WEBVTT - Quad Webb Full Interview 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 My next guest is always very busy. I mean when 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.000 I did a show Sister Circle, you know, she she 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:06.800 hugged me a little bit, and we don't buy her 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:08.400 business because she had a lots of stuff you are 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:12.879 going on. She stars in the doctor drama Married to 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.200 Messas on Bravo. She co hosts Sister Circle, the daily 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.279 talk show that empowers and inspires black women to live 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.400 their best life. She is an entrepreneur and also on 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.360 the show today to talk about her new cookbook, which 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.120 I am in awe because it's so fantastic, Cooking with 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.440 Miss Quaud, Live, Laugh, Love and Eat, which is currently 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.080 a bestseller on Amazon. Please welcome to money Making Conversation. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.880 I'm gonna say my good cooking friend, miss Quaud. Well, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.280 it's so great to be a part of your show. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.879 And thank you so much Rashawn for the trying compliments, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.000 and thank you for sure and sharing your show with 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.960 me today. I truly do appreciate it. Thank you so much. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.800 And you know, I hate to give you a little 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.480 love when it came down the Circle, but I didn't 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.640 have to get it gets what mad at you because 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.120 I know it's it's it's a moving part so many 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.399 moving parts going on there. And the thing about this 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.160 is that you know we're gonna talk about it's a 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.200 little interesting step back on us. I remember I was 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.160 the CIA and she was with c A. I don't 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.480 know if she's still with c A. And then and 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.840 they told us, told me about the talent. They said, 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.479 they got this really dynamic young person. She does the show. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.360 Uh married Mary to medicine. I said, we're trying. You 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.560 should sit down with her because we feel she has 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.120 star potential. And I sat down with her and was 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.040 an awe about where she could go with her career. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.559 And there was way before such a circle, way before 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.760 this cook book, way before a lot of great things 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.240 that he has going on in her life now. Unfortunately 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.400 for me, at the time I was I was still 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.880 trying to find out who was Sean McDonald was, and 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.480 we didn't get together. But to see to see what 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.120 I saw and that what I heard in that meeting, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.480 and to see the growth of her now is amazing 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.600 and fantastic and it's only going to get bigger because 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:07.200 she is a natural positive hustle about her that everybody 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.360 should understand. It is a valued part of how you 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.480 can win on a regular basis and also have multiple 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.160 levels or income. I just have to get that out 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.760 absolutely absolutely, We'll listen. It was a pleasure for me 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.240 to to sit down with you that day, and it's 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.840 most certainly a pleasure for me to to be speaking 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.640 with you now, And it was a pleasure for for 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.520 me to have you on Sister Circle. You know, you 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.200 have done some amazing things to yourself and your career, 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.480 and you have helped to springboard a lot of people integrating. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.480 So I don't want that to kind of be skirted 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.880 over because you have been definitely influential and a lot 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.320 of people's lives and their success. So hats off to you. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.000 Thank you very much. Now I saw you. I'm flipping 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.600 through USA own this nation. I saw you on they're talking, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.959 so is that a do you make appearances? She's everywhere 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:55.480 now you too, one of the people. But you know 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.560 you've been to follow on social media keep up with 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.720 her Okay, Instagram, Facebook to know you've been a follow 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.480 this young lady. Now I saw your dish Nation or 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.280 do you feel imperiodically? On this day we're talking to quad. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.160 Were up one the stars of Sister Circle Ones the 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.840 stars of Marrithon Maritors, an incredible entrepreneur as well as 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:17.080 a cooking sensation. When I saw yourtion, what happened? Yeah 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.240 you did? You did? And so absolutely you know I 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.560 love my Dish Nation family. Uh, I just want to 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.280 give a big shout out to Gary with the Tea Smiley, 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.640 Craig Porsche Williams listening. They have always been a huge 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.720 supporter of me and I and the Brad as well. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.440 I have How dare I leave the bread out because 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.440 she's amazing, but um, you know, we we do work together. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.560 You know when someone is sitting out, you know, I 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.160 am fortunate love that that they liked me, but like 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.000 me enough and like my personality enough that we have 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.440 definitely been able to um bridge the gap and create 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.600 a partnership. Whereas if anyone is sitting out, you know, 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.280 I'm happy to be called upon. And I think all 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.160 last week, um portion was now of course, you know 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.360 that's another young lady who released to say one has 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.320 multiple streams of income. She was away working on Real 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.960 Housewives of Atlanta as they had taken their their girls 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.200 trip or their years trip, and uh, you know they 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.960 called hip and say, hey, you know we would we 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.800 would love to have you here if you would come 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.960 and say we'll love well, well, well, hed love to 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.440 have you, and I said, you know what, it would 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.120 be my pleasure. So man, she saw me additionation, it's 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.640 always a great time, you know, just you know that 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.960 that that sense of camaraderie and and and found a 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.200 monks entertainers and talents, and it's always good for me 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:35.360 to talk about somebody else's business. Absolutely absolutely, But you 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.839 know the beauty of it just seeing you looking you know, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.760 you have a brilliant smile and that energy and your 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.080 articulation was on point, and you felt you you just 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.320 felt right in there. This when I looked at it, go, well, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.520 this is another a lane of exposure that's gonna give 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.040 you another great opportunity for your career too, to grow. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.599 And that's really that's why I was excited boy, seeing 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.880 it that you you never turned away from a positive opportunity, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.760 even though you know your schedules business. You go, okay, look, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.920 this is something good, something I know some work involved, 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.240 and it's gonna squeeze my time, but you see the 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:12.000 upside of that effort. Correct, Oh, absolutely, there is never 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.680 an opportunity, uh if it makes sense with my brand, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.120 and especially where I'm trying to go um that I'm 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.440 probably nine times out of ten not going to turn 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.240 it down. We do understand that being in a rim 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.000 of entertaining, it's it's it's short lived. And you know, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.840 people are always looking for the next best thing in 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.080 this world. You have their dis arena, and you have 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:38.320 to make yourself almost impossible to be denied. And you 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.880 do that by expanding and in kind of being great 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.200 and a lot of things. Sometimes people say you adject 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.039 the jack of old trade for the mans of none, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.720 but I'd say you thrust yourself into whatever you're doing 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.840 and you can become great at it. And that's how 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:52.680 I look at it. And you're doing a very very 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.600 great job at doing what you just spoke of. Now 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.839 let's talk about why you know I'm salivating over here 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.200 cooking with you called live, laugh, love and eat. Okay, Now, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.320 let me tell you a little bit about Rashan McDonald. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.800 Rashan McDonald's a super foodie, okay, because you know I 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.000 can bake. Now. I have a website called baker spotlight 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.279 dot com on their rushawna eat type of recipes and 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.039 all that stuff from from baking recipes, but also Rushan 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.240 eats from various restaurants around the country. I've eaten saw 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.200 a Spotlight restaurants. Now what I also do on my 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.440 Facebook page which has almost eight hundred thousand followers. If 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.840 you go on there, you know chi chef Jamika over 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:34.520 wins that she posed uh chef wells, He's post on 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.760 Saturday every week. I always post food. I post myself 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.400 baker Spotlight two or three times. So it's a site 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.640 that's a Facebook page that's really people go there because 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.120 they like to give recipes and things like that. So 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.960 just just send you up to your boy likes to 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.599 eat and also promote people. So I will be promoting 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.440 your book and a platform that people are used to 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.320 come in and see food. And also on Sunday morning, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.680 I posted the list taste video some type of dessert. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.919 Okay now I got the book Open to Cooking with 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.800 Miss Quad, Live, Laugh, Love and Eat is a top 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:18.120 seller on Amazon on page the Shrimp and Arster Dressing. Okay, y'all, okay, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:22.400 so you know, okay, now, now, okay, now I really 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.280 say that because you know, thanks given coming up. Everybody 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.520 wants a different spin. Okay, different because I've done the cranberry, 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.920 I've done the I've done the with the mushrooms, I've 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.600 done the arster. Now I've never done the shrimp and 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.800 arst dressing. I'm gonna tell you something. The reason I'm 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.560 bringing this up hard recipes. Also, See, sometimes you get 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.680 a cookbook and you gotta be a mad scientist to 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.680 understand what's going on with the measurements and get confused. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.200 And you can look at her book and you're like, Okay, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.920 cannot be that easy. It cannot be that easy. So 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.119 this is what I do for a living. I cook 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.680 and I bait. So when I looked through, I go, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:04.560 that makes sense. Yeah yeah yeah. Here's the beauty of 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.520 her Because I'm wouna tell you about why I love 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.160 her book, because see, there are people out there who 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.239 do cookbooks who get mad if you kind of skip 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.760 a step. They want they want you to like ride 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.840 down every step. Now in this corn bread book. In 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.040 this book, she tells you, look, I'm gonna tell you 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:22.880 how to make the corn bread. But if you want 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.320 to go to Croger's Public get you corn bread our 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.760 pre maid, come on, save yourself. A couple of steps 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.960 am I right? That absolutely? Absolute? Listen, we know time 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.560 is up and answer. You know, we we have gotten 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.559 so used to, you know, our leaning towards the the 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:45.560 the the uber eats and the grub pubs and all 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.920 of that, and at those things are great, they're still 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.320 not home cooked meals. And so what I wanted to 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.400 do was make things as simple and as easy as possible. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.720 So it's okay with me if there's a little bit 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.959 of substitution. I prefer to have things fresh, and I 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.200 go to the farmers a couple of times a week. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.280 That's just my things. But but listen, you can, you 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.240 can cut some corners and still come out with a 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.720 great flavor for meal that you're you're gonna enjoy as 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.160 well as your family. So I'm not the type to say, oh, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.959 why did you do that? You shouldn't have done that, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.439 and now you messed up the recipe. That's that's not it. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.760 What we're trying to do now is a pain and 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.600 achieve the flavor of a good home cook good home 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.199 cooked meal. And that's what we're doing. And you're doing 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.120 a fantastic job of that, and that this book is 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.040 fantastic from that standpop because Look, I'm gonna tell you 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.600 something that's the whole thing about me. I'm about a 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:37.319 person trying to get people who are afraid to cook 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.199 or bake, who intimidated by the process. And you're providing 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:46.680 an incredibly are your ticket a very tremendous platform here. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.080 Now the idea for the cookbook is what? Tell me 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.880 what the idea of the cookbook and to get it 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.240 to this level? Tell us the background on that, right, Bro, Well, 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.839 I gotta tell you. You know, a lot of times 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.520 people think we're Sean you know, she's going to tell division. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.480 You know, she's signed with this big agency whatever whatever 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.720 that you know, I just woke up one day and say, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.080 you know what I think in twenty four hours, I'd 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.839 like to have a cookbook that we're gonna push out 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.080 to the man said, when indeed, it did not happen 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.800 that way. This cookbook was two years into making before 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.679 it actually happened, and and in that there was a 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.880 lot of disappointments. You know, there were some things that 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.280 you know, really didn't go as planned. But that's okay. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.880 You know, we we we don't fall off the bike 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.840 and say, hey, you're never gonna ride. I'm never gonna 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:33.240 ride again. So indeed, I had a literary agent who 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.600 was superly amazing. You know, the time of his career 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:41.040 he had birth over two hundred and thirty thousand authors. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.640 You know, that's quite impressive to be, to be honest 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.840 with you, And so you know, he and I got 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.560 together and we decided to move forward as a partnership 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.640 and really working on how I went the book, to look, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.360 what would be the angle of the book, what would 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.160 be my approach to people who would be reading the book, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.680 and and and and how I wanted to whole layout 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.400 to be. So it's one thing to get a literary agent. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.319 It's another thing to be able to go into uh 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.160 an office right and into a publishing house and say, hey, 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.200 this is why you should do this deal with me. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.839 And UH initially when you're when you're going out and 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.959 you know, as as agents or managers or whatever, you know, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.560 even pr refs, these are people who who who represent you, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.360 you know, who are your mouthpiece in your absence. And 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.040 I honestly just got to tell you why he was amazing. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.679 I don't really I think he got who who who? 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.719 He got? Who I am? You know, I don't think 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.800 he really knew how to package and package me and 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.120 to sell me. So we ran into a lot of 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.000 heiccuffs with that along the way. In fact, he was 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.480 out pitching for a year and we got nothing in return. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.120 And it was a bit devastating because here I am, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.680 you know, with all of this, you know, the skill set, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.800 in the knowledge, faith and the passion, and you know, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.319 I I'm being looked over and then and I'm telling 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.839 you this is what really happened. And so you know, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.760 as difficult as it was for me to end that 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.240 relationship because I'm a very loyal person, it was the 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.120 right thing I needed to do in terms of business. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.280 That we're gonna come back on the next break and 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.920 continuous conversation about this amazing cookbook Cooking with miss Quaud 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.480 quad Well, one of the stars of the Circle, one 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.319 of the stars of Marriage to Medicine that arias on Bravo. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.400 She's amazing. This book is amazing. Cooking with Miss Quaud 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.800 uh top hit, top seller on Amazon. Right back with more. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.160 I gotta come to our spies. I gotta continue this 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:38.240 conversation with Hi. This is ra Sean mcgonald and we're 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.440 talking to Quade. She's on money making conversations talking about 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:46.240 her new book, Cooking with Miss Quaud Live, Laugh, Love 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.480 and Eat. He was talking about that how devastates you 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.280 was in the whole process, so trying to get the 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.959 book out there on the news than just trying to 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.239 get the book published and uh, and in that process 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.560 it's really important. I wanted to just expand on a 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.040 little bit that you finish that conversation, because tough decisions 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.640 have to happen. It can't be derived on emotions. They 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.520 have to be a business decision. A lot of people 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.280 stopped making proper business decision because they don't know how 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.240 to make a business decision. And that's what you're saying. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.920 It was tough because you're a loyal person. Absolutely after 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.480 That's exactly what I was saying, you know. But you know, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.280 I figured, you know, at this point, I need to 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.800 take my destiny into my own hands. I've offered him 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.400 an opportunity, he's done as much as he could do 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.800 with it, and you know, in a respectful way, you know, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.200 in a very professional manner, I just said, you know, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.480 I think it's this is where we end. And you know, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.360 I know you're gonna continue to do great things and 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.840 what if God said the same, I will too. And 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.400 they respected that a great deal. In fact, in a sense, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.319 I feel like he almost felt a little bit relief, 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.080 you know. You know, you don't know, one wants to 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.880 to work hard and and it's to no avail, you know. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.840 And so we were back went back to the drawing board, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.520 and you know, I said, listen, I think this book 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.440 should really happened. I got with you know, Denika Luis 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.920 is one of the leads on my team, and I said, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.679 we we still got to make this happen, you know. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.400 And I had a lot of things going on at 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.880 that time that probably would have deterred the average person 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.800 and made them shy away from it. And you know, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.560 you know, just with life distractions, you know how it is. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.760 And I said, you know, it won't be a distraction 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.560 for me. It's gonna be a sense of motivation for me. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.480 So I was already focused. But by this time I 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.720 was like, you know, it was it was just you know, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.200 I was in my own Wayne, you know, I was 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.000 like a thalue with blinders on. And uh we when 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.000 we went back to the drawing board, I acquired another 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.440 little literary agent, and you know, her and I worked 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.320 this time very very very very close with with with 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:51.640 me with each other, and um, you know, I literally 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.280 had taken her in a sense throughout my life, you know, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.280 like I didn't want it to be something that she 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.760 read on the internet or something that you know, that 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.120 TV depict who I am. I really wanted her to 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.360 personally get to know me. Because when you get to 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:11.480 know someone and you almost uh remove yourself from your 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.080 body and place yourself in theirs, then you truly can 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.360 understand how to sell them into properly position them. And 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.200 so it took us a little time when we got there. 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.320 And I'm the type of person that if you get 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.120 me in a room, the deal is going to be closed. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.720 And I'm not all I mean, I'm not walking out 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.160 of there without a deal. And I learned that from 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.680 my background in medical device sales. You know, to always 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.360 be closing, always be closing. You might not get the 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.440 deal that day, but if you're always closing, something that 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.400 you said in that meeting might lead you to a 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.440 third meeting that may need lead you to a six 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.760 meeting that may help you close the deal. So it's 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.880 always in my mind to to to always be closing 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.560 and that's exactly what we did. There was a time 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:53.320 I was actually in New York working on one show. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.880 And while working on that show, when we wrap that up, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:57.360 I said, listen, I'm gonna be in New York. We 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.240 gotta have some we gotta have some meetings set up. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.800 And so, you know, it wasn't enough for me to 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.800 do that one job and then come home and try 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.840 to figure it out. We made it happen while I 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.080 was there. And I remember, you know, all that day, 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.920 you know, I was going to publishing houses and I 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.560 was pitching and I was telling them and I was 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.560 bringing them into the ideal in the world that I 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.760 was wanted to create with this book. And when we 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.800 closed out, we had a couple of deals on the 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.880 table where they were actually bothering or or actually buying. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.440 I'm sorry for the business. They wanted to do a 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.080 partnership with me. Well, the beautiful thing about pitching and 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.880 going to different meetings that the idea, the concept gets 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.480 stronger in each meeting. So yeah, I'm gonna add that 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.080 to the next meeting. So when so so, sometimes being 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.360 a first meeting is not the best meeting, but that 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.760 six meeting that pitch was strong, girl. That pitch was on. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.040 You know you read it. And so that's why we 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:50.960 got to the point where people knew you knew how 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.840 to talk. You knew that you knew the buzz that 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.120 would get somebody react and come forward to you. So 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.640 let's get back to this wonderful book. Uh with we're 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.200 interviewing Cardware but her new cookbook. What I want to 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.040 do is make sure people understand the diversity of menus, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.560 of the variety of menus recipes there in this Like 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.439 I'm gonna tell you something. I saw that when I 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.119 saw a peach fig and at a rugle of salad 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.760 with spicy lemon honey vinigrette. Okay, fig is one of 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.919 my I grew up in the Fifth War tips and 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.000 were the fig tree in the backyard. So fix like, 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:25.960 uh what I wrot When I saw that, I was 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.880 in love with this book right there. And I love 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.240 fig Newton, So I know that is a fruit that 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.280 is undervalued as far as you know, as far as 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.520 this flavor that can give to you in a recipe. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.960 And so I'm sold there. And then I went over 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:46.000 to this other page. Oxtails. Now, come on, how many 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.520 how many books I'm telling I've been doing this show 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.520 two and their years. Nobody has ever come on this 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.080 show telling me how to make oxtails. And that's one 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.440 of my favorite I'm telling you the truth. Now, I'm 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.720 telling you, I'm telling you quote. I'm telling you, this 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.479 book is outstanding. I'm just telling everybody this book. It's 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.480 outstanding because of the variety. Then she got this and 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.000 I made my wife made chili yesterday and I'm so 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.320 mad because she has cheesy baked Hawaiian rolls, sloppy jokes. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:20.160 Oh yes, oh yeah, with a little proble. We put 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.280 a little grumlic butter on the top of that and 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.439 we put those into the oven force that are allowed 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.760 that cheese kind of a throw. When I tell you 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.919 some good eating, it definitely puts a spin on your 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.359 ever sloppy Joe. And then we went over to the 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.520 corn beef and Pstram and rubens. See now, my freshman 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.920 year in college, I worked in the Jewish Delhi. That's 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.320 why I knew how to make rubens. So I know. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.080 So when somebody somebody starts starts writing down how to 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.640 make a good ruben, you're talking a little expert right here. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:56.960 I made Rubens for two years. Okay, so so so 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.480 so so she dealing with the dude who goes, okay, yeah, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.399 let me see, let me see I call you what 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:06.120 you talking? Oh so, so I'm going through this book. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.560 I'm going Then she got the you got the Southern 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.240 Turn of Greens. Oh my god, now now let me 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.359 just talk to you about that. And then two stories 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.520 with this Reuben and the Turn of Greens down. You know, 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.080 I have from the big beautiful city that sits on 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.560 the bluff, that's Mrs Tennessee, and so I have Southern 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.119 roots to the core. But like yourself or Sean, I 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:30.520 am too fruit foodie. I love love, love, love love food. 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.240 Now some of you don't get me confused, or you know, 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:37.240 don't and to some a slope of depression because I wasn't. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.960 But there was one more time in my life and 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.280 I still do it because this day when I wake 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.159 up and said, I first think, I think about it. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.680 What am I gonna eat today? I mean, it's it's 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.480 just so enjoy enjoyable that, you know, one of them 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.879 the many blessings that God has given us. But but 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.360 that was Turn of Greens. Let me tell you there's 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.800 nothing like I'm telling you right now, and I'm hungry 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.040 right now because it's one time I think my turn 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.919 of greens are so amazing. And I know when I 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.120