WEBVTT - SHONTAY KIDD - Wut A Pickle 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.760 Welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. I'm your host, 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.800 Colleen Whitt and today we have special guests Chantey straight 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.760 out of Content and she is the founder and owner 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.240 of What a Pickle. What a Pickle. She has inspired 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.480 millions of women across the world to believe in their dreams, 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:25.159 no matter what their circumstances. So can you explain the 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.000 ingredients and and and kind of give me a gist 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:33.400 of what we're doing. So, um, we have a deal pickle. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:41.760 We have some kool Aid, cherry the red kind, some sugar, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.599 and we have some now and Laters. Yes, so I 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.920 am a sugar junkie, Like I love anything sweet, the sweeter, 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.320 the sweeter, the sweeter. I probably am addicted to sugar, okay, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.720 like hig chocolate and sugar. So seeing this dish, it 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.560 looks like a fantasy, but it also looks a little 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.480 scary because there's pickles. There's pickles on the table. There 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.880 is pickles on the table. So growing up I would 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.640 always eat this dish. Um, I love pickles, And we 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.760 started What a Pickle, So you're gonna experience something that 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.840 I grew up eating and turned into a business. Now, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.640 when I think about women in pickles. I think of 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.520 the stereotype of women being pregnant and you know, eating 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.080 pickles or eating ice cream pickles or what have you. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.320 You're saying that this was like your go to dish 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.200 as a kid, go to dish, never pregnant. Um, of 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.920 course when I did get pregnant, I also ate them. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.920 But way before I even thought about being pregnant, I 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.280 was eating pickles. So you went to the candy store 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.360 with your parents and you're like, oh uh, mom, dad, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.319 I don't want snickers, but I want a pickle. And 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:51.120 your parents were I'm sure, like yeah, sure you can pickles. Definitely. Yeah. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.720 When she my mom, my grandmother, they kept jar of 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.080 pickles in the house because they knew how much I 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:02.320 like pickles. Yeah. Okay, well we have to before we 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.480 even dive into this interview. We gotta like start the process. 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.840 Tell me what we're doing. I'm gonna stand. Okay, let's do. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.079 There we go. What a pickle? What a pickle? Onm 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.320 in make what a pickle? Jokes with you? They you 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.520 know what, No, they don't like the shawnte. What's up? 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.960 I'm in one hell of a pickle? No they don't. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.760 But that's a good one. Um. So back then, when 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.520 we ate a pickle, we would get this deal pickle 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.080 right here. So if you want to do it with 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.800 my hands, we can mess you today. So don't need 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.680 to worry about it. Okay, So we we gotta pickle. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.840 We're gonna put it in the bowl. Okay, Okay, you 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.919 got your your red kool aid, I got my red 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:47.119 kool Ai open it. Okay, here we go. And then 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.200 we have our sugar. We have our sugar. One a 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:50.800 little bit more sugar because you know you like a 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.440 lot of Okay, you got all right for it in 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.600 there were whole packet for the whole pack Oh dang, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.200 maybe I do need sugar, Okay, all right, No, I'm good. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.280 You don't have okay, yeah, here we go. So if 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.200 you do want the sweeter, if you think you like 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.320 it sweeter, you can always add more sugar. Um. So, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.600 this this dish right here is a kind of a 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.120 preference type. So if you want like the sweet but 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.680 that tangy that's gonna touch you right here, you can 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.520 have less sugar. Yeah yeah, yeah, but if you want it, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:24.000 you know, uh yeah, Okay, So we mixed the sugar 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.079 and in a little dish, so sugar and cool aid 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.680 and a little dish for all y'all listening. And then 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.800 we got the pickle in the bowl. Yes, so you 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:35.960 have to bite the pickle first, so you get that 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:42.520 pickle taste in your mouth first. You like pickles, right, yeah, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:49.440 I don't love them to the extent of pickle. That's that. Yeah, 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.880 so um, after that you can either. So back in 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:55.400 the day I used to do I'm not gonna do 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.760 it right now. I used to literally put a hole 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.560 with my finger. But it's okay. So what we're gonna 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.200 do is just dip the I wanted to do whatever 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:05.840 you was about to do. Okay, we're gonna do that 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.680 with it now later though, So dip it, dip it. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.680 Let me see, look at this. Look at that o. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:15.720 Yours looks better. It's so wet and it absorbed all 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:20.120 the sugar. And take a bite. Now you might not 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.680 get as much sugar as you want with this bite, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:33.760 but try it. You need a little bit more sugar. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:41.800 It's so tardy. This is good. It's extremely tardy. I 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.359 kind of want to keep dipping it because I do 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.000 love the sugar. So yeah, it's like dip sticks, but 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.640 with pickles. I'm over here. Am I supposed to double up? 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:56.160 Can I double down? That's your You know what? This 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.119 is really good? This is I would have never thought 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.719 to do this. Yeah, you think right now? Women have 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:05.120 considered this idea. Definitely. You said, I'm going to take another. Right, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.160 don't eat too much because we're gonna do that now 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:16.279 later next. It's good, but has that tart? Okay? So 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.640 I'm doing with me. I like mine on the sweeter side, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.120 like you, right, So I would definitely have more sugar 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.440 with my kool aig. So even if we would have 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.080 used like maybe a quarter of the pack or half 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.080 of the pack, it probably would have been sweeter. So, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.680 like I said, it's a preference thing. Some people just 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:39.000 do it with no sugar. Can you imagine that those 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.080 are like the people that eat like straight hot sauce. Yeah, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.880 definitely exactly. All right, So you want to try it 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.560 with the now I'm excited. Yes. So we have a 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.040 tropical and we have green apple. I want the tropical. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.919 All right, I'm gonna do green apple, reds, the oranges, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.720 and the pinks. All right, let's do it. Okay, you 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:03.960 gotta open that now later Okay. So sometimes depending on 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.000 you know something. Now layers are softer than others. This 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.120 one is pretty hard, so it might be able to 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:14.719 go straight down that middle. Yep like that. Okay, oh, 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.159 we're about to get it correct in the get it 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:22.400 in there. That's because I've been I was eating this 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.440 like I was gonna sound like it was thanksgiving them 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.599 all right, So that's that's fine. So basically, when you 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.960 put the now Later in there, you can't bite that top. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.760 But what you're gonna do is you're gonna like suck 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:37.560 it a little bit and you're gonna get all our 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:42.080 listeners are gonna want to watch this episode. We're gonna 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.320 because this this way, you're gonna get the pickle taste 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.760 pusta now Later tastes. So the other way, of course, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.479 we were biting because of the kool aid was on 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.719 there and it was marinating through. We can't bait this 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.200 big old now Later, so just sucking a little bit. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.239 M hm. Oh that's a different, that's a whole, that's 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.600 a different, right, Yes, they should sell us as a candy. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:11.480 Is this what what a pickle is? So I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:17.720 mm hmm. This is Drake handy. Yes, this is bomb. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.440 So after after you know, you keep doing that a 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.600 little bit, then you can start biting around the pickle 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:29.960 and then because the don't know is in there and 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.720 I could curse. This is freaking incredible. Who ever thought 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.320 you guys, You guys gotta do this, okay, go? Yeah? Yeah, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.480 So you know, as you do it, you just keep 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.760 pushing it down in there. Eventually the now latter is 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.280 gonna get smaller. Yeah. I was just about to say, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.280 it's gonna get smaller and softer where you'll be able 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.800 to bite the now later and bite the pickle a 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:55.480 little bit at the same time. You're doing a little 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:01.760 bit too. My second went down their own pipe. I 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:08.440 was sucking that pickles so m hmm. I sucked it 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.400 so hard. I'm sorry. It was so good. I was 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.880 trying to suck and push at the same time. So 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.120 if you want to do a little bit more, you know, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.360 if you had you can you can get a little 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.920 bit up in the game. Yeah, so you can, you know, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.320 get a little bit of your sugar cool leg and 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.880 put on there as well, and then it taste what 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:32.480 that's going y'all. Honestly, I love this. This is I 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.000 gotta be careful with my sucking right now, so let 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:41.520 me get get a good get a little drink. This 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.040 is incredible. And you did this as a kid almost 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.920 every day, almost every day literally before I went to school, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.520 a store across the street from me. I would go 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.520 over there get a get a pickle. And back then 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.400 they had the kool aid. It was in the pack 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.679 and it already had the sugar with it, so it 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.640 was already sweet because you know, like my mom, if 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.960 I used to try to sneak some sugar, you know, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.320 back then, Mom like I need all my sugar. So 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.240 I used to give me a little zip black bag, 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.920 put me a little bit of sugar in there. The 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.520 kool aid. That's always been like a cool, reasonable price 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.920 with that sugar. So I used to just put a 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.280 little bit, you know, and just sneak on out the house. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:29.240 I wasn't about sixth grade, so probably what whatever, how 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:35.040 are your parents a triumph? Actually? No, And it's it's 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.079 weird because so as I got older and I started 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.040 what a pickle, I found out this is a Southern tradition, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.839 so it's really popular down south. But like I said, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.240 my mom is from Texas. My husband and mom is 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.960 from Mississippi, but I didn't get it from my mom. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.240 It was just something that I used to do. So 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.600 I would love to ask when was the last time 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.120 you ate this dish? I know that you're you're besides, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:06.600 you know I always eat it while you are example 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.240 of someone that loves their product always. This is this 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:11.960 is now. If you guys see on the table we 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:16.400 have water pickle, her the actual she's the founder owner 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.240 of what a Pickle? And can I see one of 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:24.360 your containers as this is another red one tropical punch. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:30.960 I'm definitely keeping that one. Um. So you say from 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.360 six years old you've been doing water pickle. Now it's 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.760 so it's it's a business. This is a full time business. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.880 This is what you do and you enjoy eating this. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.920 Where did it go from? This is the snack that 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.000 I eat on a regular so you know what, I 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.600 think my homies would like to buy some of this. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.240 So it was crazy because me and my husband we 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.160 were just talking about like starting a business. I really 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.360 really wanted to start a business. I had no idea 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.880 what type of business. I went to school and got 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.439 a degree in business, but I always thought I was 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.360 gonna have like a daycare or something like that. But 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.360 we were just talking and I'm like, I want to 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.120 be at like one of these events, you know, selling something. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.680 But what's missing out here? So we started talking and 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.320 came up with pickles. I posted on I made one, 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:19.800 like I said, so if you can see, like the 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.760 product that we make now is already marinated, so you 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.880 you you don't have to slice, and it's slice so 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.880 you don't have to go through this process of getting 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.160 the sugar, getting the kool aids, putting it on top, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.280 so it's already done for you. So I made something 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.800 like that. I posted it on my Instagram, my personal instagram, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.880 and people were like, where you get that pigle from? 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.000 Like I made it, so that just gave me the motivation. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.840 They're like, okay, this is missing, you know. So then 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.720 we started the business. Now I'm curious do people just 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:53.120 drink the juice? You can drink the juice, So I 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.080 kind of want to try one right now, but yeah, 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.280 you might want want to try. I want to. We're 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.040 gonna sample the product before the end. I want to 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.760 see if I can refill my cup with this. I 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.760 have a question, have you have you guys have the 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.200 one where you could like do it like dip sticks 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.520 where you can have the sugar so um, they already 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.559 they only come like that. But we do have something 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.400 where we have like a it's called our what a mix, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.800 so you can choose different flavors. It comes in the 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.839 container and we we put the now lators on top. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.520 We put the we crushed up jolly ranchers on top 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.000 because I was gonna get into that. So not just 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.760 now layers can go in the middle of this, A 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.600 jolly rapter can go in the middle, a peppermint stick 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.960 can go in the middle, and it'll give you a 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.880 totally different taste and they're all good. So definitely we 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.080 have it like that where you know you can still 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.240 get that the o G kind of taste. Well, they 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.800 all still taste like you know, like how we're eating 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.000 right here, but you can get the now lators on 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.680 top and the sour belts on top and belt you're 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.000 like every like if you have kids, do I feel 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.280 like your kids must room they love pickles? Oh yeah, yeah, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.360 always has a candy. But the crazy part is I'm 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.680 not really a sweet eater, like when it comes to 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.360 snacks and stuff, but this was always my go to snack. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:19.640 So you're with your husband. You're like, honey, boo, I 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.680 want to start a business. And he's like, well, baby, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.319 you've been eating pickles a lot. Maybe there's other people 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.600 like so, where does it go from before you get 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.640 to Instagram and post the idea? Um? I made well yeah, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.040 Like like you said, we were having the conversation and 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.440 I'm like, what about pickles? You know? I was like, 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.400 I'm about to make me a pickle, you know, and 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.880 so and he was like we were just talking. I'm like, 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.080 I think we can start a pickle business. So I 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.120 came up with all these names with my with my 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.400 name like Shanta pickles. And he's like, no, we were 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.760 If we're gonna start this, we're about to take it somewhere. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.679 So we don't want pickles. So he came up with 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.920 what a pickle? So um From that day for the 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.480 the the event that I wanted to do initially, the 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.360 first ever event from seeing people out there and stuff, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.320 which was Tasted Soul is the first ever event that 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.839 we did. And how do you guys do awesome? You 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.920 got awesome? Did you guys sell out? Because we'll stakes 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.240 the soul is kind of overwhelming. So man, and you 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.240 tried to prepare and then you're like, we're still done 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.200 in about three hours. So the thing is, I had 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.600 no idea how to prepare for it because all I 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.320 know is when I went out there, I would see 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.160 thousands of people. So I'm like, I don't know how 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.840 much to prepare. So I over prepared. But I'm like, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.360 I'd rather over prepared then sell out, because I mean, 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.840 you know, like selling out, you're missing some money because 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.640 it's some more people that want to come and get 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.040 some bigs. So I'm like, I'd rather have more than 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.440 enough than not enough. So I overprepared. I did not 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.520 sell out, but we were giving samples out. We were 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.400 giving all our business cards and from then we still 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.480 have people that come to our store now that got 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.160 one from the Tast of Soul. So where's your store located. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.400 It's in North Long Beach on sixty seventh Long Beach, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.640 Blevar And you know how I discovered you guys. You 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.560 guys are also in uplift us marketing. We are, yes, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.920 so we do wholesale. We're offlift us marketplace. We're in 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.080 a throoit of a few other locations as well, and 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:15.680 we're franchising now, franchising experience. Oh my goodness, it's an experience, 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:20.480 um that I wasn't looking. I didn't know how you know, 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:25.520 everything was gonna go. But it's definitely a little bit overwhelming. Um, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.440 but we're getting through it, you know. So the process 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.560 is it's a long process because it's a lot of 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.520 legal stuff that we have to go through. But once 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.160 we're done with that part, which we are now done 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.000 with that part, Um, I just can't wait to see 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.160 other just every state, every different cities. Like it's a 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.000 lot of people right there. It's a lot of people 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.160 right there. So and like it started from this. So 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.600 looking at your journey to like having what a Pickle, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.120 what would you say was like some of the hardest 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.160 obstacles you have to overcome. Well, I think makes um 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.040 more than I have a family, So I have two kids. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.880 I started what a Pickle when my daughter was nine 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.600 months old. She's six. Now, that's very ambitious. I just 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:14.760 had an eight month old, so you know, hard it started, Yeah, 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:19.200 started started. And the crazier part is she was kind 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:24.280 of our inspiration too, because she loved these pickles. So 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.320 when I first made mine, I did it the old 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.520 school way with just putting it on top, you know, 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.600 biden it. And she kept asking for it, kept asking 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.400 for it, and I'm like, you can't have all this sweet. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.680 So I put it in the refrigerator and as it's 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.120 setting there, I forgot it the next day. And then 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:41.960 I went back to it the next day and it 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.840 was in a bag and it had accumulated juice and 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.320 it had set in that juice. So that's how started. Yeah, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.680 I see that it changed cousin. So that's how that 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.520 that part of it started because I was trying to 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.440 hide it from her. So and then did you you 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.680 obviously you sampled and you said that's red. Bout must 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.040 still eat it? Oh yeah, No, definitely, because I know 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.199 that it can turn red. Like if you look at 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.240 George right now in the middle is probably a little 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.360 bit red. So and that's just from sitting you know, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:16.720 a few minutes or whatever. So definitely. So did the 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.680 nine months old love the red pickles? Love them, still 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.560 love them to this day. She caused every day like, um, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.040 can't bring me a pickle. She's six. Wow, So she's 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.040 from nine months to six years old. You've had this business. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.200 What a crazy journey. Yeah, we actually opened our first 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:40.040 our location on her fifth birthday, so we had her 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.480 birthday party and our grand opening at the same time. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.119 So she thinks she's just you know, the Picko Princess 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:53.360 was entrepreneurship everything you imagined or was there like some Yeah, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.480 I didn't know this part of the job. I didn't 0:17:55.480 --> 0:18:00.400 know any part of it because I've always worked from 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.959 since I was fourteen years old, so I you know, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.959 I was always kind of a hustler. Back in school. 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.160 I used to sell I used to put um the 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.479 sour belts in the bag and sell them at school 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.040 a dollar. Hey, you know so and then at a 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.159 point we were selling pickles. We were selling you know, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.200 so you were selling pickles in school at school at 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:27.400 schools and buying it, buying it but not not and 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.240 like we would put um like a little baggy with 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.120 a little bit of sugar, a little bit of cool 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.120 laid in there, and you know, you get you get both. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.080 You just you know, poor in there. But yeah, but 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.320 entrepreneurship is it's a lot. Yeah, it's really. I think 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.160 that when you become an entrepreneur, you know, I don't 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.439 have to work as much. I'm gonna be my own boss. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:55.360 It's seven. It's totally different from me working my nine 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.160 my nine five. When I clock out and I go home, 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.800 I ain't gotta think about it no more regularly. Definitely, 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.760 when you're an entrepreneur, I always tell people, like when 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.119 you own a business, I always assume for every business 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.960 I open, I don't really make my first checks a 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.639 year three. Yeah, because you're you know, you're reinvesting, and 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.960 then you're fixing problems or challenges. I'd say, right. And 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.360 then every time your customer gives you data I called 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.639 data or like feedback. Why isn't it like this, You're like, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.840 that's brilliant, you know. Yeah, like with us with coming 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.240 up with new flavors. We have over twenty one flavors. Now, yes, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.119 I saw, what are these other flavors? So we have 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.520 green apple and a spicy mango, spicy mango. How do 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:43.119 you make it spicy? It's a it's a secret. I 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.240 don't want you to tell us. But spicy mango. I 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.119 love mango, and that's the spicy mango. The one you 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.760 have was green apple. Wow, So green apple, tropical Punch 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.200 and spicy mango are top sellers. I feel like if 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.280 there's a is going on right now, like if I 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.000 went to that circus, like I would totally buy this. 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.280 If I went to a carnival like this would be 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.719 it's like to go friendly. You can even probably if 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:10.879 you're you know, you're just on the go, you're like, 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:12.680 just throw a couple in the bag and let's go. 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.600 Oh yeah, And it lasts a while and it doesn't 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.679 need to be cold. It does not. Some people like 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.640 them cold, but some people don't, so we sell them 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.680 like this, So it's your preference to go put it 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.120 in a refrigerator. Some people put in the freezer. They 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:31.160 like them, like, yes, yes, but so with that, now 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.400 we make a slushy and we put pickles on top 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:38.400 of our slushy at the store. Really yes, really, so 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:40.879 when people walk into your store, like, what does that 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:46.920 experience like? Baby like, especially if you're like a pickle fanatic, 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.479 it's like pickle him. Yeah, the girl from a Jersey 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:52.919 shore I forgot snooky. Wasn't she like a big pickle? 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.439 She probably she would love it. Yes, So we have 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:58.560 like a wall of pickles, that's what we call it. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.760 So it's all of our jaws are so different color pickles. 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.800 So you just see all the pickles right there. Then 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.720 you see like all the pouches. So you when you 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:09.440 walk in there, you know you're in a pickle store 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.600 because you smell pickles. So yeah, they you know, it's 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:17.760 a it's experienced, definitely. It's long beach and we shipped 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.520 nation wide, ship nation wide. Yes, So growing up, Like, 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:23.919 tell me a little bit more about your upbringing in 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.440 your background. So growing up, like you said, I'm straight 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.520 out of Compton. Um. It was me, my mom and 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:36.639 my two siblings. Um. And we grew up like living 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:40.000 in the back of my grandma house. Um and you know, 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:44.560 in the house behind her. Yeah. So but my mom 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:48.440 she was like she never allowed us to see her struggle. 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.000 But you know how like you kind of like pick 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.680 up on things, like she would get us what we needed, 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:55.360 but she would go to the thrift store and buy 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:59.360 her work clothes, you know. So it but I saw that, 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:03.320 even though she wasn't saying it, like we saw that. So, 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.680 like I said, I knew I probably can get things 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.119 from her, but I didn't want to kind of bother 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.679 her with him. So that's when I started, you know, 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.680 selling the candy, and you know making my own money 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.399 or start going to work at fourteen. You know, it's 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:19.400 because I'm like, I just kind of want to lift 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.800