1 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom. Hi. I'm Roshan 2 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: McDonald and you're listening to Money Making Conversations. I'm the 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: host each Money Making Conversation talk show. I'm the leading 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: voice of our entrepreneurship and entertaining. That's why I do 5 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: these shows to bring you information. My guests provide that 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: information because I provide the consumer and business owner access 7 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: to celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. Now, that's 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,959 Speaker 1: important to understand that everybody travels a different path to success. 9 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: That's what I try to break down on Money Making 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,279 Speaker 1: Conversations that because your brand is different, the challenges you're 11 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: facing life are different. Or you may live in in 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: this country may be different. You may be a marriage, 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: might be single, you might have kids, may be in debt. 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: So all these paths are different. So stop reading other 15 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: people's success story and start writing your own. The only 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: way you're gonna write your own is to understand that 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: you are unique. Yeah, you can be motivated by their 18 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: success because their stories can offer direction and help you 19 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: reach your goal through your planning and committed effort. But 20 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: in the end, it all balls down to you, what's 21 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: your plan, what's your dream, what's your goal. My guests 22 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: on money Making Conversations have that same passion and they 23 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: share that information when we talk about their career, motivation 24 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: and what they're promoting, how they live in balance life, 25 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: and their secrets to success. Our next guest she contacted 26 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: us because our sister said, Hey, I take with Sean mccownell. 27 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: He has money making conversations. He's the man where she did. 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: Our next guest is competing on the first season of 29 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: the New Food Network show Chop Suits. Her dream is 30 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 1: to provide pastries and chocolates, private chef services, catering, consulting, 31 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: and teaching on a grander scale. Please work in the 32 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations. Executive pastry chef Amber Croom. Hi, like, 33 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: I can mess up your intro ambro. I had to 34 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: head that slower down. I can't do that. I slow down. 35 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: You know you're coming on my show. You know they 36 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: edited that out. You know they mouthful. It's definitely a mouthful. 37 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: But you know the thing I gotta, I gotta, you know, 38 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: give you what you've accomplished. And that's what this interview 39 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: and what I do on money Making conversation because I 40 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: always tell people there are a lot of stars out there, 41 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: and this in the in the world of entrepreneurship, in 42 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: the world of baking, I'm on the war winning baking. 43 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, you're a little happy 44 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: when I talked to other bakers, and because we're like 45 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: a little club, because you know, I always tell people 46 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: I cannot watch TV, I cannot watch I cannot listen 47 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: to music when I'm baking, because one mistake you're done 48 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: it is That's that's what's so what's so special about 49 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: baking versus like safety? And I'm not knocking the safety. 50 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: You know, chefs, you know, we love savory food, but 51 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: definitely when you're baking, it's a science behind it. And 52 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: you know, if you make one mistake, I feel like 53 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: one teaspoon or tablespoon off of a cake or or 54 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: something like that, you gotta start all way over, like 55 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: there is no I will let me see how I 56 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: can fix this real quick. Now you gotta throw it away. 57 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: And I started all the way over. And sometimes that's 58 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,679 Speaker 1: like thirty minutes to an hour, you know, worth the 59 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: work that you've just put yourself behind. So, you know, 60 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: baking definitely is something special um for me as well 61 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: as a lot of people. I love the science behind it. Well, 62 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this is this is how I 63 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: started baking. That was executive producing and co created to 64 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: Steve Harvey talk shows Chicargo and Steve Harden twenty twelve. 65 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: And Steve Harvey pranked me into baking. That's how I started. 66 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: You know, Briss prank me and said and basically Darren me, 67 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: I never baked in my life, in front of a 68 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: life to the audience, he dared me to bake a cake. 69 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: Because I baked three cakes and the rest is history. Basically, 70 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: because I have an app with eighty different desserts called 71 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: Perfect Bacon, I'm a brand ambassador for that. That's how 72 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: I started. How did you get started into into baking? Well, 73 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: like most people, UM who you know always says, you know, 74 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: my mom is a great cook. You know my mom 75 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: really is. Um, she's an amazing coach, he's an amazing 76 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: them and and she was always in the kitchen, you know, 77 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: having us try like all these different things. And I 78 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: have to say, like our house, especially for like Christmas Eve, 79 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: because that's when we had our parties. Was the house 80 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: to go to because you know, we're not having like 81 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: your traditional food. She's doing duck and quail and you know, 82 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 1: oysters and lamb. You know what I think fried chicken exactly. 83 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: And for somebody that you know, grew up in the 84 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: inner city of Birmingham, Alabama, I'm originally from the area 85 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: of Pittsville from them from the hem. Yes, I am 86 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: from the am. I have to represent my magic city, um, 87 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: but exactly being from that area, you don't think that, 88 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: you know, necessarily these are the things are going to 89 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: be having. You know, we were having you know, like 90 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 1: chid lives and ham and turkey and you know all 91 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: that black peas in college and all those these are 92 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: great and please don't get in twisted, but you know, 93 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: she definitely like opened my eyes, um to this world 94 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: that's out there. And I remember us going to San 95 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: Antonio for one of her works trips and this was 96 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 1: I'm just like, I think like eleven or twelve, and 97 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: this is my first time trying cargo, you know what 98 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: it was, you know, And this was what she did 99 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: in our lives is you know, give us a different 100 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: type of palette. So watching her in the kitchen like 101 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: breaking you know, all these pound cakes and then you know, 102 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: all this is just it made me love it, and 103 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: I fell in love with it then, even though most 104 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: of the time I just watched her. You know, you 105 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: like to read the benefits of the labor We don't 106 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: want to actually want to do with the labor um. 107 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: But she's definitely what got me into it um in 108 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: the beginning. Well, this is awesome. This is awesome talking 109 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: to you now that I know you're from the Hammam, Alabama. 110 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,239 Speaker 1: You know, I do eat chiplins, I do eat black 111 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: eyed peas. I put my chilens on white rice. I 112 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: also eat go I'm not a duck guy. You know, 113 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: I tried it. You know it's it's it's you know 114 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: this it's a dark side of the meat for me, 115 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: and I kind of like, yeah, it's it's very gamy. 116 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: It's it's prepared perfectly though. It's really good, but it 117 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: is a little bit, you know, a little bit too 118 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: fatty for me, so I don't just consume it like 119 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: I wouldn't just necessarily pick it from a mini. Most 120 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: of the time, you know, I'll eat it off of 121 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: somebody else's plate. But you know, it's just perfectly really good. 122 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: You know I can get down with that. Well, you 123 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: know the whole thing about that, that's what the menu 124 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 1: is all about, that's what That's what being able to 125 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: serve different people because everybody likes has a different taste. 126 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: You know a lot of people like Chinese food. A 127 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: lot of people don't like I know a lot of 128 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: people don't like sushi. And I eat sushi. I don't 129 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: get too too sushi ish. You know, it's you don't 130 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: need this. It's some stuff over that. I won't mess 131 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: with it now. But you know you don't like your 132 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: fist straight out the open, just random like our California 133 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:54,679 Speaker 1: guy had some tempororal shrimp roll your boy winning, I'm winning, 134 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: I'm winning. Listen. I I can'tnock that because that used 135 00:06:58,120 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: to be me too. I was like, yeah, I never 136 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: really like the taste of raw fish period, But like 137 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: I said, certain places will make it, and I'd be like, 138 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: I can rock with that. I can, but yeah, you know, 139 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: stick with that to empoor those crabs, you know, the 140 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: invitation crabs. Don't be shooting down my taste invitation crazy 141 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: using a little soft I was stop talking to you, 142 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: I was stop talking to you. That's what you have 143 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: other good people that I'm just trying to be older. 144 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: I'm opening my heart to you already, said dump, are 145 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: you really kind of I told you you chiddling, he's 146 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: so country. I thought it was a big time over 147 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: you don't want but I'm country. Yo. It's so funny 148 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: because people talk to me and then it's like, well, 149 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: you don't really have an accent. I was like, no, 150 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: I'm not really until I talked about number one, something 151 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: I love and then I started talking fast and that 152 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: that that thing in the back of your voice where 153 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: you just can't help us say Alabama country and if 154 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: you just start and then I'm like, talk to my 155 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: friends and my family back, you know from seeing them 156 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: and my work was like, I can't even understand you 157 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: right now. I don't even I understand. My listener will understand. YouTube. 158 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: We're talking to Amber Croom. She's competing in the first 159 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: season of the new Food Network show Chop Sweets. Tell 160 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: us about that. First of all, tell us about the show, 161 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: and second, tell us how you became I guess a 162 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: contestant on the show. Okay, oh man, So you know 163 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: Chop Sweets is an amazing endeavor for them because out 164 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: of I think the forty four or the forty five 165 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: seasons that Chopps has been on, I think it started 166 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: in like two thousand and nine. You know, that's you know, 167 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 1: eleven plus years of the show has been on. They've 168 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: may be done three or four episodes where they feature desserts, 169 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: that's out of and so for them to say, Okay, 170 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: you know there's a market out there. These you know, 171 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: these talented artists are out there and they need to 172 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: be tested, just like the Savory Chairs. And they decided 173 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: to do this platform. They decided to give us a 174 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: chance to kind of shine a little bit. And I'm 175 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: grateful for it because, you know, as a chef who 176 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: hasn't watched shops and sat there and thought, I know 177 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: what I would do. Why do you do that? That's nasty, 178 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: I would have you know, but you get there and 179 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: hindsight and it's not somebody gonna say that day she's stupid, 180 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 1: but she nervous do that? Oh he left that off 181 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: the play. I wouldn't have left that off the play. 182 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: How are you going to leave that off? Like, sitting 183 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: right there, you could just dissect that thing. And you know, 184 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: as a chef that's like a pinnacle for you. You know, 185 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: you really want to get on that stage and really 186 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: be you know, tested, and you want to shine, so 187 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: you know, to be able to do it on a 188 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: pastry platform is simply amazing. And I got on the 189 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: show because in two thousand six year, I actually did 190 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: the Holiday Baking Championship UM and and so I was 191 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,959 Speaker 1: already like in my my casting company's pool of like chefs, 192 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: and so they contacted me and asked me if I 193 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: wanted to audition UM or like put in my you know, 194 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: my information and stuff to actually be considered. And that 195 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: was like a week and the next week they called 196 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: me was like, hey, can you get to New York 197 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 1: in a week? I'm like, oh, okay, you know I'm 198 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: not working, but sure. So that process was so fast, 199 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: like super super fast. And they're like, okay, well, you 200 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: know we lead you here on on that day. Can 201 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: you come? And I was like, yeah, why not? Let 202 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: me just New York and be a part of this 203 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: scenogra season. You know, they've people have contacted me to 204 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: be a contestant on these shows and that's not what 205 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: I do. You know, I'm just a fun baker. You know, 206 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: you know you tell me, you know, one of them 207 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: judges tell me something my stuff is dry on tape. 208 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,959 Speaker 1: It's gonna be a different conversation. It could be a 209 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: different conversation. You know, you know you tell me. I 210 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: can't all you know I got, I got fans. Everything 211 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 1: I post gets liked, Everything I post goes viral. You 212 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I can't go on the show. 213 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: And somebody I don't even know what we cannot bleep 214 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: out the entire can see see certain people just can't 215 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: get on the show like me. I would like they go. 216 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: Who booked him to be getting executive to do some 217 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: fire to look cast and aging girl over there crying. 218 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what I wan book that dude, He 219 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: was so nice on the phone. Well I don't. I 220 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: don't like my feelings out there. I'll be taking I'll 221 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: be taking my little desserts to people that be crying. 222 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: Who can you believe you baked for me? And I 223 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: go to that TV show, sir, your your ice is 224 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: dry and your cupcake is dry to uh and they 225 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: pick it through it with the with the fark. I 226 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: hate when they do that, when they when they like 227 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 1: pull it like like they surgically like my stuff ain't 228 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: ain't touchable no more. Be pulling up right your mama right, 229 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: you know you automatically wanted to go back, and but 230 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: I had this. I had to call my mom. I 231 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: was like, you know, I know you're gonna watch this 232 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: show and your southern mom, So I want to apologize 233 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: in advance for my mouth. I don't know, I don't, 234 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: I don't. I just want you to know I'm sorry 235 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: right right when. You're the thing about it this game. 236 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: First of all, I know why you're on the show. 237 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: You got a great personality. And the secondly, you know, 238 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: I want you to be a friend of the show 239 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: because I want to follow you. This is just one step. 240 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: I always tell people, you know a lot of people 241 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: they get on TV, Oh this is my moment. Who 242 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: I'm being discovered and be famous? Well yes and no. 243 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: You know, these are just steps. Like you're going up 244 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 1: a ladder. You know you're gonna you just want to 245 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: keep climbing and climbing. Nobody knows what that top step is, 246 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: you know, because you always here billionaires they want to 247 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: make more billions, so that means everybody's goal. Keith moving 248 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: now if you get the point like Pat mahomes Patrick Mahon, 249 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: he wants super Bowl, you want you want the super Bowl. 250 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: You know already he wants six, you want seven. So 251 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: your goal is gonna always keep moving forward and on 252 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: your next step. I want to talk about some of 253 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: those steps they happened when in the past they're a 254 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: good step. They got you to be this very personable 255 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: girl from the Ham that you're a dug escar go oh, 256 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: you know, real eggs, all that good stuff, all in 257 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: the city of Birmingham, the Ham Magic Sitting. We'll be 258 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: back more with the executive pacialself who started in the 259 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,559 Speaker 1: new Food Network show Chop Sweets. We'll be right back 260 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: with more from March McDonald. The money making conversations don't 261 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: touch that down. I just Rashan McDonald and you're listening 262 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: to your money making conversations on the phone today is 263 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: a friend of mine. I'm calling my friend. We have 264 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: one good interview, laughing and you know we're doing Mama Joe. 265 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: It's all kind of good stuff on this on and 266 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: we talked about pastries and appearance on the new Food 267 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: Network show Chop Sweets. Please welcome back to the Call 268 00:13:54,720 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: Amber Chrome Amber. Now I'm I know. Early my stand 269 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: up comedy career, one of the things that I did 270 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: on the regular basis was performed on cruise lines. I 271 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: performed the Ray career and cruise line. Performed on the 272 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: Norwegian Cruise Line. And one of the things I loved 273 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 1: was food, food, food, and one of the beauties was 274 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: the pastries that they gave out there. Now, you performed 275 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: on a six star cruise line called the Silver Sea 276 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: in twenty level. How did that help your pastry career? Oh? Man, 277 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: um that that helped me in so many ways that 278 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 1: it's not necessarily just pastry, but just personally on the 279 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: pastry side of it. You know, this this particular cruise line, 280 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: you know why I chose it is because it went 281 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: around the world. It went literally, it literally went around 282 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: the entire world. And you know, I remember when I 283 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: started in this industry, I sat down and I said, Okay, 284 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this dream board day. You know, I'm 285 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: just gonna do it. And now I just sat there 286 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: and said, Okay, well, what in your wildest dreams, if 287 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: money were never an option, if obstacles were never in 288 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: your way, what would you want to go? What would 289 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: you want to do when I just created this board, 290 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: and in my time with Silver Sea, I literally crossed 291 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: off every single place I wanted to visit in the world. 292 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: And yeah, it's like it just when I look back 293 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 1: at it, it was just it was mind blowing, um, 294 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: to be able to have this opportunity again. This a 295 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: little girlfriend, this real little girl from day. This reel 296 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: is you know, sitting in the Mediterranean, see, you know, 297 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: making pastries, just you know, sitting and I'll show you 298 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: making pastries. And you know, the cruise mind will test 299 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: you because you know every night, like you you know, 300 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: you generally work six months. Um, when you're American, they 301 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: only give you like six four to six months of contracts. 302 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: Everybody else is like eight to nine. But if this 303 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: is an everyday thing, you know, and everybody's like, you 304 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: didn't have a day off, Like no, honey, Like we 305 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: worked every single thing, you know, first six for six months, 306 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 1: you know, and I was able because the line I 307 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: was on, I mean change daily. So every day I 308 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: was making a different type of cuisine pastry. So I'm 309 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: learning how to make Indian, I'm learning how to make 310 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: you know, Asian influence. I'm learning English I'm learning Irish. 311 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: I'm learning all these different messes and all these different 312 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: types of pastries that now when I make things, I 313 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: have a box support from where I'm not, you know, 314 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: one dimensional in my creations. And not just that. It 315 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: teaches your time management. It teaches you, you know, how 316 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: to make quantity, but not just quantity, but actually making 317 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: quality um things. And you know it's it tests you 318 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: that whole No crying in the kitchen, um, yeah, I 319 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: mean I cried in the cool look a few times 320 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: when it took a when my French step is yelling 321 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: at me because I didn't know how to make a 322 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: proper crepe. And I remember one day they just had 323 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: me standing at you know this a ten top burner 324 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: with ten pans where I'm making crepes for like five 325 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: hours boom boom boom, like you know, and then I 326 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:10,719 Speaker 1: got amazing at it. And now I'm, you know, a 327 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: great crepe maker. But you know, in that environment, you're 328 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: either gonna thrive or you're gonna fail. And that's your choice. 329 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: You know, that's your choice. And to how you're gonna 330 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: take this experience. It's not just about being able to 331 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: travel the world. This place tested who I was and 332 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: built me, you know, to where a lot of times 333 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: I look in the kitchen now and you know, a 334 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 1: lot of people are so sensitive and so soft because 335 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: you gotta work like nine hours. I'm like, boo, I 336 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: was sixteen hours in the kitchen. Come on, let's go, 337 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: let's go. You know you're younger than me. Let's go, 338 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: let's go, let's get it. And I feel like that 339 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: being in that environment actually fostered that inside of me. 340 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: It fostered my work ethic, it fostered, you know, my creativity. 341 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: And then on you know, on top of all that, 342 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: I'm getting east An amazing foods. You know, I'm getting 343 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: the Goosen places and get authentic cuisine of these places, 344 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: and it was amazing. Well, you know, you've told me 345 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 1: a couple of stories here, okay. You you told me 346 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: about your mom teaching you how to how to do 347 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: just watching her because you really watched and they had 348 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 1: this amazing option to view her. Just having a diverse 349 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: kitchen menu. And then we talked about the Silver City 350 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. Where did the education and the training 351 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: come from. Well, originally I went to school in New Orleans. 352 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: I went to the University of New Orleans and I 353 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: did enable architecture and marine engineering, So I was on 354 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: a totally I was on a totally different path than 355 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: what I'm on now. And um, when her King Katraina happened, 356 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 1: I was there, but I wasn't one of the people 357 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: that actually evacuated. So I was there for four to 358 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 1: five days during that entire old deal, like everything you saw, 359 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: and that was when we were dealing with And I remember, 360 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 1: um getting to Houston and stay in the night and 361 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: like sitting on the edge of my bed and just 362 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,679 Speaker 1: trying to figure out what happened, what just happened. And 363 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: I got to Alabama, and um, nothing seemed right, and 364 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: I really didn't know what to do. And I knew 365 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: I didn't want to go back to New Orleans. I didn't, 366 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: you know, want to pursue this career anymore. Um, while 367 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: it was you know, lucrative and you know, I'm still creating, 368 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: it wasn't making me happy. And I saw a lot 369 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 1: of sadness. I saw a lot of death that happened, 370 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: you know, during Katrina, and I just realized that, you know, 371 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: life is too short to not be doing what you love. 372 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: And you know, I had to sit there and say 373 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: what do I love? What could I do every day 374 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: and not get paid for it? And I was like, well, 375 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: I love eating and I love paid stries and I 376 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: want to pursue this. So I actually went to cultinary 377 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: school um in Birmingham, Alabama. I'm at the colon Ard 378 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: and that is where I got like my formal education 379 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: and that's where it all really started for me in 380 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: two thousand and ten. Good well, it's uh, it's led 381 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: to you opening your own business called and for desserts 382 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: that's a cool day. And for desserts and for dessert yeah, 383 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: you know, every every way our wages out and for 384 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: dessert you like, you know they I was asking what 385 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: do you want for dessert? You know? You know it's funny, 386 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: that's exactly where that came from. That's exactly where it 387 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: came wrong. I was on brain soon with my friend 388 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: one day. We were in the basement um of my 389 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: church that I was going to at the time, and um, 390 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, I really want to open 391 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: my own dessert restaurant. I don't want just seen on 392 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: big ground, want you know, to be able to have 393 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: like the things that I love in my favorite with 394 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 1: our appetizers because I love appetizers. I love a good 395 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: app I really do. I could just eat like six 396 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 1: seven apps and you know call it a day and 397 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: then really good dessert and really good drinking, really great 398 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: on Beyont And she's like, what do you cause, Like, 399 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, we started throwing it up, 400 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, when you go there like 401 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: wine for dessert, you haven't just like star right there 402 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: for dessert. Cool. Now here's the thing. You've set me 403 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 1: up for the show because you've shown me that you know, 404 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: you have this little southern background. You know, your mom 405 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: kind of set the stage before you to be very 406 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: open minded. Then you went on this cruise line and 407 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 1: you had at all these different styles, all the different 408 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 1: uh you know, Indian, Chinese, all these of them dessert. 409 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: Now you're on the dessert show that you're that. Food 410 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: Network has launched a competition show called Chopped Sweets. Did 411 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 1: it help you? Did your background help you? This? This? This, this, 412 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 1: especially the cruise line opportunity to help you and being 413 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: able to provide I noticed at the first competition show. 414 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: But it is this is kind of like the d 415 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: did what they say the top of the line chop 416 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: chopping at the top of the line. You know they're 417 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 1: coming in with the dog line. Don't don't, don't don't. 418 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,479 Speaker 1: You know you won't get there. You know they got 419 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: they suited up, they know that they know they this 420 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: this the Oscar of the Emmy Award winning chopped right here. 421 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 1: Were you intimidating it all? And were you intimidated it all? Well? 422 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: You just ready, you know you're ready to get fired 423 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: up about this. You know, honestly, I thought I was 424 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: to be intimidated, but you know I had to have 425 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,959 Speaker 1: becoming Jesus meeting with myself before it started, and I 426 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: was like, you, you you know what I mean, You've been 427 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: through so much. You you've been tested, you've been tried. 428 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 1: This ain't nothing. You got this. Either you're gonna win, 429 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna lose one or two with only one, you 430 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 1: know what I mean. And whatever you're gonna do, go 431 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: out there and leave it on the floor, because those 432 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: couple of shows can be really nerve wracking. You know 433 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: the way they do it, You gotta do it. Separate 434 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: interviews and repeat what you already like, you got like 435 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: thirty people just looking at you, and that's all they're 436 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 1: paid to do is just stand there and look at 437 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: you like that in itself is like it's it's hard 438 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 1: and got the cameras and you know, certain places you 439 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: can't walk, you know, like you know, and then they 440 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: want you to, you know, actually engage with your people. 441 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: Were you trying to focus? But you know I was 442 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,479 Speaker 1: prepared for it. I was when to lose. You know, 443 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: everything that I've done in my career prepare me for 444 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: that moment. It really did, you know, cruise ship teaching 445 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: how to manage my time, you know, checking the clock 446 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: and sure I'm you know, I'm on point. It taught 447 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: me how to you know, actually do my menu. You know, Okay, 448 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: I can do this, this, this why I'm doing that. 449 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. While I'm doing that, I'm only 450 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: that you know, you're multish game. Um. And then it 451 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: also and you're a good talker to so that really helps. 452 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: You know, you have personality that really helps. So what's 453 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: next for you? Amber Croom? Um? You know, honestly, my 454 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: next step after opening my place is I want to 455 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: do my own show. I'm not going to speak too 456 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: much on it, like okay, you know, you know you're 457 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: talking to one of the one of the biggest producers 458 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: and television Rashan McDonald. And that's why we're friends. And 459 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: that's why we're friends. Or what are you based in 460 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: the hand or used someplace of the hand with where 461 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: you came from? Um, that's where I'm from. But I'm 462 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: currently living in Baltimore, Maryland, the East Coast. Okay, well 463 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,160 Speaker 1: you know I'm up there alive being d C. So 464 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: I'm coming to the d C next month. This morning, fact, 465 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: I got us the meeting test, so maybe we can 466 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: coordinate some things. And and for sure, because some things 467 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: that you ran and that you talked about, I thought 468 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: this would be a great television idea. So I like 469 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 1: to like to connect that in your head because of 470 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: the fact that you are a very very talented artists. 471 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: Artists as they say, I would tell people that you 472 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: know that food and it's just add that you eat. 473 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: That's all. It's just odd that you look at that's 474 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: so pretty, then you eat it, you know, yeah, exactly, 475 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 1: you just eat it. And so so you you you 476 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 1: you you. You can't tell us how it goes. When 477 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: does this When does the competition start? When when is 478 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: this starts? When is this show airs and um the 479 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: first episode air is February third at timpm, but my 480 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: episode air is February tenth, tympm Eastern Standard Time, because 481 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: you know that's the one I want, the February tenth one. Yeah. 482 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people out there I 483 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: should be promoting, but I'm only going to promote you 484 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: because you're my friend. You're from the Ham, You're now 485 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: living in Baltimore. You know, you've you've cruised the world. 486 00:24:54,320 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: You you you you survive Harricane Katrina to my sid Houston, 487 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: that's why I'm from Houston. C felt kind of little, 488 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: a little something about you when you said you was 489 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,439 Speaker 1: in Houston feeling bad on the edge of the bed. Wow, okay, 490 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: Houston is not that bad. But I realized that it 491 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: was challenges that you're facing like make you. They shape 492 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: you and make you who the special person that you are. 493 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: More important that lets you know that and you can 494 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: be inspired to do great things for yourself. Thank you 495 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: for coming on my show, Amber and uh February tenth. 496 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,239 Speaker 1: You know they're gonna hopefully send me a banner so 497 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: I can promote your appearance on the show. And I 498 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: wish you good luck and also know this is your 499 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: home for anything you want to promote in the future, 500 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: because you just told me my business. Uh, I'm doing 501 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: some great things down the Linray Sean. I want to 502 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 1: change the game and put my name in mind for success. 503 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 1: Please come back or I want to make the conversation. Okay, 504 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: I appreciate you. We talked later again. Money Making Conversation 505 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: can be heard on YouTube serious like Sam Educated Radio 506 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: or Important. It's hosted by me Sean McDonald.