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B SIMONE - Spaghetti Alla Impossible · Eating While Broke

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Speaker 1: Guess what, y'all welcome to another episode of Eating While
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Speaker 1: Broke And guess what. We are out of the podcast
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Speaker 1: studio and in Atlanta again, and guess who we have
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Speaker 1: here with us? The amazing, the amazing be Simone is
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Speaker 1: with me. Dang. I thought she's gonna give me more
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Speaker 1: like the amazing, the amazing comedian actions influencer Willing outcast
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Speaker 1: here eating problem. But I want to tell you guys something.
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Speaker 1: I was messing with her schedule all day and I
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Speaker 1: was like, she's gonna be ferocious. She's gonna be ferocious
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Speaker 1: to me, and I'm terrified. Now, I was like, are
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Speaker 1: you crazy? I was terrified because I was like, I
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Speaker 1: don't believe that I promised you. I was washing this
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Speaker 1: just like, oh, I don't know how to tell Dolly
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Speaker 1: this and writing and your ribs are great. She so
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Speaker 1: nice to me, and I was like, thank you Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes they could be hard and you don't know. But
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Speaker 1: I want people to know this because sometimes you see
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Speaker 1: someone on camera on your phone and you assume stuff
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Speaker 1: about them when you don't know, and it's just like,
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Speaker 1: I meet you and I have this amazing story to tell,
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Speaker 1: and I want people to know the other side, I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to keep my energy and I'm actually really really tired,
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Speaker 1: and you know how that goes. I'm like making sure
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Speaker 1: my energy is up because I'm actually excited to do this.
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Speaker 1: I've never done anything like this. Yeah, cooking on camera. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like cooking and you know, and then you got to
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Speaker 1: cook your broke dish. Yeah. She can't even put on
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Speaker 1: a girl show for us. She got Yeah, but one day,
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Speaker 1: you know, she invite us. You know, maybe we could
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Speaker 1: have her rich dish. Yeah, rich dishes like like Chipotle.
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Speaker 1: So I eat Chipotle every day all the time. I
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Speaker 1: had it today. I'm gonna have to find out at
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Speaker 1: the end of the interview. What be Simona orders Chipotle? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because I like, oh, I feel like you're gonna be healthy.
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Speaker 1: I order all the like. But see what you thought
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Speaker 1: always vegan. I'm not vegan. I just don't. I'm pesketarian,
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Speaker 1: Like I eat salmon sometime, but I don't eat meat.
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Speaker 1: But I eat dairy. I'm actually fasting from dairy right now.
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Speaker 1: But why because I'm doing a seven day fast with
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Speaker 1: my team so we can have clarity because we have
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Speaker 1: something coming up in eight days. Oh, I'm we're about
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Speaker 1: we're about to learn. What do you have us eating today? Okay?
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Speaker 1: So we are eating spaghetti, y'all. But today it's a
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Speaker 1: little different than my struggle male because when I used
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Speaker 1: to struggle, I was eating meat, so it was like
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Speaker 1: regular ground beef. But now I haven't had meat for
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Speaker 1: six years excluding seafood. Um, So we're using impossible meat
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Speaker 1: and now I've never you're not even going to know.
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Speaker 1: If you didn't know, you wouldn't know. Well, I'm just
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Speaker 1: curious to see, Like, how do you know an impossible
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Speaker 1: meat is cooked? Because I would assume it's fake meat.
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Speaker 1: It's brown. Oh, well, you're gonna today, so we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have and then what are you gonna name this? So
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Speaker 1: when we're looking at the cookbook, what is be simone
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Speaker 1: spaghetti going to be called? Oh my god, can I
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Speaker 1: think about that is gonna be called? I was gonna
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Speaker 1: be You got to the end. Why don't you start
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Speaker 1: cooking for okay? Okay, okay, let's go to the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: That's giddy. So first I wait, am I telling you
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Speaker 1: how I do it? Tell me? Yeah, you gotta walk
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Speaker 1: us through it. First of all, I don't cook, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't go to the grocery store. You know, I
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Speaker 1: don't have a car, which I talked about all the time,
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Speaker 1: so I'm definitely not going to get no groceries. I
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Speaker 1: uber eat. I eat out. So when was the last
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Speaker 1: time you've in the kitchen? When he was wrote, Yo,
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Speaker 1: that's where I wanted to be out. Okay, guys, I
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Speaker 1: want to be like the last time I wasn't again.
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Speaker 1: Now what's the last time I cooked? Oh? I did
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Speaker 1: get high? Can I say that on here? You can say, okay,
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Speaker 1: this is and I'm not gonna lie. I made some
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Speaker 1: cookies baked. Did you actually make them from scratch? For
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Speaker 1: the little bit scratch tall house? They like that. My
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Speaker 1: cousin came over and she bought them. But that was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: the little squares you just put on the things I know.
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Speaker 1: I love my brother, I love them. Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: Just for the record, you should always keep that in
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Speaker 1: your house. So like if we go on your fridge,
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Speaker 1: there's no food, nothing is there water? Like what I
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Speaker 1: go into your house and like, smote, I'm gonna hit
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Speaker 1: that fridge. I open it. Did not do that. There's nothing.
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Speaker 1: There's alivera plant because the hookah fell in my lap
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Speaker 1: the coal and I had on shorts and I had
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Speaker 1: to heal that. So I rub alivera in between my
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Speaker 1: thighs daily. But other than that, there's nothing in my fridge.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know el overt could do that. It helps.
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Speaker 1: You got the actual quant. Okay, so we go in there.
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Speaker 1: It's like we're gonna starve to death. There's not even
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Speaker 1: leftovers of what Oh my god? Okay, okay, but if
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Speaker 1: we have leftovers of this, can take it? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: go for it, all right. So what we're gonna do?
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Speaker 1: She wants to take her. That's how you know someone's real.
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Speaker 1: All right. She boiled the noodles already for us. So
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Speaker 1: they're right there because he was not about to boil them.
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Speaker 1: You know, they take a little long. Did you test
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Speaker 1: to see me? Was ready to throw it on the wall.
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Speaker 1: You want to start throwing out because and we have
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Speaker 1: the impossible meats? You guys oil with that? Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna take a little bit of oil here. Let
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Speaker 1: me oh, I know I got out of shot. Hold on,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Guys. Have y'all ever had like you never had,
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Speaker 1: like a vegan burger? Yes, like sluty vegan or something
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Speaker 1: like that, or like, let me tell you before I leave,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have slutty vegan. Girl. You don't even you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't even know. It's not so I love my guilty pleasure.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know. This is like, uh,
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Speaker 1: if anyone's in town and they're like, what do you
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Speaker 1: want to eat? Thank you? You're so hilarious. He's a mother,
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Speaker 1: she's a wife. Oh shit, I haven't done this in
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Speaker 1: a long time. Oh god, I'm over here like crisco,
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Speaker 1: all right, but a little bit of that. So I
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Speaker 1: only assumed usually with ground beef, there's fat in it.
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Speaker 1: I feel like you're gonna need more than that. More crisco. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I want to do too much grease. Oh really, No,
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Speaker 1: I'm learning. I mean, I don't know what impared. No, no, no, impossible.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna figure it out together, all right. So we
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Speaker 1: turned the oven on the stoves and we're just gonna
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Speaker 1: put it in there, y'all. And now impossible me isn't me?
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Speaker 1: It's not it's uh, there's one of these things. Oh yes, perfect,
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Speaker 1: thank you. And then what we're gonna do is we
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Speaker 1: have all this seasoning. I'm a pepper girl. I love pepper.
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Speaker 1: We got Tony's. Don't put too much because you don't
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Speaker 1: want you to clesh fraw to be out the root.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna that. It was sizzling quick. Do you
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Speaker 1: want Do you feel like you're on one of those
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Speaker 1: contestant cooking shows. That's admit us to make this meal.
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Speaker 1: It's oars sizzling quick. Oh it is turning brown. See
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Speaker 1: for all y'all listeners, it's turning round. So I'm surprised
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Speaker 1: you don't do like spaghetti with meat balls. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: they had been possible meat balls. Oh no, I'm saying
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Speaker 1: for your broth this you used to do ground ground
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Speaker 1: beefs Yep? Was it because it was like cheaper and easier.
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Speaker 1: I just I grew up eating spaghetti all the time, spaghetti,
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Speaker 1: hot dogs, burgers, drunk. You know I didn't really, You're right,
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Speaker 1: I should have put more grease. This is too high.
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Speaker 1: It's burning. I think it's not burning, but it's not okay,
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Speaker 1: turning stick to the panda. So yeah, I didn't grow
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Speaker 1: up eating healthy. So what was going on at the
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Speaker 1: time when you were consuming hot dogs, spaghetti and all
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Speaker 1: of that. Let's go back to Pleasant Girl. I just
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Speaker 1: got back from Dallas, Texas. Um the house I grew
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Speaker 1: up in. Actually, my grandmother still stays there, literally, in
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Speaker 1: the hood of Dallas, Pleasant Grove. You know, she has
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Speaker 1: a nice hone. She fixed it up and stuff. But
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Speaker 1: you know, older people, they ain't never gonna leave. So
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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, you want to stay here, you
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Speaker 1: don't want to leave. Her daughter lives around the corner.
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Speaker 1: She's been there her whole life. You know, she owns
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Speaker 1: the house, so you know they're not gonna leave. But
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Speaker 1: Pleasant Girl was where I'm from, and I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: the hood of Dallas. But you know what's crazy. When
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Speaker 1: I was growing up, I didn't It wasn't like I
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Speaker 1: felt like I grew up in poverty. I never knew,
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Speaker 1: you know, until I was older, like an adult, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, it's just like the hood. Now do
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Speaker 1: you think that's because then the environment you were in
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Speaker 1: was all the same or like what made you realize
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Speaker 1: later I needed for nothing? It wasn't like I grew
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Speaker 1: up in, like, you know, a horrible living situation. So
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Speaker 1: it was it was good. You know, all the fresh gear,
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Speaker 1: did I I mean, yeah, I'm like, you know, and
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Speaker 1: then you know, I got older. In high school, I
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Speaker 1: started doing hair and my grandmother's kitchen. So I was
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Speaker 1: making bank, y'all. In high school, I really thought I
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Speaker 1: was popping. I started traveling and stuff because I was
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Speaker 1: making so much money. I didn't have bills and I
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Speaker 1: was living with my grandmother. So I mean for entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: very early early, And where'd you learn how to do
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Speaker 1: hair from? I taught myself. I just randomly started breaking
9:40
Speaker 1: my doll's hair. That's one moms it. So I randomly
9:43
Speaker 1: started doing hair, and then I was good at it.
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Speaker 1: If I see something, I can do it. Yeah, you
9:50
Speaker 1: know how badly I want to learn how to do
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Speaker 1: corn worl I'm gonna I'm gonna test out this theory
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Speaker 1: on dolls. I guarantee it's not gonna come out as
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Speaker 1: good as yours. Yeah. So I started making money. Your
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Speaker 1: young entrepreneur, I did a lot of stuff. I was
10:04
Speaker 1: in network marketing. Like anything I put my mind to,
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Speaker 1: I could sell it. But I would only sell stuff
10:09
Speaker 1: I'm believe in though, so it didn't have to be
10:11
Speaker 1: like you know, so commercially and addie. I was like,
10:15
Speaker 1: if I like the product, I'm gonna sell it. Where
10:17
Speaker 1: did you get your entrepreneurs from. I don't know, was
10:21
Speaker 1: there there was no entrepreneurs in your family? Now up around,
10:25
Speaker 1: I'm like the first that I'm in. My dad's a pastor,
10:28
Speaker 1: my mom was a pharmacist. Yeah, my grandmother's are tired.
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Speaker 1: So I used to always think that in order to
10:35
Speaker 1: be an entrepreneur. Now you have just ended my theory
10:38
Speaker 1: that you had to have grown up in a home
10:41
Speaker 1: where you had came by one. I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: So there's people that go to school for entrepreneurship, and
10:47
Speaker 1: I'm always like, but I feel like our generation is like,
10:50
Speaker 1: not first generation. Of course, there's been entrepreneurs for decades decades,
10:53
Speaker 1: but our generation is a lot of first generation millionaires
10:57
Speaker 1: and entrepreneurs. Like it's like, you know, you know, we
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Speaker 1: just have access to a lot of stuff, and when
11:03
Speaker 1: you believe you can do something, you literally can. So
11:07
Speaker 1: so I just knew. I was always in the arts.
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Speaker 1: I grew up like dancing, acting, theater, doing hair, anything creative.
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Speaker 1: I did not want to do anything outside of that.
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Speaker 1: Going to get a job was never in my cards.
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Speaker 1: It was never even thought about it. No one in
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Speaker 1: your household was like, get a job, Well, obviously you
11:22
Speaker 1: started obviously like I had 's like I was a waitress,
11:26
Speaker 1: I worked at um boutique I had, but I never
11:29
Speaker 1: I knew it was all temporary. Yeah, I used that
11:31
Speaker 1: to like save my money and at night I was
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Speaker 1: in the studio where I was hustling or you know,
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Speaker 1: doing doing hair. What was your childhood dreams? I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be a hair stylist and do music. I wanted
11:43
Speaker 1: to own hair salons and be I thought I was
11:45
Speaker 1: gonna be on story or something that never happened. Well,
11:49
Speaker 1: not each, not yet, not yet. So um, so you're
11:56
Speaker 1: you're actively you say you want to do hair and
11:58
Speaker 1: all this stuff, but you actually aren't doing it in
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Speaker 1: high school. So technically you're hitting these milestones. So what happens?
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Speaker 1: You end up moving the needle forward more every time
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Speaker 1: you accomplish something. Yeah, and just you know, the more
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Speaker 1: I did, the more I was never satisfied. So I
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Speaker 1: always wanted the next name. That's a good and a
12:15
Speaker 1: bad thing, y'all. Like when she reached that goal, it's like, Okay,
12:18
Speaker 1: what's next, what's next? What's next? But you also have
12:20
Speaker 1: to appreciate all the milestones that you did hit. I
12:23
Speaker 1: don't think I still think I have a problem with
12:25
Speaker 1: that to this day, Like I'm appreciating the milestones kind
12:28
Speaker 1: of like Okay, I did that, was next? I did
12:30
Speaker 1: that was next? Okay, great, Okay, what's next? Like I
12:33
Speaker 1: did that already. I feel like one of the consistent
12:37
Speaker 1: things I noticed been interviewing successful, successful, successful people is
12:42
Speaker 1: that you guys hit the milestone and then you're like,
12:46
Speaker 1: what's next? So if that was good, she's kind of
12:50
Speaker 1: a drug, like I don't know, like that manifestation ship
12:54
Speaker 1: and like reaching your goals. It's just like proven to
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Speaker 1: yourself and it's not a game. But it's like kind
13:02
Speaker 1: of like anything I say out of my mouth, anything
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Speaker 1: I put my mind too, is going to happen. I
13:05
Speaker 1: don't worry about the how, I don't worry about the wind.
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Speaker 1: I just know what's gonna happen. Where do you think
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Speaker 1: you get You got that from them? God? Seriously, God,
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Speaker 1: Like it was just in me from birth. I don't,
13:16
Speaker 1: honestly don't know, Like I have no idea, just I
13:21
Speaker 1: was born with it. I guess. So looking at you today,
13:24
Speaker 1: you're a wall and out. You're a viral sensation influencer.
13:29
Speaker 1: That's what they say. What's the definition of sensation? Because
13:34
Speaker 1: I'm canceled, You're canceled. That's good. That's good though it
13:38
Speaker 1: is honestly, it's really good because as long as people
13:41
Speaker 1: are talking about you, obsessing over you and watching your
13:44
Speaker 1: videos and having something to say, you're on everybody's mind,
13:47
Speaker 1: which because you slave it over the stone. This takes
13:50
Speaker 1: a while, it's I know, but it's just some still
13:53
Speaker 1: a ran pieces. So was there ever point in your
13:58
Speaker 1: career coming up that you doubted yourself where something happened
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Speaker 1: where you were like, Okay, maybe I'm doing a bit much.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say doubt it myself, but it's definitely been
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Speaker 1: mill stones, Like, I mean, you know, tough things to
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Speaker 1: fight through, but I always knew. I never in my
14:17
Speaker 1: mind got to a point where I was like, this
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Speaker 1: isn't gonna happen. Never, But there was a point where
14:22
Speaker 1: there was like a little bit of oh my god, yeah,
14:25
Speaker 1: I've never been out the house I was living in.
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Speaker 1: I was making a thousand dollars a week with no
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Speaker 1: bills at like twenty years old. That is a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun, like just doing hair and kicking it and traveling,
14:37
Speaker 1: and I you know, then I was like, Okay, I'm
14:39
Speaker 1: gonna save some money. I'm gonna get a car. I
14:41
Speaker 1: spent like seven grand on a car or something. And
14:44
Speaker 1: then I was working at a strip club, not stripping.
14:47
Speaker 1: I don't think nobody would come see me shrip and
14:49
Speaker 1: I'll be doing the chicken hands. Um. But I was
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Speaker 1: a waitress and I was like I had I hated it.
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Speaker 1: I saved my money, got my car, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna save up three thousand dollars. I'm gonna moved
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Speaker 1: to Atlanta. Why Atlanta? It was either Atlanta or l A.
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Speaker 1: In l A, I was like, in my mind, way
15:09
Speaker 1: too expensive. And I came to visit Atlanta a lot.
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Speaker 1: I love the culture. I love kicking it with my
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Speaker 1: people out here. I love the blackness. Yeah, I was
15:17
Speaker 1: just saying that. Today I went out and it was
15:21
Speaker 1: the first time I went out and everybody was black everywhere. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: The only dun type was I was at Walmart and
15:27
Speaker 1: I felt like all the shows were empty and I
15:30
Speaker 1: didn't know what we're trying to get. I was trying, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
15:35
Speaker 1: I was trying to pick up your groceries, right, trying
15:37
Speaker 1: to pick up my struggle meal. But yeah. So I
15:40
Speaker 1: just moved with three thousand dollars. That money was going
15:43
Speaker 1: in a month. I was like, what, So then what
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Speaker 1: did you do? Girl? I got three jobs. I was waitressing.
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Speaker 1: I uh, you know, served food at the tavern at
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Speaker 1: fix Spots. I don't even know if that's there anymore.
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Speaker 1: M I worked at a boutique shout out to Tea.
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Speaker 1: He gave me my first little job out here or
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Speaker 1: um yeah, and I did hear on the side, but
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Speaker 1: it was bad and I didn't did you. Me and
16:08
Speaker 1: my best friend from Dallas moved out here. She and
16:10
Speaker 1: she was one of the people that told me. She
16:11
Speaker 1: was like, if you do not move to Atlanta, then
16:13
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be your friend of her, Like you're
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Speaker 1: holding yourself back and you're meaning basically a great friend
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Speaker 1: out to Pharaoh. Yeah. Yeah, so we struggled for a
16:25
Speaker 1: long time. I didn't have a bed for like six months. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I like that. I know. I let me tell you, like,
16:31
Speaker 1: when I was going through that ship, I was not
16:33
Speaker 1: like woe is me. I was just like, this is
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Speaker 1: my life right now, but as a temporary yes, And
16:39
Speaker 1: you have to remember that if you truly believe it,
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Speaker 1: it will be temporary. I knew it was. Yes, I
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Speaker 1: had nights where I cried, Yes I had stressful moments,
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Speaker 1: but it was never like I'm sleeping on the floor.
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Speaker 1: It was like, all right, we in grind mode, like
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Speaker 1: I'm about to make it. I just gotta keep putting
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Speaker 1: one for after. You can go back on my YouTube, y'all.
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Speaker 1: Like when I first moved to Atlanta, I have YouTube
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Speaker 1: of me like playing gospel music. It's still on YouTube
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Speaker 1: crying the video, like our our basement flooded. We were
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Speaker 1: living in like the hood. Man, it was some get
17:12
Speaker 1: But this whole move to Atlanta was in person. What
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Speaker 1: um I wanted have spaghetti sauce to this? Or yes,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna mix it all together. Okay, I think, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you probably need to go We're gonna mix it together.
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Speaker 1: You so you want to add the sauce to the meat.
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Speaker 1: Is that how you do? Yeah? I haven't cooked spaghetti
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Speaker 1: in a decade, so honestly, okay, But it just goes
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Speaker 1: all together, right, it does. But you want you can't
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Speaker 1: just put the noodles in here, right, Because we're gonna
17:42
Speaker 1: put all this in the pot. I'm gonna trust you
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Speaker 1: to do it. That's that's smart and a little dry.
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Speaker 1: You want it? Edit this out perfect? Add sauce. Yeah,
17:56
Speaker 1: let's put the sauce on jingles because they dry sauce.
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Speaker 1: And then we're gonna endit me right, you're asking me.
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Speaker 1: We need our own cooking, so yep, and then we're
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Speaker 1: gonna mix this all together. It is gonna be good.
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Speaker 1: Slide this sad and then you need to heat it
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Speaker 1: up again or no, let me see? Uh maybe not?
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Speaker 1: I think you will? You do? Okay? Should I turn
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Speaker 1: it all low for you? Yo? You need a cooking,
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Speaker 1: so you need a cooking. You would be you would
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Speaker 1: be great. So you're what was the mission for you
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Speaker 1: coming out, say, Atlanta? What was your end goal in
18:41
Speaker 1: your mind? I'm gonna be a uh superstar. I'm gonna
18:46
Speaker 1: do music. I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna do music.
18:48
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I mean, of course acting and I was
18:50
Speaker 1: always in theater. I never never thought about myself being
18:55
Speaker 1: a comedian. Stand up comedian is ever ever. So you're
19:00
Speaker 1: out here with jobs. How does a girl moving out
19:05
Speaker 1: here with three jobs, struggling pursuing music end up becoming
19:11
Speaker 1: be simone? As we all don't like what what happened.
19:14
Speaker 1: What were those moves that happened? Really? I mean I
19:17
Speaker 1: was in the studio every night, I was recording. I
19:19
Speaker 1: put out a project. None of that stopped. Like I
19:22
Speaker 1: put out a project, it's it's still got music on
19:24
Speaker 1: iTunes and you can like look it up. Um, I
19:27
Speaker 1: make like ten dollars a month off of it. Nobody
19:31
Speaker 1: listens to that. Um. And you know I was in
19:36
Speaker 1: the studio. It was literally like get a bed or
19:39
Speaker 1: pay for studios. But once social media took off, like Instagram,
19:46
Speaker 1: I took advantage of that. If this is what's popping
19:48
Speaker 1: right now, this is what I'm gonna use. And I
19:51
Speaker 1: took advantage of Instagram eight years ago when you know,
19:55
Speaker 1: it wasn't that many people on They're doing comedy, It
19:57
Speaker 1: wasn't oversaturated, it wasn't it was a brand new act.
20:00
Speaker 1: So you got an Instagram before fun? Yes, yes, I
20:04
Speaker 1: didn't have you didn't you know? I use Instagram, but
20:08
Speaker 1: I came from my Space. You know, use my space.
20:12
Speaker 1: I had my top eight, I had my music on
20:13
Speaker 1: my Space. I was, you know, yeah popular on my Space.
20:17
Speaker 1: And I took it to p Interest, and I took
20:18
Speaker 1: it to Facebook. Then I took it to Instagram, so
20:21
Speaker 1: my I think my you know tribe or whatever followed
20:24
Speaker 1: me all over. But of course it was nothing like
20:27
Speaker 1: how it is now. But um, social media made me
20:30
Speaker 1: a comedian. I'm telling you all, people will tell you
20:32
Speaker 1: what they want from you. Do not without compromising who
20:36
Speaker 1: you are in your roles. Give the people what they want.
20:39
Speaker 1: I would post my music, it would get four thousand likes.
20:41
Speaker 1: I would post a comedy video, it would get four
20:43
Speaker 1: hundred thousand. Well, I'm gonna give you all this, you know,
20:47
Speaker 1: and you can still do it in certain ways. Do
20:49
Speaker 1: a comedy skit and play your music in the background,
20:52
Speaker 1: or do a comedy skit and shout out to music later.
20:55
Speaker 1: But they didn't want my music, you know, so I
20:58
Speaker 1: gave them comedy. If you had to range yourself between entrepreneur, comedian,
21:04
Speaker 1: music artists talent on screen like after actress, which one
21:10
Speaker 1: would you say? Would you rate yourself as number one entrepreneur?
21:14
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that. I didn't want to say
21:17
Speaker 1: you like sneur because everything is under that umbrella, and
21:22
Speaker 1: it's Jesus, I hate that click click What does that do?
21:24
Speaker 1: It's just it's just the light, the light lighting you're
21:29
Speaker 1: so cute. Should we put the top on? Let it
21:31
Speaker 1: get warm? You are absolutely adorable. Yeah, entrepreneur. Everything else
21:37
Speaker 1: is under that umbrella. So entrepreneur is my comedy side, like,
21:42
Speaker 1: you know, doing stand up, studying that, selling merge, making
21:46
Speaker 1: people laugh, putting out a stand up special, having them watch,
21:49
Speaker 1: you know, like all of that is entrepreneurial. And then
21:52
Speaker 1: um be Simon beauty, cosmetic line, entrepreneur this, you know,
21:57
Speaker 1: and and there's so much of touch on with you
22:00
Speaker 1: because you're so multifacet I've watched you over the years,
22:04
Speaker 1: and I've watched you. I want to say, I don't
22:07
Speaker 1: want to say it, and I get it wrong and
22:09
Speaker 1: then you but I want to say, I've watched you
22:13
Speaker 1: make your first million on Instagram. I watched you experience
22:18
Speaker 1: to tell you something, it was one of the best.
22:20
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people that get really happy for
22:22
Speaker 1: other people. You went a lot out. I'm like, I'm like, yeah, yeah,
22:30
Speaker 1: go for it. But that was one of the first
22:33
Speaker 1: things I manifested publicly, like with my audience, and that's
22:38
Speaker 1: to me, not gonna tear up for sure, trying not to.
22:43
Speaker 1: I felt like from a woman's standpoint, that was not
22:49
Speaker 1: from a woman. Just from anyone's standpoint, it was monumental
22:52
Speaker 1: that you you literally opened up the behind the scenes
22:55
Speaker 1: and like what it felt like, and you documented it wild.
22:59
Speaker 1: It was one of the most amazing things I had
23:01
Speaker 1: ever seen. And I I was I was impactive and
23:07
Speaker 1: it even from and you know how hard it took
23:21
Speaker 1: to take the chance. And I think in your case,
23:24
Speaker 1: you were buying the stuff up front. Yeah, so you
23:26
Speaker 1: needed it to sell, so you're like, you know, yeah,
23:29
Speaker 1: you were doing things. But even going into that, like
23:34
Speaker 1: people don't understand. Like the biggest lesson that I even
23:37
Speaker 1: got from it was the belief because I publicly said
23:42
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a millionaire. I said it first,
23:45
Speaker 1: but not just to myself, not to my friends. I
23:47
Speaker 1: said it publicly, like on April five, I'm gonna have
23:49
Speaker 1: a million dollars in my account. Once the cameras went off,
23:52
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, Like, now what do we do?
23:55
Speaker 1: Like you, I believed it, though, like having that belief
23:58
Speaker 1: publicly and putting it out there are like y'all have
24:01
Speaker 1: to believe what you are saying and what you are
24:03
Speaker 1: chasing and what you are fighting for, Like it's the
24:06
Speaker 1: belief you're not. People are so worried about how it's
24:09
Speaker 1: gonna happen and when it's gonna happen that they don't
24:12
Speaker 1: believe it's going to happen. Stop worrying about the how
24:14
Speaker 1: and the when. God got that. You just believe it's coming. Now.
24:18
Speaker 1: When you look at a project as an entrepreneur, do
24:22
Speaker 1: you look at your passion and like the vision of
24:24
Speaker 1: your your idea come into life, like your beauty line
24:27
Speaker 1: and came to life. Or do you look at the
24:29
Speaker 1: numbers gotta make sense? No, because it always don't make sense.
24:33
Speaker 1: I got a thirty dollar be some own beauty fucking
24:37
Speaker 1: truck that I had a whole vision for it, and
24:39
Speaker 1: it's been sitting for a year at the warehouse. Like
24:42
Speaker 1: that didn't makes sense, But I I knew what made
24:45
Speaker 1: sense to me. Sometimes I lose money sometimes, like I'm
24:48
Speaker 1: not money driven, though I'm not scared to invest and
24:50
Speaker 1: lose money and put out money in hopes of something
24:55
Speaker 1: greater coming from it. I don't hold on into money
24:57
Speaker 1: like that. Do you ever get scared about going by
25:00
Speaker 1: to a spaghetti No? No, because you even die forbid.
25:06
Speaker 1: If I did, I know how to get how to
25:08
Speaker 1: get out of it. You know what I mean, Like
25:10
Speaker 1: I did it once. Anything that you have done one time,
25:12
Speaker 1: you can do again. It's really really in you, like
25:15
Speaker 1: you can do it again. You know. But let's let's
25:18
Speaker 1: sit down, because I feel like I am You're literally
25:21
Speaker 1: at the soul for all y'all listeners. We've been talking
25:25
Speaker 1: this whole time. We haven't even set a right think
25:29
Speaker 1: about to make your plaints because I'm feeling like, yeah,
25:33
Speaker 1: I'm gonna love it because I'm starving. Thank you and impossibly,
25:40
Speaker 1: she said, thank you, thank you so much. This is impossible.
25:46
Speaker 1: Like that's more than enough. Trust me, I'll be asking
25:50
Speaker 1: so many questions. We see I want to bager scoop.
25:53
Speaker 1: See okay, okay, I gotta get the good scoop. But
25:59
Speaker 1: out of stuff, get littlemo and flipped it like that.
26:02
Speaker 1: You know what I was kind of secretly hoping when
26:04
Speaker 1: I was shopping she would have added cheese, but then
26:07
Speaker 1: it was vegan, but you're not vegan. I'm not vegan.
26:10
Speaker 1: I actually would have added cheese if I wasn't doing
26:12
Speaker 1: you know fast. Okay, Let's let's try this. Okay, their guy,
26:17
Speaker 1: thank you for this food. We're about to receive the nourishment.
26:20
Speaker 1: Of our bodies. And I hope she liked it. Amen,
26:24
Speaker 1: I will definitely like it. There's only three ingredients, y'all. Well, actually,
26:28
Speaker 1: I mean besides the season. So as far as affordability,
26:31
Speaker 1: this this is extremely affordable. Wow, you can't even say
26:39
Speaker 1: it's impossible meat. I had no idea, but it makes
26:42
Speaker 1: me feel better knowing it's impossible meat does it? I
26:45
Speaker 1: feel like people that eat meat it makes them feel
26:47
Speaker 1: grossed out. Not grossed out, but like I won't want me. Oh.
26:51
Speaker 1: My guilty pleasure is eating at vegan restaurants, Like I
26:55
Speaker 1: just yeah, they have really good vegan. But then when
26:58
Speaker 1: I go to a vegan person or to tell them
27:00
Speaker 1: like the restaurant like, They're like, that's not real vegan.
27:02
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh really, okay, well I still like it.
27:07
Speaker 1: They're not real vegan. Maybe they like do raw they're
27:10
Speaker 1: like the vegan. Yeah, I don't know what they expect,
27:14
Speaker 1: but this is the vegan that I'm talking about. It
27:16
Speaker 1: tastes like real food. Have you been to real food
27:22
Speaker 1: l A and in l A? But yeah, but apparently,
27:27
Speaker 1: how do you do interviews like this? Because that's so good? Yeah?
27:31
Speaker 1: Going going Almo, take another bite? Listeners will go home
27:35
Speaker 1: and make this. It's so good, y'all. The meat is
27:38
Speaker 1: busting tomato sauce. Oh, I'm glad you did get the
27:42
Speaker 1: sauce because I thought I was like, what if she
27:44
Speaker 1: gets like the white sauce. Yeah. I like the white
27:48
Speaker 1: sause though, but oh but I mean it's theory in it.
27:52
Speaker 1: So that was that was bad looking out and no
27:56
Speaker 1: bees on this challenge. Wish me please pray for me
28:01
Speaker 1: because I eat a lot of dairy. Could you have
28:04
Speaker 1: predicted your success? Did you predict it? Yes? But I
28:07
Speaker 1: didn't know what it looked like. I knew I was
28:09
Speaker 1: going to be successful, but I didn't know what it
28:12
Speaker 1: looked like. That's all. When people asked, like, where do
28:14
Speaker 1: you see yourself in five years? What do you see here?
28:15
Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't see myself here five years ago,
28:18
Speaker 1: Like every little detail wasn't mapped out. I just knew
28:21
Speaker 1: I was going to be successful. I knew I was
28:23
Speaker 1: going to be financially stable. I knew I was going
28:25
Speaker 1: to be doing what I loved. Whatever that looks like.
28:28
Speaker 1: And that changes as you get older, and the things
28:30
Speaker 1: I cared about when I first started, I don't care
28:32
Speaker 1: about now you're like what the dream car? Like I
28:36
Speaker 1: don't haven't had a car for three years. Like those
28:38
Speaker 1: are things that you you have on your list? This that, that,
28:41
Speaker 1: that the house. Do you think that's like a system
28:43
Speaker 1: of like coming from being broke, Because yeah, I do
28:47
Speaker 1: want the lamber getting yours for all those and that's fine,
28:51
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you know, like it changed as you got older,
28:54
Speaker 1: Like do I want this truly because I want this
28:57
Speaker 1: and it goes with my lifestyle and I need it
28:59
Speaker 1: and I truly desire in my heart? Or is this
29:01
Speaker 1: what I see on Instagram? Is this what I see
29:03
Speaker 1: all successful black people doing? Is this what I've been
29:05
Speaker 1: conditioned to think I want? I don't want that. I
29:08
Speaker 1: actually love being driven around. I actually love sleeping in
29:11
Speaker 1: the back of black trucks without people talking to me.
29:14
Speaker 1: Actually love checking emails in the car and not worrying
29:16
Speaker 1: about making a left or right. I actually love not
29:19
Speaker 1: going anywhere when I'm in Atlanta and staying at home.
29:21
Speaker 1: Why do I need a car? I travel nine of
29:25
Speaker 1: the year, you know what I mean? So when you
29:28
Speaker 1: really think about what you personally need, that changes, and
29:32
Speaker 1: don't let society or culture make you think you have
29:36
Speaker 1: to go out and get these things. I didn't get
29:38
Speaker 1: a car, but I did buy a diamond necklace and
29:40
Speaker 1: it looks amazing. But but but I like jewelry, you know,
29:45
Speaker 1: a little dainty. I love jewelry so cool. I got
29:48
Speaker 1: the jewelry, but I don't need the car. Cool people
29:51
Speaker 1: like buy property. Do I need a huge house right now? No,
29:53
Speaker 1: I'm single with no kids. Get a condo, like you
29:57
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Just do what works for you.
30:00
Speaker 1: Do what works for you, don't do what society makes
30:02
Speaker 1: you think you need to do. Do you feel like
30:04
Speaker 1: you look at money differently from when you were broke.
30:07
Speaker 1: I look at it the exact same way. My mindset
30:10
Speaker 1: with money hasn't changed. I'm a little more like I
30:12
Speaker 1: have an accountant now, I have a financial advisor. Like
30:15
Speaker 1: I'm more um I would say educated with my money,
30:19
Speaker 1: where to put it, how to invest it. But I've
30:21
Speaker 1: never had an attachment to money. Money just flows to me.
30:24
Speaker 1: To you, I feel like you'd use money as a
30:27
Speaker 1: tool to make more money, absolutely absolutely, But I feel
30:30
Speaker 1: like that was your relationship your entire life. I just
30:33
Speaker 1: want to be financially stable. You don't want to live
30:36
Speaker 1: paycheck to patrick. I want to be able to have
30:39
Speaker 1: convenience and live the way I want to live. Anything
30:42
Speaker 1: extra on top of that, it's just a bonus. So
30:44
Speaker 1: would you be comfortable taking me back to when you
30:46
Speaker 1: were working those three jobs? But it was like quitting day.
30:49
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Like I want to know the quitting
30:53
Speaker 1: day or the fire. Yeah. I don't think I ever
30:56
Speaker 1: got fired, but I remember quitting. Here are out the
31:00
Speaker 1: hair are us, man, I never had my boothrin And
31:02
Speaker 1: them ladies was like, it's okay, we know we watched
31:05
Speaker 1: the tapes. You didn't do no clients, man, those my girls,
31:10
Speaker 1: Cat and Ashley they had they hired me. I was
31:13
Speaker 1: a hair artist ambassador while working at their Salona here
31:15
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and um, I remember telling them like, I'm
31:18
Speaker 1: making more money on social media than I am here
31:22
Speaker 1: and it just doesn't make sense for me to do
31:24
Speaker 1: hair anymore. Like I was over working for not a
31:28
Speaker 1: lot of money, you know what I mean. And I
31:31
Speaker 1: even if you're still a hair stalace or you have
31:34
Speaker 1: your own brand or whatever, you have got to find
31:37
Speaker 1: a way to make money without labor. You have got
31:41
Speaker 1: to find a way to make money without physical labor.
31:44
Speaker 1: So if I am a hair styalus while I'm sleep.
31:47
Speaker 1: There should be something on my website that is selling.
31:49
Speaker 1: I should have a product. I should not only be
31:52
Speaker 1: able to make money if I am working. So you're
31:56
Speaker 1: talking about like sleep money, sleep money. So if I'm
31:59
Speaker 1: a hair stylist, okay, I'm doing hair, I need to
32:01
Speaker 1: be selling products. So if I don't have ten clients
32:05
Speaker 1: that week, maybe I got ten sales. Oh wow, oh
32:10
Speaker 1: you hair stylus. You get what I'm saying. So if
32:13
Speaker 1: I but but now, what do you tell a hairstylus
32:16
Speaker 1: that is braiding hair independently she doesn't have a big
32:20
Speaker 1: following or what have you. And you're like, well, you
32:22
Speaker 1: can maybe try a different lane like products or what
32:26
Speaker 1: have you what because you know what recently I went
32:29
Speaker 1: to get a facial, for example, and you know, before
32:31
Speaker 1: you leave the facial appointment, they're like, oh, you need
32:33
Speaker 1: to products, and you walk out there a product you'll
32:38
Speaker 1: probably never use. I worked at Altar. I did that
32:40
Speaker 1: every day. You know, So sell something you believe in
32:44
Speaker 1: because it's not hard to sell because you don't have
32:47
Speaker 1: to be do a commercial and add and talk people
32:50
Speaker 1: into sell something you truly use and you truly believe
32:53
Speaker 1: in because you know it's like I believe in this.
32:56
Speaker 1: That's how wasn't my bimal beauty. I was like, I
32:57
Speaker 1: am not selling this until I love the formula up
33:00
Speaker 1: because if I don't believe in it, I'm gonna have
33:02
Speaker 1: to sell it. But if I believe in I'm like, girl,
33:04
Speaker 1: this is thick, this is creamy. It lasts all day.
33:06
Speaker 1: You don't leave that white line like I love my
33:08
Speaker 1: lip gloss. It's I'm just talking to you. I don't
33:10
Speaker 1: have to sell it to you. So sell something you
33:12
Speaker 1: believe in and you're just telling the truth about the product.
33:15
Speaker 1: It's not a whole commercial. Yeah wow, Where did you
33:19
Speaker 1: get all your sales skills from? I don't know. I
33:23
Speaker 1: actually learned a lot um with different people I've worked with. UM.
33:26
Speaker 1: I learned a lot of skills from somebody that was
33:29
Speaker 1: on my team, UM that I no longer worked with.
33:32
Speaker 1: But the entrepreneurial skills were always in me. I literally
33:35
Speaker 1: was selling snacks in elementary school. So it's like I
33:39
Speaker 1: would make I don't know if you did y'all do
33:41
Speaker 1: this in New York, like the Starburst rappers and stuff
33:46
Speaker 1: and bracelets, I would sell them like I would make
33:49
Speaker 1: them and sell them. People like, well, I can make
33:50
Speaker 1: that myself. I was like I would be like, okay,
33:51
Speaker 1: go make it. Then they'd be like, nah, I'll just
33:54
Speaker 1: buy it. Yeah, this is gonna take you hours, and
33:55
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here making it like I would just make stuff.
33:58
Speaker 1: I think some people assume that entrepreneurship in sales, like
34:02
Speaker 1: you don't have to know how to sell if you're
34:04
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. I always don't, really, I feel like it's essential.
34:08
Speaker 1: I feel I don't feel like you have to know
34:09
Speaker 1: how to seal. I feel like you have to sell
34:11
Speaker 1: something you believe in because I'm not trying to talk
34:13
Speaker 1: you into it. I'm just telling you about something that
34:17
Speaker 1: I believe in, a product that I believe in, you know.
34:19
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you do have to know how
34:21
Speaker 1: to sale. But I don't feel like I've ever been
34:23
Speaker 1: a salesperson, No, I get it. I feel like I
34:26
Speaker 1: always tell people sales is great customer service. You know,
34:30
Speaker 1: it makes sense. You know, I don't sell a product
34:33
Speaker 1: I definitely don't wouldn't sell it. You can't sell a
34:35
Speaker 1: product you don't believe in. That would definitely not be
34:37
Speaker 1: good customer service. But I always definitely play on what
34:42
Speaker 1: the really it's marketing. Yeah, marketing, that really is it?
34:45
Speaker 1: Like marketing makes your sales, marketing marketing, marketing, marketing makes
34:51
Speaker 1: your sales. So did I fually get the answer out
34:54
Speaker 1: of like what what you what you felt like when
34:59
Speaker 1: you re leave these jobs? Oh? Yeah, like I said, um,
35:03
Speaker 1: here are us? I basically just told them. I was like,
35:07
Speaker 1: it's just not making sense to me, like I'm slaving
35:10
Speaker 1: and working and doing hair and I got I couldn't
35:13
Speaker 1: say no to a client, Like if a client, I'm like,
35:15
Speaker 1: I'm booked today, I'll come at six am bit pull
35:18
Speaker 1: up like I would not never could. I didn't want
35:20
Speaker 1: to miss the sale. I didn't want to miss the
35:22
Speaker 1: money and I needed it. So I would work very,
35:25
Speaker 1: very hard and I made good money, but you know,
35:28
Speaker 1: it just wasn't enough. And so how is that? How
35:30
Speaker 1: much with social media giving you? If you don't mind
35:32
Speaker 1: me asking, Well, that's the and when that's what I'm saying,
35:35
Speaker 1: Like at that time, I would make like a hundred
35:37
Speaker 1: dollars for a picture post, but if it's so in,
35:39
Speaker 1: it's two hundred dollars and that takes two and a
35:42
Speaker 1: half hours, and it takes me two minutes to post
35:46
Speaker 1: the picture that that's not adding up to me? You
35:49
Speaker 1: know what I mean? So you're you're also looking at
35:52
Speaker 1: time equals money. You're not just looking at money as
35:54
Speaker 1: a tool. You're looking at time is money and money
35:57
Speaker 1: is time. Yes, because if I post two pictures that
35:58
Speaker 1: week and I only have one I in that week,
36:01
Speaker 1: that's still equivalent to the you know what I mean?
36:03
Speaker 1: So did you spend most of your free time trying
36:05
Speaker 1: to figure out ways to increase that line of revenue?
36:08
Speaker 1: Making skits of skits with me and Bessie ranting videos.
36:12
Speaker 1: I was always posting, always looking for endorsements, brand deals. Um,
36:17
Speaker 1: you were looking for them? Yeah, and how would you
36:19
Speaker 1: approach me? You would say them and you would say,
36:22
Speaker 1: this is my following, or Hey do y'all need brand ambassadors?
36:25
Speaker 1: Hey do y'all need a new face that promote your line.
36:27
Speaker 1: I believe in your product. I think your product is dope.
36:29
Speaker 1: Sometimes I would even buy the product and do it
36:31
Speaker 1: and send them the picture. Wow, Like this is the
36:34
Speaker 1: type of content I can provide you if you need
36:36
Speaker 1: a brand ambassador. So you know, I'm I seen the
36:41
Speaker 1: kids nowadays, like the kids, I'm thirty two, but I
36:44
Speaker 1: really feel like the generation like after ninety three nine,
36:48
Speaker 1: like the little ones under me, y'all some lazy motherfucker's
36:51
Speaker 1: why you said that? God damn y'all think this ship
36:55
Speaker 1: is so easy. You ain't got no followers. I ain't
36:57
Speaker 1: gonna I've been on Instagram for a decade, baby, you know.
37:01
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said that because I think people
37:04
Speaker 1: grinding influencers day suit it was overnight. If you have
37:07
Speaker 1: not d M a hundred people today and and show
37:10
Speaker 1: them who you are, I don't want to hear ship.
37:12
Speaker 1: The can DM Beyonce right now. I'm not saying she's
37:15
Speaker 1: gonna see it. I'm not saying she's gonna answer, but
37:17
Speaker 1: I can d M her do it? Like man, nobody
37:21
Speaker 1: nobody giving me a chance. You're not even giving yourself
37:23
Speaker 1: a chance. If you have not d M a hundred
37:25
Speaker 1: people today and show them your talent, You're this, You're
37:28
Speaker 1: that in a professional way. Because some of y'all be like, hey,
37:31
Speaker 1: check out my all right you already or I see
37:34
Speaker 1: them do that on the comments, so be like out.
37:37
Speaker 1: It's like, like, what's doing that? You're spam at this point.
37:41
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, like, don't grind for that ship like
37:44
Speaker 1: y'all just wanted to be handed to you. How long
37:46
Speaker 1: were you on Instagram before you made a dollar? A
37:49
Speaker 1: couple of years, so at least four years. So you
37:52
Speaker 1: hear that for four years? Four years just to make
37:55
Speaker 1: a dollar at least, and now you're I would say,
37:58
Speaker 1: at what point did you become a millionaire? Like my
38:02
Speaker 1: birthday A five? Okay? Um wow? On your birthday? On
38:08
Speaker 1: my birthday, it was actually seven days before my birthday,
38:10
Speaker 1: but we celebrated on my birthday. So how long? How
38:14
Speaker 1: many years? And were you at that point? Man? For
38:19
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen, nineteen twenty, so about eight well, I mean
38:25
Speaker 1: on social media. But y'all gotta think like I was
38:27
Speaker 1: in my first girl group when I was fifteen. Yeah,
38:29
Speaker 1: I was traveling with them, I was performing with them.
38:31
Speaker 1: Like so this has been years and years and people
38:37
Speaker 1: always assume that it's just like prettiness, it's oh you
38:41
Speaker 1: have And then you got to think, at some point
38:43
Speaker 1: you had to perfect your comedy, right, So what was
38:45
Speaker 1: that like? Yeah, because I mean Instagram is totally different
38:49
Speaker 1: than you know, performing live and I never had a
38:53
Speaker 1: desire to do that. But once again, it was back
38:55
Speaker 1: when I was struggling, and they were like, all right,
38:58
Speaker 1: so we'll give you. You've seen hundred for this comedy. Well,
39:01
Speaker 1: first day called said, do you do stand up? I
39:03
Speaker 1: said absolutely not. Fun, No, that's scary at fun. I'm
39:06
Speaker 1: not a comedian like you got me sucked up? No, like, no,
39:09
Speaker 1: absolutely not. They're like, I was like, well, what was
39:12
Speaker 1: it for? I was like, this college wanted you to
39:14
Speaker 1: come do you know ten minutes for dollars? I was like,
39:17
Speaker 1: I do stand up? What day? Fuck it, I'm gonna
39:24
Speaker 1: go out there. And and Dion Cole is one of
39:27
Speaker 1: my favorite comedians, like he's so dope to me. He
39:29
Speaker 1: write writes down his stuff and he takes it on
39:32
Speaker 1: stage with him and he would like if it hits,
39:34
Speaker 1: to like that word. If it doesn't hit, he like,
39:35
Speaker 1: you know, I did the same thing. I like, copy
39:37
Speaker 1: Dion Coole. I said that to the college. I was like,
39:40
Speaker 1: y'all know who Dion Coole is. A all these young kids,
39:42
Speaker 1: they're like, no, I was like, when you write down
39:44
Speaker 1: his jokes, So I'm gonna write down these jokes and
39:46
Speaker 1: the ones I say laugh if you like him. If
39:48
Speaker 1: you don't like them, don't laugh. And yeah, so I
39:52
Speaker 1: did it. I wasn't up there for ten minutes. I
39:54
Speaker 1: got that fifteen hundred dollar check and baby never looked bad.
39:57
Speaker 1: And then from there you don't obviously still do that checklist,
40:01
Speaker 1: you know, no, no, no no, But that's amazing. Yeah,
40:04
Speaker 1: that was cool, definitely, you know lied. I was like,
40:07
Speaker 1: tell him I could stand up, I will come, I
40:08
Speaker 1: will turn these kids up. Whatever. But at that time,
40:12
Speaker 1: in one sitting, that's a lot of money when you're broke. Now,
40:16
Speaker 1: how did you go from that to wilding out? Yeah?
40:20
Speaker 1: I actually went to a While and out casting call
40:24
Speaker 1: for the models. I was trying to be a model girl. Ok,
40:29
Speaker 1: well you you could easily feel you are studying and
40:33
Speaker 1: you are beautiful. You're beautiful online too, but it's always
40:36
Speaker 1: great when you see the first year, like, oh you're
40:38
Speaker 1: naturally just beautiful. You so much. Um. I went to
40:42
Speaker 1: the While and outcast and call and I got to
40:44
Speaker 1: the front. They called my number. I was like, I'm
40:45
Speaker 1: a comedian, I'm not a model. So what they were like,
40:50
Speaker 1: let's say something funny and I don't remember what I said,
40:52
Speaker 1: but they laugh and they were not at this point,
40:55
Speaker 1: did you have a following? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I had
40:57
Speaker 1: a following. I had a following, so I was going viral. Um,
41:00
Speaker 1: Like two thousand and sixteen was my biggest viral moment.
41:02
Speaker 1: That was when viral was like viral. Like now everything
41:07
Speaker 1: is viral. Technically it hits a million views, is viral
41:10
Speaker 1: every like videos are just viral all the time. But viral,
41:13
Speaker 1: like back in two thousand and sixteen was like Rihanna
41:16
Speaker 1: reposted my ship Chris Brown. Kind like back then it
41:19
Speaker 1: was like Rihanna know I DM her? She never answered
41:24
Speaker 1: that like reading, but um, yeah, So I went viral
41:30
Speaker 1: and then it was just from there, like they knew
41:33
Speaker 1: who I was a little bit, but they were like,
41:35
Speaker 1: I mean, she's the Instagram comedian, Like we're not about
41:38
Speaker 1: to put her on the show. That was kind of
41:39
Speaker 1: before they started doing that. Yeah, so you do that,
41:43
Speaker 1: you tell the joke, they think it's funny. Then what happened.
41:45
Speaker 1: They told me to sit to the side, and I waited,
41:47
Speaker 1: like the whole rest of the casting hall were you
41:50
Speaker 1: calling your friends like, oh my god, what does this mean? No?
41:52
Speaker 1: I just sat there. I was like, Okay, I don't
41:54
Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna talk whatever. And then um, we
41:56
Speaker 1: end up going out to eat and I didn't hear
41:58
Speaker 1: nothing from them for two years, literally like almost two years.
42:02
Speaker 1: I was like, they really not working with me, and then, um,
42:06
Speaker 1: I don't remember how it happened how it went from that,
42:08
Speaker 1: but uh, I think actually Dolly probably Dolly comes over,
42:13
Speaker 1: you know why, because Nick didn't believe in me at first.
42:16
Speaker 1: He was like, I don't see it, like all this year,
42:18
Speaker 1: my boy man, baby, Yeah, like I don't get it.
42:20
Speaker 1: I don't see it. Dolly was like I'm telling you her,
42:24
Speaker 1: Nile and a couple of other people were like fighting
42:26
Speaker 1: for me, and it was like all right, like I
42:28
Speaker 1: guess we'll see. And then you know, one year we
42:31
Speaker 1: shot in Atlanta and as soon as I came out,
42:34
Speaker 1: the whole crowd was like face like saying all the
42:39
Speaker 1: beast tone and Nick was like, you know, and then
42:44
Speaker 1: after like he started being like, all right, you got it,
42:46
Speaker 1: Like you're a star, You're from your heart to your talent.
42:50
Speaker 1: Like I didn't see it at first. That was my bad.
42:52
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take that on the chin, But you really
42:54
Speaker 1: are a star. Did you know that when you were
42:56
Speaker 1: doing that at the time, And I'm glad while yeah, yeah,
43:01
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that. I didn't wanna. I think
43:03
Speaker 1: I would have been in my head like let me
43:04
Speaker 1: prove myself, or the opposite, like you don't even really
43:08
Speaker 1: want me here? Why am I here? But I didn't.
43:10
Speaker 1: I didn't. I was just like they love me, Nick
43:12
Speaker 1: loves me. Now do you feel pressured nowadays? Like because
43:16
Speaker 1: you have you're an entrepreneur, you're a comedian, you're you're
43:20
Speaker 1: in the podcast space, you're you're a multitasking entreprenour visionary.
43:25
Speaker 1: Do you feel pressured to stay on top? It depends
43:29
Speaker 1: on what your definition of on topic is really, Like
43:31
Speaker 1: you have a there's one thing to go viral, there's
43:33
Speaker 1: another thing to have a following. Like I feel like
43:35
Speaker 1: if you put a product out for all your brands
43:38
Speaker 1: out there be some all drops of product. It's going
43:41
Speaker 1: to sell, it's going to more people are going to
43:43
Speaker 1: go to where you're at. So um, not always, not always.
43:46
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's you know, you gotta you can't be lazy
43:49
Speaker 1: with it. Just because I post something, don't mean we're
43:50
Speaker 1: selling we you know, we don't have so many sales
43:52
Speaker 1: or be someone weady. We're trying to get that up
43:53
Speaker 1: out of that warehouse. Were like sixties nine percent off
43:57
Speaker 1: please somebody. You gotta be honest. Month you have a
44:03
Speaker 1: dollar month, and the next month you can have a
44:05
Speaker 1: five thousand dollar months. It depends on the marketing, It
44:07
Speaker 1: depends on people's pockets. It depends on if I'm canceled,
44:10
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like people, I'm not supporting
44:13
Speaker 1: her now or whatever. But I think it depends on
44:16
Speaker 1: what your definition of success is, because really I'm trying
44:18
Speaker 1: to figure out ways to never have to be on
44:20
Speaker 1: Instagram again. I want to get off. You're all about
44:22
Speaker 1: sleep money. I want to get off of social media.
44:27
Speaker 1: It takes up too much of my time. It's it's
44:30
Speaker 1: time consuming, it's I just want to get picked up.
44:43
Speaker 1: When you're like social media people for you, it's also
44:47
Speaker 1: money consumers. So when the regular persons on it, they scroll,
44:49
Speaker 1: they're like, oh these and they're scrolling and they're clicking
44:52
Speaker 1: them pretty people and fancy life because that's what we
44:55
Speaker 1: all do. I do that too. I was gonna ask
44:58
Speaker 1: do you do that too? Or you're looking at it
45:00
Speaker 1: like what's my metrics today? It's both. It's oh, I
45:04
Speaker 1: have to be on Instagram because I'm a business woman.
45:06
Speaker 1: And then you get on Instagram and don't do ship
45:08
Speaker 1: they got to do with business. You sit there and
45:10
Speaker 1: be like, I'm gonna be on for twenty minutes and
45:11
Speaker 1: then you're on there for two hours. It's it's literally
45:15
Speaker 1: a millennial addiction. Yes, well, they said that the social
45:18
Speaker 1: media was created to waste time, and it's funny because
45:23
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it's doing. So I'm trying to figure
45:28
Speaker 1: out ways to not have to rely on social media
45:30
Speaker 1: for my income, which you know, for you don't yeah,
45:33
Speaker 1: you know, thank god, But the internet is definitely an
45:36
Speaker 1: outlet for me to make I'll make a lot of
45:39
Speaker 1: money on internet. Good to know. He's just like, I'm
45:44
Speaker 1: just trying to get off of it. I'm like, I'm
45:46
Speaker 1: about to put this money into real estate and be
45:48
Speaker 1: on an island somewhere and post randomly like I don't
45:52
Speaker 1: want where people find you if they want to find
45:55
Speaker 1: you or support you, Like, how can they do that?
45:58
Speaker 1: Instagram say back to the amazing Literally social media like
46:05
Speaker 1: my social media and my Instagram is one of my
46:07
Speaker 1: biggest platforms. Um I promote my um My tour dates
46:11
Speaker 1: on their past podcast for sure you can't see it
46:16
Speaker 1: pity on but no, for sure podcasts on my God,
46:18
Speaker 1: we're episode ten in ten episodes, like we've launched. We
46:23
Speaker 1: launched two months ago and we have been in the
46:24
Speaker 1: top two hundred since we launched in the world like
46:27
Speaker 1: we haven't. It's just mind blowing. We knew we we
46:30
Speaker 1: know we're gonna be number one, but we didn't know
46:32
Speaker 1: it's gonna be this you describe your podcast. Our podcast
46:35
Speaker 1: is literally about truth and purpose, self evolution, elevation, healing, growing,
46:43
Speaker 1: and we're doing that me and my co host Megan.
46:45
Speaker 1: We're doing it together with our audience. So we're not
46:48
Speaker 1: saying we have all the answers. We're not saying we're right,
46:50
Speaker 1: we're not saying we're wrong. We're just having the conversations.
46:53
Speaker 1: We're talking about therapy, we're talking about what we go through.
46:56
Speaker 1: We cry every damn episode. Um, I love that. Yeah,
47:00
Speaker 1: it's just real ship. Yeah. Do you feel like a
47:03
Speaker 1: lot of your success has been keeping it real? That's
47:05
Speaker 1: how I got to this point solely being myself, not
47:08
Speaker 1: hiding anything. And of course the Internet doesn't have to
47:10
Speaker 1: know everything about me, but there's not really much I've
47:14
Speaker 1: hid from the Internet, honestly, Like I walk in my truth.
47:17
Speaker 1: Anything I say, um, it's my reality. So yeah, there's
47:22
Speaker 1: never been like a Crunsworthy. While I shouldn't maybe I
47:24
Speaker 1: shouldn't post it. I went through that after I was
47:28
Speaker 1: canceled for saying certain things or given my opinion. But
47:31
Speaker 1: the world was just in a really weird time, like
47:34
Speaker 1: it was the Black Lives Matter, then it was um COVID.
47:38
Speaker 1: The world was very dark during that time, and it
47:41
Speaker 1: was a lot of pain and a lot of suffering,
47:43
Speaker 1: and you had to tread very lightly. That's when it
47:46
Speaker 1: took a shift from like, Okay, I can say whatever
47:48
Speaker 1: I want to say, I'm Dave Chappelle, I'm Richard prior
47:51
Speaker 1: to okay, now I can't so that I feel like
47:55
Speaker 1: two thousand. That was that shift of like inscitivity. Everybody
48:01
Speaker 1: is so fucking sensitive. I'm like I can be like,
48:04
Speaker 1: oh I love water. Wow, you don't like juice? Wow?
48:09
Speaker 1: So you hate juice? You love water? Oh my god?
48:13
Speaker 1: Be somemone hate juice. Welches I saw well chese juice
48:16
Speaker 1: comment on her last post. Make sure that welches nose
48:19
Speaker 1: be someone hates juice and they should never support her again.
48:21
Speaker 1: I didn't say I hated juice. I said I like water.
48:26
Speaker 1: Be scarier. I feel like we're in an age where
48:29
Speaker 1: it's in the lose age. And that's why I canceled.
48:31
Speaker 1: Culture exists like nobody wants to be the I hate
48:34
Speaker 1: to say the word loser, but nobody wants to be
48:35
Speaker 1: last place loser. Everybody wants to be equal, and I'm
48:38
Speaker 1: not saying there we all are equal. Luckily, I'm not
48:43
Speaker 1: big enough to be canceled yet, but I feel like
48:47
Speaker 1: we create an environment where we're so sensitive that we're
48:52
Speaker 1: no longer keeping real. Like I don't want to get
48:55
Speaker 1: into the gender thing, but even with genders and all
48:58
Speaker 1: this stuff, it's just like no idy worlds. Just call
49:01
Speaker 1: blue blue. Yeah, we're all afraid to call it. People
49:05
Speaker 1: just going off based off emotion. Because the same people
49:09
Speaker 1: that canceled me will walk up to me and be like,
49:10
Speaker 1: can you sign my book? I'd like I thought I
49:12
Speaker 1: was a platress, Like you know what I'm saying, Like
49:15
Speaker 1: I love your book, Okay, cool, Like I was. You know,
49:19
Speaker 1: It's it's never like y'all are going off of emotion.
49:22
Speaker 1: You're mad in the moment, and then in two months later,
49:24
Speaker 1: you're gonna be buying my lip loss like you because
49:28
Speaker 1: it's just people are episodic? Are you? I've never even
49:31
Speaker 1: heard that word, But are you afraid of cancel culture?
49:35
Speaker 1: Not anymore. I've been canceled so many times. It's a joke.
49:39
Speaker 1: And literally my last post on Instagram, my last solo
49:41
Speaker 1: picture or the last one. I have a shirt that
49:43
Speaker 1: says canceled and the caption is Jesus is My Savior.
49:47
Speaker 1: He calls the shots. Did you make that shirt? I
49:52
Speaker 1: got it from my homeboy, his clothing line, But that
49:54
Speaker 1: is the caption. Like somebody was like, how are you
49:56
Speaker 1: talking about Jesus? And the picture is saying fuck you.
49:59
Speaker 1: It's literally a ger that says fuck you and it
50:00
Speaker 1: says canceled, and it goes hand in hand. You cannot
50:03
Speaker 1: cancel me. This was predestined before I was in my
50:06
Speaker 1: mother's womb. There is nothing that a man on this
50:08
Speaker 1: earth can do that it's going to keep me away
50:10
Speaker 1: from my purpose. So Jesus is my savior. He calls
50:15
Speaker 1: the shots. And it's as simple as that. I'm not
50:17
Speaker 1: scared of humans anymore. When I went through that ship,
50:19
Speaker 1: it sucked me up though. The first cancel what I
50:22
Speaker 1: was in my room crying, like why am I crying
50:24
Speaker 1: over in Twitter, I was sad, man, what advice would
50:30
Speaker 1: you give to somebody that's trying to be in your shoes,
50:33
Speaker 1: because it sounds like you have to have you do
50:36
Speaker 1: you do, and you have to know who you are
50:37
Speaker 1: and you have to have a good team. And the
50:39
Speaker 1: thing that sticks with me the most is my best
50:41
Speaker 1: friend Megan, my business partner that's on my podcast. She
50:43
Speaker 1: just kept telling me, what is the truth? What is
50:46
Speaker 1: the truth? What is the truth? Do these people know
50:49
Speaker 1: you know? Are your plagress? No? Uh? Should? We just
50:54
Speaker 1: started listing all of these truths. We just made a
50:56
Speaker 1: list of truths and she was like, at the end
50:58
Speaker 1: of the day, she shown me the this is the truth,
51:01
Speaker 1: no matter who believes it. You focus on this. It
51:04
Speaker 1: don't matter who believes it. The truth is the truth.
51:07
Speaker 1: And you don't have to believe that. This is white.
51:08
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, that's the truth. If
51:11
Speaker 1: you don't believe it, that's on you. That's white. So
51:15
Speaker 1: remember that the truth is the truth. And if the
51:17
Speaker 1: truth these are a fucked up person, fix it, change
51:20
Speaker 1: become up better person. But if the truth is these
51:23
Speaker 1: people don't know you, You're a great person. You have
51:25
Speaker 1: pure intentions, whatever focus on the truth. That's great advice. Thanks,
51:30
Speaker 1: that's really great, Megan. She helped me through that. You're
51:33
Speaker 1: really good. You have a really good group of girlfriends
51:36
Speaker 1: and they all live here. Most of them. Yeah, if
51:39
Speaker 1: you have them lived out the town. But yeah, well
51:41
Speaker 1: I am going to so this this was really didn't
51:44
Speaker 1: like this. This was really good. But beasts smone is
51:51
Speaker 1: very captivated. So when you're doing an interview, so listeners,
51:56
Speaker 1: I'm not lying because really, if you see the video,
52:01
Speaker 1: you're gonna see me damning face full of food follow
52:04
Speaker 1: my husband down there to eat someone. So, Um, I
52:08
Speaker 1: just wanted to say thank you so much for coming
52:11
Speaker 1: and being a breath of fresh air. Like honestly I was.
52:15
Speaker 1: I was literally like and this. You know, I haven't
52:24
Speaker 1: been to Atlanta often, but this trip, like there were
52:28
Speaker 1: so many things that were coming at me that I
52:30
Speaker 1: was like, maybe God doesn't want this trip. It's the
52:32
Speaker 1: devil messing with me. Um, I'm so glad I came
52:36
Speaker 1: out here. So you look how the enemy work. That
52:37
Speaker 1: was the enemy trying to trick your mouth. Tricky trip.
52:41
Speaker 1: You've been thinking like maybe God, no, the devil. You
52:44
Speaker 1: got to know God's voice. Let me tell you how
52:46
Speaker 1: much I believe that God didn't want this trip. I
52:48
Speaker 1: called up one of my friends who was like God faring,
52:50
Speaker 1: and I said, how do you know when God talks
52:52
Speaker 1: to you? I'm like, you know how people say God
52:54
Speaker 1: talks to them and says something to them. How do
52:56
Speaker 1: you know? My friend was like, what do you? What
52:59
Speaker 1: are you how to find out? You know? Though, Yeah,
53:01
Speaker 1: here's boys and God is never gonna tell you something
53:03
Speaker 1: that's gonna I mean the depth when it's the devil,
53:07
Speaker 1: it's always negative, it's always second guessing, it's always fear.
53:11
Speaker 1: Oh okay, That's how I look at it, that God
53:16
Speaker 1: is never gonna put fear in you and make you
53:18
Speaker 1: second guess. Wow. Well, I've been in Atlanta for one
53:23
Speaker 1: day and meeting you, meeting some of the other people
53:27
Speaker 1: that I've met here, I can honestly say it was
53:30
Speaker 1: like the best gift I could have ever gifted myself.
53:34
Speaker 1: I'm so glad like what you contribute, um, But anyways,
53:41
Speaker 1: for coming by and eating while broke with me, appreciate
53:46
Speaker 1: And I'm going to this great concept. It's so funny.
53:51
Speaker 1: And I was just telling people all camera people have
53:53
Speaker 1: said to me, oh, this show, it's it's not TV
53:55
Speaker 1: where they I'm like, why is it They're like, no, no, no,
53:59
Speaker 1: this is by like YouTube level, but not not TV worthy.
54:03
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's it's the truth. People need to know
54:06
Speaker 1: that where you know, and it wasn't overnight special the
54:11
Speaker 1: new generation. Oh, you just gotta get on it. Just viral,
54:15
Speaker 1: Just go viral. Have you already tried even getting ten?
54:18
Speaker 1: Fol Let me just tell yourself that, okay, and that's
54:22
Speaker 1: the problem. Stop trying to go viral. Just put out
54:25
Speaker 1: content that you believe in. Just put out the content
54:29
Speaker 1: that you believe that you believe in. If I believe
54:32
Speaker 1: in something, I'm gonna put it out and the right
54:33
Speaker 1: people will find me. I'm not putting it out with
54:35
Speaker 1: the intent to go viral. You can't plan on going viral.
54:39
Speaker 1: Just put it out. So in the meantime, do you
54:41
Speaker 1: advise a couple of day jobs, because I got like
54:44
Speaker 1: two day jobs. I advise whatever you gotta do to
54:48
Speaker 1: get it, and whatever is filling your cup, you know,
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