What's up everybody? This is a little Samaroso aka publicity. Who is ready to spill some tea?

Because this is tea with publicity.

What's up everybody? Welcome back to Tea with publicity. I am so excited to be chatting with you guys today.

This will be an audio only episode because I did this episode on the go, kind of in prompt two.

My guest, Laurie, was in town from Canada and we were meeting up just to kind of chat and catch up.

And then we were like, do you think we could squeeze in a quick pod?

She was like, I don't know, bring your equipment. We'll say, brought the equipment. We're sitting outside at the one hotel.

But I think it's such a fun chat because we're talking all about public relations and what it's like working on the other side of influencer and celebrity culture.

You know, the people that are pulling the strings, but not the famous ones. And it's really interesting. We dig into that.

I also have so much to catch you guys up on because my life has been go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot going on.

But before we get into the episode, as you guys know, today's episode is sponsored by Macy's and it is Black History Month.

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And I'm excited to be working with a brand that is offering initiatives like this and partaking as something like this.

So I think it's pretty cool. Okay, into the episode, I have a lot of TV that we could recap.

I don't know like how super caught up I am on a lot of it, but we'll do our best. I will get to that towards the end of the episode.

So stick around after the Lori interview. I'll kind of do my little TV recap in the meantime. I'll let you guys know just what I've been getting into.

I actually was in Joshua tree this past weekend with my friends, Janet and Melissa. They both are married. They both bought investment properties in that area.

And they're in the process of decorating them and then they'll be air being being them out.

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