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Just gotta turn out the light. 17 00:00:53,200 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: Oh hey, some things now or change, like your kids 18 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: always leaving tiny toys on the floor for you to 19 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: step on, and Gan saving folks lots of money on 20 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: their car insurance. Sweetie, I think I left the downstairs 21 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: light on. Please don't make me go. Fifteen minutes could 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: save you or more. Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I 23 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: am your host, ras Sean McDonald. It is important to 24 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: understand that everybody travels a different path to success. That 25 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: is because your brand is different. The challenges you're facing 26 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: your life in different are different. It really are, so 27 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stores and start writing your own. 28 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: My Money Making Conversation interviews will encourage you to lead 29 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: with your gifts and never use age as an excuse 30 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: when you're planning your goals. It's food time. Everybody who 31 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: listens to my show, no I go. I go a 32 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: little extra when I have a guest on when with 33 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: food because I'm I am a foodie. I'm award winning baker. 34 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: I like throw that out there. Leat everybody know I 35 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: got skills. I eat, but I have skills my guests. 36 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,679 Speaker 1: Bringing vegan options and food awareness to the city of 37 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: Atlanta has always been a life dream of my guests. 38 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: Peaky Colt. She's the founder and CEO CEO of Slutty Vegan. 39 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: She's opening the conversation on vegan food options for people 40 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: who have never considered them in communities that have such 41 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: high numbers and hypertension, cholesterol, obesity, and a host of 42 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: other food arable food born elements and slutty vegan. They 43 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: have combined su birb taste with plant based ingredients so 44 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: you can remain vegan and get a little naughty. Please 45 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: work with the money making conversations. My friend, Pinky Colt, 46 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,679 Speaker 1: how you doing it? Big? A think doing very well? 47 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,679 Speaker 1: Because you know that's when people see you. What's that, 48 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: big guy? You believe how many intros I get? But 49 00:02:58,440 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: you know what, as long as they call it my name, 50 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: I'm doing something. You know. But you know when you're 51 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: just people say that, big guy. Can you get me 52 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: into the front of the line. This lasts longer. Can 53 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: you move me up front? Can you move me up front? 54 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:15,239 Speaker 1: Come on? I need it all the time. Well, you 55 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: know I've known about you. I've lived in Atlanti since 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: two thousand seven. Uh, and I eat all types of food. 57 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: So for as a person who always look at talent 58 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: and always looking at trying to reach out to people 59 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: who are doing something unique in the community when it 60 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 1: comes to food, what allowed you to separate yourself when 61 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: with with other restaurants. I'm not just talking about vegan restaurants, 62 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: just just other brands. You know, you're such a competitive market, 63 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: you know, Atlanta has such a strong restaurant market. One 64 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: has allowed you to separate. That's my first question I 65 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: want to ask you about Vegan. Well, the first thing 66 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: is timing, right. I think often times, um we really 67 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: don't understand how important timing of a thing is. Right. So, 68 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: if you know anything about Uber and Lyft, there were 69 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: other companies that started, they did the same exact thing 70 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: at the same exact time, UM as Uber and left, 71 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: but those businesses didn't work. But the timing of Uber 72 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: and Lyft was so on point that it gave them 73 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: the opportunity to really survive in the market that really 74 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: didn't even exist at that time. So I say, all 75 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: had to say that the time ning for sluddy Vegan 76 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: couldn't be better, right. I started my company during an 77 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: arrow and one people started to walk into a new 78 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: level of consciousness to be at least even interested and 79 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: wanting to eat better. That's number one. Right. Secondly, they said, okay, 80 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: all right, so vegan is not a same thing, but 81 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: like we're open to try it because it really doesn't 82 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: exist on the main stream, but it's here. But like, 83 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: nobody has ever made it cool. So what I did 84 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: was I made it cool. But I didn't just focus 85 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: on the food element. I focused on the experience. So Rashan, 86 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: you said, um, when when you ask the question, you 87 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: said the marketing, right, So we put so much emphasis 88 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: in the marketing, um, from the timing that we got 89 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: to do this thing that it allowed us to be 90 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: one of the businesses that everybody knows and love. So yeah, 91 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: to the to the naked eye, and they just seem 92 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: like a restaurant, but it's bigger than the restaurant, right, 93 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: It's bigger than burgers and fries. We're making people excited 94 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: about a lifestyle. And I don't know that a lot 95 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: of businesses do that, but I feel like that's the 96 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 1: formula to our success. Is that just like Pepsi and 97 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: Coca Cola, right, like, they're selling a lifestyle experience and 98 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: then you come get the product based on the experience. 99 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: And we've been able to do that, and that's such 100 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: such apart from a lot of the other businesses and 101 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: began businesses that you see. But we upsay that whole 102 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: marketing and that experience to get people excited about the brand. Uh. 103 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: You know, let's let's get to the heart of you 104 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: are a star. Okay, I've worked around stars. You know that. 105 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: You see my bio. I know when I say you star, 106 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: so you can give me all that little nice marketing. 107 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: You know. Steve Harvey, he's sold ticket because he was 108 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. Okay, Yeah, he worked hard, he marketed, he 109 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: worked on his jokes, but he separated himself because he 110 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: believes in himself. Plus he had a unique ability to 111 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: communicate and unique ability. Same thing with stephen A. Smith. 112 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: Same thing Timmis anything with it, Jamie Foxx, same thing 113 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: with Monique, all these people I work with, Gabrielle Union 114 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: and Nick Cannon, and you fall in that class of 115 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: people who clearly can be talented at someplace else, but 116 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: have chose to be talented in the food industry and 117 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: the food service industry. Why did you choose discourse? Because, 118 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: like I wanted to say that, because sometimes when I 119 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: get people on the show, especially uniquely talented people like 120 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: on this show, you tend to want to give me 121 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: a glive, a global perspective on your success. Okay, everybody, 122 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: Vegan just didn't start last week. You know that. Okay, 123 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: you know, come on, it's interesting because like I can 124 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: only be real and raw, right, Vegan wrong, just vegan wrong, 125 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: I can only I can only be vegan raw. But 126 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: you also said it to listen, people love me. Yes, 127 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: because people love me, They're going to buy into the 128 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: experience because they're the person that curates that experience. But 129 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: it all speaks in the same breath. Right, They're gonna 130 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: fall in love with the marketing and want to be 131 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: a part of the experience. But they also know who 132 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: created that experience. And I loved you before I do 133 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: what you did. Oh, I appreciate that, I'm saying, Okay, 134 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: I understand that. Okay, you know people know, people know brands. 135 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: You know, if people know about Chick fil A and 136 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: they've never eaten a chicken sandwich from Chick fil A, 137 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: and so so the same thing. So your marketing has 138 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: made you a mainstay in conversation. In other words, you 139 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: could say that you are are the voice of you know, 140 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: I'm just telling you know a lot of people can 141 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: listen to the show. Go why he's saying that. But 142 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: you all become a brand, A vegan brand, a voice, 143 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: and so when you speak, there's so much credibility tied 144 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: to it because the success is tied to it. You know, 145 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: social media numbers are tied to it. You know your 146 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: community uplift is tied to it. So you will beyond 147 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: just the restaurant and people lining up. People see a 148 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: soul of spirit and you understand how to connect to two. 149 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: And so that's why I say is that, yeah, we 150 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: can talk about the marketing, but let's get to the 151 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: core of why this is successful. It's you one you 152 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: willing to put in. I always tell people there are 153 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: twenty four hours in a day. Learn to use every 154 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: hour of that. You do that you get at at 155 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 1: the same time. All the time you do that, you 156 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 1: commit the uplifting people, not only yourself but also the 157 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: community because you figured, hey, your God has blessed you 158 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: is even a bigger blessing if you share those opportunities. 159 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: You do that, and then you know, if you're trying me, 160 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: if you're tying me talking about how good, now this 161 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: is good, let's go talk. I shut up and listen 162 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: to you for me, because see, I can't stand people 163 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: who are talented won't let nobody talk good about it 164 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 1: just just cut me off. The one of one of 165 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: the one of them, one of them, want them come 166 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: to the mountain speeches. But you know I'm gonna get 167 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: do what you gotta do conversations. I'm gonna tell you 168 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: I'm excited about these conversations because I work extremely hard, 169 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: but I don't I don't I don't look for the credit, right, 170 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: So for you to give me my flowers, I want 171 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 1: to say that I appreciate you because like it's not 172 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 1: my intention to get the flowers. Like I work hard 173 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: because I love to do this like this when I say, 174 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: like I wake up in the morning at six o'clock 175 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: every single morning because my brain is wired like that, 176 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: because I know that I'm fulfilling my mission every single day, 177 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,439 Speaker 1: like I love. I'm in love with that. So to 178 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: hear you speak on me like that, like I like, 179 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,559 Speaker 1: I value that and I want to say thank you, 180 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: um because you know, sometimes you can always just be 181 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: in a weezeezee these weeds, but like just to stop down. 182 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: So I'm sitting here laughing when you're saying these things 183 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: about me, and and that feels good in my spirit. 184 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: Let's let's just google a little miss Pinky cot dot com, 185 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: Bill A Southern Or dot com, Rolling Out dot com, 186 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: Facebook dot com, Atlanta Magazine dot com, Big News dot 187 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 1: com dot com. See um, get your face and a 188 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 1: plate on any of those pictures. Okay, No, don't where 189 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: to be found. You know you know who image? Every 190 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: time I col you know what image I see? I 191 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: see Pinky co the Cream of v Thank you man, 192 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And you know, let me tell you something. 193 00:10:54,360 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: I'm listening now. I'm listening to you. I accidentally into 194 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: this right so like I'm sure you've probably read about 195 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: it before, but no, I'm new. I don't know nothing 196 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: about you. Talk to me like I because like I 197 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: told you, I knew you before you have food. I 198 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: didn't know. Somebody told me you know what she does 199 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: that vegan stuff. Yeah, but continue to educate me about 200 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: you because you wouldn't let me talk about you, so 201 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: obviously gonna tell me something I don't know. So continue 202 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:29,599 Speaker 1: to talks. I'm learning you something. So the day that 203 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: I was born, while I was getting my freedom, my 204 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:34,719 Speaker 1: father was leasing his he was being sending to life 205 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,599 Speaker 1: in prison. He ended up doing twenty two years. So 206 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: growing up, my mother was working three and four jobs 207 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: every single day. Immigrants, you're making a woman making sure 208 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: that the lights were always on, that we always had 209 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: food on the table. We weren't we weren't. We weren't 210 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: eating what the average family was eating. But that's what 211 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: we made the best out of the big beans and 212 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: right when we did it. And she just made sure 213 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 1: that we had everything that we needed. We may not 214 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: have had everything that we wanted, but we definitely surely 215 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: had what we needed. So I remember maneuvering through life, 216 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: always wanting to figure out ways to put my mother 217 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: in position so that she didn't have to work that 218 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: hard because my father was in prison. Meanwhile, my father 219 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 1: would call me from prison from federal prison, telling me 220 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: what books to read, telling me about stocks and bonds, 221 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: and telling me like how to how to be a 222 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,199 Speaker 1: boss and a leader. So I took those experiences and 223 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: I made them my own. I started throwing parties at 224 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: fourteen years oh. I was making four thousand dollars every 225 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: single week. I remember counting money with my mother on 226 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: the couch, making more than my mother. In high school, 227 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: I'm selling candy, selling food. Just always wanted to create 228 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: and just to just to get a residual off the 229 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: things that I put together. Right. Then, when I got 230 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: to college, I paid my way through college by doing 231 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: hair right. So beyond that, I've just always found ways 232 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: to make money, UM and to create things that people 233 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: would be saidatisfied with. So in I came up with 234 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: this concept after working at the Mori Show as the 235 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: television producer called Pinky's Jamaican an American restaurant, and I 236 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: had this restaurant. It was doing well. I did my research. 237 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: I didn't literally I just wanted to have a business. 238 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: I'm not a chef. I just liked to cook as 239 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: a passion project. I'm Jamaican, I like food. So I 240 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: came up with this concept and it was doing extremely 241 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: well for me not to know anything about business. But 242 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: then I realized that I needed to lose that restaurant 243 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: in order for it to propel me to to be 244 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: who you see today, right, So I had a grief 245 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: by at that restaurant, UM. And then I got an 246 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: opportunity to work as a casting director on the TV 247 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: show called Iona Fixed My Life. And while I was 248 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: on that show, UM, I eventually moved to Atlanta temporarily 249 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: UM to work, and then I was in the house 250 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: one day and I came up with letty vegans. But 251 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,599 Speaker 1: never in a million years if you'd have told me 252 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: two years ago that that I bedroom idea that I 253 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: created would be one of the hottest contests in the country, 254 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 1: I would have told you you were lying. But I 255 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: said that to say you know almost you said that 256 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: to say what pinky? And it almost felt like it 257 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: was on accident, But it was really divine right. It 258 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: was ricked. It was supposed to happen, and and and 259 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,719 Speaker 1: now when I look at things, I realized that, like 260 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: I was walking in my purpose all along, it just 261 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: manifested through slutty vecan. And now we're here. Okay, cool? 262 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: So how did the name slutty vecan come about? Because 263 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: you said you came up with it? Who did you 264 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: share with anybody that you joking and came up with? 265 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: How did they come up? How was it I was? 266 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: I was sitting in the bed in the band Let 267 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: me tell you something. You sit up in your head 268 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: against the head board. How were you were your land? 269 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: Where were you? How will you sit? Let me tell 270 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: you I had some medicinal marijuana. See what you gonna do? 271 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: A couple of money making conversations. I was just sitting 272 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: in the bed. Nobody just sits. Look, that's the part 273 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: of the story that I don't really talk about. That's 274 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: a book bar but I'm gonna give you that pea. 275 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: But listen, I was this. I was sitting in the bed, 276 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: and I was gonna somebody cloud and I come up 277 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: with a million ideas all the time. I just if 278 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: you I don't something about being able to create ideas. 279 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: It's almost like when a rapper freestyles, I could do that. 280 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: What idea? So we're sitting in the same room for 281 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: at least ten minutes, I didn't came up with about 282 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: ten ideas, and somebody walking away with a billion dollar ideas. 283 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: So I was sitting in the house and I had 284 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: my medicinal marijuana and and and and it came to 285 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: me like, oh, floody Vegan. Because I knew that if 286 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: I created pinky Vegan, it wasn't going to have the 287 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: same traction. And how did I know that. I knew 288 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: that because working in TV, I know what people pay 289 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: attention to. I know that sex cells. I know it's 290 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: gonna make them change the channel. I know what they're 291 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: gonna be tuned into. So I said, you know what, 292 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the two most pleasurable experiences in life 293 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: and that sex and that spooed and I was put 294 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: it in the pot and I'm a skirt, and I'm 295 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: gonna create something that's gonna require people to ask questions 296 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: because guess what, the vegan lifestyle wasn't totally cool, right. 297 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: It wasn't something that black people, especially was that, oh 298 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: you know, let me get this cool schools. They're not 299 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: in that. They're like this, this ain't got no flavor. 300 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: I ain't in that. So how could I create something 301 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: that's going to get people who don't normally eat like 302 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: this to at least be interested in having a conversation. 303 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: So the name sounded racey and I liked it. So 304 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: many people was like, oh, that's too racy, that ain't 305 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: gonna work. But I'm like, guess what if you can't 306 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: get past the idea that we're not selling sex, we're 307 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: actually selling a lifestyle, but we're using sex as as 308 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: the buffer to get people to pay attention to all. 309 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: That's exactly what I did, and it worked, and there 310 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: was only I was just having this conversation earlier. I 311 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: got an opportunity um to participate in the Super Bowl 312 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: in the nineteen and they wanted me to change their name. 313 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: And at that point I realized, listen, I can never 314 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: waiver on what I created because I created it was intentional. 315 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: I created it for a reason. And if people can't 316 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: get past that intention and that mission, that those are 317 00:16:58,480 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: people that I don't want to work with. And it's 318 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: so kay, you don't have to work with everybody. So 319 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: here I am. 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That's O T 368 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: T E R dot ai. Well you do you have 369 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:52,239 Speaker 1: fifty nine thousand Instagram followers. I'm tell you all right. 370 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: You know when when I said up and talked to 371 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: little I'm gonna call you a baby genius. You know. Okay, 372 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: you know the baby g was here, she up there 373 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 1: in her bed. You know, she got marketing skills. She 374 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: can articulate you guys, hear that on it. You know 375 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: she you know, she put like four or five sentences 376 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: in the row. I could actually just answer a question. 377 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 1: She talking for five minutes. I just have to cut 378 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 1: off because it's my shild She's not gonna do it. 379 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: Come on my show and the I'll talk meet now, okay, 380 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: an amazing games. Now now you said, you said I 381 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: put I took what people love the most, food and sects, 382 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: put them in the pot, and I just start stirring. 383 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: Let's start talking about that menu. Because see, you're right, 384 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: you know, because of the fact that I feel that 385 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: your name created such a high level of curiosity that 386 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: they brought in your age group, which is really key. 387 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: And that's why I feel you successful, because you know, 388 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: because because because vegan ism to me, to me was 389 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: always felt like older generation food. You know, they're trying 390 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: to eat food. You know, they figured out they need 391 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: to start eating because they have their blood pressure to 392 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: how they're trying to get light right. You made this 393 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 1: hip for your generation because you are millennial. But you 394 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: know it's so crazy. Let me tell you something real quick. 395 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: Sorry to cut you off, but I gotta say that 396 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: I don't know why. Okay, okay, okay, you know next time, 397 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: I know we just code, you're gonna we're gonna see 398 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: each other next time. I'm just let you we want 399 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: to see each other. Listen, the Aunties, they loved me. 400 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: My demographic is actually not the millennials. It's the more 401 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: it's the people that are conservative that make a medium 402 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: like like, listen, thirty five to fifty five is my 403 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: core audience that I see those I see the lines 404 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: I see Listen, these are women who have children, These 405 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: are women who are conservative. They literally this ain't it 406 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: ain't even just the millennials. You've got the older people, 407 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: the people that support me the most. I laughed and 408 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: joke with my friends. I'm like, listen, I don't get 409 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: what y'all say. The Aunties love me. And as long 410 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: as I got the Aunties in my back pocket, I'm good, 411 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: right right, and you got it? And so three and 412 00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 1: fifty nine thousand Instagram follows. Now, how how the that 413 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: to help your business to have that the moue social 414 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: media force tied to your you know, certified account and 415 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: it's Instagram m so, so beyond just Instagram followers, right, 416 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: we have different channels where we have different audiences. On 417 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: so Facebook you may truly get like the aunties and 418 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: the families, and then on Instagram you get the younger people. 419 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 1: But then we also have a community text group where 420 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: I can text my consumer, right, I can text them 421 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: like I'm having a regular conversation with them, and we 422 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: do that. We do it in the most organic way. 423 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 1: I'm texting them like, hey, big head, what you're doing? 424 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: Come see me? And then I put the restaurant address, 425 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: so I have about seven thousand people in there, and 426 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: then I have twenty thousand people on my email blast. 427 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 1: So how it helps me is that, however I want 428 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: to communicate with my people, I can use a different 429 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: channel to do that and a different tone to do 430 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: that to get my message across. So say God forbid 431 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: Instagram chests down today. I know I got different channels 432 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: to communicate with the people, but it's gonna benefit to 433 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,719 Speaker 1: me nonetheless, because I can touch the people. And that's 434 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: why a love sloly vegan because you see here, you 435 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,880 Speaker 1: see a restaurant concept that is moving into a corporate 436 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 1: structure of the business. We're moving at scale, we're open 437 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 1: up new locations, but we still have the voice of 438 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 1: the people, right. We still insert things that are happening 439 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 1: in the culture into the business in an authentic way 440 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: where that's that's not exploiting people, but making people feel 441 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 1: comfortable and safe to say that. Guess what I see 442 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: myself in this business. I see the journey. I can 443 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: follow the journey and I can grow with this journey 444 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm a part of it, and 445 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: we make people feel a part of that journey. And 446 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: that's really why it works. So we're able to use 447 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: the channels um that we have, and we have multiple channels, 448 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: and we grow those channels every single day. Great, fantastic, 449 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: you're are a marketing guru. Now you come on my show. 450 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: I got ninty three thousand fan club members, my lot 451 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: blast I got when my Facebook got almost eight hundred 452 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 1: thousand Facebook I see all this because I know you 453 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: opening up a new a third location in Atlanta, Georgia. Correct, Okay, 454 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 1: can can little low Rashawn McDonald money making conversation dot com. 455 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: Can he help promote your brand? Can you? Can I 456 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: do that for you? Sure, because you're a marketing machine. 457 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I finally I got you in my life, Pinky. 458 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: I don't want to let you go, So I got 459 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: I gotta boy down to the queen. Now, you know, 460 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: when you know, when you when the queen come in 461 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: the room, you gotta stand out from everybody else. You know, 462 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: you know I ain't got no six pack. I gotta 463 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: stand that with marketing. I got the marketing over here. 464 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: So we definitely could do something to your third location. 465 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: Tell us about your third location, because I'm all feature 466 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: that Rushaun Eats. I dropped that every Wednesday on my 467 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: Facebook page and on my Instagram. I gotta like forty 468 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: thousand followers on my Instagram account, and of course I 469 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: got my YouTube account, forty thousand on my YouTube money 470 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: May conversation dot Com. More importantly, you know, I I 471 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: feel comfortable and being able to joke around with you 472 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know you're a real 473 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: person in the community. But before we get into your community, 474 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: I want to talk about this third location you're opening, 475 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: telling people why you're opening it. You know we're coming 476 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: out of the pandemic. Okay, well we're not eat out 477 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,199 Speaker 1: of the pandemic. You made a decision to open up 478 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: a third restaurant. Talk about it. Where is it located at? UM? 479 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: So you know what I learned about Slutty Vegan and 480 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: Slutty Vegan is weather proof, right, um, and slutty Vegans 481 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: COVID proof as long as we continue to do what 482 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: we've been doing and learn how to pivot. And I 483 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 1: think that that's the beautiful thing about entrepreneurs knowing how 484 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: to pivot, right, like being a chameleon, and like facing 485 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: adversity and understand how to like change that adversity into 486 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: a benefit to your business. And I think that I've 487 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: been able to do that very well. And I say 488 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: all that to say that I just opened up another 489 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: little second location a month ago. They've got lines down 490 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: the block. So now I got two locations with the 491 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: lines down the block. Any day now I'm opening my 492 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: third location and historic fourth Ward on Edgewood, UM. And 493 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 1: I'm doing that also in the middle of a pandemic. 494 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,880 Speaker 1: But I'm excited about that location because there's so much 495 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 1: history there. Martin Luther King grew up, um less than 496 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 1: than two minutes away from that location, so there's a 497 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: lot of historic elements. Um, you got all burned over there. 498 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: So there's a lot going on in that neighborhood. And 499 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: I feel like we can continue to revitalize Edgewood when 500 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: we put a new staple in the community like Floody Deacon. 501 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: It's not just coming just to make money. We're coming 502 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: to to really like help the community grow right and 503 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: be better. And that's what we do in every single community. 504 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: So Edgewood is opening in the next few days. I'm 505 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: excited about it. It's three thousand square feet. Um, we 506 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: got a full on kitchen. It's really just going to 507 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: be experienced, right. People come and they could feel like 508 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,239 Speaker 1: they're at home when they come to Edgewood. When they 509 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: come inside of Floody Deacon, they're gonna see pieces of history. 510 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,360 Speaker 1: There's gonna remind them why Atlanta it's so necessary, why 511 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: Edgewood is so necessary, and why business and commerce is 512 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: so necessary. So you'll you'll get pieces of that. You're 513 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 1: gonna get pieces of of the HBCUs that are in 514 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: the community. You're gonna get elements of people who have 515 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: taken Atlanta to the next level through politics, through business 516 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: like you're gonna get a lot of that. And what 517 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,399 Speaker 1: we've learned how to do in a great way and 518 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: we continue to do it, is we know how to 519 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: teach and we know how to hide the education um 520 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: inside of the experience. And that's what we're gonna be 521 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: doing the Edgeword. So I'm excited. After Edgeword, We've got 522 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: two more locations that were opening up in Atlanta, and 523 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: then I'm on to the next day because we're growing 524 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: and God is good man. Now I'll start trying to 525 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 1: figure out why I met your I'm gonna call you 526 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: short because you because you because you're talking all this 527 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: noise to be right now. Now, a couple of things 528 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: that you're doing in the community. Here this this National 529 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: Jiggle contest that you had, which I thought was super 530 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,719 Speaker 1: smart with a bore, big ticker over there V one 531 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: oh three in Atlanta, Georgia. And then you're doing something 532 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: with this Georgia Department of Junior Juvenile Justice to d 533 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,239 Speaker 1: j J with the ten tho dollar scholarship jobs at 534 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: your just all tied through the Pinky Cold Foundation and 535 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 1: you being Pinky Cold that owned the slowly vegan restaurant. 536 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: These are both empowering formats. One is empowering and for 537 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: entertainment purposes and let people know that they get the 538 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,919 Speaker 1: opportunity to work with an establish a national known recording artists. 539 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: Right there alone means that you got juice. And then 540 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: you're on the show with my board, big ticker on 541 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: A on A one on three v one on three. 542 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: And then now you're doing the d J J with 543 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: the Georgia Department. So talk of the reason behind both 544 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: of adventures, I should say, And because I watched my 545 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: mother being philanthropist. She was she was a hood philanthropist. 546 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: She didn't even realize what she was doing. But you 547 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,239 Speaker 1: watch it, though, but you watch, but I watched her right, 548 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: So like I remember being a kid and we got 549 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: ten people living in the house, so like the community 550 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: community was embedded in me. As a kid, I didn't 551 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: understand what was happening, but I just knew that there 552 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: were people coming from Jamaica that standing at my mother's house, 553 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: that that we didn't share the same blood, but they 554 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: became family. Right, So all through my life I absorbed 555 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: that watching my mother do that and saw her selfless 556 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: attitude and behavior and how she moved as a queen, 557 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: and I really like captured that from my mother, so 558 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: as an adult, it's full circle. And I laught for 559 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: my mother about this because, like, philanthropy is at the 560 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: core of who I am. Right, So I'm a magnet. 561 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: The money, money is gonna come to me. I'm gonna 562 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: get it regardless. But to be able to help people 563 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: and provide resources for people, that is more money than 564 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: any dollar bill could ever be in my bank account 565 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: because I know that I get to uplift people, and 566 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: I know that those blessings are going to come back 567 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: ten folds. So when I created the foundation, I created 568 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: it because one being totally transparent my finance God like junk. 569 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: You're spending a lot of money. How do people were like, 570 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do? I said, you know what, let's 571 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: put some structure. That is because I'm the type of 572 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 1: person I'm gonna take the shirt off my back to 573 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: help somebody else. So I created my foundation to do 574 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: exactly what I do in my real life. Helped he 575 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: So I partner with the Department of Juvenile Justice to 576 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: provide opportunities for thirty X juvenile offenders. Right because I 577 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: see them as people, and I know what it felt 578 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: like to be on the receiving end of somebody being 579 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 1: caught up in the system. So I wanted to help 580 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: them and show them a different way of life. That's 581 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: number one. UM. Number two providing resources for businesses in 582 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: my area, the businesses in which I served. You know, 583 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: I've helped them um financially support themselves while going through 584 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 1: COVID and making sure that the people around me are 585 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: doing good, because if I'm doing good and they're not 586 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: doing good, then I'm not winning, right that's number two. UM. 587 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: Number three in my foundation, I'm doing something called vote 588 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: nick Um with Jamaine dupri and Impossible Fools to get 589 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: people excited about voting. So at the end of the day, 590 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 1: I don't care who you vote for. Just vote because 591 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: guess what, Once upon a time we didn't have the 592 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: rights and the ability to do that. So now that 593 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to do that, exercise that however 594 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: you do it just exercises so that your voice could 595 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: be heard. But those are just three of the million 596 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: things that we've already done in the foundation. But it 597 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: feels good to know that I can use that platform 598 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,959 Speaker 1: to help people build generational wealth. Oh and the one 599 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: thing that I didn't This is the biggest thing that 600 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: I'm working on, and I'm actually about to forget something, Okay, 601 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: I am. I'm partnering with um Derrek Kay's he owns 602 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: a restaurant called Big Days Cheese Steaks. We're doing a 603 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: life insurance initiative where we're providing life insurance for every 604 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: single black man in Atlanta who makes thirty tho dollars 605 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: a less um so that they don't have to pay 606 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,479 Speaker 1: for So what I do is like real community work. Right. 607 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 1: So like I called myself a hood politician, right, I'm 608 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: not like I'm not super versed in politics that to 609 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: be honest, that's really not my thing. However, I like 610 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: to help people, and I know that I can reach 611 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: the community by helping them and showing them that there's 612 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: a better way, by providing them resources, giving them access 613 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: to information because you know, people don't really want to 614 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: give us access. But now I'm gonna make it my 615 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: responsibility to provide access resources and to show people about 616 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: financial literacy. The things that I did learn now I 617 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: know that I can show you and I do all 618 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: of that through my foundation. Well, she is the queen 619 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: I love her. First time we've actually talked, this first 620 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 1: time we've actually communicated, and she got to hear what 621 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: I think about her, and I hope she understands this 622 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: is on his talk from somebody who recognizes gifted people. 623 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: And more importantly, her community involvement is really to me 624 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: more important than her food, and her food is the 625 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: bonus part of who she is, because she is not 626 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: forgotten that it takes a whole to be successful, not 627 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: a half. You have to you have everybody has to 628 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 1: be part of the opportunity. And she understands that and 629 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,719 Speaker 1: she values that. Sluggy Vegan is a is a product. 630 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: It started, like she said, started in her bedroom. I 631 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: always tell people on this show, you have to be 632 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: motivated by an opportunity and you have to put a 633 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: plan in place, and you have to give effort for 634 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 1: that plan to be successful. That's what you've done, Pinky 635 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: with your brand. You know, it's an idea. We all 636 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: have ideas, and you decided that you guess what I'm 637 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it in place. And then when people 638 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: try to try to twist it, try to come in 639 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: with a crazy idea of question you. First of all, 640 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: you whenever I would tell people, whenever somebody questioned you 641 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: on your idea, ask them how much have they participate? 642 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: Are they participated with money? Are they participating with work responsibility? 643 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: Or they just participating because they're just verbally commenting those 644 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: people have to ignore it first, and then when you 645 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: when you get your business rolling, you have to understand 646 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: if people asking you to compromise, If anybody ever asked 647 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: you to compromise on your idea for a one time event, 648 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: that's a bad idea. That's a bad idea because you 649 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: would never be able to recover because for the you 650 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: always be walking away going I should not have done that, 651 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: And why did I do it? Because you compromise your 652 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: values and you refuse to do that. And guess what 653 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: you're all over the city are we are? We going 654 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: out of the state here? What's what's happening here with 655 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: slooty Vega? You know at first? Why are you not 656 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: on TV here? You know it's funny, I got t 657 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: TV off is right now? Okay, Okay, let's go, there's go. 658 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,719 Speaker 1: Please please be on TV. Okay, If they don't, they 659 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: don't come happy to come talk to Rishane mcdal. We 660 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:14,320 Speaker 1: get it all straight, okay, but you're special and I 661 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 1: think that for my my whole take on you being 662 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: on TV. The food is awesome, but they gotta they 663 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: gotta capture you. I'm actually working on a TV show, 664 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: UM where I am helping struggling black and brown businesses 665 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: UM revitalize their brands. So so we're so that's one 666 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: of the shows. And the other show is UM A 667 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 1: Dinner at Pinky, So two shows that that will potentially 668 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 1: be on major network. So we're in the process of 669 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: that happening right now. So I'm working. You keep me 670 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: post and I just um, I just got a book 671 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: deal with Simon Is Shoester, so I'm excited about it 672 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: that that's my girl over there. You with my girl. 673 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:59,800 Speaker 1: Uh Don Davis, No, I'm not with Dohna. She's just 674 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 1: my suster. She's the ball. But guess what, you're the 675 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,839 Speaker 1: ball too. So not saying young person, but again, thank 676 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,479 Speaker 1: you for coming on my show. I appreciate you giving 677 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,400 Speaker 1: me thirty two minutes if you're time. Thank you for 678 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 1: having me listen, and anytime you name me I'm here. 679 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: I appreciate you. And again, tell your team to get 680 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: those uh all that from every time you open a restaurant, 681 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 1: please let me know so I can support you. And 682 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 1: I'm serious about there. Twice in money I send out 683 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 1: my newsletter. It goes out every Wednesday, so let me know. 684 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: I'll drop it in there. This is free stuff. This 685 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: is part of my community help, especially with young entrepreneurs 686 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: and not saying that you're a young entrepreneurs, but we 687 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,359 Speaker 1: all know the marketing is key and somebody might see 688 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 1: you over here, might give you another opportunity to sell 689 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 1: something over there. Again, thank you for coming on my show, 690 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:49,759 Speaker 1: Pinky co Thank thank you, pell Safe, thank you all right. 691 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: If we hear more interviews of Money Making Conversation interviews, 692 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 1: please go to money Making Conversation dot com. I'm Rishan McDonald. 693 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:00,879 Speaker 1: I'm your host in this season. 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