

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And then you wore your gloves and your girdle and your lipstick and the whole thing.

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You didn't walk out the door like we do.

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I do.

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You didn't walk out the door and just like not be dressed.

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You were fully dressed.

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I don't care where you went.

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If you went to the grocery store, you were fully dressed.

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You had your little belt on.

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Oh, it's so cute.

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Anyway, those times are way past and we don't do that anymore.

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But those industries that were in that area and Rhode Island were left with a lot of

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product when the hippies came in in the 60s and everybody, everything stopped.

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So the jewelry industry kind of had like a meltdown along with the closing industry

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and things that were all made in New York City.

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They eventually got outsourced and closed.

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And those warehouses though are still our treasure troves and they hold a lot of product.

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So this man in New York City that had the store, he died in the 1980s, but he never

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had a sale.

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So he had seven tractor traders of old product.

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So I probably bought through like one of those tractor trailers, but they're gone now.

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Somebody else has bought them and etc.

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But there's other people like that I first started using that I now know in Rhode Island.

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And then I also have companies that I work with that make brass pressings and then those

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go and get plated or maybe they're crystal settings.

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There's a lot of different companies in Rhode Island and then they get plated.

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They work for the US Mint and then they come to me and then I make them into earrings.

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I just got a box I've been waiting for.

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So it's all exciting.

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And then my tomorrow I'll whip them all in to shape and put them, make them into things

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and then they'll be online.

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But it's all as much the US made as possible.

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So that's exciting.

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I want to share with you something today.

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I noticed I take a lot of magazines just to support the magazine industry.

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They're really recently priced.

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You can get all kinds of deals on magazines.

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But these are two magazines that came to my house today.

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This is Bon Appétit.

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It's been around forever, forever, forever.

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And then El Decor which is also a staple.

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I just want you to see how thin they are.

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Like oh my God, the magazine industry is really needs to be supported.

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Like why shouldn't we support this?

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Their pictures are beautiful.

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It's nice to have magazines.

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I do take a lot.

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I love the Smithsonian and I love being able to just flip through them.

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I take them to the ranch and that's my afternoon.

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When I'm done working, I can sit down and put my feet up and look at our beautiful ranch

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and look through a magazine.

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And it just does my heart good.

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It just makes me smile.

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It's like, oh, I'm the pulse of the world because I have what's the latest and the greatest.

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And I do enjoy looking at all this.

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I like reading so it's a quick way to absorb some new content.

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So I heavily hope that you support magazines if you have the ability to.

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I take a lot of online magazines but I like the real ones too.

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You know, we're just trying to support each other.

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I see that on social media, everything changes so fast.

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I used to teach social media before COVID and now, gee, I don't know, I've taken a lot

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of online classes from mid or, you know, been, you know, resourcing and, you know, Instagram

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sends me a lot of content, I think too, for me to read.

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They're constantly like, do this, do that, do that.

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Like they're trying to help because it is a world beyond itself.

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Meta is a really big presence in our life and sucks up a lot of resources as far as

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our time and our money.

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It is what it is.

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I'm on Instagram as sugar gay is for so make sure you find me there and I have a brand

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new website where you can buy my pieces and that's sugar gay is for as well.

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So everything is now branding sugar gay is for so wherever you are, you can just put

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in sugar gay is for and a lot of content will pop up.

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So find me online because it's pretty strange to have, you know, sugar gay is for on LinkedIn,

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but it's sugar is my nickname because Facebook when I first signed up in 2007 wouldn't allow

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me to use my name gay.

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So they are like, so I'm like, okay, no problem.

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I'll just go sugar sugar gay, a lot of sugar on the internet.

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There's a lot of gay on the internet, but really sugar gay is for it's just one, one

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person.

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And you can find me on Facebook too, sugar gay is for and then I have another name because

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that was my high school name and says gay Robin.

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So if you see that, I was a happy bird.

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Like what can I say?

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And I'm here in Austin, Texas.

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I'm actually in a suburb called Heddo, which is a really growing.

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Oh my God, it's growing so much.

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We are just like 10 minutes away from Austin proper.

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So it's, you know, we're just a little suburb town, but growing, growing, growing.

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So it's always a bit of a change.

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So anyway, I'm excited to share my podcast with you.

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Now we're going to have lots of podcasts.

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I also have a TV show that you can watch called Jewelry Stars by sugar gay is for.

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That's me.

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And that's on the made it myself TV app.

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So if you have a, your telephone, I mean, your TV open and you see all those little

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apps for Netflix and blah, blah, blah, all those different.

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They're called apps.

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Now this is how they're doing it.

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And then you see the made it myself and you go on there and I'm the jewelry instructor

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there.

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So I think I have like 35 episodes and certainly will be making more because it's really, it's

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a really fun thing to do and to share.

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So you can also find me on Etsy and you can also find me on Shopify.

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So you can find me.

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I'm out there.

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So those are kind of some things that I wanted to talk about just to kind of like set the

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stage for what we're doing.

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I just was on a reality TV show for a week where we all lived together in a hotel.

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Now we didn't go into each other's rooms, but we were all together from seven in the

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morning we'd get up, get our makeup on, do all of our stuff and then run down and go

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have breakfast at eight and get going.

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And then it really didn't stop until I don't know, like 11 o'clock midnight.

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I was going to sleep, but it was late.

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And I brought since I drove a blanket and a fan and my pillow and all of my stuff.

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I can't, I made it a little cocoon because I knew I was going to be tired.

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I knew I knew I needed to sleep really well.

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So I made sure I had everything to really make sure I got good sleep.

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So I was really refreshed the next day and ready to get going.

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It was a week of really hard work and it'll be shown this summer probably in July on Amazon

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Prime.

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So watch for me on that because I had a lot of fun and the host was Wes Bergman and he

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is like the champion of everything that is reality TV show in the US.

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So he had a lot of insight and a lot of things to share with us.

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And I think what I really came away with beyond the scope of learning everything and I did

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get to go on stage one time.

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So I don't know if I should tell you that, but it's a big deal.

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It's that we learned all about business, being a small business, how to grow your business,

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entrepreneurship, things like that.

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But it was the community.

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It was every time you went to go sit down, you're sitting next to somebody new and you

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make sure that you're talking to them and talking to them and talking to them and talking

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to them and getting to another name.

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And I had a ring that was a QR code ring so I could just like scan it and everybody had

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my contact information.

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And that's really why we were there too.

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It's for the networking aspect of it and it really, oh my God, it like bonded me to so

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many people.

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It's about a long time as an adult that you get to go.

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It's like to reboot camp.

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It was like a reality show boot camp.

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And we got to really the whole point was to get to know these people.

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Oh my God, I have some friends now and they're part of my community.

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And so now we can all share and talk to each other.

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And that's what I want to happen here.

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So I'm kind of like taking that friendship, community, learning, bonding, supporting each

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other.

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And that's what I want this podcast to be.

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I tell all of those people.

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And it was something that I actually heard on the radio after I left and I was on my

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way home driving from Tulsa where we were back to Austin.

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It came on right away.

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And it was such a great show.

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I don't even know what it was.

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It was probably an ampere station that I was listening to.

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But it's talking about the conversation was, you know, somebody talking about their what

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they were experiencing and how they kind of came into a group.

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And what they said in that group was, you never have to cry alone.

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And I think that that as somebody that works from home, I'm not crying.

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I'm not a sad person.

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That never really occurs.

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But I know that other people do.

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And I know that other people, they expressed to me how hard it is to be at home and being

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an entrepreneur and working.

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And they really didn't have anybody to rely on to depend on, you know, besides your spouse,

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somebody that they could really talk shop with, talk business with.

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And so that's another thing that really touched my, touched my heart when I was thinking about

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the experience I went through and who I had met and why all these people matter to me

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and all the stories that they told.

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And they were all kinds of businesses.

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There was very few other jewelry people, which was such a relief because I thought it would

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be like everybody has jewelry because that's when in my world, everybody has jewelry.

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So it was really nice to have all of these other people that had all different kinds

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of other interest and we can all share and talk.

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I want this to be like that.

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I want us to have a safe place where you could come and learn and listen.

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And if you're a jewelry maker and you want to be on this show, you just message me and

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I will send you the schedule and you can hop on a zoom call and we will make it happen.

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That's so easy.

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Like it's so much fun.

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And then you can share it to your audience and to put it on your social network and your

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social, send it to your clients.

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That's one thing I learned is that it's all about sharing.

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So another fun thing that I did in November, I was one of 50 artists chosen by Air Maze

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out of all of Texas to come and spend time with the directors of Air Maze and really

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learn about the work of being an artisan.

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And that was really a great experience for me.

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Not only did I come away with a super appreciation of what I do as an artist, as an artisan,

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it really took me to the next level as far as what I love to fly, as what I want to present

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myself to the world and to my customers who are really my clients.

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So one of the things was changing that verbiage to not having a customer but having a client

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because these are long time relationships.

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So if I did like somebody's bridal jewelry, then in the next steps would be their whatever

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whatever, whatever, it would go on because I've been in business for a long time and

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a lot of these customers have just been around forever and I'm so glad to have them as my

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clients.

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So that was another fun thing I can share with you like I really learned so much.

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Now I've written some articles about the experience on being on the blocks that was the name of

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the TV show, blocks with an X.

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No, B-L-O-X.

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So blocks.

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And so those will come out when the show actually air.

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So it's in pre-production and now I'm in the 14th season.

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So that's what we're I think they're just now online with the 11th season.

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So it takes a little bit of time to get all that information out there.

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But it'll be fine.

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We're going to have fun.

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So I really wanted you to get to know me.

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I'm really like I'm the real deal jewelry maker.

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I make crazy jewelry, crazy jewelry.

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I love fossils, minerals and gems.

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I work with old horde pieces like all these pearls you see here behind here is all pearls.

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I probably have a million pearls and probably a mile of chain or more.

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I have a whole room, a finished jewelry, which is right over there.

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And then this room is my bead room and it's also my studio where I conduct classes and

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zoom calls and do all kinds of other things.

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And then I have another space.

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Well, the whole house is really mine, but and then I have another space that is my work

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bench space.

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And it has a lot of product around it's like floor to ceiling product that I can pull from

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like it's jammed.

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I definitely have a lot of different things that I can do.

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I just did a shark's tooth for a guy who's going to be in a movie and he's a gang stuff.

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He's a gang stuff.

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He wanted a shark's tooth.

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Oh my God, I got you.

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Oh my God, it's all gold.

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It was really cool.

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Just got that shipped and shipping off some jewelry to England today.

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So that'll be fun.

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And I have a new little space that I'm going to be part of a little collective where they're

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giving me some space so that I can bring in a bunch of African jewelry that I kind of

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specialize the all these kinds of beads and bones and different things that I have that

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are really, really interesting pieces.

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I have a fly in here because I have the front door open because it's such a nice day.

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So the fly decided to join us.

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Okay.

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So this is jewelry as your side hustle.

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This is my little intro video so you can get to know me.

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And we're going to have a lot of fun.

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Watch some other ones and see what you think.

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Please give me a message if you want to be on my podcast.

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It goes out to all the feeds.

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So name it.

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I pretty much can't think of anybody there.

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The feed doesn't go to.

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So we really spread it out there to the world.

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I was working on that today.

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It's a lot of different places.

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So it really is great for your brand.

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If you have an hour to spend with me, I'd be glad to talk to you about your business.

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Just everything that you want to talk about.

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It's really you talk and I insert myself in the cracks.

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That's kind of how we do it so that you feel like you've really got to talk.

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It goes by faster than you think.

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So I've done a lot of TV, I've done a lot of media, done a lot of magazines, done a lot

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of, I don't know, just about everything.

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But now I have a podcast and I'm super excited about it.

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It's really my jam and I'm so glad to be here.

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Okay, enough about that.

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You've heard it.

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Welcome.

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I'm not going to stay.

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Time for me to shut up and let you go to the next podcast.

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I look forward to getting some reviews for you.

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Talk to me about it.

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Tell me what you like and definitely tell your friends and spread the word.

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Jewelry is your side hustle.

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I also teach at Austin Community College and that's the name of one of my classes because

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it is a side hustle for a lot of people or maybe they're going to retire and they want

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to learn some new skills for when they retire, something they can sit around and make jewelry.

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Oh yeah, I love that.

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It's so much fun.

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I also have two books.

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You can buy them anywhere.

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Books are sold.

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Just look gay as burn.

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You'll find my books.

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They're about jewelry making, of course.

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Okay.

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Have a great day.

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Don't forget to spread the word where jewelry is your side hustle with sugar gay as burn.

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Thanks and have a great day.