Speaker 1: What's goodie, everybody. I'm to mak A D. Mallory and
Speaker 1: I'm your boy general and we are your hosts of
Speaker 1: street Politicians, the place where the politics meet. We've got
Speaker 1: an action pack show today, lots of information, things you
Speaker 1: need to know, places you need to go, people you
Speaker 1: need to see. Let's talk add that on the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but there's a lot happening in our show
Speaker 1: this week. And first of all, let's just start off
Speaker 1: by thanking all of you. Thank you so much. It's
Speaker 1: in our minds. We're gonna be there, but we're speaking
Speaker 1: it into existing time, getting calls some folks that I
Speaker 1: know you've been saying the same, um some who My
Speaker 1: sister Sharon, she critiques every week. We had a hair,
Speaker 1: wasn't in place, we didn't say the right things. But
Speaker 1: then she'll be like, but overall it was good it
Speaker 1: and she watches it every week. So if the show doesn't,
Speaker 1: it's not up on any platform on time. Sharon Denise Mallory,
Speaker 1: she knows it. She ain't gonna play about this. She
Speaker 1: does not play. She definitely played about her, my son
Speaker 1: and her to me because and I know for you
Speaker 1: people have been saying they want to see more topics
Speaker 1: about what's happening like in the streets. You know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna work. We're working on some streets things.
Speaker 1: We're working on some music. You know, I want to
Speaker 1: bring like conscious rappers that are dope, that have good music.
Speaker 1: Like we we're working on some things that we want incorporate.
Speaker 1: The guy's name from Cleveland. I love, oh my boy,
Speaker 1: Connie son Man. Please just get him on. You know,
Speaker 1: he's one of the dopest artists, like the dopest artists
Speaker 1: in the game, and he's underground. We're about to be
Speaker 1: working on a project together, So shout up to Connie
Speaker 1: son from Cleveland. We're gonna get We're gonna get him
Speaker 1: in our artist spotlight. You know, we want all artists
Speaker 1: right because there's this false, false narrator there. You go.
Speaker 1: I knew it was a narrative. I just want to
Speaker 1: make sure I said right, false narrative of that if
Speaker 1: you're not industry, and you're not you know, in the
Speaker 1: commercial music industry, that somehow you're feeling and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of musicians that are underground that have not had
Speaker 1: commercial success, that have an impact on so many lives,
Speaker 1: so we want to be able to highlight those give platform.
Speaker 1: That's what's up. But you know, again, we're grateful because
Speaker 1: I've been hearing from people who are like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the show every week. I see the
Speaker 1: growth we are trying to grow. We started out, I know,
Speaker 1: for me, I was nervous, probably why that's why I procrastinated,
Speaker 1: if you will, with doing the show for so long.
Speaker 1: I knew it was something that I wanted to do
Speaker 1: with this podcast, and thank god, we have a team
Speaker 1: that kept pulling us along. And you kept talking crazy
Speaker 1: to me, telling me that I was playing myself for
Speaker 1: not jumping in head first, um, you know, into the
Speaker 1: podcast space. But over time I learned that if you
Speaker 1: don't tell your stories, other people will tell it for you.
Speaker 1: And we really did need to have a space where
Speaker 1: we could talk about our issues, talk about v issues,
Speaker 1: and allow folks to come and bring information to our audience.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter to me, which it does, but it doesn't.
Speaker 1: But it does, But it doesn't if there's five hundred
Speaker 1: people that are listening in those five hundred people need
Speaker 1: information that they may only be looking for from us,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna give it to and and that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: In fact, they five hundred people can reach millions because
Speaker 1: people talk to folks and their families, their homes, their
Speaker 1: jobs there, you know, their communities. And so I'm proud
Speaker 1: of us of what we are continued to do with
Speaker 1: street politicians and how it's growing. And I do believe
Speaker 1: it's going to be number one, number one. Shout out
Speaker 1: to the Black Effect Network and I heart Radio and
Speaker 1: our women TV for TV cat triggering the whole team,
Speaker 1: betune the tags. Family first for me. Man, it's the
Speaker 1: family first for me. I hear that. I hear that.
Speaker 1: So I was thinking thinking, because you know, the last
Speaker 1: few weeks I've been trying to have I've eased up
Speaker 1: a lot on socials and just again, as I said,
Speaker 1: reflecting and thinking and what have you, what have you?
Speaker 1: And it's okay. It happens to each and every one
Speaker 1: of us. And if it doesn't, if you don't take
Speaker 1: time to reflect on everything. You know, someone said to
Speaker 1: me the other day like, wow, you know, uh you
Speaker 1: you you go through so much and and I know
Speaker 1: you must be beat down and whatever, and then we
Speaker 1: do get beat down sometimes. But I I had a
Speaker 1: different response, and I'm so proud of my own growth
Speaker 1: and maturity mice because I said to the young ladies
Speaker 1: that you know, it's funny that for the first time
Speaker 1: in my life, I'm actually grateful to God for even
Speaker 1: the trials and tribulations, because I've already seen over time
Speaker 1: how every single time that I go through something, it's
Speaker 1: really just the next level comments right, like and that,
Speaker 1: and that's been every single solitary time. And the thing
Speaker 1: about it is that I have learned to trust God
Speaker 1: so much that I know that He's going to do
Speaker 1: the same thing this time that he did the last time,
Speaker 1: at least the same right that he did the last time.
Speaker 1: So it's a space where but but the only problem
Speaker 1: is that so many of us lack the willingness to
Speaker 1: sit still and obedience, right, we lack it. And I
Speaker 1: and sometimes I'm disobedient. I think when I'm disobedient, that's
Speaker 1: when all kinds of anxiety and troubles get into me
Speaker 1: because I'm not following what I know is right. I
Speaker 1: worried too much about trying to please everybody, because you know,
Speaker 1: that's my that's my daily mission is how can I
Speaker 1: please the world that no so but I was thinking.
Speaker 1: I was as I was sitting and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I just read people things and I listened to stuff,
Speaker 1: people calling me. They're my friends and my family. They'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh, you know what happened? They said and
Speaker 1: this and that, And I said, you know what, are
Speaker 1: you gullible or dumb? If you hear something from a
Speaker 1: source that you don't know that you can't trust, you
Speaker 1: don't know if you can trust them, and then you
Speaker 1: go and spread it as fact, That's that's that's that's
Speaker 1: so deep, right because I had this this problem. Right,
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm used to being attacked on Instagram,
Speaker 1: being called or type of names and people there's a
Speaker 1: new thing where people get their whole YouTube pages started
Speaker 1: or for me and you like, they are people who
Speaker 1: have gained three hundred to four hundred thousand followers just
Speaker 1: talking bad about me and you nothing else. But they
Speaker 1: don't have anything else to talk over thirty forty But
Speaker 1: you get paid for that, right, they get paid for
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying but on YouTube, but I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to navigate these too it all,
Speaker 1: but you get paid, So you're making money off of
Speaker 1: talk and about somebody else and using people's names that
Speaker 1: you don't really know and really have had very little
Speaker 1: bit of conversation. Found somewhat like what they say we do.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad that they're able to. If if my
Speaker 1: life can provide food on your table, use it. However,
Speaker 1: union so the issue. So I'm not mad at that,
Speaker 1: but it became an issue when it's somebody that I've
Speaker 1: known for years, Right, when you have a twenty plus
Speaker 1: year relationship what you think is a friendship, and they
Speaker 1: go to Instagram and they go to YouTube, you know,
Speaker 1: they start a podcast and they utilize your name and
Speaker 1: start colling you out your name, So I coined you frauds.
Speaker 1: But maybe they just think you know that. But that's
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say, right, It's it just only
Speaker 1: exposes the truth because I was having this, We were
Speaker 1: just having this conversation a minute ago when you decided
Speaker 1: that somebody that you never heard of, right, said something
Speaker 1: negative about me, and you know me, you got my
Speaker 1: phone number. You didn't call and say, hey, Mike, somebody
Speaker 1: just said something. This is stirred me. The true just
Speaker 1: getting my side of the story, even if you don't
Speaker 1: agree or believe the you know, the grace that you
Speaker 1: should give somebody that you know is the acts and say, hey,
Speaker 1: is this true? That didn't happen, right, So I was
Speaker 1: so taken back. And what happened was people started jumping
Speaker 1: on that train like, yeah, you're right, I'm glad you're saying.
Speaker 1: So it's and that's what it is. Is that like
Speaker 1: I said, you know, we said, you know, we've accidentally
Speaker 1: posted things that we didn't fact check and had to say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what we made. But the reason why we
Speaker 1: posted those things because they already supported what we felt
Speaker 1: from the beginning. Right. We would never just jump to
Speaker 1: post something about something that we already didn't believe, right.
Speaker 1: So what happened is you realized that after twenty years,
Speaker 1: this person always felt this way about you, right, and
Speaker 1: they just needed something to to give them the energy
Speaker 1: and give them reason. They didn't need no facts, They
Speaker 1: didn't die forbid you ever make a mistake that you
Speaker 1: better be perfect, man, you better be perfectly okay, people
Speaker 1: to look he he made a mistake. Look, he said
Speaker 1: the and he put a Y instead of the He said,
Speaker 1: I you know this God, and that's what that I
Speaker 1: think I mean, I don't know. It's like I guess,
Speaker 1: there's always been gossip, There's always been these things. But
Speaker 1: I do think that we all have to be responsible
Speaker 1: for more research. And I certainly have been challenged and
Speaker 1: checked a number of times where I ran to support
Speaker 1: something or I shared some information and I was wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, And so when I say are you gullible
Speaker 1: or down my guests in those instances, I was being
Speaker 1: a little bit more gullible. But it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of both. Yeah, it's both man and it's it's biased.
Speaker 1: Like I just said, it's not it's both bias because
Speaker 1: when you post anything on your page, it supports a
Speaker 1: notion that you have. You you would never post anything
Speaker 1: that goes disaccording to what you already believe without doing
Speaker 1: fact checks, because if you see something, you're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: where are they said this? Let me check? Because let
Speaker 1: me check? Because I don't really believe that anyway. You
Speaker 1: will do some research. You're gonna google, You're gonna go to,
Speaker 1: you know, places that you know the information is fact
Speaker 1: and if you don't see it on none of these
Speaker 1: places where you know that they give factual information, then
Speaker 1: you're not gonna post it. You're not gonna support it,
Speaker 1: you know. So when people decide that just merely a
Speaker 1: person on Instagram that you never met, a person on
Speaker 1: YouTube that you never met, can say something that you
Speaker 1: cannot back up with evidence. They ain't got no receipts,
Speaker 1: they ain't got no facts, they don't have You can't
Speaker 1: fact check nothing they said, and you take it at
Speaker 1: face value. You have to ask yourself, are you okay?
Speaker 1: So okay, let's let's look at it from a different perspective.
Speaker 1: So I I heard, I know, uh, miss Laura, and
Speaker 1: Miss Laura doesn't like or trust certain people, and so
Speaker 1: she talks about them all the time. And I actually
Speaker 1: like how she speaks. I like the things that she says.
Speaker 1: She seems to be authentic to me, and she's saying
Speaker 1: something and I believe that maybe what Miss Laura is
Speaker 1: saying it is true. Right, So what's the next step?
Speaker 1: Because if I'm only hearing from Miss Laura and she's
Speaker 1: giving saying all these things and making it sound really,
Speaker 1: really good, do I therefore have a responsibility to go
Speaker 1: to the other side of the equation, especially when it's
Speaker 1: about serious business, and say, hey, this is what I've heard.
Speaker 1: What do you have to say about it. And it's
Speaker 1: a tricky thing because we're most people are not inclined
Speaker 1: to talk to folks who come at them a certain
Speaker 1: way one and two. People who seemingly are they already
Speaker 1: believe it and they really are just trying to antagonize you.
Speaker 1: But I think that when people come to you, you
Speaker 1: genuinely trying to understand, do we therefore have a responsibility
Speaker 1: They have a responsibility to ask you, and do you
Speaker 1: have a responsibility to answer? Well, you know what it is.
Speaker 1: I think it's um subjective, right. I think if somebody
Speaker 1: comes to you who you value, and you believe that
Speaker 1: they come with authentic energy and they really want to
Speaker 1: inquire and they want you to give them an answer
Speaker 1: because they've heard something else, that's nothing wrong with that. Now.
Speaker 1: I have no problem. That's why you like you go.
Speaker 1: But no, I have no problem with engaging people because
Speaker 1: these are people who follow you on these platforms. These
Speaker 1: are people that either believe in you their fans system degree.
Speaker 1: And even a hater is a misguided fan, right, So
Speaker 1: sometimes you got to educate a hater because I've turned
Speaker 1: haters into fans. I've heard I've turned people it was like, ya,
Speaker 1: I didn't like you at first I thought this, and
Speaker 1: then I started listening to you, and then I realized
Speaker 1: that you was the truth. So I understand that happens.
Speaker 1: So you have to make a determination based on how
Speaker 1: the person addresses you about the information, because say such
Speaker 1: said this, I know that ain't true? Man? Is it true?
Speaker 1: Give me some information, and you have to make a determination.
Speaker 1: Do I believe that this person is worth me given
Speaker 1: you know, the information, or explaining something to do our mind?
Speaker 1: Or am I okay with that person believing whatever? They're here?
Speaker 1: You know? And I think us as leaders and were
Speaker 1: having people following us. I think the world deserves certain explanations,
Speaker 1: especially when it's something that you know goes in conflict
Speaker 1: to what it is that we say that we represent. Right,
Speaker 1: So if if the other person can't present receipts and
Speaker 1: it's just left on phase value and we don't give
Speaker 1: them anything to combat the information, then we can't be
Speaker 1: mad if that's what they believe in, right, especially if
Speaker 1: they're looking for something to combat the information. If you
Speaker 1: just leave it out there and you said, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to even respond and there's nothing to even and
Speaker 1: that's true, because I I contemplated recently whether or not
Speaker 1: I should respond to false allegations against me, and I
Speaker 1: decided that one, especially when it's connected to us organizationally
Speaker 1: and our our business every day, that it's not a
Speaker 1: good idea to have, or that it doesn't benefit us
Speaker 1: to have one side of a story in the media,
Speaker 1: because people google things, and when they google your name,
Speaker 1: these things come up, and there needs to actually be
Speaker 1: a response so that folks can see the balance and
Speaker 1: make a determination of what it is that they believe.
Speaker 1: And there is of course for some people will say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the people who are with you are with you,
Speaker 1: but you have new people every day who are trying
Speaker 1: to get to know you, and they get to know
Speaker 1: you based upon your profile, based upon things they read,
Speaker 1: things that they hear. So it's always important for me
Speaker 1: that on certain issues, especially when they're very serious allegations
Speaker 1: or serious conversations, to make a statement that allows people
Speaker 1: to find where you, where your voice is, and then
Speaker 1: again make their own determinations. And I think, I think
Speaker 1: for us is important because we've always been vocal. Yah
Speaker 1: is the act. We've always been vocal. We always use
Speaker 1: our platforms, we always talk about things that we believe
Speaker 1: in don't believe in, and we've been vocal. So when
Speaker 1: somebody attacks you with things that are vital and you
Speaker 1: become silent, then it gives ever had I'm always talking,
Speaker 1: so you know, I guess that's what that is. That's
Speaker 1: what it is. So as we always say, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that and people probably think we
Speaker 1: are what we play favoritism with our friends, but friends
Speaker 1: that we do, that's okay. That's why we got to
Speaker 1: show so we can bring our friends on so I
Speaker 1: don't have to feel bad about it. Okay, So then
Speaker 1: this is my friend. So I am so proud today
Speaker 1: to bring to the street politicians family because I feel
Speaker 1: like of the guests that we've had, you know, you
Speaker 1: want to talk to more people that you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: agree with. I don't like to give clowns space on
Speaker 1: my platform, but there needs to be a balance, and
Speaker 1: there's some people who we don't agree with that are
Speaker 1: not clowned. So those are the ones I want you
Speaker 1: to find, the ones that we can respectfully disagree. So
Speaker 1: when you find those people, let me know I'm down
Speaker 1: to do it. Um. But I think it is a
Speaker 1: family of people who are coming together with different ideas,
Speaker 1: and as we grow, and as this show continues to grow,
Speaker 1: we want to bring the type of content that makes
Speaker 1: people feel like they're learning something. And I certainly have
Speaker 1: learned from this. Uh. Next guest, this young lady m
Speaker 1: who you know, among a lot of things, she's like
Speaker 1: super fly, super amazing um. And also she's an author
Speaker 1: and her book really sort of sums up the title
Speaker 1: of her book sums up why she's on here today
Speaker 1: and what we need to be doing more of with
Speaker 1: our time we're on social media, and that is from
Speaker 1: mopping floors to making millions on i G. My sister
Speaker 1: Ronnie Brown is joining us today. Hi Ronnie, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for having me. How did you transition from up
Speaker 1: and floors to making millions on G? Well it did.
Speaker 1: It wasn't an overnight thing. Let me make sure. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not one for fluff. I'm one for you know,
Speaker 1: real transparency. So this was something that happened over the
Speaker 1: course of probably about five to six years when I
Speaker 1: really learned how to monetize social media. I was a
Speaker 1: janitor UM. I grew up in the projects of Washington
Speaker 1: d c UM. I had my son. At sixteen years old,
Speaker 1: I dropped out of college. Um, all of the people
Speaker 1: that were around me were hustling, selling drugs in the streets,
Speaker 1: doing all that kind of stuff. And I decided that
Speaker 1: I was going to go in a different direction. And
Speaker 1: it was primarily based on all of the odds that
Speaker 1: were stacked against me. You know, when you have a
Speaker 1: teen mom and you have a kid young, everyone's already
Speaker 1: telling you like, oh, you're gonna fail, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: on welfare, you're gonna do this, So it kind of
Speaker 1: pushes you to go in a different direction. And I
Speaker 1: was really determined to figure out how to make some money.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I started off on Facebook and I used
Speaker 1: Facebook to sell handmade products that I was making in
Speaker 1: my home. That's how I started my first business. And
Speaker 1: the reason why I started on Facebook is because I
Speaker 1: could not afford to have a website built. I could
Speaker 1: not afford to have a report design and build a website.
Speaker 1: And I figured out how to go to PayPal, and y'all,
Speaker 1: it's gonna tell how old I am, y'all, so you know,
Speaker 1: don't judge me. But I figured out how to go
Speaker 1: to PayPal, and I don't know if y'all remember this,
Speaker 1: but back in the day, you could go to PayPal
Speaker 1: and you could take PayPal buttons and you you could
Speaker 1: take the link from the button and then you could
Speaker 1: paste it and it would generate buy now buttons and
Speaker 1: paste to buy now buttons on Facebook. And I would
Speaker 1: make these products in my home because I had gotten
Speaker 1: fired from my job, and I said that, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to continue to allow people to be
Speaker 1: able to tell me when I can make money. And
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna keep going through this this this cycle
Speaker 1: because another thing people don't really talk about is I'm
Speaker 1: being a mom in corporate America and the lack of
Speaker 1: grace that is given for mothers who have children who
Speaker 1: have to have to do daycare and doctor's appointments, in
Speaker 1: school activities and conferences. So I was sick at that point,
Speaker 1: and I got on social media and I started plugging
Speaker 1: those buttons and I went from hustling on Facebook to
Speaker 1: hustling on Instagram and it just took off from there.
Speaker 1: I have two things. The first thing is, do you
Speaker 1: mean to tell me that getting fired from your job
Speaker 1: wasn't the end of your life? Like I just can't
Speaker 1: believe it. You know what I'll tell you guys. Um,
Speaker 1: when we are in the midst of the fire, we
Speaker 1: think that we're just gonna burn up and it's over right.
Speaker 1: But when you get out of the fire, you look
Speaker 1: back and you say, man, this had to light me
Speaker 1: up like I had. I had to literally get lit
Speaker 1: for a second for me to figure out ways to
Speaker 1: become creative and and getting fired from my job to
Speaker 1: some people was the worst thing that could probably happen
Speaker 1: to them. But honestly, um, I feel like our success
Speaker 1: is in our sacrifices, and I feel like me getting
Speaker 1: fired it was a sacrifice that I had to make
Speaker 1: and it pushed me right into my purpose and I
Speaker 1: needed that. So I mean, I'm being sarcastic, but you know,
Speaker 1: there are some people who, first of all, losing your
Speaker 1: job when you need your money is very very serious.
Speaker 1: So I totally respect that. But I also have lived
Speaker 1: long enough to understand that sometimes you don't need that
Speaker 1: job anyway, right, Like, it's just it's time to move on.
Speaker 1: And I think what you're speaking to is exactly that
Speaker 1: you really it was time for you to step into
Speaker 1: your own It was time for that boost UM and
Speaker 1: losing your job probably is what set you on the
Speaker 1: right path, right, But what was the first product that
Speaker 1: you sold on Facebook? It was a beauty product. I
Speaker 1: created a beauty company and it's so crazy because now
Speaker 1: I'm also the CEO of Holistic, which is a clean
Speaker 1: self care beauty brand. I have two companies, Girls CEO,
Speaker 1: which is a community for women in business, and then
Speaker 1: I have her Listic, which is a self care company
Speaker 1: that we actually have clean products. But people don't know
Speaker 1: that me relaunching and building her Listic was me coming
Speaker 1: back to my initial business that failed, which was actually
Speaker 1: called um a MORMONAI. And if you hashtag or MORMONAI
Speaker 1: or you google a more monai, you will literally see
Speaker 1: pictures of myself and my daughter at six years old
Speaker 1: doing bending events at tables and with t shirts on
Speaker 1: UM and she was actually the only person that could
Speaker 1: help me. I needed help and people may have thought like, oh,
Speaker 1: her kid was with her, but my daughter was with me.
Speaker 1: My daughter just turned eighteen on Tuesday and she's now
Speaker 1: building these companies with me. But that was my first
Speaker 1: big business. And when I tell you that God's time
Speaker 1: and it is perfect, I'm coming back after eleven years
Speaker 1: picking back a dream that I was not able to
Speaker 1: finance back in two thousand and nine when I started
Speaker 1: that company. Wow, So how many children do you have?
Speaker 1: I have two boys and two girls. I ain't got
Speaker 1: no three kids? Four you can't count? Yes and two
Speaker 1: and two all dayenized. My son will be twenty one
Speaker 1: this year, and my daughter turned eighteen on Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: my baby girl is turning nine. Hit different, don't it different?
Speaker 1: I have a fifteen year old little boy that's up
Speaker 1: here on top of my head in his room, UM
Speaker 1: playing PS five right now. So I am blessed. Yes
Speaker 1: you are. Let me tell you are blessed. And I
Speaker 1: know it because you've been through well, absolutely and it
Speaker 1: shines through um just when I met you and just
Speaker 1: throughout all of our encounters and even you know, some
Speaker 1: people when you go to their page, it's like you're
Speaker 1: not sure who like. It's like something is weird about
Speaker 1: the person that you see versus the work they claim
Speaker 1: they do for it's just all strange. But with you,
Speaker 1: it's very, very seamless, and it's very clear that you're
Speaker 1: selling authenticity. So you transitioned over to I G. What
Speaker 1: did you bring to I g and how has a
Speaker 1: platform that sometimes can be so hateful been successful for you? Well,
Speaker 1: I bought a few things. Um, I bought my story.
Speaker 1: That was the most important thing, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people we don't really want to tell the story. And
Speaker 1: the story that I bought was this story that I
Speaker 1: was once ashamed up, which was having you know, three
Speaker 1: kids by the age of twenty five. That was something
Speaker 1: that just followed me growing up, and everyone made in
Speaker 1: me for that, and you know, I would be on welfare,
Speaker 1: I would be this I failed. I grew up in
Speaker 1: the hood, like I let I let my life go
Speaker 1: down the drain. So that was the story. But the
Speaker 1: story wasn't just that. It was that with everything that
Speaker 1: you go through, you can overcome and you can still
Speaker 1: make the best of yourself, regardless of the things that
Speaker 1: you've done. Um at a young age and even I'm
Speaker 1: not looking at your children as a liability. So I
Speaker 1: don't look at my children as a liability. My children
Speaker 1: there and there they are an asset to my life,
Speaker 1: right and I was determined to change that perspective around.
Speaker 1: So I've told people what I dealt with, even in
Speaker 1: the workplace, and people not giving me grades and being
Speaker 1: able to take that time, you know, off. So I
Speaker 1: showed mothers and women that you can be a mom
Speaker 1: and you can be successful and your story doesn't always
Speaker 1: have to be you know, welfare, or even if it is,
Speaker 1: you can transition out of that right and you can
Speaker 1: build a business and create something that you are ashtionate
Speaker 1: about and monetize that thing on social media. So I
Speaker 1: came over to social media and I started to sell products. Well,
Speaker 1: I really blew up doing that, okay um, And I
Speaker 1: started to help other women create their companies. When I
Speaker 1: initially started, I did it for free. I did it
Speaker 1: for free for seven eight years, just helping women start companies,
Speaker 1: helping women build their social media follows. I would get
Speaker 1: my phone now I would go in parks and take
Speaker 1: pictures of women. They would come to me. I would
Speaker 1: do their makeup and take pictures of them and help
Speaker 1: them build you know, their images up on mine, and
Speaker 1: then teach them how to sell and create names for
Speaker 1: their companies. But what happens is, as you continue to
Speaker 1: so seeds, it's only a matter of time before that
Speaker 1: harvest start. So I have to market myself. The more
Speaker 1: people I helped, they started marketing me. They started sharing people,
Speaker 1: they started you know, showing people by page and what
Speaker 1: I was doing, and it just started taking off from there.
Speaker 1: Are just really serving organically. You know, everyone's like, what
Speaker 1: do you bring to social media? I bring serving shop.
Speaker 1: I tell people that all the time. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a process. People love the you know, the finished product,
Speaker 1: but they don't they don't love the process. You know,
Speaker 1: they see where you got, but they didn't see what
Speaker 1: got you there. You know, I just was reading a
Speaker 1: quote that you made in the book about your parents
Speaker 1: and how they brought how our payments bring us up
Speaker 1: in fear and it extends to us. You know, do
Speaker 1: you have certain fears that your parents extended to you
Speaker 1: that made you scared at first? Timbuk On, You know
Speaker 1: your journey for sure entrepreneurship. When I quit my job,
Speaker 1: I was working for the government. You know, my mother
Speaker 1: is from the old school, and the old school we
Speaker 1: were taught to go to school, get an education, and
Speaker 1: go work for the white ning. That was the mother knew.
Speaker 1: So when I went to school, okay, and I graduated
Speaker 1: from high school, I started college. I dropped out of
Speaker 1: college because I had to make a choice whether I
Speaker 1: was gonna go to school, I was gonna go to
Speaker 1: work inside for my son, who was now about to
Speaker 1: one years old. I chose to go to work and
Speaker 1: make money for my son. My mother was piste with that,
Speaker 1: but I also started to build my business. And even
Speaker 1: though let me distress this, I remember this day as
Speaker 1: clear as yesterday. I remember sitting at a government job
Speaker 1: and and at this point I was making about fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month in my company, in my business,
Speaker 1: and I had so much fear inside of me, based
Speaker 1: on the fear of that money and inside of me
Speaker 1: that I was still afraid to walk away from this.
Speaker 1: This is the part you need to hear. A job
Speaker 1: that was paying me forty five thousand dollars a year
Speaker 1: a month, but I was still paralyzed, still offer paralyzed,
Speaker 1: because my mother was saying, what are you thinking? Because
Speaker 1: because they made you believe that that job was some
Speaker 1: level of stability and health and the benefits, the benefits, honey, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but no one says, No one teaches you. I have
Speaker 1: benefits right now. I'm an entrepreneur. I have an oral
Speaker 1: one K, I have health insurance, I have Dino insurance.
Speaker 1: I have investments. I have stopped. I have every single
Speaker 1: thing that that job offered me on my own. So
Speaker 1: now we need to talk about financial literacy so that
Speaker 1: I could transition out of being a worker and being
Speaker 1: an owner. Because that's what my mother, that's all she knew. Well,
Speaker 1: and I just read another excerpt when you said that
Speaker 1: you will fight after you begged them to keep you
Speaker 1: on the job. Let me tell you a quick story.
Speaker 1: I was almost nom as pregnant. I'm working at all
Speaker 1: Center at Kais of Permanente, and I was broke. When
Speaker 1: I say broke, I mean a different level of broke,
Speaker 1: the broke where you go home and you smile at
Speaker 1: your kids and they don't know that you're broke. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're just you just fake it with the smile. Okay.
Speaker 1: But I remember ember going to work. I'm running late.
Speaker 1: The tags on my dad, the tags on my car
Speaker 1: are already dead. Okay, so I'm taking a risk just
Speaker 1: trying to get to work. Okay. I had just moved
Speaker 1: into a condo with my children. I had three kids
Speaker 1: and we were in a two bedroom condo. All three
Speaker 1: of them were sharing a room. Okay, we were making work,
Speaker 1: all right, And I remember getting there two minutes late
Speaker 1: because I was driving from DC to Virginia and the
Speaker 1: freaking call center was probably almost over an hour and
Speaker 1: a half in trific away. But I needed the money.
Speaker 1: I was gonna pay fifteen dollars an hour. And I
Speaker 1: got there two minutes late, almost due to have my baby,
Speaker 1: and the lady was going to fire me, and I
Speaker 1: got on my knees. I remember, I never forget. It
Speaker 1: was a tall white woman. She was my supervisor. And
Speaker 1: I got on my knees and I begged and I cried.
Speaker 1: It was probably the most humbling and embarrassing experience ever.
Speaker 1: I cried to this tall white woman, almost nine months pregnant,
Speaker 1: on my knees pregnant, and I said, please, I said,
Speaker 1: I need this job. I cannot go home without this
Speaker 1: job because I have bills to pay and I had children.
Speaker 1: And she said, okay, we'll give you a chance. She
Speaker 1: allowed me to work. I worked to the end of
Speaker 1: the day, did everything I needed to do, and at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I thought finished filing and
Speaker 1: closing out all of my calls. They called me in
Speaker 1: the office and she said, we have had to make
Speaker 1: a change in our decision. Today is going to be
Speaker 1: your last day. And I will never forget that. I
Speaker 1: will never forget that, because that alone just made me
Speaker 1: remember why ownership was so important. And I drove home
Speaker 1: that day with the radio turned off. And I don't
Speaker 1: know about you all, but when you ride home and
Speaker 1: you ain't got that radio, yes, yes, people thought I
Speaker 1: was thinking. And I told myself, I said, I am
Speaker 1: never gonna put myself in a position and where someone
Speaker 1: else feeding me will be my only source of income.
Speaker 1: And I went home and I looked around my house,
Speaker 1: and I remember one of my mentors telling me, whenever
Speaker 1: business you started, look around your home and see what
Speaker 1: you got a lot of, because whatever you're spending your
Speaker 1: money on, that's what you were really invested in. Start
Speaker 1: something in that area. Whatever you spend most of your
Speaker 1: money on, that may be the thing you need to start.
Speaker 1: And all around with beauty products and candles and all
Speaker 1: the stuff. And I went home. I remember had about
Speaker 1: two to three hundred dollars in my bank account, and
Speaker 1: I got on Google. Baby, I'm Google University. And this
Speaker 1: is why no excuses was making a way out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: all right, mama, three no college degree. I got on
Speaker 1: Google and I started researching how to make candles, how
Speaker 1: to make this, how to make that, And within ten
Speaker 1: days I had a product and I was selling it
Speaker 1: on Facebook, and I was making just enough to cover
Speaker 1: my rent, and I was going out begging. My friends
Speaker 1: were going to the club and they were partying. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got pictures on my Instagram page and they were
Speaker 1: at the parties. And I'm sitting there with a T
Speaker 1: shirt on says a Mormon name, holding up lip gloss,
Speaker 1: candles and all the products that I was making. And
Speaker 1: I was selling stuff and people were laughing at me.
Speaker 1: They were laughing. They're not laughing now, they're that's right.
Speaker 1: The first they laugh at you and asked you why
Speaker 1: are you doing it? Didn't ask you how you how
Speaker 1: you did it? Ronnie. I wish we could stay with
Speaker 1: you day too, because your story is so inspiring. The
Speaker 1: business component is important, but the story of how you
Speaker 1: got there is where the real t that's the real sauce.
Speaker 1: That's that's it right there. Can you just do one
Speaker 1: thing before you leave, because I know we gotta go,
Speaker 1: But can you just give a word of encouragement to
Speaker 1: old young girls and entrepreneurs who are scared right now?
Speaker 1: Who who at that job and they want to quit
Speaker 1: and they think they got it, but they just scared.
Speaker 1: Just give them one word of advice. Your ancestors are
Speaker 1: there for you, waiting for you to take that lead.
Speaker 1: We are the most valuable, the most needed people that
Speaker 1: that that are had literally walked this earth. Okay, we
Speaker 1: are strong. We have so much within us and we
Speaker 1: have to know what we have inside of us. We
Speaker 1: have yet to really see our true worth, and once
Speaker 1: we see that true worth, everything will change. Our data,
Speaker 1: our social media platforms are influenced and is so valuable,
Speaker 1: and we have to stop allowing people to monetize us
Speaker 1: and to leverage us and not truly get what we deserve.
Speaker 1: We are the souls how you also, we are the
Speaker 1: secrets also to all the women that are listening. You
Speaker 1: are so valuable. People need what you have. You have
Speaker 1: the magic and it's time that you start monetizing yourself.
Speaker 1: Don't allow other people to see your value before you
Speaker 1: see it. Well, God, bless you, queen. That is a word.
Speaker 1: I'm not even a woman, but I'm gonna take world.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Ronnie Brown. We appreciate you for
Speaker 1: mopping floors. She's at Ronnie Brown. R O N N. E. Brown.
Speaker 1: There's no eye and Ronnie, come and check me off.
Speaker 1: You listen to this episode and you love it. Come
Speaker 1: tell me you're all harmed? All right? Thank you, Ronnie.
Speaker 1: She appreciate you so very much. I love you, says
Speaker 1: take care before we go to the next segment and
Speaker 1: have our special guests joint, We're gonna take a quick
Speaker 1: break for our sponsors. Niel. She could be a motivation.
Speaker 1: That's what she does. I'm motivated. Yeah, yeah, she's the truth.
Speaker 1: I feel like I could win a championship right now.
Speaker 1: If I had a job, I would quit right now
Speaker 1: and be like, listen, I'm going you do have a job.
Speaker 1: If I do have a job. But if I had
Speaker 1: a job that I didn't love, that I did because
Speaker 1: we developed a job, we created our job. We did
Speaker 1: we entrepreneurs were we found what we love, we found
Speaker 1: that passion, and we didn't go to no corporation and
Speaker 1: we didn't just get a desk job, and we didn't
Speaker 1: you know, take the regular They okay, but I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to say, but they're not. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: the truth. The world is not kind to those of
Speaker 1: us who actually are behind the penalties and leadership you're
Speaker 1: dealing with. Listen to me, they don't. You ain't the
Speaker 1: first woman and they're gonna be the last. This is
Speaker 1: what we gotta deal with. I've realized that we all
Speaker 1: put for this exact moment in top. But sometimes being
Speaker 1: black in America is really really hard, especially being a
Speaker 1: black person who's fighting for people that you also have
Speaker 1: to fight. So we're dealing with out trauma and sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta whip somebody's ass. Oh Lord Jesus, I said
Speaker 1: that it's not physically, it's not about that. I was like,
Speaker 1: you're the peacekeeper. Sometimes every now and then you might
Speaker 1: have to whip somebody's as. You might have to whip mentally,
Speaker 1: not physically, but there has to be some level of whipping.
Speaker 1: M and for I would change maker section another one
Speaker 1: of our friends, you know, our sister, you know somebody
Speaker 1: that I don't think we ever gonna run out of
Speaker 1: friends now, We're never gonna You know why, because when
Speaker 1: you've got good nature and you've got a good spirit,
Speaker 1: good soul, you're gonna track those same people. You know
Speaker 1: you're progressive, and you know you're innovative, you're gonna attract
Speaker 1: that same type of energy. When I say innovative and
Speaker 1: energetic and motivational, that is an understate. You know, we
Speaker 1: both know, like this sister gives you a call, you know,
Speaker 1: it's about something that's gonna be progressive. I've never got
Speaker 1: a call from her that didn't amount to something that
Speaker 1: was evolutionary and that was evolving and got me up
Speaker 1: and said, okay, what you got? You know what? Either
Speaker 1: about a dollar, but I did. She definitely gonna get
Speaker 1: to a bag. And it's crazy because her life story
Speaker 1: has always been about getting to a bag. But in
Speaker 1: this time, with this iteration of her story in her life,
Speaker 1: she's trying to turn all the skill sets that were
Speaker 1: used in bad ways, negative ways into positive ways to
Speaker 1: help some of us. So when people say, oh, well, y'all,
Speaker 1: are you know making money off of this and off
Speaker 1: the movement and blah blah blah, those things are not true.
Speaker 1: But the one thing we can say is there's somebody
Speaker 1: that's our friend that does help us, our sister, our sister,
Speaker 1: Jim Miller, David Davis. And it's going down. It's going down.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about being kid with you guys today
Speaker 1: on this incredible game changing podcast. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Are you feeling you're part of the street
Speaker 1: politicians family. I need like a bell or something so
Speaker 1: I can be like, yes, ing ding ding ding ding,
Speaker 1: you're at home. I can see when your home. You
Speaker 1: work all day and night. Yes, I've been on these
Speaker 1: phones all day long, all day long, making some moves happen.
Speaker 1: Tell us about this book that you have built to
Speaker 1: outlast the storm. So built to outlast the storm is
Speaker 1: the twelve points of turning a set back into a
Speaker 1: major comeback. And for me, this book is important because
Speaker 1: it's the road map I use to see my way
Speaker 1: out of a twelve and a half year sentence in
Speaker 1: federal prison. Right So for me, like I got hit
Speaker 1: so hard that I wanted to die, And some of
Speaker 1: us go through experiences in life that no one teaches
Speaker 1: us or prepares us for. How are we gonna get
Speaker 1: to the other side of it? So it was important
Speaker 1: for me to create a book to help people see
Speaker 1: the glass half full instead of half empty, to see
Speaker 1: the possibilities of what can come out of any situation,
Speaker 1: even what you think is the most craziest situation, because
Speaker 1: usually it's in those situations that God is either working
Speaker 1: on you or about to work through you to do
Speaker 1: something amazing. So this book is all about preparing the
Speaker 1: mindset for trials and tribulations, understanding the reason for obstacles
Speaker 1: and how they can make a stronger, wiser and better Wow.
Speaker 1: So first, because we know your story, so I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you like everybody already knows. Just so
Speaker 1: you went to prison for twelve years? And what did
Speaker 1: you go to prison for twelve years? So? I was
Speaker 1: like always kind of that mover and shaker in the street.
Speaker 1: I was that chick that wanted to get money by
Speaker 1: any means necessary. UM I got into cars. I used
Speaker 1: to do a lot of stuff with a lot of
Speaker 1: rappers and entertainers with credit and cars, and I graduated
Speaker 1: from that into real estate. UM. I actually became a
Speaker 1: multi millionaire. By the time I was twenty five years old.
Speaker 1: I had um controlled over thirty million dollars worth of
Speaker 1: properties and Alpon and Saddle River, New Jersey, which is
Speaker 1: pretty much like the highest ends of New Jersey. I
Speaker 1: controlled the states, and I thought I had it all
Speaker 1: made until the Feds kicked in the doorway. The full four.
Speaker 1: You know you didn't see me no more. That was
Speaker 1: just what it was. You feel me. So what was
Speaker 1: what was your particular crime? If you will? That you
Speaker 1: were charged with bank fraud. So I was charged with
Speaker 1: bank fraud and conspiracy to the fraud banks. And I
Speaker 1: was sentenced to a hundred and fifty one months in
Speaker 1: federal prison, which equated to me actually serving nine years
Speaker 1: behind bars in a year when I came home on
Speaker 1: house arrest. So basically I gave the feeds ten years
Speaker 1: of my life. So when did you come home? I
Speaker 1: came home in seventeen. I remember that. I remember that.
Speaker 1: Remember the first day I met you, you you, We
Speaker 1: was at an event and um, you was with Yandy
Speaker 1: and I remember you had on these high hill shoes
Speaker 1: and you and you was like, I ain't walking high hills,
Speaker 1: and so long you bringing me back because in prison
Speaker 1: we only have still told boots, right, I trt to
Speaker 1: be cute. And actually that was the day that I
Speaker 1: met one of my faves, which is to mek A D. Mallory,
Speaker 1: it's crazy that we're sisters now, but to me Gett
Speaker 1: somebody I used to read about on the bunk beds
Speaker 1: of my my my prison, you know, in the prison
Speaker 1: I was in, and I would see her and essence
Speaker 1: to Ebony as this change maker. She actually inspired me
Speaker 1: to create the movement that I created behind bars, which
Speaker 1: is women over incarcerated. So to see someone that I
Speaker 1: admired so much, and that was like the first time
Speaker 1: I ever met her, kind of wanted to be a
Speaker 1: little cute, a little bit, you know, my but my
Speaker 1: feet was definitely hurting. But I definitely remember that day
Speaker 1: very very clearly. Yeah, from day one, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you let me know that you were like, I'm about it.
Speaker 1: I'm a worker, like, put me to work. I want
Speaker 1: to be a soldier in the army. And at first
Speaker 1: I was kind of like, I don't, you know, like
Speaker 1: why does she like me? Because you know, I deal
Speaker 1: with insecurity issues around, you know, not feeling as important
Speaker 1: as some people have ordeemed me to be. And so
Speaker 1: I was kind of like she keeps saying that she
Speaker 1: was watching me from prison. I'm like, first of all,
Speaker 1: how and then second of all, why why me? Um?
Speaker 1: But over time I understood that God put us together,
Speaker 1: like the team that we have built over the last
Speaker 1: few years, now five years or four years, and it's
Speaker 1: it's been even a little bit longer than that for
Speaker 1: my son and myself and and others. That team was
Speaker 1: put together and designed by God because what we're doing
Speaker 1: together is revolutionary. It is, it's amazing. I mean. And
Speaker 1: people will say to me, I don't see you, you know,
Speaker 1: building community centers. Well, my brother, my dear brother A. T.
Speaker 1: Mitchell of man Up does have a community center. Other
Speaker 1: individuals that I work with are either building or have
Speaker 1: built community centers. People say, well, you're not doing enough
Speaker 1: for our youth, you're just protesting. Well that's not true
Speaker 1: because my sister also has the v I P Online
Speaker 1: Academy and other programs that we work within schools with
Speaker 1: young people, and I'm very much so a part of that. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't see you doing financial little Well, we just
Speaker 1: had some folks on the show and have other folks
Speaker 1: that we work closely with who do financial literacy work.
Speaker 1: So you know, the the issue is that we're all
Speaker 1: trying to be in our lanes, you know, and and
Speaker 1: but at the point that our lanes intersect, where we
Speaker 1: may have to get in the right lane, get in
Speaker 1: the left lane, get in the turning lanes, that's where
Speaker 1: we that's called collaboration. And our collaborative efforts with you,
Speaker 1: Jamila have been extremely powerful. So you came back and said,
Speaker 1: and let me ask you, was a part of the
Speaker 1: terms of your release that you would never be involved
Speaker 1: with like banks and housing and all of that. Again,
Speaker 1: the fans got a whole hole on me, a whole
Speaker 1: like I can't be involved in real estate. If I am,
Speaker 1: then I could go back to prison. So I had
Speaker 1: to find a whole another career path. Um, and with
Speaker 1: the help of you know yourself. I just think that
Speaker 1: people don't know enough of about you and know enough
Speaker 1: about the work that you do and the mentorship you do. Right,
Speaker 1: So UM, working with you guys, I found the lane
Speaker 1: within the school system and you know, from there started
Speaker 1: doing mentorship program to what we have today. And we
Speaker 1: have the v I P Online Academy, which is really
Speaker 1: in schools and all across now New York City and
Speaker 1: now we're in New Jersey and expanding. And then with
Speaker 1: the work of Until Freedom and your team, we are
Speaker 1: creating a whole social justice curriculum that's about to be
Speaker 1: mandatory for school students in schools throughout the Troy State area.
Speaker 1: I mean I just I just think it's amazing when
Speaker 1: you look at how we come together and we form
Speaker 1: like what I call vote, you know, And I just
Speaker 1: want to say, I'm always amazed by you. You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's a few people that I look at that
Speaker 1: have come home and they have evolved like they have.
Speaker 1: They didn't wait. They didn't say, Dad, I don't have this.
Speaker 1: I got nothing. They didn't look for handouts, they didn't
Speaker 1: get mad at it. You know yourself, My brother Wilow,
Speaker 1: you know, y'all came home and immediately just hit the
Speaker 1: streets running. You wait around and to see your success constantly,
Speaker 1: you know, And and it became it is because you
Speaker 1: prepared before you got to society, you know, being formally incarcerated.
Speaker 1: I used to always tell people that you can't go home.
Speaker 1: You can't wait till you go home. To be successful.
Speaker 1: You have to prepare to come home and be successful.
Speaker 1: You have to prepare that you might not be successful.
Speaker 1: You have to prepare to fail. You have to say, yo,
Speaker 1: you know what everything. Body's not gonna say. Yes, the
Speaker 1: plans that I have might not go right, but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna stop. You have to make up your mind
Speaker 1: that first of all, I'm never coming back to prison.
Speaker 1: And second of all, why I'm in society. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be productive. I am going to win. And you
Speaker 1: have that energy, and you've had that energy from day one?
Speaker 1: What keep what gives you that energy? Well, let me
Speaker 1: just say this. First of all, I know that I'm
Speaker 1: God's child. He chastens those that he loves, right, So
Speaker 1: I know that he had put me in a situation
Speaker 1: because he wanted to get my attention and wanted to
Speaker 1: me to understand that the streets tricked me. The things
Speaker 1: that I thought meant something really meant nothing at all. Um,
Speaker 1: I've been able to stand on the shoulder of giants literally.
Speaker 1: So I was inconservated with Lauren Hill, who became a
Speaker 1: very close friend of mine who inspired me in great
Speaker 1: ways right, And for me to even meet her, she
Speaker 1: had a ninety days sentence in prison, and for me
Speaker 1: to even meet her and she to inspire me the
Speaker 1: way that she did was just incredible. So I started
Speaker 1: off with an advantage, like from a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know, but from behind bars. Lauren and I started filming,
Speaker 1: so we had a whole production company. I'm a prisoner,
Speaker 1: I'm a whole casting agent getting people together to come
Speaker 1: out of prison. I did that. Then Gandy came along
Speaker 1: and then put me on her back and I was
Speaker 1: able to work with her um with e. G. L
Speaker 1: pulled doing the incredible, amazing things that she does. And
Speaker 1: then my sister to Mika, I was able to get
Speaker 1: on her back and she helped to stamp me as
Speaker 1: an activist in you my song. So it's like, I'm blessed.
Speaker 1: Then I just want folks to know because sometimes people
Speaker 1: look at me and they'd be like, yo, she's guarded
Speaker 1: than life. You know what. I'm just blessed because God
Speaker 1: had me in lie with his vessels and that's key.
Speaker 1: Folks gotta understand. For God the move, he needs vessel
Speaker 1: right as some of us answered the call. And I'm
Speaker 1: just grateful for those that answered the call. And I'm
Speaker 1: a quick learner, So I got up underneath them, soaked
Speaker 1: up the information and did what I needed to do
Speaker 1: with the contacts and the information I got. Wow, it
Speaker 1: puts me in the mind as we we want to
Speaker 1: close out and thank you so much for being here,
Speaker 1: But it puts me in the mind. Uh. And you
Speaker 1: were just with us recently at the one year anniversary
Speaker 1: of of Brianna Taylor's murder, where we looked up and
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet from her where she right twelve
Speaker 1: days before she was killed. She tweeted, take me to
Speaker 1: a place that I can't even imagine. And I feel
Speaker 1: like all of us are going to places that we
Speaker 1: can't imagine. But it's not work that we're doing, when
Speaker 1: it's work that is happening for us because we are.
Speaker 1: We've decided that it's okay to answer the call. That
Speaker 1: call is on your life, Jamilla, and we appreciate you
Speaker 1: so much innovative, creative nature and also your unwillingness to
Speaker 1: allow us to slip, like you're always saying, you know,
Speaker 1: we could do more, we can do better, we can
Speaker 1: make changes, and I think because of that it makes
Speaker 1: us all better. You make people better when you put
Speaker 1: your hand in their lives. So thank you so very
Speaker 1: much for being the vessels. When I think about teams,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody has a job to do. They got
Speaker 1: point guards, they got somebody that rebounds the ball, and
Speaker 1: you just do You are motivating. You know you are
Speaker 1: somebody that not and you take something from a to Z.
Speaker 1: You know, I have ideas sometimes when I call you
Speaker 1: an idea and you're like, it's done, It's gonna get done,
Speaker 1: and it gets done. Man. So we need people like you.
Speaker 1: You are a jewel. Continue to be great, continue to
Speaker 1: shine and you know, and I'm just glad that I
Speaker 1: know you and I can call you my sister. Yes, Humility, Davis,
Speaker 1: thank you outlast. Make sure you get that book right now,
Speaker 1: not now, but right now now. Peace, love you, love you,
Speaker 1: Thank you. Guys. Are Jamial is not just a motivator,
Speaker 1: She's an executor and I think that's and that's the
Speaker 1: one thing, you know, we didn't have a lot of time,
Speaker 1: but that was something that um I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 1: Is the idea, like you said, when when you call
Speaker 1: in and say I need to do something, the next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, Jamiller calls back and she don't put together
Speaker 1: more than you asked for because she's so creative and
Speaker 1: she's an executor and she will if you give her
Speaker 1: your blessing, she will take projects and run it as
Speaker 1: far down the field court whatever you want to say
Speaker 1: as she can and then come and say to you,
Speaker 1: I just you know, I I need your help to
Speaker 1: sort of kick it over the line. And I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm really, really really thankful for her friendship because I
Speaker 1: can see where I've grown even in my own business
Speaker 1: acumen since you know, being becoming friends with her, same
Speaker 1: as moths. You know, I always tell her like you
Speaker 1: motivate me. She'll call me. Every time Jamiller calls me.
Speaker 1: Is what an opportunity. It's just gonna be the right thing. Bro,
Speaker 1: This this is what I got for you. And it's
Speaker 1: like every time I see jam Miller's phone, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't let it bring twice. You know it's about something, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you know you got to bring home the bacon. Man,
Speaker 1: you got three you don't do bacon. Oh you're gonna
Speaker 1: bring home. You've got to bring home the business. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love Jamillan. Now you know it is Women's History Month.
Speaker 1: We're still right. We're still celebrating Women's History Month. We
Speaker 1: have tried to highlight all months women owned businesses, but
Speaker 1: as a part the Street Politicians, going forward, we will
Speaker 1: be highlighting many businesses of all type of people. To
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Speaker 1: Expert LaToya Bond is constantly checking those resident Resident brand
Speaker 1: Expert LaToya Bond is constantly checking those messages and she
Speaker 1: will check out your business and ask you to send
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Speaker 1: um evaluate whether or not you are prepared for the
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Speaker 1: can send inquiries and and send information about your businesses.
Speaker 1: In keeping with that, I want to make sure to
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Speaker 1: like to highlight all people doing good things. But we
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Speaker 1: know if it's working because you're still crazy. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: that's not true. We are not going to perpetuate falsehoods
Speaker 1: on this show. If you need a therapist that does
Speaker 1: not make you crazy, No, I didn't say no. I
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Speaker 1: Just breathe, Just breathe. Precious man. That's That's how I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get that is precious. She is so precious man.
Speaker 1: Her soul is just so beautiful. Man. When you're looking
Speaker 1: at this show man, seeing how many people have just
Speaker 1: moved in their purpose. Right. We had Ronnie Brown, who
Speaker 1: you know, she was pushed into her, but she's told
Speaker 1: you how the world had broke her down. She didn't
Speaker 1: believe in herselves. She had passed, you know, inferiority and
Speaker 1: you know fear that passed from parents. That because we
Speaker 1: all have had that, you know, and our parents just
Speaker 1: told us to get a job. And it brings me
Speaker 1: to my I don't get it. Why are we, especially
Speaker 1: black people, afraid of our greatness? Why are we so
Speaker 1: scared to be great? Why are we so scared to
Speaker 1: move in alignment with our purpose? You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of us second guests ourselves all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: I have conversations with a lot of people all the time,
Speaker 1: and I don't not saying I'm bid than anybody. I
Speaker 1: don't really have a lot of that, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: because I believe I do. Even if I can't, I
Speaker 1: believe I can. You know. But I've realized that most
Speaker 1: of us, when you can see greatness in somebody, be like, yo,
Speaker 1: you great. Do this, and they'd be like, no, you know,
Speaker 1: I just rather just keep playing this little safe role
Speaker 1: because I told you why. I have had this conversation
Speaker 1: with you nine thousand million, five million, thousand, million thousand times.
Speaker 1: And what is it that sometimes people feel afraid of
Speaker 1: what they believe? Like my family is gonna say I
Speaker 1: think I'm all that. Um, you know what if I succeed? Like,
Speaker 1: then what do I do? Uh? You know what if
Speaker 1: I fail? It's it's so many different things that have
Speaker 1: been instilled in us from over general rations of people
Speaker 1: beating us down and telling us we can't, and we're
Speaker 1: even afraid of that if we can, we are afraid
Speaker 1: of the backlash of family members and friends who might
Speaker 1: not support us, or people who might who might laugh
Speaker 1: at us if it doesn't work out. So people are
Speaker 1: dealing with a lot of insecurities. And I know for me,
Speaker 1: it's like after being on the Grammy stage, I was
Speaker 1: one hundred sure sure every people around me. People around
Speaker 1: me will tell you you know it, Yandy sat in
Speaker 1: my room. In fact, I'm excited that because people think,
Speaker 1: you know, you're making it up now. But there is
Speaker 1: a piece of um, I hope they actually don't edit
Speaker 1: it out, but there's a piece of something that a
Speaker 1: film that filmer's or what do you call them TV people,
Speaker 1: um that they filmed where right before the Grammy performance
Speaker 1: is going live that night, I'm having a conversation with Porscha,
Speaker 1: Yandy and lend this our sore about how I'm feeling,
Speaker 1: and I explained to them that unfortunately, my level of
Speaker 1: excitement wasn't where it needed to be because I already
Speaker 1: knew I was a hundred percent sure that people were
Speaker 1: going to lose it over me being in that space,
Speaker 1: just because I think folks are more comfortable when you are,
Speaker 1: you know, not not about doing better than that you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and and and not to say
Speaker 1: that being at the Grammys makes you great, but certainly
Speaker 1: everybody needs wants and needs, in my opinion, the opportunity
Speaker 1: to stand before the world and say what they have been,
Speaker 1: what they've been saying all along, right, And so I
Speaker 1: was being given that opportunity, and I knew already that
Speaker 1: there was gonna be haters. And guess what, I still
Speaker 1: continue to deal with haters from other things that have
Speaker 1: happened recently. That's just what it is. I mean, I
Speaker 1: understand that, and I realized that, I realized that the
Speaker 1: level of confidence that I have, even when if I
Speaker 1: might be the words to son always thinking I'm the best,
Speaker 1: it's something that's rare. So that's why I asked the question.
Speaker 1: But I also know that we need to figure out
Speaker 1: how do we empower our youth, right because, like you said,
Speaker 1: there's been this generational fear that's been passed down, There's
Speaker 1: been generational trauma that we have. You know, there's this
Speaker 1: insecurity that people have. You know, we need to start courses,
Speaker 1: We need to start things that empower you, that talk
Speaker 1: this energy into them. I'm starting, I'm starting, actually starting
Speaker 1: the course and the organization court raising kings just for
Speaker 1: that purpose, because I realized, you know, affirmation is real.
Speaker 1: I have these conversations with my sons every morning before
Speaker 1: I drift them with the school, you know, and I said,
Speaker 1: my mantra is their mantra is I'm a king and
Speaker 1: I'm chasing greatness. And if I can't control myself, I
Speaker 1: can't control anything, you know, And this hat actually comes
Speaker 1: from that mantra. This is, you know, shameless, shameless them,
Speaker 1: don't get in trouble in school. Control yourself and you
Speaker 1: can't control you. You can't control nothing. But it's something
Speaker 1: that when you keep saying it to yourself, when you
Speaker 1: say I'm a king and I'm chasing greatness, it gives
Speaker 1: you a level of empowerment. Man. So I just I
Speaker 1: just tell all of our young kings and queens out there,
Speaker 1: don't be scared to live in your purpose, don't be
Speaker 1: scared to walk your path. Don't allow anybody's insecurities, you know,
Speaker 1: to rub off on you. Jay Z said that you know,
Speaker 1: you can't tell me what I'm I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: because what you haven't been. You know, people want to
Speaker 1: rub their insecurities and their fears on you, and I
Speaker 1: don't allow that, and I empower everybody, like I have
Speaker 1: these conversations with you all the time. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you always be like, oh, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to you know, and I say all the time, like,
Speaker 1: you have to live in your purpose. You have to
Speaker 1: continue to walk in your purpose. God designs you for
Speaker 1: this exact moment. You know what you're dealing with right now,
Speaker 1: the the backlash and everything is exactly what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be dealing with because you are exactly you are
Speaker 1: perfectly prepared to deal with this. I guess that's what
Speaker 1: they say. And don't always feel like that when you're
Speaker 1: going through it. But hey, listen to me. What we're
Speaker 1: going through is most great leaders in this world have
Speaker 1: went through. You know, they home Jesus Christ, Well, listen,
Speaker 1: and we know we ain't nowhere near Jesus. And they
Speaker 1: shot Malcolm well and we know we're not so nowhere.
Speaker 1: They killed nowhere near Malcolm, although they couldn't even find
Speaker 1: Malcolm a good place to be buried in Harlem, the
Speaker 1: place where he came from. So and now, people in Harlem,
Speaker 1: not all of them, but many of them have his
Speaker 1: pictures hanging on the wall and he got a boulevard.
Speaker 1: They got to me, And that wraps up our shows
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