You guys, I don't know what to feel this week.

I am happy.

I am sad.

I am just a mix of emotions right now. I don't know if to feel this week. I am happy. I am sad. I am just a mix of emotions right now.

I don't know if you can tell, but it's just me. It's just Mandy this week. Tiffany, sadly,

couldn't be here. She is on a plane somewhere over the United States, somewhere over Idaho. I don't know, on the way back from taping The Reel in Los Angeles.

So I'm here on my own tonight taping the show.

But like I said, I'm not just sad.

I'm also really, really excited.

I have an amazing guest joining the show tonight. I have low-key been stalking, stalking Sharon Epperson for the past three years throughout her career at CNBC, where she is the senior

personal finance correspondent at the network. She's actually been there for 21 years. It was just a

couple of years ago that I ran into Sharon at an event at United Nations. I think it was around

Women's History Month or some sort of gathering when we were

both in the same room at the same time. And I knew I just had to grab her. I had to try and get her

on Brown Ambition. So I talked to Sharon. She was so sweet to me, so nice, so supportive. So I followed up

with her. You know, you follow up with the email, trying to get her on the show and then it was crickets y'all it was a little bit

awkward and i you know i tried to send the casual follow-up email so sharon did you get my email brown

ambition you know remember me um still didn't hear back anything and it wasn't until this past fall in

september that i finally realized why in late, Sharon suffered a brain aneurism,

a traumatic brain injury that required months and months of rehabilitation. She was out of work

for 13 months. And ever since I heard her story, I knew I had to get back in touch with Sharon,

first of all, just to tell her how excited I am and happy to get back in touch with Sharon, first of all, just to tell her

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