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In this episode, we discussed the 3 keys to starting a business and improving your career. Selling, Marketing, and Improving your craft are the 3 things you need to work on to build a solid business and career.  Practicing these activities helps you gain confidence which is built by taking action.  There are tons of people out there who dream day and night about one day starting their own business...

In this episode, we discuss the difference between your truth and facts. And how our truths impact politics, goals, and PARENTING?! Truth is an internal thing. We take different things in our lives to make them mean something to us and create a personal belief system.  Facts, on the other hand, are external things you can measure. Think about data, statistics, and things like that. The problem we...

Between these three types of currencies, time, money, and quality, you can only have two. You can’t have all three. For us, we value time above everything else because you can never get it back. As you get older, and establish yourself and build wealth, you value time more than money.   However, there are some things that we’ll make time for. These are things that money can’t buy. Before taking on...

Time is not always on our side, which sometimes makes us perform when our back is against the wall. Most people will perform well under this pressure only that they do not allow themselves to be in this situation often. How you perceive this situation is also essential. It helps to see it as an opportunity to perform rather than a stressful situation. Sometimes, you just need to intentionally put...

We have all made commitments to ourselves then later broke those commitments. We end up letting ourselves down which creates shame. We struggle to remain committed to our commitments due to our discipline and will power. We do a lot of damage when we constantly break our commitments. Remaining committed to our commitments builds our self-esteem. Knowing that you can live up to your commitments and...

We are living in a time of great uncertainty with everything that is going around. It is easy to feel hopeless. In this episode, we give you resources to equip you with mental strategies and a positive mindset to help you regain hope. We try to give you some encouragement to have a different outlook and overcome those feelings of hopelessness.  There are many things that you could feel hopeless ab...

We just finished a garage sale where we sold everything we had in our storage unit. These were stuff from one of the bakery locations where I was kicked out of the lease. So I sold out all the equipment and other things from the house in the storage unit, which I was paying $830 a month. This stuff was there for two and a half years. The money I spent on the storage fees was way more than the valu...

We were recently discussing the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People with our pusher community. In the book, it was suggested that you create everything twice. First in the mind and secondly in the physical world where you bring it to life. I disagree with the perspective that you create things twice. Life is ever-changing and ever-evolving. It is a process of constant revision. Even a...

We begin the episode by discussing my current obsession with succulent plants. I have been working in the backyard and have a lot of plants in there. It’s my new hobby. Eddie has been obsessed with history. He has been reading Frederick Douglass’s biography and playing basketball out in the sun. The next thing we talk about is the weirdest things we have been watching on TV lately. We have followe...

Are you a good friend? If your friends were to rank you on the friendship scale, where would they place you? Meaningful friendships require attention to detail and must be nurtured. If you have very few friends or keep losing friends, this is an opportunity for you to self-reflect. Maybe the reason you don’t have friends is that you are not a good friend yourself. With the crisis of mental health,...

The universe is like going to a restaurant and placing an order. When you place an order at a restaurant, you expect to get exactly what you ordered. The exact same thing happens with the universe. You get what you ordered whether you did it consciously or subconsciously. The universe conspires to give you what you want. In this episode, I want to encourage you to create your order. What do you wa...

Our special guest today, Amber Spiegel found her true passion in decorating cakes and cookies by combining her artistic skills and her love for baking. She begins by giving us her background including how she comes from a family of artists and going to culinary school and how she got to work at Wilton for two years before venturing out on her own with the support of her family. Amber encourages us...

We have been feeling demotivated lately. The COVID situation and quarantine has led to many changes and a disruption of our normal routines. We have pivoted a lot during this period. Every day something new is happening and we got to the point where we are not planning anything including in areas around our health and fitness. I reached out to a few of my trusted friends and they are in the same s...

Right now, there is so much going on in America. It is all centered around race. Due to our family’s history, we want to use our voice and platform to help educate people and share perspectives and experiences around race relations.  The stance we have taken as a family is that we are going to educate people, inspire them, and let them get to the point they change their perspective. It is hard wor...

In this episode, we discuss how we handled racism in our home. With the recent uprising, we wanted to share our perspective on some of the hardest topics when it comes to race. Our middle daughter Kaylah Copeland joins us to share her experience growing up black. \- [We are the Copelands Tiktok](https://www.tiktok.com/@wearethecopelands)   \- [**The Pusher Society**](https://wearethecopelands.com/...

Our outlook on life determines how we face challenges. Right now, we are all facing this pandemic. Some people are pessimistic while others are really optimistic. You can choose to do something you’ve always wanted now with this time. Even when the challenges seem big, with businesses closing and sheltering in place, there is much to be optimistic about.  Whereas a pessimist may hide behind the fa...

After the mother’s day craziness that we talked about in the last episode, I feel like I have been struggling and wanted to take some time off. The feeling of being burnt out is a common feeling that many of us go through, especially mothers. Relationships, jobs, business, parenting are all things that can stress us out. You take a break, maybe go on vacation, you come back feeling rejuvenated and...

We begin this episode by sharing how I have felt overwhelmed with everything that has been happening. Going from selling the bakery and getting three offers to everyone pulling off after COVID hit, to closing down the business and laying off the team.  Then I got this spark and thought I was not just in the bakery business but in the celebration business and I am going to meet my customers where t...

To achieve growth in life you have always to be in pursuit of something. You must look forward to something big you want to achieve in the future that you are working on right now. Whether it is that dream vacation, that degree, personal development, or self-awareness. When you are in pursuit of it, you’ll focus and take the necessary sacrifices to achieve it. Once you focus on achieving something...

In this episode, Eddie and I will be joined by our daughters Jasmine, Jordan, and Kayla to celebrate Eddie’s 40th birthday. We’ll talk about Jasmine’s love for ASMR and how she wants to start a YouTube channel around it, and dive into the little things that Eddie does that makes him seem older than he really is, like using words that people don’t use anymore and so much more. We will have a fun an...

In this episode, Eddie and I will welcome two of our star students onto the show to share how they have been able to thrive during this pandemic. We will also discuss four different categories of people right now that we have observed based on how they’re dealing with the crisis the pandemic has unleashed into their lives. The first category are the people who feel stuck and paralyzed because they...

In this episode, Eddie and I will do a “What in the World?” similar to one that we did back in February to just to talk about what’s going on right now with the Coronavirus, being sheltered to keep ourselves safe, and the way everything in life as we know it is changing to the point where people are now talking about the new normal. What in the world is Eddie’s go-to phrase when things get uncomfo...

In this episode, Eddie and I will talk about how to take your problems and turn them into productive progress so that by the time the whole Coronavirus pandemic blows over, you’re going to be a better person because of it. Some people are looking at the pandemic and being positive about it despite the fact that they may be headed towards financial ruin while others are adopting a more doom and glo...

In this episode, Eddie and I will have a conversation about being judgmental, how our opinions of others sometimes block us from blessings, and how judgments can narrow a person’s world completely, so much so that they end up always missing out on some very interesting and fantastic people. To give you a clear picture of what that is all about, I’ll share a story about my sister and her husband. T...

In this episode, we’ll welcome Anthony Trucks, a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, shift coach, and former-NFL player. Anthony is a sought after expert in helping people know their identity and navigate life’s shifts, good and bad, with grace and optimism, so they can develop into who they want to be. We heard him speak at an event, and we were so moved that we just had to have him on the show...