Always be fair and do your best.

And we say that to ourselves over and over because sometimes what is fair doesn't necessarily lean in our favor, right?

But we're looking at, you know, I feel like that opens us up to looking at the other person's perspective and to do business the right way.

And then always do your best because you won't have any regrets if you're doing your

best all the time.

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From one Asian woman entrepreneur to another, I am so thrilled to have Nicole Powell on the show today. A woman after

my own heart. I love the approach that you take to marketing. And we're going to get into that.

But first, you said something that prompted me to say, okay, I need that on the show. Right.

When we were jumping on, we were talking about your experience of moving to the United States from the Philippines.

So we talk about that journey a little bit, what you remember.

Sure. I think what I mentioned earlier when we chatted about it is I remember so much of that time vividly when I was in the Philippines, more so than when I moved to America.

I mean, Philippines is so hot. It is right by the acre. It is hot. So I remember like it was yesterday.

My dad and I got off the plane and my mom had this black coat with different colored pockets.

And I remember thinking, what is that? Like, I had no concept of a coat. I left

the Philippines December 26th. So it was one of those like hot Christmases over there. And then I

come here and I don't know what I'm feeling on my skin. I don't know much apart from, you know, Disneyland and all of that

fun stuff that I used to watch on television back home. So I really had no real concept of what

America was and the weather. I think I just thought everything was the same. But it was definitely a

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