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Speaker 1: Milo you're saying it's cool, It's cool cool. Hey, y'all,

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Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of Eating Wild Broke. I'm your

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Speaker 1: host Colleen Witt, and today we have special guests Melzaku,

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Speaker 1: hosts of Meet You Where You Are podcasts, and the

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Speaker 1: owner of Head Attire Trendsetting Clothing. What do you have

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Speaker 1: us eating today? Um? The brokent dish ever? Because this

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Speaker 1: is literally what I ate when I was in Africa,

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Speaker 1: West Ghandian dish. This is called gary. Literally it's like

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Speaker 1: a grain of sand and you will mix it with

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Speaker 1: water eating broken. Since we're in the market, I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna best with his dish too. I'm gonna bring

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Speaker 1: a dish, so I'm gonna add some flavor boats today.

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Speaker 1: What do you have us eating? What are your ingredients? Yes? Okay,

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Speaker 1: so this is probably gonna be the brokent dish ever

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Speaker 1: on the show. I don't know what it's broken is

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Speaker 1: definitely the second broken. Yes, I'm on the bet that

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Speaker 1: this is the brokest broke because you know why, because

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Speaker 1: you don't even need a stove. So okay, So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be honest. We had to, I told myself looking

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Speaker 1: second brokest because the other one was free and it

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Speaker 1: didn't require stove. Did it come with a lunch ticket?

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Speaker 1: I heard a free food? So this is called gary

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Speaker 1: that's that's the greeds we're using. Which is this It's

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Speaker 1: like it looks like saying it feels like saying, but

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Speaker 1: this is an African distract from Ghana, the motherland where

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Speaker 1: out there for a few years, real struggle I'm talking about,

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Speaker 1: you were lucky to have water to add to this.

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Speaker 1: So you add water dinner. We don't really we have

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Speaker 1: water in our cups. He's really going and it was

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Speaker 1: so bad that we didn't have your tensil. So you

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Speaker 1: literally gotta eat this with our hands if we're really

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Speaker 1: gonna get down. Yeah, okay, we're gonna do the real deal. Okay. Cool?

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Speaker 1: And then, so what are the ingredients you have? You

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Speaker 1: said gary gar sugar and milk can milk because they

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Speaker 1: these two extra ingredients you have? Um? And this is

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Speaker 1: dinner right here. So this is called it's the hottest thing,

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Speaker 1: but the spiciest thing is what ghania is love. It's

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Speaker 1: like a cheap way to spicing up your food, to

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Speaker 1: and it lasts forever, like it could be in that

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Speaker 1: camp for three years, okay, and then and then sardines.

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Speaker 1: Sardines is a poor man's food here out there as

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Speaker 1: a rich man's food, believe it or not. So this

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Speaker 1: this is actually breakfast and it can be dinner. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well this is more like a dessert with the sugar

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Speaker 1: in the milk. But we're broke with eating it for dessert, dinner, lunch, anything.

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Speaker 1: And this is more like a luxury, like I said,

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Speaker 1: for all you guys listening out there, like gary definitely

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Speaker 1: looks like sand and it comes in a sandwich back,

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Speaker 1: so this is what I used to see back in

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Speaker 1: It sounds really horrible, but hey, coming from my child

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Speaker 1: So um, let's let's go ahead and you you teach

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Speaker 1: lucky to have stardans for dinner. Views in Ghana, this

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Speaker 1: a little bit of water. Yeah, you're doing yours. That

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Speaker 1: a lot of water. That's you could actually just kind

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Speaker 1: we're opening up store. Would you want to be a brand?

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00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,880
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, absolutely, But I noticed you don't

426
00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,440
Speaker 1: just focus on hats. No. No, See it's called head

427
00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,159
Speaker 1: of tired trend Setter. So the acronym is HAT. What

428
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,000
Speaker 1: it's called leading a tired trend setter, right, But people

429
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:27,919
Speaker 1: think hat if they see h a T. So what

430
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,320
Speaker 1: I did is I blurred the logo and they like

431
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 1: blurd the letters to make it a logo so that

432
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,840
Speaker 1: way people don't get confused. Is it's only being solely hats.

433
00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,639
Speaker 1: So it's it's a little bit of everything. It's it's apparel,

434
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,520
Speaker 1: it's hats, it's necklaces, now's jewelry. Successories is everything is

435
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 1: a full online So I found about your brand through

436
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 1: uplift us marketplace. Shoutouts to them and everything that they

437
00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 1: do for the black community for sure. Um, one of

438
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 1: the things that stood out to me about your brand

439
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 1: is one the number one thing was that I noticed

440
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 1: your brand represents a lot of helf love. Yeah, and

441
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 1: then to coming from a male perspective, it's like, um,

442
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,120
Speaker 1: you know you always hear women constantly self love, stelf

443
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:13,639
Speaker 1: love yourself, but I never hear like a man represents

444
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,440
Speaker 1: self love? Like why self love? Like why is that

445
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 1: the important staple in your brand? Well, you know what, man,

446
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,479
Speaker 1: we need love to before you get love, you need

447
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 1: to love yourself. So me just going through the journey

448
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,200
Speaker 1: because like I said, I got divorced, I went through

449
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 1: the dating and had girlfriends and their girlfriends. I'm like,

450
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,679
Speaker 1: that's a lot of mental illness. And you know, mental

451
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 1: awareness and health away, and mental health awareness is up now,

452
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,840
Speaker 1: and I just think that we first need to love

453
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 1: ourselves before even enter this pool of dating. Knowing yourself.

454
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: Loving yourself is like the most important. So I wanted

455
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: to make a pal that represented that, but I wanted

456
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,800
Speaker 1: to make it fashionable, not just like self love. And

457
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 1: that's it. So I said, I saw, you know, me

458
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:53,679
Speaker 1: being an artist that I am, I said, let me

459
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,399
Speaker 1: reverse it, you know, make it mere reflective. So that way,

460
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 1: when you're looking at Mary, it can be reminding you

461
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: every time as you get that love. So that's how

462
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 1: it started. So now that, yeah, I'm all about the

463
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:10,479
Speaker 1: sweet tooth. So make dessert. While you show me how

464
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 1: to make dessert. I want you to tell me what

465
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 1: the definition or what you feel self love is? Man,

466
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,000
Speaker 1: self love, Man, it can be defined in so many ways,

467
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,880
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, it's pretty self explanatory.

468
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: You know, love yourself, believing yourself, trust yourself. Don't look

469
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,960
Speaker 1: for someone else to give you something that you don't

470
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: have already, which is love, right, So don't don't find

471
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,280
Speaker 1: it in others if you don't have it in yourself, right. Yeah,

472
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,040
Speaker 1: So that that's what it is right there. Okay, so

473
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 1: with this, we actually shouldn't used the boat, but I'm

474
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: trying to make it. We're gonna make it work. We're

475
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 1: gonna make it. Okay, So we're gonna do the same

476
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: thing here. We're gonna go our hands again. I mean, man,

477
00:22:46,560 --> 00:23:03,440
Speaker 1: you know what, man, this is the most handsiest I'm okay.

478
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: We have the gary for all my listeners. It's like sand.

479
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: We're handling it with our hands. Normally this would be

480
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 1: in the bowls. I messed up. I probably should have

481
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: put that in the dish. Well, make it work, it's yeah.

482
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: And then with this one. So this is to me

483
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: like a dessert, right, so people eat this breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert.

484
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna just add add a little bit of he's

485
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 1: so polite yo for all y'all women out there. I

486
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: don't know if he's no great nice teeth women, nice teeth.

487
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: All right, I take the So this is a can

488
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: of evaporated milk. So I'm gonna pour this on on

489
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: the bar, ye, and we're gonna kind of okay, start

490
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: it up. It feels like the sand box I'm sorry,

491
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: like the sand castle type feeling. Yeah, okay, okay, and sugar.

492
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: Add some sugar. Uh, I'm excited about anything sweet. I

493
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: have a At one point, I had sixteen cavities, and

494
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: needless to say, I was too broke to uh fix them.

495
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 1: And I had bought my house and I was like, oh,

496
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: I put all my money in my house, but I

497
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: moved in with sixteen cavities, and all the dudes that

498
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: were like talking to me like gross, and I'm like

499
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 1: I'm gross. But I own a house. Yeah you know,

500
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: I didn't use the equity to get the teeth fixed

501
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: by about teeth. Fis look good? Now are you good? Now?

502
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: These are naturals okay, okay, So now we got the sugar.

503
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: Can we eat it now? Yeah? Nice? Mixed a little

504
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 1: bit more milk. Okay. See that's how you know he

505
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 1: knows this stuff, because he was like enough, Yeah, like

506
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: it should be in a ball, so it should be

507
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: a little more soupy. You can't want. I don't really

508
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: know what evaporated milk is. Essentially, it's like tan milk

509
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: in a can from the way it looks and should

510
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: be in the ball. And we're gonna take a scoop

511
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: non eat it with a spoon. But you can actually

512
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: grind it up like that if you want to have it.

513
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: Time to see these little balls. I like it. It's

514
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: not bad, it's all right. It is just for the record.

515
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: Like there are some dishes I say I will make

516
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: at home. This and the other dish that doesn't require stove.

517
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: It's kind of good. This will be the one in

518
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: Donnors good. But this is good, like honestly, like my

519
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: eight month old daughter what she keeps telling me no,

520
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 1: this is what she's gonna eat for dinner for real,

521
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 1: But this is good. I might not be a punishment.

522
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: She might like it. You know what. Actually I kind

523
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: of do like it. I think if I just wouldn't

524
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,239
Speaker 1: do it with my hands. For you guys at home,

525
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: you don't have to do it with you and the spoon.

526
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 1: It's easy, but it's kind of good. Though. One last

527
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: thing I want to do before I as be a

528
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: million more questions. We gotta introduce mine little dish where

529
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 1: y'all this is called Milo. When me and my siblings,

530
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: I have shoutouts to my siblings. I have a lot

531
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: of siblings, but we're get in trouble a lot. And

532
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if you come from the Tales from

533
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: the crypt Era, do you remember that? Yeah, like you

534
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: were definitely afraid of the basement. So every once in

535
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: a while, my mom will sent us to the basement

536
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: and we'll be down there for hours. Okay, I'm Jamaican,

537
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: so my mom is very scary. And we'd find hands

538
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: of Milo in our basement and we would take a

539
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: spoon or our hands, but in this case we'll use

540
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: a spoon. We take the Milo like this go ahead.

541
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: Ha ha, I finally got a broken so ready yeah, cheers. Okay,

542
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,679
Speaker 1: I'll let you go first because I don't even know

543
00:26:52,680 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: what this is legal. Yeah, I'm not gonna die, bro No,

544
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: Bally's kind of good. Right, Yeah, I'm telling you this

545
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: is the lit. Okay, you don't need water. You know

546
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: you'll be thirsty after Lacy suck this down all the time.

547
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: It doesn't taste like it tastes really good, right, yeah,

548
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 1: it really right. It tastes like like eat it like

549
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: that like in the year y'all eat candid is shoutouts

550
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 1: to Milo. Um, so that was like the silver light.

551
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: Oh well, you could keep eating them, but I get

552
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: sixteen caffies. Stop playing. So what is self love to you? Self?

553
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: Self love starts with you. So let's put these things

554
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: on my peril um and if you don't mind, actually

555
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: I have self something for you. Oh I'm excited. Can

556
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: I get it? I can't wait. I can't wait to see.

557
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: Since you can't wait, let's do it now now, yeah,

558
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: said when we talked some you know, at your at

559
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: your request. Here, I'll be I'll be all up in

560
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: his I had to give it to you, all right,

561
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: I'm one that love is the plastic too much for

562
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: the sound? Okay, can I open this? Yeah? Of course,

563
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: what did you want a smaller medium, because that's the

564
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: medium if you want to go. Just so you guys know,

565
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: these are Letterman jackets and they say self love on them.

566
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: And I see a lot of people on Instagram rocking

567
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: these letterman jerseys, but these are firing. Every time he

568
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: drops a color combo, I'm like, oh, that color coumbo

569
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: than the last. So I'm pretty sure he sees my

570
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: comments and it's like, yo, just two days ago, she

571
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: said that brown was the freshest one. Then I was like, no,

572
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: the black of red, And of course I said black

573
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: and red because if you look at the eating wall

574
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: broke colors, you know what I'm saying. So I was

575
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: happy that you probably noticed my d m s and

576
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: my comments. But yes, straight out of the back right

577
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: there for you look at this self love. And the

578
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: reason why I wanted to ask you about self love

579
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: is I think self love is one of the hardest

580
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 1: things that I've had to learn in my lifetime. And

581
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: all my girlfriends, all my girlfriends, they they go through

582
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: the same struggle. So the biggest question is like, what

583
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: is self love? And so I wanted to hear from

584
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: a male's perspective what is self love? Especially a male

585
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: that like promotes it as hard as yeah, And I'm

586
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: gonna pull this out for a second, because self love

587
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: is something that you constantly to remind yourself that you have.

588
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: So that's why I put it on a lot of

589
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: my apparel. Now I'm putting it on shirts and I'm

590
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: putting it on necklaces like this, because it really does

591
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: start with you, you know, and me going through honestly

592
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: with taught me someone not even just for me because

593
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: I've always had confidence and I love myself right, but

594
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: more for others because I'll come across people that I

595
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: felt really didn't love themselves, didn't know how to love themselves,

596
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: so how can they love someone else? So I wanted

597
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: to promote it in a way that was fashionable because

598
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: that way they can also wear remind themselves and others.

599
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: People want to put it to the words together, Oh

600
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: that's doulf self love. I want that I need, that

601
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: I need, and it's it's more powerful than we think.

602
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: I think. I love what self love represents. But I

603
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: wanted to kind of focus on this for even the listeners. Um,

604
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: self love is I think people assume, like, Okay, I

605
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: get dressed up in the day, I drive a Ben's

606
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: a Jaguar, I look good. I wear these stilettos. I

607
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: love myself and that's self love. And or I take

608
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: bubble bats and I do these posts on Instagram and

609
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: I have a really great body, and that self love.

610
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: And I think there's a little bit of confusion there.

611
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: You know, self love is not as glamorous as I

612
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: think people make it out to be. I think self

613
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: love is setting boundaries um and standing but behind your

614
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: own intuition. And I think it gets blurry when you

615
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: love others, or you're empathetic, or you come from abuse,

616
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: or you come from whatever background you come from. I

617
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: think we got to stop making self love about an

618
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: exterior parents and like more about what's going on on

619
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: the inside. And you really aren't faced with the demons

620
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: of self love until you're in a relationship. I don't

621
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: care if it's with your parents or with a lover.

622
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: You won't really understand whether you have that challenge. I'm

623
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: gonna say challenge because it's a dilemma and it's a

624
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: slow dilemma, But you don't understand you have that dilemma

625
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: until you're forced to choose someone else over yourself. And

626
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: a lot of times you think, well, that's love. Okay,

627
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: I love this person, so I'm gonna put up with

628
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: the way they treat me. Oh, I'll forgive this person.

629
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: They had this horrible background. And it's like, what you're

630
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: not understanding is that you need to establish certain boundaries

631
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: and love. And and I'm glad that it was a

632
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: male that talked about self love because you see online

633
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: a lot of times too. Men get abused and men

634
00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: put up with this stuff. And a lot of time

635
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: we see movies and we see TV shows and we think, oh,

636
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: that's love, but your trigger factors. At the end of

637
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: the day, your parents are your first relationship. So however

638
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: your parents talk to you. Love is the is basically

639
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: the foundation of uh um, what your explosion and what

640
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: your experience to love is. But it doesn't necessarily make

641
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: it right. You have to go within yourself and figure

642
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: out what your boundaries are, what makes you uncomfortable, what

643
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: makes you sad, and draw the line at it as

644
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: difficult it is, maybe, And it's almost like when I

645
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: compare love to to heroin or or something like addictive

646
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: like that, because when you're pulling away from something, you're

647
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: making that difficult decision to choose yourself, you feel bad,

648
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: or the other person may make you feel bad or

649
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: you know, what have you. But you it's one of

650
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: the most difficult things that I think people will ever experience.

651
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: But it's just not talked about enough, and it's glamorized,

652
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: and it's stupid to glamorize. You know. I could look

653
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: like I love myself because I drive a nice car, right,

654
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: have a podcast, and I look great in bikini's, But

655
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,959
Speaker 1: that does not mean self love. Self love is like

656
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: what happens with you alone with yourself, Like are you depressed?

657
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: Be happy? And I like Head of Tire because you're

658
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: talking about these difficult issues and you're bringing it to

659
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: the forefront. You know. I love your journey. You know,

660
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: I did not know that it had anything to do

661
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: with your children, you know, Oh man, it has everything

662
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: to do much other That's what I live for, and

663
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: you know, very involved, you know, and and and like

664
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: I said, this actually saved my life. Head to Tire.

665
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: I've done other businesses and a lot of times and

666
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: I know, you know, because you've done a lot of

667
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: other businesses yourself, you can get trapped in your business,

668
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: so you become an employee of your business. I'm like,

669
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm there now, so how do you not getting how

670
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: do you not end up there? So I'm trying to

671
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: build a team that's it's growing, because it's growing again,

672
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: it's so I want to make sure that I'm not

673
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: a prisoner, and you know, basically to my own system

674
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: that created and the flexibility to be my kids throughout

675
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: the day, like it's beautiful. I love him like I'm

676
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: literally my daughter's here with now, you know, during spring breaking,

677
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 1: were just at the park hanging out like it's a

678
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: dream come true. That's real. Well to me, yeah, you

679
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: know what I mean, being able to be with my

680
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: kids at any given time. And I've been stuck on

681
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: the job. So just find your passion. I love what

682
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: you're doing here. You know, when you're scaling your business essentially,

683
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about, right. I would consider myself

684
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: there's self employed and then you're a small business owner.

685
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: Self employed is you basically work for yourself, which essentially

686
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: you work for your customers and your slave. But you're

687
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: getting paid really bad. Now. The next level to self

688
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 1: employed is you own a small business and you're scaling it.

689
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: You're saying, you know what, I'm gonna hire you and

690
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: you and you and hopefully and I think leadership is

691
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 1: very tough. Like I struggle leadership. I have to constantly

692
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: check myself, like you know, like one of my team

693
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: members are like, oh, you were hostiles, and I'm like,

694
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: really it, I'm scared that it can happen. Well. Yeah,

695
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: when you own a business, you're you're juggling a lot,

696
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: right for sure. Um, and the money isn't there, right,

697
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 1: and sometimes you're working with smaller budgets. You have casual problems.

698
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: I want you to talk about some of that. Okay, Yeah,

699
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: I started everything like I didn't go with any PPP

700
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: on and get into that. I don't get no bel out.

701
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,879
Speaker 1: I started with every single dollar that I had. When

702
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: I didn't have it, I had to go to my

703
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: friends for hard money loans, you know, like, yeah, I

704
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: need to fulfill in order I don't have I don't

705
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: have it, you know, but you know what, I'm going

706
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: to get it, and you know, you know, his his

707
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: in thirty days whatever, you know, what I mean. And

708
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: so my my my friends. I've known for twenty plus years,

709
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: most of them, and so these are it's like family

710
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: to me. So they like, they believe, and you know,

711
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 1: we all pushed together. And as we're growing, I want

712
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: them to come with me because they saw me at

713
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: the bottom. They started with me. So other people want

714
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: to team up, and people do want to have partnerships.

715
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: People wanted to collaborations with me, but I really like

716
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: because again self love, Like even when you're going in

717
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: the business with people, they say it's business, not personal,

718
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: but how can it not be personal? Yeah, it's basically

719
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: a relationship and basically yeah, And so I don't want

720
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: to get into certain situations, even if the money is

721
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: there on the table, because I don't want to go

722
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: through the stress I'm dealing with somebody and even what

723
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: they come with some very particularly, So I'm starting with

724
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: my own people first. As we're scale, we're trying to

725
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: get in some more stores now as we speak, I

726
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: had a meeting yesterday when that went well, we possibly

727
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: maybe doing a partnership. So great things are happening now.

728
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: Building that team around me is gonna start with my

729
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: people first, you know, And I sorry if I don't

730
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: answer your question. When you go into so when you're

731
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,439
Speaker 1: building your business, you're using your savings initially, right, so

732
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: when your savings get slow, you you start to reach

733
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: out to friends. What is the emotional experience? Like I

734
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 1: want our listeners to really understand, like what your thought

735
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: processes as you're draining your savings pursuing your dreams. Oh man,

736
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: um not how but I'm going to get it, you

737
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it's almost something that you

738
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: have to have in you, Like you have to have

739
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: that that confidence and that I'm just going to leave

740
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: a faith that I know it's going to happen, even

741
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: literally when I didn't know how, but it always happens,

742
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Um, So sorry I might

743
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: have gone away from your question. I want to make

744
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: sure I answer correctly. You did answer it, Like there

745
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: were times when I had a magazine prior to this

746
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: and we you know, we wouldn't have the money for

747
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: the print bill and you know, the printers were going

748
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: to all the printer's money in three days. And my

749
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: staff is like or you know, they're like, she'ld be

750
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: even designed the next issue, and I'm like, no, design

751
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: and they're like, you ain't got no money. I'm like,

752
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: you know, you you have to You're the leader, right,

753
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: you have to be like, don't worry, we'll figure it out.

754
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: Just keep doing your job. And you're like sitting there like, yeah, Ship,

755
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: you know, I'm probably gonna have to skip rent, Like

756
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: you know, I'll never forget. One time Chipotle had owed

757
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: me like nine thousand dollars. Really the money was supposed

758
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 1: to come into mail. Yeah, they were one of my sponsors,

759
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 1: and I had the print bill that was gonna you

760
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: in like five days my rent my cardinal and I'll

761
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: never forget. Like Ship, I'm gonna have to call in

762
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:10,439
Speaker 1: their cannon and be like you you'll have to pay

763
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: my rent this month, you know. And it was a

764
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: difficult decision, but my team was looking at me like

765
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: I was crazy toy, like call, You're just having all

766
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: these cats, real problems, And I'm like, I know, if

767
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: this check could just arrive, you know, and I'll never forget.

768
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: I start calling my uncle, Hey, yo, I know you're

769
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: not gonna believe this, but I got like nine thousand

770
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: dollars coming into mail soon. Can you just throught me

771
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 1: this rent money? And they were all like, hell, no,

772
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: you got nine grand coming because they're like yeah, right, Um,

773
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: they didn't believe me. But needless to say, the check

774
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 1: showed up in time, and I paid my rent and

775
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: paid the print bills. But there were so many instances

776
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: like that that, you know, people look at it and

777
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you have this brand or you you

778
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: must be successful, and you're like at home, like they

779
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: don't understand, like the struggle. Yeah, and it doesn't through

780
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: that yeah, and it looks grammarous. Like if I saw

781
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: this Letterman jacket, was like, oh my god, you brand

782
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: that has the Letterman jackets a couple of just marketplace

783
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,439
Speaker 1: and online and all these celebrities are wearing your stuff. Yeah,

784
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: of course you're successful. There's no way through your Yeah.

785
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: I've burned through that trying to get it to this point.

786
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: You know. But because this thing, this takes, it's a

787
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: long process, you know, to get this quality and material,

788
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: like it's quality of jacket. May it takes its really

789
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 1: quality real leather and everything. So it takes about six weeks. Wow,

790
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: you have to front. You're gonna be out of money

791
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: for about two or three months when you don't free

792
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: sell it. So you're really taking a risk everything. I'm front. Yeah,

793
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: I'm not pre selling anything. What are you thinking if, like,

794
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: say you order a bunch of largest and like all

795
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 1: the mediums in the smalls, Like what are you thinking? Now? Wow?

796
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: But you're not thinking like dang, I'm never going to

797
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 1: order largest again. No, no, no, I have all sizes

798
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: because it was from all walks of life come. So

799
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: I have to make sure that also have supplies so

800
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: if I get paid, because I mean the checks do

801
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: come and when they come there nice. It's just like

802
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: the game, gotta go and re up. Yeah, And so

803
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: I'm always thinking to three months ahead. That's how the

804
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: Peril game works. So um, it's always money coming in,

805
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 1: but it's kind of going out too, because the bigger

806
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: you grow, the more you have to spend. And that's

807
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: just what it is now. I tell my team here,

808
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm always talking to them behind the scenes about like finances,

809
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: and I always say, when you have a company, you

810
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: actually don't if you're generating, say ten thousand a month,

811
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: your your goal shouldn't be to actually be your overhead

812
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: should not be at ten thou because you will end

813
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: up with a cash flow problem. Can you explain to

814
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: our listeners, like from your perspective, like what it looks like.

815
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: I know, for me, I try to keep it my

816
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: overhead when I have a business close to thirty percent,

817
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: but it usually ends up at fifty or sixty. But

818
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: but I always try to leave that cushion room because

819
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: that's the only way you can develop cash froll. But

820
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: can you explain it from your perspective, like what it

821
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: looks like? Money more problems? Let me stop playing more

822
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: money less problems if you handle it right. So now

823
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: we have the system in place, like I make sure

824
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 1: kind of like you have a cushion. So when the

825
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: check that's coming in. Another thing is we get paid monthly? Yeah,

826
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: sometimes it's in that sixty. So we're getting paid every

827
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: month now. And I have my own my personal sales too,

828
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about through the stores. It's in that thirty.

829
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: Oh it's that dirty. So after they sell, you still

830
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: waiting for the path you have to Yeah. I didn't

831
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: know that. Yeah, so you have to be real strategic

832
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: with your money, right, So as you have this money

833
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: coming out, I have orders that I need to you know,

834
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: if it's always have something coming like that, there's never

835
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: money not coming in or going out. It's a cycle.

836
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: It's like an engine, it's always running. Now, when you're

837
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 1: in a clothing brand and you're in a retail store,

838
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: is that considered consignment because it doesn't sound like what

839
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: you do is consignment or how or do they buy

840
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: a wholesale? No, it's consignment. So it's the way. The

841
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: way that we have different deals, but how most of

842
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: them are structured is a co op. So you're the owner,

843
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: you're the brand right um, and then they negotiate whatever

844
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: their percentage is because they're gonna make their cut. You

845
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: have to pay a space, right, insurance, everything. So yeah,

846
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: it's still be consigning. You're responsible for everything. Wow, but

847
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: you're dealing with you're dealing with a lot of different

848
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: types of vendors because you're dealing with your customer that's

849
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: buying directly from you. Then you're dealing with your retailers

850
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: while you're wearing multiple fests on top of being the designer.

851
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: So you definitely and I designed, Yeah, need to scale

852
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: up and then you have the source and all that. Yeah,

853
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: but like I love it though it doesn't feel like

854
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: work when you actually enjoy and back to the ups thing.

855
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: It was easy money. Literally I would sit there at

856
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: work and play on my phone and just do whatever.

857
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: But it was just so boring, you know, time is

858
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 1: just taking it. But here, like I actually enjoyed because

859
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: like this was literally drawn out. I can show you

860
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: camera like I literally drew this out. And to see

861
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: it come to life and to see people like you

862
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: appreciate it, it's a real satisfaction I get from it.

863
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: So it doesn't feel like work, you know, even though

864
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: it sounds like it was a long running thing. I enjoyed.

865
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: I stayed up to like two or three in the

866
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: morning drawing and sketching and stuff out. Why did you

867
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: put mirror and mirror on the jacket? You know the

868
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: thing mirror, mirror on the wall. Yeah. Yeah, I kind

869
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: of like that. And that's why one is reversed and

870
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: one is forward. Like that. This is always the constant reminded.

871
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: And know what, if you're looking at yourself and it

872
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: shows you like this isn't you know. You see brands

873
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: where they'll throw their logo on something, there's like I

874
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: hate to say it, but there's no real thought process.

875
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: You feel like their their goal is to make money.

876
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: This I feel like your goal isn't to make money.

877
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: This is something you're passionate about. Yeah, and you happen

878
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: to be making money. While that's the win, right, you know,

879
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: enjoy something you're doing, find a way to make it

880
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 1: make you money. So literally, like I really feel like

881
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: if you really enjoy something, the money is just gonna come.

882
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: That's just my belief system, you know. And so that's

883
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: just what I'm go on. Like I make it wearable

884
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: art literally like art appreciates, so I try to make

885
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:48,879
Speaker 1: things that are going to be if Ever, I don't

886
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: really follow the trends when I call myself trend setter,

887
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: because I want to set the tone I don't want

888
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: I don't even look at what people do online or

889
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: I don't look at seasons anything. I just do what

890
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: I want to do. I love it. That's how I dressed,

891
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,720
Speaker 1: by the way, But that's why my wardrobe isn't the best.

892
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: But but but I appreciate you coming out and showing

893
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: us love and really giving us a dish that was

894
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,919
Speaker 1: true to you. I feel like every Gunny and and

895
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: everybody is going to really appreciate the fact that you

896
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: shared not just your dish, but like a part of

897
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: your culture with us, and I'm gonna be honest. Out

898
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 1: of all these dishes here today, I'm gonna rate it um.

899
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: I will say the dessert was the best. It was

900
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: as much as I wanted to, like say, I wouldn't

901
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: do it again, which I probably gonna be honest. I

902
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't do it again. But it's only because we

903
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: made it with our hands. But like if my daughter

904
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: and I were at home right now, I would totally

905
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: do it. I would totally do it. And I would

906
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: say the sardine dish, I ate it all. Yeah, I

907
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: ate it all. It was gonna say the whole thing

908
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: worked out. I would rate it on I would. I

909
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: would rate it overall. I would say six for the

910
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: taste and everything okay, and I would say for survival,

911
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: would be like editant, like you could totally survive. I

912
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: can live with that. You would totally survive with that.

913
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: Prove that I survived. This is like two years and

914
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: your teeth look great. It looks great, ladies, who's watching this?

915
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: He said? He would say, I don't know I who's

916
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: sinking when it airs, But the way it self, love

917
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: is gonna but my mom is gonna be extremely disappointed

918
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: because this is not supposed to look like this. So Mom,

919
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 1: if you watched it, not apologize, okay, but honestly, yeah,

920
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: it's not supposed to look grainy. But really no, it's

921
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: not supposed to be kind of souping and stuff. That's

922
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: because we use the ball. Didn't do rightn't do it right.

923
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: But you think, what did you think of the life?

924
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: That was good? But to be honest, I think if

925
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: I ate a whole candidate, I'll be sick. Imagine your mom, Like, Yo,

926
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: we're about to come up. But that's good. Shout out

927
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: to like Yo, shout out Milo. We didn't even add

928
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: like milk or um water. We just used to eat

929
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: this straight out the can. Yeah, thank you so much,

930
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: Mel for coming over here and showing us what you

931
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: ate when you were broke. Yes, shout out to Head

932
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: a Tire and thank you so much for blessing me

933
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: with this letterman jacket. Where can our fans and our

934
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: listeners get Head of Tire at um If you're in

935
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: the l A area, definitely stopped by the cover City

936
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: mall Um in Culver City and pull up at uplift.

937
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: This marketplace a bunch of black brands and never dupe stuff.

938
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: You can also catch me at so Folks that's in

939
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: the merd Park another black coot and I'm all throughout

940
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: those stores if your local. You can also go online

941
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: at head of Tire dot com if you want even more,

942
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,720
Speaker 1: and look for us to expand very very soon, um

943
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: in the summer where we probably up north in a

944
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 1: few more we're working on a few more states. Yes,

945
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: and I didn't notice you are active on Instagram. So

946
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: if you are read tailor or distributor and you would

947
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,919
Speaker 1: like to pick up the brand, shout outs to y'all. Um.

948
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: It would be a great brand having your stores. Um.

949
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: But the easiest way I found to contact Mel was

950
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: through Instagram, So you can d M him and comment, comment, comment,

951
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you'll grab his attention. All right, Well,

952
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 1: thank you so much for stopping by the Yeah, thank

953
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: you for being here as an honor. Thank you for

954
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: letting me bring my eating while broke dish. This is

955
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: probably the brokest dish you're gonna find. I just want

956
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: to plug in how much it costs? Oh, go for it. Okay,

957
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: So this whole dish right here, you can probably feed

958
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: a family of three for about two weeks, you might

959
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: need a few more Kansas stardine. But you know, if

960
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: you want to just go with the some water so

961
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,760
Speaker 1: and that whole thing probably costs less than ten dollars

962
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: if you're out there. Yeah and family and three for

963
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: two weeks, that's pretty good. Yeah, So I appreciate the

964
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:55,160
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965
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,839
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966
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967
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968
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