Lisa "Eat, pray, love, Bitcoin's all I do!" - part 3

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to part three of

my conversation with Lisa.

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So I, I was going through your

LinkedIn to see about your posts

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and you said something about how you

like to combine sailing and Bitcoin.

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Talk to us a little bit about that.

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Lisa: Oh, that was an article that was

not mine that, but that was an article.

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I think it was in from

Bitcoin magazine or something.

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I try to really be an advocate for

folks that are writing and folks that

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are actively working in the space.

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So I like to share articles stuff

that I find interesting and also

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just to keep, you know, I'm on

LinkedIn because I want to reach

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people that aren't in our community.

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And I actually, I probably get, I don't

know, 10 direct messages a day from

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people who say, I heard you on a podcast.

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I heard you on Tali's podcast.

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I heard you on whatever you

said, you'd talk to me about

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Bitcoin or Bitcoin mining.

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Can we connect?

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And I absolutely love that because

There are people in all sorts of

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industries who are trying to touch

Bitcoin and they just, it's, it's not

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like I'm giving them a hand up, but

like they need a way to touch Bitcoin.

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And so if I can be a tangible

representation to somebody of like, here,

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let me point you in the right direction.

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You should go talk to these

five people, or you should read

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this book, or you should like.

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I feel like that's what I'm here for, just

to facilitate you know, just, I want to

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see the growth of this, of this industry.

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I feel like I work for Bitcoin.

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It fills me with purpose and joy, and

it's a privilege to have each and every

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one of those conversations and really

hear what other people's journeys are.

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I mean, it's really, it's exactly

what you're doing right here.

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You're asking me what my journey is,

and that's what I do every day when

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I talk to people that I've talked to

strangers that I've met on LinkedIn.

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Tali: Yeah, I really appreciate that

you're on LinkedIn, because sometimes it

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feels a little bit on the Twitter space

where it's almost like an echo chamber.

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We're just saying stuff to each other.

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So I really appreciate what

you're doing on LinkedIn.

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I got excited when I saw that because

and I was looking at it really because

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you do repost a lot of things and I was

like, I just need to make sure that this

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actually hers because sometimes the

repost word is really, really small.

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But I was so sure it was you.

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Sorry about that.

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Lisa: I, so I do sail.

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I spent a lot of my life sailing.

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Ella is an amazing sailor.

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She's sailed competitively.

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Her dad has sailed around the world.

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I mean, he's like off

the charts, but Yeah.

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Unfortunately, right now I live

in a concrete jungle in Houston

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and I just count my lucky stars

that I get to talk about Bitcoin.

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Unfortunately, I'm not, not on a sailboat

too much, but but I saw that article

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and I, I thought the graphic that the

magazine included, especially with that

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article was, was great and eye catching.

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And it did garner a lot of comments.

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And again, I don't post for engagement.

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I post because I want people

to come into this arena.

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I want them to bring their businesses

and their thought leadership , into

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Bitcoin so that we can push this further.

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Tali: Yeah, that's what I love about

talking to all these different women.

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They all have such different backgrounds.

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They come into this space with

their own expertise and viewpoints.

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we're all different people

and bitcoins for everybody.

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And so just to be able to hear

how everyone is applying Bitcoin

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in their own lives is wonderful.

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For example, one mom said that's her

saving vehicle for her kid's college fund.

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Another one is for her retirement,

and then there are a couple of

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them just actively trying to orange

pill the merchants in their city.

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And you know that they're

taking it upon themselves.

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They have nothing to gain.

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They're just sharing good news.

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So this has been just

really fabulous to witness.

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So the people who reach out to you on

LinkedIn, have you seen any common

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trend or type of people or reason?

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When they come and contact

you and talk about Bitcoin.

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Lisa: I would say regrettably it's

mostly men, I wish that it was, I mean,

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I'm super happy to talk to men, but

it's mostly men in the energy space

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that want to figure out how to get

into the Bitcoin space, or they want.

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They're in the real estate space or they

work for I actually get quite a few people

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from, from the big banks that reach out to

me and they want to have a conversation.

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Yeah, I, I wish and I, you know

what, actually, I think that's just

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a reflection of who's on LinkedIn.

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I think a lot of women aren't on LinkedIn

or you know, I wasn't on LinkedIn

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until I started working in Bitcoin.

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I, not my entire life.

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Like I just didn't.

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Like wasn't within my realm and I feel

maybe like I've, maybe like LinkedIn

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is a thing of the past, but then I keep

using it and it's not, you know, like

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it's, it's a very active, vibrant space

and I get asked to speak at I've spoken

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at universities, I'm involved with

some symposiums restructuring groups.

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It's law firms, investment banking

teams, and they're on LinkedIn.

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So I am happy to continue to publish

, content and links to stuff because the

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sooner more people adopt Bitcoin, just

leads to a whole bunch of good outcomes

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for everybody around the world, right?

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It isn't number go up,

it's, it's freedom go up.

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And it's getting out of the censorship

circle that we're in, and it's getting

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out of the human trafficking circle

that we're in, and it's getting

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out of this this, this complete

doom that lurks over our cities.

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I mean, I was just in Austin for

BitBlockBoom last weekend, and I

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mean, just, like, the number of

people that were sleeping in the

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streets and strung out on drugs,

like, that's because the money is bad.

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Right?

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It's it's the money is bad.

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Our money is broken.

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Our schools are broken.

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We need to shake up the extra sketch,

forget everything that has become a

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socialized norm and go back to basics.

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Right.

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One ingredient food.

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I don't want to get off on a Bitcoin

tangent, but like we eat garbage.

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We watch garbage.

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So our lives are garbage.

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And I think, at least for me, like getting

into Bitcoin, it's like you really I

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don't know, you, you see how much better

things can be and you're so hopeful.

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I mean, I, I used to really

worry, Tali, honestly that I

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would be living under a bridge.

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I was like, okay, well, I, I

have some money, but not a lot.

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And will it last for my lifetime?

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Because in my family, like people

live to be in their mid nineties.

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And I just thought, I don't know

how I'm going to have enough money

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to live into my mid nineties.

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And when you look at the statistics of an

everyday person, like very little savings.

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You know, inflation is 14%.

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I mean, even though they say it's

five or seven, it's probably 14, 20%.

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I mean, it's very, very high.

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If you just look at the cost of goods

over the last 50 years, I mean, why

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does the price of goods of stuff go up?

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You know, like.

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Why?

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It goes up because of inflation,

not because the hamburger

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got a whole lot better.

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So when you're in Bitcoin, I mean for

me, I just, it's completely changed

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my mind on like, all right, I'm gonna

choose health as a lifestyle, right?

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I'm gonna choose exercise as a lifestyle.

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I'm gonna choose eating well as

a lifestyle because I want to be

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around, I want to see how society can

transform itself into something better.

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Tali: Yeah, I wanted to follow

up and ask you how your life has

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changed outside of your career.

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After you came into the Bitcoin space

like you said a lot of people are starting

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to look at literally their entire life

differently because we realize how much

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money has Impacted all of our choices

and the choices of people who are

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providing the goods and the services.

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So how has bitcoin impacted your life

in, in what way have you changed?

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Lisa: I think I'm a very simple person.

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I joke that my ideal is

to be a: 1950

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Like, I love to iron, I love to cook,

I love to bake I drive a station

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wagon, I love driving a carpool.

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Like, when Ella's home, I

love driving her around.

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I'm a very simple person and there's a

lot of joy in a simple way of living.

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There's a lot of joy of not living

connected to social media and,

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and not trying to, you know, what,

here's how my life will change.

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I, I am more focused on health.

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I am more focused on what I eat.

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And my goal is to quit being so vain

and maybe one day quit dying my hair.

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How's that?

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Like, I feel like Bitcoin is

gonna give us all permission just

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to , take a step back and , go grow

our own food and have chickens.

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And get back to real, the real,

like why we're really here on earth.

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I believe that we're here on

earth to help other people, right.

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To help one another.

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We're here for community.

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We know that community is the number

one outcome of happiness in life

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is what your community looks like.

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It's like, why don't we focus on that?

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And that's the cool thing

about Bitcoin is that it is this

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fantastic virtuous circle of people

who are building community and

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are supportive of one another.

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And.

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You know, we're all probably gonna

live to be a hundred and, we're

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gonna have food and shelter and the

world's going to be a better place.

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So everybody needs to come and join along.

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Everybody needs to buy Bitcoin so

that they have health and safety

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and prosperity in their old age,

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not financial crisis,

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Tali: I love what you said

about living a simple life.

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That's the way I see Bitcoin, which

is, you were describing how you

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were day trading and you had to be

watching the news and you have to

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be on your computer and you got to

time the market and all that stuff.

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I mean, you're taking risks and

you have the stress of doing

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it profitably or losing money.

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Like, to me, that seems very complicated.

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And I tell my kids as I tell it like a

joke, but it's really not even a joke.

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When I was going to business school,

I was watching Animal Planet.

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Everybody else was watching the Bloomberg

and watching, you know, the price

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go up and down in the stock market.

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And I was just like, I want to

look at zebras crossing the safari.

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So I love, I love how Bitcoin allows

us to just store wealth without adding

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complications, and then you get to

free up your mind and do other things.

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Like, cooking in the kitchen, and

like you said, you know, planting

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a garden and raising new animals.

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Like, you know, not necessarily fun stuff

for everybody, but just like simple stuff.

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If you want to be an artist, then you

have a very straightforward way of

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storing value for yourself, wealth for

the future, and you just focus on art,

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or, or anything else that you choose.

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It's almost to me, Bitcoin is

like a simplifier for life.

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Lisa: big time.

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I mean, we so complicate our lives.

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I, I have friends and, and I

used to be this person, right?

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Like you'd, you'd join a gym,

you'd get your car washed.

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You're like, you have a housekeeper.

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Maybe you like, you just spend

money all the time on stuff that, I

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mean, I look back now and I think,

I mean, I'm not going to join a gym.

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Like I'm going to clean my own house.

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And that's.

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It's an incredible workout actually, and

then I don't need any money to help me.

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And also I'm not paying

the monthly fee for a gym.

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And I also love washing my car.

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I wash my car every Saturday

because I love a clean car and I

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love not driving through somewhere

and paying 35 for someone to wash

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my car when I should be washing it

anyway because it's great exercise.

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So it's like re.

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Framing how you think about how you spend

money is what Bitcoin has helped me do and

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I could definitely go get my car washed

and I could definitely have you know, I

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mean, it's, it's not like I feel deprived.

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It's, it's a choice.

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I'm like, gosh, you know what, like, I

need to be healthy when I'm 95 because

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I have Bitcoin and I'm going to have fun

and I have all these friends and I have

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Ella and I have stuff I want to do and I

want to travel and see 50 more countries

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and I got to be well to do that.

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Tali: Yeah, for sure.

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Any last recommendation suggestions

for women who are sitting

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on the fence about Bitcoin?

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Lisa: Well, they should go back and

listen to every one of your podcasts.

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And if anybody wants to reach out to me,

you're welcome to reach out on Twitter.

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You're welcome to reach out on LinkedIn.

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I, I, I will send you a, I hate this,

but I'll send you a Calendly link.

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One of my friends set me up with Calendly.

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It actually is a game changer.

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I really do like it.

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Although I, I just hope people don't

think it's tacky to like get a calendar

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link, but I'll send you a calendar link.

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We can book some time.

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I love doing that.

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It's the highlight of every single

day and I don't know I wish people

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joy and prosperity and You know, like

go do go do good things for others.

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It's it is the key to happiness

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Tali: Awesome.

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Thank you so much, Lisa.

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Thanks for joining us today

and learning with us today.

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If the discussion with our guests

resonated with you and you would

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like to dive deeper into the world of

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The meetup link is in the show notes.

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Until next time, bye.