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Hosting Success, Reality TV Insights, Family Investing & Acai Bowl Startup with Paige Addison · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: All right, gosh, yeah, yeah, ocome back from Atlanta, New
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  Speaker 3: Diggs for sure. Man, you know, can you tell me
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  Speaker 3: in Atlanta we're going Magical moments happened for sure, you know, investments,
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that happened. So good to be back in
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  Speaker 3: the city and we would in the land of Native.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, born and raised for sure.
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  Speaker 3: That's a age additud, Yes, somebody that we connected with.
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  Speaker 3: When did we first meet revolt it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like four years right, yeah, two?
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  Speaker 2: I think nineteen maybe maybe not probably twenty twenty, maybe
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  Speaker 2: twenty one.
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  Speaker 4: Nah, No, twenty twenty one. I was like, all stage already.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was before investment us because we already had
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  Speaker 3: that relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Well either way, Yeah, we known each other for some years.
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  Speaker 4: I love them.
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  Speaker 1: Was it? It's been some years.
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  Speaker 3: It's in a minute. So entrepreneur, host, personality, Reality TV star.
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  Speaker 2: It's not first the first ones, right, so you do
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  Speaker 2: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Do a little bit of everything. Yeah, first and foremost,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for joining us. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys for having me like this was
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  Speaker 4: I know, we're He was like, okay, Page, we'll put
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  Speaker 4: it in the contract. We'll get you you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, everything earned, everything earned.
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  Speaker 4: I really appreciate it though, And you guys have really
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  Speaker 4: what you als have built and like, over the time
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  Speaker 4: that I have known you guys has just been like
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  Speaker 4: incredible to watch so much appreciated, really really proud. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So so let's start, like how does it start
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  Speaker 3: for you as far as becoming popular in Atlanta then
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  Speaker 3: kind of hosting events and the entrepreneur, Like where does
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  Speaker 3: this actually all all start?
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  Speaker 4: Truthfully, it starts when I'm in high school, Like you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think being a kid that's born and raised and
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  Speaker 4: having Atlanta. Like being an inner city kid, you kind
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  Speaker 4: of have an experience that no one else has.
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  Speaker 3: What part of Atlanta you're from.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm from like ellen Wood area west of Chapel That's.
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  Speaker 1: Not that's north, that's East, Helpless, Helpless.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that's easy, okay, But a lot of people be like,
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  Speaker 4: that's none Atlanta, Like it's like a supper Yeah, well
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  Speaker 4: it's a nicer area for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're a good story to tell too, because you speak
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  Speaker 3: from a point of like you come from a successful family.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, an entrepreneurial, back back background with family members that
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  Speaker 4: truthfully like put their their heart and love into the community,
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  Speaker 4: any community. So my family's from South Carolina, but I
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  Speaker 4: was the only one born in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: And your father's is an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 4: Dentist dentistry of thirty years us and she helped start
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  Speaker 4: his business, which she was like literally like manager, like accountant,
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  Speaker 4: everything whatever you needed, my mom how to do. And
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  Speaker 4: so coming from a family of them, and then also
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  Speaker 4: being in the city of Atlanta. High school was in
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  Speaker 4: North Atlanta, so I was able to go to APS
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  Speaker 4: School which had an IB program International back laureate. So
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  Speaker 4: like we were challenged at an earlier age to like
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  Speaker 4: really push ourselves. And I think that that would like
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  Speaker 4: that really is important because I think people don't talk
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  Speaker 4: about enough in Atlanta, Like when we asked what high
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  Speaker 4: school you went to, it kind of like it's determining
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  Speaker 4: what questions and like things you were exposed to at
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  Speaker 4: a younger age. And so yeah, we've made it our
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  Speaker 4: lives work to like always show like okay, well, like
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  Speaker 4: black excellence doesn't mean you have to come from whatever
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  Speaker 4: you came from. Like let's like show.
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  Speaker 2: Up, show out, And you've seen that every day as
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  Speaker 2: you go home. Are you the kid obviously watching entrepreneurial parents?
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  Speaker 2: Are you the kid there on saturdays? You going to
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  Speaker 2: work at the family business that's growing up for? What
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  Speaker 2: was those experiences like you?
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  Speaker 4: Like, especially when I realized like they're not going to
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  Speaker 4: just be giving us money, like we're not going to
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  Speaker 4: have an allowance, Like it was like, no, y'all gonna
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  Speaker 4: work for everything. My mom comes from humble beginnings. My
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  Speaker 4: father does too. His parents were educators as well. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think them coming together and parenting their
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  Speaker 4: parents and style was like what we're not going to
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  Speaker 4: do is make y'all spoil like y'all will not y'all
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  Speaker 4: will know the the balance of hard work and like
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  Speaker 4: earning everything you got, earning your leisure pun intended, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and unders standing that, like you know, it's just everything
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  Speaker 4: in life is not free. It's you gotta you know,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta take it, you know. So yeah, definitely spent
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  Speaker 4: you know, some mornings answering Addison Dental Office, How might
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  Speaker 4: I help you? Still Aisental in Associates? How I help you? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: called holds holds like you know, transfer.
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  Speaker 3: Like you know, So when did you get into hosting?
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  Speaker 4: I got into hosting by seeing my so my dad
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  Speaker 4: his like you know, hobby was to uh have a
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  Speaker 4: dance like I said, I wouldn't say it was a band.
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  Speaker 4: It was like say their performers for the Governor's Ball
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  Speaker 4: or for a hunger you know the Hunger Walk, which
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  Speaker 4: is like benefit walks and stuff. And so him and
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  Speaker 4: his band they would get together. They all had their
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  Speaker 4: own professions. But I would see my dad not just
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  Speaker 4: be one thing, you know what I'm saying, like one
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  Speaker 4: dimensional Black people just don't exist, Like nobody nobody's wanting dimensional.
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  Speaker 4: But like you know, we gonna have a couple of trades,
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  Speaker 4: and so my dad and a couple of other his friends,
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  Speaker 4: you know, one one would play the bass. Actually, my
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  Speaker 4: cousin and Nissa, that's her parents were actually in the
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  Speaker 4: band Brene you know, yeah Soul. We were literally like
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  Speaker 4: kids of performers, so we were able to see them
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  Speaker 4: enjoy themselves, be on stages literally full of thousands of people.
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  Speaker 4: At a young age, should see them entertaining people and
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  Speaker 4: then go and do their lives and just kind of
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  Speaker 4: be and entertaining was always something I made sure I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to do instead of like being like the pretty
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  Speaker 4: girl that's just like okay, yeah, like y'all have my section,
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  Speaker 4: y'all get my bottles. So I realized what I didn't
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  Speaker 4: want to do in college, and so in high school
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  Speaker 4: I always do parties. I always, like from a younger age,
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  Speaker 4: I would perform. I was in a dance studio at
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  Speaker 4: my aunt's, my god mom's dance studio from like I
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  Speaker 4: was like ten every Saturday, from six am to like
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  Speaker 4: five pm, I'm in a studio just dance, tap, jazz, ballet,
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  Speaker 4: all of the things. And so it was always like
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  Speaker 4: a theatrical I was like a lover of the arts.
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  Speaker 4: And so my family being the people that they were like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: if you have a gift, you will have to like foster,
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna foster it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, So even during that, because it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like and knowing you a little bit, it's like entertainment
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  Speaker 2: was the thing.
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  Speaker 1: It was always a thing, right, But you have.
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  Speaker 2: Entrepreneurial parents, right, and so it gets a bit interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yes, you have this passion and this gift
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  Speaker 2: for entertainment. They're coming from an entrepreneurial of actually building
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  Speaker 2: a business. Where is there conflict there with like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: that's the direction the family is gone. My natural gifts
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  Speaker 2: and God given gifts a leading me this way. Were
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  Speaker 2: you like struggling with that or we like how do
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  Speaker 2: you try to find blends?
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  Speaker 4: So in high school I took a course called the
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  Speaker 4: Dallas Austin Program and that was like after school program, right,
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  Speaker 4: So you know after school programs in the city, you
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  Speaker 4: typically you don't know what you're gonna get, and this
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  Speaker 4: one was like an elevated after school program. We had
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  Speaker 4: mentors that were managing artists, like somebody you know, Brian
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  Speaker 4: Jenning Shout out to Brian Jenning, shout out to Miko Hope.
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  Speaker 4: They were my first mentors. And I'm seventeen, sixteen years
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  Speaker 4: old and being exposed to you know, music artists, music producers,
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  Speaker 4: DJ Scream, DJ spens Jaytoven Shoddy Low, Like I'm meeting
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  Speaker 4: these people in real time with the height of their
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  Speaker 4: careers at like sixteen seventeen, and I realized that what
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  Speaker 4: was great to see was to see that they were
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  Speaker 4: still business people, but they were able to like really
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  Speaker 4: truly be in their creative bag. And I'm like showing
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  Speaker 4: my parents this, and so my parents would say, Okay, well, hey,
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  Speaker 4: they owned that business. Okay, how are they how is
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  Speaker 4: that doing? You know, how are they able to scale that?
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  Speaker 4: And knowing that they see that and then they see
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  Speaker 4: that they're still creatives, they're like, Okay, we can appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Because I think for my dad, like I said, it
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  Speaker 4: was always just a lover of the arts, but it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't something that he knew he was going to like
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  Speaker 4: focus on making money from. And I think me I
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  Speaker 4: was just like, Okay, well, I'm about to show y'all,
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  Speaker 4: like we will there's this can be we can make
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  Speaker 4: some money off this, This can be a profit. We're
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  Speaker 4: can make some profit.
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  Speaker 3: Off there, So how do you all right, so how
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  Speaker 3: do you make money? Like, how do you start making
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  Speaker 3: money from hosting?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So I started off in college and you know, in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: I went to school in Miami. You kind of realize
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  Speaker 4: everybody's a promoter. But what type of promoter do you
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  Speaker 4: want to be? Right? You want to be the one
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  Speaker 4: that's like, Okay, I don't want to be on South Beach.
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  Speaker 4: I know that there are parties that are going on
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  Speaker 4: down there, but like there's a lot of like I'm
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  Speaker 4: not gonna be just frank drugging. Like I remember one
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  Speaker 4: party there was there was somebody that like roofeed one
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  Speaker 4: of my like champagne bottles, and like I threw up
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  Speaker 4: this guy's head. It was like a crazy story, and
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  Speaker 4: I was like what is going on? Like I'm like
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  Speaker 4: fresh out of high school. I had never even had
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  Speaker 4: a college like experience like this before. So I was like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, I don't want to be down there. I
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  Speaker 4: want to be where the people are that are just
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  Speaker 4: being authentic to themselves, enjoying themselves, showing up as themselves,
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  Speaker 4: have a background of understanding that like we want to
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  Speaker 4: have a safe, good time. So like we want to
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  Speaker 4: be somewhere exclusive. How do you become that person? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: well be in those places and then enjoy the shit
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  Speaker 4: out of yourself. Like I saw a video of Denzel
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  Speaker 4: telling Snoop, I enjoy how you enjoy life, and like,
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  Speaker 4: I love that because being that person that is enjoying
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  Speaker 4: themselves in every place that they're in, whether everybody else
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  Speaker 4: having a good time or not, it's you gonna stand out.
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  Speaker 4: And so I would always say, Okay, well I'm allowed
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  Speaker 4: to be here, y'all want to pull up over here,
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  Speaker 4: talk with the person that's doing something I want to
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  Speaker 4: I started curation at a younger age because I'd already
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  Speaker 4: been doing it in high school. And I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: we having a house party, pull up. But to be
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  Speaker 4: able to monetize, I'm like, okay, well let me go.
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  Speaker 4: Let me go get the sponsors that are that are
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  Speaker 4: going to be there that would give us free drinks,
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  Speaker 4: or let me reach out to some people that are
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  Speaker 4: you know, have some some you know, some rank in
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  Speaker 4: the city and that would pull up with some good people,
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  Speaker 4: not some people that's like who are these folks? Like
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  Speaker 4: why did you bring these folks up in here? And
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  Speaker 4: then you know, also like bring the environment that like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you're going to have a good time, get
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  Speaker 4: a good DJ. The music is always right, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and so curating the vibes and then it would just
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  Speaker 4: be some you know, it would start off like five hundred,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Okay, cool, all right, well Page, if you
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  Speaker 4: can do two fifty for you know this, and then
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you a shot at having somebody there that
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  Speaker 4: you know, you you rock with. So I would have
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  Speaker 4: started managing an artist shortly after high school, I started
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  Speaker 4: managing a producer, you know, so I have something to
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  Speaker 4: leverage that they would want somebody there. But I'm also
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  Speaker 4: using those people for leverage too, like Okay, hey, this
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  Speaker 4: person's trying to get out, can you give me a
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  Speaker 4: cheaper price to host? But I put this person on
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  Speaker 4: the platform. So I always utilize my my platforms to
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  Speaker 4: put somebody else up, and it will always kind of
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  Speaker 4: it was consistent. I was always consistent.
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  Speaker 2: That was happening in Miami, that was happening here in
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  Speaker 2: Miami Atlanta.
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  Speaker 4: I would actually I was in college. This is crazy
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  Speaker 4: to say, but I was in college and I was
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  Speaker 4: repping because I started with PR like right out of
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  Speaker 4: high school and I was repping a producer named Jimbo's Lights.
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  Speaker 4: He went to high school with me, and I was
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  Speaker 4: in college and he was doing sessions with the Remedy
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  Speaker 4: with Done Deal and people, and like you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was set it up. He would be with the future
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  Speaker 4: all those people. And I'm like getting calls while in
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  Speaker 4: the well my Way to Finite math class and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: so this session didn't go too well, or this session
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  Speaker 4: went great, or they're trying to get this placement, all
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  Speaker 4: these things, and so it was something that like I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know I was doing that was ahead of my time,
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  Speaker 4: kind of because I was kind of growing as I grow.
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  Speaker 4: But I knew that I had the background because in
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  Speaker 4: the Dallas Austin program, you had to learn the business
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  Speaker 4: ins and outs. Whether you wanted to sing, whether you
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  Speaker 4: want to do pr, whether you want to do management,
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  Speaker 4: whether you want to produce, you had to learn the business.
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  Speaker 4: And so because I started off as an artist and
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  Speaker 4: was like I want to sing too, just like my daddy,
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  Speaker 4: and found out that the money wasn't going really add
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  Speaker 4: up unless I worked overly, overly overtime, and I just
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  Speaker 4: enjoyed it. I was like no, I have to find
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  Speaker 4: another way to entertain.
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  Speaker 2: At some point, does it become too much like trying
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  Speaker 2: to juggle the management side and everything you got going
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  Speaker 2: on outside of school and trying to figure out.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it actually did, do you finish school?
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  Speaker 4: It literally like blew up in my face. Like I
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  Speaker 4: remember one day and he was like, yo, uh shot
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  Speaker 4: it because he was a white producer, and they were like, Yo,
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  Speaker 4: it's just not gonna work. Like I don't know what's
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  Speaker 4: going on, but it's not gonna work. And I was like, no,
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  Speaker 4: like things are gonna things will be fine, like and
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  Speaker 4: they were like, nah, like we're gonna have to rescale,
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna have to re redo this whole infrastructure. And
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  Speaker 4: I was like, all right, well, honestly, I can't continue
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  Speaker 4: with you guys without the person that I brought in,
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  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna just you know, bow out, and I'm
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: gonna just figure out what I need to do from
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  Speaker 4: after college. So I like, really after that, after I
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  Speaker 4: had too many ties still in Atlanta, scared to be
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  Speaker 4: fully in Miami, I was like, Okay, let me really
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  Speaker 4: engulf something here. So I started art curation, started, you know,
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  Speaker 4: working with the GMCV for Internship, which is the people
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  Speaker 4: that the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. So they
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  Speaker 4: bring in Miami Spice Week, they bring in Art Basil.
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  Speaker 4: They had a Black Hospitality initiative that brought in the
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  Speaker 4: first Black Art Basil where the black artists were you know,
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  Speaker 4: really put on a platform and give given the right
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  Speaker 4: pedestal that they needed they deserved. And so you know,
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  Speaker 4: being the person that was working with the only black
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  Speaker 4: contemporary gallery owners, they're you know, trying to make sure
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  Speaker 4: I'm in that space fully, not just trying to be
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  Speaker 4: in Atlanta trying to do this. You know, have a
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  Speaker 4: little wool people make a little couple of change off
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  Speaker 4: placement that wouldn't get to me for like who knows
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  Speaker 4: how long. So you know, I would always have my
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  Speaker 4: hand in and out of the music industry, and I
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  Speaker 4: was like, find a way to have it be fully
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  Speaker 4: immersed in that space that you're in and staying present
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  Speaker 4: in it. So that's where we kind of so.
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  Speaker 3: Like you do big events right like he hosted Revolt
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  Speaker 3: some and in costs invest Fest. Yeah every year actually
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: for invest Fest, so major part of that because that's
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: something that people don't really realize that you know, that's
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: an important aspect from start to finish and curating the vibe,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: keeping the crowd engaged, knowing how to transition from speakers
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: bringing the crowd back out to lunch. So A, can
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: you speak about the art of that, because it is
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: something that you it is a talent, and b how
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: what's the business like for that? Like as far as
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: are you negotiating like a writer, do you have like
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: you know, on that level of an investmentest of a
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: revolt something like what's the business for that?
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: I kind of took over the understanding that I had
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: a gift that I had to understand with niche right,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: like nobody can do what I do like how I
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: do it? No one can. And you know, I think
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: one time someone once told me, like all you doing
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: is going up there and introduct docing people, and I
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: was like, no, it is an art form. People have
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: to truly trust that what you're about to say with
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: that mic and understanding that the power that of your voice,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: it holds weight, it has value, It brings value to
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: every room you step into. And I think when you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: having platforms giving like Revolt Summit or I think even
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: further back like you know, at and T came here
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: for four or four day. I was my first big
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: check like ten recks just off of being me like
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: and that was twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen, and I was
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: just like, okay, like this is how, this is what
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: I deserve. But I had just come from doing seven
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: fifty an hour or something's really small. Just to be
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: host to host for an eight hour event or something.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: It's something crazy, and I realized. I was like, this
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: is how you bring over your your managerial things that
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: you help or you're consulting that you help with other people,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: to over to your you know, to your to yourself,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: you know, let people know. Okay, yeah, so I do
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: need a writer. I do need these things to feel
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: comfortable to be myself in these spaces, right. I need
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: all of the materials that you guys are going to
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: want me to say right before y'all get up. I
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: need to know how to do improv. Like there might
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: be a moment there y'all they're like page stall. There's
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: literally been moments that y'all have been like, hey, so
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Seanny not here yet, we need to go ahead and
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: run it. And it's like all right, cool, Let's do something.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Let's do something fun. Let's make people get up out
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: of their seats. Let's let them make sure they're enjoying
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: their time. And understanding that a party host and somebody
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: that's in the club host may not be able to
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: host in front of a crowd for a conference, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: understanding how to be both right, understanding how to be
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: who that is in every setting. So yeah, I've realized that.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, if you guys are going to
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: continue to bring me back, there has to be something
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: that I do to continue to build make my craft better. Right,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: So I would study the greats, like I'm studying I'm
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: talking with Terrence, I'm watching how you know Steve when
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: he walks out, He's cracking a joke like make sure
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the room doesn't feel too stuffy, Like why why are
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: we We're not curing cancer. We're genuinely here to enjoy
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: our lives and learn something in every room and every
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: day we need to feel like we're learning something new.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: And so you know, when I go up there and
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: I give you know, I'm not a motivational speaker, but
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: I say I release the pattern of my consciousness that
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: creates resistance to my own good. Why are we here?
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: We're releasing some type of pattern that someone had probably
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: put on us to unlearn to just grow, Like that's
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: what we're all here for. We're all in perpetual state
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: of just trying to figure out, like what's the next
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: thing we want to grow in and do better. So
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I just realized, like staying being consistent as my personality
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: one showing up as myself period, Like y'all having a
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: bad day. Dad ain't gotten nothing to do with me,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: That's not my problem. Like, I just really got to
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: show up as me, making sure that people respect me,
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: like understanding that, like I'm not just like okay, yes, bad,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: but like is she by her business? Always never not
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: been about my business. My mother's name is Sharon. She
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: do not play, She don't play about the people around me.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: She asks questions. She makes sure I ask questions, And
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: so I think that's always been the thing. And also
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: remembering that you know, people will treat you and give
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: you what you think you deserve. Right, so if you're like, oh, okay,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: well yeah that's fine, y'all. Can just y'all got no
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: greening room? That's fine, Okay, cool, y'all, got no greening room.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: That's fine, but just know it might be a little
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: hectic if you don't have that, Like you're gonna keep
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: seeing me, You're gonna be like, damn, why page this
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: page everywhere? Because I'll have a greaming room. And so
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: I think there have been things that I've wanted, I've learned,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: and what I need to ask more of, and what
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: I see when people are growing that I want to
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: give the grace. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, Okay, y'all,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: y'all don't have access to that yet or y'all haven't
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: figured out what that looks like. And you have to
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: be able to be the person to be like, Okay,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I know you didn't ask for this advice, but this
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: helps me help you better. And so I'm going to
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: pour that into you before I pour it into you
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: in a way of like, hey, y'all got me messed up,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Like I ain't about to be doing this with y'all
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: no more. Relationships are so important. I don't play about it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: I don't play about the people that rock with me.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: So you know, why why treat it like it's just nothing?
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: You know, treat it like it's something that's a baby.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Everything you do is a baby. It's got to be fostered.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: To talk talk about the growth, right, because obviously you've
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: been a vital part of investments and we appreciate everything
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: you've done.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: But as you've come back every year, we've seen the
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: growth in you. Right.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: We've seen that that you know, understanding your worth, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: we've also seen building a team around you. Right, So
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: talk about that because you come from a viewpoint of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: yes you can. You've managed people, but now you yourself,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: right with now establishing new gigs and new opportunities, you
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: have somebody in place to say, all right, I need help,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I need to be managed.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think I remember the day that that
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: happened because I was actually managing an artist and Nila
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: at the time, and my mentor told me I could,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Like she was like, yeah, you can. Excuse me, she
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: was like you can, you can do this, And I
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: was like, wait, no, no, Like I'm just fresh out
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: of college. I don't know what to do, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I just did you know Revolt Summit, Well that was
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Revolt Conference at the time, and they had me on
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: board as like a travel coordinator with help underneath somebody
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: that was like in the ranks, and I remember Andre
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Herrell coming to me, but I like, yo, listen, I
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: have to use this person for something else. I need
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: you to genuinely take over and just handle this. And
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: I was like, okay, there's five hundred talent here, there's
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: CARDI B wants a car to go to the mall. Uh,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: these drivers were supposed to be only for this time
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: and this night. How do I make sure? How do
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: I manage this? And I'm like, you got to You
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: got to make sure that people know that you know
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: what you're doing. And so you just have to trial
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: and error, right, So I trialed an errored half of
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: my career because I'm like, Okay, no one's going to
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: be able to say like she didn't try, you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: if I failed, And like I mean, it was most
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: likely just a lesson. And for the most part, it
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: came so quick. When it would be something I needed
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: to learn, it'd be like, Okay, cool, don't do that.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Got you no hard feelings, no no if fans, But
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: about it. You know, you could have done this, but
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: you didn't. What did you take away from it? Move on?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: And so after I realized, you know, managing an artist
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: and me hosting and me leveraging my personality to be
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: on the stages and being like, oh, you know, I
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: want to put my artist on here, but you guys
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: can give me cheaper. You guys can pay me like
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: less if I can put my artists on here. And
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: they were like, okay, cool, So what's your artists do?
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Like what were supposed to be doing with this? And
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, this might be I might be
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: getting ahead of myself. You know what I'm saying, Like,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: how am I taking care of myself first? And then
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: bringing the people up that deserve to come up with me?
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: And so that's when I kind of realized. I was like,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I need more, I need more advice help. It just
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: started off going to mentors, going to people that were
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: like and I would go to people and they'd be like,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: you don't need a manager. You got this, You've got this,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, no, I'm literally I need help. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: don't know what to write back in the emails. But
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I would use my knowledge for my mom and in
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: my dad's dentistry, you know, and like being like, okay,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: you know you know how to type an email structure?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: You know, you know how to say hello, Hi, what's
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: his name? Calma? You know you know what to say,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: but how do you keep the conversation going to where
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: it grows into something else? And I think basically I
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: would just go to people every year just asking, Hey,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: some little piece of advice that I can get from you.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I would interview people on my platform. I would you know,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: ask I would call them up and just be like, okay, quick,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: this person's asking me if I can do this for
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: this what would you say? That would be it? And
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: then it was like, okay, I need someone behind me.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Who is that person? Going to be trial and error?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Some people I would do ninety day trials with. Some
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: people I would do thirty day trials with. Currently I'm
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: not managed by anyone. I did a ninety day trial.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I realize, Okay, there are more things I need to
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: be asking for and I need to know what to ask.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: And I think that's where I'm at, in that space
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: of like wanting representation and knowing what representation looks like
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: to me and knowing that, like when you walk in
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: a room and I walk in a room, okay, we
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: might not be walking hands out side by side or
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: anything but we're like on a mission in here. We are.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: We understand, we eat what we kill, we understand. You know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: whatever comes back to us is something that we really
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: went forward and like built a relationship and said okay,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: we'll follow up, and actually followed up, you know. So yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I think that's It's been a tough It's been a
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: tough journey with managers and just representation because I think
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: I I've done a good I made it look easy.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I've done it a little too easy with making it
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: look easy that Okay, I got this gig over here,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: How did you get that? Who set that up for you?
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: They text me, they DM me, MTV. Yeah, I mean
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: they reached out to my friend through D Like, you know,
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: there are certain things that just I can't explain it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: It's favor ain't fair to everybody. But I do know
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: that there are certain things that I'm like, I'm waiting
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: for that person to walk into a room and be
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: like Okay, yeah, page, like I got this for you.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what I sealed the deal?
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: So talk about PSA, Like, what's how did that come about?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And what does that entail?
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Well, my initials are paid Sri Addison and when I
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: was a kid and I realized what initials I had.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I was like, I should be a rapper with this.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: It was like PSA, it's a PSA coming to you
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: always no, And then I realized I was like, okay, no,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: so public servicenouncement. I was doing PR. I you know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: my name is my page threeatist and how do you
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: make it feel like everything you do as a public
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: service announcement? And so I foster. I just like I
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: really got down on my knees and prayed about it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie, you know. I was like, what
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: do I need to uh show up? As with PSA one?
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: People have been getting over on me for years of
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: connections and I would always be like, you're not getting
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: over my stuff. Don't come back like my blesseds always
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: come back. But then it was like nah, like you
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: need to have a consulting fee, you need to have
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: a you know, a business. And so I started that
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen right out of college. Was just like, okay,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: what does this look like? You know, you offer PR services,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: you offer a PR press list, you know, for your
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: for the people's companies, you offer you know, services for
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: I mean and in lack of better words, you know,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: brand management. You know, I did brand management for good
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Dope right out of college. I mean college. Shoot, they
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: like there were so many things that I was just
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: growing in and trying to do that that would add
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: onto the list of what I'm able to do, right
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: because as an entrepreneur you kind of have to be
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: a jack of all trades. So when I realized I
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: can monetize it, I was like, Okay, let me at
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: least monetize it with a proper name. So PSA Management
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: and Consulting. You know, we've been doing what we can
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: for different companies that a lot of people just don't know.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Like a lot of people were like, oh, she just
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: do hosting, Oh she just do you know she does
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: pr from time to time. It's like, no, I actually
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: have a fee in a website and accoulendly for you
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: to set up a meeting with me.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: You know, like it's a real business.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: It's real business around here. And I had a godmom
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: that was you know, she family. My family's always been
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: a full of like boss women right that like implemented things.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: I mean literally, my godmom she implemented the first into
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: into Ebenezer Baptist Church. Right. She was the first one
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: to implement a system to be able to have the
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: stream live stream, like the sermons live stream, even set
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: help set out their website, like you know things like
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: that where it's just like there's someone behind the scenes
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: that's helping these people.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: So from a consultant standpoint, what have you done for
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: businesses or what do you see businesses make mistakes in
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: like as far as like.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: How do you not going trying to find I was
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: talking to somebody yesterday. I've seen I've helped their businesses
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: grow by brand management usually, So I'm like, okay, well
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: that just doesn't make sense. Why would you have somebody
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: in the building that you feel, can you know, it's
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: really good at this thing, but right now you don't
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: need them in that area right now, so you just
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: decide to put them on something else. No, you need
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: to have somebody that is actually like literally a genius
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: at what they do, a wiz at what they do,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: and then bring them on board and then have them
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: on that thing so that that thing can be exactly
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: what helps y'all scale. I think people just the common
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: mistakes of being like oh yeah, like oh yeah, so
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: you can go out. You know, everybody needs to do everything.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Everybody needs to like, you know, how to shoot, right, Okay,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: well let's let's do that. And that can be a
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: thing for until a certain point, Like you know, Kendrick
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: just dropped his album today. He says, day Free was
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: doing his DJ and his managing. You know, he was
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: helping shoot like the video, like all these things. But like,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: what do you until you get to a certain point
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: that's cool, and then you need to go find the
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: people that really do that at the best of their
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: ability and make that their life's work and bring them
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: on board. And then that's how you continue to grow,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: you know. So that's that was my logic. I would
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: come in with, I think a logic that was kind
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: of like why would you do that? Now? When it
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: came to other people's stuff, it's always like, yeah, it's easy,
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: you know, And then when it comes to your stuff,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh my god, it's so much scatter brained
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: and you know, it can't. It doesn't feel so easy then,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: And so I try not to be a hypocrite about it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: I try to be very like understanding and graceful when
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: I have clients or people that come to me for
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: genuine advice. But at the same time, I'm like, okay,
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: like make sure you understand that this advice that I'm
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: going to give you, if you don't take it, it's
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: not something I'm going to take it for, you know,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: for granted, but I do still need my check, I.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Mean my check.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: So I mean you talked about running your check, you
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: talked about getting monetized pop up pop ups pop I mean,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I wonder because there's a conversation we've never even had,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: even as some of our dentists.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how are you at managing the money? Right?
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Because it's one thing to get the money, Yes, it's
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: another thing people tell you to invest, and obviously we'll
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: get into some of the businesses that you started, but like,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: manage your money is not the easiest thing, and that
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: people get lost in that, right They think I got
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: to make it.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I gotta make it. But it can go as quickly
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: as it came.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: So how are you when you started getting that money
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: like that at and T ten thousand dollars check coming
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: out of high school? I already know how I'm thinking
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: about it right at that age, And obviously as you
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: grow and mature, the checks start getting a little bit bigger.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: How are you dealing with that?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I go to all of the women in my
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: family and usually and the women are the ones that
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: truly I mean and the men, but like the women
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I see always know how to save. My mom was
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: always a person that was a stickler like of like saving, right,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Like you want to save, but you also want to invest.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: That was my aunt. Right. So my sister she like
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: has a I don't know if you guys have read
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: her book and have the children's book on financial literacy,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: but we always knew that investing was something that was
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: the most important when we had our money, right, And
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: so you know, saving it is one thing. But go
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: into my mom and my sister and them saying, hey,
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: we're about to get this property or this land and
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: blah blah blah, what are where are we gonna what
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: are we going to do with it? Well, we'll have
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: it just for when we're ready to cultivate, you know,
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: and build it up. And it's like, okay, cool, all right.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I might not know why, but I know it'll be
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: something that comes in handy at one point, right, And
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: I think trusting the mentors and the wisdom of people
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: that have come before you and why and how their
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: lives have been able to be And you watch the people, right,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: you watch what they do with their money. You watch
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: how certain people, you know, I'm like, for lack of
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: better words, f it off. You know, you like see
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: how like they treat you know, they're like, oh, okay,
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: that's fun. You know car got wrecked, We'll get another one.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: It's like what, No, Like, why didn't you just drive
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: around in the whip with the house, you know, but
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: you chose to go get the necklace or this. You know,
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: it just wasn't I watched how people manage their money first,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: and then I will go to there for them advice,
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: you know. And so when we started our financial group
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: of our family, and like twenty twenty, my sister was
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: kind of just like, okay, like she was mad about
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: the Apple split. She was like it. She was just pissed,
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: and she was like, we need to start a family
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: investment group. And so, you know, I wasn't always involved
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: in it because I always was like, I trust what
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: y'all tell me what to do with my money, So
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna save it. And then whenever y'all tell
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: me for the next move, I'm gonna just move it.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: And so we started a group called the PF I
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: S and it was the investment club that we started
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: for our family. And we've grown our portfolio like thirty
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: two percent since we started. Would you start twenty twenty?
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: So what do you invest in?
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: You know, I'll say yes since, but I will say
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: the video has been one that we've been hearing about since.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: You know, I guess what was that twenty twenty one,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: and I've been you know, I've just been like, all right, cool,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: send one hundred dollars every month. We you know, we
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: have our annual meetings. We have people in place where
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: we have you know, uh, somebody's a treasury someone try
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: a treasurer, someone's the secretary, my mom might be the
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: president of it, my aunt, you know, and it's it's
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: just so beautiful to watch because we actually had a
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: video go viral where my cousin Whitney posted it. Well,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: you know, we had our annual meeting this this past September,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: and I was just I wasn't even there, but I
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: was like I had been on zoom because we do
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: a call in and next thing, you know, it's it's
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: on like all these black love pages on this going
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: viral and they're like, oh, I wish I want to
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: be a part of that family, or how do I
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: get how do I get started? And everything, and I'm
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: just like, literally, it's all about organization, you know, like
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: honestly trusting the people that you and you know, everybody's
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: blood you know, doesn't make them closer, but trusting the
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: people that you put around you, trusting that their knowledge
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: and their wisdom that they went to school for or
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: learned was truly something that could help you.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: So break break this whole thing down. How many people's involved,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: what's the procedure, how.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Do you decide to see?
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: And then honestly, I'm not even gonna capu it. I
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: only know that that we started with probably like ten, no,
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: maybe like fifteen of twenty of us, and it's just.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Grown all family members.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, on my mom's side and everybody.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: You have to put money in, Yeah.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: You definitely have to put money in every month.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Every the same amount of different people put you could.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Put one hundred dollars every month. That's the threshold. And yeah,
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: I mean it's definitely I don't want to get into
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: into it because I'm not the most you know, knowledgeable
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: on it. I just know I trust my family. I
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: know I've seen what we're doing with the money. I
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: see what is going on. I'm like, all right, cool,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: I gotta you know. And then I have my own
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: portfolio and you know, and I think, you know, it's
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: so funny because I had just set up my wrath
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: LRA with Fidelity the day the day before I investments,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my god. I was like, ah,
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: my mom, she helped me. She had some she had
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: some money set away from like my parents had helped
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: set up a trust that had been you know, there
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: for a long time. And she had been telling me,
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: because my mom is the mom that's like, I'm a
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: repeat that you need to do this, and you'll hear it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: And even to my boyfriend, like to my family boyfriend,
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: anybody that knows me knows that, Like she's the lovable person.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: But once she gives you that advice, she's not going
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: to come up off it. She's telling you it for
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: a reason. And when people start listening to the people
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: around them that truly love and support and pour into
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: them and know and have actual knowledge like my mom was.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: She was like one of the first black people like
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: in the corporate world and Bank of America when I
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: was like before I was even born. And you know,
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: I mean the women, like I said, the women around
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: me have lots of knowledge. The men around me have
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: lots of knowledge and wisdom. So why don't you use
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: utilize that. Find those mentors in your family, Find those
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: mentors within you know, their their family or their connections,
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: you know, network, you know, and just because networking looks
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: like outside of your family incredible, you would never know
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: the knowledge that somebody has in your family if you
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: don't ask them.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: It's important. What you're speaking of is very rare.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: We don't We don't see enough of it, and perhaps
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: we should see more of it of a families doing
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: something like you just.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: I'm very proud of them.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: It's very rare, but it's it's definitely a commendable.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I want to transit to something that you actually have
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: put some money into U And every time we go
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: to events, uh, we see you pop up.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: We would just say was it a BT weekend?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: And we came outside and so the business let's talk
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: about our soulful bowls where the idea came from, the
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: money that it took to start it, and why this
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: avenue became your new passion.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I definitely saw, especially being in the music
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: industry and on the go personality, a lack of healthier
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: options that were on the go for people like us. Right,
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: We're just always moving, We're always you know, like the
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: quicker option is always better, but instead of the quicker
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: option being healthy, it would always be something that's like, man,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: I don't need to be eating this. How did I
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: end up here knee deep in a chocolate milkshake from
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: chiefil A? And I'm gonna say yes to it every
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: time until it was like, Okay, we're in the quarantine.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: We can't go outside. You know, what is an option
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: that I can do so that can make for myself
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: while I'm in the house, while I'm doing my yoga,
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: while I'm starting my day off on a relaxing you know, vibe, Like,
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: how do I keep the vibrations high? Okay, cool, I'm
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: gonna make an asia E bowl. I learned ii E
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: from actually going to college in Miami. I would have
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: never been exposed to other cultures, fruits, anything. If I
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: hadn't left Atlanta, right, So I got into Spelman, I
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: got into you know, Campton, I got into all these
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: places that, you know, they were great options, but I
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: hadn't left the nest. In a way of I knew
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: I was going to be exposed to something that was
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: beyond me. And so I'm going to class with people
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: who are bringing plantons in for lunch. I'm going to
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: class with people who are bringing mangoes, and I'm like,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: I eat apples and oranges and stuff, and you feel
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: like you kind of feel like you're ignorant, damn near
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: because you're just like, damn like I've been doing for
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: my whole life. But if you haven't been exposed to it,
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: you just haven't been exposed to it. So I had
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: a friend of Jamaican descent. She's like, Okay, we're gonna
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: get some icight e bowls or she made some I
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: think at home from scratches, but banana some you know,
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: almond milk or milk or whatever. And you know, you
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: have the packet and then you put the fruit in
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: and you blend it, and I'm just like, Okay, put
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: some granola on top. This is nice. You can put
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: whatever fruit you want put it on there. So I
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: was like, okay, cool. So I took that with me
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: all the way to you know, getting older, and then
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: realized like this was something that was a healthier stack,
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: but it wasn't something that would make me feel groggy
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: or like I had too much, like I could I
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: could have more, but it also gave me energy, like
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: it felt healthy, but it wasn't. It tasted still like
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: a smoothie and a bowl. And so when I realized
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: I would go on live, I would call it soul
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: fo balls because I would play music. I would sing
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: so like mind you music has always been before, like
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: it's always gonna be behind anything out of it.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: We had a classic karaoke we did, and I wanted.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: And I wanted to happen again because I'm not gonna
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: lie ad lib karaoke. I'm onto something. Beauty is her name,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Drew Hill. If you don't do the ad libs, you're
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: not singing the song. But so I think when you're
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: showing people on live that you're genuinely enjoying yourself and
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: you're making a snack for yourself while you're in the house,
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: not moping, not going off on the Internet wasting time.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: I think people truly liked this. I was like, okay,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: make the soul ball today. So I would get off
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: live and I'll probably get back on like later on,
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: and people would be like, Paige, where are you gonna
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Where are you gonna make me a soul ball? Like
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: when we you know, when you're gonna start making these everybody,
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: I'm like, let me go ahead and buddies domain real quick.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: While we're in this thing. You don't never know what's
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: gonna happen. Now. I didn't know if we were going
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: to get out of quarantine, and you know, events were
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: even going to come back. So I was like, first
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: of all, why would you even not ever have a trade?
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Like you know, you need to be moving right, You
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: need to have a trade. You need to have something
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: that you're doing other than hosting. And so I just
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: started the business and grew and to learn my god,
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: mom rest, God rest her soul. She had cancers. I
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: would sit with her every so often. I would talk
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: about it and she'd be like, Okay, so what does
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: it look like like? What does the brand story look like?
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: What is the what are the cartons look like? You know,
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: what is how are you. What are you telling people
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: the benefits of it are? Like, did you decide that
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: you want to just make it a regular bowl or
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: brick and mortar, or do you want to do direct
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: to consumer? Like there was all these different options, and
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: so we were watching have you do you guys watch
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Ozark's Yeah, incredible show, watching it, and she's like, man,
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Mardy Bird, got it set up. She's like you. She
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: was like, got set it up for us. I was like,
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: go on Google, looks for like distributor for like us.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: I find it like the first one, and I'm like,
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: my gosh, I think I just might have got it.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna do something, do I promise you? And just
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: kept going like every so often I would come back
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: to something else to add to it, and that would
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: be my favorite thing about it. And so when I
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: would add, you know, an element of minstead of making
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: the bulls from scratch, I would get them. I would
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: pre make them and prepackage them, and then I would
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: have a recipe getting with a chef shout out to
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: chef day. She literally would sit with me and we
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: would go over different with recipes. Now, mind you, obviously
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: soulful Balls has to have some type of music element.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: So the Peaches Bowl was supposed to be the Patti Bowl,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: The Ladies Ball was the Aretha Bawl, the Roses Ball
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: was the Outcast Ball, and it was it was benefits
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: that had like health benefits in them, right, so they
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: they're high in antioxidants there. The Ladies Bowl has health
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: benefits for women's reproductive system. The Peaches Bowl it tastes
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: like peach collar, but we make our own you know,
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: crumble that's like a granola. Like the Roses Bowl. It
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: literally has rose water in it. It's so but it's
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: great for men's reproductive system, you know, the berries. So
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: there's just so many benefits to having a healthier option
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: and also healthier for yourself. And I think that was
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: something that I wanted to have, especially being a black woman,
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: especially having you know, food, like food, deserts are real.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: Like you you'll be in a space where you're like, bro,
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: I just want a smoothie right now. Like two years ago,
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: we got a smoothie a planet, like a tropical smoothie
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: over there by the East Side, and I was like,
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: oh my god. I was like what is this And
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: I knew the guy I found out you know, I
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: knew the guy that that owned it or was a
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: part owner, and I was like, I'm so I was
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: like one of the first people because I was like,
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: I'm so proud of you guys. And I knew IIU
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: was going to get hit from scratch, like from jump.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: I knew asai E was going to be something that
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: was gonna move because if you look into the aside,
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: you know the history of it. First of all, it
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: was from Brazil, but it's something that people have eaten
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: for breakfast, lunch, dinner, anything they want for years. And
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: I knew it was a growing market. And so I
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: was like, all right, well this was before Smoothieking got it,
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Tropical Smoothie got it all the like people did not
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: have osa ebowls in their companies before I started my business.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: And I knew that I had to like start it
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: when I started it so that I knew that when
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: they started doing in their own thing that mine would
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: still stay niche. Mine has prepackaged it. You can you
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: can freeze it up to like four months and it
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: could still be good.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: So how do you sell it? Like where do you.
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: Sell it direct to consumer? I do it at pop ups.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: You know I'm at invest best right now. I actually
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: have a setup so at VT Experience, I was told
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: that there was gonna be like thousands of people. You know.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: I made my first oopsie and kind of came with
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: too much product and I spent a lot of like
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: it took. It was my first hit, real hit. And
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: I was like, bruh this like it damn there makes
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: you feel like you want to like throw like you sick.
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: You sick when you use use money investments. And I
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: was like, what is what do I do to come
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: back from this? And I was like, Okay, I need
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: to leave a palette out here in Retherlands, California, and
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: I just need to move it, like I need to
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: move it in any ways. Like I call myself the
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: Barry Dealer because I say it like I'm a dealer. Like, Okay,
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: we need the movies. We need the movies outside evos,
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Okay, we have a setup
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: in uh at somebody's movie set. You know, I've done
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: movie sets with Amazon. I We've done video sets. We've
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: done literal Uh. I did AD Week not not too
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: long ago, you know, and I showed up as a
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: host shout out to Desia, you know, and and Charles
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: and I showed up as a host. But the next
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: day Barry's Scott Dale partnered with us and you know
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: we were able to give out balls to everyone that
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: was there for the class for a workout class. So
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: you know, you just kind of utilize as much like
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: leverage as you can with whatever you're doing. Whatever space
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be in, I need my balls there.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: There's no reason that there shouldn't they shouldn't be there.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: And so you know, with you guys, I think I
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: really appreciated having that platform to be able to give
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: them out, to be able to sell them. Whenever you
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: all are doing anything, it's always been something. So I
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: just love the balls down. I've even had you know,
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: certain celebrities drop like name drop it, and you know,
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: it's been in Forbes. May been name dropped before in
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: Forbes for shout out to Revolts. I mean they literally
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: had it there before. I mean it's been in places
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: it needs to be me and as Thatt Fergy loves
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: the boles so much that he was like, I want
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: to do a clap like it just it's there. So
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: I know that people love the bulls. It's more so
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: how do I scale it? Obviously, grocery stores, obviously, you know,
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: there's airport options, There's so many options and ways you
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: can take it. And that's kind of something why that's
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: like what I'm looking for, Like my next goal is
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: to kind of find a person that wants to partner
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: and like an actual VC or you know, an angel investor,
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: someone that can really truly help and like help me
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: scale it, because I mean, I'll go from days where
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm about to sell this company. I don't
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: do what I need to do. Let me get my
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: money and let me get go. Instead of that, I'm
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: like no, and then I'll have my little Jimni moment.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, he was tripping, Like, you know you
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: need leg you know, legacy, Legacy is important to you,
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: and you know that you need to have something for
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: the people that come after you. And I think fruit asai,
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: like anything that you know is going to be a
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: health healthier benefit to the world. Keep you keep.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: What would be that first a few items with action items. Right,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: I'm sure somebody's probably listened to this right now and
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: they're saying, oh, I need to get in contact with her.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Let's say that it is an angel investor. What the
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: extra capital do for the business immediately?
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Well, for starters, I would be able to
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: get a distributor that can make help me get them
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: in grocery stores that would be able to make thirty
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: thousand units in like a week span or a couple
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: of weeks, you know, a month span, so we can
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: get it out. We can get that money back immediately,
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: like we know what it needs to do. Meet with
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: a chemist to be able to find out what, you know,
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: the actual how long they can last. Like when it's
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: like okay, page this is this product is no more
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: good because I'll have people that eat it, I'm like,
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: so how are you feeling after that? You okay? And
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, they're like yeah, they're it and the
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: nutritional facts are on there. You know, everything's on there
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: for them. But it's like there are things that are
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: small details that I want to grow it in even
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: figuring out I need people to come with things that
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: I don't have. And I think that's the thing because
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: I'm a person that's a go get her in a
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: way where I'm going to figure it out, Like I
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: know that I can get offered a kiosk in an airport.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Why would that make sense for us to do instead
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: of going into the air into the grocery stores. Help
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: me help myself and then help us like, you know,
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: or do we want to get more e SKUs or
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: do we want to get rid of all of these?
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: You know that those questions are things that I want
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: to talk with someone with. And maybe you know, I
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: have a business manager, Jessica Kouch. She's been able to
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: help me, you know, organize, but to be the charismatic
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: person I am and try to set up stuff and
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: then also do the things on the backside. I can't
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: do it both. So it has to be someone that's
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: like more knowledgeable on it than I am, and that
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: has actually proven that they've they've had a product that
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: they've done it with. I get closer every every week,
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: you know, I get I go to afrotech and then
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: there's a target product, you know, manager and she's like,
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: send me, send me the store, let's get it.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: Have you tried out have you done any accelerator programs?
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Have you done any grants? I'm like, have I you know,
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: I've submitted plenty of times, but it's like it gives
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: who do you know, It's like, you know, it's like
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: what what do you do? So I think, how do
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: I add that person to my team? How do I
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: find that person? So that is definitely the goal.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: So what's your position with Great Goose?
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Ah? I'm a business manager for Rio? Y'all? Okay? So,
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: like honestly, being an entrepreneur going into a title or
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: corporate setting is like crazy because you're just like they're
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: doing background checks, they're doing all the things like you
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: got training. But it's been beautiful. So I actually shout
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: out to Jordan Gibbs and he and I met through
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: his brother and family and friends and another guy named Yusaf.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: He was working with an incredible a three C festival
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: that we used to have here in Atlanta. And he
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: was just like, yo, I mean, we're hiring for this
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: new positions position that I am now taking giving you
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: over the role over to. And I was like, all right, well,
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: like I'm not really like you know, I mean, I'm
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: I never really had into resume, but I had it,
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: but like around college, and I would send that resume
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: out and I would have a meeting. I would take
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: a meeting with the label like Innerscope or people would
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: actually set these things up with me, and then they'd
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: be like, we can't, Like you deserve something bigger than
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: this role, Like you're bigger than this. So it was like,
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: how do I find a role that made sense for
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: paigd schari Addison, Like what does it look like? And
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: so I just got the role of the multicultural lifestyle
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: Curator of Atlanta and that is, you know, encompassing not
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: only representing the brand in all of my life and
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: the lifestyle I have, but how that brand elevates, you know,
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: and how I can continue bringing the elevation to the
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: brand through Atlanta's eyes right and in the right eyes.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: Like we don't have just hookah bars and lounges, like
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: we have elevated experiences. We have we literally have screenings
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: of movies that are doing numbers on you know, in
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: different types of film, you know, the film world, you know,
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: and I think that's just like beautiful to see. We
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: have art, we have the Giants exhibit right now at
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: the Art you know the High Museum, like things that
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: truly show the elevation of Atlanta. And so I'm ready
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: and excited to be able to curate those experiences on
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: alongside the other team members that I have. We have
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: a team member Lester in Chicago. I'm the only female
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: on the team, so like I'm like a first lady.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: But Olmo and DC and then Jordan gives he's like
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: now over he oversees all of it, and he's in
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: Atlanta with me. So yeah, it's it's kind of it's
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: kind of dope because it's like you kind of you're
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: being you're showing up as yourself, you're showing up to learn,
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: but you're also seeing how from a corporate standpoint, you know,
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: how the in sides of things work, and how many
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: teams there are to be able to just like grow,
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: like they make it scared, they do it, and then
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: there's this, and then they have that, and then there's that.
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: Like it's incredible to watch.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so congratulations first and foremost.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: Some people might be sitting here watching this and saying,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: like she looks super familiar, like this, I know it
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: from somewhere that they just can't.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Figure it out.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe it wasn't best Fast, maybe some other summit, or
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: maybe it was reality TV. So let's let's let's let's
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the reality t TV situation. Uh, what
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: you learned from it, how it might have helped or
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: entered your brand.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's get into it.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: You know, I did a TV show. It was a
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: dating show, and when I shot it, it was actually
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: supposed to be on another it was gonna think it'supposed
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: to be on the gage one. I don't remember. I
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: just remember that my friend Tam she's from Atlanta, one
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: of my good homegirls from college, and we from Atlanta
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: for real, Like you know, when you know each other,
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: when you know you don't really have to go to
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: the same high school to know people right in Atlanta,
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: you like, you know, you kind of like have some
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: of the the same friends and then you just kind
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: of intertwine and she calls me up and the two questions,
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: mind you, this was right around when I was hosting
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: virvol So she's like, two questions, are you dating? And
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: are you vaccinated? And I'm like, girl, like who asked
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: questions like this, Like two important questions, two important questions
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: that are just so like it's giving invasive. And so
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm I'm vaccinated and I wasn't dating
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: at the time, and so I think I was people
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: were choosing to take, you know, to be in that
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: role of yeah, we're seeing each other, but they weren't
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: like understanding the value of having Paige Shari standing beside you.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: And I think there was something that was in me
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: that was just like, yeah, I do it to show
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: them all like you should have, you should have, could have,
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: would have and now all those things wrong, wrong way
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: to go into it. However, I also thought about my
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: businesses and the things that of me as a personality,
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: what I would want to do, So I think we
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: should It was a twenty twenty one because I think
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: you guys were like around when I was like, okay,
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: you guys are just.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Right before you said you were about to do it.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like I'm about to sign and y'all
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: were like, so you so you're doing it and I
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: was like no, I'm literally about to sign the paperwork,
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: like my lawyer is in here right now while I'm
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: going on and off of stage for Revolt, and I
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: was just like, you know, I got advice from all
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: different managers and friends and they were like, it can't
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: really hurt, and I just did it and it was
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: a great experience, you know, two months, three months in Vancouver,
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: you know, being with the girls, we just get we
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: go on a hall. I found out, we just go
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: on a hall. I didn't have any clue what reality
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: TV was, y'all. I really didn't. I watched I barely
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: watched TV, like especially reality TV growing up, and so
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: I didn't know what to expect. And all I'm thinking
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: about is I'm gonna go in here. I'm going to
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: make sure I do what I need to do. I'm
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: going in here as myself, and whatever happens happens. And
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: I had a good time. I did. I was very
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: present and I focused a lot, didn't you know. Obviously
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: you walk in a room full of men and you're like, okay,
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: what's what's t Like, what's going on here? Like what
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: are we doing? And then like they're like, literally, we're
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: gonna set updates and you guys are just gonna go
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: on them and you're gonna be seen in a light
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: where you're supposed to be and so yeah, I uh, genuinely,
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: I just like walked in and there was this guy
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: there and I was like, okay, he was pretty Yeah,
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: it was crazy. I have to get that and I
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: walked in and this guy was just like looking at me,
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: and I was like, all right, I choose him, and
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: like it wasn't like I had already. I didn't go
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: into the experience the way I would have with knowing
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: what I know now. But I definitely never regret anything
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: I do because I'm like, that was what it was
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: supposed to be. It was I supposed to learn something,
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: I'm supposed to grow and it MTV ended up being
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: the one that put it out. I was literally in
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: a visa in Abita with Janelle at the time, my friend,
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, they're like, three years later, we're about
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: to put the show out and I'm like what. I'm like,
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: I forgot all about that show. But I will say this,
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: I I know now that if I were to do
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: anything with reality TV or TV or film or anything
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: ever again, it would need to be produced by me
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: or at least on the production team. And I would
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: want to truthfully have a hand in what people get
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: to see, because I think the real is the most
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: important part of reality and people don't. It's not as
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: much you know, I think there are So.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: You don't think you were fairly portrayed?
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: Oh I mean, I'm a crier, so I think I
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: think you know, they showed me crying. I'm gonna cry
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: if anybody knows me out there, they know, hey, excuse me,
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: Paige is gonna cry every time. And then I'm gonna
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: get i'mna get to the business. I'mnna get down to
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: everything I need to do. And that's how it went.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: It was like, okay, y'all, I did a TV show.
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: Everybody relaxed, like yeah, I know, y'all are like, what when.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Did you do this?
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: When did you have time? And it's like, yeah, I
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: did it. And then now we're here and let's continue,
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: let's carry on.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: So do you think that helped you?
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: I don't think it hindered. I think it was a
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: moment in time that, like in your twenties, what you're
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: you can do, you can do things that you're like, ah,
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: I'm thirty now, I probably wouldn't do that, but like
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: I did it. I don't regret it.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: I'm just asking.
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: No, I'm saying I don't. I don't think it helped
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: nor hindered. I don't think it really. It was the experience,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: and I think that's what I do things for. I
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: experienced life. I'm not choosing to do things for another
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: person's like opinion on it. I'm just being And then
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: you know, if I make a if I make a
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: decision that I'm like, I wouldn't do anymore cool. The
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: Gemini and Me is like, okay, moving on, Like there's
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: five more people in me. We're continuing. The next person
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: that you never met is here, and she's here like
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: she's gotta roll at Gray Goose, you know, like she's
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: she's I'm genuinely proud of the connection that I saw
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: from black women when we it was three of us,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: but from the connection that a black women that we
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: were able to get because we didn't get a ringion
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: show and I produced one, and I felt like, you know,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: a lot of people had mixed emotions on why we
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: did it, and I was like, look, I was like,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: it's okay, I'll give you guys an update on my life.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: I don't care, but I do want you guys to
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: know that, like focus on understanding that, like, even if
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: my love story didn't work out like in the way
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: you had hoped it to be or how I had
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: hoped it to be, from this, like, don't ever think
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: that it's not happening for you, or don't think it's
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: not coming. I wanted it to be a hopeful thing.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: I wanted it to be a joyous occasion, like I
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: wanted it to be something of people understanding, like, first
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: of all, black women deserve to be seen on all
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: platforms like that in that light right, not where it's like, oh,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: we're going to be pulling each other hair out, we
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: about to be arguing, We about to be doing some
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: stuff that ain't got none to do with nothing, like
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: we're genuinely trying. We genuinely all want the same things. Love, prosperity, abundance,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: enjoyment in life, money, and and to just settle down
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: in the ways we want you know. So yeah, I really,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: like I said, it didn't hinder it. You definitely need
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: to always have a plan when it comes out, And
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: I wasn't able to have a plan, Like I wasn't
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: able to be like, all right, let me set the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: pr up, let me make sure I got my product
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: drop in on this or having my you know, like,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: I wanted to focus on that. And I think because
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: of the fact that the relationship didn't work out, I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: think people were kind of like well, I don't like,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: we want to know the story, like what happened. It's
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: just like girl like y'all. Y'all never knew my like
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: my insides of my life before. And I gave y'all
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: this because it was something that was like an experience
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: that I wanted to experience, not because I was like, oh,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: y'all gonna see it. No, I'm like I got different brands,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: I got different things that I want other than this
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: to be the forefront of it.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: So you have it, well, I did it well, appreciate you.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: How can they how can they follow you?
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: What?
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: How can they get information on the company?
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Like what's all of it?
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: Well for starters, I definitely want to make sure I
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: shut out. My sister's children's book on investment in children's
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: literacy even in India is coming out, and that one's
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: like the newer one, and that it is like so much.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: She's got so many great things. But she really started
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: that because she was a school teacher. She was on
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: the school board, just seeing in the classroom in real time,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: like how these kids genuinely didn't have any knowledge of
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: what to do with their like how what savings would
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: even look like? And I think she had a student
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: wants tell her, like, you know, her her sibling was
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: have like younger, you know, like a teenager was needing
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: to like go to school and had to drop out
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: of like high school to go pay for their parents' bills.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: And so she was like, okay, Well the student said
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: that sec as a second grader, like I want to
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: learn about money. And so she just created that even
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: if she wasn't, she was learning as she was going
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: through her financial career, you know, you know status, she
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: just understood that that's something that they needed to learn
• 1:03:45
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