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Run Your Mouth: Community Over Competition · RUN YOUR MOUTH

• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, child, what up though?
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Run your Mouth podcast with your girl Key.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, I am a day late and a dollar short.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Y'all know what.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: It's Friday and I was supposed to drop this episode on Thursday, but I didn't pre-record, so I was planning to go live on Facebook and life happened and I didn't Blame it on my sisters and my girl group, because they had me out and, yeah, I had to cut water and the cut water took me out.
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: Y'all Like, where did this come from?
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: For real, see, I don't have TikTok.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: I don't have it, I don't want it, and I'm going to have to stop looking at those TikToks that I share with me that I can actually see.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Majority of them I can't see anyway, because I don't have an account and I don't have the app.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: So someone will have to screenshot it or screen record it and send it to me.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: But listen, here, some of those ones that I can see, I'm just going to keep scrolling on by because I ain't got time.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: Ain't got time for the lies, ain't got time for the nonsense.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: They went over here and made this thing popular and carried on like it was just a heaven sent spring water.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: That shit is cray, it is, it is cisco mad dog.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: 2020.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: Wild hours, rose booms farm ain't no water, they say they just 2020, wild Irish Roads, boone's Farm Ain't no water, they say they just steal a little water, but ain't no water.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: And they lying.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: It ain't 13%, it's zero.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: It's supposed to be another.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: That decimal's supposed to be over one.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: That's got to be 139%.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: Y'all listen, y'all know I always get off task and I'm getting off task here.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: I'm starting y'all off in disarray because the cut of water just got me coming down.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: But hey, for those of you who like it strong, get you a Long Island.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, start at the top, work your way down.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: That Long Island took me out.
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: I forgot to even.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: I forgot what yesterday even was like for real, for real, for real.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: One can and those who know me know I can take it down through there if I want to but and I'm not a mixed drink drinker, I like straight drop.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: But I had to put lemons.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: I asked for some lemonade.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: I asked for resuscitation.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: I asked for the bed, I asked for a driver.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: I was just, I was gone.
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: I was gone.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Y' so, anyway, that's what happened.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: So now y'all know.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: So I wasn't going to hold you anyway page to drop me some comments and speak on what you all think is the problem when it comes to Black-owned businesses and why we don't thrive.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: But I didn't really get a lot of comments.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: You know Got a couple of inboxes, a couple of messages, but not like I had anticipated.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: But oftentimes we are scared to talk about this.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: You know, we don't want to offend our friends and we don't want to look like we begging for support, this, that and the third.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: But the three things that I want to cover and I promise you I'm not going to hold you long because I'm still coming down off the cut water, off the crack water or whatever they want to call it, and I'm tired, like I just I just really didn't feel like nothing yesterday.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: I was like let me get myself up this road, get back to my area safely, go to sleep.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: That's what I did.
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: That was a cut water, calm down.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: I ain't felt that bad since and I didn't feel bad.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't feel hungover or groggy or nothing hurt.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: I just felt out of it.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: Like I guess some people like that feeling.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: Honey, please drink safely, don't mix anything with that.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: Don't mix nothing with it.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: If you pop pills, please, I don't want to have to see you in the ER, don't do it.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: So, anyway, we're going to keep it moving and I always try to bring you something of substance in less than an hour, but I promise you it's going to be less than that, because I got something else to do that I didn't do yesterday, so we're going to get right to it.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: It was real, sweet and simple, because we, as black business owners, know that we don't support one another.
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: That's number one Support from your community.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: That was one of the key things, and I put that first because why is it so hard that we can embrace the local store that's owned by the Indians, arabs, west Middle Easterners, westerners, wherever, whoever?
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: We can support the beauty supply store that's owned by the Asian, the African, whoever, whatever, whatever but we can't support Black-owned businesses that are owned by African-Americans from America.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: We can support everything Go buy from everybody but you won't buy from one another.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: You won't support one another.
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: Y'all go tell Janet Jackson happy birthday, but you won't tell your neighbor happy birthday.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: One another, you won't support one another.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Y'all go tell Janet Jackson happy birthday, but you won't tell your neighbor happy birthday, we'll get online and we'll wish everybody a RIP, but you'll see a flower and a tent in your yard and you won't even go across the street or up the street and take a bottle of water or a case of water or a pack of tissue and you know these people done died on your street.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: You're looking at it, you're looking at the tent, you're looking at the repast ceremony going on, you're looking at the traffic, you're looking at the wreaths on the door.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: You don't even know your neighbor, but you're concerning yourself with seven million people on social media.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: That's the problem.
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: And see, we got to get away from that.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going to use one prime example Oprah.
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: Oprah didn't try to pull the whole world up by the bootstraps.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: Oprah didn't try to pull the whole world up by the bootstraps and, yes, some people were offended when she took a different turn in her broadcast and what she chose to be her key topics.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: She went from messy to a millionaire, basically.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, she started out messy, tuning in every week Oprah got somebody fighting in the audience, telling each other secrets and whoop-de-whoop-de-whoop because it appeased to the gossiping Black folk.
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: But once she got where she was going in life, where she knew she needed to go to bring who she wanted to bring up by the bootstraps, which happens to be her friend.
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: She's primed and guided her.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: She guided Gail into the business.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: She didn't go over there and take the business and I mean she's done a lot of things that I don't approve of, but she's done many things that I do approve of.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: But one thing that I give her her flowers for is the person who stood by her, the person that looks like her, the person that knew her, roll with her, ride or die with her, who she calls her best friend.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: She put her in a position where she could also win, not ride off her coattail and borrow a big scheme and thieve, but go out here and do something for yourself, for your family, because I'm going to help you.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be jealous that you're doing the same thing I'm doing.
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: I know when it's time, when it's time to step back.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: Black people, you got to know when it's time to step back when you have made it.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: Second point share.
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: You cannot have it all.
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: You don't need it all.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: You got to keep it revolving and the way to keep it revolving is to keep it in your neighborhood, keep it in your community.
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: We can't keep tearing down everything that we got.
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: But think about it the stuff we tear down might be in our neighborhood, but it ain't ours anyway.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: So really all you got to do is just drive a couple of more blocks and you'll go to another target.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: You'll go to another store.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: If you don't vandalize that one, you're going to find another one because they all over the place.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: It ain't yours anyway.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: Not beautifying your neighborhood, but it ain't yours anyway.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: But we have to first learn how to care for stuff and build and grow within our community and we can take care of it because we don't have to worry about other businesses coming in and taking over.
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: And I think I think not 100% sure about that, like I'm not 100% sure about the fact that everybody has common sense, because they don't, but we have the ability to gain some and I think that everyone that acquires something want to take care of it.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: You know you want your neighborhood to look good, you want your schools to stay open, you want your businesses to be protected need to be ours.
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: That's why we need to bring back that American dollar, that black American dollar, in our community and it starts with losing some of y'all jealousy and y'all envy.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: You know, I have a shirt business and I have apparel different things and I'll watch people and I'll see and, mind you, I don't do custom shirts anymore, I do my brand but and I read, I create different slogans and I add something every now and then that I see that appeases me or whatever.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: But I don't do.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: I don't do other people's brands.
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: I say it all the time.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: I don't plug Nike into my store.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: I don't plug Lululemon into my store.
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: Whoever else stuff like a drop ship, I don't care whatever they got on amazon, I don't plug all that into my store.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Because one thing I realize is there's some people stuff and even if it makes me millions and millions of dollars right now, it still ain't gonna do no good when I'm gone because I can't carry it on.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: I can't carry it on, my family can't carry it on because it doesn't belong to me.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: So we'll spend up and we'll ball out with what we need.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: But hell, I've been there before.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: I've been able to spend and ball out before off the backs of somebody else's money.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: So it ain't no big deal whose money it is, as long as you got it right and you got access to it.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Money is money, but I had to learn that's not the key to the street.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: I want to be able to hand over the key to the street and say, hey, here's my legacy.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Keep it going if you want to.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: If you don't, fine, but it's yours, it belongs to us.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: That's like buying land and farming it belongs to you.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: You sell it when you get ready.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody coming and take it unless you don't take care of it and you don't do what you're supposed to do.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Get ready, ain't nobody coming and take it unless you don't take care of it and you don't do what you're supposed to do.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: But you can pass that on.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: You know you go out here and you get bamboozled into these high entrance loans and paying on something for the rest of your life Can't pass it down.
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: You know a lot of people don't even choose or elect to get the insurance where it's paid off at that benefit.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: They don't even they don't do it.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: So we have to first learn that it's key to stick together, support one another.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if y'all doing the same thing still support that person.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: That person's selling plates, so they might not be selling what you're selling, support that person.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: They're probably not in your neighborhood, so you need to make sure it grows that neighborhood.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: Then you get to the next neighborhood and the next neighborhood, your turn is coming.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: Your turn is coming If you're doing something that you're supposed to be doing and God intended for you to do purposely for you.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: It does not matter who else is doing it.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: But I have cried, preached, begged to the choir in every social media platform I have and I still don't see the numbers from the people that call me friend, that know me, that deal with me.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: And you don't have to tell me what you want me to do.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't like what I have or what product I'm producing, give me an idea, give me an idea and I'm going to give you credit.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say, hey, you know, thank you such and such for this idea.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: You might get half off, you might get a free shirt, you might get a promo, I don't know.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: But whatever it is, I'm going to make sure that your creativity and your input is recognized.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: And that's what's wrong with us.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: We're so scared that somebody's going to make it to the top without us.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Leave us out till you're going to compete with that person, knowing that that ain't even what your gift is, that's not even what you're supposed to be doing.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: That's like me going out there saying I'm going to become a pro football player, I ain't going to get hit, I ain't going to play no football.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: I ain't going out there and do nothing.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how good I know the game, it doesn't matter if I can not want to throw them jokers out.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not going out there because that's not my calling.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: That's not what I need to do.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: So if we get it in our head that we need to get off that horse, that everything we got to put our hands in, it's okay to be a serial entrepreneur I'm one but I do stuff that I know I'm good at.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: I do stuff.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: That's and the thing about it.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Y'all get this in the back of your head, put it in your dome, put it back there, way back there, so it can always come to the front a little bit by a little bit, until you.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: You see it.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: What a person is good at and what a person does, it doesn't really matter if you duplicate it.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: They're gonna.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: They're gonna win anyway.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sell books anyway.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sell clothes anyway to somebody might not be the people I would like to see support me, but somebody going to do it, somebody going to put food on my table, or I'm going to do something different If I just get to the point that was just like with nursing, and then it came to the point where it just wasn't my calling, it just wasn't for me.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Bumps, hurdles, we're going to face them, we're all going to go through them.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: That's what life is about.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: But if I realize at any time, fashion and form, that I just cannot get this, and even if I passed, even if I passed the boards and passed the classes and I got into this field and said, hey, this is not working for me.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: I just cannot figure out how to stay productive.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: I can't manage patients.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: I don't remember what the drugs is, I don't know how to calculate dosage without my computer.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: This just ain't for me.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: I got to get over here and do something else.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to fancy over and I'm going to do something else, and it was God's will for it to be for me.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: So I stuck with it, even through the bumps and the hurdles and the bruises and the failed tests and all this other stuff, but everybody now saturating that field because they looking to their left and looking to their right.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: They ain't called to do this.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: So you need to do something that you were called to do and then you go help somebody else do it and help somebody else do it, and hopefully they help somebody else do it, and that's how we grow.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: That is how we grow.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: That is what Oprah did with Gail.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: She knew when it was her time to get behind the scenes because she done made enough money.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: She knew when it was her time to get behind the scenes because she done made enough money and she done put her money and invested it in places where it's going to revolve for a lifetime if she wanted to.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Now it's time to pull up some other people who can do that with their family, and they can do it with their family, and it keeps going and going and going.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: And her entities they stay within her reach because she knows where she put her energy, time, investment, money and who she put it with.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying go and just start taking care of all your friends, because everybody is not purposed to be at your table when you eat off of your good silverware.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Some people need to be in the back room with the kids with the paper plates.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Be in the back room with the kids with the paper plates.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: But I want y'all to understand that you have to know when to jump in and help somebody else.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: That's most important.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: We have to know how to be one band, one mind, one community, one culture, one mission, because everything in life requires you to have a team, requires allies, requires resources, and that's one of the things that we haven't gotten in the Western culture yet in the African-American community you go anywhere else and you see people that look like each other living together in harmony together.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: They may raise a little hill together, but at the end of the day they look out for one another.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I was in Africa, as everybody that follows me knows, and I'm telling you that was the most profound moment of my life.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I have never seen people stick together so well in the Black community.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I have never, never.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: And I know some people have their reservations about the different cultures.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: You know the diversity there and the mindset that a lot of the regions have.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: It's like one day at a time, but it's not kill or be killed.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Mentality it's one day at a time and as we're going to stick together and I'm going to help you, you're going to help me.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: You know, you got women walking with bread baskets on their head and somebody else got water on their head and this was going over here giving this one a piece of bread for a piece of water, making sure we eat, I drink, we good.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Everybody ain't dragging each other and trying to hurry up and outsell one another.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: They were polite, they were courteous.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: It's robust, it's everybody going to run until you're trying to say something, but they ain't all stepping over each other.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: So I like the unity that I saw in that country.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: It was beautiful.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: It was something I've never seen.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: First of all, our streets are empty half of the time, except for everybody's in their cars and in their homes.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: We're not out selling anything anyway.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: We have storefronts and we're buying everything, but we are not producing anything and we're definitely not keeping stuff in our community.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: And I don't understand that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why it's so hard for people who have been so privileged to stick together, because really, when you look around in the United States, majority of the people ain't doing too bad.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: You know you might have some doing better than others, but for the most part everybody ain't going to be an NFL star, nba star.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Everybody ain't going to be a million-dollar content creator.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Everybody's not going to be a multi-million dollar apparel online store.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I'm probably not going to make time here, figure money off the bat, but I'm gonna keep on stepping.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's what we gotta do.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Like miss shirley say, he's gonna keep on stepping.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Even a three-year-old, four-year-old baby get it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: We don't even get it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: She know to just keep going and don't let the hater stop you.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Whatever, whatever little girl gonna do whatever she need to do to make sure she happy.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And you know she got the concept.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: You know, might might be a little too little to have it right now, but she, she got the heart.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: She has the heart for it, and that's the thing that we don't have a lot of.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: We don't have heart for one another.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: We rather go and support our oppressors, and I'm not saying just just like look the boycott.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: We had to have someone else tell us where we should spend our money.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: First of all, nobody got to tell you where to spend your money.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: You should come and tell you if something is hurting you, something is hurting your community and something is taking away from you.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: You should know the fallback.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Now me myself.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I'm a Target person.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I like Target.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I don't really prefer Walmart, even though I worked at Walmart before.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I just don't like the storefront.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I don't like the cleanliness.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I don't like just having to fight to find a register open, self-checkout myself to death.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: If I look on the app and it says it's an I3H3Shift2, roll one, turn to the left, bend over down to the right, push something back and there you go, boom, there's my product.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: That's what I want.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I don't want to go there and have to go through all this nonsense.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So for me, target has worked better for me.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: But I knew that for the sake of my mentality, the sake of my pocket and the sake of what I believe in, I had to fall back.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I ain't saying I ain't been in Target since then, but I definitely fell back and it definitely made a difference.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And nobody shouldn't have to tell us that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Because when you see industries and corporations start not working for the people, who working for them?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Who putting food on your table?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Who putting your kids to college, who making your business a billion dollar, trillion dollar business, potentially because one of them about to hit a trillion.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: If Amazon ain't already hit, it's going to.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: It got to because we rely on it so much.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I fell back and you know we can do without that extra order.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: We can do without them.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: 15,000 boxes coming to our door every week.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: You don't need all this stuff.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: You need to create and have resources and learn how to be fundamentally sound in your own community with your own resources and your own people and your own stuff.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense to park a $60,000 car in a project.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it just don't make sense.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: It don't make sense to go broke trying to pay a car note and you can't even feed your family.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Where are you going?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Go, get you something you can afford and get.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Where you going, it's okay.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Letting people have their mess back.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Get one later, it's okay.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Restore your credit later, it's okay.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: You got people going to buy here.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Pay here is making these people rich and as soon as you miss a payment they ain't giving you no grace.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: No grace in your interest is through the roof, when you could have just tucked it out for a little while and I've been there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I've been there.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I bought a $500 car, put my baby in it.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It had one eye and it had a Mitch Mack side.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It was a Cougar 1984 Cougar, mind you.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: It was 1993 when I bought it and I had her standing up on one side in the front because there wasn't no seat belts in the back, couldn't even put a car seat back there.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: She stood up on the front on one side.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I scrapped her little buddy in and I was like you better hold on Because your door don't work from the outside and I got to push it open over here and push it open for you to get out and you better sit down and hold on.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: We made it do what it do, went to my little job until I could get something else and I was stepping out that thing, pretty Stepping out that thing.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: My baby lay hair lay, slave fry die, lay to the side every day and I'm thinking I'm pushing a Porsche.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I did what I had to do until I could do better.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't know how to humble ourselves and we just get too much mess that we just absolutely are not benefiting from.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You're not benefiting from having three or four cars if you can't pay for them.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: You're not benefiting from purchasing homes that you're not utilizing, you're not benefiting from that Benefit for do things that you benefit from and that's going to benefit your community, because that's one of the biggest issues we have in the African-American community in the Western countries.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: We don't appreciate one another.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: We don't even know our neighbors, and I'm guilty.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Don't think I'm preaching to the choir and I ain't preach to myself, because I have.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I'm guilty, I don't know these people.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I remember growing up, back in the day you could go to your neighbor and you could borrow a broom.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to go get a.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I've had people come to my mom's house and borrow a flower, a broom, a mop.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Like you want to sweep my mama, just be like, you can have it baby.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: You tell your mama she can have it, she can keep it, because we don't want you to bring your dirt back to our house, but at the same time we want you to be able to clean your house and that's what you need to do.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And if you ain't got too much pride that you know you got to come ask somebody for help, even if it's down to a mop and a broom to make your dwelling proper light, then you do that and that's what we haven't done.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: We haven't made our dwelling, not just our homes, but our communities, our storefronts, our entrepreneurs.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: We haven't made our dwelling people who do have these businesses in our area comfortable.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: We haven't made them elevate, because we won't even walk in them.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't like such and such.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I ain't going to buy nothing from her.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I don't deal with him.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I ain't letting him cut my son hair.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, he got a nasty attitude.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not going down there and buy nothing out of his shop.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, I ain't letting him fix my car.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I'm taking my car to the dealer and the dealer be just as crooked, be just as snowblading you, just as blindsided, charging you for a 500 oil change and putting bad oil in your car it ain't even synthetic and slapping a stick up there.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: You don't know what them people doing, but you know jim them.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: You know bob them down the street, you know they good on cars, but you don't fool with them.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Though I ain't fooling with them.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, you just took out your community.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You just took out of somebody's mouth in your community who probably could have looked out for you.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: But see, that's the mindset we have.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And lastly and I'm going to repeat part of number one, stick together, take care of your people.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Learn how to share, learn how to share your resources with people that look like you.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: This is going to be real quick.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Serena Williams, you married a white man.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: That's fine.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Love who you want to love, talk to who you want to talk to, date who you want to date.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: But she sat here and she done, got all whoop-de -whoop, get good and big and you crip, walked and you did all this.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Kendra lamar, pro black.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I'm from compton, I'm about that life type nonsense.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: But you got all these self-help sisters out here, myself included.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Been making sea moss for eight years, been on my health tips long before I got a nurse and I was vegan for 14 years.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I was vegetarian for seven, vegan for seven.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: When I got pregnant with my first daughter in 93, I hadn't ate meat in seven years and I ate some meat and I had an allergic reaction.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: That's how long I've been worried about my health and I still had problems.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: But I always knew what I put in is what I'm going to get out.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: But you got all this money and you got all these resources and you got all this ability, worldwide ability.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about these people jet setters.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: They trendsetters and jet setters.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: They can go, hop on a jet and make a 24-hour trip look like 10.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: You can go sit at a table with millionaires and push your product if you want to, but she went and she endorsed somebody that didn't look like us.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: That's what you got all over your page.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: You bought your health and use this product and do this and do that, but you didn't go and find that one.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: You mean to tell me as much you be on social media and as many followers as she has, and I love her talent, love her and I love this story.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: But I also know that sometimes, when you put us up, you support us, and I can't probably even fathom the thought of the people who went to tennis matches and supported her.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: They probably couldn't even really afford it, but they made it happen because they wanted to be a part of it, wanted to be connected to history.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: All the people who have supported that ugly hair that she was selling, because it definitely was not a good quality hair, but people said, hey, we're going to support this because it's Serena.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: But then you go over here you slap us in the face.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: You like it or love it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I said it and I hope it get back to her.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: If it don't, then who cares?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Somebody may go to her ear.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: You married a man outside of your race because you loved him.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: You had children for him and that's absolutely your choice.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: That's your right.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Love who you want to love.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: But when it come down to your money and it come down to your race and it come down to your inheritance and it comes down to your ancestors and who built this country and made it possible for you to even be that little black girl out there playing against these little white girls and these people in different social classes than you, and you go and you throw that money right back over there.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: You tell me that ain't a slap in the face.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: It's a slap in the face and I'm going to be out.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I got three minutes left.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be done in 15, but I went over to 30 because I took a break and I came back.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: But y'all, I apologize again for delaying this episode, but listen, if you are in need women 40 and over, and you're getting back into the workforce or you're getting back into your entrepreneur journey.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: You just have a vision or you have a dream, just something you want to do.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You empty nest and kids gone, your grandkids running around with their parents doing whatever.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: You don't have kids.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: You don't have grandkids running around with their parents doing whatever.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: You don't have kids, you don't have grandkids, and it's just you.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Or maybe you are now a recently widowed, recently divorced, and you got to figure out your life.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: You got to figure out your life for you because, at the end of the day, it's yours.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: You're going to get one, you're going to stand before your God and you're going to be accountable for what you did with your 24 hours.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: You want to figure it out.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Get at me.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I do one-on-one consulting Women.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I cater to women because I don't know what it's like to be a man, but I may add that along my husband may start doing that in the future.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Who knows, if you know, maybe he got something he can offer me and help them.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Take them by the bootstrap, but for now it's just me.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: It men.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Help them take them by the bootstrap, but for now it's just me, it's just me versus me.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: It's just key, it's just big key and I want to basically give you the one-on-one.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I've single-handedly created my company with my own money, no loans.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: For one, my credit was too bad to even go out and get any, so I wasn't worried about that in the beginning.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I was like go ahead and dig out this 401k because I got that.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about that in the beginning.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I was like go ahead and dig out this 401k because I got that.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I ain't got no 700 credit score, but I got that, so I had to take that to do this.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And I built this company and then I tried to figure out what I wanted to do with it and in doing so, once I published the books, once I started the online apparel company, once I branded this and did this and did that, I said I'm missing something.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: What I was missing was giving back the recipe.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And I'm not breaking y'all bank.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I ain't telling y'all to come buy no product for $599 and I'm going to make you rich.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: No, no, you don't spend $97.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to give you resources and I'm going to give you what it took me to do what I'm doing.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you success because I am successful at what I did.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I am very successful at what I'm doing and I'll give you the recipe and I ain't going to break your back or break your bank, because I know you don't have it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: If you're trying to get out here and you're trying to get something and do something in life, then you're probably struggling to get there.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I struggle still to get my products out to make sure I can still pay myself and have a little bit left at the end of the day to appease to my family and my needs and my wants.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: So I know it's not easy, but come on over here and talk to me.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Book the consultation at readitgroupcom.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: That's R-I-E-I-D-I-T groupcom.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: $97 would be the best $97 you ever spent in your life, because what I'm going to tell you is the truth.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: It ain't all glitz and glamour, but you're going to get the truth.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: You're going to get facts and you're going to get resources and you're going to get a little bit of help.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: You got somebody that's going to help you.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: They've been there, done that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I ain't just trying to sell you nothing, because at the to work every day and I'm gonna get up and go to work every day Until I don't have to get up and go to work every day For somebody else, and then I'm getting up and going to work every day for me.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I go to work at night for me.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: So I got two jobs.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I got two jobs.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I got two phones too.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: But no, seriously, I want you guys to really understand that we got.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: We're in a crunch time, everybody crying about what Trump doing, what he took away, what he did, blah, blah, blah.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: We got to get it together.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: So y'all, tune in next time.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm transitioning to girl talk because I want to focus on us girls, us ladies, and what we got going on and pulling us out of this AI internet realm that we're in and thinking.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Everybody got to do the same thing.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: It's so much more out here we can do.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: It's so much more we can bring to the table.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: So much more.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Our ancestors died to lay out for us and gave us a blueprint to just piggyback it and pull it up by the bootstraps.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: So do it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: We got to do it.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: We got to make this thing happen.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: So y'all, make sure y'all help me with this and make sure it's a smooth, uh, transition.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I'm still gonna talk about some things that relate to men and in the world and all this other stuff, but for the most part, run your mouth is going into girl talk and that's all we're gonna talk about.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: What our hot flashes menopause, kids, men, money, gain a little weight, losing a little weight.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: What's your own girl?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: What you on girl, what you taking, how you did this, how you did that.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: We're going to help each other, help me, help you Y'all.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Tune in for the next episode.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening and again I apologize for the delay in the episode, but I got y'all.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Next time I'm going to be on time and I'm out.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Have a good one.