Shadowing Practice: Asking Beverly Hills Locals How They Got Rich! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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For years, Rodeo Drive has been known as the most luxurious shopping destinations in the world.
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We're talking $2 ,000 handbags and shopping sprees that cost thousands of dollars.
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But here in Beverly Hills, that type of spending happens every single day, which raises a bigger question.
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Is everyone here just insanely rich?
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Or are there actual normal women making this type of money?
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So today, I'm here in Beverly Hills to talk to these luxury shoppers
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that are shopping in Rodeo Drive at these iconic stores to figure out how they were able to afford this lifestyle.
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Let's go.
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Excuse me, ladies, excuse me.
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Quick question for you too.
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Are either of you business owners by chance?
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What do you guys do for work?
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We work in luxury eyewear.
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Oh, you do?
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Tell me about that.
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How'd you get into that?
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10 years ago, after spending a decade in fashion, I joined a company that specializes in making independent luxury eyewear.
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Okay, interesting.
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Category to work in.
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There's one piece of advice you could give young generation what
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would it be read books what's your favorite book i don't know
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if i have one dictionary have a nice day thanks excuse
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me ma 'am quick question for you are you a business
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owner by chance three two one thank you yeah of course of course let me know
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if you like it excuse me ma 'am quick question for
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you are you a business owner by chance what do you do for a living Have a nice day.
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Her name is Poppy.
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Do you want to get down and say hi?
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Are you so excited?
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Oh my gosh.
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Poppy, are you a millionaire by chance?
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She's so cute.
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She loves meeting people.
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How old is she?
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She's, you know, he's totally fluffy.
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Thank you.
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Excuse me, ma 'am.
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Quick question for you.
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How old were you when you became a millionaire?
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Oh man, 41.
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What do you do for a living?
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I am a surgeon and I have my own practice.
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What's your best advice for someone right now who's going through the school and kind of struggling to get through it.
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There's hard work that needs to be done now to feel the way you want to feel now later.
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So, you know, it's okay to delay that gratification.
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What did you sacrifice?
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Going out with my friends, party.
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You got to hustle, right?
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You got to put in your time before you get to walk down the street and on Rodeo.
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I have to know really quickly, what's the biggest challenge you're facing so far right now, building a business like this?
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I think it's a lot, just, you know, as a woman, imposter syndrome, kind of believing in yourself, being in a man's world and putting yourself out there.
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Did anyone not take you seriously?
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Yeah, all the time yeah
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and what happened i think you earn a place at the table by showing people you belong right
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so you show them what you can do
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and the more times you show up the more likely someone
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is to say yes that's beautiful i have to know how
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are you implementing ai right now in your business i think it makes us more efficient
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and i think it makes us better physicians i'm looking forward to seeing where it goes
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so you're pro ai right now yeah i think
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so yeah interesting do you think a lot of business owners
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if they're not implementing ai are going to be left behind yeah i think
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so i mean when you look at what the big colleges and universities are training the next generation to do, it's to become people managers that use AI.
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So all these new majors at MIT and Stanford, they're not focusing on creating AI anymore.
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The technology exists.
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Now it's going to be the people who know how to implement it
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and manage teams and make it work to their benefit are the people that are going to be recruitable.
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Did you hear that?
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She made her first million at 41 years old.
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That tells us it doesn't matter what age you are, you could still hit that million dollar mark.
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The The best part is she's also a mother and she's able to balance it all.
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Let's go find someone else.
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Excuse me, ma 'am.
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Quick question for you.
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How old were you when you became a millionaire?
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I think 26.
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What do you do for a living?
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I'm in the acidic space.
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What do you do exactly?
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My husband is a plastic surgeon and I run the clinic.
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No way.
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So this is the husband and wife whole business.
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That's amazing.
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What's the best piece of advice you can give to someone who wants to start a business with their husband?
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With their husband specifically, I mean, choose your battles, work together, and just work hard.
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What's the biggest challenge you've faced so far building this with your husband?
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I would say just working through other people and being strategic and just being savvy with the investments.
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Why do you say that?
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You can make a lot more money in the investments than in the business itself
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so you have to be very smart with where you put the money.
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Interesting, so if there's someone right now who wants to start investing their money in 2026, what exactly, where exactly should they start investing their money?
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Depends on how much they have they can start small they
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can do like investment accounts with a broker they can also
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do real estate i would love to know what's the most
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amount money you've made in a single year a couple million a couple million
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and you said you did this at 26 yeah so
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if there's a woman right now who maybe wants to start her own business
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but maybe she's too afraid what would you tell her join forces with people around yourself with smart people
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that are doing things and see how you could work together with them don't be
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so scared to go into business with other people
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or go into business with your spouse just be open -minded to
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that and follow the people that are doing it because it's happening all around us.
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What's the dynamic between you and your husband when you guys go to work and then especially when you come home?
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I mean he's with patients all day long I'm managing the front end of everything
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so oddly we sometimes won't see each other in the whole day.
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Because you manage
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so many people what's your best advice about management I would say high support high expectations everyone has pros
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and cons and figuring out where you can best utilize people
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and where their talents shine have you ever had to fire anyone all the time what's your advice on that
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because fire people is kind of for a lot of people
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it's kind of scary it's hard for them don't make it personal I fired people who I adore
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and love and at a personal level I would be their best friend I just think
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when it comes to setting the environment up
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and the culture up certain people are not a good fit
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so set them free i love stopping women
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that builds businesses with their husband my favorite answer from her was actually
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when i asked her for advice on if she's ever fired people
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and how she felt about it
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and she dropped amazing knowledge on it let's go find another
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person here i'm sure we can do it excuse me ma
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'am quick question for you are you a business owner by
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chance no i'm not what do you do for a living
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office interiors office furniture interesting did you own your own business at all, by chance, ever?
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With my husband, yes.
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Oh, you just, you guys did it together.
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What are some hard lessons you can give us that you can get to the younger generation about running a business?
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I have it to just be kind to people, especially the people you work with.
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Spend a lot of time with them every day, and they're important to your business.
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They're critical to it.
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That's amazing.
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And what challenges did you guys face working together?
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He was the sales side, the face of the company, out networking, meeting people, and I was more internally focused with the people
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and the operational side how long have you guys been married
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for 26 years what's the best piece of marriage advice you
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can give me always listen to your wife respect each other treat each other with respect
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and yeah listen to your always listen to your husband okay
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so i have to know what's the most amount of money
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you guys have made within your business the most money amount
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of money in a year yeah 130 million 149 obviously you guys have
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so much experience what advice can you give to someone who
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wants to start their own business right now time to start
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right now i think you think it's a tough time why
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a job economy really tough economy people aren't out there spending the money
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that they used to i think they're they're holding back a bit did you guys ever fail you win
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and lose business right hopefully you win more than you lose you're not going to win everything right
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and if you did everything you could to win
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that business you didn't leave a stone unturned
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and you lose it's okay are you a mother by chance
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you are a mother what's the best piece of mom advice
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you can give to me don't be a friend you've got
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to be you know you gotta give them some tough love sometimes
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and that's the hardest part
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if there's one piece of advice you want to give to
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the younger generation on how to become successful in 2026 what would it be focus on the future
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and what's coming because there's a lot of good stuff coming
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but you really got to stay focused don't take your eye off the ball don't give up
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and work hard excuse me ma 'am quick question for you
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are you a business owner by chance i am why how
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do you do i own the beverly hills estate how'd you get into
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that it's a real estate firm in beverly hills we represent all the high -end luxury homes in Beverly Hills
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and surrounding areas.
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What's the most money you've made in a single year?
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Oh I can't say that.
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You can give me a range if you want.
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Six to seven figures?
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Yeah.
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So tell me how are you able to hit that million -dollar mark with this?
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Well I've been in the business 20 years
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and I think it's just one of those things where you find what you love and you just perfect it.
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You just keep working hard and showing up every day.
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What type of risk did you take?
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Lots of risk.
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No risk no reward.
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Were you ever afraid to fail?
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No, I think there's no such thing as failure, only lessons.
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You know, being a woman in any business is still not completely fair.
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It's like we have to work harder and smarter than men.
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Didn't a lot of people not take you seriously?
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Yes, especially I got in the business when I was very young.
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So when you're younger and you're a woman, both of those make it a little bit more difficult to be taken seriously.
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But you just keep working hard, being professional, being an expert at what you do and learning all the facets of your business.
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What do you think is the biggest thing holding women back right now in entrepreneurship?
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Looking for a shortcut or an easy way out.
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You took the hard way?
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Yeah, from the bottom to the top.
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Do you have any mentors?
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Always had mentors and I still have mentors and I really believe in mentorship.
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I think finding people that have done it the way
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that you would like to do it and just seeing
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if you can get them to talk to you
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or like how you stopped me here just trying to get in front of people.
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And did you ever deal with imposter syndrome?
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Yes, I think when I was younger probably
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and I think it's just one of those things where the more you deepen yourself
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and get to know yourself the better you'll be at your craft or career.
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You also have to do some some internal you know healing and work on yourself.
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Are you a mother?
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I'm a mother of two, yes.
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How do you balance everything all at once?
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I don't balance very well but you know I juggle.
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I do the best I can.
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So you believe that woman can have it all though?
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You can have it all.
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You can't do it all but you can have it all
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and you can delegate and you can have great people around you and that's what I do.
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How do you find the right people for the right places for you in your business?
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For me it took a lot of years to get the right employees
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and staff around and when you have reciprocity with your employees
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and they're learning from you and you're giving them and then they're giving you and you're feeding the relationship, it doesn't feel so one -sided.
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I think that really helps.
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Exactly.
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It's about building them too.
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Building them as well.
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I have to run.
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One more question.
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If there's a woman out there that you want to leave a message to all the young women right now, what would it be?
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Follow your dreams, follow your heart, and remember that
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if men can do it you can do it too guys
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i cannot believe we stopped someone who owns beverly hills real estates
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that is crazy you know she's making multi -million dollars off of this what i really found most inspiring is
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that she kept saying how she was not taken seriously
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but she still keeps going
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and she still keeps making all this money by far she
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was one of my favorite interviews of today don't forget to like subscribe
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and comment on who your favorite entrepreneur was and i will see you guys in the next one.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 225 sentences and 2416 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:17. The speaker talks fast, about 235 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| luxury noun | /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/ | Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create. |
| implement verb | /ˈɪmpləmənt/ | To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out. |
| mentor noun | /ˈmɛn.tɔː/ | A wise and trusted counselor or teacher. |
| millionaire noun | /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/ | Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| invest verb | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. |
| syndrome noun | /ˈsɪndɹoʊm/ | A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition. |
| surgeon noun | /ˈsɝd͡ʒən/ | One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| strategic adjective | /stɹəˈti.dʒɪk/ | Of or pertaining to strategy. |
| efficient adjective | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy. |
| delay noun | /dɪˈleɪ̯/ | A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. |
| belong verb | /bɪˈlɒŋ/ | To have its proper place. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| reward noun | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | Something of value given in return for an act. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| work together verb | To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone. | |
| get down verb | /ɡɛt ˈdaʊn/ | To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down. |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| hold back verb | To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been known · you've faced · you've made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | has been known · be read · be done |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who know · someone who wants · people who I |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 48 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, they're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, operational /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nəl/, physician /fəˈzɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, operational /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃə.nəl/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like luxury, implement, mentor.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.