Chantel Jeffries: Picking Winning Investments, AI Strategies, & The Party Girl Rules of Networking

DJ & investor Chantel Jeffries on early Poppi & Oura bets, investing in AI, & elite networking. Before legacy VC even caught the scent, Chantel Jeffries was already writing checks into future unicorns like Poppi and Oura Ring. In this episode of Hot Smart Rich, Maggie Sellers Reum sits down with the DJ and angel investor to decode the ultimate playbook on spotting consumer obsession early, ruthlessly monetizing access, and converting pure cultural clout into massive cap table equity. Chantel pulls back the curtain on the founder intuition and product signals that put her in early on Poppi and Oura way before they became aesthetic essentials. She makes the undeniable case for why AI is where you must be deploying capital right now, yet keeps it radically transparent about why she refuses to trust it completely and still gatekeeps her best proprietary ideas and IP from the algorithms. Ditching outdated corporate rules, Chantel breaks down why partying is genuinely high-ROI networking if you know how to operate in the room, showing how late-night conversations in elite spaces translate directly into boardroom leverage. Most importantly, she lays out her non-negotiable rule against doing favors in business, why offering discounts on your access destroys your personal brand equity, and how keeping your boundaries bulletproof is the real cheat code to commanding respect and securing generational wealth. Get unselfish access to insights that will help you own the room. Sign up now https://linkly.link/2jPXJ Disclaimer: Please note that Chantel Jeffries is an active investor in companies mentioned, and nothing shared in this episode should be taken as financial, legal, or investment advice. ⸻ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:53) Meet Chantel Jeffries (02:22) Building a DJ Career (04:12) Can Partying Be Good for Business? (05:12) The Art of Networking (07:50) The Best Cities to Party (09:01) Turning Parties Into Business Deals (11:10) How Chantel Started Investing (12:52) Investing Early in Poppi (13:26) Investing 101 (18:27) SoFi Ad (19:45) Lululemon Ad (20:43) Investing in Oura Ring (22:18) What Is an IPO? (23:14) The Future of Investing (24:01) How to Pitch Chantel (25:20) Balancing Music & Investing (26:13) The Rise of the Creator Economy (29:19) Investments to Avoid (30:27) Founder vs. Product (31:09) Are Celebrity Brands Worth Investing In? (31:58) Does Recognition Matter? (32:37) How Chantel Gets the Best Deals (34:00) Managing a Nonstop Travel Schedule (36:09) Staying Healthy on the Road (38:48) The RealReal Ad (39:52) Stan Ad (41:00) Does Chantel Drink? (43:56) Managing Sleep While Traveling (44:52) Gatekeeping from AI (45:54) Chantel's Information Diet (46:36) Rapid Fire ⸻ Sponsors: SoFi - Visit https://SoFi.com/HSRCrypto and get up to $1000 in cryptocurrency when you open and fund a Crypto account The RealReal - https://therealreal.com/hsr for $25 off Lululemon - http://lululemon.com Stan - https://ig.getstanley.ai/?ref=hotsmartrich&utm_source=podcast ⸻ Hot Smart Rich: Your Business & Culture Gossip For ambitious women wanting to own the room, gain power, and build wealth. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotsmartrich/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hotsmartrich Maggie Sellers Reum: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggiesellersreum/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maggiesellersreum LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sellersmaggie/ Locker: https://www.wantlocker.com/users/maggiesellers ShopMy: https://shopmy.us/maggiesellers Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/maggiesellers/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 0:43Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 1:10Speaker 01

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• 1:33Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Your first startup that you invested into was Poppy, which became a billion-dollar company. Yes. That's a really good first investment. Like, oh, this is just so easy. And then my third investment was Ora Rang. I'm like, girl, who is like? I'm sorry. But you're also a prolific investor. Like, the new businesswoman is the party girl. What do you think living in nightclubs and partying has taught you about entrepreneurship and business? It's taught me a lot. I've been unintentionally doing this for the past 15 years. People do this, they just don't talk about it. That's why I'm so happy we're having this conversation, because there's a frenzy right now with creators wanting to take equity or to place investments, but no one is like speaking to it the way that we are right now. Do you use AI at all, then? I'm the AI. When it can do what I'm doing better than me, then cool.

• 2:17Maggie Sellers Reum?

  But like, there's things that I know that nobody else on earth knows about, so I'm still gonna use my brain. Can you break down what are some red flags of a company? Like, you see this and you're immediately not interested in investing? Number one.

• 2:31Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 2:51Maggie Sellers Reum?

  In case you missed it, you're allowed to be hot, smart, and rich, so let's get into it.

• 3:02Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Chantel Jeffries, are you ready to get Hot, Smart, Rich? I am. One of the things that we are gonna dig into is just how prolific of an early-stage private market investor you are. You've invested into companies like Aura, K10, Gemini. There's so many we're gonna get into, but I feel like this episode could also go so many different ways, because you've lived so many lives. What do you think you're the best known for, and would you change that? I think that there's different people that know me for different things, and that's something that I've come across throughout my travels. I'll meet people that only know me from my music. I'll meet people that know me from modeling stuff. I meet people that know me from acting stuff, or just like YouTube, or online in general, like whether it's TikTok, Instagram, things like that.

• 3:48Maggie Sellers Reum?

  So I really do see a lot of diversity, but definitely the main thing is the music and DJing. And as time goes on, it's been more and more investing. When you first started, I think we have this in common, because I actually used to do these videos that was like, five podcasts that Hot, Smart, Rich girls should listen to, and everyone would always come up to me and be like, I love those videos. Like, I love your podcast, and I didn't have one yet, and I read the same thing about you. Like, you even started becoming a DJ, because you were posting your SoundCloud mixes. People thought you were a DJ. And that's like the number one tip in business. I always tell people, I'm like, build demand before you actually do something. Like, I think Liquid Death is the best example of that. When you first started, did you always want to be a DJ or in music? And that's why you were doing this kind of like Easter egg marketing hack?

• 4:32Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Or was it just total fluke? Like, I just like music, and I'm posting this, and people are genuinely confused that I'm a DJ? It was the latter, a bit, but I will say, like, I was telling you earlier, I'm a theater kid, and I grew up doing musical theater. I was also a competitive cheerleader. One of the things about cheerleading, I always say like the cheerleading to DJ pipeline is just so seamless, because number one, you're already going up there and getting the crowd hype. Number two, when you're doing competitive cheer, you make these really crazy mixes that you perform to. So I think it was very organic, but saying that, I have always been very interested in music, and my parents have always exposed me to a lot of different types of music.

• 5:12Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And then when I was going to university in Miami, I lived very close to space, Club Space, and also they had Ultra Music Festival in downtown as well. So I was seeing and hearing and being exposed to all this when I was young, and thinking like, oh, it's 8:00 a.m. Why are these people in like these crazy neon go-go outfits? Like, what's happening over there? So, yeah, I think, yeah, it just happened very organically. I was going to school, and it took a life of its own. I made this video that went really viral, because I said this, like, the new businesswoman is the party girl, because I feel like it is that sense of capturing a room and being

• 5:55Maggie Sellers Reum?

  able to do that grassroots marketing that takes something from like zero to 100, which so many of that traditional, like, person you think of that's like the smartest in school is just not capable to do. What do you think living in nightclubs and partying has taught you about entrepreneurship and business? It's taught me a lot, and it's honestly something that I find so beneficial in my journey with business in general. The networking, obviously. You're in a space where you're able to talk to a lot of people, me being a DJ. It's like, I'm in the DJ booth, and I'm around a lot of people, I'm networking. And even when I was going to school, before I even started DJing, I already had these connections. I already knew everybody that owned every club.

• 6:37Maggie Sellers Reum?

  You also, a lot of the times, like, being somewhere and just like finding out info, just being in the right place at the right time. I noticed a lot with DJing. Yeah, I'm just covering a lot of ground. I'm really covering a lot of continents, a lot of cities. I'm finding out what's going on, I'm seeing what works. And obviously, in these parties, a lot of times, it's brand-sponsored and things like that. So you're also connecting with the brands and seeing their marketing ideas and things like this. So I saw that clip, and I was like, this is very true. I've been unintentionally doing this for the past 10 to 15 years. Truly, I was like, people do this, they just don't talk about it. I'm so curious for you, like, would you describe yourself as main character energy in those rooms?

• 7:20Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I guess, yes, like, yes, but like, I wouldn't necessarily describe myself as that, just because, like, I feel like that is the role I'm playing a lot of the times, because I'm DJing, so it's like, yes. But when I'm just like actually going out and having a good time, I do feel like, and people will always say, like, I will know a majority of the room, and when I don't, I genuinely have to comment on it. I have to say, wow, I don't know that many people here. Like, it's shocking. It's shocking. It really is. I feel like, you know, people are like, oh, Chantel, like, Chantel will know this person, or Chantel will know this, so like, go ask her. People are always coming up to me, ask me, chat, you know? I feel like, though, I always find myself attracting people, both that I want to meet and that I don't want to meet, maybe because like my entrance is always very smiley, very

• 8:05Maggie Sellers Reum?

  happy, like even the way I greeted you at my house. It's like, that's my style, which doesn't gonna work for everyone. So for your style, if someone's listening to this, that's like, okay, I need to go and do this and network, how do you suggest that people do that? I mean, I'm, like I was telling you earlier, I'm a social butterfly. This is something that has been a character trait of mine since birth. I used to get in trouble all the time when I was younger, because I'd be in class, the teachers would put me next to someone they thought there was no way I would talk to, and I would be like, channing a storm. So I think because I have a lot of interests, it's usually easy for me to connect, like find a common ground to connect with somebody on. I'm always reciprocating, and I'm always like, thinking, oh, this person would be great to meet, this person, let me introduce them.

• 8:49Maggie Sellers Reum?

  So I feel like I get a lot of that energy back in general, just like, I'll have ideas, I'm like, oh, you should do this, or you should meet this person, I should introduce you to this person, like, you guys would work on some great stuff together. And it's honestly an art that you master over time. It's improvising a lot. It's a lot of improvisation. I feel like, it's funny, because Courtney always wants me to take an improv class, and he's like, it's the best life skill that you could ever do, if you're like, meeting a bunch of people. But I think that's why I go back to like, party girls are now truly the best entrepreneurs and business people, because they've learned all of these skills over such a long period of time. I'm curious for you, like, having traveled the world to do this, where do you think the best club or places for like the best vibe in the world? Best vibe or best networking vibe?

• 9:35Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Both. I think New York's unique, because a lot of people in business are also going out and being social and partying, which isn't necessarily always the case. I feel like in LA, it's a bit less. Or Miami, it's kind of like a mixture, but in New York, you know, the people that you would want to connect with are going out, whether it's just a dinner or a lounge, or out, they're out often. When it comes to just overall party vibe and having a great time, I love Ibiza, and I do think it's a great place to network. Throughout the summer, I always say it's my summer camp, I go there, I'm there, I can stay a month, I can stay the whole summer, honestly. People are coming in and out, I'm covering ground, I'm meeting people, I'm doing research and development on the music side. So for me, it's always a really fulfilling work trip, even though I'm having a lot of fun.

• 10:20Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And I do think the people that I've met and Connections I made have led to some really amazing business opportunities. Ibiza and New York are my two answers. Do you think that most of your business opportunities, like investments and things that you're doing, come from partying? No, there are some. I think when I'm partying, I definitely get a lot of DJ bookings because I'm meeting a lot of people that like to party. So either they know people throwing parties or they themselves are throwing parties XYZ. When it comes to investments, because as a startup, when I'm investing in startups, it's not like those people are necessarily the ones that are out partying because they're usually the ones trying to grind and like start the company, get it off the ground and XYZ. But I do meet people at events and things like that, conventions and stuff.

• 11:06Maggie Sellers Reum?

  When it comes to actually most of the startup companies that I've invested in has been just through work mode, just talking with other investors, other founders and people in the sphere of VC and and having people, me connecting people, having people connect to me. And I also do a lot of outreach of companies that I find have people come to me. But for the most part, it's through my connections and through me just actually proactively searching and finding deals. That's so interesting. I would say like mine is kind of a mix. Like I can tell you this company I invested in called MixLab.

• 11:43Maggie Sellers Reum?

  It's like a pet pharma company and it was taking compounded medications and delivering it to pet parents in like 24 hours. I was sitting next to the chairman of the company on the way to South by Southwest and I had like a wedding magazine beside me. I was previously engaged before Courtney. And the guy was like, oh, are you getting married? And I was like, yeah. And he goes, so we start talking and then lo and behold, I find out that he's the chairman of like all these crazy companies like parachute sheets, MixLab, a really famous steakhouse. And I begged him to let me get into the MixLab round, which has proven to be like such an amazing investment. And so it's so funny is when I try to like package that and give people an answer of like, how do you do deal flow or how do you source?

• 12:22Maggie Sellers Reum?

  A lot of the time my answer is like, it's in those rooms that you just put yourself in or you find yourself in by being curious and like going to all of these pop culture moments. Like paying to go to Super Bowl, paying to go to South by Southwest. And I think for entrepreneurs or like people that are in the grind, they're so afraid to like lift their head up and do that stuff. But I actually find that's where like some of the best companies are that I'm finding. So your first startup that you invested into was Poppy. Yes. Which became like a billion dollar company. Yes. That's a really good first investment. Yes, I know. I'm like, oh, this is just so easy.

• 12:57Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Okay. So first of all, for people, Patrick introduced me to my now husband, which is, I don't think I've even ever admitted that on the internet, but we love you, Patrick Finnegan. I wouldn't be here without you. Patrick is a venture capitalist who kind of built everything from nothing and he has been friends with people with distribution and influence. And I think he was one of the first people that really was trying to convince people to get into private market investing. Why do you think it took a few years for you to feel comfortable to start investing? Well, I think just number one, getting the capital and feeling comfortable with having additional capital in a space that I didn't, was unfamiliar with. And thinking, okay, this is a bit more of a high risk situation. So I'm going to be investing money that I could lose.

• 13:40Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And so just getting to the point where I felt more comfortable with that, which took a few years. Also, just having the right deal come across because if I really believed in something and I thought, oh, this would be great, then maybe I would have invested earlier. With Poppy, I knew, I was like, I feel very confidently about this. So

• 13:59Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I'm not viewing it as a super risky situation because I, I feel like I can help in this area. Like I love the product. I love the branding. I love the founder. And I have other people that are backing it, that I trust their opinions as well. So going into it, I just thought, okay, this kind of seems like the perfect environment. This is kind of like, everything's lining up. And so let me go for it. But Poppy, you were at it when it was early. Yeah, super early. Like this was not what you see of as Poppy today, which to anyone you would want to invest in. But I think back then you're trying to be figuring out, is this actually going to be something that's going to be successful? Because where was Poppy at when you invested?

• 14:38Maggie Sellers Reum?

  It was super early. I saw the vision. I saw like, this is a really cool, like I said, it had a really cool marketing. The product was great. I'm a more health conscious person. So it was kind of like something that I, I knew I would use every day. And the people around me that I would give to try it and, and things like that, they all loved it. What are some of the reasons that you would tell someone listening that they should never invest in a deal? Like whether it's their personal situation or red flags of a company, like you see this and you're immediately not interested in investing? Well, I think on a personal level, it's your financial status and, and what's going on in your life.

• 15:19Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Because at the end of the day, startup investments are a lot higher risk and that's, it can lead to a higher reward, but you have to look at the flip side. So I think depending on your financial situation, how easy it is to, to make that money back or how much you're going to miss it if you lose it. Those are important things. That's why I think what I was saying, oh, I, if I had a more disposable capital back then, that I didn't care about losing 50, a hundred thousand dollars, then maybe I would have invested sooner, you know? Because not everything's going to be ahead. There's things that they can go to zero. They can be less than the money put in. Like you never really know what's going to happen. Not only with the company, but with the entire economy and, and the market that we're in.

• 16:02Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And I think, you know, for me, everyone has their different philosophy on investing. And for me, it's like, I want to be invested in things that I truly feel like I'm using, I can talk about to people every day because that's kind of the way that I like to go about investing. That's also how I find a lot of deals. And I'm just like being proactive in every situation and everyday life, just, you know, talking about it, seeing like, oh, this is something I really like. Maybe I can see about investing. Cause I think back when I was younger and my mom was always using some new thing or always, like my mom was the first person to have Amazon Prime account. Like in 2000 and maybe like 2000, like 2002, maybe? I don't know. Somewhere around there. I remember my mom had an Amazon Prime account

• 16:46Maggie Sellers Reum?

  because she was buying all her books on it. And so I would use it, me and my friends to like order stuff. And this is at the very beginning, no one had an Amazon Prime account. I didn't, I don't even, like my mom had it simply because she was strictly buying books. So as soon as it started to move into something else, then it's like, oh, you already have an Amazon account. You're already so into Amazon. Imagine if you would have just invested the money. And I think people will catch on later. And for me, that's kind of like the way that I live my life in general. Like I'm, I've kind of been like, okay, yeah, like I'm trying this and then other people are doing, I'm like, I'm doing this and other people are doing it. So why wouldn't I, if I like something, see how I can be invested into it so that when it grows, I can benefit? Because instead of saying, oh, I'm, I'm interested in this and now everyone else is, and it's just like annoying.

• 17:29Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Like, oh no, I'm interested in this. Now everyone else is, and great, I'm benefiting from that. And so I would see like my mom's like into Amazon. Then she was like the first person I ever knew to have Netflix. She would send in the DVDs that would come back like. So there's all these things where I'm like, okay, like if we're going to be the first to be in on something, let's just like try to be invested if you really believe in it. And so whether that's me going like reaching out and saying like, can I please be a part of this? I love this product. Uh, how can we like, how can I help? And how can I make this a bigger thing? Like what can I bring to the table? I think that's just kind of the way that I look at it. It's like, is this something that I, number one, am using or see myself using? Do I see the people around me? Am I like excited to talk about it to my friends and family?

• 18:13Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Am I trying to put them on like, oh, I tried this new thing. You need to use it. You need to implement it in your life. One of the companies I invested in called Griffin, invested in them also like about five or six years ago. So what they do is they, it invests stock where you shop automatically by just adding a transaction, like it adds one dollar and then invest that dollar into whatever company you made the transaction. If it's publicly traded or if it's a subsidiary of one of the publicly used traded companies. So it's on autopilot. I just have it set up. I invested obviously, but like from investing, I started using this app. And so it's like investing a dollar every time I use an Uber, every time I order on Amazon, every time I do this.

• 18:53Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And my portfolio is like up 50%, literally doing nothing. And that's just because I'm actually just using these things. I don't have to think about it. This is what I do. Like this is what I'm using. And so yeah, other people are probably using it too. And so riff on that, just a little bit of side note. Uh, another portfolio company of mine called price.com, which saves you money where you shop, gives you the best price, also helps you find link coupon codes and things like this. And it also splits affiliate. Most companies have affiliate marketing built in. It splits that with you. So then you're able to get cash back. So I went ahead and facilitated a collaboration between the two to make it so that you can get the cash back and it automatically invests into the stocks.

• 19:32Maggie Sellers Reum?

  So now you're just passively doing what you're doing and you're able to invest without even having to put any additional capital. So I thought like, oh, this is such a great way to bring investing to people that don't want to number one, maybe think about it or even know where to start. Or even maybe don't have a lot of extra money where they're like, okay, you know, like I can use this to save money. Price.com and then I can have an investment at the end. So I'm really excited about that. I've always understood why people are interested in crypto, but always so real. A lot of trading platforms make the whole thing feel more complicated than it needs to be. If I'm going to explore something financial, I don't want to feel like I've downloaded some random app that I barely understand.

• 20:16Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 20:59Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 21:18Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 22:48Maggie Sellers Reum?

  LinkedIn is pretty amazing at helping you grow your small business. We cannot make your email response time faster. We can help you sell, market and hire in one place. We cannot help you find space for your three desk drinks. Why do you have three? And while we can't help you find the perfect volume for your presentation video, LinkedIn can help you find the perfect audience for your business. Grow your small business on LinkedIn. Learn more at linkedin.com/smallbusiness. on the show because I feel like you are not known enough for your investment portfolio. I was so impressed by it with the number of exits that you have and like large exits that I want to break it down a little bit.

• 23:32Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Your first investment was Poppy. When did Aura Ring come into the mix? And then when did K18 come in? Aura Ring was shortly after. I don't remember exact if it was if it was my second investment. It might've been like my third. I'm like, girl, who is like, what the fuck is going on? They were completely separate. Like, this is completely, it was either like my second or third. I think I want to say like my third investment. I was at a Snapchat convention and I was talking about how I was like newly into all my investing stuff and just like had like a bunch of people there. I've, I've worked with Snapchat for so long. I was one of the top creators. I was at the convention. I'm just talking like to everyone I know there from working there and meeting people and I'm talking about investing stuff.

• 24:14Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I meet someone, we have a mutual friend in the investing space. We're talking, then next thing you know, that leads to Aura Ring. And so it's just really putting yourself out there and just like, I'm usually having it on the forefront of mine mostly because I'm just actually interested. Like I'm interested in, in doing it. I'm interested in the companies that I'm, that I'm working with and that I'm invested in. So it's not hard. No, and you get massive paydays like with Aura rumored to go public. When did you invest in Aura? What year? I also think it was 2020. It might've been 20, early 2021, but yeah, sometime in there. For someone that's listening to this, can you break down and explain what an IPO does for an early-stage investor like you with Aura?

• 25:00Maggie Sellers Reum?

  So an IPO, what it was doing is they're raising additional capital by bringing it to the public to be able to invest. So Aura Ring filed to go public at 16 billion valuation and that's going to raise, I don't know the exact number of the additional capital that they're going to be raising through that IPO. And that's going to open up the shares to anybody that invests in the stock market. I don't know. I see it becoming a bigger and bigger company as well. There's so much data there and they've been, you know, just in the last year alone, the exponential growth that they've had from when they were rumored to IPO, it was only 11 billion and it's gone up in less than six months to 16 billion. They've sold like, I think, a million rings

• 25:44Maggie Sellers Reum?

  within like the past six months or something like that. As someone that's been able to predict so many of these things before they've popped, where do you see the market going of things that you're paying attention to? Hmm, I mean, obviously in the AI space and just like specific tailored sectors in that space. Because as you're like training an AI model, to be able to have as much data as possible to get you the best results in each individual thing, whether that's healthcare, whether that's like law, like we've seen with Harvey and these other companies, whether that's travel, there's so many different things that can be used for. And I think just like what's the most interesting to me is looking at those different verticals and seeing, you know, how can this be a great sector?

• 26:29Maggie Sellers Reum?

  That is like collecting all the data, using it to create the best way to do something in that area. Someone that's listening to this wants you to be an investor to them. What do they have to do to convince you to invest in their company? I, number one, like this might sound, it shouldn't really sound too crazy, but like it's a vibe. Like it needs to be a vibe to me. Like I need to feel like this is a vibe. And I also need to be like, okay, yeah, I want to talk about this. I really buy into it and I really see myself using this every day. If that's not the case, I'm kind of just like, I don't know. I probably should pass because if it's not something that I'm so excited about, how helpful am I really going to be? And sure, there's things where, I'm not an advisor to every company that I've invested in, but I still want to be talking about it. I still want to be talking about it to people I know

• 27:14Maggie Sellers Reum?

  and to be talking about it publicly. Like I want to be excited. So I think that's the biggest thing. Like I have to feel the vibe. I have to be excited. And I, the other thing is too, it's like you have to see, what is the exit plan for this specific thing? Like, is it an IPO? Is it being acquired? Do you see the possibility of that for this company? Because there's so many great products and I come across them all the time, like I love this, but like, I don't really necessarily see it being something that's going to go to an IPO or that's going to get acquired for exponential growth. Like, it's like, hmm, I like it, but I don't know if it's, if it is in that lane. Have you made more money investing than you have ever from DJing? Um, not ever from DJing because I've been DJing for a long time.

• 27:59Maggie Sellers Reum?

  But it definitely is like very good supplemental thing. And I think like with the way things are going now, it's like, I even thought like as, you know, I'm investing and I'm, and I'm making money because I'm getting all of these returns. Do I want to continue traveling all around, DJing and, and living this lifestyle that is really exhausting? It is. And then I thought to myself, I took a break for a little couple of months to be like, oh, I'm just going to like travel and do whatever I want, as I should. I was like, I just have a really good balance of everything going. The Libra in me, it's like, it's perfect. It's balanced. It's like, I'm traveling and it's work, but it's also like, I'm still covering the ground I need to cover and I'm still like in the places I need to be, finding about the things I need to find out about,

• 28:42Maggie Sellers Reum?

  facilitated through my DJ career. So I decided that this is a perfect

• 28:49Maggie Sellers Reum?

  little situation I have going on. So it will continue. But I also think it's because you don't invest other people's money, correct? Yeah. And that's the difference that people need to understand. Like when you're a VC like Courtney or Patrick, you're investing other people's money where it's like, you have a fiduciary duty. You have to deploy X amount of capital. When it's like me and you, and it's when we feel like it or we find a good deal, we get to deploy capital. And I think that's where I would love to hear from you, but I think that the venture capital space is changing so much because now that there are so many creator investors, specifically in the consumer tech and consumer side, it's like they can find people that have distribution, like these creators that aren't in the same flywheel or like rat race that VCs are.

• 29:34Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And it's just a lot more flexible of a lifestyle. Do you think that the creator equity deals are going to totally replace brand partnership deals? I don't think they'd totally replace it because not everyone is financially literate enough to have that type of payout. Like that requires a lot of planning ahead. Like some people need money. A lot of people need money. I need money still. There's people that, when you think about the fact that like our entire economy is built on interest. It's like people are not necessarily, and even when I was saying, like in 2017, maybe I would have started investing or maybe I would have taken an equity deal. But it's like, I needed to have a certain amount of money to be able to have the flexibility to start doing that. For instance, side note, but also to tie into this, I was one of the first brand ambassadors for Uber.

• 30:17Maggie Sellers Reum?

  So in 2012, 2013, I'm posting about Uber and I have like 50,000 credits to the point that they're like, oh, we're actually just going to start paying you because you just have too many credit. Like you're not going to use this here. We're going to actually just pay you. So I was like one of the first brand ambassadors for Uber. But when you look at like Beyonce, who took an equity deal for Uber that was exponentially way more money than she was going to get. It's like, okay, you know, when do those opportunities arise? And how can, you know, it's, it's knowing when to take them. Not every company is going to get bigger and bigger. Because like, I've had opportunities where I'm like, oh, you know, looking back, I wish, should I, you know, I wish I would have taken equity or should I have? Like with TikTok, I DJed the TikTok launch party in America. And it's like, okay, should I have taken equity in that deal instead of cash?

• 31:03Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Maybe, but at the time was that the always that one made the most sense for my financial situation? You know, we have seen a shift of people becoming a lot more business savvy, but especially in the beginning. It's like, I went to uni, so like, not everybody has like certain background in finance or in just in general. I was a mathlete, like my mom worked in a bank for so long. I kind of just have a bit of a background to know about certain things in that area to to set myself up for financial success, to be able to be in this position. And it takes time, like it took time. But not everyone is in that position. So when it comes to, okay, am I going to take this deal in equity? Number one, do I believe in the company to grow?

• 31:44Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And number two, do I, am I totally like fine on the cash side? I don't need any capital. That's why I'm so happy we're having this conversation because I feel like there's a frenzy right now going on with creators wanting to take equity or to place investments. Like I, I literally see it everywhere. And I'm like, I think that it's amazing because I want people to have the financial freedom that you have. But I think there's so much nuance to it and no one is like speaking to it the way that we are right now. Are there specific industries that you're like, I would never touch this industry? I'm, I'm a big like, I don't do favorites or never like, I'm kind of like, hmm, you just never know, like, maybe. I don't like a definitive answer, something that you might not be interested in, could be like the perfect storm would come across and you're like, actually, yeah.

• 32:28Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Cause there's been things where I'm like, it's not something that I would normally think that I would be into. And then I'm like, oh, actually like, yeah, maybe. That's like me with Mix Lab. Like I never thought I was like passionate about pets getting their medication within 24 hours. But I, but I would, I would think like the way people are with their pets. I'm not one of those people. I know there's those people, they like treat their, their pets like as if it's their kid, like they would do anything, they will pay anything, it doesn't matter. And I know that. So I would invest in that, even though it's not necessarily something that I, that I would think I'm the target audience for, but I'm like, yeah, like. It's gonna work. This is gonna work. Like people will do anything for their, for their pets. I've seen like, you know, you've seen it, I've seen it. The lengths they'll go to. So it's like, yeah. What would you rather? Would you rather back an incredible product, but a horrible founder?

• 33:10Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Or like a so, a so-so founder and an amazing product? I would rather back an incredible founder, a so-so product. Cause at the end of the day, I love to give my feedback. I love to, like I have a mentor at heart. Like I love to just try to make new things. So it's like, okay, if you're a hardworking person and then you're going to get things done, like it's hard to find people that had the conviction, the hustle and like the drive that actually are just passionate about doing X, Y, and Z. It's hard. So when you find that, okay, you can, you can change out the product. So you haven't invested in that many celebrity founded brands, but as someone that's very, well, you're a celebrity yourself, you're friends with a lot of celebrities. Why have you not invested in celebrity brands?

• 33:52Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I just, I'm not sure that any specifically interesting one has to come across my desk. It's not that I wouldn't. I feel like you've done tech celebrities, like even the Winklevoss twins. But traditional celebrities, which typically get a lot of hype, right? Yeah. That's not part of your portfolio. I would definitely consider it, especially depending on who the celebrity is. What do you mean by that? Like if I think that they're business minded and they're hustler, they, they're dedicated, like if I think that they really like, I'm like, hey, yeah, I can see this. Like this is part of you as a person and not just like a one-off thing, then yeah, for sure. I also feel like even based on this conversation, people can tell that like you're in the weeds, like you're doing all of this stuff.

• 34:37Maggie Sellers Reum?

  It's not like you have a team behind you that's running your venture investments or anything that you're doing. But there are a lot of people that have huge teams behind them and they are just the face. And I think that's like one of the things that when you're in the world, you kind of get an understanding of, but when you're outside of it, it's hard to tell who's actually doing the work. Do you feel like you get enough credit being the investor that you are? I don't really care about the credit. At the end of the day, being a good investor, you get paid. It's really not about the credit. Like, I'm sorry.

• 35:05Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I don't, I'm like, I honestly better. I'm like, I don't need to deal with like, I don't care. I'm so curious, when you are trying to win a deal and it's like a really hard to get into deal, what are the things that you think get you an allocation or get you into the deal that separates you from anyone else? Well, I think I have a very vast network and influence in the space, but I also just like do have a lot of ideas. And I find that like even companies I'm not invested in, I get asked about like advising and things like that. So I think people really do value my opinion. And the other thing is, is just the information.

• 35:46Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Like I will think about how much information I know and I'll be like, wow, I think I might know more information than maybe anybody I know. Covering so much ground, I'm talking to so many people and I'm finding out so many things. It's like, it's really good to have this type of people on your team. Like when you're trying to get things done and know about stuff, it's good to have as much information as possible. We see that today as everyone trying to data harvest, like I'll be data harvesting in real life. I will literally like, I know so many things. I'm like, how do I even know this? Even if it's just like pattern recognition, like taking in data, I'll be seeing things online. I'm talking to every single person. And I just will be like, yeah, it's very valuable to have. It's not bad to have the influence and the connections, but like when you can actually give good insight and also ideas to make things happen.

• 36:28Maggie Sellers Reum?

  You know, you're giving yourself an edge up on someone who's maybe just giving their money. How many days a year, of the year are you traveling? Around a hundred, honestly. I track my days and I was looking on there. I'm like, wow, I've already been to, I mean. I've been to 80 places this year. Eighty? Like a different flying back and forth somewhere. Eighty flights? Yeah. How do you stay so tapped into the work and like on routine when you travel that much? I was in a bit of a routine where I was like leaving every weekend for two to three days, doing multiple cities each week and having shows and then coming back and being okay. And like getting into a routine of how am I Monday through, through Thursday or Friday, like working out every day,

• 37:12Maggie Sellers Reum?

  making sure I'm getting all my proper meals, sleeping like eight to nine hours. Because when it comes time to travel and do all this stuff, it's like, I don't drink caffeine. I go like, I have to just do what I have to do and I just do it. Like that's it. I don't like. You don't drink caffeine ever? No, no. Like I don't drink coffee. I don't drink. Matcha? No. I used to drink matcha like in 2012, two thousand, no, 2010 to like 2016 or 17. And I was like a bit crazy.

• 37:44Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I was a bit crazy. I need to not drink caffeine like that. But you've been doing this like for so long and I've only been doing it for like three years. And I find it so hard to stick to a workout routine, like a good eating plan when I'm on the road. Like we were just gone for 60 days. And I like threw so much of it out the window. I feel like I did a decent amount this time, but I still found it really hard. How do you keep yourself together when you do this for like decades? Like what is the routine that you're doing on the road? I just have this preface by saying like, I grew up with the military dad that's like, I'm inspecting your room. I'm doing this, like you better, you're waking up at 5am, like you do this. So I'm like, okay, I just have to do it. That's it. Like there's no excuses. I don't say an excuse to myself because there's no point. The only person that's going to suffer from that is me.

• 38:27Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Now with the workouts on the road, like I'm a very active person, so I'm not like, I am good at working out when I just have shows and I just am going to a random city. I'll like go down to the gym. When I'm on like my, my urinal holidays and stuff, like I do try to get a couple of workouts in per week. But my diet is always, always, always, like I do not fold on my diet ever. Like I don't eat the things I don't eat and I haven't in like over a decade or 12 to 15, 18 years. There's things I haven't eaten one time ever. And I just don't. I haven't eaten red meat in 18 years. I haven't eaten gluten or dairy in like 12 years, maybe longer. I don't eat like, I was keto for like a while and I ate no sugar. I only ate berries, no fruit for like two years.

• 39:11Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I just would just eat exactly what I was supposed to do. Like I didn't really think about food as like, oh, I'm hungry. I'm going to eat this. I would, I. You know when you go to the grocery store and you're hungry and you just start throwing all of the stuff in the basket you don't actually need? It's because you're hungry. So if you just eliminate that, which I feel like a lot of people do nowadays with their GLP ones. I did it the whole pass away. I was keto for a while and then coming off that, I'm like, okay, I should introduce a bit more carbs and sugar. Cause like I am on the go. I do need some energy. I'm not taking, drinking caffeine. Like I should have some readily available energy. So let me like incorporate some more because I couldn't gain any weight. I was eating like almost like 2,500, 3,000 calories a day and I couldn't gain any weight.

• 39:54Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Because I was in ketosis. So I was just like taking so many more calories to do anything. And then I recently changed my diet. I started eating, had to like change it. I was like, my cholesterol was getting elevated from this keto. And then I was like, immediately as soon as I found that out, I switched again. And then every day I started eating oatmeal with like flaxseed, bee pollen, chia seeds, all these things. And then got my cholesterol like completely slowed down within a few months. Why are you doing one of those like function or, or life force tests where they draw your blood and you actually know what's going on inside your body? I was just doing normal health checkups where you do all your blood tests, you know, once or twice a year. But then I recently again, because I did it, found out I had cholesterol, I went back like for a second and third time, just like check on it.

• 40:38Maggie Sellers Reum?

  The first time I was down a lot, but still not completely down to where I wanted it. And then the second time I went, I actually had went to Nico Health, it's called. Yeah. Which is a great way to get all of your data and it's super quick and easy. Like, I know it just came to New York, like sponsor me, I'm not sponsored. But um, it's, it was like, I want to say under an hour, in an hour, you, they do full skin. Like they have thousands of cameras that take pictures of your skin and keeps track of every single mole that you have. And they do, they do lasers on your arteries to check your arteries. They do EKG, they do blood tests. They do your eyes, your strength, all that stuff. Then by the time you get dressed, they already have all your results ready.

• 41:22Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 42:06Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 42:49Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 43:33Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 45:05Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Do you engage? Do you indulge? I don't really love drinking just because I honestly get nauseous. Like, I just. While you're drinking? Not necessarily while, but sometimes. Like, I feel like I won't get too far because I might just throw up. Like, I get nauseous. Mostly like the next day, I'm like, I don't like to drink too much because the next day I feel nauseous and I can't eat. And then it's like, I'm always losing weight. If I, once I start drinking, I'm like, I lose, like, I'll lose 10 pounds in like a few, a week or less. Like, if I'm on a trip where I'm like, holiday, I'm drinking, I'm going out, it's like, I'm losing 10 pounds when I come back, every single time. It's like this weird thing. I know like other people have different experiences. They'll drink and they'll eat a lot. I genuinely couldn't imagine eating.

• 45:48Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Once I take one sip of, like, a margarita, I can't. I can't eat. Oh, my God, I wish I had this problem. It's like the opposite. People will be like, oh, yeah, I get drunk and I start eating. I'm like, I would literally throw up. Like, I'm not on, I wish that I could, but I can't. And then I can't sleep. That's the other thing. And I noticed a lot of my Our Ring is I recently started drinking wine, which I can sleep. It's been a big change to go from only drinking tequila to now being like, okay, you know, maybe I'll have a glass of wine, rather than like, okay, yeah, let's go margarita shots. Because before, that was the only thing I would drink. So it was like, okay, if I'm having a night out drinking, it's like tequila. Then I get a sugar rush in the middle of the night and I wake up at 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. And I'm like, not shaking, but like, kind of. I'm like, oh, my God, I want to sleep, but I can't.

• 46:33Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And then I'm nauseous and then I'm like. And also, tequila's made out of agave, which is a natural laxative. So it's like, between all of those things, I'm like, you know what? All right. Like, I don't know about this. I am crying. Well, I get a lot of girls that are like, I want to stop drinking, but my job requires me to go out a lot or like to network or do these events. Do you have any tips for like how to not feel uncomfortable or awkward when you are networking and you don't want to drink? Get a mocktail or another drink, act like you're drinking. I have a lot of friends that don't drink. I don't think I would ever not drink. I just don't drink a lot. But I would never want to say, okay, I'm in a situation and I wouldn't do this. Like I said, I don't do never, so. You don't do never's ever. Like, I don't really do never's because you never know. Like, you never know. Like, you just don't. You never know what you might need to do.

• 47:17Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And I, one time I was like, okay, I'm not gonna drink. This is like a couple of years ago. It's like, I'm not gonna drink when I'm DJing. I don't need to. I'm just not gonna, that will cut out a lot of drinking for me. And so I didn't drink for eight months. I didn't even realize. It's like, I just didn't drink. And then it was Super Bowl and I was like, you know what? When did I drink last? And I was like, oh, wow, it wasn't since like May or something. And I was like, oh. And I'm like, okay, well, I'm gonna drink now. I'm gonna, I'm gonna like have fun and do my thing. I feel like a lot of people need that like thing to get them going. And I think alcohol is such a funny thing. It's like such a bad PR crisis for them right now because so many people aren't drinking. I don't have a problem with drinking, but I also don't need it to have a good time. Yeah. I'm weird, though.

• 48:02Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Like, I don't even believe in jet lag. I just tell myself, like, I'm not feeling this right now. How do you deal with things like jet lag when you're traveling all over the world? I mean, I don't even really have a set sleeping schedule, so I think that's part of it. Besides that, I'm like in Europe so much or somewhere that on top of being in different time zones, my sleep schedule is changing constantly because on a normal day, I'm probably, you know, go to sleep around 11:30, midnight. It's like, okay, sometimes I'm up until, sometimes we go at 6:00, sometimes I'm up till 6:00. So it's just kind of, and I think, you know, you find what works for you in those situations. Like with jet lag, there's like homeopathic jet lag pills that I would take. And they're made out of arnica and they help reset your circadian rhythm. You take it every two hours. And I've noticed it really work

• 48:47Maggie Sellers Reum?

  to where I'm like, wait, actually not tired when I would probably be tired in this moment, but I just will fight through it, you know? I'm very good at just being like, okay, I'm not tired. Let me just fight through, like what you said. How do you stay so organized across all of these like things that you've just talked about? Like, is AI running your life? Hmm, like, I use AI for a lot of things, but I still think, I don't know, I'll be like, I'm the AI. I'll be like, when AI is smarter than me, when it can do what I'm doing better than me, then cool. But like, I haven't seen it for certain things. Like what? Like, I'll be talking to the AI about like just random things. I'm like, yeah, actually, like, this is a better way to do it. It's only knows what it's fed. So there's things, now I won't even say certain things. I'm like, actually, I'm gonna keep this to myself. Because there's things that I know that nobody else on earth like knows about besides me.

• 49:32Maggie Sellers Reum?

  So I'll be like, yeah, actually, I don't necessarily need everyone else to know about this. But do you use AI at all then? Oh, yeah, of course. What do you use? I use Claude and ChatGPT and Gemini. Part of my job is knowing about these things. So I try to use a bit of them all. I really do like to just use my brain. I know some people are like, oh, my God, AI. I'm like, I'm still gonna use my brain. Maybe I'm just old school a bit. So where do you go for information? And how do you keep it in like a really good information diet? Well, I do get a lot of newsletters. And I also like, I proactively watch interesting things on YouTube, which I like to keep it with like Vox and different things

• 50:15Maggie Sellers Reum?

  that are, yeah, just like more business focused, whether that's Bloomberg, Wall Street, like things like this. My TikTok algorithm is very well curated. Like, what do you see? If we were to go on it right now, what would it be? Science stuff, AI stuff, like investing stuff. I've found a lot of companies, actually, like Griffin, for example, that I invested in, I found on TikTok. They had like, made a TikTok about it and went viral. Okay, Chantel Jeffries, we gotta do some rapid fire. What is the last thing you put on your credit card? Plane ticket, biggest, bigger purchase other than just like food delivery or parking meter. What's your food delivery order? Well, actually, I went to dinner last night. I went sushi last night with my friend. And so that was probably the last thing. But other than that, yeah. What sushi place? Jim Pachi.

• 50:59Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Is that on Santa Monica? Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, it's super good. Okay. And then the last most expensive thing you bought with your credit card? I mean, most expensive thing I bought with my credit card would be my car, my Tesla. That'd be the most expensive thing ever, I would say. That Amex card is getting used and abused. It's getting used and abused. Um, I loved my watches. I do spend a lot of money on flights. Okay, what is something you would never spend money on? I mean, I spend money on everything just because like, I feel like I'm the eldest daughter vibes. So I definitely spend money on everything because I'm always the one paying. Like, I feel like paying for this, that, yeah. But what I don't like spending money on is.

• 51:43Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I mean, honestly, I don't care because I really structured it to be able to like, have like a tax write-off for each thing. Like, I hate spending money on taxes. Okay. I'm like, on taxes, no. Just on like, things, yeah, I would say that's the worst thing to spend money on. Taxes. Yeah. I just paid my taxes and it sucked. The worst. Really was. Because everything else, I'm like, I enjoy it. So it's worth it. Or it's like a work base. Like, everything's work-based pretty much for me because it's like, either recruiting content or music. I don't do much outside. I'm like, maybe like, weed is the only thing that's not work-based. I'm like, I don't, I don't know what else. Everything I spend money on is like, work-related. Okay, if you had to go on reality TV tomorrow, which show are you going on? Jeopardy.

• 52:29Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I love that. Yeah, I would love to go on Jeopardy. That was actually weirdly Courtney and my fourth date was going to Jeopardy and being in the audience. The audience, I love that. It was so much fun. And I was like, wow, he is such a hot nerd. He like, knew so many answers. I didn't know as many as I thought. Yeah. Okay, what's your go-to drink order? Like alcohol or regular? Anything. First thing that came to your brain. Uh, I, the first thing I drink every morning is bone broth with Algonquin, Celtic Sea Salt and Apple cider vinegar. You are so the DJ nowadays that's like, goes so hard and then is like, running marathons and like, doing your longevity. Yeah. I'm obsessed.

• 53:07Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I'm not, I'm not into running. I will never be. I don't want to get runner's face or like, hurt my joints. I have scoliosis and I'll steer away from the running. Where is your favorite place to meet new people? New people all the time. My favorite place to meet new people is on holiday. Okay. Have you ever become friends with someone that like, comes up to you as a fan first? I mean, like, I meet people and then I become friends with them, yes. But a notable time that was happening to me, I was at like, some party one time and this guy came up to me, he's like, oh my God, like, I'm such a big fan of your Snapchats, like, can I please be in it? And I'm like, okay, sure. So I put him in my Snapchat, I don't know who this person is. And I put it in, then all these people started writing, writing, writing. I'm like, what the heck?

• 53:47Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And he was just like a famous soccer player. But I literally had no clue. I just thought he was like, some random guy that. So that was funny. But, yeah, like, I'm, I'm like, we have a common interest. It's me. So let's be honest, I'm just kidding. That's, are you still on Snapchat? Not as much now because I've been more into like, I've been, I, I struggle between like, I'm feeding like, the AI. I need to gatekeep my life and like, gatekeep things and like, and then I go back and forth. But when they started their creator program, I was one of the first people in the beta to use it. And then I also like, worked with them to like, bring a lot of people on and things like that. So it was very profitable. And it actually came at like, a perfect time to just like, go along with the investing stuff. Where is the best bachelorette destination?

• 54:32Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I love Ibiza. And I guess it just really depends on what type of vibe of, you're trying to get on a bachelorette. What about a party? For yourself? No, I'm married, but I'm more like, you're like an iconic DJ that I feel like you've seen really good vibes. I feel like Nashville's a great bachelorette location. And I've seen a lot of bachelorette parties happen there. But like, if I was going on a bachelorette, I'd probably just go to Ibiza again. Like, I would probably just be in Ibiza, which I'm gonna go there regardless every year. Okay. If I'm married or not. Love that. Chantel Jeffries, thank you so much for coming on Hot Smart Rich. Just one more question. If you had to tell one affirmation called an HSR love note for the rest of your life, you can only say one to yourself, what would it be?

• 55:15Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Just like, you're everything. I just gotta think that. I love that. Do you tell yourself that every day? I have an affirmations app widget. Like, I will scroll and I'll see like, so many on there. I was, I would always do affirmations on my Snapchat. That was like, one thing I would do every day. And I would like, it's important to get your mindset right. Yeah. Chantel Jeffries, where can people find you and how can HSR help you? You guys can find me on all my social media channels. You can find my music on Spotify, Apple Music. I might be making a YouTube return soon. I am going to, I just, I'm, I'm gonna exit my gatekeeping era and I'm gonna go back to YouTube. And yeah, I guess just like, let me know what type of content people would like to see on there so that I can give the people what they want.

• 55:59Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I'm very excited. Thank you so much for coming on HSR. We love you. Thanks for having me.

• 56:13Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 56:57Maggie Sellers Reum?

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