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LaToya Mason's Journey of Passion, Family, and Innovation to Event Planning Mastery
LaToya Mason’s journey from the entrepreneurial landscape of her childhood in Tulsa to becoming the powerhouse behind LMason Wedding and Event Planning is nothing short of inspiring. Raised amidst the bustling environment of her mother's hair salon and her father's ministry, LaToya's early life was steeped in business acumen and community service. Initially, her sights were set on a career in law, but the pull of event planning proved irresistible. With the launch of Nexus Creative, LaToya's vision is now soaring to new heights, crafting unforgettable experiences in the heart of Oklahoma City.
Throughout the episode, we navigate the balancing act of maintaining a thriving business while nurturing a family and personal well-being. Transparency and setting boundaries play pivotal roles in this journey, as LaToya shares candid stories of juggling her professional and personal lives. We reflect on the evolving vision for L Mason Events, inspired by the compassion and work ethic witnessed in her mother’s career. Whether orchestrating a joyful wedding or a solemn event like the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration, LaToya's commitment to care remains unwavering.
We also delve into the exciting world of Nexus Creative, a venue dedicated to crafting core memories without breaking the bank. Situated in downtown Oklahoma City, this space is quickly becoming the go-to destination for bespoke events. With an open catering policy and competitive rates, Nexus Creative is all about flexibility and personal touches. From government contracts to personal passions like dancing, LaToya's approach to business is one of resilience and enthusiasm, ensuring that every client leaves with cherished memories and a smile.
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In this episode, let's discuss where passion meets purpose in the world of event planning and creative spaces. Founder and CEO Latoya Mason began with organizing family celebrations. Would led her to launch Elmason Wedding and Event Planning in 2011, with a vision to create unforgettable experiences for a wider audience. Recently, she's introduced Nexus Creative, a brand new event space in Oklahoma City. Latoya and her team can now enhance the art of event planning, offering a space where creativity and vision come to life. Join me today as we explore the keys to crafting extraordinary experiences and building a legacy through events.
Speaker 2:Are you ready to unlock your potential? Tune in to Three Keys for your Journey podcast, where business owners share invaluable insights and empowering strategies to guide you toward success. Based in Oklahoma City, our host, Greg T Jones, will inspire and motivate you every week. Get ready to join our conversation as we build community together.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, we have Miss Isla Toya Mason in the house how you doing this day. I'm fabulous See what listeners can't see is you got this big smile on your face. You got that cute dimple. See, we should talk about my dimple, but I didn't know. Yes, you had one too right there on the right side I do. I do Okay.
Speaker 2:It's my signature.
Speaker 1:That's signature life. Well, thank you for taking some time out of your busy schedule, latoya, to be with us on today. I'm excited because we get to learn a little bit more about you. We learn a little bit more about your business, your family, your team, all of those good things, and so I usually start out by saying you know number one. I say welcome to the podcast Three Keys for your Journey. You know our role is really to highlight business owners like you. We are excited about the opportunity to, number one learn and understand how you've got your start, a little bit about just what makes you move, your missions, your values, all those kind of things. So today I think it's going to be fun because we get a chance to kind of pick your brain a little bit and have you really kind of share with us some of the things that have been key to your success since you started your business. So, for most of Oklahoma City knows who you are, but not everybody in the United States or the world knows who you are, so Latoya introduce yourself.
Speaker 3:Well, I am Latoya Mason. Fun fact about me, I have many last names, so the people who know me best call me Latoya Arbertha Davis Mason. But I was actually born in Wichita, kansas. We have a strong heritage and family legacy in Wichita Kansas. Arbertha's and William's there, and then the Davis's. And then I was raised in Tulsa, oklahoma, proud graduate of the Booker T Washington High School, not Tulsa Washington.
Speaker 1:You got to say it right Booker T Washington, booker T Washington, that's right.
Speaker 3:The T. So I'm Toya, from the town and I come from a lineage of entrepreneurship. I was introduced to it as a young girl. I was introduced to it as a young girl. My mother, demetra everybody knows her as Michi in Tulsa she is a hairdresser and for many, many years operated Michi's main attraction and main M-A-N-E attraction. And we learned as little ones the importance of giving back. And we, we learned work ethic extremely early. We were the ones folding towels in the morning before school, because we had to walk. You know, my mother washed them that night and we as a team had to fold them and get them ready so that she could start the day, and then after school we would night and we as a team had to fold them and get them ready so that she could start the day, and then after school we would go and we were sweeping the floors and and and washing uh base boards and uh sanitizing sinks. And so we learned um number one, um entrepreneurship. We learned community, um, and we learned all hands on deck um. And so it was.
Speaker 3:I was born into it, right, obviously that young I didn't know what I was going to be doing, you know, but I knew the importance of owning, operating in excellence. And if you know my mother in Tulsa, she is excellent, her specialty is in hair care, and so you want strong, healthy, long locks, then you went to Me Too's main attraction. So that's kind of my foundation in entrepreneurship, foundation in entrepreneurship. But what my family is most known for is impacting community and in church. I come from a long lineage of ministers, pastors, singers, etc. So my dad is Byron Mason. Byron Mason is my son, byron Davis. My son is named after him, and so on one side we were working in the salon with my mom and then on the other side with my dad, we were fading music out. When he was, you know, the song was running a little bit too long and he was like we're done, learning how to fade that music down, carrying in that equipment and cueing. You know, if there was an operator or an engineer in the sound booth, we were the ones kind of giving them those cues, and so we just learned so many different aspects of entrepreneurship as babies, right.
Speaker 3:And so, you know, as we grew up and as I grew up and went to college, it was just kind of a natural progression. So I thought I wanted to be a lawyer. So when I went to Langston University, I majored in English first and then I switched my major to sociology and joined a sorority, started getting active in the ecosystem at Langston and some of the things that I learned growing up and didn't understand growing up about giving just became natural to me at Langston. And then I'm a natural leader and so all of the things that was imparted to me in me that we learned as kids, you don't really appreciate them until they start coming back and you are naturally walking in the purpose that you didn't even really know was your purpose. And so I just started planning. You know we would want to have events, we would want to have programs, and it just came natural to me. I'm an organizer, I am a delegator, I am a strong arm sometimes, and it just came natural. And so then people just looked to me to lead them in.
Speaker 3:That Didn't really understand yet that that was what I was going to be, still thinking I was going to be a lawyer, applied to many law schools, got into three, decided that I was going to take some time off and started working in luxury retail. Okay, so I worked for Eddie Bauer, I worked for Saks Fifth Avenue, I worked for Dillard's and I met a woman and her name is Tracy Robinson. Over the span of my life there have been some people that have come in that have, like, changed my life my mom, my dad, tracy Robinson. Tracy taught me to do everything in your power for people before you have to tell them no. Almost was a gift and a curse, because I have a problem telling people no now, but what that meant in the retail world was that you're going to get people that's going to ask you to do things for them that you really shouldn't. They're going to pull you and push you to go beyond policy and go beyond what naturally seems to be the right thing to do, because a lot of times people are going to be in desperate situations. Right, they came in, they shopped, they spent too much money, it's 30 days past their expiration date. They need to bring it back right. So you have to look beyond policy sometimes. You have to look beyond what your mood is that day and you have to take care of people. So she taught me at 18, 19, 20 years old take care of them. Well, that's not the policy. Take care of them. Is it going to hurt us that we took back a hundred dollar pair of pants when we're going to have a $600 sale in 20 minutes, it's not going to hurt us. Take care of people, right? And so I just began to take care of people. And so when I was at Saks Fifth Avenue, we closed our store. And so when I was at Sex Fifth Avenue, we closed our store, and at that point I had already started El Mason Events 2011,.
Speaker 3:My daughter got married and you know, I just said we're going to do it, I'm going to do it. I have impeccable taste. She knew that, her fiance knew that and we just did it. I have impeccable taste. She knew that, her fiance knew that, and we just did it. And it was fun, it was incredible. I got to stretch, I got to grow, I got to learn how to collaborate, and that just launched Elmacy Events.
Speaker 3:And so when we closed our store here in Oklahoma City, launched Elmason Events. And so when we closed our store here in Oklahoma City, I could. I had a couple options to stay in that world, and then I just talked to my husband and I said it's time to leap. And he was like, let's leap. And we just started full time and it has been incredible, it has been awful, it has been a blessing, it has been long nights of tears and it has been a journey that I would choose any and every day. I would choose it again, over and over again. So that's like the short version, ish, if you can call that short, wow.
Speaker 1:Wow that that right there is. I was going to say part A. The interesting thing about this is that I actually have a long history also with Latoya's family, particularly her father. Her father actually sang at our wedding 27 years ago.
Speaker 1:It's wild and um in Tulsa. My wife also is sings and so that's how she knew your dad and uh. And then I knew Bob, which is your uncle, which is your brother, your dad's brother, been knowing him for a number of years and so you're absolutely right, it's just, it's impeccable to even hear you as you talk about that and then talk about the reputation that your mom has there in Tulsa Also, you know, for those that don't know, tulsa and Oklahoma City, the state of Oklahoma, are the kind of two big cities and both of them have very rich African-American history. There's a lot of deep roots and there's a lot of entrepreneurship, so it is awesome to kind of hear part of that story. Okay, so that's a great introduction. A little bit about who you are. I mean, obviously, part of our podcast is really to drill down into, over the time that you have been in business, in life in general, raising a family what are some things that you would say, three keys that you found have been very instrumental in your life.
Speaker 3:Gosh, three keys transparency, work, ethic, vision. Okay, so transparency, I have. I'm married. I'm married to a wonderful, wonderful gentleman. A lot of people say that he's a ghost, he, he kind of stands in the background, he's further in the background than me, and then I have we have. We have a blended family. So we have two older children, kristen and Caitlin, and then we have two children together, byron and Harlem.
Speaker 3:And I have to work a lot, and in the beginning I had to miss a lot, and so it was important to me to be transparent with my family, with what I was doing, what I needed from them, and where I was doing what I needed from them and where I was struggling, right and so like. For an example, when my son was smaller, my son did everything. He played every sport you can imagine, and there were Saturdays where I just couldn't go, you know, and a lot of times it was because I was working, but sometimes it was because I needed to rest and he didn't understand that, and so I had to be extremely transparent. With your mama's legs literally don't work. Today, we didn't get home until 3 am from tearing downa thousand person event. I literally cannot walk. I want to be there. I cannot be there today and I need you to understand that right. So, being transparent with like just what, with what I had the capacity for, right and and I think that's that's key with with my staff that I have now, you know, I went from me and my daughters doing all of these things, and sister-in-laws and things like that, and now I have staff and I have to do the same thing with them Doesn't always work because I think I'm superwoman, but I think it's key to say I'm tired, we just can't take anymore, we can't do anything else. This is not a client that we can accept. I'm being transparent with this is the vibe that I'm getting. We can't accept this client and so sometimes, if you don't know me well, it can come across as very harsh. I am not harsh, I am direct and a lot of people can't handle it, but I'm always transparent and the vision right. When I started in 2011, the vision was different than what it was in 2015. And it's different than what it was in 2020 with COVID, and it is extremely different now, but the goal is to always take care of people.
Speaker 3:Okay, we've done incredible events. We've done everything from a wedding with a $2,000 budget to an event with $120,000 budget. With a $120,000 budget, We've done events in Oklahoma City. We've done events in Alaska. We have the vision to take L Mason events global, but the core is always to take care of people, and so I have to explain that. I have to make that clear and I have to. It has to be explained differently with different events, right? So we got into government contracting last year and we got an event. It's called the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Event and it was completely different from anything we've ever done.
Speaker 3:We typically our tagline is we party because that's our business.
Speaker 3:So we usually are doing celebrations for people baby showers, bridal showers, weddings, etc and it's usually the most exciting days, and so it's easy to take care of people when we're having fun, and it's usually the most exciting days, and so it's easy to take care of people when we're having fun.
Speaker 3:But with that event, we had to take care of people differently. These were families who were welcoming their soldiers back home. These are families whose soldiers had seen some things that we should never see, and so the atmosphere was a little different. You know, there wasn't a DJ, there wasn't, and so when we sat down we were like how do we take care of these people? You know what's going to be our pivot here, right, and essentially it's understanding what their needs are, anticipating additional needs, taking care of them, having a plan to tackle anything that's anticipated and being able to pivot Right so it's always in the forefront. The vision is to take care, to take, take care to do everything we can in our power to do right by people so it sounds like this is a flashback from things that you learned when you were 18, 19, 20 years old do you hear me?
Speaker 1:how you observed your mom and your dad, and all these things are now starting to come back. It is full circle absolutely.
Speaker 3:And so I would see my mom. Um, there's a thing that hairdressers do when you sit down, you take whatever wrapping they have, because you know African-American women, we love our wraps. And so my mom would take it off and she would run her fingers through their hair and I can see her brain like the wheels turning, like how am I going to take care of her? Right, and I've seen clients sit in her chair and would be bawling from, you know, heat, damage or just something that happened to them, stress that has caused them to lose their hair, et cetera. And I can see my mom taking her hands and rubbing through their hair, trying to figure out how she was going to take care of them. And so my team and I do that. It's the same concept. It looks different. It looks like us sitting around this table. You see these chairs here, this is where we sit. Well, they can't, but you can, and sometimes we just sit back and we're like what are we going to do? How are we going to do this? And we sit here until we can figure out how we're going to do it. And so again, full circle, all of those things that I learned.
Speaker 3:And then work ethic. We work. We work really hard. Some days we are exceptionally efficient. Some days it's two o'clock in the morning. We're like, what did we do today? Um, but it is important to me that we give our very best to every single person that comes across our desk. Um, and we do that, and we do it well. Um, do it well. We lean on a lot of resources. We have been blessed to be in an ecosystem where we can call on people for resources when we need them. One sitting right in front of me, greg Jones. I want to share a story, kind of, about how we've had some recent successes.
Speaker 3:I wrote a curriculum for event planning. I, you know, I'm always thinking about like different revenue streams, right, that's the part of entrepreneurship where you're like I can't lean on just one, thinking about what I could do to you know, generate some additional revenue. And we get asked all the time can I shadow you, are you taking interns, et cetera? And I just simply don't have the capacity for it. But there's a need. And so I wrote a curriculum and I came to Greg, came to you and I said I wrote this curriculum, how do I pitch it? What do I do with it? How do I get it curriculum? How do I pitch it? What do I do with it? How do I get it in vocational schools? And he said I got a program for you. Text me a link, filled out the application and when I tell you it was like overnight was in. This program was connected to compliance consulting.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, ccc.
Speaker 3:Anyway, it's a long name, that's how I know CCC, ccc, jennifer, jennifer Size and Rhonda Galloway and Brie Pierce, and it was just like an abundance of knowledge and resources to get me to where I needed to be Right now. That turned into like a government contract. It was like a whole thing Right. But it also gave me the resources, the steps to be able to pitch that, to be able to pitch that. I pitched it to Metro Tech and Metro Tech said send it to me, when can you start? And so it's just one of those things to where that work ethic is introduced me to people, and those people introduced me to resources and those resources introduced me to growth and scaling. And then it all just kind of comes back full circle to me taking care of people and me being taken care of. It's incredible.
Speaker 1:I absolutely love how you walked us through that story and to be a testament of that, to be a fly on the wall, all of that stuff. So here's a question what do you do for fun?
Speaker 3:Oh boy.
Speaker 1:I dance. Okay, you dance at your own parties.
Speaker 3:I dance at my own parties. So, okay, like I said, our tagline is you said this is my happy place. Our tagline is we party because that's our business. Um, uh, I have kind of always been the life of the party. Um, I am, I just love to have a good time and I don't have a whole lot of time outside of work to do other things.
Speaker 3:Right, like I'm a crafter, I love to do things like that, but I love to dance. So when there's music going, I don't care if it's just me by myself and I'm sure you've seen that before I'm like the only one out on the dance floor trying to get people to come out, but I love that. But outside of that, I love to just be with my, my family, my kids. We just we have a good time. We sit around and we laugh and joke, we roast each other like no other, and my kids are athletes and so I love to watch them do what they love. My son he's football. Don't Byron Mason, remember that name? He plays football in Norman for Norman North. He's a basketball player also, but his passion is football and my son is a direct reflection of me. It's the coolest thing to see, also sometimes the worst, because he really is me and I can see. Oh, I'm like, oh, I see why people want to fight me.
Speaker 3:I get it now. He's got my personality, but his work ethic is second to none. I don't have to tell that boy to do anything when it comes to like what his passions are right. That boy gets up at the crack of dawn, comes in my room he doesn't need anything from me, but he comes in my room to make sure that I know that he's up and he leaves the house six o'clock in the morning and he goes and works out before his workout After school. He goes and works out after his workout Saturday mornings. He gets up and he goes and works out when he could be sleeping. He has a vision, he has a goal and he works for it, and so it is my pleasure to support him in that. That is fun to me.
Speaker 3:My daughter now she's my squirrely one, that's my girl, but what she likes to do is sit there and tell me basketball acumen, football acumen. That girl can tell you that you give her an athlete, she run down their stats and it is just like you're, like a savant. Why can't you clean that room? But why do you know all of these things? And it's just so interesting to see. And so my spare time is spent pouring into them and what they love, because that's what brings me joy.
Speaker 1:And I'm glad you said that, because as you started, we started our conversation you talked about in the initial beginning there was so many times that you couldn't be with them or spending time with them or attending games or events or whatever. And now I know you, I think you're a super mom or whatever. And now I know you, you I think you're a super mom. So I mean, it's like now you have, while you have more on your plate, but that has become an integral part of what you do.
Speaker 1:Absolutely and that's part of your life and it's become important to you, and so I mean I really appreciate you kind of bringing that also full circle, because I think that's important. You know, all of us don't have to be laid up on a vacation or on a beach, although that could be nice. I'm not saying it isn't, but thinking about family and, as I think, about your business, one of the things that keeps standing out to me is it's not only that. Are you trying to make memorable events for the people that you serve and serving them well? There's something in there about leaving a lasting legacy. People remember things that are special to them, and it's cool to see or hear how you have been able to do that for so many others, but also you're able to do that within your own family as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, we call it core memories. We create core memories. I'm a fancy girl. I like bespoke experiences. That's my favorite word. I love bespoke experiences. I love to create bespoke experiences for people. But it's not lost on me that that can be expensive, and so we've structured our business on providing those experiences at an affordable rate, right. And so one of the newest businesses that we, that I started, is Nexus Creative, and it's an event space and it's we call it Nexus because it is going to be the epicenter of core memories. We are going to create those at home, right? So we're all over the place.
Speaker 3:We've done events in California, alaska, like I said, savannah, georgia, you name it. You know we can do it right. All it takes is research. It's not hard to do these things, guys. Just jump right and right here.
Speaker 3:You know we get inquiries all the time, um, in oklahoma city for event spaces or events in general, and they're like listen, my budget is two thousand dollars. What can I do? Um, and uh, love my city, but my city can be expensive. You know, these event spaces to walk in them start at a thousand dollars. Well, if you have a $2,000 budget for your entire event, you can't spend half of it on the venue. And so kind of how we fell into this was we were really looking for office space. And then I said you know what, if we're going to do this and we're going to sign a lease, it needs, number one be a space that can generate revenue, but it can also fill in a gap, and the gap is an affordable space with minimal restrictions and using our resources, using our ecosystem.
Speaker 3:Talked to a friend and said this is what I'm looking for. He said funny, I have a friend who has a space just like what you're explaining, that's looking for an operator. And then here we are, and we weren't even really officially open before we had our first booking. You actually were our first booking.
Speaker 1:Come on, that's a Greg Jones one right there. Yeah, Greg.
Speaker 3:Jones effect.
Speaker 1:I wanted to be first too.
Speaker 3:So Greg was actually our first booking, not our first event. So he booked and we signed our lease in July. He booked for an event in September. We had our first event August 3rd, so we hadn't even built our lease. In July he booked for an event in September. We had our first event August 3rd, so we hadn't even built our kitchenette yet. We hadn't really bought any furniture. We, you know, I had all of the things that I just have for event planning. I was in a storage unit and in my garage but we weren't ready yet and we got that inquiry and she was like I don't care, I love it here. And that's when we knew we've we got something here. And they just start rolling in and rolling in.
Speaker 3:And when we tell people that this space in downtown Oklahoma City, where the back of the building is on Main Street and the front of the building is on Sheridan which if you know Oklahoma City, that is the core of downtown Oklahoma City and it's $200 an hour, they are tripping over themselves. What do I sign? We have an open catering policy. We have an open vendor. We do have a preferred list because we have worked with some incredible vendors. We do have a preferred list because we have worked with some incredible vendors. But if your grandma want to cook your stew and your chili bar and your baked potato bar and you want to bring that in, we're going to let grandma do that, because that's what you need to create, to have this event that will create a core memory for you, and if that's what you need from us, that's what you're going to get.
Speaker 3:And so it has just been incredible to really recreate, reimagine what creating a core memory for somebody looks like. And so everybody deserves that special moment. Everybody deserves to feel important. Everybody deserves to celebrate something that's happened to them whether it's graduating, having a baby, getting married and they deserve to look back on that day, 20, 30 years from now and immediately smile Like. When I think about my daughter's wedding, I immediately smile because I remember like watching her do her first dance. I remember me and my sorority sister strolling at her wedding. I remember watching my son and my granddaughter, who were three at the time, having dance fever on that dance floor, because those are now core memories for me and core memories for her and core memories for everyone who was there, because even to this day, people see me and they were like girl. I remember Kristen's wedding. That was the best wedding I've ever been to, you know, and so that just we're doing what we're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1:Wow. So I mean saying that. I mean, I don't know if you're listening out there, but you probably need to figure out a way to sign up, absolutely. So how can people get in contact with you, with your team? Where is that information at?
Speaker 3:Absolutely so. We are on socials, so our social media is lmasonevents underscore for Instagram lmasonevents. On Facebook we do have a TikTok it's lmasonevents, but we also have a website. Our website is actually nexuscreativespacecom. That is our event space and on there we have tabs for all of the things for Elmase City events. We have a tab for our new signature event, which is the Little Black Chapel, where that is a pop-up wedding chapel. Here at Nexus Creative Right now we're doing that three times a year Valentine's weekend or Valentine's day, 4th of July and New Year's, and so right now that is what we're offering, but as demand picks up, we'll think about expanding those weekends again capacity. But yeah, that is how you reach us.
Speaker 1:And you just have to say, I mean, this wedding chapel idea is just phenomenal and I love your vision behind it. I mean, part of your vision was you really wanted people to go into their marriage in a very affordable way? Absolutely, this event planner that can do big things, including big weddings and expensive weddings, but also thinking about folks that need something more affordable so that they spend less on that and actually spend more on their marriage.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely. I think it's important to listen to what the people are telling you. You know, if, everywhere we go, we hear. You know if, if everywhere we go, we hear gosh, I really want to have a wedding. I just do not want to spend 20K, I don't want to do that, but I want a nice wedding. They're telling you exactly what they need. Give them what they need and that's the little black chapel.
Speaker 1:And it's back to taking care of people.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Latoya, this has been wonderful to connect with you today. I just you know. I ask this one favor for you and your team. I mean, y'all are already blown up.
Speaker 2:But now when?
Speaker 1:y'all get to be international traveling all over the world, you know come back to the little three keys for your journey and just give us an update on how things are going. Absolutely I would appreciate that very much. Absolutely Anything else, before we wrap up, that you'd like to express?
Speaker 3:Well, just speaking of the team, right, I cannot do any of the things that I do without the people who help me, right? And so you know, it started with my girls. They were the ones you know schlepping tablecloths and putting up tables and chairs and stuff with me at two, three o'clock in the morning, when it was just the three of us, and then, as we began to grow, we added Monica. I think Monica has been here the longest three years, as an actual l mason team member, um, and then deja, um, and stephanie and toby um, but also my sister, my sister, uh, uh, this is a family business, right. My sister brianna does my social media, um, my mom has come and put tablecloths on the table before my aunts, my sister-in-laws.
Speaker 3:I am who I am. I'm as only as strong as the people who are behind me, and if you know L Mason events, we are strong, which means I have some extremely strong people with me, extremely strong women with me, Um, and we knock it out, uh, and so I just uh. If I can just encourage one thing for people who are looking to get into any industry, um, and start their own business, um, it's to jump. Um, I probably should be 20 years in the game. Um, but fear kept me from jumping for a long time. So I'm like I've got to have a paycheck. I've got these kids. They're going to eventually go to college. I've got to know where this money is coming from every single week, and so I was fearful to jump out on my own. But when I did, even when I looked down, I was like, oh, there's not a safety net there. It's fine, I'm going to be fine because I'm going to bet on me.
Speaker 1:So if I can encourage you to bet on yourself and jump, Wow, I'm taking notes as she's talking and this has been wonderful, so thank you so much for just spending some time with us. I mean all those nuggets, all of them. I mean please. And also, as you're listening to this podcast, if something that's been said through our conversation today, we ask that you please share that with others. Spread the love, and we appreciate you joining us on Three Keys for your Journey and we're going to see you next time and hopefully that you will tune in for all of our episodes.
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