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INTERVIEW: Crystal Renee Hayslett Talks Launching 'ORS Unapologetic,' Hair Growth Secrets, Building Her Brand + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day.
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  Speaker 2: Up the Breakfast Club. You know, I'm finished for y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Dunk morning.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is dj n V just hilarious. Charlamage the guy
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  Speaker 3: we are the Breakfast Club, Lawn Roses hair as well.
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  Speaker 4: We got a special guest.
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  Speaker 3: In the building, Wet Chrystal Rene Haysland.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome and everybody, how are you feeling? And listen amen
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  Speaker 5: today Charlamagne.
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  Speaker 6: You always hustling. You got a new headcare line, Unapologetic.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, Unapologetic is a launch that I'm doing with
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  Speaker 5: ours at launched today. We are here in New York
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  Speaker 5: tonight We're gonna be in Tom Square doing some giveaways.
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  Speaker 5: Got a billboard this. I'm just excited. Man. This has
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  Speaker 5: been a year long journey getting it right and we're
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  Speaker 5: here finally.
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  Speaker 7: Why the name unapologetic?
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, it was so long that it took me to
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  Speaker 5: actually embrace my hair and really understand what worked for it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and I talk about this story. One day,
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  Speaker 5: I faced face time my dad, like every day and
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  Speaker 5: any girl who has natural hair nose by day five
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  Speaker 5: it's like a big fro looks a little crazy, but
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  Speaker 5: most of times people like when you think it's crazy,
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  Speaker 5: it's trying to wash, like, oh my god, I love
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  Speaker 5: your hair. My dad answers the phone, he goes, what
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  Speaker 5: is wrong with your hair? And I said, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, Dad, I was like, do you know
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  Speaker 5: how long it's taking black women to actually embrace their hair?
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, and how many women would literally
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  Speaker 5: cut off their left foot to have this much hair
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  Speaker 5: on their head. And I was like, this is why
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  Speaker 5: women go to resort to the perms or resort to
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  Speaker 5: other hairstyles. And he was like, I never thought about that.
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  Speaker 5: And in that moment, it allowed me to become more
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  Speaker 5: unapologetic and just really own it. And that's why we
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  Speaker 5: did Unapologetic.
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  Speaker 4: Chemist I did.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was important. Listen, she's so good. That was
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  Speaker 5: important because understanding our hair textures, you know. And we
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  Speaker 5: got in there and I was trying to different products,
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  Speaker 5: making sure they mix together. I've been doing my hair
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  Speaker 5: myself since the third grade and then I went natural
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  Speaker 5: in twenty ten. So I used to be in the
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  Speaker 5: kitchen doing you two videos, making some avocado masks for
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  Speaker 5: my hair, trying to really take care of it. So
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  Speaker 5: when I went in there, I already knew like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: I can't mix this together because it's gonna leave flicks
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  Speaker 5: on my hair the next day. I wanted to make
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  Speaker 5: sure it was right for all hair, all hair typs,
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  Speaker 5: because you go to these, you go to the shelves
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  Speaker 5: and it says all haircurr tights, and it ain't for
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  Speaker 5: all time. You know.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I got on a hat today, still trying
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  Speaker 8: to find so unapologetic.
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  Speaker 5: I brought you something you today, I got you.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like you're having to prove yourself a
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  Speaker 6: third time because you have to prove yourself as a stylist,
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  Speaker 6: you have to prove yourself as an actress.
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  Speaker 2: Now you got to prove.
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  Speaker 6: Yourself as haircare professionals. You feel like you're having to
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  Speaker 6: prove yourself a third time.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's not proving Charlemagne. It's more so just stepping
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  Speaker 5: into spaces I'm passionate about and making sure that I
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  Speaker 5: had the science to back it up, so that when
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  Speaker 5: we do put it on the shelves, it's nothing to prove.
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  Speaker 5: The science speaks for itself. Yeah, sound feel like I'm proving,
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  Speaker 5: but we're definitely gonna show up.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of times I don't think men
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  Speaker 3: respect it, like your father didn't until they got to
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  Speaker 3: deal with it, right. Take and I had to take
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  Speaker 3: my daughters to dance, and I ain't know what the
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  Speaker 3: hell I was doing. And I was trying to comb
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  Speaker 3: and it was going left and I was trying to
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  Speaker 3: make it go right. And you know, a dance you
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  Speaker 3: got to have a slick back, yes, And that's my
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  Speaker 3: daughter's hair is curly. And my wife's trying to tell
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  Speaker 3: me what to do.
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  Speaker 9: And you don't want to hurt them when they're combing
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  Speaker 9: their head.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you understand until you got to do that,
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  Speaker 3: because I didn't know what it was. And my wife
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  Speaker 3: teld me go to CBS to get this product, and
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  Speaker 3: then there was no products for It was difficult. It
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  Speaker 3: was difficult.
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  Speaker 7: It was no products for us, not no product for
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  Speaker 7: black and brown, not not at all.
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  Speaker 3: So it was very, very difficult. So when I was
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  Speaker 3: gonna say, so, when you got the chemist, how does
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  Speaker 3: that work? I've always been pretty curious about that, like,
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  Speaker 3: how do.
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  Speaker 7: You decide what's going to work for what type of
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  Speaker 7: hair is?
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  Speaker 3: Do you try it immediately? Because you can try some
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  Speaker 3: shit to just fuck your hair up immediately, right, So
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  Speaker 3: what's that process.
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  Speaker 5: That's a great question to env. So the lab was
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  Speaker 5: actually in Chicago. Now I'm gonna stay Labs, which is
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  Speaker 5: where o RS their offices are. So we go to
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  Speaker 5: the lab. They had already started working on some products,
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  Speaker 5: so I got it. I literally went in there with
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  Speaker 5: a doll head, we head and like started using the
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  Speaker 5: products on it to see how it worked. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: the type of person I can feel it until this
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  Speaker 5: doesn't have enough slip on it. I need some more
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  Speaker 5: water to this. This is too thick. So when I
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  Speaker 5: started trying to I was like, all right, we need
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  Speaker 5: this is the mix as well, but I feel like
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  Speaker 5: we need a little more activated with the jail to
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  Speaker 5: really make the curls pop. And so we I went home.
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  Speaker 5: I was so excited, y'all. I was like, all R,
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna do a YouTube video just showing the people
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  Speaker 5: the process. Listen, y'all. I put that stuff on my hair.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't do what this is doing. I was like, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: this ain't it. So we literally had to go back
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  Speaker 5: to the drawing board saying, hey, we need to add
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  Speaker 5: more water, we need more nutrients, some oil, I need
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  Speaker 5: to shine, I need some more thickness to this. I
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  Speaker 5: was like, I'm not a moose girl. You know, big
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  Speaker 5: fellow big westback here. He just to add water. You
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  Speaker 5: can some water on it and some moods and be fine.
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  Speaker 5: I need the jail and the moose and the leav
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  Speaker 5: in and so figuring out all the products that you
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  Speaker 5: can work together. But it did not work that first time,
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  Speaker 5: and we had to go back to it and get
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  Speaker 5: it right.
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  Speaker 7: I love that ye old hands on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Just I'm so big on making sure that whatever I
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  Speaker 5: put my name on my face on a lot of
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  Speaker 5: people are just like, oh yeah, figure it out and
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  Speaker 5: I'll just throw my face on it. No, Like, whatever
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  Speaker 5: I put I need to believe in it. It doesn't
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  Speaker 5: matter even if he called me for a brand partnership.
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  Speaker 5: If I don't eat it, if I don't use it,
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  Speaker 5: if it's not something that fits into my everyday life
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  Speaker 5: that I can really get into, I can't put my
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  Speaker 5: name behind it. So this is something serious, because what
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  Speaker 5: you're putting on your head is seeping into your body.
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  Speaker 5: I had to make sure that it was clean. I
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  Speaker 5: had to make sure that it worked. So this, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: putting my name on something, I had to be very
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  Speaker 5: hands on with it, but I'm hands on with everything.
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  Speaker 5: My team will tell you they probably likeapologetic. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 5: you just asked her.
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  Speaker 2: That I'm sorry. I heard that, I heard the answer.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that was the question. Yeah, yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you talking about your pop.
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  Speaker 5: Here's the reason why I started being more intentionally unapologetic.
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  Speaker 5: But my hair because of that comment, like, what is
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  Speaker 5: wrong with your hair? You know?
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  Speaker 6: It's interesting though, I say that to my daughters all
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  Speaker 6: the time. I always say I'm always don't know why,
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  Speaker 6: but it always tell me that they got beautiful skin
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  Speaker 6: and beautiful hair.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's important. That's good. I'm glad you do that
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  Speaker 5: because they go out into the world and they don't
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  Speaker 5: always feel beautiful or seen. So the fact that you're
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  Speaker 5: instilling that at home is very very important. Who doos
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  Speaker 5: see you for that?
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  Speaker 2: And why'd you partner with a RS?
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  Speaker 5: Wow? So this actually started off as a brand partnership.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of us are influencers and people call us
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  Speaker 5: to get behind their products. They had called us to
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  Speaker 5: do a real just a Instagram really because they saw
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  Speaker 5: me doing my hair. They're like, oh, she'd be great
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  Speaker 5: for this product. In Ashauna Airs, being who she is,
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  Speaker 5: she was like, yeah, we're not interested in selling squares
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  Speaker 5: on Instagram, Let's build a line. And they were like, actually,
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  Speaker 5: we do have a new line that is in ideation,
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  Speaker 5: and Crystal was actually perfect for it. So it turned
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  Speaker 5: from a real on Instagram to building a line, having
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  Speaker 5: equity in the company and really building something bigger than
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  Speaker 5: what it could have been if we had to just
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  Speaker 5: been like, oh yeah, we'll do the Instagram post. So
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  Speaker 5: that is why ors because they wanted to initially work
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  Speaker 5: with me. But if you think about it, I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: if you're not sure. If you guys remember that they
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  Speaker 5: still have it the green olive oil oil shit back
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  Speaker 5: in the day, like this is that company. They're known
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  Speaker 5: for perms and known for their relaxers, but now they're
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  Speaker 5: branching off into the natural hairspace. So to be a
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  Speaker 5: part of that growth for them is important for me.
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  Speaker 1: How about well, first, CARTI was just talking about that
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  Speaker 1: with her brands and a lot of the brands that
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  Speaker 1: she's working with. By being in a celebrity space, like
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  Speaker 1: trying to build something that she can give to her kids,
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  Speaker 1: they build his legacy and her decision to start doing that, yes.
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  Speaker 5: So important. Ownership is everything. And you can't build legacy
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  Speaker 5: without ownership, you know, because you can do something, but
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  Speaker 5: if it's not yours, there's nothing to pass down. So
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  Speaker 5: I think that's very important. I love what Carti's doing
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  Speaker 5: and a lot of people talk about how saturated this
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  Speaker 5: space is, but I feel like it's so.
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  Speaker 7: Much room for everybody.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, especially because not every black girl's hair is the
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  Speaker 8: same as the next exactly, So I think it should
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  Speaker 8: be more.
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  Speaker 5: Speaking to that too. Because a lot of the curly
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  Speaker 5: girls are biracial, they have like a different type of
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  Speaker 5: texture than the real black girl. Yes, so that was
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  Speaker 5: important to me to to show like, hey, you may
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  Speaker 5: not have that texture, you know, and sometimes it's like
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  Speaker 5: I wish my hair was like that. No, your hair
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  Speaker 5: is beautiful and with the right products, you can have
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  Speaker 5: your curls too. We all have different curls, you know.
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  Speaker 5: But to be able to be unapologetic about it and
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  Speaker 5: own it it was a big part of it. And
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  Speaker 5: that's a big part why I wanted to do this too,
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  Speaker 5: because I don't have the biracial hair I have like.
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  Speaker 9: Real what do you mean, real black girls, But we.
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  Speaker 5: Have something for them too, like they can use the
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  Speaker 5: moose you know, like it's for everybody, but also for
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  Speaker 5: the girls who don't feel seen in that space where
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  Speaker 5: they put stuff in their hair and they're like, it ain't
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  Speaker 5: doing what it.
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  Speaker 7: Needs to do.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I love that you said that because my hair
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  Speaker 8: buck shoddy whitey and know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: I understand when it's too dry.
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  Speaker 5: You say, day five, day two, like child, but can see.
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  Speaker 7: You do not do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you want her to be able to see.
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  Speaker 8: So what I try to product, don't watch it now
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  Speaker 8: I'm on TV.
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  Speaker 7: I ain't got now my daughter don't. But she was
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  Speaker 7: trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Do that.
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  Speaker 8: But no, no, my daughter she is you know, mixed rates,
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  Speaker 8: and her curls are not as bucks Hers. She ain't
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  Speaker 8: got the Buckshop, but she has the you know, my
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  Speaker 8: racial hers. But so you said, it's not like my
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  Speaker 8: hair is way thicker and more course, but like they
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  Speaker 8: have Big West's hair.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, so my daughter is like water hair.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, so unapologetic, unapologetic brand, your brand, y'all do have
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  Speaker 8: products for me and my day exact? Okay, yeah, for
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  Speaker 8: your daughter, I would do the moose okay, yeah, you
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  Speaker 8: seen it. Something touches it, It curls immediately yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so you.
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  Speaker 4: Don't need a lot for that to come in the
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  Speaker 4: texture conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of us be scared to have it,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know why because the textures are different.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like an elephant in the room.
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  Speaker 1: But why though, Like it's very obvious when your texture
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  Speaker 1: is different than the other end. We went through the
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  Speaker 1: whole air of good hair, bad hair, Remember Chris did
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing and people were trying to have the
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  Speaker 1: conversation then. But now I just feel like, especially with
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  Speaker 1: beauty brand owners, they never actually get into textures and
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  Speaker 1: the difference between them and why there's like stigmas and
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  Speaker 1: like the almost like the battle in between the Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think probably because you know people, you don't
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  Speaker 5: want tofend anybody, you know, But it is like it's
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  Speaker 5: the reality of it, you know. And I think as
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  Speaker 5: haircare owner is just making sure that we have something
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  Speaker 5: for everybody. Yeah, yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: Is it true?
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  Speaker 3: If you lose your curls, they don't it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: get them back.
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  Speaker 5: You gotta cut it off. It's so hard, especially for heat.
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  Speaker 5: I've done the big chop like three times, really heat damaged.
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  Speaker 5: Because I go through these shades where I want my
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  Speaker 5: hair straight, you know, but I don't want to put
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  Speaker 5: a permanent so I'm constantly putting heat on it. My hair.
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  Speaker 5: By the time, like day three of just putting heat
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  Speaker 5: on it, I can already see the curl patter loosening
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  Speaker 5: it up. So I've had to do the big chot
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  Speaker 5: because it'll grow back, but it's coming from the root,
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  Speaker 5: So you got to get all the damaged hair off
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  Speaker 5: so it can really flourish and make a conscious decision.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not gonna put heat on it, gotcha.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And how often do you have to, I guess maintain
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  Speaker 3: your here to make sure those curls stay.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, I do like weekly deep conditions. And that's
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  Speaker 5: another thing with natural girls, like especially my type of hair.
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  Speaker 5: I have to condition my hair because it gets dry fast.
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  Speaker 5: I have to use a lot of oils to get
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  Speaker 5: it shiny. Because you know your daughter, her hair is
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  Speaker 5: naturally shiny. Yep, it's got that luster ours. We got
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  Speaker 5: to add something to it. So for me, at least
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  Speaker 5: once a week, I'm deconditioning, making sure I'm giving it
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  Speaker 5: that extra care that it needs. Yeah, how long?
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  Speaker 8: Because people don't understand the natural hair journey like styling
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  Speaker 8: it whatever. That stuff takes hours. And your hair is
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  Speaker 8: long and it's thin. How long does it take for you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting it down now, girl. I can wash and
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  Speaker 5: have it like washing style, because I shingle my hair
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  Speaker 5: section off and like literally had to pull it with
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  Speaker 5: the jail together to make the curls pop, and that
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  Speaker 5: takes about an hour and a half. I sit on
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  Speaker 5: the dry and kind of let it set because it
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  Speaker 5: takes forever for my hair to dry to like if
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  Speaker 5: I don't let it, if I let it air drive,
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  Speaker 5: it'll take two days for my hair to dry because
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  Speaker 5: it's so thick.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, but you got it down to ninety minute.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna wow, that's how long it takes me
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  Speaker 5: with this little bit of ship.
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  Speaker 4: You're new in your journey though, I am.
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  Speaker 5: You know, years of me like big this sixteen years. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so that's how you got it down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So I've been doing this for a long time, Like
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  Speaker 5: out remember.
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  Speaker 6: When took her stocking cap off and it was so inspirational.
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  Speaker 9: You can do that.
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  Speaker 2: I love that right now?
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  Speaker 8: You know, I'm telling you, where.
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  Speaker 5: Can we find this?
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  Speaker 7: Or when can people?
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  Speaker 2: Right now?
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  Speaker 7: You right everybody.
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  Speaker 5: But yes, right now it is on o rs dot com.
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  Speaker 5: You can go to Unapologetic rs dot com or you
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  Speaker 5: can go to Amazon, but we're sending people directly to
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  Speaker 5: the site. They already buying it. Yeah, they've been up
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  Speaker 5: since nine o'clock this morning purchasing because it droped at
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  Speaker 5: nine am this morning?
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  Speaker 2: How was it working with.
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  Speaker 5: Everything before?
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  Speaker 2: You do?
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  Speaker 5: What I realized today?
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  Speaker 3: She comes from the label family.
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  Speaker 2: She got you on a label run right now?
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  Speaker 5: You do?
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  Speaker 3: You have to do a freestyle before you leave.
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  Speaker 7: Radium?
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  Speaker 5: Got your every way, No this listen, this lady right here,
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  Speaker 5: both of them, West and a Shanna. I'm so blessed
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  Speaker 5: to have them my team. I was saying yesterday. You
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  Speaker 5: know sometimes that you have people on your team that
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  Speaker 5: kind of undermine you and you'll have these ideas and Colleen,
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  Speaker 5: you like, I don't really know if you should do that.
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  Speaker 5: There's been nothing that I had brought to them where
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: they weren't like, Okay, let me make a phone call.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: All right, we gonna set this up. Yes, I love
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: that with like, literally, whatever I want to do, whatever
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: God has playing inside of me, they helped make it happen.
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: And this was just another one of those dreams that
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: literally I'm living right now because of this woman behind me.
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: It's read to have executives that still just want to
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: be executives. Yeah yeah, Like now you got executives that
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: want to be talent yes for sure.
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: That videos not playing with what is this?
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: What regulation was this?
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: And you said somebody like that before?
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And it's like, want to say where it
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: becomes a conflict of interest where it's like, Okay, are
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: you trying to be the talent or? And now I'm like,
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: if you're going to get deals, are you getting the
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: familiar you? That's a real thing. So y'all don't have
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: to worry about that. We all they all, both of
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: them are entrepreneurs in their own right have amazing businesses
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: and doing their own thing. But there's even when there
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: is synergy, we work together because we're a team, you know,
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: versus like there's no competition. It's like we come together
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: with everything.
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: How do you think you've been able to establish the
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: connection with the audience that you have because your podcast
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: keep you positive, sweety, Everybody loves your podcast, Like, how
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: do you think you've been able to establish that type
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: of real connection.
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: With you yeah, I think just putting it all out there,
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Charlomagne being who I am, I think for so long
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: and for a lot of us, we live so much
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: of our life in the light. We want to keep
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: certain things for ourselves. We don't want to share the
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: hidden areas, the dark areas, the pits, and the you
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, the heaviness of it all. But
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: when you share it and let people know, hey, I'm
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: just like you. You know, we all going through our thing,
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: we fighting our own demons. And when you put it
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: out there, for me, that was the moment I realized
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: there's nothing to be ashamed of. Let them know, share
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: those stories. And that is how we built this community,
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: just through being authentic and being intentional about storytelling and
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: sharing my truth.
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, to keep your positive. Sweedy girls gonna eat this up.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: Listen. They are a girl. They was out last night.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: They ha donet found the because we were doing like
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: testing on the site. They already went through the site,
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: figured it out where it was and like it's saying
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: so that like cause it's not up yet. They were
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: already trying to figure it out. But yeah, there they
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: were up this morning waiting.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: For not am to hear.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: That's such a blessing.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: You're gonna have a boot at the Black Effect Podcast
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: Festival selling Unapologetic air.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: Yes, listen, I cannot wait for that. Thank you so much.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: I'm excited even to be a part of the family,
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: but really excited to bring Cupit Sweety to the festivals.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, christ will be doing her podcast Keep It Positive
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: Sweete at the Black Effect Podcast Festival and at Land
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: on April twenty fifth. And now you heard, you'll have
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: the Unapologetic hair boof. They're selling product too, and I'm
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: sure a bunch of other stuff as well.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, merch all the things.
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you did, you do your own package and we
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: did this and that was not what it was.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Just give me the fan.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Hit it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: But no, I love this another.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: I love your message to us as well. It says
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: I've learned that caring for my curls isn't about perfection.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: It's about connection to my roots, my texture, and every
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: woman finding her way.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: That's what apologetic is about. I love that.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, thank you, Yeah, definitely. Yeah. We sat in front
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: of a computer for hours while we're getting my hair
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: braided one day in Atlanta in the hotel and was
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: like nope, nope, nope, nope, And we came with this
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: to the first packaging, a lot of packaging.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: I got you and I love that it's one hundred
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: percent authentic.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: But Zanna oil, Yes, from Honduras, Honey, Okay, it's the
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: real deal.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: So the Honduras said, that's where you find the most purest.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Form of batana oil. And it has such a strong
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: coffee smell, so even getting scent right to make sure
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: that when you laying with your man, you want to
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: roll over and smell your hair, you know, like ooh, girl,
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: that's the part part of waking up because it's like
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: coffee that.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: You know will be washing them on and you know
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: they don't.
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: You know, I love my baby.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I love.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Anything that can help here grow this batana oil. But
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: that's one of the which.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: One is that can you give it to Lauren?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Stop playing.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Wow, I got it's from traumadah.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, gotta get her head that she almost Are you serious?
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: But I was young and I did a backflip on
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the bed and I had to get stitches. So it's
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: never really it hasn't.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Really probably a scar, yes, it probably won't bro because yeah,
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: that's a great story though, you honest, I didn't get.
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: On my great story.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: She always keep it positive, you know, ygging on my
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: nurse price points.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: What are your price points like?
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Because you know, right now people are like, oh my god,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I got to go out and spend my money.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I think everything is under twenty two dollars.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: What hair like?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: No?
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, do you know, girl, nobody the big thing of
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: black jail for this girl.
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: I know what I was the big thing of black jail.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah, your mother used to use on your sisters.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, you got to keep that in the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: house just because yeah, it's just like okay, but you yes,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: thank you, you mold short hair down. You know what,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I was going to leave you alone and all the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: color and all the things are right that you be
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: happening over.
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: There if you got hair.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, I was learning to you after we talked
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: to the price points.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Yes, so yeah, nothing is over twenty two dollars. That
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: was important as well. You know, my fan base ranges
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: from like fifteen years old all the way to eighty,
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: you know, so we wanted to make sure that everywhere
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: in between it wasn't And we're living in times where
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: everything is inflated. Yes, people are struggling, so I wanted
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: to make sure when it comes to self care and
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: loving on yourself through your hair. You like it this?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, it smells like like a like a candle, like.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: A honey all the thing sandal Wood.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: Oh wow, you're filming for season five of the Team,
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: and that's that was rumored is coming up and has it?
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: It, but I'm working.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm working always. I got a lot of stuff coming.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: I did a movie recording Glade last summer. Just found
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: out that it's going to theaters a MC want. We'll
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: definitely be back to talk about that. Something completely different
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: than what you've seen with Fatima. I got stretched in
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: this one, so I'm super excited about that. Yeah, I
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: got some short films. We're actually gonna be showing that
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: in Martha's vineyards.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: So I'm going to screening for it.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Just some people can come see it. If you're all
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: in town, please pull up. We're doing We're doing all
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: the things. What else we go going on?
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: Music?
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, when you talked about regular labels, I have
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: music coming out to you trying to really make me
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: do everything.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: That's good mus.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: To get out super we do it every I feel
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: like it's time though. You know, we're in ten seasons
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: of Sisters, and I feel like that maybe hopefully it
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: continues to go, but I feel like, now is it
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: time to go ahead and start like venting off into
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: other spaces. So I was like, I did call it
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: when I was like, I'm ready to do I think
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: we were in DC doing a live show in November
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: and I was singing other people's songs and I was like,
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: it's time for some original music. So we've been working
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: on music for like a year now, and yeah, we're
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: working talking with some labels, trying to figure the distribution out,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: but they working. Yeah, no days off.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Literally for a lot of people who would have all
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: that going on, it would feel so disjointed and all
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: over the place. But like yours like flows because that
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he mentioned your audience, your community is like dialed into
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: so many parts of your life. Like when we did
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the live conversation on Feinland and see, yes, there were
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: let me tell y'all. First of all, they were having
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: panels all throughout the weekend. Her panels sold it out.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I mean people were on floor. They were waiting for
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: like almost an hour plus to get into the panel
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that she did. They came with their own merch her
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: face and I mean her as Crystal the Tina stuff
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: like all different phases of her life on their shirts.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Generations. It was mom's daughters, grandmothers.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Like I've never in the podcast world, I'm you know new,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like that.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: And I told you then, like.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yo, this is crazy like the way that they are
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: about you. So you have that community where you can
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: kind of throw all this stuff out there, it'll makes sense.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's crazy because like I had sent a
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: song that I did with to Tyler and he was like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: we got to put this on Satama. So like everything
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: kind of like flows into every a that I'm doing.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, that makes sense, but yeah, you're right.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: It just they pick up on everything, and it's so
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: many generations. It's a blessing for real, because you just
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: never know like who your story's gonna touch, you know, Yeah, so.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: That you are such and like an inspiration for all
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: of us girls like for real, I.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Like, for me tell we had we had some Caucasians
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: in DC, like they pulled up on us.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: Oh the DC ones.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, they came to the meet and greet.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I was like, I said, caut cas like the animals,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Like we got some Caucasus.
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, because you got the Capital Riots ones in DC,
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: then you got the regular you know, different different ones.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: So unapologetic product telling them to get it again right now.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: You can get it at rs dot com. You can
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: get on Amazon. It's also going to be in store soon.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: So keep looking out. We're gonna be doing pop ups.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna take the podcast on a live tour while
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: we're tumping differencies. We're also gonna be doing pop ups
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: with the hair. So yeah, get ready. This summer is
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: gonna be crazy. I'm excited, but sell it out, y'all,
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: go get it. Get it for your daughters, your mother's,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: your boyfriends, everybody. It's for everybody.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: In April twenty fifth, Crystal Day Hayeslet will be at
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: the Black Effect Podcast Festival in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Pullman Yards.
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  Speaker 6: Go to Black Effect dot com right now to get
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for joining us, Thank.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: You, thank you. It's always so much fun when I
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: come and see y It's the Breakfast Club.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Good morning.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Hold up every day I wake pack your glass up
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: the Breakfast Club.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: You're finish for y'all done