 I'm an everyday woman, woman, woman, in everywhere, yeah, yeah, I'm living my life, life, life, living day by day. Welcome to Every Way Woman. There are some major changes happening in the talk show world. Welcome back to Every Way Woman. So let's have a real conversation about women taking over traditional men's roles. Madison, you've seen in sports, you've seen in marriages of your friends that women are kind of stepping in on the men. Okay, but I'm not exactly sure what you mean, like women are becoming football players? No, well there are women who are trying to be on men's pro teams. There's the woman who just joined as one of the assistant coaches on a men's basketball team. What do you think about that? If a woman is trying to be a coach on a man's basketball team, it's not that she isn't smart enough to understand strategy and all of that, but there are physiological and psychological thought processes and things are going on in a man's body that a woman may not fully understand. So yeah, I think you can cross boundaries sometimes where you take it too far, absolutely. So do you think we've taken it too far? I think in some ways we have. Not because I'm saying women can't be everything they want to be, they're not smart enough, it's just that sometimes it's like no, actually you can't be a man. Can you be a basketball player? Just be a proud woman. There's nothing about me that wants to be a man. Why not coach women's basketball team? Why go into men's sports? Why not teach, if you're a woman, why not coach women? There's so much work that needs to be done with women. I really wish that instead of competing to be a man, we invested our time in supporting the growth and evolution of women. I wish I could get up and kiss you right now because that's so true. Because what happened to just being a plain old woman, sexy, vibrant, educated, nurturer of the family? Why do we feel that? Because the man is moving here, we've got to do that because there's some reason we're going to fall behind. We're not equal. Sorry people, men and women are not equal. We're not even designed the same way. On that note, I have friends who go to their jobs specifically not dressed feminine, not for practical reasons, but because they feel in their office they won't earn the same respect as a man. So they step into this role of almost dressing more manly. I want to wear a choo-choo in heels and be treated the same way, bring it on. I don't want to have to do that and I think it's such a shame that so many women feel that way. Instead of being dressed like this, they put on a suit and look like a man. If a man showed up in his Superman shirt and expected someone to take him seriously, it would be hard to take him seriously. There's a place for girl power and there's a place for man power. It doesn't always cross. I want to be girl power all the time. When I was young, we come from a military background, a history of military veterans in my family. I wanted to grow up and be in the military. I was going to be an officer in the military. Were you trying to think like a man? I didn't think of it that way, but yes, I got out into the dirt and did all the stuff with the boys. I did what the boys did and I talked to a female officer and I'm trying to figure out where am I going to go? Where am I going to go with this? When I started talking to the female officers during that time, they discouraged me from going into the military. I thought, well, are you jealous? I'm just younger. What's going on here? The stories that they gave to me were like, no, that's not a place for women. The type of abuse that we received during that time, the type that you're going to be prepared to get defiled regularly. Mentally, physically. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense. Why do we want to push ourselves to the point where we have to make it? What does that look like, think like a man? Are we saying that women are subservient and they're thinking? What does that look like? Isn't there a book written by Steve Harvey that says think like a man, act like a woman. Exactly. Think like a man, act like a lady. It's going to get you a lot farther. In a way, a man thinks in the business world, in the romantic world, you will get farther. Because we're relating to men. Because I didn't want to leave with women that we're sometimes with some dits because we don't think like men. No, absolutely not. No, but there is an art to being able to understand the mind of a man. You can think like a woman and understand the mind of a man. Okay, I have a question. If there was a man sitting here talking to us about our menstrual cycle, how real do you think that conversation would be? Stay on that. When you go to a gynecologist, this is totally off topic. But it's a man and he tries to tell you how it feels like. Right, yes. I understand that. Exactly. So, yeah, there's that crossing where men at some point are going to look at us and go, why am I having this conversation with you? Because there are conversations that we don't have with men because it doesn't make sense. Not that a man can't be educated. Not that a man can't understand it. I understand that. But at some point we're like, do you bleed regularly? I think we're disservicing women and saying less. I think that because women think with their hearts, men think more factual. But if I begin to start thinking factual, I don't want you to say that I'm doing that because I'm trying to be like a man. No, I am expanding my thought process. That's why I don't want to necessarily leave that if you start thinking intelligently, you're thinking like a man. No, you're expanding your thoughts. You're being a smart woman. Yes. A smart woman. Stay tuned. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Welcome back. So let's chat, ladies. Should couples get married when they're broke? Is there a time financially when it's better to tie the knot? Broke is relative. That's true. That is so true. I think it's good. I think it's okay. If a couple is ready to get married, you don't have to have the big fancy spend tens of thousand dollars on a wedding. That's not why people get married. It shouldn't be a reason. You don't think there should be some sort of financial stability along with the emotional stability of the relationship to build your future? Financial stability is something that you're always working towards. Once you get to a place where you're comfortable, you're always still looking to move to another place where you can get more comfortable and look for a place. So it's evolving. You're financial- I know my finances are evolving. I don't know about evolving. To Madison's point, I think in a marriage what happens is you decide you should talk about it. You should talk about having a conversation before you get married. This is where we are financially. Enough with what you said. What did you and your husband do? Tell me about that conversation. We were broke. We were broke. We didn't have a house. He was just getting out of graduate school. I was working, so he didn't have a job. But we knew that picture was going in, so we got a little apartment. Did he have a ring? When he proposed to me, we did not have a ring. No. We did not afford to have a ring. Really? Right. So we didn't get one until 90 days before we got married. But we talked about it. See, that's the difference. We knew our picture going in. It wasn't like there was some expectation that he had a million dollars in the bank that he was hiding. And I think that's what's missing. People are not having the conversation. But I think a lot of men, even guys I've been in relationships with in the past, have said, you know, I love you, but I've got to make a little more money, get myself financially stable before we build a future. And I'm wondering, is that an excuse because he doesn't really want to build a future, or is he really concerned about his finances? I think for most men, they are concerned about their finances. Men think about it more than women do. They want to see them. They visualize and see themselves, at least I think, in a way where they are successful and they're doing this and then they got the ring and then they got the girl. So they have a different way of visualizing what marriage or weddings look like. As opposed to women, we'll just jump in. Oh yeah, where's my twisty tie for a ring? I love my women. However, I did meet a woman who had said to a male friend of mine, she pulled out this picture in Cosmopolitan of this ring that was worth about $50,000 plus. And she tore it out and she said, don't ask me to marry you until you can get me this. See, there's a lot of women out there who are like that, who want to make sure their man can afford their lifestyle that they want for themselves. Now, at the time, I was like, okay, this is a bit shallow. However, at the same time... Is it shallow because she just knows what she wants and she's honest about it? Yes, on the flip side, she was honest. She was honest. Look, this is the kind of life I want to live in. If you can't give it to me, don't ask me to marry you. That's true. She should give it to herself. Absolutely. Well, good that she was honest, but also as women, we have to identify potential. Where my husband and I are financially today, we weren't 22 years ago. But again, we had the conversation across the road. So sometimes as women, I'm a caution the $50,000 ring early when it's not going to be sustainable. But also, your vision of marriage may be different from someone else's. My vision of marriage when I got married was, and I remember saying this to my ex, saying, you know what, as long as we're happy, I'm okay if we live in a trailer park. Now, years later, I get that repeated back to me. I didn't know that you wanted me to buy the trailer park. Well, no. You see, I'm nervous to have that conversation about finances. Well, I don't really want to share all of my secrets. My purchases are like... For some reason, it makes me very, very nervous and very hesitant to be completely open. What secrets are you keeping? No, no. Not necessarily secrets, but debt. I feel like a man who wants to marry me is like, I don't want to be responsible for all her baggage. So you feel that he'll reject you? You know, loans, car payments, et cetera, because I feel like that is just kind of a... I'm a little fashion that way, I think, but when I think when you have a marriage, you are marrying. Absolutely. You're marrying. Yes. You are financial life along with your emotional life. Okay. But speaking with your emotional life, then, if you're not as financially stable, does that cause more problems in your relationship? But I think it's where you put the emphasis. No. You know what? It doesn't. You're right. It's where you put the emphasis. Again, you ask me and I'll go back to, we didn't have a lot. We didn't have a lot. But what we had, and don't dismiss this lady, is we talked about what our future was going to look like together. And we said we only make X amount of money, and we worked in those means. And I know people... And I put pressure on him. I know couples who have had a lot of money, and they spent that money ignoring each other. Right. And it didn't help them in their marriage. That's powerful. It's really relative. And I think I love... It's really relative. You have a million dollars, you don't love each other. You have a dollar for... You can afford to spend more time away from each other. You're going to talk about that, Burrito. But you're happy because you're looking each other's eyes. On that note, we'll be back with more Every Way Woman. Stay tuned. I can buy my own trailer park now. Absolutely. I'll put them in. Stay with us. We'll be right back. You and Every Way Woman. Have you ever thought about making a career out of your passion for makeup? We'll keep watching, because we're going to talk to Ann about just that. Next up on Every Way Woman. Welcome to Every Way Woman. So women are launching themselves into entrepreneurship. And today we're talking to Anna about just that. She turned her passion for makeup into her career. So tell me, what is it like to be a makeup artist? Girl, it's not all glam as it looks in the social media. What do you mean by that? Honestly, if you look through the social media, all these people put up pictures. We only let you see what we want you to see. It is not all glam. You do put on a good face. It's long hours. There's a lot of driving. Really, my friends really know. They hardly ever see me. And it's a workout. I've seen the case. You are lugging. You have to be in charge of all your own tools, your products. Yes. It's a lot of tools, a lot of products. Searching for different type of brands that fit different types of people. Not the expensive kind too sometimes. So rewind. Take me back to the moment when you decided you wanted to become a makeup artist. Wow. Well, I never really wanted to become a makeup artist. It was more of a hobby. It just happened. You just won. It just happened. I mean, I literally had a full-time job and doing makeup and hair was just a hobby. I would do it for prom. I started back when I was 16, girl. So how did you turn that into a business? It just naturally happened. People were calling me. I remember I ended up doing a friend that ended up with Gothic. And she ended up saying, you know, Glamia for my wedding, she wore the whole red dress. No, she wore a red dress for her wedding with the YVEL. That's correct. But I ended up transforming her. It was a whole transformation that people were like, wow, you did that. And I think I was probably like 20 when I did that. How did that make you feel when you were able to transform someone? Well, in the beginning, it felt good. Now it's a different feeling because I ended up helping organizations and nonprofits where I ended up transforming and giving back. Different like cancer patients, you know, stuff like that. And to see them pretty much, you know, get teary eyed and stuff like, oh my God, I can't believe you're doing my makeup. It feels good. It feels good. It feels like I'm doing something. And even if it's for those couple, you know, minutes, you know, that they're sitting in my chair, I'm happy that I touched the life in that way. Yeah, to make someone feel beautiful is a true gift. Definitely. And you really have it. Thank you. There must be a pressure to always feel beautiful yourself. Oh, so look beautiful. Yeah, every time I go into a job, I mean, all my ladies here probably know that when you go into a job, it's kind of hard to wake up every time, every morning to put on your hair and put on your makeup, you know what I mean? So doing, being a makeup artist, you have to look presentable. You have to be the part. Oh, yeah. And especially me, I'm known for retro, so I gotta wear my red rose. But so how long have you been working as a makeup artist? 18 years. 18 years. You don't look old enough. I hope nobody just said my age right now. Yeah, nobody's doing math at home. I promise you that. So what's next for you as a makeup artist? Well, definitely I want to do my own salon. I'm a type of person that anybody that knows me, I reach for the stars, you know, and nothing's impossible for me. So right now, I have plans to be able to open up my own salon. But tell me about the networking. You have to network being a makeup artist. It's really important to network. A lot of people that I interact with, inspiring makeup artists, they always tell me, like, I don't like to work with other people. Or, you know, stuff like that. And I just look at them, and even though I shake my head, it's like, girl, you gotta learn to work with other people. It's all about networking. Well, yeah, what's the dynamic with your team? Oh, everybody in my team needs to know how to work with each other. That's why you're in my team. But definitely when you network, you're finding another job, you know, a wedding could turn into a fashion show. The next person has maybe a connection to a celebrity. You know what I mean? So it's all like, you know, then you're working on movie sets. Then you're working, you know, so it's a possibility. And you're working on Every Way Woman, making us all look good and feel beautiful. Well, we're gonna have more of your tips on a few more episodes of Every Way Woman. And of course you can find tricks on everywaywoman.com. More when we return. Stay tuned. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Are you in Every Way Woman? Up next, we have Manji from 88 tequila, bringing you Slim 88. Salud. If you're already being naughty with a cocktail, well then who needs all the calories? Manji is back and she's talking about the Slim 88 today. But before we get to that, let's talk a little tequila. You are the tequila girl, aren't you? Yes. You're proud of that? Of course I am. And who's not proud of drinking tequila? No, but not only do you drink tequila, you work tequila. Yes. I mean, is your day ever not tequila? No. No. Tequila isn't every day work. It's our brand. Because when my night is tequila, my morning hurts. Let's just put it that way. You know? And how do you avoid that? Tequila has such this, like, kind of stigma. Well, it depends on what kind of tequila you drink and also how you drink them. So, for instance, ours is 100% blue agave. It's the good stuff. Obviously, that's high end. The more it costs, the better it is for you. It's pretty much how it works. Isn't that the story about life? Tell this to my father. Exactly. So, it has to do with what it's made with. It has to do with the process. And then also what you're mixing it with. If you're going to take tequila and pour a bunch of sweet syrupy products into it, it's going to give you a hangover. Because of all the sugar. Sugar and alcohol are typically what would cause you to not feel so great. So, those multiple margaritas hurt? Depending on how they're made. I mean, it depends. So, like, the one we're going to do. Do you have a family secret? I mean, if your life is always tequila, what's the family secret? What's the hangover secret? Tell us. I drink a lot of water and an Advol before I go to bed. Oh, come on. That seems to help me. Okay, come on. All right. So, but is tequila typically like a skinny liquor? It is. It's lower in fat. It's lower in calories overall. As well as it's actually good for your digestive system. It helps to... Tell that to my doctor. Actually, it... Is it really? Yeah, it's a known fact that it helps with digestion. So, I mean, obviously, it's still alcohol. It's still in moderation. Of course. I'm not trying to drink the whole bottle or anything like that, but definitely a little bit here and there. A little dose will do, yeah? Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. So, typically, you know, I don't ask anything, but we can go to tequila as an option. Definitely. And I love to host events. So, having a non-margarita is... Thank you. Right, right. Exactly. We like to do different things. So, today we're doing the Slim 88. Okay. Which is lower in fat and lower in calories than your traditional margarita because you're using... Thank you. All natural ingredients. And the first thing we're going to do is pour some tequila. Why the tequila? So, this is the blond foam? Yes. Okay. We use this one because you're using less intense flavors and if you used a repulsador in Yeho, you could. You definitely could, but you're going to get more of the oakiness and the wood, whereas you want to enjoy the lemon and lime flavors with agave. Keep it light, fruity, eccentricity. Yeah, exactly. Keep it fresh. Sure. So, let's do a shot. You could measure a two ounce shot, typically, in the shot glass. Okay. Yeah, this is a test. So, you don't measure and I'll measure. I don't. You know what? Bartender's usually do like a three second pour. So, I'll just go ahead... She's the pro here, obviously. And do that. Uh-huh. And I'm just going to go ahead and... So, let's hope I'm right. Yeah. I was going to say, let's see how good... Oh my gosh. See, now I just... Okay, see, you just lost. That was my fault. That was my fault. All right. I'm just going to free pour it into your cheers. All right. So, pour yours back in there. Pretend that you ever have it. And three. Got it. Okay. What's next? All right. So, we're going to go ahead and do the agave nectar. I want to... You know, I've always seen people sniffing their liquor. What is that about? It's just like... It's just like when you go wine-tasting. You want to definitely smell it. I'm trying to laugh. You want to inhale all the different ingredients. And... I'm inhaling water. Just enjoy it. And when you taste it, you'll be able to taste everything that you smell. It's important that you smell before you taste. Isn't it? Yes. So then you taste more if you actually smell it. Exactly. You pick up on more of the flavor that way. Okay. Absolutely. What's next? So, we're going to do a agave nectar. We'll just go ahead and squeeze a little bit in there. Agave nectar is very thick and very sweet. It's kind of like... It looks like honey. Kind of like honey. Okay. Kind of like honey. But I personally think it's a little bit sweeter. Other people might think it's not... I mean, how much am I going on here? Squeeze some fresh lemon juice into this. And how fun are these glasses, too? I mean, one lady doesn't like a martini glass. It seems very sophisticado, if you will. Okay, so we're going to go ahead and just squeeze the lemon. Woo! Talk about fresh lemon juice. Look at that. I love that. What is this? Lemon squeezer, I guess. I don't know what it's technically called. Because, you know, this is how I usually squeeze my lemons. Let me show you. And then I get... And you're more than welcome to get the seeds. Exactly. And you get a lot more juice this way. Okay. Well, that's good to know. Okay. And then we're going to do... Yours is always going to be prettier than mine. That's just how it is. Now we've got some lime, too. Now we're going to do the lime as well. All right. You know, I'm just free pouring free hand in this one. All right. Oh, that's fine. And most bartenders would make it that way. Sure, sure, sure. What else do we have? And then you can add a little light ice, if you want. A little ice. Sure. Sure, sure. Just to chill it a little bit. And then what we like to do to spice it up sometimes is just toss a few jalapenos in there. Well, talk about the jalapenos. Well, I don't know if I can handle those. I'm going to let Patsy try mine. And for this information, you can go to everywaywoman.com. Thanks so much, Maggie. Cheers. Salute. Every Way Woman gives back to the community. Go to everywaywoman.com to find out how you can match our donations of undergarments for baby kids. Thanks for getting to know Every Way Woman. This has been an Every Way Woman production. 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