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MIGNON FRANCOIS - Onion Rings to a Million-Dollar Legacy · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have Mignon.
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  Speaker 1: I like to say special guests. You know that gotta
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  Speaker 1: start over. Welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and we today we have
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  Speaker 1: a very special guest. We have Mignon. Frandsois in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Entrepreneur author. I'm sorry, I'm having fun. Entrepreneur author, cupcake
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  Speaker 1: extraordinaire slash millionaire in the building. I'm really excited about
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  Speaker 1: this episode. So I feel like all you aspiring entrepreneurs,
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs toughing it out right now, pull over, get your
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  Speaker 1: pen and papers ready, because we're about to take notes.
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  Speaker 1: And today she's making my favorite dish that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know you could make, which sounds really reach now
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  Speaker 1: that I think about it. But I'm excited because I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go home and pretend like, you know, I came
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  Speaker 1: up with this myself. But for all your listeners, for
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  Speaker 1: the dish she's about to announce. You guys can catch
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  Speaker 1: this in the cookbook, but take it over. What are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna have me eat today?
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  Speaker 2: Onion rings.
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  Speaker 3: So my family when we were when we were really struggling,
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  Speaker 3: we couldn't have extra things like potato chips and crackers
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  Speaker 3: and things like that. I had to learn how to
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  Speaker 3: make those things. And really it's an inexpen an inexpensive
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  Speaker 3: way to have something fun. And you know that hits
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  Speaker 3: a craving. And so in my household, it was always
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  Speaker 3: on your rings. And so I love that you said
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  Speaker 3: this is one of your favorite things, because you're probably
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  Speaker 3: never really looking on your rings the same like, you'll
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  Speaker 3: know that you can do this really quick and easy
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  Speaker 3: at home, and you probably never eat them out again.
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  Speaker 1: And I have a saying on this show, the broker
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  Speaker 1: the dish, the better the story. In this case, my
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  Speaker 1: favorite dish just happens to be a very affordable dish.
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  Speaker 1: So why don't you walk us through the ingredients of
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  Speaker 1: these spectacular onion rings.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've got some oil heating up on the
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  Speaker 3: stove because it needs to be super hot in order
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  Speaker 3: to drop the onion rings. And then I've got eggs, milk,
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  Speaker 3: some flour. We're gonna season this flour. And for me,
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  Speaker 3: it's a red or a white onion. They're sweeter, and
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  Speaker 3: I think it gives your on your ring a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a kick, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I do the shopping for the show, and I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: these red onions. She must know something about them. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the difference between all the onions, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: I mean, take me to school. Let's whip this dish up.
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  Speaker 1: And then you do have seasonings too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So my favorite go to seasoning is Tony's.
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  Speaker 3: I'm from New Orleans and so this is a season
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  Speaker 3: that you find in any cooks kitchen from that city.
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  Speaker 2: And then I've got salt and pepper.
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  Speaker 3: And then my favorite garlic to use is California style,
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  Speaker 3: and so it's got a little bit of parsley and
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  Speaker 3: a little garlic.
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  Speaker 1: Garlic powder, Yeah, got it, garlic powder and onion powder.
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  Speaker 1: And almost every dish not mate. And when I run low,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, I don't know what to do,
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  Speaker 1: but go ahead, start us off, tell us, tell us
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  Speaker 1: what well you're gonna do cooking and I'm gonna be watching.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So I've already cut up the onions, and you
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  Speaker 3: can cut them however you like. I like my onions
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  Speaker 3: to be a little bit thick, because when you bite
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  Speaker 3: into the onion, you want it to be substantial. And
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  Speaker 3: then one of the keys is we've got to I'm
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  Speaker 3: just gonna move my water all the way.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to season the flour.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't season the flour, then it's not gonna
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  Speaker 3: really taste like anything.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, and I didn't measure that flower.
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  Speaker 3: And guess what, it's okay because all we're doing is
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  Speaker 3: using this to coat the onion rings.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't even matter how much you really have.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna take a fork and with this
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  Speaker 3: up just to get the ingredients incorporated. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: put some Tony's in there, just because I wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To have a little bit of a kick to it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's also got it's also.
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  Speaker 3: Got a little salt in it too, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: use the salt and pepper when we're done. And so
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  Speaker 3: once it's sort of got a color to it, then
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  Speaker 3: you know that you seasoned this enough.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't want it to be too spicy because
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  Speaker 2: we're also gonna season the onions too. So I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna crack an egg.
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  Speaker 1: When I got the original recipe, my immediate like, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: she need breadcrumbs or something? And then I was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh wait, there's flour. Let me be quiet. That's how
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  Speaker 1: much I didn't know about this. So okay, I'm taking notes.
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  Speaker 1: You season the flour so it has a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Of a thing, yea.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm going to crack the eggs. Crack these
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  Speaker 3: eggs into the bowl, and I'm just gonna break them.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, oh they broke. Okay, I got a cough
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  Speaker 2: because I'm so good COVID's over. Yeah, well is it.
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  Speaker 1: I've had COVID so many times I'm practically immune.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is the season has gotten into my system.
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  Speaker 3: And so one of the things that I'm also gonna
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  Speaker 3: do is I'm gonna season the.
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  Speaker 2: Egg wash too.
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  Speaker 3: This is an egg wash that I'm making, and so
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  Speaker 3: if we season every single part of this, these onion
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  Speaker 3: rings are going to be very waveful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Everything you learn when you are cooking while you're
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  Speaker 3: broke is stretching your ingredients, and so just adding a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of milk is going to smooth these egg
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  Speaker 3: yolks out, but it's also going to make them go
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  Speaker 3: further because I don't want to use more than two
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  Speaker 3: eggs to to coat all of that, and this would
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  Speaker 3: be enough to do too, but I just prept one
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  Speaker 3: for the purposes.
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  Speaker 2: Of our conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and then what is the extra water for. I'm all,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so curious. I'm sorry, I'm taking it's really.
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  Speaker 2: For nothing except.
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  Speaker 3: That it's my way of testing oil to see. Now,
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  Speaker 3: some people might take up into flower and stick it
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  Speaker 3: in there and if it's sizzles, you know, then it's ready.
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  Speaker 3: We can do it like that, just so you guys,
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  Speaker 3: that's not the way I would do it. And I
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  Speaker 3: saw it, so.
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  Speaker 1: Before we started taking she took her you know, she
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  Speaker 1: tested the water and the oil and I literally was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: You thought I was gonna burn the place.
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  Speaker 1: I said. I said, oh my gosh, you're not afraid.
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  Speaker 2: You hear it popping.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you're not afraid you're gonna get burned. And
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  Speaker 1: she was like no, I'm like, okay, gangstap because I
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  Speaker 1: want to drop some flour and it was popping. She
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  Speaker 1: was she was cool on the other side of it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're seasoning the onion too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Get but it's sticking to the onion ring.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna make sure that you know. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: make sure it.
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  Speaker 1: Gets this is gonna be tasty.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an I'm a Louisiana girl, I'm from New Orleans listening.
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  Speaker 1: And then another thing you guys don't know is, for
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  Speaker 1: like most of the last two days, I was wondering
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  Speaker 1: how to cut the onion correctly, so I actually got
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  Speaker 1: two onions because I really didn't know, because I knew
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  Speaker 1: once you mess up the cut, then you that's it, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I'm just gonna go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and get my hands dirty. Y'all are okay with this?
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  Speaker 3: I washed my hands before this. We listen, you can
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  Speaker 3: go in just like this. Okay, if this is where
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  Speaker 3: you wanted your onion ring to be, you can go
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  Speaker 3: and just like this, and I'm gonna show you what
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna look like. So I'm gonna just let that
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  Speaker 3: go it when it floats, it's ready. So you want
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  Speaker 3: to come over here and check this out. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: get off camera, but okay, when when it floats, When
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  Speaker 3: it floats, that's ready.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to go just like that, you can.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm going to double batter these, so I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to put them in flower and then I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: put them back in this egg watch that I made, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: and then as soon as that's brown, I'm gonna pull
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  Speaker 3: that out because I'm like, in my family, we like
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  Speaker 3: our onion rings to be kind of crispian.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I belong in the family.
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  Speaker 2: Well, welcome to my family.
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  Speaker 1: So, speaking of family, take us back to what was
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  Speaker 1: going on during the time of onion ring and stretching
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  Speaker 1: eggs with milk.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were losing everything that we had. We were
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  Speaker 3: drowning in debt and brokenness. I was listening to a
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  Speaker 3: man on the radio who was telling you you could
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  Speaker 3: get out of debt by having a baked sale. I'm
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  Speaker 3: making a mess, but make a mess, girl, messy or
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  Speaker 3: the kitchen maybe the better, maybe the better. It's a yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I was listening to a man on the radio was
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  Speaker 3: telling people they could get out of debt by having a.
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  Speaker 2: Baked sale or a garage cell.
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  Speaker 3: Problem is, I didn't know how to bake that, even
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  Speaker 3: out of a box. And we sold everything that we
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  Speaker 3: had to get to Nashville, so I couldn't have a
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  Speaker 3: garage cell either.
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  Speaker 1: And this is your family you grew up in? Or
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  Speaker 1: is this the family that.
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  Speaker 2: This is?
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  Speaker 1: This is your wow?
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  Speaker 3: And so we were living in a house without electricity
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  Speaker 3: on a regular basis because we couldn't afford it.
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  Speaker 1: And what city where you living in?
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  Speaker 3: We were living in Nashville tonight. So we moved to Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: We moved to Nashville to give our children a start
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  Speaker 3: on a better life. And so when we got there,
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  Speaker 3: what we what we were coming for, fell through.
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  Speaker 2: So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do a couple of these and then transform back into
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  Speaker 2: this bowl so that we can kind of keep the
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  Speaker 2: oil clean, because that oil, that oil is gonna start
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  Speaker 2: burning if we, you know, get too much flour wasted
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  Speaker 2: in there. Is that bad?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't want your oil to burn before
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  Speaker 3: you're done, in the sense of you don't want you
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  Speaker 3: don't want your product to taste burned.
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  Speaker 1: So what were you originally in Nashville for?
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  Speaker 3: We had gone to Nashville for a better life. My
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  Speaker 3: ex husband was a contractor. He got an offer to work.
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  Speaker 2: At this other company.
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  Speaker 3: And this is gonna be the first time my children
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  Speaker 3: were going to be able to have rooms of their own.
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  Speaker 3: And electricity that came on just because we willed it to,
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  Speaker 3: because we flipped the switch and decided that we wanted
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  Speaker 3: the lights to come on. We had been used to
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  Speaker 3: this kind of way of living and we were trying
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  Speaker 3: to do better. We wanted something different, and so we
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  Speaker 3: we had decided that we were gonna move to Nashville
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  Speaker 3: to take this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as we got there.
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  Speaker 3: Last one hired, first one fired, and so we had
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  Speaker 3: sold all of our tools to get there.
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  Speaker 2: So now we don't really even.
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  Speaker 3: Have a way to take care of, you know, ourselves,
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  Speaker 3: And so they offered him a job to become a
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  Speaker 3: cabinet installer. But he's like, but I sold all my
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  Speaker 3: tools because I thought I was going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the vice president of this district. And so now we've
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  Speaker 3: got to figure out how to make ends meet. He
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  Speaker 3: doesn't really want to stay at this company at that point,
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  Speaker 3: and so we have to start over from scratch. And
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  Speaker 3: it was two thousand and eight. It's a recession.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Was that this is personal? But was that really
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  Speaker 1: hard on your marriage, like to like go through that,
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  Speaker 1: like especially with kids.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question. It was definitely hard on our marriage.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing is is that our marriage was already
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  Speaker 3: experiencing these kinds of things. Go ahead and open up
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  Speaker 3: one of those napkins for me, because we're gonna sit
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  Speaker 3: these on there, okay, you know. And then yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: was gonna say, I'm gonna let you tell me if
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  Speaker 3: I've seizoned these, go ahead and put that on your plate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna I want the oil.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea how good I can.
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  Speaker 2: Legit. That's but that's what Gore made on your rings.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, look at these, Oh my gosh, and oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I could tell I'm never going back to regular. Oh
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  Speaker 1: they're crispy.
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  Speaker 3: You never, You're never gonna like go to a fast
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  Speaker 3: food place and ask.
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  Speaker 2: For on your rings anymore. It's too simple to do
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  Speaker 2: at home.
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  Speaker 1: And then I saw you flip these, so did you
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  Speaker 1: see them flow? And then you flip the uh huh okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I have to pay attention to steal
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  Speaker 1: your recipe right.
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  Speaker 2: Up. You can't steal what's being gifted to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, So so go on back to your Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely hard on our marriage, but our marriage
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  Speaker 3: was already experiencing trials anyway. So I want you to
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  Speaker 3: also try this one. This one's cool, so you can
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  Speaker 3: try this one and see the difference and how you
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  Speaker 3: you know what, you know, how you prefer it to
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  Speaker 3: be because that's just flower. But this is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a little bit of a thicker batter, so you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get more of like an onion ring taste out
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  Speaker 3: of that one.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like the flavor should be there.
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  Speaker 1: I really it's gonna sound really lame, but I think
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  Speaker 1: I love you, and I think I love you right back.
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  Speaker 1: So the pat of my heart ain't the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: And this this gets, like I said, this gets really messy.
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  Speaker 3: And this was something that I used to do with
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  Speaker 3: my children all the time. They could get in the
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  Speaker 3: kitchen with me and make this together. My son, who
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  Speaker 3: was a sergeant in the army is going to be super.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the one that texted earlier Xavior, I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you right now.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, he didn't learn it.
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  Speaker 3: It's something about the things that your mom makes for you.
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  Speaker 3: Though I mean he's an amazing cook, he's the main
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  Speaker 3: cook in his own household.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just something about what your mom makes for you,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like.
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  Speaker 3: You can make it yourself, but if this is something
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  Speaker 3: you grow up with your mom. You really don't want
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  Speaker 3: to do it, you want your mom to do it?
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  Speaker 3: Do I have enough season on there for you? Do
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  Speaker 3: you want me to salt and pepper them?
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  Speaker 1: Because I can over here? Okay, I actually thought that
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  Speaker 1: I would like the double batter more mm hmm. But
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  Speaker 1: I actually think I like the thinner back with just
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  Speaker 1: the just one time past. And that's that's rare for
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  Speaker 1: me because I but I think it's like just the
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  Speaker 1: perfect amount where you get to taste the sweetness of
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  Speaker 1: the onion.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And that's definitely that's definitely why I chose to use
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  Speaker 3: red ones because they're sweeter.
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  Speaker 1: These onions are so perfect, and.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just a good balance for you know,
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  Speaker 3: all of the flower that's in there. But yeah, our
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  Speaker 3: marriage was already going through trials of its own. We
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  Speaker 3: moved to Nashville because we needed to start over. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, if any if foolish just happened in Nashville,
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  Speaker 3: forget about it, don't ever speak to me again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and all that stuff. And when we got to Nashville,
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  Speaker 3: it was worse in Nashville than it was in any
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  Speaker 3: other city where we had lived.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And so you know. So, yes, it was hard
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  Speaker 2: to be financial struggles.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's one of the main reasons that families
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  Speaker 3: break up anyway. Yeah, but I mean I felt like
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  Speaker 3: I was always ride or die, you know, for my husband,
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  Speaker 3: Like wherever he would have taken me, I was probably
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  Speaker 3: willing to go. But after twenty one years of marriage,
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  Speaker 3: he asked me for a divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one years? Was it before you a millionaires?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, than good?
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  Speaker 3: This sorry, making this recipe and cupcakes is what saved me,
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  Speaker 3: because for me, it was I had always been I
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  Speaker 3: had always stayed at home with our family.
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  Speaker 2: And I would tell you a follow mom, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: my job was to take care of us.
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  Speaker 3: So it was my neighbor who knocked on the door
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  Speaker 3: and asked me to make cupcakes for all of her
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  Speaker 3: her What might her.
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  Speaker 1: Come to you that?
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  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say. And I didn't know how
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  Speaker 3: to bake. When I started this, not even out of
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  Speaker 3: a box. I had started practicing. I was sitting in
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  Speaker 3: the back of my house with no electricity. We were running.
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  Speaker 3: We were running our house on Go ahead and open
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  Speaker 3: that for me.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to see.
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  Speaker 3: And we were running our house on a generator because
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  Speaker 3: we couldn't afford the electric the.
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  Speaker 2: Electric bill with this. Yeah, yeah, this is you're just
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it to the way you want it to be,
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  Speaker 2: just a little sprinkle of it.
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  Speaker 1: It already tastes amazing though.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, if you don't feel like you need it, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: It just tastes it, like literally tastes amazing. And I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't even I don't even want to.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Like, you know, if you season your flowers, then you
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: don't need to you don't need to salt.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: So so your neighbor comes to you, you were just
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: now getting into coupcakes, okay, okay, so she kind of knew.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: She was like, okay, you can't bring with the cupcakes.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: So what happened was I was listening to a man
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: on the radio, Dave Ramsey, was telling people they could
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: get out of debt by having a baked sale or
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: garage sale.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I can't have a garage sale because I've sold
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: all I have to even literally sold everything. I mean,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: you're broke, broke, Yeah, you get to Nashville in the
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: first place. And then my my husband, as we liked
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: the Colin was a contractor during the recession, so you
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: need jobs.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: And I was asking God for something that I could
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: do to help him make the ends meet. And the
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: man on the radio was talking about baking, and so
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I had this idea.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: My daughters were gray bakers. They would bake every day
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: after school.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I thought, after school, you'll make whatever we're gonna sell
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: during the day while you're at school.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: After I got really into it, my oldest daughter let
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: me know, I'm really not interested in your little bakery idea. Mom.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going back to New Orleans where we're from.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: How old were your daughters.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: They were ten and sixteen at the time.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And they were already like getting into the bak.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they both were probably going to culinary school.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: All of my children were very good in the kitchen.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Maybe only one of them.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: At the time had never gotten his hands dirty in
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: the kids and now he also, all of my sons
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: are the main cooks in their households.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: And they're single.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: That's probably why they're all married.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah that makes sense because the second my
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: husband cooked for me and the things I said, well,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you know, I guess we're gonna have to Yeah. Men
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: need to know that.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So so you take over your daughter's yeah, passion kind
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of right.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I give them this little idea that we're
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: going to do this because I.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Needed field trip money.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I was always the room mom so that I could
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: not have to pay for the lunch or the meal
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: that maybe my kid wasn't even gonna eat when they.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Got to the field trip.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I was always the room mom so I could get
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: by and have extra time to get whatever I needed,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: or to get a pass on whenever I needed. Maybe
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: my children could get the extras because I was already
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: given my time, or I knew what they really said
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: the room mom in their classroom, like the volunteer mind at.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: School, so that I could legit mom, yeah, like yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah. And so.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I was just practicing this thing on the inside of
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: my house, and I had taken some to my neighbor
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: across the street. A Jonie didn't have any children. My
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: children were her children. My children were pretty much the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: only children in the whole entire neighborhood. So the neighborhood,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: my oldest daughter was the neighborhood babysitter. As people began
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: to have babies and things like that, so the neighborhood
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: loved my kids, and so Jonie just wanted to help.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: And she had seen that I was doing something that
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: could make it everybody's fall in love with this one
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: cupcake I was making time was a lemon a lemon
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: drop cupcake that I was making that sounds so good.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: And because they were so popular that I couldn't keep
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: up with them anymore. And so because I couldn't keep
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: up with him anymore, I stopped. I stopped using, I
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: stopped creating it because it was the man form was
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: way too big for me. I couldn't handle it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: And then how did rumors get out that you were
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: selling these.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Cooking Because I would go out and I would I
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: would first of all, because I knew who to give
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: them to, okay, and Joni would tell others, Oh.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: So you and you would give it to the gossip girl.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: She was like the mayor of our town, like our
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: little Germantown area, And I would see people coming into
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the neighborhood. I'd be standing out at these two giant
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: eight foot windows in front of my house. I would
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: stand out there and wait for real estate agents because
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: they would tear down one house and put up sixteen
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: in this place right, and so I would go outside
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: and I would tell the real estate agents that would
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: see coming by. Hey, my name is Minon Francois. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: live in the house, purple house right there. See the
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: little sign bakery coming soon. I'm creating my recipes as
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I go.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: And I just want to see if you like kid,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: because my family says it's good. They probably just saying
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: that because they loved me, and so I wanted to
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: get your opinion.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And you would give them, like a free cupcake.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I would just I would give them cupcakes right there
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: on the spot. They would taste them and offer me money.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And you didn't bring any cupcakes. Okay, that story right.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I heard there were cupcakes coming. I got a little
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: cupcake tray. Okay, she shows up here. I picked game.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I'm like, the cupcakes must be in a book bag somewhere.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: This is the truth. Okay, this is what about thinking
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I saw m gonna easily slide into the cupcake and dischule,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: is this a good cupcake thing?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: And you said.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I didn't bring any.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I sold out.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I had so I had gone into the bakery to
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: get something for you, and everything they had was sold out.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: We also ship our cupcakes nationwide, and even the shipping
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: freezer work empty.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Now doesn't it make all of you wonder what is
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: in these cup so?
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Okay, lots of love and we don't count calories either.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Oh that's the.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Type Okay we need to eat.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: We believe that, we believe that if love conquers all,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: that's got to include calories.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, we got to get our hands on these.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, so I'll send you something.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be that annoying person.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: They'll be, they'll be here before you know it. As
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: a matter of fact.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'll do a Instagram review.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: But is it?
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I'll send you sweet potato cupcakes. Sweet potato
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: cupcakes have become my claim to fame over time, just
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: because no one's ever had that. Now the lemon one
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about that Jonie knocked on my door for
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I don't make them anymore, like you can't even you
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: can't even get that I would have, You'd be you'd
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: be a fanatic and I would have to put you
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: in rehab.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: You make me a fanatic. I'm okay with that. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: don't have addictive personality. I may just hints everyone in
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: a while and you'll be You'll be going to the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: bathroom at six in the morning.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: You'll get a text like, hmmm, do you want me
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: to do them without?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: You want me to do them the other way? You
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: like them better with less? Yes?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Less, I have a little less.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I thought you were saying you were gonna make it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: We're gonna say, uh yeah, if you want, I could
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: make you a special lemon manage. But no, no, no,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the onion rings.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: So my neighborhood began to work.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Got out in the neighborhood that Mignon had turned the
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: crack house that I had purchased into a lemon.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Crack and and you were your original plan was to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: do this bakery out of your house. No oh, because
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you said there was a sign.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that wasn't the original plan though. The
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: original plan was I wanted to make enough money sell
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: and cupcakes to go get a commercial spot somewhere else.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: And we we didn't have any credit, We didn't have
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: any money.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It was your husband saying all the time.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: He didn't he believed that I was kind of displaying around, you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Know, even though he saw the money and the knocks
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: at the doors.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean I always was the person that started
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: a business and then I would quit. And I think
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: that's what happens to a lot of people who give up.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: On things too fast.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: I always had these really great ideas for businesses, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I would never.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Stick to them.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: What made you stick to this.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Desperation?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: We were despition slash success. Yeah, well, there's a point
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: where you get successful, right, Yeah, but we were hungry
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: at the time. I would have quit this a long
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: time ago.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: But I was waking up every morning at three seventeen
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: like clockwork, in order to check on the kids, make
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: sure that the doors were locked, make sure.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: That the stove was off. Have you ever done that? No? Well,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I would wake up every in the middle of night.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Every night.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: It was almost as if an alarm clock was going off.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I would literally hear an alarm clock that was
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: not set, and you would check everything, and I would
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: check everything. And one day I couldn't go back to sleep,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: and so I got up and I went and sat
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: down and started watching TV. One of my favorite pastimes
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: is to well, my a former favorite pastime, because I
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: don't even watch TV anymore. Because I realized that I
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: was watching TV watching other people live their lives while
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I wasn't living.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Oh that sounds like Instagram now.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And I didn't want to be watching other people's reality
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: when I wanted something to happen for myself. But at
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: the time, watching TV was a big pastime for me.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: And so I get up and I go and I
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: start watching TV. And there was a man on the
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: TV who was saying, do.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: You ever wake up in the middle of the night
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: and you think this is what you're doing it for?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, you're reading my mind.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: This sounds like the radio. You you ever thought advertising
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: didn't work? It works, okay? And so what did what
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: did the ad say?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Well, it was it was.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: It wasn't an ad, It was an actual PBS program
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: And to me, best time to watch TV is PBS
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: during fundraising. And the man on the on, the man
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: on the show that I turned on, said, the Morning
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Breeze has something to tell you, do not go back
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: to sleep. And that sounded crazy to me, like the
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: morning Breeze, Like what's the Morning Breeze got to do
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: with me? And I'm not listening to this. Turn this
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: man off my TV, right, And so he says it
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: again and by the third time, he says it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Now I'm looking for the remote to get him off
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: my TV.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: And he said, this is the only time that you
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: will listen and God is trying to tell you something.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: And so I was like okay, and I decided to
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: sit down and pay attention. And while I was listening,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: he said, and you think you're getting up to check
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: your stove and check your children, like all the things
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: that I'm literally getting.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Up to do. He said, God is actually.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Trying to get your attention right now. And now that
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: you know that this is what he's trying to do,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be hard for you to actually get up
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: and come to meet with him.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: And so he gave instructions.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: He said, gonna take you about a week, or put
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: your feet on the floor and just show up to
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: a silent place where God is calling you to, you know,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: spend time with him. And so he was right. Took
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: me about a week put my feet on the floor.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: And I remember the first day that I went there
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: to show up to hear from God, and I was like, okay, God,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I'm here. I know you want to talk to me,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: but please don't talk because if you do, I'm running
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: straight out the other door because I don't want to
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: hear your voice. And I noticed there was a there
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: was a there was a bye on the bottom of
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: the coffee table. And so I grew up in a
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: very religious household. I knew how to hear God speak,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: not really, but I knew that God spoke, you know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: to people, and so I just picked up I picked
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: up the Bible that was underneath the coffee table, and.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I opened it up, and the first place that it
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: fell was a verse that said, I'm about to show
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: you that I love you more than anybody else. And
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I took that to mean that God loves me more
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: than he loves anybody else. That's not what he was saying.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: What he was saying is I love you more than
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: anybody else loves you, and I'm going to show you
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: that in what I'm about to teach you. And so
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: he began to wake me up every day at three seventeen.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I would bring the sun up every day and take
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: my kids to school, whatever we needed to do.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I would wake up and do those things after having
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: been with God for three hours. And I would write
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: down everything that he would say, everything that he would
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: say through reading Bible verses, and I began to get
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: instructions for what this business, the cupcake collection, was gonna be.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that at the time, because it was,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: you know, I was just writing down what I thought.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I was writing my thoughts down. That's what I thought
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: that I was doing.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: But when I got finished being awakened, it was all
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: the plans to open up this bakery business. And I
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: had been collecting recipes along the way.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: I didn't even realize that I.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Had been writing stuff down and taking notes on things.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: And so when God stopped waking me up, I had
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: filled up an entire spiral bound journal book, and it
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: was all the instructions to open up a bakery business.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: And I didn't know why. You know, I didn't know
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: nothing about you know, cooking. Really, I had caught my
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: grandmother on the phone. I had been a college student
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: seventeen years earlier. I went to Zava University on scholarship
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: to become a doctor. And yeah, okay, and so I
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: couldn't apply the science to the human body.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: So I was plunking out of my plunking out of
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: my science classes.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: So your flower might get like how mine is right
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: now where it's kind of like chunky oop.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Sorry, see how that is. It's kind of becoming messy.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: That's your queue where you need to refresh it with
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: you know, some more dry flower. But we're gonna just
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: make this work because I'm almost done with that whole
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: entire onion.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you could after that could sit down with me.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So okay, So you do the spiral notebook and then
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: you realize this is God's instruction.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Then that's so I start practicing it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I start practicing it and letting people taste what I
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: was making. And that's when my neighbor comes and asked
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: me if I she's so in love with what I'm doing.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: She feels like people want to buy this what you have,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: and she's like, I want to be So she loved
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: putting people on you know what I mean, Like, she
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: loved sharing things that she found that she loved that
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: she thought was great, and she wanted to tell people
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: about what I was, what I was creating. And so
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: she was like, look, she knocks on the door. I'm
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: sitting in the back of my house. I have no
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: electricity and I'm running the house on a generator.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: At this time, because we we were resourceful and I
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: would sit in the house in total darkness during the
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: day so that my children could have normalcy when they
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: came home. So I would have i'd be in the dark,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: or I would in the day, I would sit in any
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: dark all day, or I would go away from the
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: house while my children were at school so that when
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: they came home they could have the electricity, or I
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: could you know, I could have enough gas for them
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: to have electricity.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: They never complained in this season. They never told anybody.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: They just went to school and ate because they knew
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: that's what they had to do.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they never told.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Nobody about oh we don't have this or that. They
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: didn't say, you know, poor me, woe is me or
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: anything like that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: They just they just did. So, you know, so now
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: you see what I'm using this water be my handwalk
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: because I need to get some of the excess off
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: of my hands right now.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, So your kids are troopers, your husband's trooping, and
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you're being the most.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, so it's going to bake sales fairs all that
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff at their schools and things like that.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: So when my neighbor knocks on the door, she asks
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: me to make cupcakes for all of her clients for
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: this season. I'm sitting in the house of no electricity
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: because we don't have any we can't afford it. Yeah,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: and so I'm doing this Dave Ramsey Baby Step plan
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: where I'm stuffing cash into envelopes. Whatever my husband's gonna
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: bring home, I'm putting in envelopes, and I'm saving a
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: little bit to take care of what he calls covering
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: your four walls.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: That is your food, your utilities, your shelter, your transportation.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Like the basics and planets up. This is Dave Ramsey's plan.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, this is called the baby Steps plan. This
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: is just how you just tackle the beginning of trying
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: to get out of debt. Okay.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: And so it's your food, your utilities, your shelter, and
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: your transportation.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Got it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: So you do them in order, Like if all you
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: got enough for is food, then that's what you're doing
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: food and nothing else.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: If all you've.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Got enough for is food and utilities, and you know,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: it's about prioritizing, you know what's important.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I was putting money in envelopes and I didn't have
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: enough to do anything. I didn't have enough to make
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: the ends meet. I didn't have enough for the electricity bill.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't have enough money for anything, and I realized
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: that I only had five dollars left to my name,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: and I hadn't fed our.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Children for the week.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: When she knocked on the door, I hadn't bought anything,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: and so she asked me to make cupcakes, which is
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: gonna be six hundred cupcakes. And I'm thinking, how am
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I supposed to do this? I'm sitting in this house
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: with no electricity. She asked me why I was sitting
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: in the dark even and I said because because I'm meditating,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: and she took it.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: She believed that I was like, oh, so then she
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: places this order for six hundred.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Then, and she said, as you make some, I'll pay you.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: You make you give me a little, I'll pay.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: You a little.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Why would you order six hundred?
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Because she wanted to give them to everybody. Remember I
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: told you she was known for putting.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: This is a really good neighbor.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, she is an amazing need to this day, she's
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: an amazing name.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Oh you guys are still neighbors.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, well she's she's moved out of the neighborhood now.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: But she's still very much like she's my grand baby's godmother.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: My children very much are you know? She was a
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: part of their lives.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: So the six hundred cupcakes? How do you manage this order?
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: So what I did was she said she would pay
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: me when I gave her some.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Give me something, I'll pay you some. And so I said, okay,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I took the five, closed the door and say, all right, God,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: what you want me do with this? Because like, you
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: give me this opportunity when I have no money to
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: take it? And I heard God say, but I the
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: eve birds and they don't toil a store up in barns.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Okay God.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: And so I was like, okay, I'm gonna put my
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: shoes on. I'm gonna test you and see if what
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: you say is real? Okay, And I take the five
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: dollars and I go to the grocery store that's just
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: a couple of blocks from my house. Because by now
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: our cars are even you repossess?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, why you had onion rings?
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, our cars are Our cars are repossessed.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: And how much is an onion ring? An onion is
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: a dollar most people, I mean it depending on what
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: side you get. And this is something my baby likes.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: So he's gonna come home and have joy because I've
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: made him something that he loves. And so when you're
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: when you're in a situation like this, you need to
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: have little little bits of joy wherever you can get there.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: And so I go and I buy everything I can
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: buy with that five dollars, and I turned it in to.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Sixty that day because she, like she said she was,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: she paid me.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: And so then I.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: To look at that just just for you guys, listen,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: she took five dollars and turned it into sixty. In
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the world of business, that's like astronomics.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because how what kind of percentage rate is that?
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not good at math, but it's pretty amazing.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: So then, and I didn't even have I didn't even
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: have enough money to start really, And a lot of
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: people say, well, how in the world did you buy
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: you know, enough ingredients? Because I used what I had
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: to get what I wanted. Right, So in my house
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: we always had flour, so that's not something I had
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: to purchase. In my house, we always had rising.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Ingredients, bac and soda, bacon. You know, these are things
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: that most houses have yetting them already, so all I
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: had to get was the bear necessities. And all I.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Needed to get was a place that I could produce
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: so she could pay me. Yeah, once I had profit
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: mixed in there, I could go buy whatever I need it.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: So then you make this sixty dollars, then you go,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: how long does it take you to turn around the rest?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Because I'm sure you Oh, okay.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: So I take this. I put the five back that
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: I started with just in case.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: I burn everything, and then I turned that into six hundred.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Then I've been flipping that same money in the last
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: seventeen years.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Say that one more time for the people in the bag.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: She took that six hundred and she been flipping it
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: for the next seventeen years. And you became a millionaire
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: doing this.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: With no debt. I did it with no knowledge of
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: the business. I did it with no experience.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: I did it losing the house that the bakery is
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: in today because I believed that if God is who
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: he says he is, he can do what he says
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: he can do.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: You did it losing the house.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Losing the house on the day that I opened the bakery,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: I opened the cupcake Collection on November nine, two thousand
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: and eight. The house was up for foreclosure sale on
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: that day, so we knew that we would lose the
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: house in December.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: On the courthouse steps.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Were you thinking, like, worst case, you're gonna move into
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the bakery.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're no. We the bakery was our house. Oh
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: oh oh geez. So the cupcake collection was housed in
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: our and what was my husband's former man cave, so
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: he had given me where his pool table was and
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: all that.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: It had its own separate entrance.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: So you're doing all this your husband was your actual husband. Yeah,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: so you're running a company, and I mean, I suck
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: at heartbreak. I'll tell you right now. I get heartbreak.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I almost can't even function. So you need too, Okay,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you too. But you're kind of gang yeah, I mean,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: so you know, gangster to me is a word of
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: like endearment and strength. So I don't know.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: If well, when you when you have babies that are
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: looking to you, like think about mother birds.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Other birds go out they put food in their baby's
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: mouths and they're sitting there with open mouths looking for
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: that bird to give them something.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the situation.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: I was in and ain't no way I wasn't gonna
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: come through for my kids.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: They were my cheerleaders.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: I was talking to my son just the other day,
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: we were driving home from a road trip, and he's like,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: it's crazy, Mom.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Now when you walk into rooms, you change them.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you already changed our entire studio.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: He's like, I don't even remember that. Lady. Wow, I
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: don't even the girl who started this.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: You know who we introduced in the first chapter, who's
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: hiding from her neighbor because she doesn't want her to
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: ask questions. I don't even know her no more.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Because it's like, there's nothing I don't believe that I
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: couldn't do. But I wasn't always like this. And that's
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: what I want your adience to hear. If you see
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: me doing it, it's an indication that you can do
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: it too. It's not only available to me, it's also
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: available to you. You can have whatever you say. The
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: key is you have to believe that you can. And
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: for me, this was about believing that I could do
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: the impossible, and that was to take my family from
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: struggling and losing everything and drowning in debt to a
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: place of legacy building and wealth creating not only for us,
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: but for the people who were connected to us, for
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: my sisters who live in New Orleans, who I wanted
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: to see not struggle anymore after years of being in
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: a business. I took the brand now to New Orleans
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: and went to one of my sisters and said, if
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: I taught you how to fish, would you fish?
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: He said, every day.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: And I taught her everything that I could about how
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: to make this recipe. And she's doing it and it's hard.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that this is easy. And I
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: think that's the thing. People see something successful and they
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: think it's easy. It doesn't get easier just because it
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: gets bigger.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Your problems just change.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: From the beginning. Well, okay, we're gonna throw the commercials
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: so we can adjust cameras everybody, and she can come
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: sit closer to me, So throw the commercials. Shout out
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: to Katie, come out in the room. All right, we're
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: back and so inspired, so excited about you. I definitely
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: love you right back. And oh my gosh. All right,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: so now that we know that you can turn five
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: dollars to six hundred and six hundred to a million, Okay,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: over over, I mean taking us to school. So let's
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: talk about the business side. Okay, well, you can try
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: your own onion rings. I'll tell y'all all the ratings
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: of these onion rings. They're simply amazing. I'm gonna take
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: one more on your ring. Then I'm gonna start asking questions.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: But I have to enjoy it.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: It's such a simple, inexpensive thing, especially when you just
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: need something salty and crunchy, has a little bit of
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: sweetness to the undertone, and you can you can salt
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: it however you want. I believe that it's not smart
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: to salt something you haven't tasted yet.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: You know, you salted these again, Yeah I did.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: They were perfect. Okay, guys, they were perfect.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: And then I salted them.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Then you salted them. But okay, now I know that
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Take your recipe as is.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, just a couple more bites and then I'm
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: gonna go okay. Oh, the thin ones are smacking.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: No, And that's what what I love about them is
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: when you cut them, as you pull the inner rings out,
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: you get different you know, you get different experien So
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: you get a really tiny one from the center. You
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: get a mouthful of that onion flavor, and then we
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: get to the outer rings. They're sort of like thinner.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's delicious, just as delicious as this story.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: So I just so you know, if you see me
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: like a little flush, just because our crew is like
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: timing me by the minute right now, it was up
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: to me, we'd have a whole another hour. Yeah, but okay,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: so let's talk about the business now that the business
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: is operational. I want to know from the well, I
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: can only imagine from six dollars to six hundred and
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: six hundred to growing. Yeah, what were some of those
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: points where you felt like giving up?
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: So there was one day in particular that you know,
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: the baker's open. Now, we had had a sign all
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: of our friends that were coming all the time, and
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: they didn't come. And I think a lot of times
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: we're expecting so much out of our friend and our
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: family and it's not fair to put that kind of
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: burden on them. And so I was sitting in my
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: chair and I had only made seventeen dollars on this
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: day when my husband calls to check on me and said, how's.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Your day going?
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: And I got ready to open my mouth and complain.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: I got ready to say only made seventeen dollars, and
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: I stopped myself mid sentence. I said, you know what,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: whatever it was, it wasn't a surprise to God. He's
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: the one that gave me this recipe and this idea,
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: because this wasn't just a good idea, this was a
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: God idea, and there's a difference, and so whatever it is,
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: he sent it, and I'm just gonna.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Be grateful for it.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: When I got that in my spirit, Colin, I can't
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: tell you how much it changed everything.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: But then that day when you knew it was seventeen,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: it brought a little bit of frustration.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Y Oh yeah, because it was like, I'm sitting there,
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for people.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: This has been days.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Oh they waited right after your store opened.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's probably a month in. Oh yeah.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I would have been freaking out.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I thought, you know, we had an amazing
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: first day, and I thought people were just gonna come.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I thought, because I put a little three by three.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Sign out in front of my house, that the world
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: knew that a bakery was opening, and they did not
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: know that.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: So then what was your next move after experiencing that.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: I just so, I changed my mind in the moment,
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: and so I said, just as I was getting ready
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: to complain, I said, you know what, anything that it is,
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: God sent it. It wasn't a surprise to him. And
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: my days turned around almost immediately. I began to have
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: fifty dollar days and one hundred dollar days. I remember
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: my first five hundred dollar day, my first thousand dollars day.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: And I didn't change the way I handled the money.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: I still would take the money in, I would put
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: it in envelopes.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I would pay Uncle Sam.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: First, I would put the money for the ingredients back first,
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: and anything that was left was mine to keep for
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: electric bills, fulfilled money for whatever it was that my
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: children needed.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: And I began I began.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Realizing that I couldn't reveal everything that I was learning,
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: even in my own household, because, like I told you before,
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: as a stay at home mom my, my husband only
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: brought to me whatever he was done with. Yeah, it
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: wasn't like, here's the money, you manage it together and
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: then go from there.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: So you were getting the leftovers. You weren't getting a
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: whole check to like manage it.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: I was getting the leftovers, and so I knew.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I began to learn that I had to manage what
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I was making, and I started stuffing envelopes and hiding money.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I love that you keep talking about stuffing envelopes. I
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: always tell people people always, like my husband, He'll say
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: to me, well, if I had a million dollars, I'm like, dude,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: planet Earth right now, Okay, if we can't manage five
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, yeah, don't think it's gonna be different when
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: we get a million. If you can't manage that little bit.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: And I tell everybody all my mentees a hundred times, guys,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: if you can't manage fifty, well you won't be able
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: to match. It doesn't matter how much money you make,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: you still got to be able to manage it. And
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: to hear you talk about envelopes, because that's something I
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: go to with my cousin all the time. Always tell
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: him like, look, if you're struggling with budget management, I
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: have him on a budget right now. I'm like, go
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: old school withdraw the cash and use envelopes and mark envelopes.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: And living because when you're in a situation like I
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: was in, if you're even.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: One penny off a literal cent off. They will bounce
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: your check.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: And then you will be looking for how you're You know,
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: now you're thirty five dollars off instead of being a
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: penny off. And I couldn't afford to have those kinds
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: of mistakes, so I stopped even putting money in the bank.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: So the behind the scenes of your life is your accountant,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: your baker, your manager.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Your mom.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: I'm the cashier, I'm marketing. I had gone to school
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: at that time. I graduated at that point with a
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: degree in mass meeting and communications.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: So all that.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, superhero, So no tears of frustration or a
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: bunch of walls or nothing. Oh yeah, absolutely.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: And in the midst of this, we're trying.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: To rebuild our marriage, which all of this is in
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: the book. We moved to Nashville to start our lives over,
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: Remember I.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Said that in a manny.
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: So in the midst of all that, we're trying to
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: rebuild a marriage that doesn't end up working out and
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: we end up deciding to go our separate ways. So
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: all of these things are happening all at once.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Ye you're a true champion, because I tell you what
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: I do with my child and my husband is I
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: run away And my girlfriends think it's hilarious, but I'll
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: send them a text. I'll be like, look, girls, I
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: left the house in my slides and were going to
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: stay in hotels or wherever, but I'm not going home.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: And then we'd be like, well why not. I'm like,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: it's just so much responsibility, especially when you're building something,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: it's like it requires like all of you. And then
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: if you have a child, she requires all of you,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: or your children require all of you.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: And then I applaud you that you know to go retreat,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: self care and come back.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Well I would call. I tell my friends it's like
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: survival mode and that is fight or flight. I'm like, yo,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I could have an argument with you leaving the house
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: for whatever generic stupid reason and like put up road flairs.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: As a mom, I feel like you put a broth
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: for heyes, honey, I need help, Hey honey, And you
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: know what I'm like, Look, I don't I don't spoke it.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: You can't hear me.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Then, and I tell all my girlfriends every mom should
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: just run away at some point and be like, you
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: know what, I'm a pull you on you.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: My mom used to do that to us. My mother
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: would disappear on us. And that was before cell phones
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: were a thing and she was a she was a
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: single mom. She would hide from us sometimes because it
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: was all she just needed her own time to recoup
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: or recover.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: And I think it reduces the like I come from
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: child abuse and I look back at my mom and
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I think my mom was such a good mom in
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of ways, but I think that there was
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: just way too much pressure on her. And what happened
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: is the kids get hurt. Yeah, So in my mind,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, look before I snap on a two year
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: old who I absolutely adore, trust me, I wish there
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: was a parenting died with this poor baby. I'll run.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I'll run, and even if it takes me forty eight
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: hours or four days, I'll come back and it will
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: be like nothing, but I run. But for you to
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: survive all that, I don't know if you ran away,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: But if you didn't gangs, I.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: Didn't have the opportunity, but I would say that, I
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: would say that here's what. Here is the recipe that
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: I want people to hear. If you want to dig
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: yourself out of debt, you want to have a different scenario.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: First, you have to speak it. You have to know
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: what out looks like for you.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: If you don't know what out looks like for you,
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: then any road will take you there and you will
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: not know when you are.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Now give me an example of what an out looks like.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So for me, getting out meant electric electricity is
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: being paid. I wish trying to help make the ends meet.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, but you surpassed them.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's the thing that I'm trying to say.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: When you decide what it looks like for you, you
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: will know when you've gotten there. And you need to
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: be able to have small winds. If you can get
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: small winds, you can create bigger winds. For me, it
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: was I needed to be able to make the electricity
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: stay on.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, this electricity sound like a really serious issue.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: And then because if our house was dark. We live
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: in Nashville, it snows, it gets cold. Your children are
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: looking at you like, how am I supposed to do
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: my homework? We don't have any lights. This was a
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: regular occurrence in our house. Not only did we not
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: sometimes have lights, we didn't have water either, So I
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: would be walking to the store lugging home jugs of
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: water which is heavy. Sometimes my little baby walking behind me.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: You don't want your children to see this, No, and
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: I decided that I wanted more for my children.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: I did not sign up for this. But for me,
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: this my idea was better or worse looked like I
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: couldn't decide. Now, this is the level of worse I want,
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: and this is the let more better I want, because
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: for better or worse means for better or in the marriage.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah for me, I agree. Like for me,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: it's extremely important from my family's stand to one room.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: So I sacrificed a lot.
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Grace and Jesus Christ himself if you like, Oh
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: he said forgive seven time, seventy seven seven seven time. Okay, Lord,
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: but yeah, no, I I can relate to that because
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: there are times where I oh that husband. Yeah, but
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: but but that's that's kudos to you for sticking out
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: twenty one years.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Well really it wasn't.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: Really, it was really not kudos to me as much.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: It was I was afraid of God. And let me
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: tell you. When I was being awakened at three seventeen
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: in the morning, one of the last Bible verses that
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: I got was I set before you.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: It was dude to to me thirty nineteen and Joshua
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: one nine.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: I said, before you life and death, blessings and curses.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: Choose life so your family can live. And if you
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: will do everything that I have set before you, then
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: I will make you prosperous wherever you go, and everything
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: that you do will be prosperous.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: That was what God told me, and then he stopped
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: waking me up.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: I understood that everything that had been given to me
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: at three o'clock in the morning was a collaboration with God.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: It was a dropping in the atmosphere. I have something
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: for you, man. I'm tired of you starting businesses. I'm
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: tired of you quitting them. There's people who would love
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: to have even one idea that I've given you that
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: you started and just let go. So this is the
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: last thing I'm giving you, And if you don't do this,
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: I'm not giving you anything else.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: And it was a choice to live or to die,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: and I believed it.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: I believe that if I didn't do this, I wasn't
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: getting anything else. And a lot of times we think
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: we're afraid to fail. I thought I was afraid to
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: fail at business. It wasn't that I was afraid to fail.
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: I was afraid to succeed. Many of us are afraid.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Of success, not failure, because if we failed, if we
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: thought we were.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Gonna fail, we wouldn't come to the thing anyway. We
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: wouldn't tell anybody about it. We wouldn't tell anybody about
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: our idea, we wouldn't ask them.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: To be a part of it if we really believed
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: that we would fail. But we're afraid to succeed because
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: if we're successful, that means I have to show up
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: when I don't feel like coming. It means I have
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: to show up and do this when I'm tired. When
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: all my girlfriends went out last night, I got to
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: stay home because I need to be in my kitchen
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: at two thirty in the morning making mix. And I'm
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: going to be in.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Here by myself while everybody gets to go on the vacation.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: On the trip, I gotta stay back and I've got
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: to open up the store because I have nobody to
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: help me. And it took me seventeen years to get
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: to a place where I could have a real vacation.
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: I haven't worked seventeen since the cup cayears, since the
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: cupcake collection.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: And what was that vacation?
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: Just curious.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: I can't even remember. I can't really remember, you know
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: what it was. But I remember sitting back and saying, Wow,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: I really just went on vacation. And the bakery is
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: literally the Cupcake Collection is still operating right now.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: Because we would all have to break as a family,
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: we would have to close down, not make any money,
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: and we'd have to go away as a family and
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: then come back to it. My goal at that point
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: was to be able to have it operating.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: So your goals can move. You can move the needle
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: on your goals.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: And it is prudent to move your needle on your
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: goals because a lot of times people think that I've
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: got to have this big, gigantic grand plan in order
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: for it to be successful. And what I'm saying is,
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: as long as it's in your head, it's an idea.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: When you write it down on paper, it becomes a plant.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: That's a business plan. You write it down on a
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: small three by five index card, that is.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Called a business plan.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: It's a vision, it's an arrested thought, a thought that
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: you you know, because we think of a million thoughts
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: a day, thirty thousand thoughts a day we're thinking, and
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: you just arrest one of them. You cause one of
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: those thoughts to come in submission. You write on a
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: piece of paper and say, this is what I'm gonna do.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna forget about it. I'm gonna keep
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: my focus on this thing, and even though I'm scared,
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it anyway, and I'm not gonna stop
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: showing up to it, even when it's hard. I'm gonna
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: keep on doing it because what I want is more
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: important than what I don't want, like sleep, you know,
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: like maybe I'm gonna miss out on a little bit
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: of sleep right now, or maybe I'm gonna miss out
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: on my child, you know, recital, I missed a lot
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: of things that my children had going on, but it
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: was more important to me to show up for them
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: fully in the future then what we had going on
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: right now. Because when you're in the story, you don't
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: know what story you're writing. I didn't know this was
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: the story that I was writing with my life, this
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: made from scratch story. I didn't know that this was
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: a story I was writing because when I.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Was in it.
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: You know how they say you can't see the picture
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: for the frame. If you're the frame holding the picture,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: you're too busy holding the picture to see what the
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: picture is that you're holding. And the same thing is
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: with the story. When you're in it. You don't know
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: what story you're writing. But if you keep in your
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: mind what story do I want to be told? When
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: this is just a story that's gonna be told, it
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: will keep you marching forward to the thing that you
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: have placed in your mind.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: So last question, what is a day in the life
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: of it? Right now?
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Right now?
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Right now?
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: So my children made it their goal to retire me
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: by my birthday, which is on July fourth, and so
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: I haven't worked in the daily operation of the business
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: in all of twenty twenty three.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Wait do your children still work for me?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: My children run the company now legacy. Wow.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: And I love that you use that word, because for me,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: this is so much bigger than cupcakes.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: We are.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: I am the daughter of a man that was born
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: on a sugar cane plantation. My father was born on
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: a sugar cane plantation in nineteen forty.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, this story of yours is riddled with God
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: it's I think, and it's no coincidence because lately I've
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: been getting up at like six in the morning, and
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: I've been like, man, I thought it was because my
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: child wakes up early, but I'm starting to notice I'm
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: waking up before her or there'll be so nice where
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: I can't sleep. So I don't think it's a coincidence
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: that I get to experience this story because.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: I feel like God is talking to.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Me through you and this book that you had made
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: from scratch. But let's go back to the answer and
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: the answer to the question of what is a day
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: in the life for you right now? Like from wake
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: up to.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: So right now, I'm tithing my time back to God.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: And so you know how people who are Christians who
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: go to church, they tie their money to a church.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: And so God told me that he wanted me to
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: tithe not only my money but also my time. So
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: I'm tithing my time to God. And first I was like, God, Okay, cool,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: I'll give you twenty four minutes out of the twenty
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: four hours. He said, no, majon, I want two hours
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: and forty minutes every single day.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: So what does that look like to do that? But
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: what do you do.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: At four o'clock in the morning, I'm up and I'm
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: doing the same thing I was doing at three seventeen.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: I am spending time getting to hear the voice of
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: my creator and what it is that he wants me
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: to do, what it is he wants me to learn.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: So I'm reading through this Bible. It could be that.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: It could be worship music. It could be you know,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: some sermon or a podcast or whatever, something that I'm
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: learning or something that I feel led or drawn to do.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: And that's my first my first two hours and forty
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: minutes a day. Always get that right.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: It doesn't always come exactly like that, but that is
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: my current goal. That's what I'm currently striving for every
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: single day. And then then I'm going around and I'm
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: speaking and I'm telling others about what they can also
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: do gospel.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're sharing.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: I'm a kingdom preneur, and the thing for me is.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: That kingdom preneur. I like that.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to grow the Kingdom of God so that
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: other people know that as Christians were not supposed to
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: be living in lack. God doesn't want us to have want,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: but he'll help our want to he'll help our lack
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: of and so I'm just I told God, if you
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: will make me successful, God, if you will do this
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: thing that you're telling me at three seventeen, if you'll
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: do this thing that you're telling me, I will tell
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: anybody who will listen about what they can do if
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: they believe. And He has been faithful to bring I'm
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: sitting here in La with you from Nashville.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Taking eating while broke onion ring and Guys, I'm a
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: part of me sad because brin a tight time crunch
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: and I would love to spend more time with you.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: But I have a feeling that this book made from
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: scratch finding success without a recipe. You guys can get
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: this on Amazon, I'm sure, or wherever you buy your books.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: I listen to audio books, even though I prefer reading.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: I'm old school. I love touching books.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: I just audio books, so that's coming soon.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: And then, oh, okay, perfect but made from scratch finding
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: success without a recipe, you guys can get this book.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this book is going to cover everything
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: I would have asked. So you know what, listen to
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: the interview, fall in love with her, and then go
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: get the book. I'm going to be reading this book
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: or like a fanatic, and I think you have just
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: single handedly like refreshed my relationship with God, like I
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: really think. Yeah, so if you get a random well
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: I don't have your number, but yeah, okay, okay, yeah,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: I'll probably text you like, hey six am. Yeah, you
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: know what I think. I think it's time that I
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: get back into the things that the swing of things
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: with my relationship with God, because there's a lot of
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: stuff that you touched on that I could totally relate to,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: and you know it was I'm so excited that you
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: came through and such a breath of fresh air. And
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing those cupcakes and eating them cupcakes
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: and doing reviews. Everybody there are anything like these onion rings.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: Just know I'm I'm gonna repackage and put them in
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: the cupcake holders and pretend like I made them myself.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: That's what I want you to do. That's exactly what
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: I want you to do.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: And it's not stealing.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: It's I said, I said, you can't steal what was
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: given to you exactly exactly.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: But thank you so much for your time. And then
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: how can people keep up with you? And you could
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: just say it directly into that camera. How can people
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: keep up with you on everything you're doing and like
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: even reach out and somewhat communicate with you, I'm sure. Well,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: now she's on God's time, so she may be able
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: to respond back, but tell.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: Us so you can follow me on Instagram at Mignon
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: dot Francois. You can order cupcakes twenty four hours a
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: day on the Cupcakecollection dot com. And then we're on
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: all socials, so that's Twitter at Cupcake Tweets, and Facebook
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: is the Cupcake Collection, yes, and Instagram and Instagram is
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: Cupcake Collection and it's Mignon dot Fransois.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, you heard it here first. All right, thank you guys.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Hopefully you'll be making these onion rings at home and.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: Listen, you'll never go to a restaurant looking at on
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: your rings the same again.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: And then I will just say one suggestion is the
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: way she seasoned it with the flower. This is my
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: personal opinion. You don't need to add any extra She
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: did the she did the egg seasoning, she did the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: flower seasoning, and honestly it's perfect just the way it
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: is now. If you want to go and play with it,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: you can't, but my suggestion is leave it as is.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Peace out guys. For more eating while broke from iHeartRadio
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