Business Lessons from Social Media Conflicts in the Digital Age

Maren Crowley [00:00:00]:
By now, you’ve heard the drama between two major, quote, conservative powerhouses, Jessica Reid Krause, aka House and Habit, and Candace Owens. Now I’m using the term conservative in air quotes because I want everyone to remember that both of these women were once liberal. Before I continue with this episode, please note that this is for entertainment purposes only. These are all my opinions, and I encourage you to always do your own fact checking, use your own discernment, and take everything with a grain of salt. As you can clearly see from this drama, no one goes down without a fight, and I really don’t want either of these women coming after me. I do wanna talk about it though because I believe there are lots of business learning lessons that can be taken from all of this. So briefly, let’s just talk about the main characters of this teleno novella. Okay? You have, Jessica Re Krause, aka House and Habit.

Maren Crowley [00:00:58]:
She is a former liberal mommy gossip blogger who now has the coveted White House press pass and regularly attends functions at Mar A Lago with the Trump family. She’s risen to fame over the last couple of years, always a red flag for me, due to her change in views that was kick started with the 2020 COVID nonsense. I still, to this day, believe that that whole social experiment was a flop. It went wrong for the powers that be. The sheep didn’t quite herd like the elites thought that they would, but I digress. Case in point, Jessica began to see the light when her husband turned her on to Candace Owens. He was a big fan of hers and would even share and like her posts. And those typical liberal mommy bloggers and fans of Jessica, they found out about this.

Maren Crowley [00:01:48]:
They they put their Nancy Drew jackets and hats on and realized this, and they began to dox Jessica for it, which made her turn even more red. And then from there, she began posting more independent commentary, and then eventually, she became part of the RFK Jr campaign and then obviously turned to Trump. Now she would document all the events and give her unbiased opinions on all the things, even down to the fashion at the event. In between all of this, she would be at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. She covered the Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard trial, and she would give her commentary there. She’s super, super in-depth. Now I admit, I love her style of journalism. It’s easy to understand.

Maren Crowley [00:02:43]:
On stories, she would share it in snippets, not long form, which, you know, can just that’s just not how your brain works on Instagram. Right? Like, she saved all the long form for her substack, and she would also add music to most of her content. And if you know me, that is key. I have this same style of sharing information. In fact, like, when I was with Beachbody, I would curate my stories, all the music, all the time, whether it was my workouts or if I was even drinking my energized. Like, there were certain songs that I would pair with it. I would share team wins from my team, my team flawless, and I would always put DJ Khaled, all I do is win with it. Like, so I I really love that piece of her brand.

Maren Crowley [00:03:33]:
It’s something that I do with my brand as well. And I bring this up because part of the drama with all of this whole thing is that you have a lot of influencers coming out who are, like, anti house and habit now, and some of even her staff who are hurt. And they are really targeting Jessica, calling her out, like, on imitation. Right? Like, she apparently, you know, to them that she’s copying them, but she has the larger platform. And I’m like, seriously? I mean, at the end of the day, everyone who’s complaining about this, you know, imitation first of all, imitation is the largest form of flattery. I know it’s wicked annoying, but we all do it. Like, I’ve done it at times. Right? And at the end of the day, we’re all sharing the same freaking information.

Maren Crowley [00:04:32]:
It’s just that we have a different aesthetic. Right? But at the end of the day, you’re just regurgitating the same BS. And for that reason, I stopped posting about so many topics on Instagram because it began to feel like white noise amongst the truther community and things that I was saying or, you know, really, like, coming up with, like, ideas or different perspective, I would see my content on larger accounts, you know, or more aesthetically pleasing accounts because I really would just, and then to this day, I just go into Instagram and I type it up. I don’t have, like, pretty brat backgrounds or anything like that. I I don’t do that. I would never brand this truth or content. I brand my brand, like, of, you know, when I was in network marketing or, you know, my website or my my UGC and Amazon workshops. Like, all that’s branded to me.

Maren Crowley [00:05:31]:
But, like, a lot of these, quote, unquote, conspiracy theories or truth seeking ideas, like, that was not something I ever took the time to do because I just wanted to get my thoughts out there. I’m also known for going live because I do like being the first to talk about things because I see how people do. They just dupe one another. And so for that reason, like, I started to really pull back from talking about these topics on Instagram because I was frustrated. So I understand where some of these content creators are, quote, unquote, annoyed that they don’t have the fame or the the following or, quite frankly, the money that some of these larger accounts have. But you really have to protect your peace. And and the whole grand scheme of things, there’s other ways to make money online. And there’s other ways to spend your time online than doing it for free.

Maren Crowley [00:06:32]:
Right? And I know some of my friends who are part of, like, the OG truther community, my friend Christy, my friend Crystal. I mean, we all got shadow banned and hated on. My friend Angel, she’s still around and posting, but we’ve all pulled back and and some of them completely. Christie doesn’t talk at all about it anymore. It’s not that her values have changed or anything like that. She’s not a flip flop person, but it just gets to a point where, like, you get sick and tired of being the talk of Reddit threads or worse, you know, in the case of my friend Crystal, like, under the scope of three letter agencies. Like, once again, I will reiterate this multiple times, like, through this podcast. It’s the little guys who disappear while some of these other voices maintain their platforms.

Maren Crowley [00:07:20]:
And it becomes, like, a really big decision on you and your family, like, is it really worth me posting this information? Okay. Anyway, anything else you need to know about Jessica, you can find on the Internet. Because like I said, there’s a gazillion different people talking about her right now. I just wanted to give a brief intro. Now, Candace Owens, she’s another key to the story. Candace has been a political commentator for longer than House and Habit and has done work for Turning Point USA, PragerU, The Daily Wire, and now she’s gone off on her own to host her own podcast. Now, if you look her up on Wikipedia, you’ll see that she’s also known for quote conspiracy theories. I thought that was so funny, which is quite frankly why I do like a lot of her content.

Maren Crowley [00:08:14]:
But where my spidey senses do go up is, first of all, she used to be very, very liberal. I mean, listen, that blue blood runs deep. Okay? And she did rise to fame pretty quickly. She married a very wealthy man whose family belongs to the same social club as the Rothschilds family, and she is able to speak out about vaccines and COVID, not landing on the moon, Israel, etcetera, but still has a platform. Whereas if you and I did that, we would be shadow banned. Hello. I have been since 2020, which is the whole reason I created this podcast in the first place. But like Candace, not so much.

Maren Crowley [00:08:56]:
And it makes you wonder why or how. Alright. Back to the drama. So long story short, on March 22, that’s an important date. If you know Gematria, House and Habit posted on her Substack. It was a whole article going after Tucker Carlson, Ian Carroll, Joe Rogan, like the bros of conservative journalism, plus Candace Owens. And, you know, despite the fact that House and Habit named other people, it’s only Candace that has really, like, stood up and, like, spoken out. The guys, like, they really couldn’t care less.

Maren Crowley [00:09:44]:
Like, they’re not really addressing it. And so with that being said, like, she was accusing Candace of copying her style and, you know, how Candace is now covering Hollywood gossip. So like Blake Lively, the whole thing with Ryan Reynolds and Justin Baldoni. Like, Candace, she did a whole deep dive on that. But at the end of the day, like, Candace has talked about these things for a while, and she’s always circled it back to her conservative value. So it isn’t necessarily true, and and that’s essentially what started all this and set Candice off. Like, she’s like, what the heck? Like, you’re saying things that aren’t true about me and about, Ian Carroll and who is a smaller name. Right? And so she really started to get defensive and be typical Candace Owens and turned on her, like, pit bull mode.

Maren Crowley [00:10:42]:
And because she’s the type, like, if you’re gonna mess with the bull, you’re gonna get the horns with her. And she was like, it’s you, homie, that all of a sudden is a political talking head. So I get where Candace rightfully so wanted to defend herself. Now everything began to get ugly when former House and Habit friends and employees, they began to reach out to Candace. As well as, like I said, the the the little guys of social media influencers, they’re sending messages to Candace as well as, like, some of these disgruntled former employees of House and Habits. And it really has turned into one big she said versus she said story. People are sharing the receipts online of text messages, DMs, all that. Like, there’s, you know, doxing involved.

Maren Crowley [00:11:36]:
Personal life is being shared, which, you know, I see both sides of that. I see it that is that wrong? Sure. It’s probably not even legal in certain aspects, although these employees of Haps and Habits were ten ninety nine. They’re, you know, they’re they’re independent contractors. And when she’s sharing, like, said information, they were no longer employees. So who knows? I’m not an attorney. Let them figure it out. But that aside, I see her side of it, like, where she’s saying, listen, people are sharing things that aren’t the full truth.

Maren Crowley [00:12:18]:
And so in her defense, she’s like, let me explain where these people are coming from and why they’re mad and, you know, what’s going on with their lives. It it was it’s ugly. Like, the whole thing was just, ugh, gross. Okay? And it began to spiral, like, nasty messages blocking, telling people to f off, people who calling one another trash. And listen, I’m not here to say, like, any of this is good. Okay? Personally, I am very careful of what I put in writing because I have saved the receipts from DMs. Like, I’ve screenshotted things. I’ll give you a perfect example of that.

Maren Crowley [00:13:01]:
I’ll never forget. I warned a friend of mine who was in my downline to not start another MLM because of this particular rank she had within Beach Buddy. And I was like, listen. I’m not a narc. Like, you do you. I know you wanna make income. I have my own opinion about what you’re doing. Like, I don’t see a future in MLM, and sure enough, I was right.

Maren Crowley [00:13:21]:
Her company closed before Beach Buddy did, but I digress. But there are other people out there who are narcs and and will say something. So I had to screenshot this conversation with her in case it ever got back to compliance. Like, I wanted in writing that I told her not to do it as her upline, you know, it was against policies and procedures. But, like, I did what I was supposed to do. People are at the end, they’re gonna do what they wanna do. Right? So I’m not gonna waste your time with the back and forth of, like, House and Habit and Candace and what this one said, what that one said, what the employees are saying, who’s upset about this and that. Like, there’s always three sides to every story, player a, player b, and then the truth.

Maren Crowley [00:14:11]:
All of these ladies, all of them, okay, have become super unhinged the past few days. Like, super unhinged. And I will say Candace, for the most part, has kept her cool and stayed classy. Time will tell if if that will continue. She she has started to to rage a little bit. I mean, let’s let’s be real. She is eight months pregnant, so I would probably feel the same way if I was dealing with this nonsense. But you have to remember how you treat people and speak to them says more about you than it does about that person.

Maren Crowley [00:14:50]:
So be very mindful of the things that you’re saying, especially online because there is zero loyalty online. I mean, from what we’ve even seen, like, there’s zero loyalty even with friendship because a long standing friendship that Jessica Reed Krause had of fourteen years with one of her employees has been dismantled and aired out for the whole world to see. Now on the other side of the coin, those who are pissed with House and Habit for blocking them. So any kind of criticism, she essentially was, like, deleting them from her Substack or blocking them on Instagram, things like that, or she would like, some of them, she would, like, straight up say, like, f off. I mean, that’s not personally how I would respond, but I have no problem with blocking. Like, I’ve done the same thing, and you have to protect your peace. Like, let’s be real. Why are we arguing with people we don’t know on the Internet? Seriously, like, there are people sharing, like, screenshots of conversations they had with her or Candace.

Maren Crowley [00:16:01]:
And, you know, I’m laughing because they’re like, you know, I I’ve always been nice to her and I’ve had conversations with her and blah blah blah blah. And now she’s blocking me and telling me to f off because I’m criticizing her or, you know, giving her my two cents on what she should have done. Like, okay. Well, first of all, I personally have assistants that have access to my socials. Now do they read my messages? Yes. Sometimes. But for the most part, no. K? I don’t do that anymore, especially, like, in the last, I would say, gosh, three years, you know, it got really ugly because I had two friends.

Maren Crowley [00:16:51]:
One one was a this is, like, funny. It’s kind of like a house and habit drama, like, where I had a very dear friend of mine was my assistant. And another friend of mine who they don’t get along, these two people, said something about my assistant not knowing that she could see my messages. Okay? So you can imagine how that went. Not well. So I say all that to say is that, like, you really don’t know who’s on the other side. Now if you have interacted with me on socials, you know my go to is voice messaging. Like, you know it’s me.

Maren Crowley [00:17:30]:
You actually hear my voice. Like, I would bet the farm you’re not getting voice messages from Candice or House and Habit, but just saying because I also I mean, think of it this way, a fallback for them is if anything got really ugly, they could feign ignorance. Like, that wasn’t me, that was my assistant or whatever. Like, it’s a way for them to protect themselves. You know, it’s not their actual voice saying these things, it’s their thumbs. Right? And so I think there’s something to that. But these people were screen grabbing all of these, quote unquote, conversations with the two of them and, you know, trying to trying to act like they were in their sphere of influence. Right? Like, trying to act like they were part of their inner circle and, like, all the things.

Maren Crowley [00:18:26]:
And the real reason, folks, that so many small accounts are getting involved with this drama is for their own clicks, their own rage bait, and an engagement, like, for real. I mean, let’s be real. Like, I’m doing a podcast on this because I know the search engine optimization is gonna be through the roof too. I wanna make sure that this isn’t just repeating and regurgitating information that you’ve already heard or, you know, like, anything, like, just gossipy. Like, this is I’m trying to give you business advice on how to handle yourself on the Internet. But I want you to think about, like, a lot of these accounts who are doing this and and having all of this clickbait and ragebait, it’s these accounts that they’re trying to grow themselves. And they are either involved with network marketing or their affiliates for certain holistic brands, and that is a tactic that many people use. I remember when I was involved with Beachbody years ago years ago, I knew how to do this.

Maren Crowley [00:19:42]:
Like, I like, it was before it was a thing. I was teaching my team on it. I was showing them, okay, look how fast I’ve grown my account. Because for a long time, my account was very, very small. I then I started growing it and then I was so shadowbanned. That was like the big thing and I was proving to my team, look, my account is so shadow banned, but look how I’ve grown it. And that’s what you do. You can increase your engagement by, like I said, acting like you’re part of these other bigger accounts inner circle, tagging them.

Maren Crowley [00:20:15]:
Right? That was always a big thing. You know, if you tag let’s just say, I tag house and habit or real Candace Owens. And whatever I happen to say, that’s the funny thing is that they don’t always look at the contacts. Right? Because they’re not looking at your full story of all your gazillion dots at the top. They’re just looking at whatever you happen to post and say they happen to like it or it aligns with whatever they put in their stories that day, they’ll reshare it. Now, you don’t follow Maren, but you follow Candace or you follow House and Habit, you see them reshare me. Because they reshared me, you automatically your brain automatically believes, oh, Jessica Reid Krause or Candace Owens values what Maren says because Candy and Jessica have, you know, a million plus followers, and they took the time to reshare this content. It must be important to them.

Maren Crowley [00:21:13]:
Ergo, let me follow Maren. And that’s how you grow your account. And you have all these other accounts following you that you normally wouldn’t have access to, but you have because you tagged these larger accounts. And therefore, it’s gonna get more eyes on your stories, whatever products you’re promoting, your company that you’re a part of, whatever. But that’s a slippery slope. Okay? Because so many people want the fame, they want the large following, and let’s be real, the money that, you know, a lot of times comes with it as a larger account, but they don’t wanna do the other stuff that comes with it. Like, they they don’t wanna deal with the criticism, the the nasty DMs you received. Do you know how many times I’ve had threats come into my my DMs? Like, I’ve had when I was with Beachbody, I had full on Reddit threads created about me that I’m like the conspiracy theorist Beachbody coach.

Maren Crowley [00:22:11]:
You know, I’ve been on that side of the coin before and it’s ugly and it’s not worth your mental health. And I truly believe that once you dip your toe into that and you try to grow in an inauthentic way, speaking from experience. Okay? Like, if you try to shortcut the success, you’re opening the door for some gross stuff to happen to you. And for me, it I can tell you a couple of times, it specifically happened to me when, like, really good stuff was going on in my life, and I couldn’t focus on it, and I couldn’t be present, like becoming a new mom for the first time. Or even I got into a fight with someone who I grew up with, like, you know, so that happened to be someone I knew, like, right as my second daughter was born. It’s like the enemy knows when you’re thriving, you’re doing well, and finds a way to knock you down. And so when you open yourself up to this and you expose yourself to this realm, these are the things that come with it. Like, the grass isn’t greener on the other side just because you have a ton of followers.

Maren Crowley [00:23:20]:
Okay? And I can also tell you that you can make income, okay, without having to do that. You don’t have to have this, like, massive, massive following. Alright? Like, you’d rather have stronger people. This is why I was so good at Beachbody is that I knew how to recruit, and I didn’t recruit in the masses like some of these coaches did. I recruited smarter. I recruited big fish. They recruited a lot of little fish. I didn’t have that.

Maren Crowley [00:23:54]:
I recruited the big fish. And then the big fish, they just kept recruiting more and more little fish, like, work smarter, not harder. So, anyway, I say all this to say, like, be very careful what you wish for and, you know, be leery of the fact that a lot of these smaller accounts, they’re trying to take advantage of you too and get you hooked into their stories. And this is a large reason why I you know, besides the fact that my network marketing company dissolved, why I won’t go back into network marketing. I don’t wanna be a part of that and why I’m earning an income through UGC and Amazon Shoppable. Speaking of which okay, creators, listen up. Are you ready to turn your content into cash? Whether you’re just starting out or looking to land high paying brand deals, my UGC workshop is exactly what you need. In my You Get Cash workshop, I’ll walk you through exact strategies to create scroll stopping content, pitch to brands with confidence, and get paid for doing what you love.

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Maren Crowley [00:26:31]:
And Candace, she’s smart on this. Like, she, on the other hand, she typically works with mostly males. Like, her staff is predominantly male. And she doesn’t have former employees or coworkers that are, like, going off on her or saying that she’s horrible to work for Yada Yada, with the exception of Ben Shapiro, which if you know you know that story, and why it’s important. Because at the end of all of this drama, the who and the what that’s at the center is, like, a topic that most people can’t or won’t speak about. You know, females, they work on emotion, not facts, like, nine times out of 10. And I shared a post by an account that I personally love. His account is Kevin.

Maren Crowley [00:27:23]:
His account is King Cat two point o. And he said, quote, I know a lot of people are paying very close attention to House and Habit and Candace Owens debacle right now. As you should, in this moment, you need to understand you’re still in the middle of the information war. There will be individuals who have been propped up quote purposely, and he put that in caps, to control the narrative, to subvert your own ability to think for yourself. Now remember what I said. This is me talking to you right now. Remember what I said about both of these ladies rising to fame so fast. K? Also, the fact that they can talk about things that you and I cannot.

Maren Crowley [00:28:04]:
K? Keep that in mind. And Kevin continues by saying, quote, ladies, unfortunately, you are the most susceptible of becoming victimized. Hello. Like I told you guys, emotions. And as for me, obviously, Kevin’s a dude, but, like, like him, and he says this, I don’t trust most people who have been propped up as the go to source for truth. Like, me neither Kevin. Okay? I definitely have both masculine and feminine energy, and I would say, like, it’s not a fifty fifty split. I’m probably, like, seventy thirty or sixty forty.

Maren Crowley [00:28:41]:
I still identify as a woman, and my pronouns are still she and her. Anyway, whether it’s politically or biblically, there are two types of individuals we are faced to confront today. Those who you choose and those who have been quote unquote chosen. You inevitably decide. Now one of the hardest things about being part of a multilevel marketing company for eleven years was working alongside females. K? I love the golf industry because it is a male dominated industry. I don’t look at that as a bad thing. You will get some female golf professionals who, like, give this whole woe is me, you know, life’s so hard as a female golf row.

Maren Crowley [00:29:22]:
It’s not. Relax. It’s actually a lot easier for a female in many ways than it is for the men. But when I was in network marketing, there were so many times where drama came up for no dang reason over petty nonsensical stuff. And I know that if males had been involved, like, it never would have even happened. Literally, Anthills turned into mountains. Fool me once, shame on you fully twice, not happening. Hence why I’ve told you ad nauseam, I will never do another MLM ever again, amongst other reasons.

Maren Crowley [00:29:57]:
But you can listen to previous podcast episodes about that. Now, I wanna be tentative with what I’m going to say next. Like I said, people who speak out tend to be silenced, if you know what I mean. Sometimes even unalived. And the reality is, this is out of my control. It’s out of your control too. The only thing that you can control is what, like, and how much you consume and from whom that content is coming from. Right? There are a lot of conspiracies running around that RFK is being blackmailed, and there’s talks of Olivia Nuzzy not being who people think she is, and she’s circling back into the orbit of house and habit, like people are connecting the two of them.

Maren Crowley [00:30:41]:
Are they in cahoots? How’d you like you know, how are you friends, and then you were not friends again, and now you’re friends. And, you know, this is just kinda coming to me right now. Like, I you guys are probably gonna think I’m, like, totally team house and habit, but, you know, I just see things from a different perspective. And, like, that’s a perfect example where one of my dearest friends, dear friends for the longest time, we had a falling out, a very big falling out for years. And guess what? We reconciled, and she’s still one of my closest friends. So, you know, life happens. Like, you know, we have so many people, and I don’t know all the ins and outs. None of us do.

Maren Crowley [00:31:35]:
Right? Like I said, there’s always three sides to every story, but it’s just like, we wanna curate this narrative for, like, how Jessica Reed Crouch should be conducting herself. And we don’t know. Like and who are we as Christ followers, especially, who should be focused on forgiving people and all the things, like, who are we to say, oh, you should never talk to this woman ever again. Like right? And so that leads me to the next part is that we are connecting them together. We’re mad at them. And first of all, I don’t really care who RFK Jr is sleeping with. Okay? Like, if it’s two consenting adults, like, not my monkey, not my circus, I’m more concerned about keeping our air, water, and our food clean and not have poison in it. K? That was the job he was brought in for.

Maren Crowley [00:32:27]:
Now, do I think it’s very possible he is being blackmailed so that he won’t make these massive changes that will ultimately affect Big Pharma and BigGov? Yes. 100%. I think that that is very, very true. Do I believe that there are entities out there that control the world? Also, yes. But what I find strange, yes, I’m saying it again, is the fact that people like me and other small accounts like, we’ve been screaming this for years. Like, we’ve been telling you how certain people have been blackmailed or, you know, we’ve been telling you that the elites control what’s going on, specifically certain area of the world and in the country, like, that we always seem to be defending. Like, why is it that we have been making these connections, but those on the stage, whether it’s House and Habit, Candace, Joe Rogan, etcetera, like, they’re just now bringing it to light and, like, no issue. Right? So I’m very skeptical of all of these characters in the story.

Maren Crowley [00:33:31]:
It feels very, like, look here, not there vibe. And I also don’t like how there’s so much division within a movement of, you know, make America great again or make America healthy again. Like, it seems super calculated to me to pinpoint two powerhouse women like this against one another. And there’s definitely some idolization taking place. I told you, like, there are people who are all team Candace and or all team Jessica Lee Krauss, like, we support you. Well, it’s like you don’t know these ladies, but whatever. And the only one we should be idolizing is Christ, like, not humans. Right? And another account who’s a super OG like me, Truthbysiah, she has she’s on her fourth account, so there’s a numeral four at the end.

Maren Crowley [00:34:20]:
She said it best, we all have been indoctrinated into the quote, trust the experts idolization culture. Your opinion on medical issues don’t matter. It means nothing. A doctor is above you. Your opinion is not valid unless you were granted a degree, permission to have an option from the experts. The same is going for these influencers y’all. Right? Like, just because someone is attending parties, rubbing elbows, you know, with the the first family or maybe they’re, you know, having their own massive large podcast and going viral or running conservative conferences with college students across the nation. Like, that doesn’t make them better than you, my friend.

Maren Crowley [00:35:00]:
K? I’ve been to Mar A Lago twice. My old boss worked for forty five slash 47 for nearly a decade. My husband’s best friend is Secret Service. Like, am I better than you? No. Do I know more information than you? No. Like, we don’t know it all. And if we think all of these people on the Internet who are going viral and have these massive platforms, like, are a % keyed into what’s going on, we’re foolish to believe that. Truly.

Maren Crowley [00:35:31]:
We’re all human. We all make mistakes. We’re all sinful. And if you choose to idolize someone other than Christ and then put them in a position above yourself, like, you’re gonna be disappointed. Remember that famous quote, like, never meet your idols? Like, the only idol I’m looking forward to meeting is Jesus. Everyone else, like, forget it. Because I know I’m gonna be disappointed. Even if they’re not corrupt, there’s gonna be things that I don’t like or they’re gonna irk me.

Maren Crowley [00:35:57]:
Right? Like or you don’t admire about them. You know? I I laugh because I know from my work experience in the golf industry, when I’ve talked to students and they speak about how they live in you know, sometimes golf courses will be a community. Right? And it’s a lot different than just being a golf club. When you live in that community, like, you get to know people, the good and the bad, a lot easier than you do when you just happen to have one thing in common when it’s, like, say, the golf course. Right? So be very careful about who you are idolizing. And all of this attention that House and Habit and Candice own have brought to the table, it’s a good reminder for us to look inward, our gut, right, our spirit, and then also to our creator. You know, God gave us that intuition for a reason. Trust your gut, not what other people are telling you to believe, even if they’re quote unquote sharing the receipts.

Maren Crowley [00:37:00]:
Like, do you know how many times that stuff can be doctored? I swear. Or taken out of context. And when I speak on this, I’m saying including me. Right? Like, this is my opinion, and I’m sure as more comes out, I’m gonna have even more opinions to share. And as always, I wanna make sure I turn it into a learning message and, like, connect it to business and not just be here regurgitating things that you’ve probably already seen 5,000,000 times from the same influencers or just gossiping. Right? Because we shouldn’t be doing that either. So let’s discuss. What have we learned? Okay? Be careful what you put in writing.

Maren Crowley [00:37:38]:
The block button isn’t a big of a deal as people are making it to be, especially even know these people on the Internet that you are blocking. Working with a full team of women will inevitably result in catty drama. Been there, done that. Because women are more feeling based than facts. Like, we, as women, we definitely need to lean into more of that masculine energy to have successful business relationships. I wholeheartedly believe in that. Imitation is the biggest form of flattery. And although it can be annoying, nothing really is that original.

Maren Crowley [00:38:14]:
Like, think about music. I mean, artists today, they’re taking beats that were popular in the early two thousands, and those those artists took it from songs from the nineteen seventies and sixties. Like, everything comes back into style. I mean, heck, bell bottoms are back in style. Right? We’re all just regurgitating the same information just like the mainstream media does, but it’s with a different aesthetic. Trust your gut. If something feels off, it probably is. God gave you intuition for a reason, and the less time you spend listening to others’ opinions and voices, the more you have time to listen to him and put together your own thoughts and feelings.

Maren Crowley [00:38:56]:
Do not fall down the rabbit hole. I’ve been there, done that. I truly believe it is a portal for negativity and demons to enter your home and spirit. All of this is out of our control, and there’s only one who is in control, Jesus. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this episode. I’m sure I’ll continue to keep this topic going as more and more unfolds. It literally has only been a week. Okay? Reach out to me on Instagram.

Maren Crowley [00:39:23]:
My handle is at m a crowley. We’ll continue the conversation there, and you can find the show notes on my website under the podcast tab. Thank you for tuning in, and I’ll catch you on the next episode.