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Pinky Cole Breaks Down Filing for Bankruptcy, Losing $100M Business — And Blueprint to Build It Back · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: But the one hundred million dollar brand that became a
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  Speaker 1: household name, all of these accomplishments just to wake up
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  Speaker 1: and not own my company no more.
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  Speaker 2: There was talk that you got evicted from your house
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  Speaker 2: because of a bankruptcy. What happened?
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  Speaker 3: What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: I almost lost my mind. You have a lost one
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar business. My old creditors were coming after
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  Speaker 1: me because of the personal guaranteur. This is no longer
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  Speaker 1: private information.
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  Speaker 2: What challenges that you go through? How did you get
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  Speaker 2: of that? Did you seek therapy?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody understands what it feels like when you literally fighting
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  Speaker 1: for your life, but you got to show up and
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  Speaker 1: put a smile on your face. The messaging was I'm
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  Speaker 1: building a billion dollar company, but it's not the money
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  Speaker 1: that I want, it's where the money can provide. When
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  Speaker 1: you get there, it's like, okay, this is that.
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  Speaker 4: What's the most important thing you learned about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Leading with your heart is a great thing, but leading
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  Speaker 1: with your heart can also make you go broke.
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  Speaker 2: What's your thought process when I actually signing up for
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  Speaker 2: a reality show?
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  Speaker 1: When you think about the leverage that platforms like these bring,
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  Speaker 1: My reasoning wasn't just one thing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever seen anybody like you on
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  Speaker 3: the show.
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  Speaker 1: You can have a Bentley, but if you don't have
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  Speaker 1: no engine in a Bentley, then where you gonna go?
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  Speaker 2: All right, gosh, welcome back Atlanta edition. We got a
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  Speaker 2: special guests. Really needs no introduction at this point. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you just talking about all the stuff that we've done
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  Speaker 2: with her shows and events and so much stuff. Pinky
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  Speaker 2: Coal a legend in the game, but it comes to
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  Speaker 2: entrepreneurship and motivation is spreading game. Slutty Vegan has really
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  Speaker 2: like been a staple in the community and really had
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  Speaker 2: so many different stages up Like Slowey Vegan has like
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  Speaker 2: had life stages.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a baby right here.
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  Speaker 4: Seen every stage from the first time that Mike told
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  Speaker 4: us about it and told us about the lines, to
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  Speaker 4: the road.
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  Speaker 3: To the expansion end.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like every stage, like we sit down with
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  Speaker 4: you about it, it's like.
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  Speaker 1: The life cycle. You know what I'm saying. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I just when I think about my business, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: If you need no introduction, well, when I think about
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  Speaker 1: it's funny. The reason why I said that because you
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  Speaker 1: said something about a life cycle. So just like a
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  Speaker 1: baby learns how to crawl, then learn how to walk.
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  Speaker 1: But then the process of learning how to walk, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you will fall right and then you need some assistance sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: and then you get back up and you get stronger,
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  Speaker 1: and you get stronger from every single blump and bruise.
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  Speaker 1: And that's similar to what Sluddy Vegan has been for
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  Speaker 1: me as an entrepreneur. And I feel like it is
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  Speaker 1: the quintessential example of like what really happens in entrepreneurship,
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  Speaker 1: because everybody doesn't talk about the parts that I'm willing
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. So I'm happy to be able to
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  Speaker 1: share every single phase of that wit y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Is that even just.
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  Speaker 4: A microcosm for business? Right when we think about our businesses.
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  Speaker 4: We've been for eight years.
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  Speaker 2: And in terms of love, you sell a child, so
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  Speaker 2: there are.
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  Speaker 3: Things you need to learn and so you get to
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  Speaker 3: that adult there. So we learned them together.
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  Speaker 1: We learning them together, and I would not change it
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  Speaker 1: for but girl lod and know I would not.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for joining us, or it is a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: So we got allowed to talk about We're going some
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  Speaker 2: about you know everything, the reality show aspect of it
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  Speaker 2: that corelock. People watch the brise. But first, I know
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  Speaker 2: last week you won a court case. So the social media,
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  Speaker 2: we gotta we gotta address that because that's something that's
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  Speaker 2: been over borrows. There's been a few things had on
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  Speaker 2: social media. But one of the things that's happening is
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  Speaker 2: there was talk that you got evicted from your house, yes,
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  Speaker 2: because of a bankruptcy that you are You've been very
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  Speaker 2: public about, you know, filing bankruptcy. We can talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: But there was a video I thought it was a
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  Speaker 2: comedy video. The way it was shocked, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: if it was not. And then there was Romazo moves
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  Speaker 2: whereas a husband at how is this happening? D D, like,
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  Speaker 2: so what happened? What's going.
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny because when I think about my decision
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  Speaker 1: to join in Real Housewives of at Mahanna, I already
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  Speaker 1: knew what I was signing up for. When you position
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  Speaker 1: yourself to be on a public platform, people are going
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  Speaker 1: to find out things about you. So prior to me
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  Speaker 1: making the decision to go on the show, I had
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  Speaker 1: a hard conversation with myself and with my family and like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: y'all understand that, like this is no longer private information,
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  Speaker 1: like we're public figures now, but like everything that you
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  Speaker 1: say and do will be in the public eye. So
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  Speaker 1: when you decide to do reality TV, it is reality.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, y'all just said it just now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my business has been through so many life cycles, so
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  Speaker 1: that is a part of my reality. So what's happening
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  Speaker 1: is a social media is putting a magnifying glass on
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  Speaker 1: the things that I've already been going through privately as
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  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, which I've spoken about publicly. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: last time that I came here, you said I cried.
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  Speaker 1: Which time?
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  Speaker 3: That was the pregnancy episode?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that was pregnant is too.
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  Speaker 2: It was a lot that was powerful, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So let me tell you when I came on that
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  Speaker 1: show the last time a lot has happened since then.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about building a business, and then I came
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  Speaker 1: again and had to restructure my company twenty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in debt, having to start over, buying my company back,
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  Speaker 1: having to face public scrutiny. So here it is super
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  Speaker 1: successful entrepreneur having to stand on a cross and be
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  Speaker 1: publicly judged for who I am as an entrepreneur, and
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  Speaker 1: just most recently filing that bankruptcy. So what you saw
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  Speaker 1: on the Internet really was neatrolling the internet that I
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  Speaker 1: was a joncase because basically what I said is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what I realized is a lot of people don't understand
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  Speaker 1: that the US Bankruptcy Code isn't tool right. It is
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  Speaker 1: a tool to be able to reorganize and do whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is that you need to do. If you come
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  Speaker 1: in to financial streights in your business and when people
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  Speaker 1: make a certain kind of money, you make a certain
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  Speaker 1: kind of revenue, or you reach a certain milestone and
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  Speaker 1: you do start having troubles financial troubles in your business,
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  Speaker 1: you got options, but we often don't talk about those options.
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  Speaker 1: So when I made the decision to file for bankruptcy, personally,
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  Speaker 1: I filed for bankruptcy because I knew that it would
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  Speaker 1: protect me and my assets because my old creditors were
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  Speaker 1: coming after me because I was the personal guaranteur. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw a clip that I said.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was that Investments when I said don't
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  Speaker 1: sign as a personal guaranteur. Do y'all remember that clips?
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  Speaker 1: It went viral and everybody's like, why would she say that?
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  Speaker 1: It's because of that And now when I look back,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy that I did it, because there is no
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  Speaker 1: shame in filing bankruptcy. You are reorganizing. So when I
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  Speaker 1: did that video, I was really trolling the people back
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  Speaker 1: and then you know the misbrachial video teaching people about bankruptcy.
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  Speaker 1: But I just knew that people didn't understand. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: you asked me about what happened recently, I did went
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  Speaker 1: a court case. I have a tenant moving into a property,
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  Speaker 1: one of my investment properties, and my realtor called me
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  Speaker 1: and said, hey, the doors are the lots are changed
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  Speaker 1: on the door, and you can't get this out. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about. I called my mortgage company.
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  Speaker 1: They said, well, this is not us, Like, we don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I got an automatic state. If you know anything about
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  Speaker 1: bankruptcy and automatic status, that they cannot touch your assets.
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  Speaker 1: So my attorneys went down to the courts, found an
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  Speaker 1: emergency judgment and for a couple of days I was fighting,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, last week I won my property back,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just so happy that I did, because people
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  Speaker 1: really don't understand the law and what did that creditors.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened was is the property was vacant and
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  Speaker 1: it has a mortgage on it. So the property is
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  Speaker 1: vacant and they think it's abandoned, they can take the property, right,
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  Speaker 1: So this doesn't have anything to do the creditors. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't even know who the creditors. Never responded, they
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  Speaker 1: never showed up to court, they never did anything like that,
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  Speaker 1: So we don't even know why they took the property.
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  Speaker 1: But it was illegal that they took the property because
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  Speaker 1: I was in an automatic stay.
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  Speaker 2: What is an automatic stay?
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  Speaker 1: So when you file for bankruptcy, So say you file
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  Speaker 1: for bankruptcy today, So you're like, all right, I got
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  Speaker 1: a restructure, my business is going through some challenges or changes,
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  Speaker 1: or I'm just in a deficit. I have to pause everything.
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  Speaker 1: You file for bankruptcy, and the day that you file
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  Speaker 1: for bankruptcy, that means nobody can touch you. Creditors can't
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  Speaker 1: come after you. It literally halts every single thing that
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  Speaker 1: happens in your business as it relates to creditors coming
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  Speaker 1: after you, which is a protection for you. So if
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  Speaker 1: you got if you somebody like me, I got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of assets, right, I have a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: that's worth a good amount of money. So when you
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  Speaker 1: have an automatic stay. It protects all of those things.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can take your properties from you. Because I was
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  Speaker 1: a guaring tour on these properties, these creditors can't come
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  Speaker 1: after me to take the properties that I have. So
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  Speaker 1: if you were to do that, it's completely an automatic
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  Speaker 1: stay and they can't take anything from me.
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  Speaker 4: So, so what happened wasn't in a legal seizure of
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  Speaker 4: your property. You now got back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I filed for bankruptcy on February twelfth. The
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  Speaker 1: creditors changed the lots on the twentieth, So by bankruptcy law,
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  Speaker 1: that is illegal. And because it was illegal, I got
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  Speaker 1: awarded legal fees because they did the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 3: So they have to pay you.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have to pay my attorney's fees.
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  Speaker 3: So giants feedes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but if you didn't know that, could they have
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  Speaker 2: taken a property?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? They could have if I didn't know that, if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have challenged them, if I didn't challenge them, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they could have taken.
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  Speaker 2: That's why educational before, that is.
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  Speaker 1: Why education is so critical. Listen, I have learned so
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  Speaker 1: many lessons in entrepreneurship. I've been fell on my face
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand times. Okay, but I also got back up
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand, three hundred times, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: And every single time that I get up, I learned
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  Speaker 1: a new lesson. Every single time I follow on my face,
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  Speaker 1: I get smarter. So to some people and may look like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she failed and she fell on her face when this happened. No,
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  Speaker 1: this is the knowledge that money can't even pay for.
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  Speaker 1: So now I can educate other people because of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I've gone through. And I wouldn't say I'm
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  Speaker 1: the sacrificial lamb, but being a public facing entrepreneur with
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  Speaker 1: a very popular business, with lines still down to block
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  Speaker 1: people still supporting my brand, I have gone through some challenges.
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  Speaker 1: But with those challenges come lessons that I can teach
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  Speaker 1: other entrepreneurs, like hey, don't do that, or hey, if
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  Speaker 1: you need to restructure, it's okay, or hey, if you
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  Speaker 1: need some help, here's the resources. But we really don't
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  Speaker 1: often find that except for from y'all, to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: but where else do you really get that? So I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy that, you know. I was talking to my friend
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  Speaker 1: the other day and I said, sometimes God will put
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  Speaker 1: you on display, and being on display may feel uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: and in that level of being uncomfortable. You are going
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  Speaker 1: to inspire so many people. You are going to educate
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  Speaker 1: people who have never in their life believed that they
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  Speaker 1: can understand the concept of entrepreneurship in a way that
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  Speaker 1: makes it easy, because think about it, we are entrepreneurs.
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  Speaker 1: People don't know about cat tables, they don't know about
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  Speaker 1: equity safe notes. You know, a good amount of us do,
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  Speaker 1: but there is a whole majority of people that don't
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  Speaker 1: even know that language. You understand what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 1: now I'm like, all right, well, maybe it's bigger than
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  Speaker 1: Luddy vecan right, Maybe it's bigger than just me. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a vessel to be able to show people
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  Speaker 1: by way of my personal and professional experiences that this
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  Speaker 1: is how you operate and not operate in business. And
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  Speaker 1: it's showing up like that, and maybe maybe that's purpose
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  Speaker 1: work and I'm walking into that I found there.
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  Speaker 2: When I look at you, I often think of vessel.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I think vessel that you're going through things because you're
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  Speaker 4: going to be the person that can teach people. I
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  Speaker 4: wonder do you take time inside of it as you're
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  Speaker 4: learning the lesson? Do you take time to say, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: let me deal with it before. It's like, let me
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  Speaker 4: just teach people what's really happening, because I feel like
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  Speaker 4: with you, it's like, oh no, you have this gift
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  Speaker 4: where it's like, now I'm trying this trash in the tribe.
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  Speaker 4: This is a learner to watch how we flipped this
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  Speaker 4: ie the miss Racial clip. Do you take time in
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  Speaker 4: between or it's like, I got I've learned this. Let
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  Speaker 4: me tell everybody what they need to know.
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  Speaker 1: When I restructured my company, I almost lost my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I almost lost my You gotta imagine I about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar brand that became a household name, Grace,
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  Speaker 1: the covers of all of these magazines, all of these
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  Speaker 1: great things, all of these accolades, all of these accomplishments,
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  Speaker 1: just to wake up and not own my company no more.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a very dark one to sit in. You
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  Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. So I don't know for the
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  Speaker 1: people who are watching this, if you've ever lost your business,
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever had to file for bankruptcy, if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever had to face public humiliation, if you ever had
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  Speaker 1: people who you've respected turning it back on you where
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  Speaker 1: you needed them the most. So I had to sit
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  Speaker 1: inside of myself, just me and God for a very
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  Speaker 1: long time. And in that city was my peruning period,
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  Speaker 1: and that purning period, it made my skin tougher, right,
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  Speaker 1: I got more resilient and built my character and maybe
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  Speaker 1: understand who is for me and who's for me. And
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  Speaker 1: it also showed me that entrepreneurship is not a straight line, okay,
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  Speaker 1: And as long as I know that it's not a
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  Speaker 1: straight line, I'm gonna be all right. So now when
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  Speaker 1: stuff happened to me, now I'm like, shit, I done
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  Speaker 1: been through the worst. It's easy, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'd have been through the worst. I almost lost
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  Speaker 1: my mind. You have lost a hundred million dollar business?
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  Speaker 1: Noll you ever lost one hundred million?
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  Speaker 3: Come?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? So that right there, and then not to just
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  Speaker 1: to lose it, but to come back and buy it
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  Speaker 1: forty three days later, but then be faced with the
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  Speaker 1: challenges of Okay, now you're a personal guaranteer. They say
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  Speaker 1: you're a public figure. We gonna come after you because
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  Speaker 1: if the business the old code ain't gonna give it
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  Speaker 1: to us, we ain't gonna get it from you. So
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  Speaker 1: now you got this victory and you feel vindicated because
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  Speaker 1: you get an opportunity for a second chance, but nobody
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  Speaker 1: talks about what happens when you get that second chance.
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  Speaker 1: There's fine print that is a associated with that, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that I can look to as a comp that
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  Speaker 1: has been through as a black woman, minority owned business,
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  Speaker 1: a female owned business that has gone through what I've
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  Speaker 1: been through. So oftentimes that walk is just me and God,
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  Speaker 1: real talk, The walk is just me and God. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, my head is up high.
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  Speaker 1: I meditate, I pray every day, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: my purpose is so much bigger than the Internet. My
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  Speaker 1: purpose is so much bigger than slutty Vegan. I know
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  Speaker 1: that this legacy walk, it's next level and it has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to be with money.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because everything you just named the public scrupiny to
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  Speaker 4: be in the public figure, it almost makes you question
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  Speaker 4: why write reality TV? But hearing you say it now,
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  Speaker 4: it's like why not?
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  Speaker 3: What else can I could?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Was that your thought process and decided I'm doing this?
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  Speaker 1: Well? You know it's funny because I'm always having my
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  Speaker 1: intellectual conversations and I was talking to one of my
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  Speaker 1: close friends the other day, and I said, there's two
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  Speaker 1: buckets when you're an entrepreneur. There's a money engine and
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  Speaker 1: there's a visibility engine. One can get you the other.
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  Speaker 1: Think about what I just said. There is a money
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  Speaker 1: engine and there is a visibility engine, but you need
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  Speaker 1: at least one. You need the visibility. The visibility can
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  Speaker 1: get you the money. You need the money because the
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  Speaker 1: money can get you the visibility, but you have to
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  Speaker 1: have one. Okay, So I've already gotten a money engine, right,
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  Speaker 1: and I lost the money engine because I had to
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  Speaker 1: restructure my company. So I said, in addition to just
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  Speaker 1: wanting to do something different, you got to understand I've
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  Speaker 1: been a television producer. I've been a pageant girl, right,
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  Speaker 1: I've been a restaurant tour. I've done all these things,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like reality TV, like I grew out with
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  Speaker 1: prom Queen. I did all the things right. Because I'm
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: not a one trick pony. I want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do all of the things that people say, well,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: why would you do that? You got to imagine Slutty
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Vegan did a shoe with Steve Madden. One the hell
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: you ever hear of a shoe with a a restaurant company,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Like those things aren't supposed to go together. So when
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I think about the engines that I have and the
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: opportunity to be able to do something different and show
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs that, like, this is real entrepreneurship. It gets ugly sometimes,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: but there's gonna be somebody to sit in and watching
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: TV every Sunday at eight o'clock and they're going to
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: fall in love with the fact that, like I can
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: really be an entrepreneur, or I can keep going because
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: this girldom been through the wringer and she keep going
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: and she don't give up. And if I can achieve that,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: it's a win for me.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: So I want to go back to what you said
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: about your most plush your mind. So mental health, that's
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: something that's very important. What challenges that you go through,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: How did you get out of that?
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: You?
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Did you seek therapy? How did you know that it
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: was becoming unhealthy mentally for you? Was it like one
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: specific thing where it's like a nervous breakdown like I
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: talked about enough as far as like it is a
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: very stressful position that can cause people that get divorced,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: that can cause breaks up to family that can cause
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: you know, some level of mental illness, depression, all types
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: of stuff. So from a mental health standpoint, talk about that.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that gets deep. I don't think I told you
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: all about that. I say I probably told you all
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: this off the record. But in the height of me
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: losing my company, Derek was finally having his moment. Do
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you see this seesaw right there, the height of the
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: ship crumbling, of me losing everything on the surface. Right,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: we have all these and I'm still making money through
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: all of this, Like this ain't a money problem. Money's
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: coming through the door. But when you got three hundred
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars in payroll a week, well don
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: you do with that? You want to say what I'm saying.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: So in the middle of losing it all, my husband,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: who's worked for the last fifteen years to get here,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: finally gets his moment. So here I am as a wife,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: we newly wins. I'm like, hey, like I'm here, like
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I need you to help. But then he's also in
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: his moment, so like he come around me. I got
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the depressed energy on me. Let's be honest, we've all
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: been there before. I'm sure at some point in our
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: career in our business, and he's excited, but now part
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: of him doesn't want to be excited because if he's
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: too happy. He never told me this, but I'm an impath,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: so in my mind, I'm like, all right, he probably
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: feel like if he too happy and I'm over here
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: sulking and entrepreneurship trying to figure it out, then it
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: makes him look like a bad husband. So we did
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: have some challenges there because you know, I don't know
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the people who are watching this who are married entrepreneurs.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: That shit ain't no joke. It is no joke. And
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: we both had multimillion dollar companies. Derek makes millions in
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: his business. I make millions in my business, but we
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: keep our businesses totally separate. I don't know what's going
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: on in his business, he don't know what's going on
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in mind. So when I met him, my business essentially
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was quote unquote doing not doing better than his. But
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I had more visibility than he did. Right, So oftentimes
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: he was the supporting character in our empire, right, But
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: then the roles reversed and I became the supporting character
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: in his. But that's the beauty of marriage, right, So
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: did it get hard? Yes, did we have to learn
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the hard way on how we navigate when one partner
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and a relationship is going through a visual circumstance. It
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: was incredibly tough. I had a lot of nights where
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it was just me and my pillow, and God, my
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: husband could be laying right beside me and as much
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: comfort as he can give me and be there and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: supportive of me. Nobody understands what it feels like when
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you literally fighting for your life. But you got to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: show up and put a smile on your face, y'all.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Remember you know I do group economics all the time.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: There was one specific just move supplements. In about a week,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I raised two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for this
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: lady business, and I was losing mind at the same time.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Nobody knew. Nobody knew. So here it is. While I'm crumbling,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I'm still helping entrepreneurs because I never wanted to be
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a victim. You understand what I'm saying. I never wanted
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to be a victim. But it hurt. It really hurt,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: because when you are in a strap situation as an entrepreneur,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you get really clear when things feel cloudy. You get
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: clear when things feel that's the ball I should put
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: that in the risk. When things feel cloudy, you get
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: so clear because you see who's gonna support you. When
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: it's ugly, you're gonna see who's gonna be there, Like
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: what you need and my problems, Ay, Like, all right,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: let me hold three million dollars. I'll pay you back
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: next week.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It ain't many people that you can really call this
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: in your ecosystem. I told you before, Robert Smith, when
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I was going through what I was going through, I
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: called him up. I said, Robert, I got a building
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: two million dollars in DC. I said, I'll sell it
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: to you for one point seven million dollars just so
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I could get some liquid. Three days gave me the money.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: So my advice to people who are going through a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: difficult time in business, you got to make sure that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you have the right people around you, which is why
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: it's so critical to have really good mentors, really good partnership's,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: really good relationship, people that you can trust that you
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: can call in a crunch, because we all have a crunch.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It's okay. It don't matter what level you are in business.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: We all got crunches. It's given cabin crunches. Okay, like
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: we all have corunches, but you got to know that
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: there's people in your ecosystem that you can call in
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the midst of those crunches, that won't judge you, that'll
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: be there for you, and that'll be that show in
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it that you need when you feel weak as an entrepreneur.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: And that's why you're a vessel, because you show entrepreneurship
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: at his peaks, his valleys, and it's very loose and
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: people are with usaid with you.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I want it in this moment.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: What's the most important thing you learned about yourself as
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: you're going as you come out of there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: You know, for a long time, the messaging was I'm
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: building a billion dollar company. I'm building a billion dollar company,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and that messaging has changed. Do I still want a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: billion dollar company? Yes, But it's not the money that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I want. It's what the money can provide, Okay, the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: piece that the money can provide, the freedom that the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: money can provide. And there's no guarantee that money can
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: provide peace and freedom, right, but if sure can get
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: you cooks, right, I want to be able to take
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: my kids to school and be free of worry. I
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: want to travel around the world with my children. Yes
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: we make a lot of money, but we got a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: lot of bills. Yes we do a lot of great things,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: but I can't remember the last time that I had
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: an hour to just not think about, like what's next,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So like, as I evolve
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur, I'm working for the peace, you know
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I am working for the piece
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: because I've touched thirty three million dollars I've touched, you
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I've touched so much money in
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: my lifetimes that os have not seen. So I know
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: what it feels like. I know all of those things.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I know what it feels like to be in the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: best room, every room. I'm man, y'all. Let y'all know
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: what it feels like.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Somebody say you've earned yours.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I've been there, done that, so it's almost like when
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you get there, it's like, Okay, this is it. Now
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I'm focused on the things that really don't cost much peace, freedom,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: being with my children, still having a successful business, but
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: those things having that level of peace, just taking a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: bubble bath with some XM salt like that to me
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: these days is peace and I value that more. And
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you know, entrepreneurship is still at the forefront. I could
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: not imagine myself doing anything else in the world, but
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the intention always continues to elevate and it should as
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: What explain to us, all right, as you kid the
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: audience on bankruptcy. Obviously you made that video is being
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: very public that you foiled for bankruptcy. You made the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: video which is super dope. Thank no, thank you. Give
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: us an explanation of bankruptcy because I still think that
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: people need to be educated on it.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, So bankruptcy, I'm gonna break it down like a
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: fifth career. Bankruptcy is if you go through if you
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: have more debts then you have revenue, and you are insolvent,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: which means that either you can't pay your bills or
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you have more bills than you have revenue, and your
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: bottom line is the color red and not green. That
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: means that you are insolvent. That means that, by textbook definition,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you can't pay your bills. Okay, So the US Bankruptcy
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Code has provided you tools to be able to fix
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the problem. Okay. So there's six main codes for people
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: if you need some relief in your business. So there's
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a chapter seven if you want to close your business down,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: like if you're done, you sell all your assets and
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: then you liquidate, you close the business you want to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: walk away. That means that ninety nine percent of the time,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: all of your debts are discharged. So that means that
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you won't owe. And I'm not a lawyer, by the way,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: but that means that the debts that you have, they
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: can be discharged in court. Okay. Chapter thirteen is where
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you do a it's a reorganization, but it's a payment
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: plan and you have a certain amount of time to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: pay your debt that you still have to pay, but
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: it's a certain threshold that if you are below that threshold,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: you have a certain amount of time to pay. Chapter
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: eleven is where most businesses file or if you have
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of assets. So for me personally, I have
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of assets. I have a lot of properties. Okay,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: so chapter eleven is if you make over. I think
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the threshold is like one point three All the bankruptcy
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: attorneys get in the comments and correct me if I'm wrong,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: but I believe it's like one point three million. Dollars.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: If you have more than one point three million dollars
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: in assets, you have to file a Chapter eleven. Okay,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So I fil Chapter eleven. And what eleven is it's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a reorganization and you also get a certain amount of
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: time to pay it back. Okay. And then there's a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: couple more, but the main ones. For the context of
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: this conversation, it's critical because it provides you the relief
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: that you need. Now, let's talk about the economy for
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a second. Y'all are earned a lisia. You see it, right,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: y'all talk about it all the time. All of our
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: biggest businesses in America have either filed or are filing
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: or are considering filing right now. And it has gotten
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: so common because the way the economy is set up
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: right now, people need relief. Businesses need relief. So I
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: won't say their names, but some of the biggest fast
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: food chains are filing Chapter eleven, right, some of the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: biggest that there's pharmaceutical companies, they're retail chains. All of
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: these companies are filing for Chapter sevens or Chapter elevens.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: But it's for relief for their business because they either
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: one can't afford to pay their bills, they're in solvent,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: or they just need to reorganize, right, And sometimes you
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: need a reorganization so that you can really be able
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: to restructure the plan and get back to a space
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: in your business where you can become profitable. So, for
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the people who are watching this, bankruptcy is a tool.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Your president has filed for bankruptcy. How many times six?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: A lot of times? A lot, But bankruptcy is a tool.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And I am so excited about the opportunity to do
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: what we will do together because we get to educate
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: people in a way where they can understand it and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it's digestible. When we think about financial literacy, I'll be honest,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: even me, when I started being an entrepreneur, an official entrepreneur,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: there was so much stuff that I didn't understand. So
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like, where do you get that information outside of y'all?
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And you know, once you know that the tools are
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: out there for you, you will be so much better off.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I think we think bankrupcy and we think synonymous were broken.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's furthest from.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: The truth, right, And so that's why the education piece
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: is so vially important. Part of the couple questions when
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: they set the deadline on how the repaying instructure go.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Is that predicated by the courts on saying like you
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: have five years, four years?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: How did that process want?
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: So the lawyer puts in a plan, right, based on
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: your finances, how much you make and all that stuff.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: So the lawyer presents a plan to the courts and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: it gets approved. Okay, And at that plan approved, you
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: get you have. I haven't even gotten that far. I'm
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: in the beginning the phases, but I believe it's like
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: three to five years to pay that back, right. But
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: you remember, I filed because I have creditors from my
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: old co. So a lot of my that ninety nine
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: percent of the debt that I have personally is business
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: from the old company that I no longer own. So
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you know, not I can't say too much, but some
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: of those debts can be discharged because I don't own
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: that company and it was from the corporation because I
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: had a corporation. Bankruptcy is very intricate, which is why
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it's critical to get an attorney. So if anybody who's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: watching this wants to file for bankruptcy, you need an
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: attorney to be able to support you and guide you
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: through and help you make the best decisions. But I
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: would not change it for the world. I'm so glad
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that I did it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Part of the restructuring is changing leadershue your brand so strong,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, we've been around it for so long, sanlely
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: oriented the difficult decisions after you made Yeah, nobody told
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: us about that part either, Right, Like, some of your
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: friends may not be quite of.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: The division going forward. How do you manage what you do?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: And it ain't even the friends that be the problem. Did
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you say, I have hired so many people with great
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: resumes that can't even do the jump up? You want
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to say what I'm saying, It's just like, so there's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a hybrid, right, Like you need expertise and a little
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: bit of hard like. You can't have one more than
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the other because it'll never work. You got to have
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: a hybrid, and that has you know, it's been an
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: ongoing thing for me. I mean in business, as you
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: evolve the business, the needs of the business change, right,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: just like your relationships. Who you were six years ago
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and who you are today. You know what I'm saying.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: So as you grow and evolve, the people around you
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: have to grow and evolve with you, and if they
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: don't grow and evolve with you, then they cannot stay
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and that gets uncomfortable. The problem that happens in business,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and I'm guilty of it too, is people stay past
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: their expiration date. So you look, people stay past their
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: expiration date. We as entrepreneurs oftentimes allow people who have
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: been in the trunches with us in the beginning to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: stay past the expiration date because we as we me
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about myself, for a very long time, I
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: led with my heart, okay, and leading with your heart
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: is a great thing, but leading with your heart can
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: also make you go broke. You understand what I'm saying,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Like you got to lead with logic to hybrid is
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: what I said. And I've learned that over the years,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, they can pick
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: up and go and you're still stuck with a business
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. So, as I grew up
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and learn how to walk as an entrepreneur all over
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: again and fall on my face sometimes, I've learned some
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: very very valuable lessons that I'm applying this go around.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Do I still get it right? I have some hiccups
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: still because I'm not perfect, but at the end of
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the day, I know that the mistakes and the lessons
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: from old co I'm getting to apply them here and
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be so much better.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Off for it.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: So when you filed for bankruptcy, right, is there a
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: psychological level of fighting that you gotta deal with, like
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: of like, Okay, I'm gonna trying to fight the pay
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: these build a petities built are I just this is overwhelming?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: And then like when did you think, like when did
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: you come to that decision of like I can't fight
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: this anymore? Like I mean, I just gotta.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You'll me tell you a funny story. I've never said
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: this out up, but I'm gonna tell you something, so
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: i won't say their name, but uh, somebody who an entity,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: not somebody, an entity who I did business with, reached
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: out to me and they said like, hey, like let's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: meet up at Starbucks so that we can really like
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: talk this out. And I'm like, okay, cool. I'm just
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: trying to, you know, make sure that we get things
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: in line. And I'm like, okay, cool, this is a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: peace offering. We can talk. Obviously, you know that the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: business was insolvent. Let's figure this out together and it
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: felt so real and it felt so genuine. Do you
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: know when I pulled up to that Starbucks and I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: went inside, the person that I was looking for was
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: not there. Somebody tapped me, excuse me, are you Aisha Ko?
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: And I said yes, she said, you are being served.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So the whole time, I'm thinking that I'm going to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: do business right to make a peace offering, and I
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: realized that like, oh damn, like I'm being served, and
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I think that that was my final straw. I'm like,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: this is too much, like I don't want to do
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: this some more. And I think that that's why I'm
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: made my decision and total transparency. Derek did not want
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: me to file why good you know, he did it
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: partially and he like, you don't have to do this
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: because my reason for filing bankruptcy was because of the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: old code. Right. He's like, you don't have to do this,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: like you could just get and I'm like, I'm tired,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: like I don't I don't want to keep fighting a
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: battle that I'm losing. I just don't want to keep
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: doing that, you know what I'm saying. And this was
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: part two of that restructure. But when I did it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: At first, I was just like, oh, man, like, my
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: ego is in a way. I'll be honest, my ego
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: is in a way.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Here it is.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I've done all of these great things that so many
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: people that look up to me. But then after a while,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, if I'm dead, they gonna look look
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: somewhere else anyway. You know what I'm saying. So I
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: might as well, like take care of me and take
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: care of what I got going on. I'm the bounce
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: back queen. Okay, it's giving biggity biggoty bounce like I
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: can literally every time listen at a restaurant in Hall
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of New York, corn on fire, car got repo, got
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: kicked out of my apartment, lost everything, we just got gurnished.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: And then I created a hundred million dollar brand. So
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: if it can happen before and I lose it and
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I get it back, imagine what's about to happen. Now
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying. It's given forty four x
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and you feel me like so, at the end of
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: the day, I realized that, yes, the headlines could be
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the headlines, but I'm so confident in my skin and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: who I am as an entrepreneur, and you can never
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: take away all the great things that I've done in
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: my career. So I did what I needed to do
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: with the tools that were provided to me. And I'm
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: so happy that I did it because, let me tell
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: you some of your favorites. These in my dms right
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: now saying hey, I want to file, can you connect
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: me with an attorney? And to me, I say, you
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: know what, that tells me that people are really following
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: my journey and learning from it, right. I mean, this
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: ain't a bankruptcy party here. Everybody file for bankruptcy. But
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the fact that I get to teach other people just
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: by my experiences tell me that I'm doing.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: The right thing.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Which which one do you feel the weight the heavyweight
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: of the critique, the scrutiny or the expectation that there
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: are people watching me and they need to learn from you, right,
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Because there's two different things. Right, Like, there might be
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: that pressure like I got to keep going. I got
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: these people who believe what they're trying to follow that
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: path and this is that.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Housele had that pressure up more I did. I'ma be honest,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I don't have that pressure no more. Because I'm flawed
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and it's okay to be flawed. And you either gonna
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: love me or you're not gonna love me. You ever
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: gonna learn from you or you're not, which is very
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: rare because anytime I'm in a room, if you're in
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a room with me and you don't learn something, something's wrong.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, And like, so the pressure
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: that I used to have, it's just like this is
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: who I am, right, Like, I'm not polished, I am me,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I'm raw on a tongue, and you are going to
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: learn something whether you like it or not, right, and
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: that pressure is just gone. I just have a level
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: of freedom. I don't look at the blogs. I don't
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: look at the comments, and even if I do look
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: at something, I left like, okay, they had no idea.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: But it took for me to be in that dark
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: wrong to get there, to be on that display that
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: God put me on to because God is the visual
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: merchandiser to put me on that level or display, because
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: God said, I got to get you ready. I got
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: to get you ready for for everything that's about to come.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: And if you're not ready for it, then you're gonna fold.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: But if you're ready for it, if I get you
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: ready for now, ready for it now. It's gonna be uncomfortable,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: but you are literally going to change the world. And
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that looks like yet, but I'm like,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: all right, gud, I surrender like I'm giving you the wheel,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and wherever you're gonna take me, I'm gonna go. And
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in every room that I'm in, I'm gonna say your
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: name because you did for me what my eyes couldn't
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: even believe at first. You know what I'm saying. So
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: for the people who are going through a hard time,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: if you've lost something, if you felt like giving up,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I literally God has literally stripped me the days when
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I felt like I couldn't figure things out, God came
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: back and said, I got you. And I'm talking about
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the hardest of situations. God has solved all of my
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: hardest bowles. So I said, God, if you give me
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: through this, I'm going to exalt your name. I'm going
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: to say your name every single wound that I'm in,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and I do it every single time because I would
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: not be You know what I said, God always knew me.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I just knew God. You know why, because entrepreneurship is
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: a very spiritual practice. You got to be connected to something.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: You got to be connected to a source. And because
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I went through everything that I went through in business,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: being connected to that source is the biggest flex out
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: of this whole situation. And I'm proud of that.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Amen, man holds down. That's the highest praise.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: And man, yeah, I ain't know what to say. That's
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: the colluction plate, actual flight. So, I mean, it doesn't
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: affect you the same way it might affect other people.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: But what do you think about, just in general, how
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: social media has become so toxic and it's almost like
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: people take enjoyment and seeing somebody else's down for or
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: proceed down for troubles, trial and tribulations. That's become content.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: White people make content around that. And see I told
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: you like da da da da, Like what is your
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: thoughts on how our culture seems to deal with these things?
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we got a crab in a barrel culture.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Let's be honest, we see it. People don't want to
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: talk about It's true. Sometimes it's not everybody. There's a
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: pocket of people that are supportive that say, hey, I
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: got your deck whatever you need. Right, Some people thought
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I lost my main home. They're like, Pinky, I got
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: a townhouse if you need somewhere to stay. There is
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a trying to take and it was her and she
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: texted me like, heck out a townhouse if you need
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: some what to say. But there's a pocket of people
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that do, so I don't want to isolate our whole
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: community like everybody. That's not the truth. There are people
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: who actually root for you, that are supportive of you,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: that want to be there for you in your most
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: difficult times. But what I also understand is that if
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: you look at the economy right now, there's a lot
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: of people in the world that are said, there's a
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: lot of people in the world that are unhappy with
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: their situations. They wake up every single day and go
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: to a job that they hate, but they got to
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: keep the job because this is how they pay their
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: bills and they take care of their family, you know
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And a lot of people are living
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck, right and the dreams that they had
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: they ain't never follow. Okay, so oftentimes they're projecting their
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: negativity on other people. But I realized when I've gone
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: through the most humiliating experience professionally as an entrepreneur, and
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: how it made me feel after that. It was almost
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: like all right, I went to that. Okay, cool. So now,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: like I'm not tuned into what people say because I'm
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: so sure within myself who I am. They don't you
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: can say whatever you want to say. I'd be laughing, like, Okay,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, what it is. Everybody's not like that though, Right.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: It takes a special kind of fixed skin, and you
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: can't pay for that, Like you can't go get no
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: botox for that, you know what I'm saying, Like, ain't
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: no surgery for that. Like you really just got to
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: go through the trenches. But when you come out on
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: the other side, you understand that the people who know
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: know and that people will get it. Get it. Y'all
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: are my peers. We're in the same class. Y'all get it.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: You get it. Everybody else don't get it, And it's
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: not necessarily for them to get it. But it's our
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: responsibility to continue to educate.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: They gotta live to us a little bit, right, Yeah,
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about what's happening now.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: They're getting your peachs.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're now part of Housewives of Elena, which is
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: interesting because I don't think I'm guilty.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: All I've watched it.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I watched Okay, my model, she carried my wife. I
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: don't think I I've ever seen anybody like you on
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: the show.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen anybody like me either, And.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: I'm excited for that because we know you and again
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: the people that watched your journey and watch you becoming
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: an entrepreneur, watch all the things that we spoke about,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: and now you're going into that world.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Talk to us.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Please, I don't know what to say, you know, I'm
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: actually very excited. I'm excited because outside of my two
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: best friends Chris Deuincierra I and I'm not I'm usually
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: around men. I do, I do good bit I always
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: work best with I don't know, I just I have
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: a darmin personality, so I always work best with men.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I'm overly confident, you know. You know I go so
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: to be around a group of women was very different
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: for me. A group of women that are not in
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the same industry almost was also very different from me.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: But I'm happy that I'm different. Different, it's good. Different
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: is not a bad thing. And I think what makes
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: a really good reality show is diversity, right, Like diversity
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: and personality, the diversity in character, diversity and experience, because
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: it needs to be somebody for everybody. So I know
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that I got my audience, Okay, Like I'm thinking that
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: my people would be and I'm excited for people to
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: be able to see me uncover the highs and lows
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: of entrepreneurship. Remember I'm an open book at this point,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: so it's just like people to really get to see
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: how I've navigated business, the beautiful side of it, the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: hard side. They'll see my family, my life style, my marriage.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: You know, me and Derek, we don't really post a
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: lot of our marriage online, but they get to really
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: see that in real time, Like that's my best friend,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Were the same person? You know what I'm saying, Like
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: you think that I put my stuff like he is,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: y'all know, Like Derek is very intellectual and like people
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: get to see that side, and I'm excited about that.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: And I know that the audience that I build on
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: this show is bigger than arguing at a brunch table.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like were talking about things
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: that matter, you know what I'm saying, And I'm looking
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: forward to that.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: So will you go into this show? Are you going
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: into a thinking this is a branding opportunity for me
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: to further the audience to build business. What's your thought
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: process on actually signing up for a reality show? Like
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: are you or you just looking at like, well, how
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: are you thinking? Like about that?
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: If I sat here and told you no, that's not
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: the case, I'd be lying. You'd be like, you're a
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: stop line, right. Somebody else would be like, yeah, no,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: that's I just came because I wanted to make new
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: girl friends. Yeah, I'm excited about making new girlfriends. But
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: when you think about the leverage that platforms like these bring, yes,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: you want to meet new people, but it's also an
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: opportunity to build and grow whatever it is that you have,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: And it's also an opportunity to continue to raise awareness
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur. And it's also an opportunity to be
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: able to do something different. So my reasoning wasn't just
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: one thing like I just want to rip branding and
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: like promote my business. I want to do something different.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I want to I want to see how could I
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: mesh not even mesh, that's not the word. How can
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I take up space in a room full of others,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: success of women, and we do things that the world
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: is ever seen.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Does that work? Housewives? Why does that?
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Even what you left?
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: You're always thinking the same thing about to ask you?
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: That's great?
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm assuming when it first started the show was
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: based around housewives, but nobody on the show was a housewife.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: So why do they like? Is that just like a
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: name of the show.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I got a coat, executive producer, and
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: ask that question and get back to you. However, so
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I can always speak for me and mine. Okay. So
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I'm very married, and I have a family, and we
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: have a house, and I am not my definition a housewife.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I still get up and I go to work. I
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: still up and I get the chicken. They'll pun intended. Okay,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: But a housewife in the quintessential definition, okay, really means that.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: What really means that you embody a level of energy
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: where you are the recipient of a lifestyle that everybody
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: is not afforded. Okay, And I'm the recipient of a
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: lifestyle that everybody is not affording. My husband is very successful,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I'm very successful in business. Together we have We're not
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: even forty yet, and we've done more things than other
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: thirty eight year olds that I've ever seen in my life. Right,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: So you know the reason for why they created the show, obviously,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: you know they had their reasons. But for me coming
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: on the show, being a part of Real House Ees
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: of Atlanta, the goal is to not work one day.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: The goal is to one day sell my company and
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: have an exit, just like most founders do. But I'm
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: excited about being a part of this platform. Bravo is incredible,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: NBC Universal is incredible, and I've made some really good
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: friendships so far. So like, I'm happy about that.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: I was gonna it's crazy because we were thinking the
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: same thing. I was actually looking at it as there might.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: You're a wife. You have obviously a husband in the
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: family at home, a part of you as a housewife, right,
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: but that doesn't define who you are. And that's how
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: I was trying to think of this is like another
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: aspect of fool Pinky is in a sense. I was
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: wondering about the friendship so because when I see you,
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: it always is with Derek, and you do have counterparts
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: in your field and kind of parts throughout the city.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: But you've got big personality, big energy.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: How was that?
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: You know, Like initially, because I'm assuming that most of
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: the cast knows who you are, it's not that freaking
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: with you.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: What was that? Like?
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I stuck up a lot of air? Do you know
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: what I mean? When I say that I suck up
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of air? Everybody can't handle that. But what
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I will say is, like, for example, Kay and I
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: k Michelle. Her and I have got really really close
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: through this process. She's my sorority sister, and she's an
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: intellect like me. She's a thinker, and I don't know
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: that a lot of people really know that like she
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: she's a thinker like me. So we've gotten close. I
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: love Shamia Down, love Kelly Down. We like Portia. But
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: but I'm you know, every one of them have things
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: that are cool, right, like one thing about me? I
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: ain't no here if I see something good and you like,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: O got cool? Like I like your sple, I like
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: your wag. I can't say that about everybody, but for
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: the most part, there's you know, there's this a talent
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: or something special that I see and mostly all of
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: them that I think together makes a dynamic life. Mostly
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: all of them. They said, if you have nothing nice
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: to say, nothing at all. Okay, don't say nothing. I'm
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: a professional.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: This is gonna be good.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I mean, you know, I really value
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: the relationships of the entire group because what I've learned
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: is everybody going through stuff. Okay, everybody is going through something,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: and you'll be able to attach yourself to one of
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: these women on the show for whatever reason, whatever your
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: reason is, And I think that is going to be
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: a really good season, probably one of the best.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Last year when you was on our show and you
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: was going through the restruction of your company, you talk
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: about lessons that you learned as far as like spending
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: too much money, hiring the wrong people, you know, the
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: management at like it, a variety of different business lessons
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: that you learned from that situation that was helpful for
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: other people in business. What lessons like we're at the
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: bankruptcy park, but what lessons have you learned from not
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: only going through the bankruptcy, but things that could have
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: that could have been prevented or could have caused to
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: the bankruptcy, Like what have you learned from that.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: You can have a Bentchley that is a twenty twenty five.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: And it can have all of the trinkets, it can
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: have all the frills, it could be a nice vehicle.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: But if you don't have no engine in that Bentley,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: then where you're gonna go you cannot move. So what
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I've learned is that you are only as good as
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: your operations. So when I first started out in business,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I thought it was enough to just be a popular brand.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: But somebody needs to be managing and operating the business operations. Okay,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: somebody has to operate and like literally be the conductor
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: on the train. And if you don't have the right
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: conductor on the train, it'll move. But eventually something that's
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. Let me give you another example. You ever
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: been on an airplane before? Had you ever been on
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: an airplane before? Do you know that there's a several
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: point inspection that takes place before that airplane can take off.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: If you have the wrong operators putting their hands on
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: that plane while that inspection is taking place, god forbid,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: what can happen because the right things haven't taken place
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: before that plane is taken off. So operations is critical
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: to having a successful business. It don't matter how popular
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: you are, It don't matter how many people love you. You
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: need to have somebody oots on the ground, making sure
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: that your labor is good, making sure that your cabs
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: are good, making sure that you have the right vendors,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: because what often happens, especially in the restaurant space, like
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: you can have these vendors and they charging you a
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: premium price because you don't know that you can get rebates,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: or you don't know that you can get the best
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: price in or they think that you're a mom and
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: pop company, so we don't have to give them the
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: right kickbacks. And now your food cost is higher, and
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: now your bottom line you ain't making no money and
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: you want to rewin, but it's because you're giving all
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: of your money to these distribution companies, you know what
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: So like, well, even if you're doing an event and
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: somebody can exactly what they paying for this, paying for that,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: and before you know it, you know, it ran up
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: three hundred thousand dollars on.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, and not I do fourteen
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: stores in the height of the pandemic. Okay, fourteen stores.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Every store costs between eight hundred thousand and a million
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: dollars every store, okay, and because it was in the
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: height of the pandemic, supply chain was crazy, inflation everything.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: But what I learned in business is people will take
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: advantage of you if you do not know. People will
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: take advantage of you if you do not know. And
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's intentionally and sometimes it's not intentionally. There are
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: people who are predatory when it comes to green entrepreneurs.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: And we all start off green, right, Like I had
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: to fall on my face a lot of times. I
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: didn't have a private equity uncle or a father. My
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: father did twenty two years in prison. Was he smart, absolutely,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: but he was behind bars. So I didn't have that
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: person on a day to day telling me what to do,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: what not to do. You need to give phantom equity,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: or you need to do a series this, or do
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: a series that, or like you don't need to get
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: this big of a discount. Like I had to learn
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: at the hard way, and we didn't even have AI
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: when I was trying to do it. Okay, that's new.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: If I had AI, n out of the straight and
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So operations, I could give
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: you all the little mini lessons, but the umbrella of
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: operations is really what covers everything else.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: And would you would you advise like one probably got
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: COO or have like different people that's like this person's
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: job is that, that person's job is that.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: So it depends on what stage of business that you're in,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: because a COO is not cheap. So if you're a
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: business making three hundred thousand dollars a year, you can't
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: afford a COO because that's their salary, you understand what
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But if you're making two million, three million,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: four million dollars a year, you absolutely need a C
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: suite level COO. Right, I'm gonna be very clear. I'm
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: gonna give you'all some non traditional advice. A COO level
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: that has proven ability to scale a business like yours
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: because they've done it before, or somebody who's younger that's
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: super hungry because you know, you ever see those people
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: that are super hungry. They young, but they're super hungry
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: and they worked in every single position in the business,
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: so they know the business. No, they don't have it
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: on their resume, but they're so hungry and they've learned
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: the business because they put their hands in it. But
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: if you are growing an enterprise. You need the level
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: of expertise, but not just expertise on paper. You need
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: the person that really is still willing to be boots
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: on the ground, because sometimes when you get these C
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: suite executives, they don't feel like they need to be
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: on the ground. You know that they don't feel like
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: they need to be on the ground. I'm guilty of
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a shit. When the business got to a certain stage,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, by the agreement with my former leadership,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be thought leadership. I'm going to be
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the Ronald McDonald. I'm going to do all of the
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: press and the marketing and the branding. I stop getting
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: in the field. But now guess who win the field.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I'm back in the field. You see my pop pups
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I lines down the block because I'm back in the field.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: I'm touching every sandwich. But it's almost like I'm that
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: baby again, learning my business all over again. And I'm
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: happy about that because now, well I'm listen what jay
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Z said. If you can do it once, you can
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: do something about You can do it once, you can
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: do it twice. Like I've done it before, I can
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: do it all over again. But that operations piece, man,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: that's the most critical, That is the most critical.
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: Is that a trait that you see in entrepreneurs today
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: that you that they're lacking, right, Like your story is
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: full of brasilience. I feel like people, a lot of
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: people who create business isn't during the pandemic?
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: What else you man, they're gone? It is?
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: Is it the lack of resilience organization operations? What was
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: your take on against this era of entrepreneurial.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Yea, there's a they didn't have a business. Yeah, no
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: real bisiness.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: There was a lot. I agreed that there was no
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: real business. There's a couple of things. It's a couple
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: of variables here, Like you know, a lot of small
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: businesses they have great ideas, right, but no structural foundation
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: at all, not even like five percent, right. So I
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: be having to remind myself sometimes when I talk to
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: newer stage entrepreneurs that there's a lot of things that
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: they don't know, right, And ignorance is not less right,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: And it's not even always their fault, right, It's because
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: we haven't always had the access to the information, which
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: is why y'all platform is so critical. And I admire
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: y'all so much because what y'all are doing for the culture,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: nobody else has ever done, right, So we need more
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: of y'all, right to continue to educate in a way
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: where it doesn't feel so high level that entrepreneurs can understand.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Because most entrepreneurs startup founders. We're usually visionaries, right, like
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: most of us right, where the creatives aren't usually the
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: real technical like the creatives the victim. The creatives are
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: usually the ones that have the really big imagination. Well
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I speak for myself anyway, like I got a really
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: big imagination, but operations this is not my thing. It's
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: just not I can do it. But like I don't
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: get up in a worl again like operations, I want
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: to do it. So I know my ministry, so I
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: know that I need to bring in an operations person
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: that can do the things that I don't love to do.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: But I also need to keep my eyes on it,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I think that when
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs understand that, yes, for a certain period of time,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: you won't have to do HR. Yeah you're gonna have
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: to be an account Yeah you're gonna have to do
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: all of those things. But eventually you are going to
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: get emotionally, mentally, and physically stretched trying to be all
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: of these things in your business, that your business will
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: never be able to grow.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: And that's a good point. I also think that the
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: social media thing is that a gifted a curse for
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of entrepreneurs because it's allowed people to skip steps. Yes,
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: so it allows you to make money from your Instagram page, right,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: a good idea, a good look, and then before you
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: know it, you think that you have a business, but
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: you really don't because you never had to go through
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: the stages of actually building the foundation of what a
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: business actually entails. So you're making revenue and psychologically you
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: have a lot of confidence because you're like, well, I'm
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: an entrepreneur, I'm a business. And then as soon as
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: you hit a speed bump, you fall a car because
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: the house is built with no foundation.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: And you and get no team right, hey, yeah, no
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: the team.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: You have no infrastructure, you have no no plan in place,
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: you have nothing. And I think a lot of people,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: I think that was a problem for a lot of people.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: During the pandemic, it was good selling for a lot
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: of people on the Internet side. And then when things changed.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: A lot of people realized or they maybe they didn't realize,
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: but they they got taken under because they never really
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: figured out what a business, what running a business really is.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the truth. You know, before I had my restructure,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I had my restructure seven years in business. Restaurants don't
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: even last three years. The average restaurant does not last
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: three years. So it is so important for you to
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: have that team for you to understand business. Now that
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: I know what I know, my PSA to every entrepreneur
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: is you have the tools and the resources. I just
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: got a new friend and her name was Claudisher. Y'all
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: know what it is. Cord, Yes, Cord Cole Okay, Claudiesia.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: And I literally immerse myself in research, like I'm the
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: ultimate researcher because I want to learn. I want to
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: get better. I want to be the best. I'm franchising now,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: so like I've fallen in love with the franchise business.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: So like I'm researching all of the things and I'm
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: being a student of the game all over again. And
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: you know it sounds cliche, but you have to be
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: a student of a game because you will get left.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Your business will leave you if you are not a
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: student of a game. I've been there. I know what
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: it feels like. When I came back in my company
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, I didn't even know where nothing was.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't know where the files were. I didn't know
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: that I was a new hire in my own business.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine people telling me where stuff is in
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: my own business because I wasn't running my company. That
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: is the most embarrassing thing in the world. So yes,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: I can. I could do press in marketing all day long,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: but I trusted those to run my business, and I
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: took my hands off the wheel. So this time around,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: hands on wheel, third eye open, and just making sure
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: that I'm putting the proper pieces in place, even through
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: the hiccups, so that my business can continue to sustain.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: But what I know for sure is that I have
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: a weather proof brand. And if you have a weather
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: proof brand, here it is. I'm all over Beyonce, the internet,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: and I'm getting so many franchise requests every single day.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: People still love my brand. People still want to franchise
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: my business and help me scale it. So I said,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: I got something special. I have something special, So what
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: are you going to do with this level of specialness.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: And I believe that we all had that gift in
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: our businesses. We just have to be able to unlock it.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about a question.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Come on, let's go. We can do it slightly Vegan
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: and Ghana, We're we talking about hello, so let's let's.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Talk about what we're going to do together. Since collaboration
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: is key. You can't on with the idea you want
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: to you want to inform people.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Sure, So I think everybody at this point has a
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: scene my Miss Rachel parody video where I was teaching
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: bankruptcy to grown adults and I made a joke I said,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta put it on eight o weeights so
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: people can understand. But then when I was looking at
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the comments, I realized and shout out to Wall Street Tramper.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: He said something me was like, yo, like this is
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: really a thing, Like entrepreneurs will benefit off of it.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: So it had my mind going, and I'm like, I
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: need to do like an online YouTube series that teaches
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: adults financial literacy but at a fifth grade level, right,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: because you gotta show people that, like, the information is there,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna make you digest it in a way
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: where like you never knew that you can learn it
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: and it can be fun and hip at the same time.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: So I'm so excited to be able to partner with
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: my fellow guys right here. Oh I like how to
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Scream with White. I love it on this YouTube digital series.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: And the reason why I'm excited about doing this with
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: y'all is because y'all really own the culture when it
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: comes to financial literacy for our people, right, And I
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: have gone through so many things in business that I
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: would like to call myself a student who's an expert. Right.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: I've had a lot of challenges, but I've also had
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of growth opportunities. And with those things, I
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: know that that level of education will have a lot
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: of entrepreneurs. So you put that in a pot with
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Troy and Mishall and it's a level of success that
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: is really going to be so impactful. So it's called
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Pinky Piggy Bank, and we are going to be teaching
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurship through music. And you know, I'm going to use
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: our favorite songs that we grew up to and translate things.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Were talking about trusts, We've talked about bankruptcy already. We're
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: talking about LLCs and safe notes and equity and cat tables,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: all of the things that a lot of people don't understand.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: I'm putting it in a song.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: I mean when you we got the text message, whoever
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: could call me first call me? And when I heard
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: these segment in your voice, I'm like, oh, this is
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: something special.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: It was easy. I'm like, yo, shy, this is gonna
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: be easy. Yeah, ping gonna do this. Let's do it.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: Talk to them about the details when they can see it.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So our first episode is dropping April seventeenth, and
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. I ain't gonna tell you how
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: the song. Y'all gonna diele me, but it's gonna be great, man,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: because every week you will be able to learn something
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: new about business. So now there is no excuse so
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs can say, well I didn't know, Yes you did,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: because I put in a wreck. I put in a
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: a eights okay, And we just go and educate them assters.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like we collectively have a platform to educate
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: and learn, and one thing that I will say about
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: all three of us is that we do that very
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: very well. And I think this is just another vertical
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: of doing what we do best, and I'm excited to
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: be in partnership with y'all and then we're gonna make
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of measure head.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: That's the only way. Thank you for trusting us with
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: your vision, working with us. Welcome to the network. But
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: I think it's just important just to spread the message
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: to many people as possible, because people really look up
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: to you as for entrepreneurship. So you can look up
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: to somebody and learn from everything that they've done correctly,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: every mistake that they've made, everything, like you know, that's
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: really like mentorship and real time. That's that's gonna be okay, sure, yeah,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: I'm mistake.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like it's been your ecosystem. Okay, give me
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: that data listener.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: I mean that it goes back to the idea of
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: like I'm turning this into something bothertive right when.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: You did it, when we spoke to you, like I
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: was like super uncomfortable about doing a rapping.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: I ain't really my thing, and then I put it
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: up in like a million views.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: Oh this is how people need to learn.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: That's how they need to learn. So I mean, yeah,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: I'm paying for so you know, I always said I
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: wanted to be a rapper. Here we go, here we go,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna make it fun. It's gonna be good.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: And it's not just for adults. Kids can learn from
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: it too, you know what I'm saying. So there's so
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: many ways and places that this can go. And I'm
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: excited about us activating it, investeds and people getting to
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: see it in real time. But it's gonna be good
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: and and and so many people are going to be
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: able to be inspired about what it is that we're building.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: Well, there you have it. Thank you again for your time.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: Anything else that you want to let that lets people know.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk to every single entrepreneur. I
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: don't look at the camera, Okay, every single entrepreneur that
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: is watching this program. You are looking at somebody who
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: has cried, who has died, who has lost it all,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: gotten it back, been compromised in business, boarded, business back restructuring.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: I'm like a cat, I got non lives. So you
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: were looking at somebody who has experience at loss, but
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: you're also looking at somebody who has experience and faith. Okay.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: So the difference between a winner and a loser is
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: that a winner never quits So if you feel like
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  Speaker 1: throwing at the towel, rethink it again, do something different,
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  Speaker 1: pivot a little bit. Because what it is that you
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  Speaker 1: are working on, God put it in your spirit for
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  Speaker 1: a reason, and you gotta trust your gut even when
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  Speaker 1: it feels uncomfortable, even when that thing feels dead. My
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  Speaker 1: brother in law has been in the hospital since December
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth. When he went to the hospital, he had
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  Speaker 1: a stroke, a massive stroke, and he did not open
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  Speaker 1: up his eyes for ten days. And I watched people.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't say it, but I could feel the energy
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  Speaker 1: of defeat around him because they didn't know if this
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  Speaker 1: man was going to open up his eyes. And then
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  Speaker 1: eventually he started to open up one eye, and that
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  Speaker 1: he opened up the next eye, and then eventually he
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  Speaker 1: started twiddling his fingers, and then he eventually started writing,
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  Speaker 1: and now he's starting to talk. But I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: that because God will give you your motion back, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what it is that you've lost, you will get
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  Speaker 1: your motion back every single time. Even when people are
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  Speaker 1: surrounded around you and they think that you're dead, they
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  Speaker 1: think that you can't hear that they're talking and they're criticizing.
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  Speaker 1: God will give you everything that you lost, he will
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  Speaker 1: give it back times ten. I'm a living witness, and
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  Speaker 1: it compelled me to share that with any entrepreneur going
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  Speaker 1: through a hard time because I get the messages, but
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  Speaker 1: just no, do not give up. God will give you
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  Speaker 1: everything that you lost and you'll get it back. Thomson
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  Speaker 1: always leave us.
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  Speaker 2: With an emotional message that's right on time for the
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  Speaker 2: times that we're in. So I don't even know say
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  Speaker 2: after that, I guess, thank you. Tune in, Tune in
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  Speaker 2: the Real Housewives, tune in sav the show that are
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  Speaker 2: gonna be doing on YouTube the series, Tune into everything
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  Speaker 2: Sloody Vegan, Big Dave's Cheese Steaks, you know you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Anything that we can do to support that's easy. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: once again, thank you for always being there for us.
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  Speaker 2: We don't take it lightly. You don't greatly appreciate your
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  Speaker 2: support and everything that we've been able to work office show.
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  Speaker 2: That means Walksmiths as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. Let's do make some aging
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  Speaker 1: because there.
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  Speaker 2: You have it all right, guys, Thank you Rocks for
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  Speaker 2: see you next week.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks