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Speaker 1: My guest is Pinky Cole. She's a Jamaican American entrepreneur

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Speaker 1: and founder Slutty Vegan, a plant based burger restaurant chain

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Speaker 1: based in Atlanta, Georgia. She first became vegan in fourteen

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Speaker 1: and opened her first Slutty Vegan food truck specializing in

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Speaker 1: vegan burgers, in September of eighteen. I interviewed her in

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Speaker 1: August of twenty when she was just starting to blow

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Speaker 1: up and become that national brand. Now she has opened

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Speaker 1: restaurants and created the Pinky co Foundation, which seeks to

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Speaker 1: empier generations of color to win in life, financially in

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Speaker 1: the pursuit of their entrepreneurial goals. Her new book et

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Speaker 1: Plants B I, T C H. It's her first book,

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Speaker 1: Nati When Vegan Recipes that will blow your meat loving mind,

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Speaker 1: currently available presell order. We're going to be hyping that.

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Speaker 1: Releasing November fift Pikacole recently gifted LLCs to Clark and

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Speaker 1: Land University two graduating class. We will discuss that, but

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Speaker 1: more importantly, please work on the Money Making Conversations Masterclass.

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Speaker 1: The one and only Pinky Cole. I love that, and

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Speaker 1: that was well, you know, I better be right. I

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Speaker 1: better be right. You You you're all over the good place.

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Speaker 1: Some people could be all over the place, but you

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Speaker 1: all over the good place. Pinky, tell me that. What's

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Speaker 1: going on, young lady? Oh my goodness, I got so

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Speaker 1: much good stuff going on. First of all, it's so

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Speaker 1: good to make your acquaintance again, and just to be here.

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Speaker 1: So that means that I've made consistent because here, Um,

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Speaker 1: I got so much great things going on. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: if if you haven't been living under a rock, I

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Speaker 1: just closed on my twenty five million dollar raised to scale.

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Speaker 1: Slutty began. Um. I graced the cover of Essence names

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Speaker 1: you know something, stop me, I should have started with that.

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Speaker 1: Come on now, rushaw and slap yourself. Now. I saw

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Speaker 1: you on the cover. Now see I'm a little bit

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Speaker 1: old than you. Okay, Now, Peky Coach was on cover Essence. Now,

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Speaker 1: that is something you start an interview with now, because

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Speaker 1: I grew up, I grew up in the Jet magazine

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Speaker 1: and the Ebony era. You know when you was on

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Speaker 1: the cover of Ebony Jet, you know you that it

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Speaker 1: would like and she and I would like to believe

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Speaker 1: that Essence is that magazine level that I grew up

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Speaker 1: the Jet magazine and the Eberdey magazine and so so

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Speaker 1: when you got on the cover of Ebondey and Jet

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Speaker 1: Family friend, enemy, uh, girlfriendhood, everybody wanted to be next

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Speaker 1: to you. Now tell me what, tell me how I

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Speaker 1: came about, and tell me the experience and what did

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Speaker 1: it do to your brand? Peaky Cole being on the

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Speaker 1: cover of Essence magazine, the number one African American female

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Speaker 1: magazine in the world. So rigond I manifested it like

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Speaker 1: I always said that I'm gonna be able to cover crazy, Like,

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Speaker 1: how are you gonna do that? You ain't no celebrity.

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Speaker 1: I said, I am going to be on the cover.

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Speaker 1: And I knew it in my spirit because I kept

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Speaker 1: saying it. And you know, oftentimes when you say those things,

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Speaker 1: those things that come real. So every opportunity that I

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Speaker 1: about it. I got on their nerves about it. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on Essence when when it is my day.

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Speaker 1: So I finally got the opportunity to talk to the CEO,

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Speaker 1: Richie Lou Dennis, and I told him the idea that

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Speaker 1: always have celebrities want to cover. Now is the time

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Speaker 1: light of people who are making it and moving and shaking.

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Speaker 1: I love the idea. Didn't happen when I wanted it

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Speaker 1: to happen, but it happened exactly when it was supposed to.

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Speaker 1: And I'm so excited about that opportunity because Essence really

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Speaker 1: shifted my brand to a new level, right Like it

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Speaker 1: exposed me to people who have never heard of Slutty

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Speaker 1: Began before. And even if you didn't want to know

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Speaker 1: about some entrepreneurs in Atlanta that are moving and shaking

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Speaker 1: that are the millionaires next door. And it really raised

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Speaker 1: the stock up. You know what they say, yesterday's prices

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Speaker 1: I'm just so happy at all of the opportunities and

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Speaker 1: that was a life changing opportunity and I'm just so

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Speaker 1: that well, first of all, it was life changing, but

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Speaker 1: you have a lot of fans, and so because you

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Speaker 1: know you are are like you said, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: kind of like regularly your regular polks, regular polms become successful.

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Speaker 1: As dreamers, we see it as being possible. And I

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Speaker 1: That has always been the plan to let regular people,

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Speaker 1: When people see me, they see hope and just like

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Speaker 1: can't pay for that, right like that's born in you,

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Speaker 1: within you, like you developed that with experience and with time.

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Speaker 1: So when people see me, I'm not just doing this

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Speaker 1: who want to have restaurants like me, And I'm showing

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Speaker 1: the girl from around the way. I'm from East Baltimore,

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Speaker 1: got lots in my head. I don't look like the

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Speaker 1: typical person that you see on National TV. But guess what,

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Speaker 1: I'm shifting the atmosphere and showing you that you can

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Speaker 1: all the things that you put your mind to. And

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Speaker 1: that's just how I have looked. I woke up, I

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Speaker 1: and I'm showing people that you ain't got to fit

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Speaker 1: the status quo. You can do everything that you want

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Speaker 1: authentic self, and being your true authentic self will get

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Speaker 1: you a long way. Well, this is a great year.

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Speaker 1: Two has been a great year. Like its been clearly

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Speaker 1: two years. Okay, you cover essence, you know you. You

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Speaker 1: about the whole process of gifting those LLC so people

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Speaker 1: how to be business owners. Well, you know, first of all,

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Speaker 1: doing Clark and Lanty University's commencement was a dream come true.

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Speaker 1: So many dreams coming truths this year. Right. Um, I

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Speaker 1: Your back story is as great as the actually accomplishment.

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Speaker 1: Talk about the backstory of them calling you and then

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Speaker 1: Class with Rashan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversations Master Class with Rashan McDonald. Thirty four years of age,

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Speaker 1: you know thirteen, roughly thirteen years ago, you know you

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Speaker 1: herself out, you know, in that journey of figuring yourself out.

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Speaker 1: Because you became a vegan and teen, what made that

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Speaker 1: transition to say I can become an entrepreneur two based

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Speaker 1: on wherever my lifestyle? Well, you know, I grew up

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Speaker 1: better than the announcement. Okay, how did the Steve Madden

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Speaker 1: thing happen? Come on? That? So Steve Mann happened because

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Speaker 1: And you know, this man did his research, and you

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Speaker 1: You know, you say something that we don't put that

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Speaker 1: on that, go out there and get that shoot all right,

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Speaker 1: because guess what she's good people. She bought a mom,

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Speaker 1: Richard Lewis, I love him, you know, over the essence,

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Speaker 1: So New York is like a home coming. You know,

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Speaker 1: I had my first restaurant was in Harlem, So this

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Speaker 1: that we just feel comfortable about putting. Slutty began there

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Speaker 1: so we can really continue to make this brand of

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Speaker 1: household name. I can't wait. It's happening this year. Um

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Speaker 1: you we have a big block party. The goal is

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Speaker 1: So we're pretty much done now. But I'm excited. Well,

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Speaker 1: I know you probably won't be able to travel up there,

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Speaker 1: probably zoom in doing FaceTime up there. You know, you

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Speaker 1: take care of yourself. But again, Pinky, you know two

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Speaker 1: Don't drop that. But also more important, Oh you some

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Speaker 1: thousand pathers, I'm saying that on again. I gotta get there.

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Speaker 1: And you sent me those vegan shoes. Okay, I absolutely

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Speaker 1: will and thank you so much again for having it.

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Speaker 1: And I cannot wait till you come to slide slidfy.

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Speaker 1: Hey baby, I'm there. I'm seriously, I really, I I

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Speaker 1: am committed. In fact, I went to the one. I

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Speaker 1: great experience. Yeah, I see your boy knew about that

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Speaker 1: location because he ain't been there. See I a't snuck

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Speaker 1: in behind. Yeah excellent, I see. But like I said,

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Speaker 1: when I again, I'm like you, I try to be authentic.

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Speaker 1: I don't trying to just talk to people when I

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Speaker 1: I love what you're doing and are and you represent

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Speaker 1: positivity and I kid you not. You are our Oprah

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Speaker 1: of this era. And don't don't walk away from that,

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Speaker 1: don't stumble. You will be on TV, young lady, and

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Speaker 1: you are going to be a billionaire. Okay, I received that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. It's been Peaky Cold the creator,

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Speaker 1: founder of Slutty Vegan and has a new book out.

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Speaker 1: It's coming out. Please get it eat. I'm gonna see it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna see you that. I'm gonna see it. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna see they're they're gonna edit it that they're gonna that.

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Speaker 1: But again, thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation.

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Speaker 1: Pinky coom than you. If you want to hear or

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