Welcome to the Manifestation Bay Podcast. My name is Catherine Zinkina and I'm a Manifestation

expert, mastermindset coach, and multiple seven figure entrepreneur. I'm obsessed with

helping you achieve everything that you once thought was impossible. If you're looking to massively

uplevel your life, your finances, your relationships, your product to be of success, then you have come to the

right place. My goal in this podcast is to help you see the infinite potential within yourself, to be, do, and have

anything that your heart desires. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of mindset development, to help you maximize who you are

and where you're going. Leave it to me to provide you with tools, the resources, the strategies, and teachings that you need to manifest a reality

while there's any walled the streets. I know we're about to have so much fun together, so thank you so much for pushing play today, and now let's begin.

All right, Lana, we are live. You are in the studio. I'm so happy to have you. How are you doing?

I'm great. I'm glad to be here. Okay, I'm going to move the mic closer to you. Lana is obviously not, you know, she's more BTS as a COO. She's not on the

podcast very often. So I kind of will coach her every now and then to speak into her mic, but we're going to do this because we can fucking got this. All right, you guys, this is the

episode that I've been teasing for a while now. I've teased it. And basically every episode that I've launched so far in the new year, which had a lot to do with business. It was never my

intention to be so business heavy, but I feel like these questions always come in in the Q&A boxes whenever I do them, if I'm traveling or through, you know, my students or if I'm doing it for the podcast.

And these questions are just so like left field in, you know, in comparison to like what I'm, you know, the majority of the other questions are so I figured that maybe I just create some

of the content for you guys that just answer all of your business questions all in one episode that you can go back to over and over and over again. So Launda is the queen of running

the conversation. She is the manager of our team. She's the hiring person. She is just literally everything like it even doesn't make sense to just call you COO because you literally do everything. And you guys are always asking me like how

do you manage your team? And I always joke and I say, I don't, but Launda does. So Launda, I'm so excited to have you here. I'm pretty nervous, but I'm excited to be here too. Okay, so the very first question I did a Q&A box of course and everyone has been so excited to hear your answers.

But before we get into the nitty gritty's, can you just kind of share what your background is like how the hell did you end up on this team in the first place?

Yeah, pretty randomly. So I did my undergrad degree in business and Arabic and Middle East studies at USC. And then I spent about 10 years working in international education. So everything from teaching kids, English in other countries to taking US students abroad, just like a gamut of things in the international education space and intercultural relation space.

Did you say you lived in Egypt for three years because it's a big deal. I lived in Egypt off and on for almost 10 years. I would go back and forth between them. And I lived in Iraq for a year and a half and taught English and math there.

Like it's nothing like a big deal. Okay, go on. And so I really love international education. And I love showing people like what's out there and like really having them check their beliefs and like why they believe the things that they do believe.

And then well, I was motivated by my student loan debt to leave higher education. And so I took a job in the cannabis space.

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