The Bobby Bones Show - International Women’s Day! Our 90 Second Presentations On Inspiring Women + Parenting Expert Amy McCready Answers Questions About Kids + Amy Talks With Kendra Scott On Female Empowerment In Business

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

 We celebrate International Women’s Day! Bobby had everyone give a 90 second presentation on an inspirational woman of their choice. We learn about Orpah, Robin Roberts, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton and more! Amy McCready comes on to answer all of our parenting questions from if it’s okay to let your kids sleep in on the weekends and how to get your kids to think of others instead of just “me me me”. Amy talks to Kendra Scott (Jewelry designer, billionaire, TV personality) for International Women’s day! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Morning. Amy, how are you? Doing good. How about you? Good. Tell all of our listeners what today International Women's Day is about.

It's recognizing amazing women all over, lifting each other up, encouraging people that are listening and just amplifying women all around, promoting them left and right. So that's what we're trying to do today. I mean, today we will do an all-woman dance party. Yep.

All-woman artists. We will have Andrea Kramer from ESPN. We will have Kendra Scott on. Amy's doing all the tell me something good. You're doing the good news countdown. It's all about women. Today's just a big day. Let me just say there's going to be a lot of me today.

There's a lot of Amy today. That's right. Bobby's lifting me up. I'm lifting her up. That's right. I thought I lifted her up as high as I could. I was wrong. I can lift even harder.

Well, I just want to encourage too. It's also a day to just remind everyone listening to try to lift up women in their life. Like whatever that looks like for you. Can you shop a women-owned business? Can you support someone on Instagram? Can you send a text to someone in your life that you look up to that inspires you and let them know that? That's all about empowering women. That's what today is about.

It can be the smallest of gesture, but it can mean the most of someone. Now, what we're doing throughout the show, much like fourth grade, I said, hey, you guys create a 90-second report on a woman. It doesn't have to be in your life or just that you know about. Maybe somebody famous in history. Alive, not alive? There were no rules. It just had to be an awesome woman. So we're going to do 90-second reports. Amy's up first.

90-second presentation. For International Women's Day. Amy, who do you have over there? Robin Roberts. Okay, here we go. Amy is now doing Robin Roberts. And begin. So make your mess your message.

This is something I learned from my girl, Robin Roberts. Her mom often said it to her, encouraging Robin not to hide, but to share more of herself when life threw her some curve balls. This became the catalyst for her success. Now, a lot of us know Robin from Good Morning America, but she's been killing it way before then. She was a basketball star at Southeastern Louisiana University and was later inducted into the women's basketball hall of fame. Throughout school, she stayed close to her true passion in broadcast journalism, which really began to take root in her life when she landed a sportscaster position on ESPN. Now, she certainly has an impressive resume, but it's her vulnerability. that has captured our hearts.

She inspired us all when she courageously invited us to walk alongside her as she faced two life-threatening illnesses. Her 2020 primetime special Robin's Journey and her best-selling book, Everybody's Got Something, became her platforms for sharing her story, making her mess, her message, and encouraging those on a similar path. Robin is a trailblazer and an inspiring leader for all women,

and I'm honored to call her friend, being that we occasionally DM on Twitter. Okay, maybe we've DMed like twice, but still, she's my friend and I look up to her, so thank you, Robin, for all that you do, and just being an inspiration to me, because we have a lot in common. You know, she played basketball. I played seventh grade basketball. She's in media.

I'm in media. She makes her mess her message. We have Pimp and Joy. Love you, Robin. There it is. There may be everybody. All right, Ramundo, you're up next. Ninety-second presentation for International Women's Day.

Yeah, Bob. I have little peanut from Brooklyn. Wait, what? Judge Judy. Interesting. The title of your book report. I'm already intrigued. I'm starting your 90 seconds.

Go ahead. She was really sure it wasn't good at ballet, piano, or dancing. She didn't even think she was going to be famous. But she was a good talker. And she always enjoyed court shows, so she knew law was going to be what she did. There weren't many women in the field. No lawyers, judges really that were women.

it was a male dominated industry. So she went to law class. There were 126 men and one woman. That woman, Judge Judy. She didn't fit in. She was treated a little different, but that drove her. She was the only woman in her class, and she finished by the age of 23.

All the dudes were still in law school, probably going to parties, taken forever. She was already in the jury system at that age of 23, which is crazy. They said it was extremely. She was petite, but that didn't stop her behind the desk. She was known as the toughest judge in America. She did over 20,000 cases and get this, that was before she was even on TV.

She didn't get the show until she was 53 years old. It was a 60 minutes interview. They just came in, interviewed her, and said, wow, this lady is a pit bull and fierce, and there you go. After that, she gets the show. The rest is history in a male dominated field. And oh yeah, she became the highest paid TV host, making over 147 million. Male or female, she's the highest paid.

Neighborhoods are now safe. I'm actually a little scared of a little peanut from Brooklyn. Judge Judy. Hey, that's good. Wow. Her net worth is $440 million. Gosh. All right, nice job, guys.

We'll do some more later on the show. Eddie and I have Lunchbox Morgan. and we all have some. Eddie, who's yours on? Oh, mine is a woman that I guarantee you don't know her name, but you've definitely heard her work. I'm going to leave it right there. Interesting. Yeah, because I say her name right now, you guys'll be like, who's in it? Just wait and see.

International Women's Day on the Bobby Bones show. It's the good news countdown. Counting down the biggest good news stories across the land. Usually I host this, however today, Amy, since it's International Women's Day, it's all up to you. Thank you for the honor. I got a lot of good stories about women doing good things.

Number five. So there's an Ohio kindergarten teacher named Monique Waters, and she does daily affirmations and fist pumps with her children to start the day. And she just went viral after this video was posted on Instagram of her motivating her kids. Number four. So I got a shout out this Girl Scout troop in Iowa. They have shattered its cookie sales goal for 2021, selling an impressive 5,000 boxes. Now, what's even more amazing about these girls is they have overcome a major obstacle. They're homeless. These are all girls that are a part of Troop 64-224,

and they live in an emergency homeless shelter, and they're described as not only enthusiastic, but entrepreneurial. Wow, that's great. All homeless. Number three. So there's this 10-year-old girl that wanted to help out her dad's roofing company. It's called Atlanta Premier Roofing. So she started him a TikTok account,

and her first video was her talking to her dad about his business, and now he's getting calls non-stop. Here's the original video that has over 1 million views. Why do you want me to make you a TikTok account? Okay. You heard him, guys. Go call him at this number. So cute.

Yeah, I love that. Oh my gosh, guys. Thank you for all the support. Thank you for everything. Me and my dad are so grateful for y'all. We've been getting a lot of calls this morning. So thank you very much. Number two.

So the Fortune 500, which is the ranking of America's largest companies, reached a new record for women leaders in 2020, with 37 of the companies being led by women as compared to 33 last year. Now, the new high for women leaders marks a continuing trend of more women's CEOs, which is awesome because back in the day, there was only like two women's CEOs on the Fortune 500 list. So let's keep this trend up. Number one.

So this grandmother in Texas needed open heart surgery, but she had to get vaccinated before that could happen. Well, she couldn't get an appointment. So she went to that app next door, tried to see if there was any leads in her area. Well, this woman, Christy Lewis, who's 50 years old, came to the rescue and said, hey, you know what, you can have my appointment.

You take my vaccine. Well, they ended up going to the appointment together and they explained the situation, and the people in charge decided, hey, we're just going to go ahead and give both of you the vaccination. Oh, wow. Yes.

I thought they were going to be okay with giving the other lady. They give them both. Yep. That's what I need to do. Find somebody with a heart. That's women supporting women right there. Yeah. I support women.

Let me get it back to knee. All right. There you go. That was the good news countdown. International Women's Day on the Bobby Bone show. Amy, you ran into one of our old interns? Yes. So I think I've told you how my dog just has this crazy anxiety.

We're trying to figure out ways to just get her energy out more than just what we can do. And so my friend Abby told me about this place called. pup stars and they will come and like walk your dog or run them or whatever. And so they show up to my house and I open up the door and it's Lexi. And I thought, oh my kid. She's like, you live here? This is your dog? And I was like, yes, this is so crazy.

Because not only is she our old intern, but Lexie Hayden, she's also a country singer songwriter and we play her on women of IHart Country and everything. So it's just really fun to just have that nice surprise and to know that my dog is in really good hands. Lexi's on right now. Hey, Lexi. Hey, everybody. How are you?

I'm good. I am still laughing about that story because Amy wasn't even the one who set it up. It was Shannon. So I thought I was walking Shannon's dog all morning. So when did you guys see each other when she got there to walk your dog? When she came to the door and brought the dog back and that's when she was. Yeah, she looked at me and she's like, wait, you live here and thought, oh, yeah, you're walking Kara? So anyway, it was a nice surprise.

Well, Lexi, now that you're a big country star, do you still remember Amy or no? Definitely. Good. She remembers the little people. That's what we like about Lexi. You know, Lexi still remember as little people. How's life and country music? How's that going?

It's good. I actually just got back from Key West yesterday, and I played shows in Key West all weekend, so that was super fun. So you played live shows with Real Humans? I did. There was some plexiglass in front of me, and actually the mask mandate in Key West is a lot stricter than you would think. What do we not know about being a new artist in country music?

It's just a huge roller coaster. One day it's up, one day it's down, and you just, I just got to keep grinding. You know, you put out, you heard right, it's six songs. You put that out last year in 2020. How is that doing for you? It's done great. And I know it's like a weird time to be putting out music

because you can't really tour anything and trying to do the TikTok thing and get people to notice. But, I mean, it's been great. It's been fun and just trying to write for the next project now. Okay, I'm going to play. There are seven songs on this. Sorry, I'm going to play for all of our audience here

because I do program you into the women of our country sometimes. I'm going to put you now on this show. We're going to play sad songs from... Thank you so much. You're welcome. Tell me about this song before we play it. I wrote this with my producer, Derek George, and Michael White, and it was the fifth single we put out.

I wasn't expecting... I mean, I wasn't... You never expect anything as an artist, but it did really well for me and ended up on like five Apple Music Playlists, Spotify playlist. And then it was the first song to be on the Women of I Heart Country show. So this one definitely surprised me. What do you remember, before I played the song,

what do you remember about interning here on this show? Because that's been, how many years ago was that, Lexi? I was 20. I was 27 now. So that was seven years ago. We first got here. We can't even have interns now. They haven't let us have interns in years because of some law.

Now where you got to pay people to work, who knew? But when you were, what do you remember mostly about interning here? That was like the best summer ever. Like so much fun Like being 20 years old Being in Nashville for the first time Meeting every country music artist You can ever think of

And just making friends with every intern That was like one of the top summers ever For sure You guys check out Lexi Give us your Instagram name Lexi So people can follow you Lexi Hayden L-E-H-Y-D-E

The latest from Nashville and Hollywood Morgan number two 30 Second Skinny A special edition of the 30 Second Skinny for today's International Women's Day. Here are some female artists talking about their big hits. Mara Moore's revealed an unexpected reaction to her song, Girl. I've had a lot of guys tell me that the song and watching the video

really opened their eyes to their relationship with their girlfriend or their wife or their daughter. And so I thought that that was really cool to not just have that female reaction, but also the men that have told me that it affected them as well. in a positive way. Lauren Elena shares who inspired her to write

Road Less Travel. When I was growing up, my favorite artist were Chen I, Twain, and Martino McBride, and all of these really empowering women that meant the world to me

and made me feel so good about myself. And I, you know, with this writing process, I was trying to write songs that mean something to me. Reba McIntyre on why she recorded the song,

I'm a Survivor. I'm a Survivor is a song that I fell in love with the first time I heard it because it is dealing with a woman being strong and she perseveres. She goes on with life.

I'm Morgan number two. That's your skinny. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. So since it's International Women's Day, I want to share this story about a woman who is really making a difference

for her community. Her name's Katie, and she saw an abandoned lot in Detroit, and she envisioned a better use for the space. So she bought the lot and has turned it into an ice skating rink for the neighborhood kids to use. And here's the clip of Katie talking about.

everything being donated by the community. Every single donation, everything we've done has been free and from the community. So it's made it work. But the kids show up with just the excitement of getting on. Yeah, I just love that she had a vision for this parking lot that nobody else saw and she's making it happen. That's cool. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. Lobby Bone Show.

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Cops came. Only problem is he forgot to hide all his drugs. He was dealing drugs out of his apartment. He had all of them sitting right there on the kitchen table. And he didn't realize he could get arrested because they were trying to break in. So they arrested him for all sorts of felonies. I'm Lunchbox. That's your Bonehead Story of the Day.

International Women's Day on the Bobby Bone Show with Amy Brown. So something that empowers me the boast about being a woman in 2021 is seeing other females do really big things. I mean, no matter your political views, it's pretty legit to see a female vice president. A lot of other women way before now fought really hard for equal rights and they aren't around to see the fruits of their labor.

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We all have questions, right? So we brought in some, let me say a few things about Amy before I pull her up here. She is the founder of positive parenting. solutions. She's the author of two best-selling parenting books. If I have to tell you one more time, and the me, me, me epidemic, she's been seen everywhere from CBS

this morning, Fox and Friends, Rachel Ray, Steve Harvey, CNN, the doctors, and others. She's probably a little too smart to be on this show, but we're extremely happy she's here. Amy McCready, everybody. Hi, Amy, how are you? I am great. Thank you so much for having me. Well, on this show, we have, I mean, at least four members of the show have kids. So

I've collected a lot of questions. I don't have kids. It's about time for me to start having kids. I think that happens in the next couple of years. But we have a lot of debates on this show about parenting, which is where you come in. So we're gracious for your time. And I want to start with this first question. Eddie, my best friend, one of our producers here, he's been paying his kids money for doing things in their basketball games, like making shots, steals, rebounds.

How do you feel about a parent paying their kids for sports? On the surface, that may make sense. But the research actually shows that when we use extra. Rewards, whether it be money or gift cards like Amy was talking about with doing chores, it actually erodes the kids' internal interest in doing that task. So it may work in the short term, but when you think about it, when we use rewards, it sends the message to our kids that, you know what, this must be really hard or a really undesirable task if I'm willing to pay you for it. And then over time, what happens is that the rewards lose their luster.

So, you know, a $5 bill may be really motivating it first, but then after a while, you have to keep up being the ante. And so over time, it's just not sustainable. And you mentioned Amy, we have two Amies here, but Amy, my co-host, she did. She said, hey, I've got all these old gift cards, and you let your kids draw out of like a bucket if they do a task, right? Right. And it's not for their every day.

They have chores that are just expected of them as part of. the family. Like, there's things that are expected. There's no monetary gain from them at all whatsoever. I guess I just thought the grab bag of the gift cards might be incentive to do extra things. So, yeah, I mean, I guess that makes sense, though. Well, and I think, too, and you said that before on the show, Amy, like that you expect your kids to contribute because they're members of the family and everybody has to contribute for the family to function. But what you described, I kind of call jobs for hire. So things that are outside. of their normal responsibilities.

If you want to pay kids to do that, like it's their way to make extra money to save for things, or you want to reward with a gift card, nothing wrong with that, but it's outside the scope of what they're normally expected to do. You guys taking notes over there?

I need to see PIN to Paper. I got it. That's what I guess I'm still, yeah. Amy McCready's on. Your Instagram is positive parenting solutions. What about whenever a parent looks down and goes, you can eat everything on that plate or you're not getting out of that chair?

How do you feel about that? Well, again, we as parents, I think, do things with the best of intentions. But sometimes it just sends the wrong signal. And in that situation with the food, again, it becomes a task, a burden, something the kid has to do, rather than we want them to learn to eat because it nourishes their body. It keeps them healthy. That's why we want them to exercise or play basketball or all those things. We want them to foster that internal motivation.

to do those things. But when we kind of force it, you have to eat there so you're not leaving a chair, you're not getting dessert until you eat your broccoli. Then it makes broccoli the really yucky stuff that they have to stomach just to get to the good stuff with the dessert. So I'm kind of a fan of just teaching about healthy eating options and making it a pleasant experience at the table for everybody. And that usually works out best in the long run. You know, on this show, there's a debate because there are kids age 13 all the way down to two. And it's, at what age is the safest and healthiest for a kid to get a cell phone? What do you think it is? Well, I get this question all the time, and I don't think there's a magic age. I think it's when the child is ready for it and when

he needs it. So I usually ask three questions. So the first one is, do they actually need it? Like during normal times when kids have after-school activities and they're getting picked up and they may have to coordinate rides. That's a reason that they need a cell phone. The second thing is, do you feel like they're responsible enough to use it safely and to follow your rules? So you have rules for technology. Can they follow those? And if so, then perhaps they're ready for a cell phone. And then the third rule or the third witness test kind of has to do with a parent. So are you committed to doing the training on how to safely use it? Are you willing to follow through and the boundaries that you've set, and are you willing to model responsible behavior with

technology? So if all three of those conditions are met, then I think, yeah, it's fine to get a cell phone, but obviously start out with a starter phone without internet access and let them learn how to use it successfully before they go to a more advanced phone. We're going to come back for one more segment with Amy McCready, where I want to ask about a couple of things. One, spanking. Also want to let all of you guys ask a question about your kids specifically, and I want to ask about when do you start talking about the birds and the bees with kids? Oh boy. Because I'm still waiting to have that talk. Somebody to have that talk with me. All right, Amy McCready, coming back.

International Women's Day on the Bobby Bone Show with Amy Brown. So when I think about the next generation of women, I just hope they continue to rise up. I mean, women before us did it. We're doing it now. But I hope the future generation just kind of blows us all out of the water with their strength, their tenacity, their ambition, their ideas, their talent. I mean, really the list goes on. I mean, women just flat out are amazing and we always have been, but I guess when I, yeah, think about the next generation, I just hope that they don't have to work as hard proving their worth at all, that it'll just be known and completely understood by all. The Bobby Bone Show. Celebrating International Women's Day.

On the Bobby Bone Show now. Amy McCready. All right, so around the room, all you guys will ask Amy a question. Okay, we'll come to you. I have a couple other things I want to ask first as you guys prepare. It's about spanking. To spank or not to spank? And that is the question. That is the age-old question, isn't it? And I know family philosophies differ on this, but as a parenting educator, I think there's always a more effective option than spanking for so many reasons. I mean, there's a growing body of research that shows that tends who are spanked at young ages. And I'm not talking about abuse. I'm talking about a swat on the bottom. the research shows that those kids tend to be more aggressive, and then they're prone to more

behavior problems than adolescents. Spanking also sends the message that, you know what, it's okay for you to let your anger out in frustration by hitting somebody else, or that a stronger, more powerful person can hit a smaller, less powerful person, and that's not the long-term message that we want to send. On a very practical level, what happens when a child is being spanked, they go into that fear mode, right? And for any human, when we're experiencing fear or pain or anxiety or shame, we shut down. And the learning event isn't actually taking place. So there are so many more effective parenting tools that actually help teach the kids the lesson, help them make better choices for the future, rather than spanking or punishing

them for something that's happened in the past. I have one final question for her. Then you guys can ask yours and then we have exhausted her time. We have an expert on it. We like to squeeze as much out of an expert as we can when we get them on here. What's the age for the birds and the bees talk? Well, that talk should start early and happen often because the sexual researchers say that 10 is the new 16. So girls and boys are going through your puberty earlier than ever. And when you combine that with everything they're exposed to in the media and on the internet, we really have to up our game there and have that conversation. often. But it starts early with a lot of little conversations. It's not one big talk. So we can start

when they're toddlers by calling all their parts, the right names, and having those conversations. Again, the research tells us that kids are way more comfortable talking about that than their parents are. So it's kind of our job to, even if we're not comfortable, fake it, act comfortable, and try to have those conversations as often as you can, because obviously when kids are in their between and teen years, we want them to feel comfortable coming to us. Our job is to give them the right information so that they can make informed choices, but obviously that are aligned with our family values. Amy McCready's on with us. You can follow her on Instagram at Positive Parenting Solutions. Amy, what is your question? Well, I have a 13-year-old daughter. Actually, she'll be 14 really soon,

and she's super responsible, wakes up for school on time, is always in the car, ready to go, does all her for homework, but on Saturdays, she loves to sleep. Like, she could sleep until 2 p.m. if I don't wake her up. And most Saturdays, if I let her do it. But then I wonder, what should any teenager be allowed to sleep until 2 p.m. And part of me starts to feel like I'm not making the right decision. So is it okay one day a week to let her have that morning? I think it is.

As long as she's getting her other responsibilities done, she seems healthy in other way. she's getting outdoor activity. You know, for younger kids, if they're kind of sleep deprived during the week, they actually can't catch up. But for tweens and teens, you know, if they're a little sleep deprived during the week, they actually can. Their bodies can catch up on the weekend. And it sounds like that's what she's needing. So she sounds super responsible, and I'm sure she's healthy. So I don't see a big problem with it as long as her weekends are fulfilling, you know, once she gets up.

Oh, she's going to love you. Eddie, you're on? What would you like to say? Yeah, hi, Amy. So we're talking about this me, me, me syndrome. And I feel like I go through this with my kids all the time. All they think about is me, me, myself, myself, and not about others. And then we on the show, we read stories about these kids that are donating thousands of dollars from this lemonade stand that they start or whatever.

And if you have any suggestions or recommendations to get kids to stop thinking about themselves so much and start thinking about, ooh, like let's help other people. And I feel like I do a pretty good job being an example. So is that one way to do it? And are there any more ways to do it? There are. And you said the most important thing is be the example you want your kids to be. But I think you could take that one step further and really make it a family value. So one of the tools that I love to teach is the family meeting.

And it's like once a week we get together. We talk about the family calendar. We talk about what's going on. We have a family fun activity. It's a great ritual to start. But one component of that for you could be, all right, what is our family gratitude exercise for this week? Or what is our family philanthropy, our giving, whatever that happens to be, you can actually have some focus that the whole family engages in for that week. And that really then reinforces that, oh, this is who we are.

This is part of our family value. And then obviously we know that kids take that with them and will start to. to act in those ways on their own. All right. One more question, lunchbox. Yeah, Amy, I got a quote. I got two and a half year old and time out. We're trying this timeout thing and half the times he'll do stuff and look at me and go,

go time out like he likes time out. But then when I'm really angry and I do want to put him in time out, he won't stay in timeout. So what do you do? Oh, that is the classic dilemma. And you're right, especially if you have a strong-willed child, they're like, yeah, right. Like, how are you going to keep me in time out? And as he gets a little bit older, like, what are you going to do, sit on him to keep him in the timeout chair? So, again, I like to look at, okay, what is the specific behavior that we're trying to change?

Like, can you give me an example of something he would go to timeout for? He has a little brother, and he'll just take toys and hit him with the toy. Oh, yeah, not good. So, first, obviously, supervision for a young child like that is super important. But the other thing that you can do is just redirect him in the moment to something else that is more interesting. But putting it in time out either gives him a big hit of attention because he has all of your attention on him at that moment and or escalates the power struggle. So it becomes this battle with you and he's not even thinking about the toy anymore. One of the great solutions for that toy thing is if you have, you can kind of have like a sharing list where let's say one is trying to steal a toy from the other, you can say, oh, you want to use the toy.

let me put your name on the sharing list or on the waiting list, and that way they have to wait until, you know, it's their turn for the toy. But for that general kind of hitting stuff, especially their child that young, it's more about just keeping such a tight eye on them all the time and then redirecting them when the time comes. Amy, we really appreciate your time. Amy McCready, you guys check out Positive Parenting Solutions.com

to sign up for a free online class. She got two books. If I have to tell you one more time in the Me, Me, Me, Me, epidemic and follow her on Instagram at Positive Parenting Solutions. Amy, thank you. You were a wonderful resource for all of us and every single question we've had over the past five years, it seems.

Thank you, Bobby and Friends. It was a delight. All right, there she is. Amy McGree. Here's Amy's story. Here's Amy's pile of stories. So OneCountry.com took a look at female country songs from the 90s and picked these to be the ones that we all still sing along to

every time we hear them. Top five. Got to be Shinaai. Wayne in there. If it's 90s, it's got to be, you know, any man of mine. Good guess. It's got to be Shanae. Who else would we pick, though? Faith Hill. Got to be a Faith Hill. Trisha Yearwood. Strawberry one. She's a lovely boy. Dina Carter one. All right. All right. Give us number five. Wild one. Faith Hill. Okay. Jam. Number four.

Heads Carolina, Tails, California. Jody Messina. Yeah, good one. 1996. Somewhere, warmer. Somewhere warmer. Any man of mine. Twain from 95. Price that wasn't number one. The strawberry wine definitely could be.

Come on. Yeah. Number two? Strawberry wine. Oh. Dana Carter. Dana Carter. I wonder what one could be.

Let's talk about this, boys. Can it be Shania again? Amy, is it a double up of anyone? No. Okay. It's someone for sure from the 90s, big time. Like, she's come over to my house. She's in that with Trisha.

No, it's Amy Grant. No, wait. No, Trisha, you're one with the boy. One of like the coolest big-time superstars ever. They come to your house? Well, I mean, she's just so normal and down to earth. And to come to your house. Well, yeah, I mean, I was you're going to my house. All right.

Okay, so there was a study done to find out who's your favorite type of boss or leader? Is it a man or a woman? And workplace research revealed that female managers are more likely to receive high respect from their team members, communicate their vision effectively and in an easy to understand way. I would say any of my female bosses have been as direct as any of the men, but also have an ability to have compassion,

which a lot of the men haven't. Yeah, that's true. So it's just a bigger... They just kind of have all the boxes checked instead of a few. Because dudes just aren't like, hey, I felt that. Let me give you a little comfort as well.

There's not that much, yeah, compassion and empathy. Because all my bosses are hardcore. Like, you know, you know, you're at this level. It's business. We've got to get stuff done. We've got to be efficient. We've got to make sure that money's being made.

But also, any of my female bosses have been like, hey, let's talk about this for a second. Guys don't like that. What else? Well, Tim McGrath shared a story about his mom. Now, it happened when he was around 10 as she was raising Tim and his two sisters. He saw her late one night at the kitchen table surrounded by bills and crying, and he knew then how hard she struggled to keep the family afloat. I can remember walking through the kitchen one night, getting up late.

I don't know how old I was, 10, 11, 12 years old, something like that. And she had her head down on the table at like 2 in the morning with bills everywhere. And I was crying. And she didn't see me. But I've told her that story before. And she didn't remember it because she didn't see me. But like I said, for her, that was probably 100 different nights I didn't know about. Dang.

Wow. You getting emotional right there. Yeah. Tim crying. Crazy. I know. And he's just proud of how hard his mom was working to take care of them. And I love that.

I'm sure we have a lot of resilient moms out there. So shout out to all the amazing. women out there. And then tonight, don't forget, we got Gwen Stefani, Kelsey Ballerini, and Cardi B set for our IHeart International Women's Day special. It's called See Her, Hear Her, and it's going to be on IHeart Radio's YouTube and Facebook pages at 8 p.m. That's across all time zones. And it's going to be available on demand through March 14th. So it's a live one hour special with a lot of amazing women. I'm Amy, and that's my pile. That was Amy's pile of stories. It's time for the good news. With Amy.

Tell me something good. So I got a shout out to this eight-year-old girl named Peyton. She's not your average third grade student because when she's not in school, she's out fighting a battle much bigger than herself. Child homelessness. Now, Peyton learned that there's around 2.5 million children in America who are facing homelessness each year. And she was like, well, I got to do something about this. We got to raise awareness and send funds and toys and products and all the things.

to homeless shelters, and she formed something called I of a child. And she does just that. She sends money to shelters, toys, all the things. And Peyton said, quote, if you have a dream, please follow it. Don't give up because you probably can reach your goal, and I believe in you. You can check out Iofachild.org for more info. Dang, for International Women's Day. That's a good story.

I know. It's so amazing. Like, she's eight years old. We could all be inspired by this girl. International Kid Woman's Day. That's right. Yes. All right.

That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. It's International Women's Day. The Bobby Bone Show is proud to be supported by Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, non-profit Christian University based in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. They say higher education is outdated, irrelevant. Well, GCU doesn't settle for the status quo. They shatter it.

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We think maybe the second billionaire ever on our show. Wow. The first billionaire is probably, if we look back, the pilot, the space guy, is going to take lunchboxes space, hopefully. Oh, yeah. The second one will be Kendra Scott, International Women's Day. Can we think of any other billionaire we've had on the show? Is Garth not a billionaire?

No. God, I bet he's close. They always say he's around 600 million. Okay, not close. Yeah. And if you've ever listened to Kendra Scott's How I Built This, with Guy Raz, I love that podcast. Her story is amazing. She's definitely going to start out.

Oh, no, we knew her when she was selling on an old beat-up table outside the radio station. She would do little trunk shows. Wow. So she'll be on later. And who are you talking to in a second? Veronica Garza from Siette Foods. She's the founder and chief innovative officer there. We're just highlighting amazing women today, some that are awesome leaders.

and those that are rising up and we just want to empower women. So we're talking to empowered women that are empowering others. Okay, all those coming up. Let's get to the Morning Corny first. The Morning Corny! What is a Sea Monster's favorite food?

What's a Sea Monster's favorite food? Fish and ships. Okay. That was the Morning Corny. It's not lost on us that we'll go, hey, we're doing a real serious show today. We're highlighting. We're promoting. And Amy's like, C-month, or fish and ships.

Yeah. That's how we roll. That's exactly how we roll. Okay. On the Bobby Bones show now, Veronica Garza. Yep, we're on with Veronica Garza, who's the co-founder, president, and chief innovation officer of Ciette family foods. Hey, Veronica. Hi.

I feel like a lot of people have probably seen Ciette products at the grocery store, and they are amazing. They're a family-owned Mexican-American food brand that offers tortilla chips and more. So, Veronica, give us the quick origin story of Siette. We actually started our business in 2014 with an almond-flower tortilla that I had started making, really just to deal with some health issues that I experienced. I have lots of autoimmune conditions and had to change my diet, go green-free, to help deal with a lot of things. out. And my whole family decided to do that with me. We're a family of seven and we all decided to

eat grain free. And then we were, you know, feeling great following this diet, but definitely missing out on part of our culture, not being able to participate in eating things like tortillas. So I decided to develop a tortilla that I could eat and share with me and with my family. And the ultimate taste tester there was you got your grandmother's approval, right? I did, yeah. Probably a couple of years after I had been making the product. My mom took up a sample for my grandmother to try. And my grandmother tried them and said, Vero, which is my nickname, these are great.

They're better than my own. My grandmother made flower tortillas, I guess, all of her adult life. So that was huge that my grandmother liked them and was willing to eat them. So it's kind of her stamp of approval that told us we should turn this into a business. What would be your advice to women listening now who are maybe thinking about starting their own business? I know, especially as women, we probably have a lot of fear going into something like this. So I would say, don't let that fear hold you back from actually taking the risk. Do you know any country artists who are fans of Siette?

Yeah, so actually the person that comes to mind, and I'm a huge fan of hers, is Casey Musgraves. I know at least, it was probably a couple of years ago we saw on Instagram that she had posted about us, and we were able to reach out to her and connect with her send her some goodies. And we even created a special, very limited edition because only she got it, a slow burn hot sauce. and that was really cool. And then it was amazing. Just a few months later, I was able to see her at ACL. She's awesome.

Oh, yeah. I love that. Oh, slow brown. So would y'all ever consider making that a staple? I'm assuming maybe that Slow Burn hot sauce was pretty hot. Yeah, you know what? It wasn't extremely hot. I think the kick came a little bit after you tasted it.

But maybe I'd want to get her feedback to see how she liked it. And then we would consider putting it out on the shelves. Okay, well, if you ever need taste testers for other things or feedback, we're happy to participate here on the Bobby Bone Show. What are some characteristics of a boss? Like, what puts a bow on a boss for you? Okay, so honestly, I've never really identified with that word. I've never been called the boss, and I don't really think of myself as that.

So at least at Cieta, we kind of operate more like a family, and we tend to think of, you know, people more as leaders. So as a leader, you know, there are some characteristics that I think are very important. So one would be humility. We need to be aware of our weaknesses just as much as our strength. and be able to admit when we're wrong. And then probably the next thing would be to have compassion for everybody that you work with, whether that's coworkers, employees, business partners, and especially customers.

You never know what people are going through. So, you know, just being kind and listening and being compassionate can really help solve a lot of problems. definitely signs of a leader right there and and I love that you you have what makes you feel comfortable and that's that you're a leader and y'all all are and and the family component go ahead and share with everyone I already know it but your company motto which is regarding family yeah so our first core value is family first family second business third love that and I feel like anybody else listening when they're starting a business I think that you all have modeled beautifully putting that first. And you don't just mean, because you did start it with your

family family, but you don't just mean your family, mean your entire Siette family. And I think that y'all even include your customers in that as well. That's exactly right. Yeah. So we're not talking about just the Garza family, the seven of us. We're talking about all of the people that have joined their team throughout the years, all of the business partners that we work with, whether it's grocery stores, distributors, and yes, especially our customers. They are part of that bigger, yet the family that we're always thinking about first. We are definitely rooting you on all the way, always. And, you know, we want to take this women supporting women beyond just conversation.

We want to put it into action. So do you have any simple things that maybe you could share right now quickly that are easy ways to support more women? Yeah, I mean, I feel like some of these are probably pretty obvious. I mean, actively seek out businesses that are owned by women or led by women by their products, recognize them on social media as much as you can. And if you're in a position to do so, be a mentor to women who are interested in starting their own businesses so that we can see more and more women in positions like this and help them to become more successful. Awesome. Love that. And if people want to follow y'all on social media and then also throw y'all some support, you are at CETA Foods. And thank you, Veronica, for all of the amazing food that you give us and being a great leader.

Thank you so much. It's International Women's Day. Amy, tell everybody what today's show's all about. It's all about lifting up women and encouraging everyone listening male and female to reach out to someone in your life that inspires and encourages you. and find a way to support women on the daily. So about a week ago, I gave everybody the task of, you had to come up with a report on a historical woman, celeb, historical figure, musician, entrepreneur.

It didn't matter, really. I mean, I'd say historical. History is all in the eye of the beholder, I guess. And so, Eddie, I'll let you go now with yours. Okay, here you go. You have 90 seconds. Who was yours about? The amazing woman that I chose to do my report on is Carol K.

Now, Carol K, you may not know her name, but you definitely have heard her work. In the last 50 years, Carol Kay has played on over 10,000 recordings as a studio musician. She plays the guitar, but mostly known for her work on the bass guitar. In the 1960s and 70s, she recorded bass lines for so many artists, including The Beach Boys, Elvis, Glenn Campbell, The Monkeys, Frank Sinatra. The list goes on and on. Here are a few songs that Carol played on that you just might recognize, starting with good vibrations by the Beach Boys. You may also have heard this song

A Little Less Conversation by Elvis Presley That's her on the bass Here is I'm a Believer by the Monkeys And I saw her face And then of course we all know Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers On the bass as well She also recorded and helped create

Some of these famous famous popular TV show themes including the Brady Bunch, Hawaii 5-0, and the original Batman song. To the Batmobile. We even play some of Carol's music on the show here whenever Lunchbox does some hidden mic stuff. Yeah. She also helped create Mission Impossible. In 2020, Rolling Stone magazine ranked K, number five in its top 50 greatest bases of all times. A lot of times, these session players don't get the recognition,

so I felt I needed to shine a little spotlight on Carol K, the baddest woman around. Women's Day. I have Oprah Winfrey. It's who I've chosen. Love it. 90-second presentation. For International Women's Day. Oprah was born in Mississippi to an unmarried teenage mother. You know her name's Orpa? No.

Her certificate? O-R-P-A-H. Wow. Because it was after the biblical figure in the book of Ruth, but people kept saying Oprah, so that stuck. But her name's Orpah. She grew up dirt poor. Her family was really poor.

She was teased at high school and in school for wearing dresses made a potato sack. She also didn't get her first pair of shoes until she was six years old. Oprah graduated from East Nashville High in 1971, attended Tennessee State University, began her college. After college, she began her television career on Channel 5 in Nashville. And so she's doing local news. She went to Baltimore. And then here she is talking about getting fired from that job in Baltimore.

I was not a good television reporter. I was too emotional. I was making $22,000 a year. Once I got demoted, they didn't want to pay out my contract. I was making $25,000 a year. They didn't want to pay me the $25,000. So they kept me on and said, we'll put you on this talk show just to run out your contract.

It was called People Are Talking. And that Constellation Prize took off. Yeah. She eventually became the host of the Oprah Winfrey show, which year for 25 seasons. Her most, what do you think her biggest watch interview was? Tom Cruise. Michael Jackson.

1993, become the most watched interview of all time with 36 million viewers in the United States. She was a billionaire. $2.6 billion. She is the richest African-American of the 20th century. In 2009, the last 10 minutes of our show confirmed that Oprah would cease. September 9th, 2011,

here she is talking about why she's leaving the show. So why walk away and make next season the last? Here is the real reason. I love this show. This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it's time to say goodbye. 25 years feels right in my bones and it feels right in my spirit. It's the perfect number, the exact right time.

The best to ever do it, and she was once told she wasn't good enough to do it. Crazy. And now she's a billionaire in interviewing Prince Harry and Markle. And whatever their name is. Whatever. Yeah, yeah, Prince Harry and Markle, Megan Markle. Yeah, there you go. Oprah, Winfrey, there you go.

She is who I chose today. It's time for the good news. With Amy. Tell me something good. Oh, man, this is crazy. So this third grader was walking out of a mall in Waco with her mom wearing her birthday crown because it was her birthday. And a homeless woman that was there was like, oh, hey, it's your birthday. I got to give you $20.

And the mom and the dollar were like, no, no, no, no, no. We cannot take your money. No, but someone had just given the homeless woman $100. And she wanted to share some with the birthday. girl. Well, this really brought to attention the need in the area. So the little girl started helping homeless in the community. And they did an event where they were able to feed over 40 people. And they named the event, Pizza My Heart. Like, Peace in My Heart. Get it. And the young girl is hoping to make the Pizza My Heart Day a quarterly event and is already fundraising for

the next one. So shout out to Jada Holmes. You are amazing. And she's only in elementary school. There you go. That's what it's all about. That was Tell Me Something Good. International Women's Day on the Bobby Bones Show. The Bobby Bone Show is proud to be supported by Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, non-profit Christian University based in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. They say higher education is outdated, irrelevant. Well, GCU doesn't settle for the status quo.

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It's designed to make yard care feel doable. Go to get sunday.com to get your free customer. yard analysis. That's get sunday.com. On the Bobby Bones show now, Andrea Kramer. Hey, Andrea. Thanks for joining us. Hi, Amy. How are you? I am wonderful. We're excited to have a multi-emmy award-winning journalist, us and sports reporter. And you're also a lecturer at Boston University. So I want to ask you right out of the gate,

Andrea, what was the most defining moment you felt when breaking through such a male-dominated industry? I guess, Amy, it was so long ago. I really didn't try to think about it because I think if you, I think even as a very, very young cub reporter, that if you think about those things, it can be very daunting and it can dissuade you from what you're trying to do, which is, ironically, prove yourself that you belong. So I don't think that I ever, even as I kept being hired as the first woman in very, jobs, it just didn't phase me. People would bring it up and I was aware of it, but I never

wanted it to define me. I felt pressure because I wanted to perform and hopefully open up doors for other women down the road, but I never let it deter me. Yeah, I mean, and that you definitely have. You're a trailblazer. You opened a lot of doors. So what advice would you give to young women that are looking to get into sports journalism? There's nothing that makes up for hard work. and I always call it doing it the right way, and that can be sort of an amorphous designation. But it does mean that there's a reason that they call it paying your dues and really working your way up because it gives you incredible personal and professional capital. It gives you the experience that is just so valuable.

I mean, I came up, I started off as a writer, then I was a producer, and then I got put on air. But being a writer and a producer helped me so much because when I would go out in the field, for example, and I'd work with Cruz, and they'd say, hey, we can't get that shot, or we can't get, I go, well, you know what? I think we can, because I have done it before myself. Writing skills are so underrated. Yes, you want to get experience, but you've got to know, pardon me, you've got to know how to write. It doesn't matter what you go into. If you go into radio, if you go into print, obviously, if you go into video, you have to know how to write. So really working hard.

And then understanding you should learn as much about as many different things as possible. The proverbial, the more you can do, the more you can do. And it just increases your value to people. Love that. And you know, you're involved in so many things. I mean, from Thursday night football for Amazon Prime. HBO NFL network and CBS Sports Network, and that's just to name a few. So what's the most fulfilling part of your job, or I should say all of your jobs?

Well, I think you kind of hit it. There's something really fulfilling in each one. And, you know, I was at ESPN for 17 years, and I loved it. And the only reason I left is because, truthfully, I got the offer I couldn't refuse from NBC to do Sunday night football and to do the Olympics. So I was very lucky that I left on great terms, and I left completely of my own accord. But when you're at ESPN, you can only work for ESPN. Can't do anything for anybody else. The minute I left ESPN, wow, all these doors opened up.

You know, when I signed with NBC, HBO Real Sports, who had been talking to me for years, they hired me right away. And then the CBS show, the first all-female sports show, opened up. And that presented a totally different opportunity to work with some of the best women, not just broadcasters, but athletes and all-female staff. It was just a great opportunity. And truthfully, Amy, you know, an all-female show, I used to call it, which, you know, kind of makes people win a little bit, the view for sports. But that's, in essence, what the pitch was. And that's, you know, the show is morphed into so much more than that. And then, of course, Thursday Night Football was just something that you kind of never even think of.

I mean, I'm going to analyze football games. It wasn't something that was ever on my radar. But truthfully, when you have, I got to say it, when you have the best agent in the business who is constantly thinking ahead and thinking about what's really great strategy-wise for your career, for him to put both Hannah Storm and me in that position is amazing. So each job brings its unique challenges. But listen, I mean, I'm a journalist to heart. Long-form journalism, I think is what I do.

You know, you mentioned all my awards. I mean, that's what my awards are for. It's incredibly fulfilling. You know, certain stories that I've done, which you really feel have made an impact on people in a variety of ways. That's hugely important to me. We're talking with Andrea Kramer Emmy Award-winning journalist for International Women's Day. And Andrea, we want to take amplifying women beyond a conversation and put it into action.

So what's a simple thing that you would share with everyone right now as a way that they can support other women? Well, just that stereotype of women. Yeah, yeah, let's be catty. And trust me, I think that men lie in wait looking for that. Well, you sure as heck don't want to feed that. Also, Amy, truthfully, I subscribe to what your mom told you. If you got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. But it is really important to support women.

And that's one thing that I am hugely proud of my friendship and partnership with Hannah-Storm. People, they can tell what's real, okay? and ultimately we want our listeners that are choosing the Hennestorm, Andrea Kramer option on Amazon Prime Video Thursday Night Football. We want them to think, hey, you know, we're just hanging out with Hannah and Andrea watching a game. But you know what? They want to sense and feel our personalities. They want to sense and feel our interaction.

When we joke with each other, when we – Hannah went to Notre Dame, the world knows that. I never let her forget that. I don't let the audience forget it. All right, Hanna, here we go. another Golden Dome or, you know what, just joking with people. But supporting each other is very, very genuine. You know, Amy, I'm all about action. You can talk a lot about things, but let your actions truly speak for themselves.

And I think that what Hannah and I have together is something that really does that. It speaks for itself. Well, Andrea, thank you for all of your wisdom today. It's truly an honor to have you on. So thanks for joining us for International Women's Day. Andrea Kramer, everybody. Well, thank you, Amy. Thanks for having me on. And to you, your families, your listeners, everybody stay healthy and safe out there. All right, thanks. Bye. Thank you. Bye-bye.

International Women's Day on the Bobby Bones Show. All right, we have two reports left. But by the way, go back and listen to the podcast. You'll hear 90-second reports on Judge Judy from Ramundo. Amy had Robin Roberts. I did Oprah Winfrey. Eddie did. Carol Kay. Carol Kay, a bassist. Up left is Morgan number two in Lunchbox. Morgan, you're up first. Well, I have Dolly Parton. All right, here we go.

Ninety-second presentation for International Women's Day. Dolly Parton is a legendary singer-songwriter, performer, actor, philanthropist, and just an all-around cultural icon. And yes, she even has her own theme park. Out of the thousands of songs she's written, her biggest hits include Jolene. I will always love you, 9 to 5, coat of many colors. and Islands in the Stream with Kenny Rogers. And that's just to name a few.

And Dolly didn't get where she is without being multi-talented. There's at least eight instruments we know of that Dolly can play, including the banjo, saxophone, guitar, and piano. Dolly Parton didn't always have things easy, though. She grew up very poor and was one of 12 kids. During her first performance on the syndicated television show, the Porter Wagner Show, she was booed offstage. And now she's been married to her husband, Carl Dean, for 55 years this May.

She founded the imagination library to make sure kids all over had access to books. And that was in honor of her father who was never able to read her right. And that program has since given out over 150 million books. Dolly's ability to have fans of all walks of life and continually inspire those fans is what makes her legendary. But not only that, she turned down Elvis Presley's request to record one of her famous songs. She's been nominated for a Grammy 50 times. She wrote her first song at the age of five, and she holds two Guinness World Records. I totally stand, Dolly Parton.

There it is. Good one. And wrapping up our presentations today, lunchbox, who you doing? Someone by the name of Anna Mae Bullock. Okay. Awesome. Yeah, also. Okay, here we go.

Yeah. Here we go. Hit it. Ninety-second presentation for International Women's Day. Let me introduce you to Anna Mae Bullock. Oh, you don't know that name. Does the name Tina Turner ring a bell? That's right, from Nut Bush City, Tennessee.

The one, the only, Tina Turner. She wants to teach all of you women and all you kids and all you people out there. If you want something, you go get it. She was in a club in St. Louis. She sees Ike's band up there. She's like, I want to sing. She goes up to Ike says, let me sing on that mic. He goes, yeah, yeah, I'll call you.

He never calls. So during intermission, she gets on the mic and sings and Ike's like, This girl's amazing. Says, you're going to be in my band. And then Ike writes a song for another dude and they go to the studio to record it. The guy never shows up. And Tina Turner says, I'll sing it. Sings it.

And that's what gets them the record deal. It was supposed to be a demo and it was just supposed to be thrown in the trash. Ike and Tina, the review, they go on to have huge success. Make Grammys. They're nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. but, but, Ike is a jerk, abusive. He beats Tina and she's tired of it. So finally one night they land in Dallas on the way of the hotel, he beats her.

She sneaks out of the hotel and hides and she files for divorce and she walks into that courtroom. And she says, I don't want any of the money. I don't want the houses. All I want is my name. And Ike Turner had trademarked Tina Turner. So she wasn't going to be able to get it. She said, that's all I want because I want to be able to perform. And she got the name.

And for seven years, she performed in hotels and things, and she was just a novelty act. Then she hits it out of the park with, let's stay together. She does the cover. That, whoa, she does. Private dancer. Two weeks, she makes the album. She goes on to sell over a hundred million records. Do you understand?

She's in a Guinness Bunker World record. She was performing for 180,000 people in Brazil. the most ever for a single artist at that time. She is one of the greatest of all time, 12 Grammy Awards. She was the first female and first black artist on the cover of Rolling Stone. So if you want something, you go get it.

That is Tina Turner, and I'm going to cry. There it is. Way laughing. He loves Tina Turner and he always has, and I love seeing him so passionate. There wasn't a lot written down in front of him. That was all from his heart. Well, obviously, because he didn't time.

It's about four minutes long. Hey, her tour in 1988, over four million fans, the most ever for a female artist. Dang. Hey, scuba, we've been trying to get Tina Turner for like 10 years. Oh, really? Listen. And no one's been at, we've tried to get her for probably 15 years. I didn't know this.

I'll get her on. If you're okay with it, I'll put her on the show. We'd love to have her on. We've tried unsuccessfully for years. Okay, I'll do it. Listen, she has the thing on HBO Max coming out, and she's up for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. If we can get her on. Oh, that's true.

the HBO Max thing may actually be a way in to go, we'd like to interview her. Can I at least ask one question though when she comes on? You can ask all the questions. That's it. International Women's Day on the Bobby Bone Show with Amy Brown. So I became a mom three years ago when I adopted two kids from Haiti and as

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Now, Kendra Scott joins Forbes lists of a business. America's richest self-made women, thanks to her fast-growing jewelry line. And Kendra, I remember listening to your episode with Guy Raz on how I built this. And I was just so fascinated. Plus, being that I was born and raised in Austin, I knew of your line early, early on. So I feel like I've watched your business grow. And it makes me think about my daughter because she loves to make bracelets. and she gets so excited when they sell out online, and she uses what she makes to buy supplies and then keeps a little for her hard work,

and then she donates the rest to the orphanage that she grew up at in Haiti. So I'm just curious what advice that you would give young girls that want to start their own business? Well, first of all, I want to hire your daughter. So we got to work on that. She absolutely sounds like an amazing girl. Oh, my goodness, you must be so proud.

of her, Amy. I am. You know, I think, first of all, you have to do something you love, right? You've got to be passionate about it. You've got to be excited. And I think that's key. You know, I just invested on the last Shark Tank episode in this amazing 17-year-old girl who started a sauce company called Sienna Sauce.

And she started making her sauces when she was just eight years old. So you're never too young to start. And if you've got a dream, you've got a great idea, you know, go for it and try to do something that no one else is doing. You know, I always say be disruptive and that there's no dream that's too big. You know, I started with $500 out of my extra bedroom, making everything by hand, selling my product door to door. No way in a million, bazillion years would I have thought you would have just said the words you said that I am one of Forbes' richest self-made women. at the time. I was just hoping to pay my rent, Amy. So don't think your dream is too big. Truly, you know, I'm here to say that, you know, truly anything is possible. And Kendra, what made you

you decide to encourage philanthropy? You know, I mentioned that my daughter likes to donate back to the orphanage in Haiti, but you've made philanthropy as one of your core values of your company. So why was that super important to you? You know, I lost my stepfather to brain cancer when I was just a junior in high school, he was diagnosed. And from that moment, my whole life changed. You know, I realized how precious life was, and he was such an example of helping others and really enforcing to me that we have a short time on this earth. And while we're here, we need to do something good. We need to make a positive impact. And so my first company I started, I did headwear for women undergoing chemotherapy, men and women. Because of him, he inspired me to do that.

And when that business didn't work out the way I wanted it to, and I started my jewelry line, I knew that for me, success would mean to be able to make a difference in the world. That when I'd sit on my front porch, you know, at 80, 90 years old, that I wanted to look back and know that I did something good, that I helped people around me. And I made a difference. And that's how we measure success at Kendra Scott. And that's for all of us. And so from day one, you know, I was making necklaces at the charity called for a silent auction because that's what I could do.

I couldn't write a big check because I didn't have the money in my account to do that. But now, as we've grown over the last 19 years, we've been able to do both. We've been able to show up physically, build homes for people through habitat for humanity. We've been able to give large research grants to Breast Cancer Research Foundation. we're able to help local communities by, you know, saying, like, look, if there a flood, is there a hurricane, how can we come in and help you locally? So since 2010, we've given $40 million, Amy, to women's and children's charities, which is like, I think for me, the biggest number.

I'm the most proud of what we're doing, which just blows me away. No, it's truly amazing. I love that. And can you share with our listeners about the hashtag choose to chat? for International Women's Day? I would love to hear more about that. Yeah, absolutely. Well, first of all, you know, what a day. It's never been a better time to be a woman. And I think it's so important that, you know, we really do challenge ourselves to try to do more. And I always say that as women, when we hold hands, when we stand together and lift each other up, it's stopping,

breaking those barriers of putting each other down, right? It's time to lift each other up, hold hands, support each other. And when we do that, we're unstoppable. Right now, you know, I'm challenging myself to help raise the amount of venture capital given to women-founded companies. Only 17% of funding goes to women-founded companies. That to me is just not okay. And so my challenge is that I want to see that change. And even with my, you know, exposure on Shark Tank this season, you'll see I invested in a lot, you know, really all female founded companies, not just because they were female, because they were the best ones there and have the greatest ideas. And so I'm excited. I think we all need to choose to challenge

ourselves in how we can support women, how we can support and believe in ourselves as women to really go after our dreams and achieve success and happiness in our lives. So, you know, we want to take this beyond conversation, this women, empowering women, beyond just talk. So what are simple things that everyone can do right now to support more women? You know, I think that's a really beautiful thing to say. First of all, be there for each other. Celebrate. When you hear someone have an achievement, another friend, a promotion at their jobs,

they're starting a business. I want to see us women reaching out with celebration, with congratulations, with, again, that lifting each other up and showing up for each other, this mentality of being jealous or, you know, all of those things, we've got to put those actions outside of our brain. When we put out good positive energy, it will come back to us. Good things happen to good people. I believe it with my whole heart. And I think that's such an easy thing for us to do, you know, and support local businesses owned by women and do what you can to just go out there and really support them day to day. You know, we have to raise awareness against bias

and take action for ourselves. Fight for your higher pay. Go in and not be afraid to say, I deserve this. I am working hard for this. Use your voice to make a difference in a positive way. Well, Kendra, thank you so much for your encouragement today. If people want to find you on Instagram, you are at Kendra Scott. And I'll get my daughter Stashear at a stick. a bracelet in the mail for you. Oh, I can't wait. And I've got an episode three coming out that I was on for Shark Tank later this spring. Don't have a date yet, but should be soon. So I'd love for you guys to watch. It'll be another great one. Oh, for sure. We love seeing you on Shark Tank. You've done. As an Austinite, you, I feel like a bond with you, but I know that women all over are definitely

cheering you on always. Oh, thank you so much. And happy International Women's Day. You are an amazing woman, Amy, and I'm so happy that we could talk today. Awesome. Yeah, same here. Thanks, Kendra. Bye. Bye-bye. Thank you. International Women's Day on the Bobby Bones show. The see her, hear her event, it's happening. So that's on Facebook tonight, or YouTube. YouTube and Facebook, both at 8 p.m. Across the board, all time zones. Yes. Also, check out the Seneca women's podcast. A hundred women's voices featured all month on the IR Radio app. Each episode, you hear from many different women who made a huge impact. They will motivate generations of women to be brave, be bold, and be heard. Also, got to thank Allergan aesthetics for supporting us and for supporting women on International

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