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When the Cookie Crumbles: Navigating Through Scares of Success | Featuring Ashley’s Famous Cookies | EP41 · Jess Ask

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  feedback and questions so we can keep the conversation going. Now, let's get
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  into this week's episode. And she said, it's an older lady. Oh,
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  she said, what do I say to it? She said, say,
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  say Alexa, ask for what you want? And she said play.
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  She played some Marvin Gates or not Marvin Gates? What is Marvin? Kevin
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  Gates and Marvin Yo, we didn't get were throwing a lot of ideas out
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  here, these million ideas right now Marvin Gates. Oh she starts playing that,
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  stated baby yea. She started singing this playing it saw and she was
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  just so amazed that she was able to say, uh, tell Alexa to
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  play. Oh wow, baby, I had to send emotional you hear me
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  emotional? How loud do you have to say? Like, Alexa, that's
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  the game. So you want to make sure you stay in the range of
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  your mind because if it goes back out too too much. I was want
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  to say something to you. M hmm, what's your last name? Brown?
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  I got? I got the Brown fam baby share Brown table, the
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  Brown now Ashley Brown, what's the brown? My favorite color? Brown?
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  Brown? It's not, it's my favorite clas read but in this season is
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  brown. That's crazy. And the hotel with the brown thing is so crazy
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  because you had just Okay, So I saved your audio from when I had
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  left the comment under your post and and you in bossed me about this,
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  and I was gonna use it because I was like, I'm gonna make this
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  a trending audio, Like I'm finna like use this for something like you.
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  But I'm still like working on new contents, so I don't have nothing.
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  Phenomenal. You are too, You're doing a phenomenal job. I love how
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  comfortable you're becoming. Yes, And that's that's the season that I'm in right
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  now, just trying to get more comfortable. And last year was a year
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  of me doubting everything that I've ever done, and I had did so much,
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  but in my mind I just wasn't able to acknowledge that within myself,
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  and then I realized that I was suffering from imposter syndrome. A pause,
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  Let's put a pen in it, because it's already getting good. We already
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  recording, We already oh yeah, we did kind of start three minutes in
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  okay, bet okay, so before before we get it to it, like
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  listen that. First of all, welcome to Just Ask, the podcast where
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  we create a safe space for influencers to decompress, half fun and just ask
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  your girl Jessica as Smith and Desilate. You already know she she in the
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  bike. She in the bike, you know, doing her little producer thing.
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  And we have the lovely Ashley Brown better known ass. That's why had
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  to ask her last name. I'm like, girl, your last name is
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  nowhere, I asked. They call her Ashley Famous cookies. That's not your
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  last name. Your last your name is Ashley Brown. Okay. I was
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  like, where's the last day nowhere. I'll be hind it and I do
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  my research before the fact that I had. That's crazy. You're doing a
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  great job, but I'll be FBN. Thank you so much. It went
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  on nowhere A girl went on no all, I see is cookies. Yes,
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  I do not put that Brown on there because it's just such a basic
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  last name. And I have friends that have the same first, middle,
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  and last name as me. Really, and then as far as user names,
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  like my name is Ashley Nicole Brown, everybody's name is Ashley Nicole.
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  Yeah, my name is Jessica Smith, So I can understand that that's kind
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  of jessicad Smith in like my first grade class. But you know, Jessica's
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  are bad, actually so bad every Ashley I know. Yeah, I don't
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  think. I know. We are a character on our own that y'all do
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  what y'all want to do. Yeah, we y'all like y'all, y'all handle
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  it. Yeah, we can get a little wild. Y'all do what y'all
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  want to do. And you are doing what you want to do, y'all.
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  If y'all don't know who Ashley is, I said it in her name
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  actually famous cookies. She is famous for these gourmet cookies that she make.
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  She's right out of Burmeam, Alabama, like homegirl, Like my mouth drools
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  every time that post that you made by the Oio cookies the other day I
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  saw. My mouth is drooling, right now okay, like right now,
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  I can't standing and then they beat like the cookies are just the size they
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  are, like you can do it like this when you put your palm out
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  like that, the cookies, the cookies go right in the middle of the
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  palm, like I am drooling right now. How long have you been in
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  the cookie game? So? I officially have been in the cookie game since
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  March of twenty eighteen, officially, but I started baking cookies after I had
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  my first son in twenty sixteen, and I was tired of spending money on
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  cookies because my postpartum craving was just cookies. So I was like, I
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  might as well try to make some. And I made them one time and
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  my mom would not eat any of the cookies and I'm like, Mama,
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  come on, it's not that deep. So your mama forced you to make
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  some cookies after you made it one time, yes, And she was on
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  my head for two years. She for the last eighteen months. She was
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  just like, you need to sell these, and I'm like, mom,
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  there. You know, sometimes when your parents support you, yeah, you
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  feel like they just gassing you up a lie. No, no, my
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  mama, don't cap about nothing. But at the same time, in that
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  point in my life, I really didn't have no type of focal point on
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  where I was going. I was twenty one, no, well twenty two
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  at the time, I had a small child. I had felt disassociated for
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  my friend group because everybody was still in college. I was back at home.
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  I was working at a daycare. I didn't really know what I was
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  doing with my life, and so one day I was like, I ain't
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  got none to lose. I'm gonna just post these pictures on Facebook and see
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  what it do. Let's talk about that day. What do you remember about
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  that moment with it? Sound like you had a fed up moment? Where
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  were you in Like you said, you were working at a daycare. Where
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  were you living at the point? Were you're still in bare Yes, I
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  was at my mom's house and at the time I had quit the daycare,
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  but I had started a part time photography job on the weekend at the Redmont
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  Hotel. But it was only like every other Saturday. But to show you
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  how low minimum wage is, I could make my whole check doing that one
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  photography gig versus being at the daycare. So I was like, Mama,
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  I think I want to quit this daycare. And she was like, oh,
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  I thought you was just doing community service anyway. What is your mama's
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  name? Ms? Linda? We might need you you so you gas people
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  up, and the truth, I am a spinning image of Linda, she
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  said she thought. Okay, So when she said that, that let me
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  know that nobody was keeping me in that space of stagnation but me, because
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  she never took that seriously anyway. But I didn't have nothing else going on.
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  Girl, did you just hear what she just said? She said,
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  I was doing something that somebody else was not taken seriously, but you took
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  it seriously because you thought you needed it. I felt like the way I
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  grew up, if you're not doing something productive, what are you doing?
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  But what is productive? Exactly? So to me, I knew I can't
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  just be sitting around at the house with this baby. And I didn't have
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  a degree, and at the time, back in those times, twenty seventeen,
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  content creation all that wasn't where it is today. Yeah, you can't
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  just walk up in there and say, hey, I'm really good at marketing.
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  I'm really good at this. Okay, where's your degree? Exactly?
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  We was just talking about this. Oh, my sister told I'm gonna tell
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  you on the camera. My sister Kendall kendl' dread. Yeah, yeah,
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  she told me tell you, hey, tell her. I said, tell
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  her right there. I'm still waiting on that play there, like I said
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  it Kimball all right. So we were just talking about it with Kendall not
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  too long ago. It was just like our parents, especially my daddy.
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  We was just talking about our daddy's how they're similar. Was like you going
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  to school, but that's what they knew. And so now we're get getting
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  in the age where you can teach your kids. You can do what you
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  want to do in real life that is not just no fair tale. You
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  know, how they tell you in kindergarten was like whatever you want to be
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  until they tell you that don't make money. And so now you need to
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  find something that makes money if you want to be raised and live the lifestyle
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  that you grew up on, or do you want to go backwards? So
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  now you're settling just to be back in the same space you were at five
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  years old. So these cookies all leo, these cookies got all to them,
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  Okay, making fire on me, Like I try to tell you,
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  well, cookies do it. They do to a certain extent. So give
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  me a basic cookie, Like, just give me a because now now I'm
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  curious because the cookies technically got all in it. But I was talking about,
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  right, But but the symbolicness of that is in the cookie. Because
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  if you don't keep your cookie on parchment, paper is gonna dry out.
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  So your foundation gotta be a surface that can keep it moisturized. You see
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  what I'm saying again seriously, because that's the thing. People like, what's
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  the secret to your cookies? But the thing is I can give somebody else
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  the same recipe, but their regimen might be different. You you're talking good.
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  I love you said that because something I recognized on your on your platform,
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  right, something I recognized on your platform is that you're literally telling people
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  how. You're even telling people how, but you're still thriving. So now
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  let's let's talk about. Yeah, you went from okay, so you go
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  from baking your mama till you bake these cookies. Right now, mind you,
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  what what age was your your son when you were when you I was
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  still I started baking with him on my back in the carrier. So he
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  was somewhere between eighteen months to two years old when I really started, you
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  know, getting started. Wow. So yeah, he was small, so
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  this is all he knows, like his mom being an entrepreneur. So it's
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  interesting because I was raised by it heads. So I'm learning now that I
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  get my creativity from them. But the way that they put into the world,
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  it's very similar, but it looks different to the naked eye. Yeah,
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  but both of my parents do it. But one is like a in
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  the field, I like, if you My dad's job is to go fix
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  the problem. He likes to be out there in the field, so he
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  travels a lot, where my mom she's more of in the office of manager,
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  project manager, risk all that, so she plans it. But they
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  used their creativity in different ways. But growing up, I felt like the
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  outcasts because I was artsy, fartsy, like I was a rapper, I
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  was a photographer. I did those as you coal as your coal, okay,
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  we can, We're gonna google it and find some awesome music. Yeah,
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  and that you know, that's crazy. I just came to peace with
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  that that that is a part of my past because when people started calling me
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  the cookie Lady, I used to get so upset. Why because I was
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  a rapper, and I was a big rapper at the time, but me
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  having a child slowed all that down. So as I saw that identity fade
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  to where people didn't even I used to ask your coal, what's up?
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  What's up? Now? It's that's that's my cookie lady. My ego was
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  bruised. That's that's interesting that you like what was actually providing for you.
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  And I don't know, would you consider bacon couldies or baking? Yeah,
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  cause you don't just do cookies. So those were cookie cups. But I
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  specialized in cookies. But part of when you ask me, what am I
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  working on right now? So I actually am coming off of a hiatus.
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  I got burned out from baking. I saw that took off so fast,
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  and when I say took off, it got to the point where I went
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  from doing things nationally. But I was so quiet about it. People till
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  this day have no idea what all I've really done because it wasn't on a
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  local level, and I was going through so much at the time. I
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  had twins, in the middle of a pandemic, out of a weird situation,
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  I was trying to figure out who I was. I've been parenting throughout
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  my whole twenties and people see this hour success, but I didn't know who
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  I was. So I just stepped back because I was like, I'm losing
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  myself and trying to keep up with the image that I don't even know if
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  I identify with. Ooh my god. So I still kept creating, but
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  I started doing something else. I got on TikTok, I was doing ash
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  limited, I was doing hitting gyms. I was discovering businesses, trying to
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  support small businesses, let people know, Hey, there's other businesses out here
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  that y'all don't know about. Go check them out. But even with that,
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  I got lost in that. I just kept feeling like I'm pouring,
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  and I'm pouring, but where's mine? Where's my blessing? And it's not
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  that I've ever done it to receive something, but when your cup is starting
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  to run dry, how do you keep going? So make a long story
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  short, I realized you nobody asked you to save anybody, but you doing
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  everything but for yourself. Yeah, So I stepped back and I had to
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  figure out, who are you outside of all of these amazing things that you
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  do that part? Who are you if you stripped all that away? What
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  you do? If you stripped all that away, Like, hey, you
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  can't bake cookies no more than nothing? Who are you? And who is
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  that? And I realized that I am a creative that just enjoys making things
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  out of nothing on I'm a multifaceted artist. I don't want to be pinned
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  as just this or that. But I also have to not run away from
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  the roles I play because I'm afraid of being pinned. I'm afraid that I'm
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  gonna lose my musician identity, or my photography identity, or my artist identity
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  or my baking those are all of you. But I just got to the
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  point where I didn't want to talk about any of any of it because I
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  was afraid that the more I leaned into something, I was going to not
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  be able to tap into other things. When I realized that if it's for
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  you, it's for you. Yeah, and something can be a vessel for
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  other things, but you have to be consistent with the entrust the process similar
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  Okay, mm, it's like I've created, yes, that part that part
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  like like we're all created and so growing up, Uh, she's always so
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  a physician. And all my uncles Oh wow, so always build their own
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  homes, all these that's so, that's so cool. I've always thought that
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  was amazing. It's so good. I was like, it's so cool,
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  like when you really get your family. That was at myself like, oh
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  lord, I I just do this mm when here since I was twelve,
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  but I just to paint. Like my my minor in college was our studio,
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  Like oh wow, I uh I, I love to draw. That's
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  when I got into photography. But I set myself on this path to be
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  just a hairstyles as I began to allow guy to really as I began to
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  get closer to him and and understand who he is, then I can understand
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  who Yeah, Like I'm a creator. People like, oh what do you
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  do? And I just say I'm a creator because yup, get to create
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  in whatever lane and fast that he's given me in that moment, in that
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  moment, exactly why to be okay with that? Like you know, some
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  people like, oh, you just doing the most, that's the part.
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  And I'm becoming okay with that. Like I think we just have to be
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  become okay with who we are and just whatever. I agree, because I
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  think that sometimes chasing that future self so much, you don't even appreciate when
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  you were doing music, when you didn't have kids, or even your kids
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  being small. You ain't none to get older so you can get something back
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  you're not gonna get So I'm not who I was ten years ago, and
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  I don't want to be right. This is a funny story. So Taco
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  Bell brought back the chicken flatbread sandwich. Now y'all might not know, but
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  back in high school, me and my friends were obsessed with this one dollar
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  chicken flatbread sandwich. It was so good. It was basically the chicken casedia
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  ingredients but on the flatbread. Okay, and me and my brothers made a
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  joke. We were like, it's never gonna come back after ten years.
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  We just gave up. And then we saw them bring it back, like,
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  oh, try to sound don't do it. It's not good at all.
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  So here's the thing. I don't know if they changed it or if
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  I've outgrown that level of myself. I don't really like processed food no more,
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  and I don't eat fast food as much. So is it really that
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  it changed or it was I in the fantasy of something that no longer even
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  serves me. I can't even focus what to do for me because I'm focused
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  on a flatbread sandwich from twenty thirteen. Come on, Ashley, listen.
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  When she was about I said, if she finna go down this street,
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  I know she really this. You know, we got church mics and they
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  be folks. Charity was acting like she wanted to preach over here. It's
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  something about these browns. If y'all get connected to a something brown, just
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  go ahead and sow the seed. Okay, because Bishop Brown over here.
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  It's giving us some girl. It no longer serves me. And the thing
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  about it is the beautiful thing about it is being a creative. Ash is
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  that I'm learning. And I thank God for Tim Ross and his ability to
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  expose his story through the basement. Right if you don't follow him, he's
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  a good creative to follow. Hold on, but I think it has been
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  around for a while. Yeah, the basement he year three years now.
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  Okay, Okay, I'm thinking about a different basement. Go ahead, you
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  try to talk about beet basement. Yes, yeah, that was good too,
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  but that's not the saying. Okay, you're gonna have to link y'all
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  have to link you into it. But Tim Ross is now a pot full
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  time podcaster. God removed him from being a full time pastor, but everything
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  he did as a full time pastor he's able to utilize as a full time
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  part makes sense. Right before that, before he was I think, before
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  he was in God or whatever for real, for real, he had a
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  creative. He was rapping. He was a rapper. So now it is
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  opening for his podcast. Every season he's spitting something different. Yeah, so
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  now you're utilizing the tools. It never watched this, It never goes away.
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  Fact, God watch this. God builds on what he's exposed to you.
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  Yes, so now you're gonna be the wrapping cookie cutter. Seriously,
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  because that is something that I've recently had an epiphany on that, like I
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  need to just do me and be on apologetic. And when you said,
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  hey, I notice that you're getting more comfortable, somebody else told me that
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  randomly, like some random person just takes me and said, hey, I
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  like this this new you, and I'm like, okay, thank you.
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  You know. It was just kind of you know how, and sometimes spiritly
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  somebody just send you something you're like, okay, but okay, it's no
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  context here. But I appreciate that. But I realize what's really going on
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  is I'm no longer trying to fit into any box. I'm just being the
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  abundant me. I can be whatever I'm supposed to be doing in that moment
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  and building off of what I already have. That's where the abundance is.
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  But we be limiting ourselves. Like my mom was saying about the daycare,
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  I thought you knew this was just a temporary situation. I don't know why
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  you feel, like, why why do we make things permanent that we know
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  in our heart that are not are part of our long term goals? Like
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  why are we limiting even when you look at toxic situations that people will stay
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  in and you know, you're like, I'm not gonna give advice on it.
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  No more. They don't. They're not gonna change. They just they
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  don't. They just want to keep doing this over and over, and we
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  do it too. It's really because when something is vibrating on a low frequency
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  and it's not serving you, you can pretty much statistically, because our brains
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  are the original algorithm. As far as these phones and stuff, that's that's
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  all it is. It's just a copy of what we already do with our
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  minds. Naturally, if you see something play out that's very bad every day,
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  you statistically have an idea mentally, how that's gonna go. I know
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  I'm not gonna really get that raise. I know this man isn't really right
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  for me. I know how this is gonna go. I know how my
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  week. But when you step on faith and you go into uncharted territory,
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  now you in a new algorithm. You don't know how that's gonna play out.
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  So now fear is involved. So even though you know you're leaving something
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  that doesn't serve you, you're losing that grip on something that you had control
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  of. You see what I'm saying. And that's why we stay in it.
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  It's not because we don't want better. It's because we know that I
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  can predict this outcome every time I know you're gonna get me be pointed at
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  you. But you are on target, ma'am. You like I feel like
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  I'm I feel like I want a soul like like cause see she is on
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  point right now. Because we lose we lose focus, because we allow fear
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  to become folk, we lose, we lose the child like faith, Yes,
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  the child like faith that it takes yes to go speak to that mountain
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  and say, I command you to move the abilities that God has already bettered
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  up. Because the gag is that when he created us, he's the We're
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  the only creation, the one that was made in his image, but also
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  made it his image to give us the power and dominion over where we are
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  facing naturally exactly right. And so when we when we neglect that, when
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  we negate that, that's when we feel like we have that low frequency because
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  we're not coming up. Is that I'm gonna share this because I want to
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  say this on camera because I've been saying this around the house for months now.
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  My mom. This is so random, but somebody need to hear this.
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  Come on now. My mom was on her way to the store and
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  she had a car accident randomly, just we were on the phone at eleven
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  eleven and she it just said sh and I'm thinking she didne lost signals.
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  She'll call me back in a minute. I go to deliver some cookies in
• 25:07
  the opposite way after the lady already told me randomly she could meet me at
• 25:11
  the store my mom was going to when I told her that doesn't align with
• 25:17
  the route. It'll be a lot easier for me to just drop them off
• 25:19
  where you need them to be because it's a shorter distance. But I had
• 25:23
  to end up turning around anyway, because my mom has called me and said,
• 25:27
  hey, I need you to pick me up. I got a in
• 25:30
  a car accident. And I know, just from my mom's previous situations,
• 25:33
  when she's in shock, she doesn't call other she calls me. Instead of
• 25:37
  calling the police or calling she calls me. So I'm not sure is this
• 25:42
  a casual fender bender or did something happen Because I'm not sure. I pull
• 25:48
  up to the scene. Her car is completely total. I don't even know
• 25:53
  how she's standing there. Wow, I could have literally had talked to my
• 25:57
  mom for the last time right then, my best friend, she's sitting there,
• 26:03
  beautiful as ever, with her ponytail slightly out of place. That's it.
• 26:08
  And I'm looking at her car like mama, how she said, I
• 26:11
  don't even know. I just woke up upside down and climbed out. Oh
• 26:15
  my gosh. And I told her because that day we really could have lost
• 26:21
  our mom. Twin I have twin brothers, by the way, they're younger
• 26:22
  than me. They pulled up and we're sitting there hugging her, and the
• 26:26
  police officers say, hey, I hate to break up this happy home,
• 26:30
  but y'all got to get off the scene so we can clear this up.
• 26:32
  And I said, when I got home, I said, this is so
• 26:34
  crazy to me, how we're looking at you survive a deadly accident without a
• 26:41
  scratch. So the police officers casually moved us off the scene. But if
• 26:45
  that would have went the other way, they would have been acting totally different.
• 26:49
  And I said, why is it that when something good happens, it's
• 26:53
  the one percent? Why do we limit God like that? Why is it
• 26:56
  a miracle when it's a positive thing? But if she would have died,
• 27:03
  you know, everything happened for a reason. It's sad r ip. You
• 27:07
  know, people be dying every day, but when it's a positive outcome,
• 27:11
  you're blessed. Why are we shocked if we really trust God? Why does
• 27:18
  it have to be statistically low that you prevailed from that with a bruise in
• 27:25
  the shape of a heart. I'm just trying to understand, because if you
• 27:29
  truly trust that, you are favored, then why does it have to be
• 27:33
  a miracle statistically? If Yin and Yang truly exists fifty to fifty black and
• 27:40
  white, Now, why are we giving the negative side of energy so much
• 27:45
  authority? Thank you, We're giving it a lot of authority. Because,
• 27:49
  don't get me wrong, Yes, it is amazing that she survived. I
• 27:55
  had to realize that when we be sitting around talking about, like we say
• 27:59
  our affirmation, I'm safe, I'm protected, I'm loved. Are you just
• 28:03
  saying it or what? Because yeah, because now when it comes into play,
• 28:08
  no, that's what we believe. You know what I'm saying. We
• 28:12
  believe in those outcomes being possible. But I just want to share that because
• 28:18
  I think even in business success, why are we limiting ourselves statistically that oh,
• 28:23
  okay, you might be able to do that, but you know the
• 28:29
  chances No, because people go outside every day and do reckless stuff every day
• 28:33
  and we give them all the credit, but we never give it credit.
• 28:37
  Tabitha Brown saying, hey, we finna do this, yo, that's what's
• 28:41
  supposed to happen. Your platform is a line with what she own. My
• 28:45
  god, that's what's so crazy to me. We gotta start giving it more
• 28:51
  credit us. Yeah, yeah, we gotta start giving our ability through God
• 28:56
  more credit. That's all it come down to. You're talking, good woman,
• 29:02
  seriously, and that's all I got. No, that ain't all you
• 29:04
  got. That's a lie. That is she lying. That's not all she
• 29:07
  got. She's been spinning bars since she sat down. She walking the door.
• 29:12
  Just it's been Ashley. This is this is so powerful because what you're
• 29:21
  right now, I want you to tell I want to tell you what you're
• 29:22
  doing. You're allowing people to see a voice behind the cookie. You're allowing
• 29:30
  them to understand that God doesn't place me here on this platform just to be
• 29:34
  the cookie. The cookie lady, you know, I have a voice,
• 29:37
  I have a story, and I might swell smell sweet, but I've been
• 29:41
  through some stuff. Right. The beautiful thing about your story you were talking
• 29:45
  about earlier, earlier, and I don't want to buy past this. She
• 29:48
  was like, you were like that you had a lot of national recognition before
• 29:52
  you have a local recognition. In the word, there's a scripture that basically
• 29:55
  talks about a person, specifically a prophet, being known a pre she ated
• 30:00
  outside of his own territory. What was that transition like for you when you
• 30:04
  when you were naturally recognizing that all of a sudden the local cause, baby
• 30:08
  you are? You are the cooking lady for Fox six News. Yes,
• 30:11
  baby, Oh it's got a big gott it no Goto six news. I
• 30:18
  love. I used to love the little things when I was so I almost
• 30:22
  forgot about that. You just brought back a nostalgic memory because I totally forgot
• 30:26
  about that jingle. Really, I wonder when they took it away? Girl,
• 30:30
  I love. I used to love every time I used to. I
• 30:33
  used to. I used to be rocking, just like this. Oh what's
• 30:37
  gotta goddess? Totally forgot about that Far six news and that's oh baby,
• 30:45
  I was rocking. I think what's her name is? Janice missus Janne Yep,
• 30:49
  she's been there for a loan. She has a lot of them.
• 30:52
  Have they got that online? Period? But how did you go from because
• 30:56
  I will go my sister said that we ada, Well, I'm in the
• 31:03
  right space. What was your experience, like, what was your first experience
• 31:06
  nationally? How did that transpire and how did that move you closer to home
• 31:10
  and people recognize you locally? Okay, So I'll make the beginning of Ashley's
• 31:15
  famous cookies short and then we'll talk about the national and bring it back home.
• 31:19
  So starting off, my support was at home, so family and friends,
• 31:26
  people in Birmingham finding about the cookies through word of mouth and through social
• 31:30
  media. I do have a gift for social media marketing, so I used
• 31:37
  my passion for that to push my cookies and get them out there. So
• 31:41
  I did luckily get things going quickly in that area. From twenty eighteen,
• 31:48
  I was doing cookies in conversation at the BCRI, I was on the news,
• 31:53
  I had a Birmingham Times right up. All within six months. Wow.
• 31:59
  I was meeting people, connecting with celebrities all that quickly, and I
• 32:06
  was like, I don't know if I put in the work to be getting
• 32:09
  this type of blessing. Ashley. Oh no, no, no, no,
• 32:12
  no, no, no, no no, no, you can't wait,
• 32:15
  Ashley, that is so real. Oh I almost cried on that one.
• 32:21
  Lord, I just started this and you're giving me this level of exposure.
• 32:27
  Facts, how did you overcome that feeling? So I had recently read
• 32:32
  The Alchemist right before that, and I know there was this thing called beginner's
• 32:37
  luck and it's like you being able to have an easy breakthrough so you won't
• 32:40
  give up when it gets hard. But at the end of the book,
• 32:45
  he had traveled the whole world spoiler alert skip. He traveled the whole world
• 32:51
  because he had a dream that his treasure was on the other side of the
• 32:55
  of wherever he went. So he went through this whole journey. He met
• 32:59
  at alcheml and he finally gets there and he gets beat up by these men
• 33:02
  in the desert and they're like, you, silly fool. I once had
• 33:06
  a dream that my treasure was back basically at his house. They described the
• 33:13
  sheep and wherever he was from, he was like a shepherd. So he's
• 33:16
  like what, So he travels all the way back home to look under his
• 33:22
  little poor shed, and there was a treasure under there the whole time.
• 33:25
  But you get the point of the story. Yeah, the whole time.
• 33:30
  It was here the whole time. You feel me So that beginner's luck.
• 33:34
  Sometimes I think it's because we go through all these things to realize we had
• 33:37
  it the whole time, like you said, building off of things. So
• 33:39
  I think my last five years after that Beginner's luck, there were a lot
• 33:44
  of abundant outward moments, but inwardly I was still searching for the purpose when
• 33:49
  I am just now realizing that it was here the whole time. So that
• 33:52
  beginner's luck. You have to remember, Hey, you are supposed to have
• 33:58
  at don't think you supposed to go through the strug once again. Why do
• 34:01
  we have this struggle? I'm trying to understand why we are so especially in
• 34:07
  the black community. We feel like if we don't struggle or make our kids
• 34:09
  struggle, then it's not deserving. It doesn't make sense. It's so good.
• 34:14
  So you have everything you're supposed to have, you supposed to have,
• 34:17
  you don't need to struggle. This is the moment you're supposed to be in.
• 34:21
  This is so good. So twenty eighteen, cool boom, and I
• 34:25
  lost the baby weight, I'm getting small, the business booming. I didn't
• 34:30
  even mix a little wrapping into it, like my kid getting older at this
• 34:32
  point. So I'm finding myself again. Twenty nineteen, I'm doing pop ups,
• 34:39
  I'm doing all that stuff, and I'm still progressing the cookies. But
• 34:45
  at the end of twenty nineteen, I got pregnant with twins, and then
• 34:49
  the pandemic happened. So now I've personally set myself back. I'm doing the
• 34:54
  math. I went from one to three, and I know how one was.
• 34:58
  I'm still a single mom. I'm trying to run a business, and
• 35:00
  now we don't even know if we can breathe outside. So I'm at home
• 35:07
  trying to make it work. But I'm now transitioning to just shipping because people
• 35:15
  don't want their food touch and I don't want to keep meeting people in person,
• 35:21
  having contact with people. Because I'm pregnant with twins. I'm already high
• 35:24
  risk. The mortality rate for black women, and not just America but in
• 35:29
  Alabama is so high, and I'm trying to survive his pregnancy in a state
• 35:31
  that don't even care about me being pregnant. So I don't want to catch
• 35:36
  nothing. And I don't want to be in a position to where I got
• 35:37
  to have these kids early without any help, because at the time you couldn't
• 35:42
  have anybody in the room with it, right. So I'm up against a
• 35:45
  lot of stuff, not to mention the anxiety of the domestic issue that I
• 35:50
  felt like I was in at the time. So fast forward the kids.
• 35:55
  I think it was twenty twenty one. At this point, they're eight nine
• 36:01
  months old, and I'm like, I gotta now. I feel like I
• 36:04
  gotta make up for lost time, right because I done slowed all the way
• 36:08
  down. So you know, when you start burning out because you're trying to
• 36:12
  catch up for all the time. I'm creating all kind of content, and
• 36:15
  at the time, cookies weren't where they are today. When I was doing
• 36:21
  gore andmet cookies and break aparts, it won't a lot of people did.
• 36:22
  It wasn't. It wasn't, and I don't talk about this stuff, but
• 36:27
  a lot of big corporations have copied businesses like mine. I'm gonna just leave
• 36:30
  it like that. So I'm watching them hit the scene and them going viral
• 36:36
  and them doing their thing, and I'm like, my breakuparts aren't even hitting
• 36:39
  like they used to because now it's the norm to see something that's not chocolate
• 36:44
  chip or oatmeal. I'm like, dang, So I started getting crazy.
• 36:47
  I'm breaking cookies at the fair. My mama's skirting up to the fair.
• 36:51
  I'm pulling outside no ticket, breaking cookies. I'm downstairs in front of the
• 36:55
  Alabama Theater breaking cookies. I'm not actually there, I'm pulling up look a
• 37:00
  hot mess with twins crying in the back, breaking cookies, just trying to
• 37:04
  trying to get my content on because I'm thirsty. I'm thirsty, but make
• 37:10
  a long story short, nothing was popping off. And then Ashley Gooden from
• 37:16
  ABC, she was like, girl, I really want to She was like,
• 37:21
  you them cookies look so good. She's like, I really want to
• 37:22
  do a segment on you, but I got to figure out how to tie
• 37:27
  it to something going on, because you can't just give businesses free advertisement.
• 37:31
  It's got to be something tied to it. And she was like, hum,
• 37:37
  have you dealt with inflation or you know, anything like that? And
• 37:44
  I'm like, yeah, you know, we're definitely dealing with that because at
• 37:46
  the time everything was just rising. This was before it got as bad as
• 37:50
  it is now. Yeah, but we thought that was the worst. Like,
• 37:52
  yeah, I've dealt with that. She's like, you also dealt with
• 37:55
  like the limitational product, yes, supply chain issues all that. So she
• 38:02
  was like, okay, Ashley whipped that thing up. We recorded the segment
• 38:08
  and she was like it'll be on tonight after the basketball game. I forgot
• 38:14
  what basketball game it was, but it was the biggest game at the time,
• 38:16
  and I was like, oh wow, okay, she did that quick.
• 38:20
  So the game goes off. I'm watching. I'm like, okay,
• 38:22
  this is like my first write up, you know, on the news per
• 38:28
  se. That's not just like I was a part of an event and I
• 38:30
  got my little five seconds. This is my segment. So she she goes
• 38:37
  on there and Janis actually is the one saying the write up. So she's
• 38:43
  like, ashle sweamius cookies, but blah blah blah blah. And I remember
• 38:45
  my phone pinged ten times, my website goes stay d. I'm like,
• 38:50
  oh my god, nothing nothing, not a single cell. This one lady
• 38:55
  called me and she was like a older lady, and I could tell she
• 38:59
  was just really just trying to talk, like hey, you know, I
• 39:02
  want to order cookies, but I don't know how to use the internet.
• 39:06
  And I sat there and talked to this lady for ten minutes and after it
• 39:08
  was over, silence. Wow. And I was like, Okay, that's
• 39:14
  cool, that's all right. And this was local news, right. So
• 39:19
  I had kept saying I have it on recording million by May, a million
• 39:22
  by May. I'm gonna have a million by May. I wasn't specific lord,
• 39:27
  but I kept saying a million by May. And it was May twenty
• 39:31
  ninth, and I recorded holding my twins outside of my minivan. I said,
• 39:36
  Mama, I want to get this on recording because I still believe I'm
• 39:37
  I have a million by May, and she I said, for everybody,
• 39:42
  I want to put this on recording. I'm gonna have a million by May.
• 39:45
  So May thirty. First, I get a call from this lady and
• 39:52
  I didn't answer. And the night before me and my mom was up till
• 39:55
  four in the morning. You know how you just got to talk to your
• 39:59
  person and you don't know why you can't sleep, but y'all over analyzing everything.
• 40:02
  We just up. You know what I'm talking about. It'd be them
• 40:06
  long and like, man, we got to go to sleep, but you
• 40:08
  hitting on something. And so that next morning, I said, Mama,
• 40:13
  got a voicemail from this lady and she was like, Hi, this is
• 40:16
  Kate from Fox and Friends and we just want to know if you have been
• 40:21
  dealing with supply chain issues and this and that. And I never heard of
• 40:24
  Fox and Friends. I don't watch Fox like that. I don't I'm not
• 40:29
  on that. First off, I don't watch news anyway. But now that
• 40:31
  I'm more familiar with Fox and Friends, I had never heard of that.
• 40:36
  So I was like, mom, do you know what Fox and Friends is?
• 40:38
  They sent me a voicemail. I don't know what she's talking about,
• 40:42
  like Fox and girl, you know what that is? Of course, I
• 40:45
  folks know, I don't know what that is. The TV show that's the
• 40:50
  number one morning show for Fox National News. What I look it up?
• 40:55
  They average over a million viewers. Girl, I'm like what. So now
• 41:04
  I'm calling this lady bag and she's questioning me like I'm already on air because
• 41:07
  they want to see can you so tell me are you doing this? This?
• 41:13
  This? Yes, bah bah blah blah blah. Okay, so how
• 41:15
  about are you available for five Eastern time in the morning to do a segment.
• 41:22
  I'm like, my drain had no sleep because I've been up and alyzed
• 41:25
  in the spirit. I'm like, yeah, yeah, sure. So now
• 41:32
  I still don't really really realize what I've gotten myself into. So now me
• 41:37
  and my family are in Sam's Club, and I kid you not imagine you
• 41:43
  know you're in this realm, but your mind is moving in slow mod I'm
• 41:46
  picking up flower, But my spirit feel like everybody moving is slow more because
• 41:51
  I know I'm getting myself into something way deeper than fifty packs of flower gonna
• 41:55
  be able to handle. But I'm trying to prepare the best I can.
• 42:00
  But I know this isn't adding up. Like I'm not joking. It felt
• 42:05
  like, you know, when everybody just moving like this, because I'm shook,
• 42:08
  because I'm like, I'm appearing to be a regular person in the store,
• 42:13
  but I'm preparing for the biggest of my life on a platform where everybody
• 42:19
  is die hard Trump fans. I don't know nothing about that side of politics.
• 42:23
  I'm scared because this is a totally different realm of people that I would
• 42:29
  normally target. You see what I'm saying. So the next morning, once
• 42:35
  again, it's still no sleep because guess what, it's news. You up
• 42:37
  at three in the morning and you got an ear piecing, and this is
• 42:40
  at the this is I'm at a commercial kitchen at the time, and it's
• 42:47
  three in the morning and I'm sitting there and I'm listening to them talk politics.
• 42:52
  Don't dawn blah blah blah blah blah, and Trump said this, and
• 42:55
  I mean, what do you think he's gonna do. What do you think
• 42:59
  they're gonna do? And I'm like you em my element they argued about here
• 43:06
  in the office. No listen, I can't see nothing this camera. It
• 43:10
  was just like that, but it was my phone. I couldn't see nothing.
• 43:14
  And I'm just hoping my connection to Skype don't don't drop because I'm doing
• 43:20
  National news off my phone. So oh, you're not going to go beyond
• 43:27
  that. So okay, Paul's right here. Okay, this is to be
• 43:34
  digesting. This is my first time. Bro. It's just as the podcast.
• 43:38
  This this the oil. This is the annoying over here. This lady
• 43:42
  just said what I'm talking you because you're doing so much. This lady just
• 43:46
  said that the lady from the friends in Fox the Fox, and she had
• 43:52
  the gold to psalms and be prepared the best segment if five o'clock Eastern standardside,
• 44:01
  So it's four o'clock, yes, ma'am, where it's going. I
• 44:04
  gotta be prepared way before that because they got to test you. Hey,
• 44:08
  can you hear us? Okay? Great? Angle? Your camera okay,
• 44:12
  awesome? And your camera is your phone? That part Ashley on your own
• 44:19
  National I want you all to hear something. She was on national news now,
• 44:24
  a national platform, with using what she had. She said yes with
• 44:30
  nothing, Yes, she said yes with what she already has, the kick.
• 44:34
  I didn't have the plug with local Fox yet, so I couldn't just
• 44:39
  I couldn't just say can I go to their station? Because this is all
• 44:45
  happening in twenty four hours. I don't have enough time. And I'm also
• 44:50
  not trying to put that type of attention on me locally because I don't know
• 44:54
  what I'm getting myself into. So I don't want local in my business because
• 44:59
  I don't know what I'm I don't even know yet if this is something I'm
• 45:01
  trying to have eyes on me, like, oh you doing this? I
• 45:05
  don't know yet. I this is a call I just got, so I'm
• 45:08
  gonna just do it on my phone. Mind you here, normal person.
• 45:15
  In my mind, I'm like you about to be exposed to the whole country.
• 45:19
  But the season I was in, I told you, I ain't had
• 45:21
  nothing going on for real. I was playing ketchup, I got small kids,
• 45:25
  infant twins. I'm exhausted. I don't know if this is something I
• 45:30
  want to try to I don't like I be dimming my life. I don't
• 45:34
  want people looking at me. Don't don't, don't hate on me. I'm
• 45:38
  just trying to do something I'm not. Don't hate on me that makes me
• 45:42
  uncomfortable. So I didn't won't burning him because see, those are people I
• 45:46
  know why. I don't want them to know that I got this going on,
• 45:50
  cause that's just gonna put energy on what I just don't worry about it.
• 45:53
  Right now. This is so boom. My eyelash get in my eye
• 46:01
  right before they go you about to go on? Are you serious? I'm
• 46:07
  twitching because my contact I'm like crap. So I'm like this, I kid
• 46:12
  you not, and I can't see because I'm just trusting that I'm looking in
• 46:15
  the right area because I know that these are big news anchors and they're gonna
• 46:20
  flash my face in but I can't see them. So I'm pretending that I'm
• 46:24
  looking at these big celebrity news anchors. I don't. I can't see them,
• 46:30
  and my eye missed up, so I'm fixing it as they're like,
• 46:34
  you're about to go live after this commercial, so here I am. It's
• 46:39
  hurt. It's hurt. It's a reculection you can imagine how scary it is
• 46:45
  because it already sound official. It's it's the sound that so loud in the
• 46:52
  little sound of it, boom boom, I'm like, this is too much,
• 46:57
  And then I already know, are you order sound right now? Okay?
• 47:01
  They usually drop it when it's something they want to fear monger. Oh
• 47:07
  you know what I'm talking about. It's like man Biden about to do this
• 47:13
  boom boom, the war about to do this, and this national news,
• 47:15
  so they know they feeding this energy to the whole country. So they really
• 47:20
  feeding it. So I can't see and I don't like I shy away from
• 47:24
  that type of stuff anyway. So now y'all messing up my I can't even
• 47:28
  get grounded because I hear y'all talking all this stuff in my ear and I'm
• 47:32
  just waiting on the cookie signet. And now I'm scared because I'm like,
• 47:37
  are they gonna put that on me? I thought I was just gonna talk
• 47:40
  about inflation. I don't want to talk about politics. I don't want to
• 47:44
  talk about red and blue states. Oh lord, did I get myself in
• 47:47
  something? Wow? So when it comes on, Hey Ashley, how are
• 47:52
  you? I'm looking I don't see nobody. I'm doing so well. We're
• 47:57
  talking and she's talking about inflation in this and it was a very nice segment.
• 48:01
  It was so positive that I was kind of shocked. I'm like,
• 48:06
  oh, okay, that was cool. Maybe they've wanted to throw a little
• 48:08
  like comment life in there, you know, a lighting Today segment for the
• 48:12
  day. So I get off boom. How long was that segment? It
• 48:19
  was like three to five minutes, okay, but it felt like forever.
• 48:21
  Yeah, okay, And I get off and my phone is pinning. B
• 48:27
  me me me, me, me, me me me b b me me
• 48:30
  b it's frozen up. Your site froze. My phone is frozen. I
• 48:37
  don't know what the site got going on, because when I tell you this
• 48:39
  thing, now, mind you just less than a week ago, ten pins,
• 48:44
  and I'm thinking I'd have made it. You see what I'm saying,
• 48:46
  Because numbers is all about your perception. That's why they say a penny to
• 48:51
  somebody who's a dollar to a million, it's just the same number. You
• 48:53
  just add another zero. But what are you familiar to is how you're gonna
• 48:58
  perceive it. Wow, So a dollar to me might be one hundred dollars
• 49:00
  to the next man might be a million, because once you get in that
• 49:04
  rim of numbers, that's why you have to control yourself, because followers and
• 49:07
  all that, you'll keep chasing because it doesn't end. So ten pins the
• 49:12
  other day and now boom, twenty three thousand dollars in cells and find I
• 49:19
  was three. Yeah, but that was just in that moment. It went
• 49:22
  up from there, But that was just in that moment. Twenty three thousand
• 49:27
  dollars in cells while I was on the thing, while I was talking.
• 49:34
  Yeah, so they buying while you on three to five minutes with a lady
• 49:38
  and you you about to lose your mind because you think you're finna talk about
• 49:42
  Trump. I'm spookes, I hain't nothing. All you can do is here
• 49:47
  and watch this. All she can do, y'all is here. That's it.
• 49:53
  That's it. So literally, she had to focus on the voice that
• 49:58
  was telling her to make this beautiful white woman is in front of me.
• 50:04
  I saw her picture the night before, and that intimidated me more because she
• 50:07
  looked like she'd been doing this for a long time. Very beautiful, and
• 50:10
  she's sitting there and I can tell that she's a very adored anchor. So
• 50:15
  I got someone that they already on that station really adore you, see what
• 50:22
  I'm saying. But she adored you enough to call you for the three five
• 50:24
  seas exactly. The producer put me with her. She didn't have to do
• 50:29
  that. She could have just put me with one of the men on the
• 50:30
  segment. She put me with the adored woman anchor of the segment. So
• 50:35
  they made sure it felt it felt nice and bright, and it wasn't as
• 50:42
  boom boom boom as the commercials right before. So the whole time you gonna
• 50:47
  have I'm telling you, so the whole time from the ride back home.
• 50:53
  By the time I got home, it was closer to thirty thousand, and
• 50:58
  it trickled for the last few days after that, it would just trickle by,
• 51:04
  you know, one hundreds, you know, people following it. Okay,
• 51:08
  So this this where the story get interesting. So on this particular segment,
• 51:16
  I can't remember how many it was because this is this is a this
• 51:21
  is something else. It was not a thousand, but it was somewhere in
• 51:24
  the like hundreds. But let me tell you how bad it was. I
• 51:30
  did not have my sight set up for this, so I had variety packs,
• 51:32
  I had individual cookies. I had, you could get six. I
• 51:37
  don't even know how I'm gonna calculate this because I didn't set my site up
• 51:40
  to accommodate a vast amount of orders. So how am I gonna know how
• 51:45
  to bake this? Because it is coming off as this person got six of
• 51:49
  these, one of this, a variety pack of this. How do you
• 51:52
  put that in the excel sheet? So even though I couldn't really I can't
• 51:57
  really recall how many orders it was. It was somewhere between five to seven
• 52:00
  hundred orders, but I don't know exactly what the amount was because of how
• 52:07
  it came in. You know what I'm saying, I've put it out my
• 52:09
  mind. It was literally traumatizing, So your SOPs were not solidified at the
• 52:15
  time. You were just going exactly. And when I got home, I
• 52:17
  remember my mom was printing out orders. I will show you the book.
• 52:22
  She started printing them out and there was printer paper this high, and she
• 52:30
  was like, this is just from five am to twelve from lunch. She
• 52:35
  was like, I haven't even gotten to the other half of the orders.
• 52:37
  It felt like somebody died. Now I want you to catch this a blessing
• 52:42
  so big that you paralyzed, like somebody died. I'm just sitting on the
• 52:46
  couch like this for hours. It wasn't even at first my first started twenty
• 52:52
  three thousand. Oh my god. Now I'm like, I gotta bake this.
• 53:00
  I actually I gotta. I gotta provide a product. I'm sitting here.
• 53:04
  This ain't no digital, It isn't no NPC, these cookies, and
• 53:07
  all these people that order at five in the morning. So in their mind
• 53:10
  they thinking they were the one who order at this time. Baby, you
• 53:15
  and the rest of the country ordered at five am. You're not the only
• 53:16
  one. When I flip through the stack, the stat be this big before
• 53:20
  you get ten minutes on the on the clock. So I'm sitting there.
• 53:23
  I remember my brother. I have twin brothers, and they're like opposite.
• 53:28
  One is like six five ones five ten, and they've always been like the
• 53:31
  Yinni yang twins. But he tasked me on the shoulder and he's like,
• 53:36
  Ashley, you gotta get up, Ashley. These are real order, Ashley,
• 53:43
  these folks that ordered off yourself. You got to provide, you got
• 53:46
  we gotta And the beautiful part about your family. Is that they said we're
• 53:51
  doing it with you facts, because that was when I knew that they really
• 53:55
  roll in me. My brothers put me through it when I was little man
• 54:00
  having little brothers and then twinsday already tight. Yeah, I'm like, bruh,
• 54:04
  you really rock with me because the trauma that we went through trying to
• 54:08
  get them cookies out is a whole nother story. So that was the first
• 54:15
  time, and I still didn't tell nobody here for real. I posted a
• 54:17
  little video saying thank you foughts and friends, but I knew that the people
• 54:22
  who were coming to my page from that platform would understand. But I wasn't
• 54:25
  really worried about Birmingham people knowing what it was because I didn't even know what
• 54:29
  it was for real. So I'm like, if they know, they're not
• 54:30
  gonna take the time to really try to dig into that. So I'm like,
• 54:34
  thank you foughtsing friends, but nobody knew. Six months later, they
• 54:38
  call again for a Chris for December December first. It was June first,
• 54:44
  Rox and friends. Yeah, six months so now it's twenty twenty one.
• 54:47
  Boom the next year. No, I'm sorry. Six months later December first,
• 54:52
  so six months June first to December first, they call again and make
• 54:57
  a long story short, I did it it again, but this time it
• 55:00
  was seventy three thousand in cells, and I'm just gonna say this, make
• 55:09
  a long story short. That was way worse. It was triple the amount
• 55:15
  that it was last time. And after all was said and done, I
• 55:20
  was grateful. But after you cut costs and everything and you didne did all
• 55:24
  of that, I was like, I will never do this again. It's
• 55:30
  so traumatizing because I realized that I'm putting my energy in the wrong space.
• 55:36
  I don't want to go viral. I don't want a quick moment. I
• 55:38
  want studies, consistent financial stability. I do not want to be sitting here
• 55:47
  with people all over the country wanting cookies from me that they order a month
• 55:52
  ago. Baby, I'm baking as fast as I can until this day.
• 55:55
  I know nobody I know has ever been through nothing like that. So I
• 55:58
  don't even talk about it because it's so astronomical. When I look back on
• 56:04
  it now, I don't even know. I know it was God because when
• 56:07
  I tell you so many cookies, let me put it into perspective for you.
• 56:12
  The cookies I make on a fool, Like a large pan, you
• 56:15
  can only do six. And I'm not talking about like people's regular pants,
• 56:20
  but the biggest pan you can put in your oven, you can only do
• 56:22
  six. You can't do twelve. Your cookies are not the normal size exactly.
• 56:29
  So if I did twelve thousand cookies and my cookies are about two and
• 56:34
  a half two to two and a half regular cookies, depending on how small
• 56:37
  a big most people think they big cookies are, that's twenty No shade the
• 56:44
  cookie game, get real, nasty man. But the twenty four I did
• 56:47
  about twenty four to twenty six thousand cookies that December, if you estimated to
• 56:53
  what another baker would have said they did, and dull and as fast as
• 56:59
  you can bait never again, because it's so much on your mental You man
• 57:06
  a shower, You be so thankful to just take a shower. You wake
• 57:09
  up. It's cookies, you bacon, you packing. It's a non stop
• 57:14
  factory and it's nothing fun about it. And after you cut all them costs,
• 57:19
  you be looking at it like, yes, okay, there is a
• 57:22
  nice little lump sum, But compared to what I put me and my people
• 57:25
  through, Yeah, no, yeah, this is yeah. I was just
• 57:31
  about to ask yeah differently. Okay, so this is so funny, Like
• 57:37
  you know when stuff hits you and you have to trust, like go with
• 57:42
  it. I had a little extra money left over from the first time,
• 57:45
  and I remember it was like October and my mom was like, I didn't
• 57:52
  we need to get a dual oven put over here in the corner. And
• 57:55
  my mom shouts my mom because when I tell you, she is the only
• 58:00
  person that has really rolling me through this creative journey of just not people be
• 58:05
  like, man, I wish I could be full time. Baby. I
• 58:07
  stay with my mom. Girl. I live in my mom's house. Me
• 58:13
  and my three kids are in my room that I grew up in. People
• 58:16
  don't know that because you're freeing somebody, right. They just think everybody's sitting
• 58:21
  up here in a loft somewhere. Baby. My mom says, I'm working,
• 58:27
  so you can do you because she trust in my creative journey. And
• 58:32
  I be telling people it's not like I'm just sitting up here on bread.
• 58:36
  I'm just constantly creating. But the bread don't be there. I'd be a
• 58:42
  zero dollars sometimes and I people, are you killing it? I'll thank you
• 58:45
  so much, But it ain't like that all the time, especially when you
• 58:51
  really truly just taking the entrepreneur route. Sometimes you up high and sometimes you
• 58:57
  down real low. So back to the store, Sory, she was like,
• 59:01
  I think we need to go ahead and get this oven installed. So
• 59:04
  we had one of it already installed right before that first thoughts and friends happened.
• 59:09
  What a coincidence. And this was a convection oven, so most people's
• 59:14
  home ovens, it's not a convection, which means you can't bake more than
• 59:17
  one trade at a time without rotating because it's not a circular motion of air.
• 59:23
  It's just coming from the top or the bottom, so you can't bake
• 59:27
  cookies on every rack at one time. So we had already went from leveling
• 59:30
  up from me thinking I'm killing it in twenty eighteen till my mama being like
• 59:36
  you in the kitchen all day baking a pan at a time. We need
• 59:38
  to upgrade to a convection, so now I'm doing three pans at a time.
• 59:42
  I love your mom, yeah, miss she is. So now she's
• 59:50
  like, I don't know why, but it's on my heart that you need
• 59:52
  to go in and put six bands on an oven right here. So we
• 59:55
  took like the part of our kitchen that we would just put like a little
• 59:59
  like brea this table. It's like a weird little space because it's like the
• 1:00:02
  house gives you a dining room, but we never used it as that.
• 1:00:06
  That turned into an office and we would just always sit like right in front
• 1:00:08
  of the little window because it's just like this big little space, like why
• 1:00:13
  they put this here. So she was like, we're just gonna put a
• 1:00:15
  duel oven here. And we had this man, this electrician, come in
• 1:00:21
  and he built this wall to where it looks like it's meant to be there,
• 1:00:23
  like he built a wall around it. So now I have three convection
• 1:00:27
  ovens, which means I can bake three to four pans of cookies in each
• 1:00:30
  oven at a time. So productivity has went from one pan to three pans
• 1:00:36
  to twelve pans, which is equal to the same amount of pans that if
• 1:00:38
  I was to rent out a commercial kitchen for space, it's the same amount.
• 1:00:44
  So I'm like, that's cool. I ain't really got all that traffic
• 1:00:47
  right now, but I know if I get busy for Christmas, you're prepared
• 1:00:52
  for I'm ready because now it's the holidays and we got three ovens. That's
• 1:00:55
  all right. They didn't call it again, and I'm thinking we ready because
• 1:01:00
  them twenty three thousand dollars seals and got none, no, not three of
• 1:01:02
  them. It's been triple it. And tell me how you do that.
• 1:01:07
  I didn't play with God every dinner. Look, oh you want to run
• 1:01:13
  up? Get done up? Okay, never again. So now whenever I
• 1:01:17
  go on National News, I go on there a lot still to this day,
• 1:01:22
  but I usually close my site and get people to subscribe because I realize,
• 1:01:27
  as a marketing person, I would rather have long term customers who are
• 1:01:30
  truly interested in my product than people who are impulsively buying because they are a
• 1:01:37
  big fan of what they're seeing. The platform I'm on this is so you
• 1:01:42
  are, you are given. You are giving gems right now. So now
• 1:01:45
  if shout out to my fuss and friend customers, you there because you really
• 1:01:50
  like me versus you're not my target audience and I enslaved, broke my back
• 1:01:54
  trying to serve you, and you're never gonna come back again, even if
• 1:01:58
  you did like the cookies, because you only bottom because somebody else told you
• 1:02:01
  to for your one time like, oh, I support the little their little
• 1:02:05
  cookie business. Now that you know what they be saying, you ain't gotta
• 1:02:08
  say. We ain't gotta y'all know what y'all be saying, because I'm like,
• 1:02:13
  I don't want to be the little token person exactly, but obviously for
• 1:02:19
  when they see something in you to continuously bring them because for my understand that
• 1:02:23
  you can be as honest as you can possibly be. They're not making money
• 1:02:27
  off you being on the show. They just invite you because okay, it
• 1:02:30
  works works for them their platform, and so the people are seeing, you
• 1:02:34
  know, like, oh okay, that's qus you the cookie. But I
• 1:02:37
  think your strategy behind it is so brilliant, like people like it's almost like
• 1:02:40
  what coach c J said to us one day in seven I'm in a seven
• 1:02:44
  figure podcast community, right, and he was like, I think I forgot
• 1:02:50
  what that man name is, but don't believe me. Just watch something like
• 1:02:52
  don't one Hit Wonder. He was not prepared for the follow up on that.
• 1:02:58
  And so now as an entrepreneur, I'm not I'm set up like we
• 1:03:01
  talked about, you know, tablet, Miss Temnis Tabitha, I'm already in
• 1:03:06
  my in my vein, in my lane. So when people go, well
• 1:03:07
  let me go check this girl out, Boom, there it is. You
• 1:03:09
  know what I'm saying, let me go see what she's offering. Boom.
• 1:03:13
  That is? Now is that some are there some things I still need to
• 1:03:15
  work on the finish on Desilray. Yes, I I got your text message
• 1:03:19
  the other day. Yes, ma'am. However, I'm more prepared than I
• 1:03:22
  would have been last year or the year before that. You know what I'm
• 1:03:27
  saying, with without the opportunity, and so I think what you're setting people
• 1:03:30
  up to believe is that, no, you want some consistency and when the
• 1:03:35
  when the one hit thing or the miracle happens, or that one moment,
• 1:03:39
  that's like, oh surprise, you're already set up for the production of that
• 1:03:44
  man. That that what you just said just blessed a lot of you don't
• 1:03:47
  even know ash like it just blessed. It blessed me because it's like sometimes
• 1:03:52
  we were like, oh, God, just need one moment. No,
• 1:03:53
  you need your preparation, the dad, take those steps. You need to
• 1:03:58
  do what I told you to do. You need to walk in over,
• 1:04:00
  you need to let this go you need to walk out away from the daycare.
• 1:04:02
  You need to go ahead and burn these kids, because watch these these
• 1:04:05
  kids gonna help you. Baby, these colds. Listen, they be trying
• 1:04:09
  and they you know what, they are so good really, and let me
• 1:04:14
  tell you, people gotta stop minimizing these children. I'm tired of hearing this
• 1:04:17
  generation is. Let me tell you something, everybody, I don't care if
• 1:04:21
  you got a kid or not. You know how y'all be running behind them
• 1:04:26
  latest iPhones. This is the latest human being. Girls. The baby born
• 1:04:32
  today is the latest evolution of This is the twenty twenty four human and you
• 1:04:39
  want to date on this. These kids are so creative. They want to
• 1:04:42
  go outside. You don't want to go outside. They on their tablet because
• 1:04:45
  of you, not them. They want to explore. Talk to them and
• 1:04:48
  be honest with them. You don't have to expose them to weird stuff,
• 1:04:54
  but be honest with them when it come up, because they already know intuitively.
• 1:04:58
  They trying to see if you gonna be honest. If them kids like
• 1:05:02
  to build, it don't mean he gonna be the next engineer. That's not
• 1:05:05
  You don't have to put that type of pressure because as a creative. Sometimes
• 1:05:12
  you just exploring you don't know what you're gonna do, but encourage them to
• 1:05:15
  keep on throw some stuff. You know what I got cookie, though,
• 1:05:18
  I ain't gonna do nothing with here, just you can have fun. Yeah,
• 1:05:24
  and some days no, it's a serious business and I gotta get these
• 1:05:27
  to the post office by five, So no, you can't bake today.
• 1:05:30
  But people have to understand that the same way every see. The thing is
• 1:05:35
  they try to separate all the generations to where we won't be one. My
• 1:05:40
  generation was on this, y'all, not on this, No, because now
• 1:05:43
  we're losing the communication between each other. Good, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:05:46
  So now I'm realizing, like even though it was really scary having those
• 1:05:51
  kids and me making a conscious decision that I know I'm gonna be a single
• 1:05:56
  mom with these kids, I still did it because my spirit was like,
• 1:06:01
  I can't do nothing else. I'm not gonna be able to live with nothing
• 1:06:04
  else. Because not because I'm strongly against the other option, it's my personal
• 1:06:12
  belief. For me, I don't feel comfortable these are blessings twins in twenty
• 1:06:19
  twenty. I know they're here for a reason because I'm still trying to figure
• 1:06:25
  out how I even did this, like not literally, but just like wow,
• 1:06:30
  okay, boom, Now I got to do better for you guys.
• 1:06:35
  Start repeating the same cycle. I'm getting washed in the same cycle. Every
• 1:06:40
  time I feel like I'm getting some freedom back, I'm getting pregnant again.
• 1:06:45
  So now I gotta figure out what am I Why am I keep getting washed
• 1:06:48
  in the same load. It's something I'm not taking from this, and I'm
• 1:06:53
  doing this pattern over and over. So now I know that y'all are going
• 1:06:58
  to be a part of of what's meant for me. But I gotta also
• 1:07:01
  level up my wisdom, my maturity, my discernment because I'm doing something that's
• 1:07:08
  not adding up. So now that they're here, And it's so funny because
• 1:07:12
  when I started my motherhood journey, I was pregnant right after I dropped the
• 1:07:15
  hottest mixtape everl I gotta listen to it. I gotta listen to it,
• 1:07:19
  and I know it was driven. And yeah, now that I have three
• 1:07:25
  and it's like from twenty one to twenty nine, I'm like, wow,
• 1:07:28
  I've been being a parent my whole twenties, and I grind it so hard
• 1:07:33
  because I was taught like, get on it. You know, I was
• 1:07:35
  never on a yacht. I never got fluid out. I was grinding the
• 1:07:42
  whole time. And now that I'm in twenty nine, I'm like, Okay,
• 1:07:46
  it's now all hitting me like it wasn't necessarily a punishment or you're not
• 1:07:51
  deserving a being in those spaces, but you need to appreciate what you got
• 1:07:56
  going on right now, because people walk up me every day and be like,
• 1:08:00
  man, they gonna be big and you gonna you know, I remember
• 1:08:03
  when my twins were that little, and now they twenty one. I was
• 1:08:05
  like, Okay, God keep sending me people in the store, and I'm
• 1:08:10
  like, I'm realizing that I can't keep lingering on hip hop, Ashley.
• 1:08:14
  I can't keep lingering on the possibilities of the photography I was trying to dabble
• 1:08:17
  into. I really don't even know how long I'm gonna want to bake.
• 1:08:23
  Like Drake said, when I stop having fun with it, I'll be done
• 1:08:27
  with it. So I need to just appreciate where I'm at and stop trying
• 1:08:31
  to be somewhere else and try to stop trying to marry the thing that God
• 1:08:36
  is just using temporary exactly and build off of it like you don't have to
• 1:08:41
  keep on like I got so mad. I remember I had a quarter life
• 1:08:45
  crisis last year and I was suffering from imparter syndrome. I didn't want to
• 1:08:47
  have a title. I changed my bio every day on TikTok. I'd be
• 1:08:51
  like the multifaceted artist. Naw, that ain't it, the creative, No,
• 1:08:56
  the baker. I was just like, I don't want a title.
• 1:08:59
  And my friend was like, like you, anytime something starts going good for
• 1:09:02
  you, you run from it because you're afraid you getting locked into it.
• 1:09:05
  And I was like, dang, why am I doing this? And I
• 1:09:10
  was like, I'm putting limitations on everything that I can do. Like you
• 1:09:14
  were saying in the beginning, you don't have to subscribe to one thing.
• 1:09:17
  You can do whatever. If it's hair photography, you can do it all.
• 1:09:21
  And I think that's where they try to get us, because if we
• 1:09:25
  don't feel comfortable tapping into everything, then we won't never move. We'll always
• 1:09:30
  be at their job, working for seven dollars and twenty five cent an hour,
• 1:09:33
  or doing whatever we don't want to do because we're afraid that. Well,
• 1:09:36
  I've done this for so long. I don't know if I can do
• 1:09:40
  That's not what God said. I don't know why we keep on doing I
• 1:09:44
  don't know why we're doing it. And now that we have these kids under
• 1:09:46
  us who are completely freeing themselves from the system, it's like a whole nother
• 1:09:51
  war going on with jobs because they feel like they're being lazy. But is
• 1:09:55
  it they're lazier or they know they're worth Yeah, which one is it?
• 1:09:59
  Because we were taught if you just put your head down, they ain't gonna
• 1:10:02
  pay you much, but you'll eventually, you'll eventually, And that's not how
• 1:10:05
  it works for everybody. Some people get that raising, that promotion, but
• 1:10:09
  some people, twenty years later, they still mopping the floors because somebody told
• 1:10:14
  them. Somebody told them that, and they believe it exactly. Somebody told
• 1:10:17
  them that, and they believe it. Ashley, when I tell you you've
• 1:10:20
  been phenomenal than you like y'all have to, I'm so happy I came and
• 1:10:27
  I'm so happy it didn't like rain us out like I don't care about no
• 1:10:30
  rainbow. Inside we podcast inside wbr C was adding like it was like an
• 1:10:34
  I'm not w DOLC I am just asked the podcast. I don't care what
• 1:10:39
  it's doing, but they the Lord didn't tell tell us to stay at home
• 1:10:44
  so fast. We're gonna be. We gonna be outside. We grind it.
• 1:10:47
  Yeah. And one thing I love about this platform is that I love
• 1:10:53
  do what God is doing is that you are an influence and as a creator
• 1:10:58
  in your space right right now as the cookie expert, all right. And
• 1:11:03
  I just I just love the fact that he allows this platform to see see
• 1:11:11
  the creative, but also see the person. And so I'm I'm appreciative of
• 1:11:16
  you for coming in and sharing your heart because I feel, Desirae, I
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  feel you dropped gyms for me that I was like, dang, I gotta
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  consider that, like you know, and this is the safe space to do
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  that. You know, you shared, you cried, you you laughed,
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  and I just that's the that's the space that we want to create. And
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  so I just want to say thank you, thank you for saying I was.
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  I'm you just don't know, like Deseirae knows that the asking part when
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  I say just ask, it's really for me. It's for me first.
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  The cookies were for you. First. The cookies was for satisfying need for
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  you first, just asking it's a satisfy it's satisfied my needs first. So
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  people don't know in the background how hard it is for me to ask.
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  I have you on a list that I created of asking people, and I
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  hadn't done it yet. I hadn't done it. But when you you liked
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  you you simply liked or commented on my on my video. One day,
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  I said this, okay, this is my shot, this is my time.
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  Okay, let me ask her. You know what I'm saying. Let
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  me let me just take comments now, let me take the moment now.
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  And when you were like, oh yes, I would love too. At
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  first, I was so appreciate that you know that you even liked my my
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  content. You know this is the simple things. Yeah, it's the simples.
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  And I was just so appreciative of you. But I didn't know that
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  this came with the cookies. I ain't I didn't know that the oill came
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  with the cookies. Like this, okay, you you you took me to
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  another level, and I loved it. I've watched the videos. I've watched
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  your interview you interviewed with my friend Coco TV. Yeah, I watched that
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  and I was just like, Okay, she's friendly, but you you got
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  that. You got that drip. You got that drip. And the reason
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  why you will always succeeded whatever God is telling you to do is because you
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  Ashley. She sounds like my mama. Now you at the end of the
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  day, and I want you. I want to leave you with that.
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  I'm gonna let you lead the people with something, but I want to leave
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  you with You're gonna be success. You're gonna be a successful mom. Thank
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  you. You're not always gonna be doing that by yourself. Yeah, the
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  Man of God is going to I appreciate able to take you in all all
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  of you and not only nurture you you as the woman, but be the
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  father that your your children needs. Right, You're gonna be a great mom.
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  You're gonna be a great wife. You're gonna be a great entrepreneur.
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  And whatever God tells you to do. I even can see you doing something
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  like this for yourself, a segment of just releasing because I don't I don't
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  know. Because you free yourself from limitation, God is about to blow your
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  mind with opportunity. And so I'm appreciative to be a part of your story.
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  Thank you so much for coming on here like you're the real deal.
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  Ass I appreciate you, really the real deal. And so if there's one
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  thing that you could leave with your your followers, your fox and friends,
• 1:14:12
  what do you call them? Your cookie monsters? What do you what do
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  you call your people? So I had I had the dope fiends because I
• 1:14:18
  was like playing my like wrap side into it, and then it turned into
• 1:14:21
  the dough boys and dough girls because we need like we gotta make, we
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  gotta make all right, whatever it is, we gotta work on that.
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  But then also for it to attract, you know, money, like you
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  want to make that dough both ways. So if you're doing what you love,
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  I believe that everything else will follow. So dough boys and girls,
• 1:14:45
  that's where we're at right now, do girls and dough boys. I think
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  I'm gonna be a dope girl, Yeah, I think because I need for
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  one, I need a cookie. Yes, And you know I had planned
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  on it, and it's okay, just about this cookie. This cookie,
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  y'all, this cookie that she did on Oreo, that stuff to Oreo your
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  mouth and her she's don't talk about it anymore. Is that what you want
• 1:15:08
  to leave with you. So I will just say that, don't put limits
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  on yourself. And what I mean by that is me just loving social media
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  marketing. I've realized that my question to people now is like what's on your
• 1:15:25
  algorithm? Because we assume that, like my reality is your reality, we
• 1:15:29
  all the main character in our life. You might have a whole bunch of
• 1:15:32
  podcasts people on your algorithm and people making muffins, and mine might be people
• 1:15:38
  doing nails and people making candles. We're not all on the same algorithm.
• 1:15:43
  So sometimes when things don't serve you anymore, you put limits on what you
• 1:15:46
  can see in front of you, and you say, well, I must
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  not have an audience for my product, or people don't want to hear what
• 1:15:51
  I would have to say. No, you just got to switch that algorithm
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  up, because what you're doing is deserving of promise. This is the ego
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  of I had this growing up. I was raised in a household where I
• 1:16:06
  was told like, you're superior, like we achieve the best, we're top
• 1:16:12
  A students where this everybody else mediocre, but you're this. But when I
• 1:16:16
  got older, it made it hard for me to relate to people because I
• 1:16:21
  always felt like I'm here and they're here, and it made it harder for
• 1:16:27
  me to find my community because my ego had me thinking I'm so astronomically out
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  of their lane that they're not even own that. But everybody is a lot
• 1:16:41
  more similar than we give ourselves credit for. So you limiting yourself saying,
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  well, I'm the only person who like anime and now anime mainstream you know
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  what I'm saying, or nobody has lots, so I can't do that.
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  All three of us got locks, you see what I'm saying. So it's
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  like, don't give up on what it is that you want to do.
• 1:17:02
  You gotta trust that there are other people out of all the billions of people
• 1:17:06
  on this planet that are interested in what you have to give, and just
• 1:17:11
  go find them and allow them to come to you. Change that algorithm up,
• 1:17:15
  don't give up on what you're doing. You can sell a bag of
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  booble if you know how to package it right for real, and people be
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  like, like y'all were talking about those three views, Yeah, the Fox
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  and Friend thing. The lady that picked me up from that station I was
• 1:17:33
  on ABC locally, she found that inflation segment somewhere and cross promoted it back
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  to Fox on a national level. The only reason why I'm plugged in with
• 1:17:45
  Fox today is because a producer saw the small skillet locally. I still to
• 1:17:53
  this day have never told them I was on National News. Wow. People
• 1:17:56
  just think that's all connected. If they see this segment, they'll know the
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  WBrC Fox has no clue to my knowledge about National Fox. They don't know
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  that those were two different moments. A s'morest video that had like a thousand
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  views. She said you should come bake that on the cooking segment, but
• 1:18:16
  that had nothing to do with that, because those are two different algorithms.
• 1:18:20
  This is a person who works on in the Wall Street Journal building finding me
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  from an ABC segment here in Alabama, and then this is a producer in
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  Homewood seeing a Smorest cookie skill. It's not the same, but they're just
• 1:18:40
  worked for the same corporation. You don't know who algorithm you in. When
• 1:18:45
  you post that TikTok into Instagram, Usher probably saw that. He might not
• 1:18:49
  want to give his identity away. Beyonce probably on her burner page, not
• 1:18:54
  trying to be seen, but she might have saw it. You can say
• 1:18:58
  usher saw it again because I got a little little podcast out asking for us
• 1:19:01
  for Raymond to be on podcasts? Are you my head? That would be
• 1:19:05
  so dope? And this is already given like tiny desk and stuff. Okay,
• 1:19:12
  Okay, I could really see that we were seeing, Like I love
• 1:19:16
  how this space is set up because it can do so much and it's big
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  enough, but it's small enough. Yeah. The gag is is that we
• 1:19:27
  want to make sure that the influencer has a safe space and it's safe.
• 1:19:31
  It's safe, locked in, locked in for real, because I am somebody
• 1:19:36
  who like, if I don't feel comfortable, I can shut down. Even
• 1:19:40
  though I'm extroverted, I just kind of like, ah, but I feel
• 1:19:45
  safe and I appreciate that. So if you're watching this and you want to
• 1:19:48
  come on here, it is it is a true safe space for real.
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  Like that's the best, man, that's the best compliment. That's like affirmation.
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  And so I want to thank you, girl, Like I really see
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  us going somewhere with this. This is we're gonna have We're gonna we don't
• 1:20:08
  have to have you back on here. We're gonna have to else we are.
• 1:20:11
  I see that. I see that, so don't think this this Ashley
• 1:20:14
  just situation. I might, I might try to name a cookie out of
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  me. I'm trying. I'm trying to get plugged in. Okay, so
• 1:20:20
  we're gonna make sure we tag her. You can follow her on her all.
• 1:20:25
  Her class performs on Ashley's Famous Cookies. Y'all, she got website cookies
• 1:20:30
  on Delightful. Okay, just tell your girl just ass sent you over there
• 1:20:33
  and then she she'll get you taken care of. Okay, I got you.
• 1:20:38
  We love you guys, Thank you so much. Ashley again, does
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  a ray you to go? Remember until next week. We're gonna chop it
• 1:20:45
  up next week. Remember life could be much more simple if you just asked,
• 1:20:50
  We'll see you later. Wow on all platforms. Again, I'm your
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  girl, just until next time.