WEBVTT - EP 20 " A Seat at the Table" with Jeanine, India Monae, and Davonne Reaves 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:07.160 We're just too unapologetically black women with an opinion who 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.960 talk back. Thank you guys for tuning that to a 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.000 new episode. Up we talk back. It's your girl a J. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:21.720 And it's Tam Bam. Y'all were here and look, we 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.280 got some women on this today. They got forty two 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.320 thousand black women to deal with, so imagine that ship. Right, 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:35.879 we got the lovely Jenney Smith, Davon Rees, and India Money. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.519 I believe they're all based out of Atlanta, Georgia, and 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:43.320 they're all booming in real estate. One is even a 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.279 hotel owner, right, So listen, these are women who are 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.239 getting to the bag. They're sharing their experiences with us. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.159 Um even a little bit about their relationships. You know, 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:54.720 you can't come on we talked back and not talk 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.680 about these niggas. So we'll be all in people's business 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:05.320 because that's where we do. So tune in. Thank you 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.080 ladies for joining us so much. Thank you have you, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.960 thank you for cutting here. So um, tell us all 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.039 your names and how you got started in the real 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:21.080 estate industry. So we're gonna start with India. Listen today, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.840 I am staying investor here based in Atlanta. My entry 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.119 into this game is a little bit of a hell 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.520 of a story. It's a long story, so um, let's 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.360 see if I can shorten it. So I was an entrepreneur, right, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:40.200 I was a fashion stylace and um a clothos store 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.319 owner of Bouti owner and I owned my store at 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.160 the time for a few years. And I was working 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.960 full time, and I did a pop up shop on right, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:56.200 So I did this puple shops, worked all day with starving. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:57.960 I was leaving a pop up shop at like nine 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:03.360 o'clock um, on way to a restaurant, and out of 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.720 the blue, this this car comes flying up the street 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:11.280 doing like almost ninety on residential street and smacked the 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.880 car that I was in, super super super hard, so 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.760 hard that my car went back up the street and 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.640 ended up in the patio of a restaurant here in Atlanta, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.239 and our car hit a waitress and she broke some 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:30.000 ribs stopped because of a tree. Right. And so I 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:34.600 was a passenger at the time, and I guess I 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.240 was just in shock because I tried to jump out car. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.399 Our cars like smoking. It was just a bunch of chaos, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.760 you know. It was a bunch of people outside of 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.360 the restaurant and I started to like pull myself up 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.720 out of the car and I couldn't move. I was 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.320 stup um. The car was smashed down on my feet literally, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.720 so I'm saving to pull my left foot out of it, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:03:00.440 but my right foot was stuck. So it took forty 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:06.800 minutes for the paramedics, firefighters, the police, pedestrians, white folks, strangers, 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.840 all trying to get this car off of my foot, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.600 cutting pieces piece by piece because they didn't want to 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:18.560 cut bridge um. And so that happened. And by the 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.679 time I got out of the chair, I mean the car, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.120 my feet was both of them were completely shattered. So 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.520 I have like eleven metal plates through my left foot 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.040 and a couple of schools my right foot and had 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.119 to get emergency surgery the next day and I ended 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.800 up in a wheel chair for about six months. Wow. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.440 So that that that kind of begins this charity, right 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.600 because in that chair, I realized I had to create 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.480 passive income. I had to create strange the vicom that 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.520 we're gonna flow whether I was walking or not. Especially 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.320 just dawn on me, Like you know, I had always 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.480 want to invest in real estate, but we always think 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:02.640 we have time got started that's an amazing story. A 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.520 lot of people may not have made it the way 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.720 you have have that to have that happened to them. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.320 So yeah, that's where that financial literacy coming because you know, 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:12.960 a lot of people come into money all the time. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:14.520 You know, we like to think that, oh, there's no 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.560 money in the black community. It's plenty money. We just 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.720 have bad spinning abits. They get their bodies done exactly 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.920 and guess what, that ass ain't even working And I 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:33.280 don't know that as laying on their stomach riding home. Okay, 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.960 what'd you say, hey, j to walk in a call center, Yes, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.080 to get that fat ass to sit on it all 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.159 day in a call center, Like, it does not make 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.919 sense to me. If you're gonna use the ass, if 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.760 you're gonna get the ask please, you're bit God, I'm 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:54.440 sorry something. Tell us your story how you got started. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.760 So I got started act. I started working as a 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:03.080 front that's agent at the Higher Regency Atlanta. So I've 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.640 been in the industry for about fourteen years and I 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.640 probably was at the High for about six and a 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.440 half years. I mean I worked probably every position you 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.560 could think of, well, I want to say every position, 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.840 every shift, because I mostly stayed in the front office. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.880 I did cast force, meaning I travel to different hotels 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.840 to help open and to help train. And I was 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.240 just like, you know what I need, I need to 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.280 do something else, right. I love the benefits, I love 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.000 the people that worked with but I just needed something 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.960 that was a little bit more challenging. And so an 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:33.880 opportunity came and it was an unpaid internship. UM, because 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.280 I knew I wanted to get out of operations, but 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.520 it was hard for me to you know, go into corporate. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.720 It was like, oh, staying operations, right. Um. I didn't 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.520 go to school for finance. I didn't go to school 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.360 for real estate. So I had a lot of strikes 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.960 against me. UM, which didn't help me, you know, trying 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.720 to transition into commercial real estate or trying to transition 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:57.520 into investing hotel investing. And so unpaid internship came along 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.400 my way. I took up for about three months. UM, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.360 that was part of about three months, and UM, I 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.520 was like, you know, I like this, this is cool. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.560 That was my introduction to the merchant real estate. That 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.520 was my introduction to the hotel ownership. That was my 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:17.000 introduction to the transactional side. That was when I saw 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:21.120 the possibilities of actually developing and owning a hotel, and 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.360 so I took that. I paid internship, like I said, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.120 stay there three months, and then I they kept me 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:32.120 on and UH say I stay there for about two years. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.360 I went to Boston. Uh and I was there for 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.760 about two years. And at the time, my portfolio or 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.760 hotels that I was asset managing was about probably north 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.599 of a billion dollars um that I had to oversee 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.880 and help oversee and oversee the portfolio. And I just 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.560 saw the amount of well, you know, because we had 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.279 access to folks, you know, uh, professionals shaking the council. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.080 I'm like, what is that is? It's real like you 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.360 had there many zeros. I had to do a deble check. Right, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.799 it's like over like sixty millions at back right a manute. 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.360 Now I'm in the wrong I'm in the wrong position, right, 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.040 you know what I mean? Because it was the actual 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.960 it's like you know, bank Satan and everything. And so 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.080 I was like, wait a minute, I'm helping these folks 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.760 bill they brand, you know, I'm helping oversee their portfolio. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.560 And I was like, you know, that's something that I 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.600 would like to do for myself. So two thousand and seventeen, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.520 I've ventured into entrepreneurship right and now started my own 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.640 company called the Varne Group UM. And then two thousand 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:38.160 nineteen UM I partnered with one of my UM college friends, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.920 Jessica Myers, and we formed Epic Collective where and UM 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.560 in two thousand twenties when we acquired our first property 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.200 partner with NASA invest nets I don't Ohio and we 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:54.240 acquired our first hotel property and UM L ringo U Oklahoma, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.800 um so home two seeks eighty five round. So that 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.239 was that's my story, when my journey into a hotel 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.160 on the ship. That's amazing. That's amazing story. Now, who 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.120 asked you this? Because that's something like really huge to 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.000 jumping too. Were you affected by fear at all like 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.440 I did? UM, I was a lot of people told 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.720 me I tried to partner. Was so funny, right, I 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.480 caught a partner with a lot of people because I wasn't. 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.559 I was fearful that I couldn't do it. I felt 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.080 I felt like that I had to do with others. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.160 I didn't have enough money like I just because this 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.320 is what I was surrounded by you know, I didn't. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.440 I wasn't around people who looked like me. I wasn't 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.280 around a lot of people. I'm not really around a 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.880 whole bunch of old white men that's goes around, right, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.800 white women, And that was it, right, Um. I mean 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.040 I would go to conferences, will be four hundred plus 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.920 people and I'm the only black person, right, and then 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.080 you got that, you know, the servers and everything over there, 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.760 But wasn't it was just me, And so I was 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.280 fearful and finally, um, and then I even tried to 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:57.680 partner with black women who were season who at and 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.600 then you and I in it right, working each other, 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.640 helping each other, and they're like no. And then black 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.920 men they always I don't want to I'm not downing 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.080 them anything. It's just that they were older and you know, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.840 and my in their opinion, I was in experience. I 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.280 didn't have access to capital. You know, there's just so 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.480 used to doing They're used to a certain system. And 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.600 I respected, I respect them, not talking bad about them anything, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.560 but I just realized that I can't wait on them 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.319 for my dreams. Right. I knew I wanted to own 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.839 the hotel, and so Finally, I just had to do 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.600 it on my own to figure it out. Right, Um, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.280 I had to figure out how to raise capital. Really 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.360 your really, your network is really your network. And I 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.240 don't people realize that, right? People think I always say that, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.640 right right, this is way way, way, way way, this 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:49.480 is they're worth way more than anything, exactly money right now. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.160 I didn't when I was starting off. I didn't have 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.680 millions and millions of dollars in my bank account. Like, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.240 well the kids know about it, so too. But what 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:57.760 I was able to do, I was able to pull 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.319 people together. I was able to pull my network. I 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.640 live for my network, and we were able to collaborate. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.000 We were to come together and we were raise capital together. Um, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.679 and then the deal just made sense. And that's how 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.920 we was able to acquire the hotel. So did your 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:15.640 network consist of any other brown people? Girl? All of them? Honey, okay, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.960 some brown people to work with. And the thing is, wait, wait, wait, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:26.320 wait wait, these ladies they're not on this deal. No, no, okay, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.079 we actually make this year is so funny. But you 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.720 know what what I did was I remembered how when 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.720 somebody didn't really did me a chance to partner with 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.359 them on the deal or didn't with me an opportunity 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.800 to really invest. And so what I did was, um, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.200 I partnered with people. I worked with people who really 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.360 wanted to invast who had the capital to invest, and 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.200 they're not necessarily have been knowledge. I knew I had 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.800 the knowledge, UM, but partner with people who had more 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.400 capital and not either were more capitalized and they would 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.160 have better relationships with the banks because of the side 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.120 of the NY they were on, And that's how we 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.040 were able to quotes want to do. So did you 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.120 have do you have any formal education? Like did you 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:05.800 have any um? I know you said he didn't have 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.800 any education in real estate? Or did you do any 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.319 everything for like hopcility and sociology but nothing like so 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.240 what I do I'm doing for like finance even though 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.840 you don't need to go to school for finance, economics 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:26.160 or real estate. Also self thought right operience? Yeah, well, 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:27.839 you know what I mean. The people who I worked with, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.439 they went to Cornell and Harvard and m I team. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.800 So that was that, you know, I just thine, I 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.720 hate to say that kind of peggy their education, but no, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.760 that's that's the that's the thing is that when Black 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.640 people get ahold of anything. And that's why I think 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.720 a lot of people outside of black community they're afraid 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.400 of our potential because when we get ahold of some information, 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.520 we excel. You don't think you're listening. They don't think 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:59.760 we listen. I'm sure, I'm sure of people like to engratually. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.000 That's a part of the cool. It's what you like. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.439 You can't even let them know, you know, a lot 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:12.640 of times, alright, Janine, alright, tell us your story. All right, 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.800 So my story probably falls in line with our topics 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.000 night about relationships and business and all that. So um 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.960 mine actually came out of, honestly, one of the worst 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.400 times in my life. I was engaged to be married, 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:33.200 planning a wedding to my daughter's father, and I was 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.800 coming out of work and I got a call on 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:40.800 Valentine's Day from another woman, and I can a hundred 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:46.040 Christians say, um, it spiraled me. I was like, you 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.440 know what, I'm sticking working at this workerate job. I'm 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:54.480 sticking taking their crabs overweight, UM, miserable. I don't want 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.800 to do this anymore. Um And you know, like I 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.160 was definitely trying to stand and depressed for a couple 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:06.200 of months. Probably smelled like a lot of tequila. Um. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.120 But at the time I had a nanny, Mashila, who 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.240 she still to this day. She's been with me, um 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.679 with my daughter. One day she came in the room 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.600 and she was like, look, Um, so I think you've 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.600 been in here long enough, Like you cried long enough, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.800 they did the room long enough. She's like, yeah, dressed 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.400 and go out. The best thing ever happened to be 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:32.719 um going out and getting back out kind of re 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:37.200 sparks um my drive my desire for my life. And 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.800 literally two weeks later I put my job. I took 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.599 a new job. On the first day of worth, I 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:50.320 met my now Beyonce. I was absolutely not expecting to 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.200 meet anybody. I was like, I'm just gonna you know, 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.200 we always said my foy saw me, I'm gonna do 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.240 me and my daughter and my friends like, oh my god, 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.440 You're gonna believe in love again. It's like, yeah, girl, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.920 just gonna work out doesn't mean it's not out there 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.040 for you know, God told you what I'm supposed to have. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:11.280 And I didn't like my now biaf at birth. I 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.240 was like not sure. He was a financial advisor, and 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.960 I was like, I need more, more schools, I need 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.520 life insurance, all these things. So I um get him 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.320 all my business, did all my life insurance with him, 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.800 financial planning boxy, and I in college plans like you 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.120 just like bought me in line. And so then one 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.120 day he was like, you know, what do you really 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.680 want to do? And I said, well, I've always wanted 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.440 to do real estate, but I just at the time 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.960 didn't have the money. Um, no education whatsoever. It's that 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.640 all the HDTV I have watched while I was depressed 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:56.280 in bed, I can't do it right. So um, he 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.960 was like, your one k looked like what your equity 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.400 looks like? That's the equity I who had some of that? 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.640 And at the time I have been printing rooms at 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:13.360 my house like friends, old co workers, um, people like that. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.720 And I was charging them basically my mortgage. So I 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.400 was just paying my mortgage down, pay my horgage down. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.480 It's like, yeah, let's check it. He's like, hey, you know, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.400 give about the thousand right here. It's like the markets 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.680 look good just several years ago, Like we could just 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.680 kind of use your house as your first one. Let's 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.160 fix it up and it's like, yeah, I got some 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.280 bonus money coming. I was like, I didn't have about 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:43.600 like Tempytee grand coming, Like yeah, it's like could fix 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.160 my house. Instead it's doing ugly furniture that I'm not 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:51.320 gonna keep from American's signature this year. So well, we 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.560 got Dad in my piance. We paint at my house, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:59.000 my mom came, We planted my cricked yard, changed out cabinets, 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.520 carpet everything, put my house on the market. I wanted 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.400 their contracts above asking in three days. Ten days later, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.560 I had a little verse seventy thousand knowledge in my 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.960 bank account. IF and Nick we moved in together into 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.480 an apartment with my daughter and we launched business and 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.320 um from there. As I was going to do this thing, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.120 I was like, Uh, it feels like there's no other 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.000 black women that I see out here, like trying to 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.480 go networking events and things like that. I just didn't 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.120 see us. So it's like, I wonder if I should 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.440 start a group and find other women and if they 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.000 want to like hang out, I get educated, teach and talk, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.840 and honestly that's where black grows. The real estate group. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.560 So I've had black from the real estate program year 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.920 and we're now at forty two thousand black women in 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:54.240 roald Estates. It's turned into a huge platform. I teach, 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.600 I coach, UM, we connect, we do deals together with 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.560 a development deal on the table. UM. I mean all 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:06.360 these chasing women I've met Sevan and India UM through 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:11.080 the platform. So honestly, it just changed my life. It 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.399 was just one of those moments where I was like, Okay, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.960 I'm just gonna try to give you something different than 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.040 to continue to like live what I call a ordinary life. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:24.000 I'm gonna still pratraordinary, schochtraordinary. That's been my plea focus 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.600 legacy buildings for black women and family. That's what I'm feel. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:33.280 Not so you're you're your group doesn't consist of black 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:38.800 men at all. No, okay, But to my conference, I 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.680 have a conference and um Kiku and have reference resorts 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.600 ron August and actually a lot of women are bringing 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.840 their husbands, so it'll be good. But they're literally it's 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:53.040 just there and all sorts mentioned. So so isn't that 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.800 is it not open to men? Or is just okay? 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.160 So the reason why I'm asking these questions is because 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.840 I have a few friends in real estate. UM A 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:06.600 couple of UM women. But one of my guy friends, UM, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.280 he's out in the Midwest. He does really well in 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.240 real estate and he just mentioned it is crazy. He 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.920 just mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago that, um, 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.879 he finds like the like that the black women that 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.560 are in real estate in his area, they kind of 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:25.879 like keep secrets. They don't they don't really like, they 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.800 don't really like message the men. You know what I'm saying, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.040 something like, how do I that I have some like 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.840 they network? They don't network network with the only network, 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.800 you know, amongst themselves. So I do have one on 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.520 one students that are males. I have a couple actually 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.720 I have mails that come to the classes, but the 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:51.000 group is specifically griven towards us that it's no shade. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.639 I love our brothers shade with them. UM. I just 0:18:54.680 --> 0:19:00.000 think that's like when we need to leg up to right. UM. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:06.120 I think maybe the guys may feel like a shade 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.880 is mad, but the thing is like, it's no, it's 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.800 no competition. Right. So, because recently I've gotten into stock 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.439 option trading and the guy I've been working with, he 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:22.119 really just wants to mentor black women because he feels like, 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.520 you know, Asian women have their Asian men, white women 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.480 have their white men, and I don't know if you 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.800 guys on a clubhouse, but it's like a constant battle 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.280 between black women and black men on display for the 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.439 world to see at this point, like what's going on. 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.800 It's like, I do like clubhouse, but I feel like 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.960 everybody on there is being competition. So it's like everyone 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.640 wants to level up the last speaker. So if you're like, oh, hey, yeah, 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:52.800 I on a hotel, well I got to the booth 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.040 last year, I don't. I don't. I'm sorry, I don't 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.160 get that on my slone when I say I own 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:11.760 hope real quiet, like I thank you, ridiculous. It's like, 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.120 I don't know. It's kind of like vanes City, and 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.080 I have a lot of friends that are like, don't 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.160 you use clubhouse? Why don't you do this? And then 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.919 I'm like, I literally organically through my entire platforms up 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.760 forty two thousand people with no outside marketing, no promo, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:32.000 just me and word them out like not that's yeah, 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.119 Like there's no shade or mediafa because that you know, 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:37.199 I could probably leave the figure if I did do 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.840 some of that, but I just don't know, like that's 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:48.080 face all the way. I know some investors from Climouse. 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.240 I had some folks investments in some of my hotels 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:57.280 from club House, so I don't Yeah, y'all are going 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.400 on tour soon, right where you're going in? Like, what's 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:06.800 that gonna look like for you? So we're going to Atlanta. 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:14.679 We're going to Charlotte, Charlotte. Are you Charlotte? Yeah, I'm coming. 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:22.679 I'm coming. Charlotte's gonna be in January. Okay, that's in September. 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:27.480 Houston is in July. Yeah, me, Miami is in Noami. 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:33.480 So what do we have like five yeah, not including 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.359 the conference. Yeah yeah, hold on, before we get into 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:42.199 anything else, let's pay some bills real quick. So I 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.520 got a question going back to Jenny. You said the 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:48.080 woman called. You can tell us what she said. What 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.680 that woman said? You girls see how this show trying 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:57.320 to look because we could still pull up and fire here. 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:01.440 Now I know you already, but did you a last weapons? 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.200 So all of this stuff was a minute. I he mad, 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.320 don't worry about it. He made two says you came 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:13.800 all the way Like, yeah, wouldn't be I said that 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:15.720 she wished I was, and he wished I was his 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:22.160 baby Bama. Right. Basically, did he try to join your group, 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:33.200 Petty mayonnais? I would just say, oh no, let me 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:37.280 do a charge your super premium. Tell you more. I'm 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:42.320 telling you, well, let me say that. Basically, she called 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.639 and was like and he was a crazy thing. The 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:50.720 number was one of those numbers where you like, it's 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.760 the same digits as like the other person. So it's 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:57.320 like the family plan where like digits are off with 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:00.480 the same numbers are on like the first for you. 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:08.120 It's not like I'm like like hey, hey, like it 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:12.840 is went from there, just like I've known about you 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.040 all these things. I mean it was I mean, honestly 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:18.239 it was crazy be so my daughters seven. So we 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:22.320 were together almost six years and in his true land 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:25.080 of fashion, just you know, double life in it and 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:30.640 being messy. Okay. So wait, so the woman knew about you, 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.720 but you didn't know about her. So essentially she was 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:38.439 a side bitch. She stode because she came into the girls. 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:50.640 Yeah wait, it's the movie. It's you funny it out 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:56.320 even getting the club. You know, I'm Patty, I'm already 0:23:56.520 --> 0:24:04.080 look were Donna have to bleep her name out there name. 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:07.200 I don't even know her. I don't even girl, I 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:10.119 don't even know her, not even like her. Look, we 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.159 don't want no legal issues over here, no slander, no 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:19.880 libel lawsuits listened, I will bleep that didn't friend, thanks 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:23.000