Hi, R.D.
Hello, how are you?
I'm terrific,
you look great in that color, by the way.
Thank you very much.
What's your question?
So my question is, I own my own business,
I'm a Feng Shui architect,
and I use social media for both my personal and my business.
Should I separate them?
Oh, you mean you have one account for both?
Yes, I do. Okay.
You're in an odd kind of a business, in a way,
it's clearly a business,
but so much of a business like that is your personality.
Yeah.
That's what people buy into.
Right.
So, it's difficult to say separate it totally,
put a wall between it,
which is usually the best advice for any businessman
to separate personal and business, I believe.
But in your business, I think you can post things
that are personally, but make sure you have two accounts.
Right.
So, for example, if you're gonna take your grandmother
out for dinner, that's not appropriate to be posting
on your business account.
But, if you're at Starbucks,
reading design magazines on your Saturday morning,
that's quite appropriate.
So, I think you'll just have to rely on your good judgment,
but definitely separate them, but let a little leak over.
A little bit of your personality leak over
into your business account.
Because when people go to a business account,
what do they really want?
They wanna get business advice,
or how to do something better, or who could I hire,
and that's what you want to deliver to them.
If people go to your personal account,
they're family and friends
that want to see how you're doing.
Totally different objectives.
But in your field,
I think you have to marry them a bit,
even though they're separate with your personality.
Because it's such an organic art form
kind of a thing. Right.
Yeah. And you look cool, by the way.
Oh, thank you.
(laughing)
Because looking at you, I'm curious.
You have that cool shirt, and you have that nice face
and I'm like, what does he know that I want to know?
But I'd rather go on your business account to find out.
Okay, thank you. (audience applauding)
I could do this for hours and hours and hours.
I mean, thank you so much to Barbara, of course,
and to all of our viewers,
but I could literally listen to her for hours,
and you can too, because she has all of her great advice
waiting for you on the podcast, and it's about everything.
888-Barbara, it's available
wherever you listen to podcasts, of course.
Hi Liz! Hi.
Hi, Liz. How are you?
Pleasure.
What would you like to ask Barbara?
So I just graduated with my second degree
from Duke University, in nursing, this past December.
Congratulations. Thank you.
But now I find myself--
Quite an accomplishment.
With close to $85,000 in student loans.
Wow.
I don't want to put my life on hold,
so I was wondering if you had any practical advice
on how I can pay off my student loans,
but still be able to travel with friends and family,
and go out and do things.
Well, you're asking for permission to have a good time.
Which you're entitled to, because it's not so easy
getting through nursing school.
It takes enormous dedication and hard work,
and a lot of people just don't make it.
But, I can say to you, that you're hoping for a party
a little bit too early.
Because you've got an $85,000 student loan,
which is like a giant monkey on your back,
and you're going to have to get rid of that
to feel the freedom to really have a good time
and enjoy your life.
So, I would suggest you tap into
exactly what got you through nursing school
in the first place, which is hard work,
and I think you're gonna have
a stretch of hard work ahead of you to get rid of that loan.
I have a nephew that graduated
from nursing school two years ago,
and what I learned through his eyes is
nurses work long shifts, but very few days.
So you have a lot of free time,
and what he did to get rid of his loan,
and he's 2/3 there, already,
although less than you owe, I'm afraid.
But what he's done, is he's taken a job as a caterer,
and he uses his other nurses
who have free time as waitresses.
But, he's paid off more than half his student loan.
I would suggest you take your free time
and figure out what else you could do
to get rid of that loan, it's a lot of money,
and even if you're having a good time,
and you want to pretend you forget about it,
it's always there, right?
So, you've got an opportunity to pay off a loan early,
which other people just don't have the ability to do
with the hours that they work, and I would suggest that.
Thank you.
Wow, that was not--
(audience applauding)
That's not the political answer everybody wants to hear.
They want to hear, oh, a little of this, a little of that,
but that's, I think, why you're successful, Barbara,
is because you tell people the straight poof.
Half of it is because I tell people like it is,
but the other half is, I work like a dog.
[Rachael) That's right.
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