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Hello and welcome to a new week of

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chopping with fire . This

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week , we are out in the field . We're with Speakeasy

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Tattoo Company . We are going

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to interview a

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couple people at the shop and

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talk about entrepreneurship , what the shop's

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doing , and really just

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promote the shop and promote

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entrepreneurship and self-development

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, as our podcast is an

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entrepreneurship and self-development podcast

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. So please stay tuned

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and let's chop it up

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. Music

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Welcome to your

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top rated global podcast that is your

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one stop shop specializing

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in entrepreneurship , self-development

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, smart investment decisions

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and other relevant topics that

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add value . This podcast

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is hosted by owner , doctor and

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content creator , dustin Steppy

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. We are blessed to have accolades

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that include a 2022 nomination by

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in the category of business , which

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is voted on by the people , all

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of you . Money donated to

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. Lastly , global recognition

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of being a top 50 podcast in

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four countries . Without further

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ado , let's chop

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it up . Music

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Welcome

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to a special episode of Chopin with Fire . You're

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joined with your host , dustin Steppy , the

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owner of Speakeasy Tap , two

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company Manny and lead

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piercing badass .

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She's a little nervous .

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So for those

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of you watching on YouTube

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right now , show her some love in the comment

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section so I can show her all the comments .

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You're going to give them .

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With that being said , this episode

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is special because , as this

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podcast is an entrepreneurship , business

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and self development podcast , we

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have two very good entrepreneurs

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right to my left and a lot

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to talk about . So , with that being

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said , i want to dive into a couple of housekeeping

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things . I'm going to turn over to Manny . We

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have a couple of events coming up for

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Speakeasy Tat 2 Company that you

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guys can be a part of . That are locals

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to us . I am going to turn

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that over to Manny so we can discuss it .

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Hello everyone . We are going to

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be doing the Rockabilly Riot in Reno

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at the nugget this following , actually

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this coming July 6 , 7 , and 8 . I'm a little

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behind here , sorry , that's coming up real

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quick . Come out , show some love , show some support

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. Get a tattoo , come get a piercing . Come

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see us guys .

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And speaking of piercing , I am

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going to hand it over to Brie because she is

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the awesome piercer

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, So we're going to kind of do a

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little mini expo se

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on her . All right , Brie . So

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without being said , I

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know you've been piercing for

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shit since you came out of the womb , I feel

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. So let's

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just dive into your story a little bit , huh

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Like , when did you start ? What got you into

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this ? Obviously clearly , your

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experience and if anybody sees you on

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the video , they know , You know where every

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piercing goes . So let's

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talk about it .

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Okay . So I

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started probably way

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younger than I rightly should

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have . My parents own a tattoo

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and piercing shop out in Fallon called Wicked

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Ways And I started

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as being my

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parents' apprentice , just holding

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the piercing tray and

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just watching , being there every day

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. Probably

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about 12 years old I was very

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first introduced to it . Ever I

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started piercing on myself about 13

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or 14 , and friends

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, family members , anybody around

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me just knew that I'd

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been doing it . So

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probably about 15 on I started

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piercing either friends , friends

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of friends , people

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from school , My lunch breaks

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. I would make a quick buck doing

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piercings . I had my own whole piercing

4:53

kit and then getting into

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adulthood I'm

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turning 31 this year and I have

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not . I probably haven't

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gone a single year without

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having a new piercing I

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consistently on myself . The

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most I've ever had was 42 at

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one point , all of which

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I've done myself . I don't think I would trust

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somebody else to do my own piercings , And

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that gives me a lot of really good practice too . I

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want to pierce somebody else without piercing myself

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and knowing what I'm doing

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. Extensive research , even in my free

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time . Piercing never gets old

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to me , even after as long as

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I've done it , even on simple piercings

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. So that's

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like . My main passion

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, for sure , is always been piercing

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, Piercings and eventually , body modifications

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, is where I want to get at .

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So when you look at the piercing world and I

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have zero piercings , but I

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have a daughter and thankfully you've

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pierced her for her ear What

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do you think the biggest like hold

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back is for people when

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it comes to piercing ? or what

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do you feel holds people back from

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coming in to get a piercing ? and or what

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do you feel with piercings

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in general people are looking for

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? you've seen a lot . You've seen bad piercings

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. You've seen good piercings , you've seen diagonal , you've

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seen up and down whatever right Like

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, what are you seeing in the world right now

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for people coming in and getting piercings

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? Are they nervous ? Are they educated

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? We're in a society where we

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have Google and YouTube , so I

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feel like people should be well educated , but

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that kind of only goes so far

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.

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Right . So

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I think the main thing is

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being uneducated . I'll

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get people in here wanting

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piercings and not knowing if

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they have the correct anatomy or not , and

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I feel like that's one of the biggest things . People

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think oh , i see this piercing , i want this piercing

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. I think they can get a piercing that they like , but

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they don't realize what

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goes into that placement

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, body type , anatomy . If you don't have

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those things , then you just can't get it . Some

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piercers even out there don't

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understand an body anatomy and

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how each person differs also

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. So I

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see a lot of those things with piercings

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that I get coming in people

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coming in asking for piercings , asking

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what's wrong with their piercing that they have , and

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it does take a little

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bit to study somebody . If you don't know what you're

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looking for , you'll look right past

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it . That contributes

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to if you do a correct piercing or

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an incorrect piercing . That

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makes a world of difference because even a

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really greatly placed piercing

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it's not taken care of , it's not going

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to heal . If it's misplaced

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and it's not placed correctly , it will

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have the longest time healing . It's very

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slim chance that something placed improperly

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or somebody that doesn't have the correct anatomy

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will even heal in the first place . I

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get a lot of people like that coming in , people

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that don't know what they want to get , people

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that are extremely nervous and don't understand what

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it goes into the actual piercing

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process . The types

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of needles that we use , the tools that

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we use , the types of jewelry that we use

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all of those things go into each

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different specified

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piercing point on a person's

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body , and it varies greatly from

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ear lobes to the upper cartilage

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, to nipples , to oral piercings

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, anything like that . Everything changes

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. No one piercing , even no

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two ear lobe piercings , are going to be exactly

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the same .

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If I'm some Joe Schmo that

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walks in right . What ideally

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do you want me to know about

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piercings or my anatomy

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, or what research should I be doing beforehand

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to come in here and feel

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comfortable getting any

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piercing whatsoever ?

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First thing I like to see people do is

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they're due diligence of knowing

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where the piercing is being placed and

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what it takes to get that . I get some

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people coming in asking for highly

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controversial piercings

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. Not to say that

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I won't necessarily do them , but I

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expect somebody to know why

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these are highly controversial , why

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they're high risk piercings , why

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most piercers won't do them . You're

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putting your name on it . I'm putting my name on these

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piercings . Whoever walks in here and walks

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out , if I'm piercing them , that's my

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reputation , that's my name , i'm putting on it and that's

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what I'm putting out there . I'm

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advertising myself out there and what

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I'm doing . I want to make sure whoever's

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coming in is knowing what

9:48

they're looking for . If they don't know , ask

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questions , because I will spend

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30 minutes with you back in my chair

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doing a consult , however long it

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takes , to make sure that you understand

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what piercing we're doing , what we're going to be looking

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for , what to expect , the

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aftercare , all the things to

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look for If something starts going wrong

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. You know what to look for and

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at which point to come and contact me

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again so that I could help you through the healing

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process . It's not just I'm going to pierce you . You

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walk out , you're on your own . I'll

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downsize jewelry to make sure that it

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has the best optimal healing

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chances things like that because shit

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happens , man , You know so and I understand

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that . And as long as you understand that , like

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I expect my clients to be open

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and honest they have trouble concerns

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questions , anything like that I'm more than happy

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to answer anything that

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they have going on .

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So I'm gonna take a step back , because we

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got to know your journey . We

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got to know kind of we dove right into business

10:50

. But what we didn't dive into

10:52

is the fact that you're

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running your own business . Can't

10:57

take him anywhere . You're running your

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own business , right . So

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, with that being said

11:04

, my biggest question is when

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we talk about especially on my

11:08

podcast and especially you and I even when

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we talk about running your own business

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, there's so much that goes into it . Yes , you

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have freedom and flexibility and you

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can like work your own schedule

11:19

, you have a family , all that shit . But

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the biggest thing that people don't realize

11:24

is you don't just dive right into it without

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having a plan being structured , all

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of that stuff . So like , walk me through

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how you you have

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so many people that actually wanna come

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get peers , get tattooed , whatever the case

11:38

may be right How do you stay

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structured ? How do you stay organized

11:43

? How long did it take you to understand

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that ? How long did it really take

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you to figure out how to be your

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own businesswoman and actually

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get this done ? you know ?

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It was extremely difficult . It took me a while

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, even still today

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. I just had a baby four months ago . So

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life is hectic But

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I stay on my phone . I try

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and answer messages when I can . I

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get a lot of walk-ins . I do

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miss some of my clients , but I'm

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thankful that I have some really

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dedicated clients that

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know my work , trust my work and trust me

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and are willing to wait for me

12:23

and be patient with me . Also because

12:26

I am hit or miss sometimes

12:28

and I accept that . But

12:31

basically , being on my phone , people

12:33

reaching out to me , if somebody wants something

12:35

, I'm not too far away and

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I'll pop in for specific

12:40

people . If they

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reach out to me , I'll make time for them And

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I don't want people to ever think that

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it's a burden or anything like that

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, because I mean , I bring my son in here

12:52

and he loves being here and everybody loves seeing

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him . I have a lot of clients that , yeah

12:57

, we got a shot baby guys . So

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everybody loves hanging out with him , But

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it took me a long time . Man , he still

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helps me out with it a lot because he knows

13:08

that I am juggling a lot , but

13:10

he knows how much this

13:12

means to me and this is all I

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wanna do . I left from Panasonic

13:16

making really good money and I'd rather be

13:19

in here doing this because I can make the same wages

13:21

in like three hours . So this

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is definitely where I wanna be at . I'm

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able to be myself here .

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With that being said , we're in a

13:32

day and age where access is easy

13:34

and to access . If

13:37

people want to get a hold of you , people

13:39

want a book , if people want to ask questions

13:41

. What are some of your social

13:43

handles ? What are you ? what's your email

13:45

like ? How do you want people to get a hold of you

13:47

?

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So a couple of different

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ones . Obviously , facebook Messenger

13:53

. I've had people you know message

13:55

me directly . That works just

13:57

fine . I don't mind that . Anybody

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messaging my personal platforms

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I have Instagram also

14:05

, which

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is also linked directly to my Facebook

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, and then I have my

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SpeakEasy email

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breeze at speakeasytaccocom

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. That gives me direct

14:19

messages as well , and then I also

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have my personal email piercingsbybreeze

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at gmailcom . So literally

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anybody can write me , message

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me message on the our Facebook

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page , our actual shop

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Facebook page , my Facebook page

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. Any one of them will

14:39

get through . They could even just call

14:41

, call the landline .

14:42

Send you a letter .

14:44

Yeah , yeah .

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We will be right back after a quick

14:47

break . This

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episode is brought to you by SpeakEasy

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Tattoo Company , located in Fernley

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Nevada . That's at 420

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East Main Street , fernley Nevada

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. There's nobody else I'd rather go

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to when it comes to my tattoo needs . Between

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the experience of the whole staff , the

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creativity , the knowledge and

15:09

the overall dedication to making sure

15:12

that your piece looks good , there's no

15:14

better tattoo parlor than SpeakEasy

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Tattoo Company . So please , if

15:19

you haven't done so already , check them

15:21

out at wwwspeakeasytatcocom

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And

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book an appointment today . But

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, that being said , we're in a day and age

15:37

where it's instant access guys . So , like she

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said , she's on social media

15:41

. She has . If

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there's a piercing that you're looking at and you're doing research

15:46

, i highly recommend going

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to wwwspeakeasytatcocom

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That's the spot And

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heading over to the piercing page , because

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she spent some time with me and

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we put a lot of piercings on there , so

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there's a lot of visual

16:03

aids I guess we can call

16:05

it where you can kind of see

16:08

what she's doing and the work she does

16:10

and maybe do your own research

16:12

and give her a call . So

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, with that being said , the only person

16:16

that is holding you all back from getting a piercing

16:19

is you , because you

16:22

have the instant access and you know how

16:24

to get a hold of her And honestly

16:26

, quite frankly , she's the only one that I

16:28

would let touch Peyton for a piercing anyway

16:30

, so why not give

16:33

her a try ? With that being said

16:35

, i'm going to shift gears to Manny real quick

16:37

, because with every

16:39

sort of business there's always that

16:41

one guy that manages everything

16:43

, and I just wanted to

16:45

throw out to

16:48

him kind

16:50

of just the open mic for everything

16:53

that's going on . I know we're running some flashes

16:55

right now , so I want him to be able to explain

16:57

that , because we're in a day and age of

16:59

instant gratification And

17:01

so , without being said , not everybody

17:03

wants custom pieces , like all three

17:05

of us have . Some people just want quick

17:08

bangers . So I'm going to hand it over to Manny

17:10

real quick so he can explain that .

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Hello everyone . Again Got the place

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a little cloudy , sorry , so

17:19

we're trying to offer again weekly

17:21

by weekly . Keep it updated as much

17:23

as possible . Your guys is flash

17:26

. You guys asked for flash a lot , so we got

17:28

our $60 flash , 80

17:30

, 120 and 140 . They're

17:33

pretty good size . They're pretty , pretty

17:35

fun . I mean , just check out our

17:37

Facebook page , speak easy , tatco

17:40

, give it a look , give us a message and come on down

17:42

.

17:45

And , with that being said , since I'm the poster

17:47

child of walking billboard , i got

17:49

a flash on my wrist and

17:51

they are pretty decent sized , so

17:53

check them out . With that being

17:56

said , any other loose ends

17:58

guys ?

17:58

Yeah , i got some mouse .

18:00

All right .

18:02

So back to the piercing . You

18:05

go somewhere and you walk in and they don't have an

18:07

autoplay or any tools in house to do piercings

18:09

. walk out , guys . Okay , that's some serious

18:11

business . It's your health . Take care of yourselves

18:14

. Go to a reputable spot , ask

18:16

questions , even ask to see the tools . will

18:18

show them to you , just ask . Okay , any

18:21

questions , message us or even talk

18:23

in person . We got you .

18:25

I got one more thing . Go ahead And

18:27

off that also . I love

18:29

talking about it . So , like you have

18:32

questions , like any of

18:34

it , i will sit there and talk your ear

18:36

off about piercings , tools , what they're

18:38

used for , what I'm doing , how I'm

18:40

doing it , why I'm doing this , why I'm

18:42

doing that . That's

18:44

, that's pretty much any

18:47

. The only thing that I know in this world , like

18:49

inside and outside , like and

18:51

I'm constantly learning more , like it's

18:53

not that , like I know all so I'm

18:55

you know nobody can teach me nothing

18:57

like . No , i'm learning constantly , all

18:59

the time , every day . She's

19:01

always changing different techniques

19:03

, new piercings , new things coming out , and

19:06

I'm on top of all of that . And if I could share

19:08

anything with you , if you have

19:10

questions , anything like that , like ask me

19:12

, because I'll sit there and talk to you about it , those

19:14

are like conversation starters that I could just

19:16

talk about all day .

19:18

Oh yeah , i thought we do it all the time .

19:22

She's like a personal therapist . don't let her fool

19:24

you . Her side job is therapy

19:27

, so she she loves to

19:29

talk , just not in front of the camera .

19:31

Yeah , i know that was stressful , it's stressful

19:33

, it's still stressful .

19:37

With that being said again

19:39

, please , if you guys haven't done so

19:41

already , you all see my social

19:44

posts . please check out speak

19:46

easycom . That

19:48

website's pretty packed right now , actually

19:50

, with a lot of good things . We will

19:53

work on getting the flash up

19:55

on there . I just have

19:57

to do better about getting changed

20:00

out . So we will work

20:02

on getting that on there . but head

20:04

on over to the website and every sort

20:06

of communication link is on

20:08

there to help get you guys to the right spot

20:11

. This shop is knowledgeable

20:13

. They're all entrepreneurs , they all

20:15

know what they're doing . So do your

20:17

research and then come see them so

20:19

they can have some fun with you . What tagline

20:22

did we end up coming with for piercing

20:25

?

20:27

That was a good one .

20:28

What the hell ? was it Something

20:31

about getting a prick ? Prick

20:33

your prick . I hope

20:36

you're prick .

20:37

Which I do , those also .

20:39

Oh yeah , we do them all Specialty

20:42

piercings Bree . So

20:46

, with that being said , please check

20:48

out everybody's socials . Everything

20:51

is posted on that website And if

20:53

you can't find it on theirs , you can find

20:55

it on mine . Mine is linked directly

20:58

to their stuff as well . So

21:00

, with that being said , thank you all

21:02

for listening and we

21:04

are wrapping it up .