8 People in the Group Chat
A girl's trip in the Georgia mountains turned into a podcast for two high school friends. Find out how they met and what keeps them connected over 25 years after high school graduation.
8 People in the Group Chat
Yes, All Fifty-Two Parts
It's not all resume talk and career quests— we dive into the internet sensation that is Reesa Teesa; a story of trust, deception, and the sheer lengths people go to keep up a lie. Imagine a web so tangled that spiders are taking notes.
We also toast to a friend's heartwarming engagement, proving that the good stuff is still out there. And because life is about balance, we'll whisk you away to our serene escape to the Blue Ridge Mountains, a testament to the enduring power of friendship.
We conclude with a spotlight on Dr. Raquel Dailey at Growth Compass and Best Life Abroad.
I'm going to go ahead and say hello to my friends. Hello folks, Welcome back to eight people in the group chat. I am your host, Yola Gilliam.
Speaker 2:Well, I am your girl, Lene Johnson, or Lene, if you ask theory for some of my friends, or a new one, jenny.
Speaker 1:Where did Jenny come from? I?
Speaker 2:mean, I was about to ask that Chick-fil-A. I was at Chick-fil-A and they said she said it's Lene. She said did you say Jenny? I'm like, oh Jenny, now that's a new one, so I guess you could call me Jenny too. You know, hey, but welcome people, jenny, from the block. What's up? Well, you know we're back. We've been gone for a while and life has just been like this.
Speaker 1:We've not been gone from them for a while. They're not going to notice a difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have been gone from each other for a while because, as we say in the intro, life be life. And it's just been life, and so you know what's going on in your world.
Speaker 1:Well, as we talked about life and life and I got a new job, so I have been doing all the fun intro stuff in orientation and starting my onboarding and I am just back from a trip to headquarters and I probably sound tired because I am, but I am happy and thriving.
Speaker 2:So congratulations, thank you. First of all, congratulations on the job. Thank you, that is major.
Speaker 1:I'm excited.
Speaker 2:Yeah. What role will you be doing at your new job?
Speaker 1:It is putting some passions and some education together and being able to support the work of some folks doing really good work in the community. So I could that, oh, that's good, that's really good. I can't say so. How have you been? I've missed you.
Speaker 2:I missed you too, friend. Um, craziness, I've had COVID, I've had family in town, I've had Airbnb guest and you know just a lot of moving parts. And when I tell you COVID was COVID-y, let me just say that it was just, it was crazy, but I feel much better. Thank you, I feel much better. Had an interview yesterday with a company and I guess it went well. You just don't think I interview well. I don't.
Speaker 2:I get very nervous and for me this is going to sound crazy to you and probably some of the people that are listening who actually know me it's hard to really tell about myself to employers. It's very hard. I might get very coy for some reason and I get very nervous, go figure, and um, I just don't think that it went well. But you know, I talked to my sister-in-law, who is in recruiting, and I was telling her, sharing to her what the recruiter said to me, and because she had said you know what, you'll hear back from me on Monday. You know, if you don't, it's not because I don't want to talk to you, it's just because I just you know I'm busy. You definitely can reach out to me via phone text not text me, but email me or LinkedIn. So she was like that definitely sounds positive, because if she didn't want you, she just said we'll send you an email.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I just I don't think, I don't think that I'm a, you know, a good interviewer, but you know, yeah, it might have gone well, so hopefully I'll get it. I've been looking for jobs, and looking for jobs that's a thing that kind of I don't know. I know I'm super qualified, yeah, and I, you know, it's like you constantly get these emails oh, we've pivoted into another direction, oh we've gone with someone else and I'm like, no, no, I know how to do the job, probably better than them, but maybe that's why I'm not getting the job.
Speaker 1:I don't know who knows, but well, I'll just say I think, too like people, it's like the hiring managers will decide for people oh, she's got these qualifications, she's too qualified, or if she, she has done all this, so if she comes here she won't stay. So they're making decisions for you and your life, which is not okay. They don't know your life, so they should not determine if you've got the minimum qualifications they asked for. It shouldn't be that difficult, but I know your struggles, as we talked about on another episode I had been looking for for a bit now and I think that, as it comes to interviewing, there's some tools and some, you know, coaching we could do, but I don't know, if you're like me, where it's just also been a. It was a long time since I had to interview for a job, like a decade since I've interviewed for a job, yeah, and so things have definitely changed in that arena. It has.
Speaker 2:It really has. I just think that it's very stressful for me. I can only speak for me, but I think that it's very stressful because to me, that is a job in itself. When you're looking for a job, so you have a job. That's how fruit is exist, right? So you're now part time job. Your second job is actually to look for a job. If you're trying to get into, you know another career or looking for another job. I think it's so stressful.
Speaker 1:Interviewing is so stressful, do you find?
Speaker 2:it to be stressful.
Speaker 1:I find it very stressful and I am one of those people who enjoy the other side, like doing interviewing and the hiring process and all that. I get my kicks that way. But being the candidate is very stressful because you have no idea. It should be as simple as do I meet the minimum qualifications? Do you want to talk more about my experience? If it makes sense, if I'm a culture add to your organization, we can move forward.
Speaker 1:But between that the fact that folks don't do hiring well which is why I do prefer to work with a recruiter sometimes and the fact that so many people are looking for work right now and it's hard to even make it past the applicant tracking system If you don't have all the right keywords in your you know resume or CV, it's tough. It can be disheartening and I know people I was. We've talked about this. I've been discouraged in my job search. Now it worked out and this is probably best that I did not get those other positions, but that doesn't mean I was not discouraged from time to time, like you can only get so much rejection before you're like okay, so it must be me yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, and that's the point that I'm going to go through now. But you know, I haven't really really truly had a true interview. I guess maybe 2019, and that to me, really wasn't an interview, because when I went in, it's like we talked about everything and the job, so it's almost like a conversation. Yes, and because I was coming in as a referral, but still, you know, she would tell me what she was doing and I was like, you know, I'm not going to tell you when I first walked in, it was almost like I was chatting with a girlfriend and we had been knowing each other for years and she told me about her life and my life and then finally, probably about an hour later, we started talking about the job and it wasn't anything.
Speaker 2:You know, tell me about a time when it was more so. Well, let me tell you what this job entails. I know you've been doing this for what the system we use in XYZ. So that was probably the last quote unquote interview that I had. But it's tough out here interviewing man, especially when they tell me tell me about a time when, or tell me about yourself, and it's like, oh my, in the pit of my stomach.
Speaker 1:Standard interview questions.
Speaker 2:I know it is but I don't know, I just get, so I don't I get again. We are our own worst enemy and I think obviously I get in my own way. And in my mother she's she's a good interview or she said it's just so easy, just tell me about a time. And then a lot of people say, well, just lie. Obviously do not not just lie, but I mean they just say, if you have a situation, just you can make up situations like it shouldn't be that hard and I know I just get in my own way. But you know, when I say lie, don't lie. But yeah, so that's where I have been friend and we're looking.
Speaker 1:The other day sorry, I was, I can't remember, we were Eric and I were reading something about in some county here in North Carolina where the city finance manager, I guess, had embellished I won't say a lot, embellished their resume and after like three or four years, I guess, folks found out that they did not have the skills that they claimed to have. Now, mind you, they said, like you know, no money was missing, everything was in order. But I guess something else came up and they were not able to kind of use the skills they said they had and some. So then it kind of came out. So even if you do last a bit, if you embellish, you will likely at that point, unless you are literally studying to show yourself approved while you lying and you can be ready by the time you got approved of it.
Speaker 2:Otherwise, exactly, I always say that now, if you're going to, you know it's a fine line between embellishing. I mean, like you said, if you're going to embellish, make sure you know at least the gist of the job. So really when you step in you can just okay, let me just kind of Google this and boom, you know. But if you're coming in on something totally different and you've never done that role, I would say you probably don't want to do that because it's definitely going to catch up to you, although it always does when you embellish anything.
Speaker 1:But your life, you'll find out and it will.
Speaker 2:It will, but obviously, oh my God.
Speaker 1:That's what we think, so we always talk about the internet. I'm sorry, but that's how we probably go and talk about it. When I was like your lies will be found out. But, girl, did you watch our 50,? What 52 bars 52 bars.
Speaker 2:And here's the funny thing we don't even need to say the name because we don't. We don't need to talk about you. Know what we're talking about when I tell you um, you go first tell me your thoughts, let's just bounce off of each other.
Speaker 1:Well, my initial thoughts, and so I guess I finished this Like the 21st of February, okay. And so I was minding my own business, and then our group chat somebody mentioned it, and I was like I'm not watching that, I'm not going to watch all, I'm not going to be swiping on, you know, on the Tik Tok, I'm not doing all that. And then one of our friends was like they put it on YouTube. So it's. You know, continuous yes, girl. So you could just listen. You know, keep swiping.
Speaker 2:You can just listen, listen, listen, yes.
Speaker 1:I put it on in the background. I didn't clean my bedroom and my bathroom and put dishes, Watch clothes and all the things while listening to this. Yeah, and I'm like every few minutes I'm like, oh my God, I was like this thing. I was so stressed listening to this. My back was hurting Me too.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:And I was like, well, at that point I was like Lord, who is the toy let's talk about? Like dude, the fake phone calls, Like that's a lot of energy to put into a lie where you are literally faking phone calls and pretending to be other people on the phone. I'm like, is it good with voices? Like how does she not like so many questions? Like so, before we get to where we are now with that, what were your initial thoughts?
Speaker 2:Well, okay. So I want to tell you exactly what I was doing when I first listened to it. It was early, early one morning. It had to be around like seven. I don't usually wake up that early, but saw it in the group chat. I said let me just lay here while I'm trying to get myself together for the day and listen to it. And girl, when she started and she said about the flat tire, I said Jesus Christ, this is going to be a doozy here. And it just kept going and going and he showed up and I was like, oh, he seems nice, he's coming and meeting her and helping her get the flat tire. And then it just took a turn and I was hook line and sinker. I mean I couldn't even. I probably listened to throughout the day the whole. I think it was like through 33, one through 33 or 32.
Speaker 1:Like five hours.
Speaker 2:I was so hooked. It's like, like you said, I was cleaning, I was washing clothes. My mouth is still open and I finished it. I think I finished it Saturday or Sunday. Yeah, it took me about two days to finish it. But, girl, I mean the lies that you have. First of all, I believe her. Yes, number one. Yeah, she was so detailed and just the length that you have to go through to think about lies like that. Like you said, having the fake phone cause, and you know, a lot of times when we're on the phone with someone our volume is turned all the way up so you can kind of hear. You may not hear exactly what the other person on the phone is saying, but you can kind of hear faintly, someone on the phone.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the thing, no, so a lot of people I know like if people always got an earbud in, you won't necessarily, true, be able to hear.
Speaker 2:And I don't.
Speaker 1:actually I'm not one of those people who keep my volume up. I'm very private person, so I'm like I also don't use my phone on speaker phone list. I am literally alone and not I don't mean like behind the closed door and the building where other people are. I'm like I'm at the house by myself. So he could have had ways that he had the earbud.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't even think about the earbud, you're right.
Speaker 1:But how like, how much of I don't want to call them to people names, but that is a bit much Like. Why are you so involved in this play that you are having fake phone calls Like you don't have to have it, you don't have to be like someone says that hey, oh, she said, hey, oh, she right, like what the?
Speaker 2:heck.
Speaker 1:Like, yeah, that was. I can't stand an unnecessary lie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was wild. And me and Ariel my cousin was yesterday were talking about you, remember she's, she had had the miscarriage, and spoiler alert people. I mean you should have listened to it by now. So, if you have it, I'm sorry she had had the miscarriage. You remember was getting ready to have the procedure done and I'm in the hospital. And remember he said, well, I can just, you know, call my sister to come with you. And she was like no, I mean I don't know her. My thing is, at the end you found that he never had a sister. So me and Ariel were talking about it yesterday, like was he going to get to take her to the hospital?
Speaker 1:if no woman. That woman that was his friend, she, she mentions that at the end like that person did exist, she just was not his sister. So a person existed, but it wasn't his, she wasn't his sister.
Speaker 2:OK, so, ok. So if that's the case, then right, let's say she did say OK, I'll have her take me. You don't think that she would have asked her questions and the lies would have come out like it could have gone, so left at that point.
Speaker 1:Yes, but it also the his thing he was. He's counting on, like if you, if somebody says I want you to meet my sister, I'll send my sister, and then your sister gets you're not going to be, are you so? And so, sister, you're going to be like are you name?
Speaker 2:Yeah it matches the name that he said.
Speaker 1:And so, especially if she just had that procedure, she wouldn't have been like chatty. But let's take it one step further. So he didn't actually have that freaking job. This is why he couldn't answer. He had a job assistant. He didn't have an assistant Like why? Like just say, well, I would have been pissed. He was, he had a job at that level and couldn't just come with me because he was usually in the job. He was claiming to have have some level of flexibility.
Speaker 1:I think he like invented a fake client meeting or something I can't recall exactly, and then pretended to be the assistant. Like all that was unnecessary. You didn't need to pretend to be the assistant, you could have just been like hey, I stepped out of the meeting to check on you, or a, b, like what the freak Like this is. This makes. This is when it gets scary. It was already like crazy and like entertaining, but this like to find out this, like that none of these people existed, or all these relationships. And he was Like saying that people were dying, dying To a point like she was like I don't play with death, so why would you think that somebody, any normal person, would be like so on. So died by grandma died. This person died that ladies.
Speaker 2:child died, the door died.
Speaker 1:Why would you say somebody's child died when they did not in fact die? And if your grandma already died, why did you need to die now? Like, what sympathies do you think you're going to get If I'm already in a full fledged relationship with you? Like you don't, are you trying to like? What's the point of just saying random people died? Yeah, I mean unnecessary lies, sorry, I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 2:I'm no, I mean I feel you, I mean I was to, still am, um, and then what got me was the house, the source of funds, um, now you're going to pull yourself off the internet.
Speaker 2:And here's the here's the funny part, because you know, I'm in mortgages. People been frightened for a long time. I mean, people can legit make up W two's, legit make up bank statements, so I could see how he had done that. But the fact that he is just pulling up screenshots from the website and people. And here's the thing, what I got from it is that people want to be loved so bad that they are willing to forego the layer. As she said, United Nations of red flags and Cybar area was telling me yesterday that she's going to come out with shirts and one of them is United Nations of red flags and proof of funds. I said I have to have one of those shirts, but anyway I digress. But that people want to be loved or in love so bad that they are willing to overlook major red flags just to be in love.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's just to be in love too. So I could say there are some red flags that she willing, that she will tell you that she ignore, like she is very upfront and honest about this. But I also think, like some things is also you just be like, why would a person lie about that? Like you, because you are a person with integrity, you would never, never, cross your mind that somebody would lie about certain things and the lies be that involved. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, you know you're thinking that he's put earners money down on the house and the agent is saying wait, really, Because I didn't know anything about that, let me, let me see no, I haven't. And then you go to look on my something in your gut is telling you, your intuition is telling you just go online and it says that it's under contract, right, right, I mean. And to know that this person is now in your house.
Speaker 1:So it's like I can't even I think the problem there are so many problems, so many part of it is that initially he also had answers for everything when she was like, yeah, I found this, can you explain this, can you explain this, and so I think that kept her in it long, because he always had what seemed to be a suitable answer for the question or concern she had. It wasn't until you know you folks, they always. You can only go so long before folks are getting argumentative and defensive, of course, about they like because now they're running out of lives.
Speaker 2:Exactly Because, see, when you lie, you have to remember that lie and then you have to tell another lie to cover that lie and tell another lie, and it took to Until Tiring, like I don't even understand it is.
Speaker 1:I feel like physically my body wouldn't even allow for all that Like. That tires me, the thought of it.
Speaker 2:That's why and I totally agree with you. Like who would lie about that? Like who would lie about, ok, he has an offshore account. Like from what I see, the basic that he presented appears that this is his account. Like, why would I even question, I make question now, why do you have an offshore account? But the man says he has an offshore account, he has an offshore account, why would he be lying about that Me? And then just oh my, it was just oh my. And then, and he having the phone finding out he's sleeping with a prostitute, whatever, his knee is so bad, because when he is he's not.
Speaker 1:He's not.
Speaker 2:He will use OK, six worker. I mean, you know, and finding the phone, and then you are drinking what Gatorade and you're peeing in the great Gatorade bottles. You can't get it from your knee. And what I thought about is, when he said the sex worker, I thought the reason what for his knee is. When she started saying that he had a STD or STI, that's what I thought, because I'm like why is it? If your knee is hurting this bad, why aren't you getting up and going to the doctor? Because it was not. You can go to the hospital. I don't know. We get, let's talk, let's talk, let's talk, let's touch on that.
Speaker 1:On that flag foot, I mean not flag but arena ball ball, and I know a couple of people who played arena ball. So that is a real thing, we all know. No, it is a real thing.
Speaker 2:But do you, do you read when champion champs? I mean, do you get paid? Yeah, do you OK, because it's a job? Yeah, ok, but not big bucks like NFL, right? Oh, it's OK.
Speaker 1:OK, but like and that's the thing I guess you can say, I played arena ball, because most people don't, even if they know somebody who played arena ball, they might not know. They know somebody who played arena ball, right. But you also can't be like I was in the NFL, because that's probably more easily verified. Oh yeah, you can pull that right up. It didn't be like he was a starter or whatever you call it, but definitely he could have. But again, unnecessary lies, like you didn't have to say you played arena football. You could have literally been like I hurt my knee in a game with pickup basketball with my boys and she would have been like oh OK.
Speaker 2:But the fact that he went from a three X to a medium. Something is going on and I'm not talking about just missing a few meals.
Speaker 1:Like you know, I dropped that much weight, the lack of eating at him, I decided, mm, hmm, mm, hmm, I mean, you will get your comeuppance. And it's not like that was, that was his. When you're BMW you not move from the bed and you are. It's almost like all this was eating away at him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it took a toll on him physically.
Speaker 1:And I'm assuming, based on the job, we then learned that he did have. He may have hurt his knee in that capacity, mm, hmm, yeah, which means he then didn't have, he couldn't work. And so All this in the stress of all like, think, probably feeling and thinking he might be soon found out. That's true. And what about Go ahead? No, I was going to ask about the college thing. No, go ahead. When he talked about you know, she verified that he did not in fact attend the. Oh no, I was a private, my dad citizen, private citizen, is that any other like? And she knew these things did not add up. I mean, this was you know, she was at this point With her wit's in yeah, like I'm like that again, you did not have to say you like, this is a very elaborate and most of these things you can find out like the obituary about when his grandmother passed away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say with the not being enrolled, or didn't go to San Diego, the school, the college and the university in San Diego. I'm like Jude, do you understand? I can this is not a lie but I have the dig, dig, dig and can't find the answer. I legit can find this out, and you didn't go. I mean.
Speaker 1:Now I'll be honest, I Outside of like employment verification. I am wondering why they were just so willing to tell her that, and I have worked in a long time engagement and I know people in the registrar's office and so I Find it interesting that they were so free with some information and it wasn't like an official like employment verification or you know verification verifying his degree. For some legitimate reason other than this man might lie to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I so recently. I don't know if you've seen Latoya. My questions about who is Latoya have been answered yes, yes, so she's a real person. She's a real person and it seems like everybody, and that second wife Kind of like, confirmed several of the things that were shared. And then, if it is, in fact, if she did talk to his family members, like she said, ain't nobody fooling with him, which is and she made a point.
Speaker 2:She said what the sad thing about it is. Oh, and let me say this it has come out that his brother well, his brother, not the brother this particular legion, mm, hmm, um, just suffer from bipolar and schizophrenia. So the brother confirmed that, so, which made a lot of sense. Now, it makes sense because he took on, I guess, the personality of his twin. You know the twin, you know he was. They were kind of going into that.
Speaker 1:But the crazy thing I believe for me, with all the DS, DSM stuff there's some other. I'm assuming there's probably a number of other diagnosis to like he.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, apparently this has been known since he was younger, and the brother said that his father came out of retirement to help the son because there were issues there, mental issues, yeah, so, um, so I want to say that before I say this. So, but what she said was what was when she stopped to think about it. How sad that to know that everybody that is in your life who she has come in contact with wants nothing to do with him. I mean you have got to be a that is very sad when, when people don't even bring his name up to me, don't even bring I, don't talk to him, he better not call me sad that everybody who knows you doesn't want to fool with you. I mean, obviously, over the course of time he has lies. So I mean I totally, I typically totally get it.
Speaker 1:But to know that life changing things that disrupt your life it's not just, like you know, I got a new job or I got a new car and you are then exaggerating the job, stuff that put people's lives in danger.
Speaker 2:Exactly. And then you know, having her go test drive cars, I mean just setting her and like she said, I, she said I feel like he liked the excitement of seeing me. He got something out of seeing me, excited, you know, unhappy, knowing that it was never going to happen. I mean how you go and let this girl test drive cars, thinking that she's going? What do you want? No, I think you should get a BMW. Oh, no, I don't think you should get a BMW. And knowing that that was never going to happen, I mean it just wishes, mind blowing that each part that she would tell.
Speaker 1:Like that and again with his. With the car situation he had a fake company car and had a fake phone call about going to see his office and why he was driving his car and not the company car, and how he drove it back to like it's. My mind was blown Mine too, and I know a lot of people like why would you tell all this? To keep it from happening to somebody else? Absolutely, and she could have them out and then he'd be back on the dating scene with someone else, because, look, she was apparently what?
Speaker 2:the third, the third wife, right, because there was someone before the previous wife that she went to go to talk to.
Speaker 1:So there was Latoya, then the second wife that she talked to on the phone, whose child he had said passed away, passed away. It was untrue. And then her that we know of. But I'm sure there have been some other relationships that people probably caught wind a little quicker. But and that's probably because he got put in a situation he couldn't get in. And I'm speculating, folks, I know I'm speculating, but yeah, he's responded. I am just full transparency. I have paid no attention to his responses. I don't care about him, believe nothing. He says no, sorry to that man, as Kiki Palmer would say, but yeah, I don't believe anything. I don't believe anything he has to say. So I have not used my precious time to watch anything he's had to say in response to this.
Speaker 2:I did watch one of them because I did. I was curious about what would he look like. I want to see what he looked like, but yeah, but I could give two cents about what he has to say in his rebuttal. I don't want to care. I don't care to hear anything that you have to say, because you're a liar and you're everything that you're saying. Now you're probably lying. I believe everything that she said and, yes, of course she was putting it out to help other people so they won't fall for him or fall because people have.
Speaker 2:Let's be clear, maybe not everyone has experienced it to that degree, but at some point a lot of women have experienced that. Yeah, and from what I hear, my friend in Atlanta, she was telling me how there's a term which I didn't know. She schooled me on this. It's called oh God, what's the name of it? Jesus, it was just on the tip of my tongue when you tried to swoop in on a woman. You probably know the name of it. You know how a man tries to date a woman and then move in. Oh, I got no where to live. Oh God, it's called. It was just on the tip of my tongue, I forgot, but men do that yeah.
Speaker 1:And do that. They will Put it in the comments. If you know what it is, yes, please.
Speaker 2:But it's when you, a man, you start dating a girl and you really don't like her. But you know, so what? You start dating her and then you put it on really thick to make it seem like you love her, like no, it's, I'll get the name Just for housing, like you're doing all this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so he so let's say he's living out of his car or he's living out of his storage and he finds a girl to date. Her, and you know, says sweet nothings and moves in on what it's called but we're going to find out.
Speaker 1:But isn't that crazy.
Speaker 2:I mean, there are people out here who pray on women. Pray on people, but pray on women.
Speaker 1:People are filled with the worst part about I want to go back to Legion for a second and all the rebuttals, hi, go ahead. Oh, so just saying the worst part is because he's a woman. The worst part is because he is like so much he actually some of his pieces could be true and nobody would ever believe him, because he has established himself as a liar to almost everybody who knows him. So this is nobody's ever going to believe anything he says at this point.
Speaker 2:And that's really sad because he could actually be telling the truth and no one's going to believe you because you're you're lying. But yes, latoya has been. Now what has Latoya said? Because I haven't followed up on that story.
Speaker 1:She basically says she exists and a lot of the stuff that Reese Tezos said is true. She had either not like the exact same, but similar experiences in that she don't doubt what Reese Tezos says is true and happened to her, and then his family called him.
Speaker 2:That's why I found the name is hobo sexual. H O B O sexual, and it's a person who jumps into relationships to have a place to live. Hobo sexual.
Speaker 1:I guess people have gone to prison to have a place to live. So it takes all kinds. Yeah, it does. So you know you have to really do, but I guess they want somebody to pay the bills, Of course.
Speaker 2:Of course. But I mean, the thing is, you have to be, and I understand why people are on high alert when it comes to dating because you don't know. No, you think this person is being genuine and they're just being selfish out for themselves being a hobo sexual. Well, I just want a place to live. So I mean, you know it's wild out here, it is wild out here, but did you hear that? You know she's not Um monetizing off of it? Well, good, because of what happened, I guess, when she uploaded the videos, it wasn't uploaded correctly. Oh and um.
Speaker 1:I thought that choice but she cannot is what you're saying. No, she cannot.
Speaker 2:And then I think she was off. They kicked her off her life that she could upload for 30 days Now during this time I think she can't remember how many videos she had put out. But people are now monetizing off of her. You know, social media was up in a horse and tick tock paid this woman. So I think they are going to pay her, but I think, as of today, she still hasn't received a check from them.
Speaker 2:But people all around the world are listening and excited for her Cause. You know, one of the things that she wanted to do was go to London. Uh-huh, I think it was. I won't even specifically say London, I'll say Europe and um, I saw clips on TikTok where people are so excited like you know how you'll have like a um, you'll pass by stores and they'll have sort of like a iPad, that just kind of like you know, you see what's going on in the store, yeah, and they have her reels in London or in your oh, that is gracious. So people can see and they're like, oh, we're so excited that she's coming to visit. So I guess, a few places that she's been wanting to go now she gets a chance to. So I'm happy for her. I'm happy she's able to somewhat monetize off of it, at least get to travel and see different places that she wanted to.
Speaker 1:If you've gone through all that, maybe you do deserve a little something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm sure she'll get that BMW that she wanted. So, yeah, that was a wild story, wild, wild story, and there's other stories like that that I'm sure that obviously doesn't get told.
Speaker 1:But and there are some good men around. I'm going to segue us because we got some good news in the group chat recently about a good man who'd been locked down, put a ring on it. I've been a. He's a good man, but for real, not like Savannah's mama meant to about that cheating dog. This man is a good man and he proposed to our good friend and she said yes to one of our group chat girl is is getting married. Congratulations. We love you very much. We can't wait to celebrate you.
Speaker 2:Yes, we can't. And in other good news, you know how this all came to be listeners. Obviously, we've all been friends for a while, but when we had that wonderful trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains at the Blue G Lodge, we have officially decided to what you help.
Speaker 1:We're making it an annual thing. So Boogie Lodge, here we come in September. Yeah, booked and ready.
Speaker 2:Booked and ready. So that is going to be great. So, yeah, it's good to know that you know this particular week or weekend in September that we decide on. We know that this is going to be a trip that once a year will get together where it all stuff not where it all started, but when you know where we had that special trip once a year, because I'm so looking forward to that, because you know, with everyone's busy schedule it's just hard to get everybody together at one time, because you know everybody has crazy lives. But so definitely some good news this week, our dear friends.
Speaker 1:I don't know that we have crazy lives.
Speaker 2:I think we have just very normal business, yeah busy lives, so so we wanted to share those two good things that happened this week. Well, congratulations again on your job.
Speaker 1:Congratulations to you on your next steps, because I know you're still working on your certification and you'll get the job that you're supposed to have. And congratulations to our good girlfriend, thank you. Thank you so much, but congratulations, new and beginning things and interviews the person we are highlighting this week can help you maximize your strengths as you are moving forward career wise or if you're already in an organization and y'all kind of need some help on coming together and finding your strengths and how you work together. We're going to highlight Dr Raquel Dailey. Shout out to Dr Dailey at Growth Compass. She is phenomenal, a former colleague of mine. She actually worked with a team of mine and she was very helpful when we had some team dynamics that didn't align, so she was great in kind of helping us learn about what our strengths were and how each of us could work together based on those and how we could be a successful team.
Speaker 1:So if you're looking for some individual help in that space, about learning more and maximizing your strengths, or if you're looking to do it with your team, dr Raquel Dailey and that is Raqeldaileyecom and we'll put that in our show notes she is a phenomenal woman and she also has a podcast of her own and if you follow us, you might see it as one of the podcasts we recommend, because she also does some work in international education and is a big proponent on learning how to properly live abroad and giving folks what they know, especially as a person of color. Oh, I need to talk to Dr Dailey and you also. I don't know. We recommend her podcast, but I don't know if you're actually following it, anna. So that is Best Life Abroad, look her up, guys.
Speaker 2:Dr Raquel Dailey Definitely check her out.
Speaker 1:Like I said, her podcast for kind of learning how to have your best life abroad is available for listeners. That again is Best Life Abroad, so check it out, check it out, check it out. We'll link to it in social media and in our show notes and everything.
Speaker 2:Amazing.
Speaker 1:Great, great, great, great. Well, guys, we got appointments, so we gotta go we do.
Speaker 2:It has been great. It has been great.
Speaker 1:I missed you, so now I have my dose of you and I will live happily well until next week when we talk.
Speaker 2:Same here, dear, same here, guys, so we will see you.
Speaker 1:Where In the group chat. See you in the group chat.
