i hello and welcome to our show conversations with the lady where we bring a guest on our show to talk about issues and topics that matter today had this beautiful sister stephanie burroughs she's an entrepreneur she's wonderful she's a great speaker motivational just everything wonderful so we're going to hear her journey and it's going to be a beautiful story today stephanie please tell us the story the story well i'm mostly i'm going to start with today and take you back for a minute ok so today i'm really procurement expose trainings and so forth one of the things that i saw as the matchmakers that i put on there was some challenges and i wanted to show business owners exactly how to do this right so it's dating your business prospects but it's also about practical strategies for successful years as matchmaking meetings people can use this it's just the guy that tells you step by step some things that you need to do things that we forget about in the end eighty percent of it with people how to go about getting a piece of their money back and then tax that they paid when i get some of that back by contracting with them i've also been purpose to help people to learn how to live present folk right now in the moment in the moment it's important right now not in the feeling right now to the emotion but in the moment because if you're focused on the moment and then you're focused on what you're doing to serve how to do business with the government well you know that's good because then you can make so much money people don't realize how much money you can make with the government but i know there's a lot of sort of occasions and things like that that we have to do but once you're in then you're good and yet there's the start of caissons  spine and there's all the registration but it's really understanding the process and each level of government is different mind so nothing's the same no way our process is not the same and corporon have a corporation a corporation  like there's our blessings i mean of course i did i'm doing the work and making the connection staying visible getting out there right which is what every business owner needs to do for sure you can't slack on that getting so i'm really excited about the things that i'm doing today because i get to do it yeah my that you were open to doing you were excited about it oh yes of course i mean first of all i was working on finishing off my college degree therefore i knew that knew no they're working as an assistant to  my what i was my what you want to look at i was always an entrepreneur always had a little business on the side proud little side hoe yes and it would become a full time in between and then you get called in by somebody to do something for them yes as they called exactly and they don't know you how can accurately know you like you and trust you if you have come out you know that if there's a point in sometime it takes years to build that relationship you know but he can and it depends on what the businesses but really you have to build that get into that right back as i can get distracted here so you asked me getting started the journey the journey was learning how to deal with adversity to being the only female it industry that didn't want you there and not my no significant sexism and racism right that's a lot but it wasn't there weren't women's organizations like today right there were people that you could call to talk to and not be honest with you it never occurred to me that i needed to do that right so when i think about yes for sure had to be tough and i had to not allow what i was receiving and hearing to any impact me in any way or to affect me in any way and it was all good because  again cooperation right and i don't know if it was so much respect but i'm going to hope that it was however i have to say that it didn't end there ok because just when you think ok we'll mov smooth things are working years later i went to another organization the largest by state transportation agency in the us right here and i had to face that all over again but it was different when they were little bit more so between those two things what life is always been about serving others and helping them to grow and become better learn more about who they are and what the not having any track getting traction or not and this is for any woman really but at my specialty is when are you going to solve it or bizarre or so i'm talking to women in business and i've been doing it for years but i didn't realize that was which really was the shift thinking what someone else said but what do you say yeah but what do you think about this or what are your conjectures what is your opinion what is your impact your industry more you as a small business and i thank you so much stephanie for coming on here i'm excited about your pappa new journey into so all the great things that you are doing you really inspire me so until next the new jersey coalition against 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