
Two women discuss how their San Antonio community pushed materialism and using men for money, and how they broke free from that mindset to build their own financial independence instead.
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money, or you need to go, you know, he, he, he gonna break bread on you, or—
no, question is, do your friends, uh, support you by not being accountable? And the reason I say that is because a lot of people who are not doing anything—
oh yeah—
hang around other people who are not doing anything. Crabs in a barrel. And then when one begins to move away? They think I'm better than them. You think you better than us?
Yes.
You say what now?
They say they acting funny. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Because now they have moved away. Okay, go ahead.
Oh, at the time, it was hurtful because these were the people, that's all I knew. You know what I mean? So I come from a big family and like all we knew was to be siblings. Even though we were cousins, we grew up as siblings. So as I got older, I started to see, man, like these people that I looked up to and like, uh, y'all don't want nothing in life. Like y'all not trying to get no money in life. So their mentality was still the same. Like, oh, get that nigga for this. Oh, you know, I'm just saying, that's just, that was their mentality. What do you mean by that?
What do you mean by that?
Like not get, like, oh, he got money. Okay. Tell the truth, shit. We here. Okay. Like, I grew up from, Where you from? I'm from San Antonio.
I'm from here.
That's what's up. That's what's up. So I grew up with women saying, oh, you need to talk to him because he got money, or you need to go, you know, he, he, he gonna break bread on you, or hey, go sleep with this per— I'm just being honest. Really? Go sleep with this person because he got that, you know what I mean? And as I grew up to do my own thing, now I got my own money. Like, I don't have to do what y'all do. Y'all never grew out of that situation, so y'all still in that mindset. Life is too short, bitch.
Now turn that corner.
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