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Episode 182 | Officially kicked out of the craft fair, No more debt, my single biggest learning lesson

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Episode 181 | Eviction letter is back, Getting kicked out of a craft fair, new trick for focusing

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Episode 180 | Leaving our permanent candle spot, Hiring a marketing agency, $700 for groceries

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Episode 179 | House flip update, Becoming a Better Leader, Invited to Partner with New York Fashion Week.

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Episode 178 | Worst Triple booking we ever had, Re-evaluating everything we're doing

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Episode 177 | Learning how to make money online, Talking about setting up our own pop-up, I hate this craft Fair

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Episode 176 | Switching from craft fairs to online, Final recap of Chelsea Market

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Episode 175 | Chelsea market is doing amazing, Prepping for a Beyoncé event, Spending money on our appearance

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Episode 174 | We Spent $8500 + Credit Repair Update

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Episode 173 | Square gave us $8500, Now were both approved for food stamps, Chelsea Market is so bad

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Episode 172 | Applying for food stamps, 9 days straight of pop-ups, Hiring a photographer

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Episode 171 | How much do we profit, Selling our candles at Muji, Finally using the new office

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Episode 170 | Subscriber offers to buy the house, Not making money at craft fairs, Studying e-commerce to get more online sales

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Episode 169 | Officially losing our first house, Learning how to make more money, Paying $1500 for credit repair

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Episode 168 | Finally signing for $7500, Making $1,968 in one weekend, Do you need more time or more money

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Episode 167 | Insurance Claim issues, Loan closing getting pushed back, Making over $1800 in a weekend

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Episode 166 | Sprinkle Sprinkle , Fully approved for $2,500 in funding, Unveiling our new Neon sign

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Episode 165 | Making over 2K last weekend, Going to our first networking event with lenders, Problems with filing insurance for the house

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Episode 164 | Getting approved for $7,500 to spend online, How we will spend 150k, Hiring a tutor for online marketing

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Episode 163 | Raising $6,000 in 6 days, More problems with the Philly house, Making $7,6664.97 in April

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Episode 162 | Figuring out how to make more money at Fairs, Growing the Business while balancing sales and respect, Filing the insurance claim for the house

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Episode 161 | They agreed to give us up to $50,000, Almost getting scammed, Finally going to Philly

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Episode 160 | My villain origin story, Getting offered $7,000 for a brand deal, Paying off our first Kiva loan

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Episode 159 | Making $16,827 in the last 30 days, Getting a storage unit as our first office, Am I comprising my morals?

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Ep 158 | Buyers backing out of buying the house, Gross vs net on candle revenue, April is projected to be one of our lowest months

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Episode 157 | They pushed the closing back another week, Making $7779.00 from our triple booking, New scents and vessels are finally here

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Episode 156 | House update, Making $2402 in the last 3 days, Getting big enough to hire our first editor

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Episode 155 | They broke in again and damaged the house, Allowing myself to be angry, How to deal with cheating

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Episode 154 | Our first month making $11,000, New laws on paying back debt, They sold our car

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Episode 153 | Breaking our Brooklyn record for selling candles, Monthly Live Next Week, I hate the new NBA

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Episode 152 | Making $6,797 in 9 days selling candles, Making money using chatgpt, the house needs another $7,000 to pass inspection

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Episode 151 | First day at Chelsea market , receiving a negative inspection report on the house, Melissa raised another $1500 funding

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Episode 150 | The house is finally under contract, Etsy is holding 75% of our money, We got another candle investment.

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Episode 149 | Bamboo Project Family invests $5,000 into the candles, Getting ready for our first triple booking, What is the Three Leaves Project

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Episode 148 | Making $2145 last weekend selling candles, Kiva funded our $1000 loan in less than a week, "Inspiring" other vendors

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Episode 147 | We made $1,274 in two days selling candles, The car is officially repossessed, The buyer for the house stopped responding

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Episode 146 | They ransacked our house, Getting Airbnb booking, Our car got repossessed for New Years

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Episode 145 | Final decision with our possible tenant, Listing the house on Airbnb , Zoom call with our investors | Last Podcast of 2022

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Episode 144 | Renting to a risky tenant, Melissa and I debate on our money spending, My new outlook on saving 30% of all our income

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Episode 143 | Ending Vlogmas early, Is Melissa's brother getting scammed, My Agent has until the end of the month

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Episode 142 | Putting our house up for rent, Last craft fair of the year, We did our first week of vlogmas

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Episode 141 | First podcast before vlogmas, creating a relationship contract, Using December to practice consistency

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Episode 140 | Finally incorporating the candle business, Never opening a business account in the hood, Trying to figure out what to do for December

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Episode 139 | The government gave us $5,000 for the candle business, Lowering the house price again, Hired our first cleaner

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Episode 138 | Hitting $25,000 in candle sales this year, we signed 13 new athletes, Mock up of new candle location

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Episode 137 | Getting approved again by Square for $2,360.50, Melissa getting therapy after our last argument, Making over $8000 last month

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Episode 136 | First time making $2328 in a weekend, Getting banned from Shopify Payments, We got a new line of credit with bad credit

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Episode 135 | Making $142/Hour, Melissa Perspective on me getting a job, Getting $5,000 in revolving credit for the candles

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Episode 134 | My first Podcast standing up, Booking 3 craft fairs for the same day, Responding to people questioning my manhood and telling me to get a job

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Episode 133 | Trying to save the house, commercial debt collectors threatening to come to our house, We owe over $24,000 in rent

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Episode 132 | Losing our Spa deal, Two New Candles Investors, Is keeping the house a good idea?

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Episode 131 | Dropping the price of our first flip, We got our candles into a Spa, Selling my Gamestop stock to cover the bills

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Episode 130 | A super tough week, Doing our first Live stream, I sold my first Turo spreadsheet

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Episode 129 | We got approved for a Square Loan, Meeting a Subscriber IRL, Missing Multiple Credit Card Payments

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Episode 128 | Levels to being broke, Recording New Turo Videos, I watched the Mark Zuckerberg Interview

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Episode 127 | FINALLY listing our first Flip, Making $1,235 in a day selling candles, Turo sent us a lien notice

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Episode 126 | What’s Next to reach a million? Melissa and I just talk about Candles vs YouTube

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Episode 125 | Making $930 in one day selling candles, Hiring a new real estate agent, Live call with my contractor

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Episode 124 | Bigger YouTuber Copying our videos, Selling Candles at Artist & Fleas in Brooklyn, Contractor Update

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Episode 123 | Making $1,355 in two days selling candles, We fired our real estate agents, What is a Woman?

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Episode 122 | My new mentor sold to warren buffet, I want to fire our real estate agents, Ready to list the house

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Episode 121 | Recorded call w/ my Contractor, Chase closed my Business Account, Melissa training to be UX Designer

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Episode 120 | Melissa rants about our bad situation, I’m tired of looking for “Motivation”, House Flip Update

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Episode 119 | I caught my contractor scamming, Finally launched in Flying Solo NYC, $20K more of renovation needed

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Episode 118| Snippet of Melissa's New Music, I think airbnb is going to fail, 3 traits of hyper successful people

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Episode 117 | Snippet of Melissa's New Music, I think airbnb is going to fail, 3 traits of hyper successful people

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Episode 116 | Our First House flip is 99% done, I don't like Turo and Airbnb for us, Should we still move to ATL

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Episode 115 | Our house got robbed...Again, our biggest problem is a money problem, 6 month goals update

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Episode 114| I let a guy sleep with my Girl, Getting our candles in more stores, Philadelphia house almost done

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Episode 113 | Girl shows me her bra in front of Melissa, Are root canals ever necessary, House Renovation Update

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Episode 112 | Reacting to my flagged video about getting raypid, Finally solving the problem with Melissa, 222/444

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Episode 111 | Responding to last weeks comment, Telling my friend I am lonely, Philadelphia Update

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Episode 110 | Melissa feels like I don't support her, Contractor messed up our bathroom, Our Relationship Issues

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Episode 109 | All of our credit cards are maxed out, Finally hitting 3,000 on Youtube, Raising Money

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Episode 108 | My contractor tried to cancel on me, Raising money from private lenders, Growing Candles to $100,000

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Episode 107 | Raising Money to Finish our first House Flip, Deleting Instagram from my phone, Episode playback

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Episode 106 | The Slappening starring Will Smith, Is my memory and teeth connected, immigrant vs. foreigner

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Episode 105 | Considering staying in NYC, Melissa gets rear ended, Down flush paper towels?

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Episode 104 | The curb trap on our house is broken, Making $660 in a day, My lawyer wants more money

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Episode 103 | Getting Eviction letters...Again, Getting our candles in stores, Seller financing update

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Episode 102 | We made $828.00 in one day selling candles, Agreeing on Creative financing Terms with homeowner

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Episode 101 | Why I say women shouldn't work, Does reading fiction count as reading, Philly renovation Update

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Episode 100 | I am better than you, Getting evicted...again, How im trying to improve my focus and procrastinate less

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Episode 99| Recorded call with debt Lawyer, Responding to Youtube comment about our relationship, Update on Philadelphia flip

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Episode 98 | Trying to buy our Second Investment Property, What we notice growing on YouTube, How to lead in your relationship

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Episode 97 | Youtube supporter wants to lend us 25k, Defaulting on our MCA Loans, Getting recognized from Youtube

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Episode 96 | Finessing another $10,000, We might possibly lose our house, Hopefully bringing in 50k next month

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Episode 95 | We made $900 in two days selling candles, We might lose the house, Working on completing tasks/goals

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Episode 94 | What we did for New Years, We broke all of our YouTube records, Learning my bad habits

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Episode 93 | Going over failed goals of 2021, New goals for 2022, Firing our first Virtual Assistant

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Episode 92 | ABI Suspended our Turo Insurance, My phone is now marked as spam, Virtual Assistant hit by Typhoon

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Episode 91 | New York trying to suspend our Turo Car, Finessing $2500 credit increase, Investment property update

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Episode 90 | Finally became a Real Estate Agent, Hiring Virtual Assistants, Are women becoming too successful

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Episode 89 | I failed my Real Estate Exam, Why I dont use TikTok, Listening to Respond vs Listening To understand

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Episode 88 | One day booking on Turo, This was a week of life maintenance, Are you going to be in the Metaverse all day?

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Episode 87 | Denied $18,000 because of our youtube content, My first hair cut in 3 years, & Teaching Women How to be submissive

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Episode 86 | Our First Turo Guest Crashed Our Car, I completed the finesse for $21,300, Is James Harden as good without free throws

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Episode 85 | Our house got robbed, Getting back in Shape, The last stage of the finesse

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Episode 84 | Homeless in Atlanta, Real Estate License Delayed, The last wake up call to lose weight

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Episode 83 | We made $800 our first two hours on Turo...then our car got Towed, Learning to say No more often, Getting pressed for recording in Public