The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Alisa Applewhite – CEO of Top of the Line Healthcare Staffing

Episode Date: April 28, 2023

Alisa Applewhite - CEO of Top of the Line Healthcare Staffing Topofthelinehealthcarestaffing.com

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She is a CEO times three. She owns three businesses, top of the line healthcare staffing, the real Lisa Applewhite Consulting. I should have that, the real Chris Voss Consulting. And T-O-T-L-H-S, Heart of is her non-profit she even has a non-profit look at her uh i'm a native or she's a native i'm reading her bio in third person by the way uh she is a native of new jersey residing in north carolina for 21 years does that make you a native still of uh they won't claim me they told me that i can't come back i mean have you seen new jersey lately can't even pump your I mean, have you seen New Jersey lately?

You can't even pump your own gas there. She has an amazing husband. At least that's what she's saying for now. It depends on what day you catch her. I'm just kidding. I don't know what's going on in her house. But she has an amazing husband and five beautiful children. She's been in health care for 18 years.

Her passion is taking care of people and educate them about health. Her mission is to change the patient's view by restoring compassion, integrity, and trust into every patient, staff, and client. Welcome to the show, Elisa. How are you? I am good, Chris. How are you? Oh my God, I love it. I need for you to read all my bios. That was like awesome. And I love the injectives. They were like awesome. Yeah, we, we do improv and people's bias. Some of the authors, they come on and go, what the fuck is he doing?

That's not the boy. What's going on? Uh, it's what kind of drugs is he on? It's coffee people. It's lots of coffee. Uh, so at least to give us your.coms,

wherever you want people to find you on the interwebs and some of your different companies there. All right. So you can follow me at the, uh,.com. Again, that's therealAAC.com. On top of the line, healthcare staffing, you can do www.topofthelinehealthcarestaffing.com. Yes, it's that long, but people never forget the name. um you can follow me on all social media platforms if you just look for the real elisa applewhite that is the real elisa applewhite there you go so uh let's talk a little bit about your origin story you grew up in new jersey where you can't

pump your own gas as i mentioned earlier i don't know why i'm bringing that in the thing but that's and there's a lot of chemicals in the air i think and and i think there's like there's that one mafia dude who owns a strip club there wait that's a tv show yeah i was like oh you know because you know you know people well i grew up in jersey city new jersey um and i actually have six siblings so um surprisingly i have five kids right so we grew up in jersey new jersey and um my mom you're trying to compete with your mom I'm sorry Lisa I just had to keep that joke no they you know it's it's people that says you normally do the same things your mom do I don't know you know but I'm not competing anymore Chris I told you we not have no more kids that's it that's it we're done um so we grew up in New Jersey and I actually

moved to North Carolina when I was 17. I moved to North Carolina and my mother was pretty much just like, you know, where I go, you go. So she moved to North Carolina with her husband and I hated it. Oh my God, Chris, I hated it because it wasn't the store you had to drive to everything in North Carolina. Like you couldn't just walk to the bodega and get you a sandwich or something. So it was so different. But I knew it was a great atmosphere to raise my son because I had my son when I was 14. So I knew it would be a great place to run to raise him. And I went here, stayed in North Carolina, went to college here in North Carolina, became a nurse. Before I became a nurse, I was a certified nursing assistant for about four years.

And I think it's five. I'll be forgetting how many years, Chris, but I know I used to help patients one-to-one. So I was a certified nursing assistant. And for people who don't know what that is, that's the assistant to the nurse where you bathe the patients, you brush the patient's teeth. If the teeth in their mouth or out their mouth, you brush their hair. If they have a wig or not, you get them right for the day. You get them normalized on based how they normally are. I did that for a couple of years. Then I became a licensed practical nurse, which is an LPN. That is primarily the nurse who works in nursing homes and doctor's offices. And then I became a registered nurse because they always have this joke in nursing, like,

hey, so if you're an LPN, you're a low paid nurse. And I'm just like, what? If you're a real nurse, and I'm just like, but I'm still a real nurse. But they're like, okay, well, then get your RN so you get paid for it. You know, you, you do the same things. It's just like one or two things that you don't do as an LPN and the RN. So I said, okay, I want to be an RN. And I also wanted to be an RN because they told me the only how I could get into the emergency room is I had to be a registered nurse. And I knew that God prepared me, like made me to be an emergency room nurse because I loved it. I love the shootings. I love the stabs. I love, I love the patients that overdose anything that I could save a life right away. That was me.

That's awesome. Yeah, absolutely. I did that for about I did nursing altogether for 14 years and I traveled as a nurse for seven years. Let's see. We did. I apologize. I thought I put down do not disturb. So we did travel nursing for about seven years and we travel. I travel COVID for two years. I'll tell you about that story a little bit later. I traveled COVID for two years. I was an ICU nurse, ER nurse, med-surg nurse, psychiatric nurse. Oh, those are some stories, Chris. Those are some stories right there, I'm telling you. I did that and absolutely loved it. I love nursing. I love everything about nursing.

And I knew that I wanted to start a business. And I had a very good friend that I went to nursing school with who started the same business I did, which is health care staffing. And she, like, coached me and mentored me and taught me to connect to the right people. And then in 2021, we started top of the line healthcare staffing. Wow. And so you guys provide staff, nurses for companies that need to fill up and stuff. I imagine you probably have a book or two in you from your COVID experiences of traveling and nursing. We, I do. I have a book actually coming out. It's not about the COVID experience, but it's how to show nurses, how show health care staffing owners how to target premium clients so they can create seven figures in their business.

Because along my journey, I met a lot of health care staffing owners that's been in business longer than me and don't have clients. And I'm just like, I don't understand. But maybe I can motivate and help. And that's how the Consultant Baby came about. But what we do is we staff nurses, CNAs, LPNs, RNs, respiratory therapists, CRNAs, and nurse practitioners in hospitals. So like Duke Hospital, UNC hospitals, and nursing homes that also need assistance, and then doctor's offices that need assistance. So most hospitals and doctor's offices are integrated. So they are working with each other. So normally when you get a hospital contract, you normally get the doctor's office contract.

And they just fill in the role that a regular staff nurse will be. So it's temporary staffing until they find somebody to fit that role. But the great thing about my company is I don't mind directly hiring or my staff to go to that hospital. So my clients, they get to I tell them you get to test drive the nurse. You get to see what the nurse is doing. And if you love them and it's a good fit for them and it's a good fit for you. I'm not a staffing agency that be like, oh, no, you can't have my staff. It's about the patients for me. Right. And if that medical professional is providing such great patient care that that hospital is so happy to have them and that works for that medical professional's decision, then go. I made the connection. The connection's there. God is going

to bless me regardless. I'm going to keep going. But that is my goal is to make sure that we are getting medical professionals at the bedside that is caring for patients when the door is closed, Chris. Because when the door is closed, Chris, because when the door is closed, you could get a different type of medical professional any day of the week. And you want that person to have that integrity, that professionalism when the door is closed, because that's what matters is how I treat you, not how I perform to get into a business, not how I perform in front of a bunch of group of nurses or medical professionals, but how I perform when I'm privately with the patient. So that is what we target with top of the line. I love that you have that metric. I have a sister with MS and now

dementia from the MS who's been in a care center for a long time. She's been in five or six care centers. And the care is many times uh it depends upon the nurse atrocious my mom advocates for and goes almost up every day and you know the the facilities have reached a point where they're hiring all these temp workers because they pay so horribly they can't get good workers which is ironic because they're paying more for the temp workers and it's the the business model is just insane. And they're bought out by all these big companies when they used to be family-owned.

But yeah, the level of care and the horror stories that I've seen and heard when it comes to some of these facilities, and like you say, when the door's closed, when no one's paying attention or they're understaffed, it's just, it's insane, some of the stuff that goes on and sadly in these care centers, like, you know, the families aren't checking in to advocate for them like they would a hospital. So I feel your pain on that one. And see, that's what I express to people. Like everybody has some type of patient story in their lives or have been a patient themselves. And that matters,

right? Because if you are that person in that bed, like, you know, with the MS, if you, you know, your sister, she got MS, she got dementia. When I hear MS and dementia, she don't know what's going on on a daily basis, right? She has to be reminded on, hey, brush your hair, brush your teeth, let's go to the bathroom, right? And that takes a medical professional with compassion to just say, you know, I'm going to actually do it for you. I'm going to actually remind you to do it. You know, in dementia patients, you have to remind them multiple times. I mean, it could be 10 to 20 times in one hour, but you got to have the compassion to remind them, say, hey, no, this is your room. No, this is where we're going to sit down and eat. And that's the medical professionals that I'm breeding.

Like that is the ones that when I asked God, I said, and this is where the COVID comes in. Right. When I was doing COVID travel, I've always been passionate about health care. But it took me to another level when I did the COVID travel and we traveled to New York. Um, I did Texas and I did, um, California. I did a lot of California travel as COVID and we worked 60 to 70 hours a week. And I'm not going to lie, Chris, it was probably 10 to 10 to 15 body bags that we put patients in per day. And that was enough to mentally drive anybody crazy. Right. Um, so I seen that medical professionals that were so happy and thrilled to go to work were just like, man, you know, am I even going to make it out here to see my family? Um, I've lost some friends as well,

who, who died and left kids and husbands and stuff. So I remember particularly this one patient, 19 year old person. And I was taking care of them. And the doctor was just like, you know, Lisa, we're going to have to turn off. We're going to have to turn off the machine because the vent, we're going to turn off the vent because, you know, they're just, it's just not the comorbidities and stuff is just not working. So we're going to have to turn it off. And I remember crying and praying and just like, you know what, God, if I make it out here alive with my five kids and my husband, and I left home when my daughter was six months. So I left for two whole years off and on home. So I'm like, God, if I make it out here, I promise you any dream that I have, any dream or goal that these people have that I'm putting in this body bag,

I'm just going to live it to the fullest. I'm going to live my life to the fullest. I'm going to wear every piece of clothing I have, every piece of jewelry, you know, like, God, just let me make it out here. And it's crazy because I made it out for some reason. I think this, the purpose is of course here is targeting the world. But, um, when we made it out, I come home to my husband, Chris, right. And this is why he's so amazing. And I'm just like, Oh, we're taking everything we have. We're taking our savings and starting a business. And he was like, wait, I don't, I don't think this is the time, because the world has shut down. He's like, no, not all of our savings. That was all of our savings and we're starting this business.

And he's just like, you know what? You're jumping off a cliff. I'm going to jump with you. That is awesome. Yeah. We jumped off a cliff and two years later, we have a very, very successful health care staffing business. And what COVID taught me was I had a lot of patients. I had one patient in particular who had a rosary and they held on to that rosary. And I mean, it meant the world to them until we had to intubate them. And then they eventually passed away. And I remember getting that rosary

and they didn't want to give family members the items, right? So they was like, no, we don't want to give anything to anybody. And I'm just like, this rosary meant something to this patient. So I need to sanitize it, do what I need to do, but I need to get it back to that family member. And I was after several arguments with the hospital and their staff, I was able to get that rosary back to that wife. And it meant something to her because apparently her husband's mom gave it to her. Right. So it's like, I said, you know what? We hold stuff so dear. We buy all these name brand clothes, these cars and all this fancy stuff. And at any moment, what COVID showed me, it could be gone from you, right? It could just be gone. So it's best for me to spend a lot of my time and energy with raising my kids and

showing them how to be productive citizens in life and just showing them the love. So that, that is what COVID did for me. And I'm really, really passionate about getting the right medical professional at their bedside to help, you know, that patient. And like you was discussing, you pay more for healthcare staffing than you do for your regular staff. But in reality, you actually pay cheaper for healthcare staffing than you do for regular staff because staffing agencies pay all the costs. So we pay the workers comp, we pay the professional liability. If anything happens, we eat that cost where the hospital just pays one flat fee just to have that experience medical professional at the bedside. They don't have to pay for orientation.

They don't have to pay for background checks or drug screens. They don't have to pay for like the recheck some drug screens. Staffing agencies, they eat that. So what nursing, what hospitals and doctor's offices do, they'll pay that high fee now, but they want permanent staff because you know, the more permanent staff you have invested in your company, the more effective it's going to be for you. Most definitely. And it sounds like you really look for high integrity and, you know, most, most people, I think they're in the nursing business. At least that's my impression are, are people who really care about doing a great job. They care about human beings.

They want to help people. It's something that is important to them. I mean, it's certainly a career that's vaulted because I couldn't do it. I can't deal with blood. I can't deal with anything to do with the human body. It doesn't involve me just putting food in my pie hole of my face. But, you know, I can't do it. I can

never draw someone's blood. I pass out when they draw my blood, so there's that. So tell us how people that might be listening can get involved with your company. You hire top medical staff, and people can also, or people can, companies can hire your staff, and then can also, or people can, companies can hire your

staff. And then of course, people can apply to be part of your team. What sort of medical people, what are some of the terminologies, CNAs and stuff like that, that people can use to hire you? Okay. So actively we are hiring registered nurses and licensed practical nurses. We have CNAs that we are at our max at right now. So it's been amazing. Two years for us will be May of this year, 2023. And in this two-year period, we actually staffed 230 nurses. We staffed 70 different clients. We can operate in New York, New Jersey, but we only do North Carolina right now. And we just looked at our two days ago. No, last week we looked at our applicants and we had four thousand two hundred and ninety one people to apply. So we want to make sure that we are targeting those people. So I always tell people you you can go to the website

at www.topofthelinehealthcarestaffing.com and get in there. But we are processing applications. We do testing for our medical professionals to make sure we are making sure they are passing our personality and compassionate testing as well. We want to make sure that we're putting the best person at their bedside, you know, and it's not at a cost of the patient. It just, that has to stop. It has to stop and it stops with me having this platform. So you can reach out to us at www.topofthelinehealthcarestaffing.com. And then we can talk about the baby, which I absolutely love. This is our nonprofit. It's called TLTLHS Hard to Go Inc.

This came about because, Chris, literally my accountant said, you're going to give away the money, so you might as well start a nonprofit. So that's how we did it. So we have a lot of incentives that we give to our medical professional and top of the line business. And we started a nonprofit so we can continue those incentives. And one of the things that we're really, really passionate about is I remember in COVID sitting on the ICU floor and on the laptop document. And I'm just like, what if they had some type of event for medical professionals that just celebrated them and educated them on how to manage their finances

and gave them a little bit of debt assistance to help them push. So you don't have to be that medical professional like I was, walking to work or riding a bike to work. Um, I remember those days, you know, um, I remember being homeless. Like I remember all of those days and I'm like, what if you had an event that celebrate medical professionals and allow them to tell their story and people to listen to them? Um, so that's what we did. We did the hard to go gala that is in November of 2023. It's going to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina. And Chris, I will definitely send you an invite. Sure. To come. So it's going to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina.

And what we do is celebrate 52 medical professionals. They get a chance to get up and tell their stories about their experience in healthcare. These medical professionals come highly recommended from our clients. They're the top of the top of the top of the line. And five of them get a chance to walk away with $5,000 of debt assistance. They also get a financial person to connect with them and show them on how to manage their money, how to apply the $5,000 to their debt to help decrease their debt. They also get connected with a credit specialist, and this is all over a five-month period that helps them learn how to look at their credit,

the importance of their credit, and how to take that money to help decrease their debt to income ratio. And if they don't own a home, because the new initiative for 2023 is a hundred homes for a hundred medical professionals. If they don't own a home, then we connect them to a realtor and a mortgage officer to get them prepared to own a home. My goal this year is to get all 52 people the option to walk away with this not just five people um so i am going to be broadcasting this every time i open my mouth because medical professionals go through so much and chris when you said i can't deal with blood the story that came in my story was huh if he can't deal with blood maybe i should tell him about the patient that used to write his abcs with his feces on the wall.

Oh, clean it up. Wow. That's Wednesdays. So he went before he before he would do it, he would start writing the A's on the wall. And I'm like, oh, he needs to be changed. He needs to be changed. It gives me an idea what I do when I'm going to hit that diaper phase in my 70s or 80s. I'll just, I'll just, that's how, that's how I'll let the nurse know.

Hey, it's time for, time to change Chris's diaper. Not time to change Chris's diaper. But that, that is what I'm doing. The Heart of Gold Gala. I want people to come get excited about it. We're celebrating medical professionals every year. As long as I have breath in my body, this event will occur. I mean,

occur? You know what I'm saying. It'll happen. It will happen. It'll occur. See, Jersey would have disowned me for that. Jersey would have disowned me for that. Yeah. You know, you got a hot dog and you got a hot dog. You know, stuff like that.

It's Jersey. You're better off in north carolina i don't know jersey is a wonderful place i don't mean to knock it i might lose the two listeners in jersey there uh but i don't know i mean they're they're busy having someone pump their gas i don't know what that means but i'm just doing like mafia references from the hbo tv show what the hell was it um the uh uh that old gangster movie was that was that that had the bottom being clubbed the strip club and there was a HBO gangster movie the mob movie and again Gandolfini yeah the actor Gandolfini yeah anyway it's a big mob movie. It's really popular.

He goes to see a psychiatrist and stuff. So I'm just trying to pull references for that movie. So, Elisa, this is awesome. I love the Heart of Gold Gal idea. It's kind of like the Oscars for nurses and doctors. Yes, I like that. Chris, I want to steal that. Can I steal that?

Yeah, please do. Please do. I mean, that's what I saw when I looked at the website. I'm like, wow, man. Maybe I'll learn to like drawing blood and stuff if I can go to the Oscars of nursing. There's always that.

There should be. During COVID, healthcare workers were on the front lines of a war. It was a war. They were putting their lives on the line for our country. I remember some of the beautiful moments at the early start of it where people were outside the hospital honking the horns

and trying to support people. And it was just kind of moving to see the support that health care workers are getting. And let me ask you this. I'm kind of curious about this. We've had a few authors on the show. They're written about that are doctors and nurses, and they're telling us that there's you know, there's kind of a decline in the future of healthcare workers where you know,

a lot of doctors, a lot of nurses left the field over COVID. And maybe there's not a lot of new kids coming in from the new generations. What are you seeing in the future of healthcare and personnel and all that? Are we growing or are we starting to dwindle a little bit? I think we're going to continue growing. And the reason why we're going to continue growing, because just like the market goes up, it goes down. You have your tragic or your pandemic areas where people just get burnt out. And that's what I've seen. I've seen less burnout, but more of my hope is gone. Every skill that you learn, you're using it on people and they're still dying. That's enough to mentally drive anybody crazy.

So this is where top of the line healthcare staffing comes in, where we not only putting in medical professionals, well, this is actually what a consulting company comes in, the real Elisa Applewhite Consulting. We're not only putting in medical professionals in the hospital temporary for the staffing company, but now we are educating the hospitals on how to retain their staff. We are also doing one-to-one education with medical professionals to show them on how to get that compassion back, to get back on the mission, get back on the oath that we made. Because once you're a medical professional, that oath is deeper than any amount that anybody pays you. And you see somebody else is getting paid and they're doing less work. You're like, oh, I want to get paid more. I want to get paid, but it's not about the pay based on what you go

through. I don't feel like there's enough money that you can pay a medical professional based on the mental stuff that they go through on a daily basis. So I don't think that it's going to decrease. I know with me being out here in the world, I'm going to target a lot of hospitals, nursing homes, and medical professionals. So we can try not to have that drastic decrease, but it comes with time, but there'll always be medical professionals that's trying to get into medical school or I mean, medical school and nursing school. And the thing about it is there's just not enough slots in the nursing schools or the medical schools to graduate them quick enough. You have a lot of people that apply to these schools and they only have this amount of slots.

And then you got to wait a whole nother year. Some people don't wait another year to go into other professions. Wow. You know, so I think that if they come with me to consult them appropriately, these colleges and hospitals, I can get them some more medical staff. They just got to come get me, you know. There you go. And they can do that at your other site, right? The Real Alaysia Applewhite Consulting. Yeah, therealac.com. There you go. There you go. There you go. And so you've got different packages on there, products that you have up for things, education for life.

People can go there and then, of course, they can, I guess, get in touch with you and do one-on-one consultations with you. Yes, definitely. If they want to do one-on-one consultations, they can. We do have 15-minute free consultations just to make sure that we're a fit. And if we're not a fit, because I make sure I network so heavily, I always connect them to the right people. There you go. Networking is really important and really smart too, as always. Anything more we haven't discussed on everything you do there with your three different companies? No. I think we discussed everything.

I just want people to know that compassion is everything for me. Compassion can't be taught. You have to have it. Once you have it, then I can revitalize it, bring it back to life. Some people, they just ain't got time

for that. If you don't have time for that, then don't be in health care. I mean, there's other jobs, you know, there's other jobs. But with this mission, Chris, we are going to help medical professionals who felt like they lost it, felt like they lost the hope, felt like they lost the skills, regain it and get back out there and take care of patients because at any moment right now while i'm talking to you right now while you're talking to me i can have a heart attack you can have a stroke we both patients who gonna take care of us chris we're gonna do it you know i hope it's you because i'm i i can't take care of anybody i'd be like i'll call 911 call 911, but I'm not going to take your blood because I'll pass out. Well, we want to make sure that somebody is prepared to take care of us.

Exactly. Who can take blood without passing out? Exactly. Because then as two patients, that happened to me so many times where you're like, hey, look, can you tolerate blood? Because I'm not taking care of two people. I'll be in the next bed. That's why I appreciate healthcare workers because they can do stuff I can't. My brother went to school to be a doctor and I'm just like, good for you, man.

Because I can never like, you know, I start losing my mind if I, you know, I'm not so bad as I used to be, but it used to be if I didn't have a big meal, I'd start getting woozy after having my blood taken. I'd be like a big baby. Just even getting like the COVID shots. I was like, oh, God, don't hurt me.

Don't hurt me. I'm like a big boob when it comes down to any of that sort of stuff. You know, I go from being a man to just a baby. Don't stab me with a needle. It's going to hurt for a day. The best thing, Chris, is to see a muscle-down man like all they do is in the gym all day and you pull out that needle and they just start crying.

I always say, if somebody's pranking me, it's asking because you're around, like, what's going on? This is so funny. They'll start crying and you have to remain professional. At one point, I'm just like? Like, this is so funny. And they'll start crying and you have to remain professional. And at one point, I'm just like, look, if you could pick up 500 pounds, you could take this needle, okay? You got to love it, man. You got to love it.

Well, this has been wonderful to have you on. And I'm glad there's people like you, Elisa, in the business doing this and making the business better. Because we need more nurses. Because I think we lost a few during the business and more doctors and stuff so i when i reach the age where i need to start seeing the doctor on a regular basis i want to want to be able to have somebody there because otherwise you know i don't want to have to take my own blood that was right well call me chris we will i will call you we will call you personal staff sir oh that's what that's right i didn't get rich enough i'll just hire my own staff to be in my house, and they can take my blood.

I think there's a guy doing that. He spends $2 million a year to have his own staff and his own system set up in his home. He does the perfect eating. He's trying to live forever, I guess, which is kind of delusional when you think about it. But hey, man, if you want to spend $2 million to see if you can pull it off, good for you. Have fun with that. I don't think I'll charge you $2 million a year. That's a lot of money, Chris.

For one person? He's doing a lot of stuff. He's trying to do all this Fountain of Youth sort of holistic crap. They're constantly monitoring him and checking him and stuff. I don't know, man. I got to 55 without seeing the doctor very often. I just have a thing

where I just try not to see them as much as possible. It seems to be working for me. Just like that. I evidently am blessed with some good genetics. So I have that.

That and I don't do stupid shit like go skiing and stuff like and sliding into a tree. Anyway, Elisa, give us your plugs, your dot com so people can find you on the interwebs and get to know you better. OK, you can find me at www.topofthelinehealthcarestaffing.com That's www.topofthelinehealthcarestaffing.com. That's www.topofthelinehealthcarestaffing.com. Or you can find me at www.therealaac.com slash gala. I want everybody to go to that one. Definitely go to that one. So www.therealaac.com slash gala.

So you can register for the gala, y'all. I'm excited. Thank you so much, Chris, for having me. And thank you for coming. We really appreciate it. It's been fun and funny. You know, we need to have an Oscars that's for the nursing and health care. Screw those Hollywood people.

Screw those people. Yeah, let's put the Oscars of nursing on TV. Let's have a big celebration like the Academy Awards, red carpet, and all that sort of stuff. Let's take care of the people who actually take care of us, you know? Hey, I've never had like Robert De Niro take my blood. Screw that guy. They're wonderful people. They are wonderful people. Robert De Niro, Take My Blood. Screw that guy. They're wonderful people.

They are wonderful people and the way they got to act. That's true. Some of them might end up in the psych war where nurses are. My psychiatrist says I should have been there a long time ago. He's still recommending a frontal lobotomy. Anyway, thank you very much for coming

on the show, Elisa. We really appreciate it. Thank you for having me. I really, really appreciate it as well. There you go. And thanks for tuning into my audience. Go to goodreads.com, FortressCrispFoss, YouTube.com, FortressCrispFoss,

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