Speaker 1: Yeah, get know, boys, it's back and reloaded all in
Speaker 1: your mind. Yeah, not deep throating. This is for the streets,
Speaker 1: the reel, the railroading, the distant franchise, the truth, the scapegoating,
Speaker 1: and they ain't knowing we speak the truth, so they
Speaker 1: ain't quoted because we wrote it. The North South East
Speaker 1: Coat g B B. Were keeping your head bobbing, it
Speaker 1: ain't no stopping and wants to be drops head by
Speaker 1: then the system is so corrupt they throw the rock
Speaker 1: out of their heads and then blame it on us.
Speaker 1: Don't get it twisted on code and me dancing for
Speaker 1: no buttment biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces out.
Speaker 1: Collectively we are the ghet old boys, reloaded with another
Speaker 1: episode of information and instructions to help you navigate through
Speaker 1: this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, Jilly and Nice, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you welcome to the show? Thank you for
Speaker 1: having anything? Man? You got that doing your thing? What
Speaker 1: is it that you can't do? You dance? I haven't
Speaker 1: figured that out yet. You dance, you're seeing you act?
Speaker 1: You're a writer? You know your novelist? Now? Yeah, author,
Speaker 1: that's what they call authur And what else. What else
Speaker 1: do you do? You cook? You cook? I do? Um,
Speaker 1: I have a perfume line. That's out. I mean the
Speaker 1: list goes on and on. I am boss baby, ball
Speaker 1: around around. I am yeah. Those those six fs of yours.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can recite a family? Faith? Yes, food, fitness,
Speaker 1: fashion and fun. Yes, you got them all. Did you
Speaker 1: come up with that? Absolutely? Yes, everything to do with,
Speaker 1: you know, a glimpse of who Julie is. Especially when
Speaker 1: I did my cookbook, I wanted to, you know, give
Speaker 1: a glimpse of what went into the cookbook. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just food. It wasn't you know, just um recipes and
Speaker 1: ingredients and just how to make, you know, step by
Speaker 1: step a dish. It was about family, It was about
Speaker 1: um faith. Um. I really wanted to show, you know,
Speaker 1: like where I come from. UM. I wanted to show
Speaker 1: my really who Julie wasn't it? It was literally a
Speaker 1: cookbook slash look book is what it really was. Um.
Speaker 1: Every single recipe had a different look to it, so
Speaker 1: as you flipped the pages, it's a look with the
Speaker 1: recipe and then obviously the instructions and ingredients on the
Speaker 1: how to, but everything that went into it was literally
Speaker 1: a two part because I'm not just you know, a
Speaker 1: person who cooks. I'm all into fashion. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: a person who comes home from a long day in
Speaker 1: my you know, whatever fit I'm in and I cook
Speaker 1: and I make food. And so it was like something
Speaker 1: that was really real. I wanted it to just be
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a you know, sixty year old
Speaker 1: person who's just doing a cookbook with like, you know,
Speaker 1: eight kids. Like I wanted to have the youth in it.
Speaker 1: I'm only twenty six and when I did the cookbook,
Speaker 1: I was five, I think, Yeah, I was twenty four
Speaker 1: years old. And during quarantine, I did it during quarantine.
Speaker 1: I was twenty four years old when I did it,
Speaker 1: and um, and literally I wanted to bring that youth.
Speaker 1: I wanted to really bring who I was into that cookbook. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, let's talk about the title, This Boss Babe
Speaker 1: Can Cook. You know, when I read that title, I
Speaker 1: was very satisfied that you did not name that book
Speaker 1: this Boss Bitch Can Cook, you know, because I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just glad you didn't name the title that.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like, it's like, because I know a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, you know, people like to say
Speaker 1: that a lot, you know, but I just think that
Speaker 1: just saying that one little word, that putting that babe
Speaker 1: in that you could put a lot of different words
Speaker 1: in that, but babe makes the book sexy. It makes
Speaker 1: it sexy, and it makes it like you know, um,
Speaker 1: I feel like the branding, the marketing was able to
Speaker 1: go longer and hit a lot more crowds and you know,
Speaker 1: not be offensive. Right yeah, right, Yeah, that that was
Speaker 1: a good That was a good look on that title
Speaker 1: A boss. I mean you you really embrace that term, Like,
Speaker 1: where did that come from? And then, by the way,
Speaker 1: I do know your dad, Yeah, I know Jews. Jews
Speaker 1: is a good dude, man, the most incredible man. And
Speaker 1: I'll say this, you know, like Jews is one of
Speaker 1: those dudes that don't switch up. He's been solid. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: my daddy's the same. He's been a solid cat for
Speaker 1: a long time. My daddy really believe it not gives
Speaker 1: me my like street cred. Yeah, yeah for sure. So
Speaker 1: so where did so? I guess that comes from? And
Speaker 1: foremost my dad my mom both yes, angels complete definitions
Speaker 1: of a boss. Let me start there. I literally had
Speaker 1: no better role models than them. I'm so blessed to have,
Speaker 1: you know, my parents to look up to in all
Speaker 1: aspects of life. Um, they've been married for since Jesus
Speaker 1: was a baby. They literally have been together all that time.
Speaker 1: UM My mom is the most hard working, independent woman
Speaker 1: I've ever met. My dad is the backbone to our family.
Speaker 1: So to see those two perspectives literally growing up, I
Speaker 1: was so blessed to see that firsthand, and UM, honestly,
Speaker 1: it made me never want to strive for anything less
Speaker 1: and to be honest with you, Um, really, once I
Speaker 1: started getting older, it was really like in high school,
Speaker 1: first and foremost, the stage and everything has always been
Speaker 1: the forefront of my life. I've been doing dance since
Speaker 1: I was two years old, took a love to the
Speaker 1: stage at a very very early age. But it was
Speaker 1: really around in high school when I wanted to finish
Speaker 1: high school early and I didn't see myself going to college.
Speaker 1: But I knew just in my heart that at I
Speaker 1: had a different path of life. Mind you, both of
Speaker 1: my parents being bosses, both went to college, both got
Speaker 1: a degree, both graduated, and so I was the first
Speaker 1: one of my family to want to take this different
Speaker 1: path of life and I had the most incredible supportive
Speaker 1: parents who truthfully saw the same in me. Was like,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't think she's gonna be do this
Speaker 1: same path of life. And they My dad actually was
Speaker 1: the one. His words will never leave me. He said,
Speaker 1: school will always be there, your youth won't. He was like,
Speaker 1: so go ahead and go get it. And ever since then,
Speaker 1: I took that by storm and I just literally everything
Speaker 1: that's coming to my path, everything that I've ever thought about,
Speaker 1: I just do it. I have no cap no limit
Speaker 1: to what I can do. UM. Music is my first love.
Speaker 1: I have been doing music forever. Music has always been
Speaker 1: my first love. I actually just dropped a project March
Speaker 1: Study one. UM. The EP was called Copy and Paste.
Speaker 1: Is called Copee and Paste, and it has fourced songs
Speaker 1: on it. For I wanted to keep the project short
Speaker 1: just because I wanted to you know, today's people have
Speaker 1: a short attention span, and I just wanted to pick
Speaker 1: the four best songs that I feel like described me
Speaker 1: in the state that I'm in. I feel like right now,
Speaker 1: you know, I've learned so much in the past year
Speaker 1: of my life than ever and like one was a
Speaker 1: hell of a year, so two I just wanted to
Speaker 1: really just in a stense, put that all in my music.
Speaker 1: Just there's been so much growth and I just opened
Speaker 1: up for Chris Brown at the Toyota Center on March nineteen,
Speaker 1: and that just is still a high. Yeah, you're doing
Speaker 1: your thing, doing your thing, I feel. You know, like
Speaker 1: the the new EP has four tracks. The previous EP
Speaker 1: had five. Right, It's so funny because you as that
Speaker 1: that EP is like a long gone Yeah, well yeah
Speaker 1: that it's long gone, but that that thing had some
Speaker 1: bangers on it. You know. It made me tell this
Speaker 1: chick that I was in a new safe you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That was just a single. Know, I
Speaker 1: was just telling this chick. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a new kind of safe you know. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, a good month. I need a whole newsance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know I'm in a new safe space. Uh, because
Speaker 1: I'm feeling sexy. I know that's right. And you know
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some different rules. It's gonna be some
Speaker 1: different and you know, let me know if you got
Speaker 1: to wait, you know, when I tell you what you do?
Speaker 1: You know what's funny? That was my entire track list
Speaker 1: for the Chris Brown concert. I started with wait and
Speaker 1: then I didn't perform let me know though, um because
Speaker 1: I had an eight minutes sets. So I started with
Speaker 1: wait for It. Then I went into Sexy, then I
Speaker 1: went into um different rules, and then I went into
Speaker 1: new safe. Yeah yeah, yeah, I had no idea that
Speaker 1: you could dance that well and you could sing that well,
Speaker 1: like like you're really you're really talented person, and I'm
Speaker 1: checking you out and I'm I'm like, I'm glowing because
Speaker 1: I'm proud anything. Hahtown, I'm proud like when you do
Speaker 1: it on a different level, you know, like when you
Speaker 1: do it on like at the next level type, it
Speaker 1: really uh, it really makes me proud because yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the beginning. You're on the you're on the
Speaker 1: you're right there. You're like you're like a step away,
Speaker 1: one or two steps away, and bam, it's going boom.
Speaker 1: That's how it's gonna be, you know, because yeah, you
Speaker 1: got it, you got it, and you you have you
Speaker 1: got a good team got to be checking you out.
Speaker 1: You got a good team, you got a good support system,
Speaker 1: and you got a good work ethic. You gotta get attitude.
Speaker 1: That's a lot you know, like most people, you know,
Speaker 1: they missed one or two of those things and that's
Speaker 1: why they won't make it. And you know that's always
Speaker 1: an exception, but you know, usually when you have all
Speaker 1: those two's like you have, it's it's stamina impossible to lose,
Speaker 1: you know. So you know, I think like when somebody
Speaker 1: plays this thing back, you know, another year to us,
Speaker 1: so they would be like, damn, well it did. It's
Speaker 1: a prophet. Yeah. So so so talk to us about
Speaker 1: growing up in the more household and why did you
Speaker 1: drop the name your last name you went by, you're
Speaker 1: going by your middle name. I never dropped it. Um
Speaker 1: just funny enough. Like when I started to do Instagram, Um,
Speaker 1: as you know, you need an Instagram handle, and Jilly
Speaker 1: has always been like what people call me, Jillian is
Speaker 1: my first name. But when I wanted to do an
Speaker 1: Instagram handle, funny enough, um, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: like my full name. Well, I just didn't want to
Speaker 1: put my government name like Jillian needs more like you know,
Speaker 1: so I was like, you know, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know why I never put that, but um,
Speaker 1: I just always like the ring that a niece had
Speaker 1: to it um. And then when I was actually gonna
Speaker 1: do it, I was really gonna put Jillian a Nise.
Speaker 1: But when you spell that out, it's j I L
Speaker 1: L Y A N A N A I S. And
Speaker 1: it was too many A N A N A, like,
Speaker 1: you know, so I just cut out the A N
Speaker 1: on Jillian and then obviously kept the A N on
Speaker 1: a Nie so that way it flowed better. So it's
Speaker 1: just Jilliannie instead of Jillian and all these A N
Speaker 1: A and A I S. Like. I just kept it
Speaker 1: like that, and it just always really just took a
Speaker 1: ring to it and branded, and you know, for the
Speaker 1: most part, I really just go by Jilly. I don't
Speaker 1: introduce myself as jillianese. Um. Obviously it branded to where people,
Speaker 1: you know, naturally just say Jilliannie. But I just go
Speaker 1: by Jilly. Whenever I do all my stage stuff, Um,
Speaker 1: I introduced introduce myself as Jelly. My logos just have
Speaker 1: Jelly on it. Um. When I do when I write books,
Speaker 1: cookbooks and stuff, that's when I go by my legal
Speaker 1: name Jillian and Nise Moore, just because I feel like
Speaker 1: business wise, it's a whole different perspective and I want,
Speaker 1: you know, my legal government name on it. Um. But
Speaker 1: whenever I do music and um everything like that, I
Speaker 1: just do jelly. Yeah. That's a good marketing strategy all
Speaker 1: because when you look at some of those one name stars,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, you got Madonna chair yea, Rihanna, yeah,
Speaker 1: Michael Michael. Yeah, that's a that's a good move. I
Speaker 1: think that's that was a good look. Yes, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: get into your run as miss teen here. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was That was quite an experience, right, Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: It was my first pageant ever. My dance teacher at
Speaker 1: the time, she convinced me to do it. I was
Speaker 1: I'm not a pageant girl. I do not want to
Speaker 1: do this. That's not what I'm into. She was like, no,
Speaker 1: I just think you should. It would be a really
Speaker 1: great opportunity. Long story short, I did it first pageant ever,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about I competed against girls who've been
Speaker 1: doing this since they were like toddlers, doing the toddlers
Speaker 1: and tears and so this is they live, breathe, eat
Speaker 1: pageant world. And I walked in there first pageant ever
Speaker 1: and one Missy in Houston just like that. Oh they
Speaker 1: was mad. They were mad. I don't know, I can imagine, like,
Speaker 1: what was the most difficult part of the contest to you,
Speaker 1: You know, I wouldn't even say there was a difficult
Speaker 1: part because, like I told you, I love the stage.
Speaker 1: The stage has always been my second home. So UM
Speaker 1: I was with the Miss America organization, and with that organization,
Speaker 1: UM there's different categories. Obviously, there's the you know, Q
Speaker 1: and A, there's the walk, and then there's also talent.
Speaker 1: That's the difference between the American organization and the USA one.
Speaker 1: UM USA is just strictly like model esque, whereas American
Speaker 1: organization has talent. And my first one, UM, I actually
Speaker 1: did a dancing singing number and I just killed it.
Speaker 1: I killed it and I was just me. Whenever you
Speaker 1: do the you also have, prior to the actual competition,
Speaker 1: you have um a what's it called, like um an
Speaker 1: interview with the judges. It's just you and like six
Speaker 1: people at the table asking you questions and all of that,
Speaker 1: and I'm just I've always been me. I've always been me,
Speaker 1: And I guess that resonated with the judges and it
Speaker 1: was a unanimous vote. I was missing Houston. Did you
Speaker 1: feel like you had like an edge on somebody, like
Speaker 1: with a particular talent that you have, Like when you
Speaker 1: looked at the competition you went in and saying like,
Speaker 1: no matter what happens, when we get to this point,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna killer. Um. I mean, you know, I just think,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I've always just been focused
Speaker 1: on me. That was like the thing with all the
Speaker 1: other girls. They were just so worried about everyone else,
Speaker 1: whereas I wasn't. I was like, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I have nothing to lose. I didn't really
Speaker 1: want to do this anyway, so I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not really worried. They had singers and opera singers
Speaker 1: and girls who were like in the corner going like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, practicing and stuff, and I was just like
Speaker 1: I was backstage with my mom and she really was
Speaker 1: just like, let's just get it. And no, my mom,
Speaker 1: I think, no, No, my mom. She's never been nervous
Speaker 1: like she just she gets excited. My mom is just
Speaker 1: she loves watching all of this unfold. I think, especially
Speaker 1: for the Chris Brown concert, no one was more excited
Speaker 1: than her, Like, no one. I don't even think I
Speaker 1: was more excited than her. And it's just awesome, Like
Speaker 1: she you know too for both my parents to see
Speaker 1: the baby girl, like, you know, really doing what they
Speaker 1: said they would do. I graduated from high school early.
Speaker 1: I graduated at seventeen, walked with my class at eighteen
Speaker 1: years old. But um moved to l A at eighteen
Speaker 1: years old. I'm twenty six right now, and just to
Speaker 1: see how far I've come, and you know, where I'm
Speaker 1: at in my career right now and literally still nowhere
Speaker 1: where I want to be. It's just, you know, I
Speaker 1: said what I was gonna do, and I'm making the
Speaker 1: damn thing happen. Yeah. How is l A compared to Houston? Um,
Speaker 1: I know it's certain things about l A, but I
Speaker 1: want to hear your perspective. Yeah, they're two complete, completely
Speaker 1: opposite ends of the spectrum. Like, um, but I moved
Speaker 1: to l A strictly for work, strictly for business. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who get caught up in
Speaker 1: the life, by the grace of God, that was never me. Um. Never,
Speaker 1: what do you like about l A that you don't
Speaker 1: like about Houston? And what do you like about Houston
Speaker 1: that you don't like about l A? Or if you
Speaker 1: don't have to use word like you just say what
Speaker 1: benefits does Well? I mean the weather in l A
Speaker 1: is perfect, It's so dreamy. I mean you wake up
Speaker 1: every day happy because the sunshine is just shining all
Speaker 1: the time. But I mean, I just didn't feel like
Speaker 1: I could get my career off the ground in Houston.
Speaker 1: I did not feel like that at all. Um, So
Speaker 1: I left and career off the ground in Houston. Left
Speaker 1: to Beyonce left, but she got her career got off
Speaker 1: the ground, and she was in Houston when she signed. Yea,
Speaker 1: the entire group was here when they signed, because I remember.
Speaker 1: I remembered it because when they signed, I took the
Speaker 1: girls to Carribus for a celebratory dinner. Favorite. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I love crowd was crowd was on Curby and my
Speaker 1: parents got engaged there like thirty years ago. Is that right,
Speaker 1: Mr crab that's family. Yeah. Cabbus is legendary. Um No,
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone you know, to each its own. Everyone's
Speaker 1: path is different. But personally, I just felt like I
Speaker 1: needed to move away, two push my career and start
Speaker 1: to go in the direction that I wanted to go.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know a single soul in l A.
Speaker 1: When I first moved didn't know anyone but I that
Speaker 1: you moved to I moved when I first moved out there,
Speaker 1: I moved to North Holliga. Yeah. And then after like
Speaker 1: a year or so, once I like got acquainted with
Speaker 1: l A, I moved to Glendale and I've loved Glendale
Speaker 1: ever since. Um, it's way more suburby. But you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about l A when I first
Speaker 1: went nothing at all. And UM, needless to say, I
Speaker 1: didn't know a single soul anyone. But it was just, uh,
Speaker 1: a leap of faith. That's literally the only thing I
Speaker 1: can describe it as. I am. God was telling me,
Speaker 1: you know, this is what you need to do, and
Speaker 1: I listened, And I mean it's been paying off ever since.
Speaker 1: Who gave you the tip to move to North Hollywood?
Speaker 1: No one? When I moved out there. Yeah, I just yeah,
Speaker 1: whenever I went out there, I went out there. Um.
Speaker 1: I was living in a hotel for a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then UM started to mingle and UM network and
Speaker 1: meets yes by myself eighteen years old and then UM,
Speaker 1: I was working on like an EP then and UM,
Speaker 1: I just started researching apartments. UM. At eighteen, I wasn't
Speaker 1: making any money so my parents would be the ones
Speaker 1: to pay for it. So I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: in a apartment that you know, a reasonable budget. I
Speaker 1: was looking at the high rises and stuff then, but
Speaker 1: um apartment and I found the one in North Hollywood
Speaker 1: and it was just perfect for the time being. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's when I was just like, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to make this thing official. I told my parents
Speaker 1: and they got me the apartment. Then then a year later,
Speaker 1: I remember I called them and I was just like,
Speaker 1: I want to move to a bigger space. My mom
Speaker 1: was like, but like, you know, how are you gonna
Speaker 1: do that? And now she was like no. I remember
Speaker 1: she was like, UM, okay, but we're not going to
Speaker 1: be paying like, you know, double the rent. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's okay, I don't need you all to pay anything anymore.
Speaker 1: I got it and ever since then I never looked back.
Speaker 1: Nineteen years old. From there on out, I became one independent.
Speaker 1: Now how how were you able to pay for yourself?
Speaker 1: For me? Social media took off? Social media really took off. Um.
Speaker 1: I became a huge, huge sensation on social media. Instagram,
Speaker 1: which which platform started paying dividends first? Um Instagram Instagram, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Instagram started first and then YouTube and then they went
Speaker 1: hand in hand um, and then pretty much it was
Speaker 1: all of them. Um. I would get crazy brand deals. Um.
Speaker 1: Literally everything I posted was a brand like I would
Speaker 1: never I would get paid for every post, so I
Speaker 1: never my Instagram still is a business. Um. And really
Speaker 1: how I began to make my livelihood and support myself
Speaker 1: and it was just an amazing feeling, you know, not
Speaker 1: having to have my parents take care of me anymore
Speaker 1: and to fast forward to now being able to now
Speaker 1: give back to my parents, which is the most incredible thing.
Speaker 1: You know, It's it's been a long way, a long journey,
Speaker 1: but I mean I still, like I said, I still
Speaker 1: have a ways to go. But I mean, yeah, it's happening.
Speaker 1: Girl Boys reloaded podcast will be right back after. You Know.
Speaker 1: What I like about your your Instagram is that your pictures.
Speaker 1: Although you're you're dating a very high profile guy, your
Speaker 1: pictures on Instagram is primarily about you. It's your life.
Speaker 1: It's when you go down, you don't say, oh, she's
Speaker 1: she's roaching off of her relationship or whatever. You look
Speaker 1: at that Instagram, you know, the first thought is Jilly.
Speaker 1: Before I met him, he was already jilly right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but but but but but you know, still there are
Speaker 1: people that that they're gonna explore that. Yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: take that situation, explore that. And how is the sewn anyway? Good? Incredible?
Speaker 1: He's a good dude, you know, shout after Sean Watson,
Speaker 1: real good dude. Uh solid day one, you know, And
Speaker 1: it seems seemed like you're pretty good, like with surrounding
Speaker 1: yourself with good energy. Absolutely, I believe in that. I
Speaker 1: feel like you're a product of what you surround yourself with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that starts with your parents. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at a video of your six and I'm mad
Speaker 1: that you didn't invite me, because boy, y'all look like
Speaker 1: y'all were having some fun. Man did we? We had?
Speaker 1: It looked like the best time, the best time. Who
Speaker 1: was the even coordinator for that? Oh? My party planner.
Speaker 1: She does all my stuff. Her name is Chloe. She's incredible.
Speaker 1: I gotta connect with Chloe because everything looked perfect, it
Speaker 1: flowed perfectly. I found her um. I was searching on
Speaker 1: Instagram when I first dropped my cookbook. When I first
Speaker 1: did it, I was having a cookbook launch party, you
Speaker 1: know where the Webster is in the galleria. Well, the
Speaker 1: lady from the Webster styled my entire cookbook, so it
Speaker 1: was only right to have it there. Um the boss
Speaker 1: of the Webster, Um, she's in New York and she
Speaker 1: actually was like, you know, how about you in the
Speaker 1: Webster collab and you do the release party here? And
Speaker 1: I was like, say, let's like what this is incredible,
Speaker 1: this is absolutely and so I had the release party there,
Speaker 1: and UM I was looking for a party planner to
Speaker 1: do everything because I knew what I had envisioned for
Speaker 1: the release party, but at the same time, I wasn't
Speaker 1: about to do all of that, and UM, I was
Speaker 1: just like, you know, who can I find in Houston?
Speaker 1: Mind you, I was still primarily in l A. So
Speaker 1: I was like, who can I find in Houston to
Speaker 1: do this? Long story short, I was on Instagram searching
Speaker 1: and then I found her and then so she did
Speaker 1: my cookbook party. I was so impressed. It was so
Speaker 1: funny too, because I was telling her everything I want
Speaker 1: and because I never worked with her before, so I
Speaker 1: didn't know how she would be. And I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: very like, this is what I need, this is what
Speaker 1: I want. And when she executed this. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: now I trust you, like you got my full trust.
Speaker 1: She went on to do my twenty fifth birthday that
Speaker 1: my boyfriend planned, which was just a dream and then um,
Speaker 1: after that, then she went and did my um new
Speaker 1: Safe release party in l A. And then she just
Speaker 1: did my six birthday party, which again was dreamy. And
Speaker 1: so now she's officially done four of my events and
Speaker 1: she's stuck with us for life. Yeah, she'll do everything.
Speaker 1: Chloe what what what is her last name? M? Chloe Cooks?
Speaker 1: Chloe Cooks, Chloe Cooks. We gotta give us a shout
Speaker 1: at Heloks And how many people was at that at
Speaker 1: my birthday party? How many people? Um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it was very intimate. Um, you know, still primetime,
Speaker 1: I mean January, but still you know COVID and so
Speaker 1: we did everything COVID protocols. We had COVID tests prior
Speaker 1: to everybody coming in and most importantly importantly from me,
Speaker 1: my grandmother was an attendant. So I just want to Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, if you even have
Speaker 1: a sniffle, do not come near us, because I don't
Speaker 1: care about anyone more than my grandmother. I'm like we're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna die if you may have anything to do,
Speaker 1: you know. So I was just like, very very cautious
Speaker 1: of um, you know, everyone being there around her. But
Speaker 1: it was very intimate. It was when you first said that,
Speaker 1: I thought he was telling your grandma a sniffle. No,
Speaker 1: I'm saying anybody around I don't know, like my friends,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm saying, like, you know, friends, if
Speaker 1: anyone had even like a sniffle, I'm like, don't come near.
Speaker 1: Because I me, I'm very very family oriented, like I
Speaker 1: love friends absolutely, but like for those type of you know,
Speaker 1: everything that was going on, I would have had it
Speaker 1: be my parents, my grandmother, my brother, my boyfriend and
Speaker 1: just us if needed me. So, you know, being able
Speaker 1: to do friends and stuff that was extra. So what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is like, you know, I was like, look
Speaker 1: here my grandmother and my parents. If anybody is sick,
Speaker 1: stay home, like I do not care, do not come.
Speaker 1: The reason why I ask you that because that's what
Speaker 1: I picked up from the party. It was very intosolutely
Speaker 1: was very intomate. I don't know how many. Actually sometimes
Speaker 1: I like the big party, everybody's coming, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But other times, I like the intimacy and those those gatherings,
Speaker 1: to me, I remember the most. Yeah, and I have
Speaker 1: the most fun. Yeah. I mean y'all al were having
Speaker 1: a bar. I mean that that that that was a party. Man,
Speaker 1: we had the best I can't like you got me
Speaker 1: having flashbacks right now. Yeah, I had the best night ever.
Speaker 1: Like each year I say it's the best birthday ever,
Speaker 1: but really this year was just the best birthday ever.
Speaker 1: I just felt so loved and that was just the
Speaker 1: biggest thing to me. I don't really you know, like
Speaker 1: sharing my special days with people, you know, just anyone.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's why, I don't, you know, I
Speaker 1: would never say never about throwing like, you know, an
Speaker 1: extravagant party party, but I probably won't. I think all
Speaker 1: my birthdays will forever be how these past two have been. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good look. Yeah. How is the acting going? Incredible? Actually?
Speaker 1: Um right now I've been just only focused on music,
Speaker 1: but it's actually incredible. Um. In l A, I had
Speaker 1: so many shows that I was on. I was on
Speaker 1: the Real Husbands of Hollywood, I was on the n
Speaker 1: c I S and so many of um different shows.
Speaker 1: A couple of Disney things, but um, as great as
Speaker 1: it is, I also realized too that music is still
Speaker 1: my first love. And so with that being said, I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, within these next couple of years,
Speaker 1: I want to primarily focus on music. And then of course,
Speaker 1: like you know, when certain acting jobs come, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: taking them and I'm running for it. But um, I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I don't want to just be
Speaker 1: sitting in castings all day and you know, making that
Speaker 1: the only thing I do. So um, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: so dan good at music. That's what I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, my real true you know talent And I
Speaker 1: don't even want to say talent, because like acting, I
Speaker 1: love too, but I just feel like using my purpose, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my purpose. It's definitely gonna be the one thing
Speaker 1: that I feel like forever. Want to leave my marketing legacy,
Speaker 1: um and really go just extremely strong with music but acting.
Speaker 1: Like I said, and once this music gets to where
Speaker 1: I wanted to be, I want to be star in movies.
Speaker 1: I want to win you know, I want to go
Speaker 1: to the Oscars. I would love to win an Oscar.
Speaker 1: I just wanna I see it. I know I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be able to do all of that. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean acting is just really another footstone that's in
Speaker 1: my journey for sure. Would you do a new scene,
Speaker 1: a nude scene? No? No, um no no, would you
Speaker 1: ever do Playboy cover? Okay? See, So the reason why
Speaker 1: I asked that is because before you come into this
Speaker 1: entertainment game, if you don't know what you will do
Speaker 1: for money, you better know what you won't do for me. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: by the greatest of all to like, you know, money
Speaker 1: is not the like concept for me, you know. So
Speaker 1: it's like, well, I think it's not just money, but
Speaker 1: it's also attention. Because you're straight money, you're good. You're
Speaker 1: good no matter what, You're gonna be good. You know
Speaker 1: your parents are straight, they got your back and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. You're gonna be good no matter what. On
Speaker 1: money and beyond great, I didn't know. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is that if all let's feel if if you blew
Speaker 1: your bag, you know what I'm saying. You got a
Speaker 1: good support system, so you're gonna you're gonna be I
Speaker 1: can't imagine going to my parents, but but you're gonna
Speaker 1: be good. The bottom line is that you're gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Money is not gonna make you like that. But I'm
Speaker 1: saying that what happens oftentimes, though, is that sometimes uh women,
Speaker 1: when they get a little older, they need a hit,
Speaker 1: they need a booster shot, so to speak, for their career.
Speaker 1: They'll start taking the clothes off. And a lot of
Speaker 1: times it's disappointing to us because you know, if a
Speaker 1: woman carries herself for a certain way, you kind of
Speaker 1: you tend to kind of put on a pedestal. And
Speaker 1: now she's up here because everybody else is doing this right.
Speaker 1: And then she's she's up here, and we put her there.
Speaker 1: And then the next thing we know, we look up
Speaker 1: and she's doing the same thing everybody else, and ship
Speaker 1: we lost another one, you know. So that happens a lot.
Speaker 1: And that's why I ask, you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: you know what, you'd be willing to do something like that,
Speaker 1: because they're going to ask. They are coming. They will
Speaker 1: ask because they like to control, that's the thing. And
Speaker 1: they like to have something on everybody. They like to
Speaker 1: make sure they but they're astric next you know. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm always stay true to me. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: I have a different purpose than the average. And so
Speaker 1: I'm like No that that's never intrigued me. You know,
Speaker 1: you can do as much research. I've never been like
Speaker 1: that ever. So no, it's not even who I am.
Speaker 1: It's not the look I want for my family. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I I'm solid elsewhere. Um. Now, I think
Speaker 1: sex appill is different from just being like, you know,
Speaker 1: blantly nude. Um, because I mean, I work hard for
Speaker 1: my body. I I'm always on my peloton. I work
Speaker 1: out every damn day near and so like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show my stomach like I'm gonna wear my bikini,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm I'm twenty six years old, I have
Speaker 1: no kids. I you know, I'm not gonna address like
Speaker 1: a nun. But um, at the same time, that's on
Speaker 1: my accord, you know that's not anything as the same
Speaker 1: as nudity at all. But um, I still believe in
Speaker 1: strong sex appeal. Um, I'm a woman. I feel like
Speaker 1: I am, you know, at the prime of my really
Speaker 1: not even the prime, because I planned to you know,
Speaker 1: continue to grow and grow more into myself. But um,
Speaker 1: I think ultimately sex appill is just completely different from
Speaker 1: like nudity, blatant nudity and stuff. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: believe in like, you know, strong and sexy for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just think that you gotta have something that you
Speaker 1: get that, you gotta have something, ye have something that
Speaker 1: everybody ain't seen. Yeah, and I completely agree. I could
Speaker 1: ever imagine like if if I can't show it to
Speaker 1: my parents, then I'm not gonna do it, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And what does what does your dad think about your
Speaker 1: sex appeal? Because you you're you you're what what what?
Speaker 1: What's that word they call they call it a sex um?
Speaker 1: What's the word when somebody is really sexy or whatever?
Speaker 1: They have sex appeal? There? I have to come back
Speaker 1: to it anyway. But anyway, you know, you're your music
Speaker 1: videos are very provocative in a sense. I mean I'm
Speaker 1: not you know, I mean they're provocative, you know, like
Speaker 1: when you I don't think provocative is the correct I
Speaker 1: think they provoke a strong reaction. I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: but you can't just you can't watch a jilly video
Speaker 1: like this, well no, that's not who I am. You
Speaker 1: can't do that to watch you know what it is.
Speaker 1: I don't think provocative is the right word because you
Speaker 1: also have like you know, people who let me, let me,
Speaker 1: let me, let me let me let me clear it.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is like, also, you know,
Speaker 1: you have very very incredible people in the industry. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't knock anyone the most incredible people, but you
Speaker 1: know there are people who are really talking about some
Speaker 1: provocative stuff, like really provocative. No, no, no, that's talking
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like appearance. Appearance. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would say provocative just because
Speaker 1: I'm sexy. I don't think it's provocative. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think I just have sex appill. I really do
Speaker 1: think it's sexy hill it's not provocative though. I don't
Speaker 1: think I had the Yeah, No, I just think I
Speaker 1: think it's a strong sexyphile. I really think I just
Speaker 1: have strong sexyphip. Obviously, my videos you know, aren't meant
Speaker 1: for Disney Channel. No. But at the same time, I'm
Speaker 1: a grown woman. Um, you know, I think I talked
Speaker 1: about even to an extent, like things that grown women do,
Speaker 1: but not even as fluently as other people elaborate on
Speaker 1: in a sense. But I mean, I'm I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't want to be a Disney star. I'm
Speaker 1: not That's the word of the word. I'm looking for
Speaker 1: a sex symbol. You're a sex symbol, you know, like you.
Speaker 1: But I love it. I mean I love it. I'm
Speaker 1: embracing it, right, I'm a sexy person. Ok. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hide behind the sheet now. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely. I live in my body. I live and
Speaker 1: you know, my one of my body is literally one
Speaker 1: of my favorite qualities about me. Um. I worked so
Speaker 1: hard for it. I don't just sit up and wake
Speaker 1: up and just you know, do nothing. I work out,
Speaker 1: I eat right. I you know, I'm very keen on
Speaker 1: what I put in my body. And I love my body.
Speaker 1: I do. Like I said, I'm young. Well, you're not
Speaker 1: the only one that loves you, who loves your body.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of people out there loves your body.
Speaker 1: I mean people because I'll be online and stuff I read.
Speaker 1: I read people's comments and stuff like that, and you know,
Speaker 1: they they really do appreciate the work that you put in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and the work that your parents put in, you
Speaker 1: know to get you here, you know, first and far most,
Speaker 1: because that's where it starts. Right. Well, you know, the
Speaker 1: thing with me too is just like once again, I
Speaker 1: don't knock anybody to eat your own whatever makes anybody happy.
Speaker 1: But you know, we also live in a century in
Speaker 1: a world, in today's world that everyone is you know,
Speaker 1: getting enhancements and you know, buying body parts and doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent natural. I've never touched my body
Speaker 1: and so for me, you know, that is my winner.
Speaker 1: That is, you know, what sets me apart. I'm in
Speaker 1: today's world and I'm still winning alongside of all these Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean, like, you know, seriously though, I'm never
Speaker 1: going to touch my body, and I think you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a person who's never touched it, So why can't
Speaker 1: I show off my natural body? You know, people are
Speaker 1: showing off all these bodies. I'm like, you know, and
Speaker 1: like I said, literally, no no disrespect, nothing like you know,
Speaker 1: to each its own, to whatever makes everyone happy. But
Speaker 1: for me, my natural body makes me the happiest. And
Speaker 1: I'm blessed that this is the same body that came
Speaker 1: out of my mama's too. Literally, So so what happens
Speaker 1: when you like get older and things started, you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna check back. I'm gonna be I'm always be fine.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to be because what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Is they gonna play this clip she said what she said,
Speaker 1: and it would be like that didn't age. Well, no,
Speaker 1: trust me, it's gonna age beautifully. I got me and
Speaker 1: my peloton. That's all I need. That's all I need.
Speaker 1: Already planned it out too, I said, like, you know,
Speaker 1: years from now, when I have kids and stuff, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be like, leave me alone for forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: I need my peloton every day. That's all I need.
Speaker 1: All I need is my peloton, and I'm good. How
Speaker 1: many kids do you want? Um? Anywhere between two and four.
Speaker 1: I know I do not want one, But I always said,
Speaker 1: let me get two first and then really see because
Speaker 1: you know, after that sec one I might be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's four is a long shot. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we want a big family. We want like maybe four
Speaker 1: four as the max. So two boys, two girls, um
Speaker 1: I want well, I want three boys and one girl.
Speaker 1: I want one girl more so for my boyfriend, but
Speaker 1: like because he wants a little me. But I think
Speaker 1: it's so funny. My mom always tells me she thinks
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a boy mom. She says she doesn't
Speaker 1: see me having a girl. But I want one little girl.
Speaker 1: At the end, I want all the girls about to
Speaker 1: ask three boys and then little girl. Then yeah, and
Speaker 1: let's say you have that little girl. Everything works up
Speaker 1: stars the line and bam, you got the little girl.
Speaker 1: What does mommy duties look like to you? Like something?
Speaker 1: I mean besides the obvious? Yea, what, what's something in
Speaker 1: your mind? You're saying, like, I would love to have
Speaker 1: a little girl so I can do this. I would
Speaker 1: love to have a little girl really just to honestly
Speaker 1: like the mommy and me things are so cute. I
Speaker 1: really would love to just you know, match with my
Speaker 1: little twin, but more importantly, just to really like mold
Speaker 1: someone else the way my mom molded me. I think
Speaker 1: you know, of course my dad too, but for speaking,
Speaker 1: just woman, a woman. My mom molded me in ways
Speaker 1: that I won't ever be able to explain. You know,
Speaker 1: she molded my mind. She molded because obviously when I
Speaker 1: moved to l A, there were times where I'm like, Mom,
Speaker 1: do I need bigger breasts? Like she was always firm,
Speaker 1: or no, do not touch yourself? And just the way
Speaker 1: she stimulated my mind and really just like taught me
Speaker 1: in ways where I wasn't thinking I was being taught,
Speaker 1: but I was. I would love to really instill that
Speaker 1: into my daughter one day, because you know today's world,
Speaker 1: you can't get lost, you can't get caught up. But
Speaker 1: by the grace of God, I have a mom who
Speaker 1: was also my best friend. The line's never crossed to
Speaker 1: where it's like, you know, any disrespect or any misconstruting,
Speaker 1: But I'll go to my mom before any friend. I
Speaker 1: don't tell my friends my problems, even best friends. I
Speaker 1: don't any issue that I have or you know, advice
Speaker 1: or anything. I go to my mom. As far as
Speaker 1: you know women woman advice. As far as relationship advice,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go to my friend who's been
Speaker 1: with her boyfriend maybe a year longer than me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to my mom, who's been with my dad
Speaker 1: for thirty plush years to get that relationship advice. You
Speaker 1: know did it where y'all did it? So I keep saying,
Speaker 1: what if they come from I get it that it's
Speaker 1: rooted in you, you know, from your mom and dad,
Speaker 1: But how did you pick it up? When were you
Speaker 1: cognizant of picking that up like and saying I want
Speaker 1: to pick up these type of values, and you had
Speaker 1: intention about upholding those values. I think, to my dew minds,
Speaker 1: I wasn't really knowing that I was picking it up,
Speaker 1: But I will say I kind of started to really
Speaker 1: understand in high school. High school was a big shift
Speaker 1: for me. Um I went to I was in private
Speaker 1: school all my life up until ninth grade. Then I
Speaker 1: went to sophomore year, I transferred to public school for
Speaker 1: the first time in my life. Hated it, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: hated it. And um, I think that was a really
Speaker 1: big change for me as far as peers, as far
Speaker 1: as just like everything that went on in my life
Speaker 1: in high school, and um, little did I know even
Speaker 1: then it would just be words of like I don't
Speaker 1: even really know how to describe it, but just words
Speaker 1: of encouragement and just and to me that still diminishes it.
Speaker 1: But just the way my mom and dad would talk
Speaker 1: to me, and the way they would, you know, tell
Speaker 1: me either my wrongdoing or right doing in a way
Speaker 1: that wasn't like a parent like putting down their child.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense in that way, yeah, exactly. And
Speaker 1: so I was always able to go to both of
Speaker 1: parents and and I'll really lean towards saying my mom
Speaker 1: because obviously as a woman, I'm gonna go to my
Speaker 1: mom for certain things more than my dad. Staying with
Speaker 1: my brother, He's gonna go to my dad versus my mom.
Speaker 1: So for me having that relationship with my mom, you know,
Speaker 1: one thing my mom literally always taught me was, you know,
Speaker 1: you can have a best friend, but who's to say
Speaker 1: if something happens you she won't go tell your business.
Speaker 1: One thing I'm always promised you, Yeah, I know for sure.
Speaker 1: But then one thing that my mom always promised you
Speaker 1: is I'm never gonna tell anyone. There's no judgment here.
Speaker 1: And growing up I really realized that, like damn, like
Speaker 1: you know, I can go to my mom about anything,
Speaker 1: like my worst worst moments. You know, girls call their
Speaker 1: best friends are crying there, and they don't. They don't
Speaker 1: talk to their mom. They talk to their best friends.
Speaker 1: They go, you know, to their girlfriends. To exactly me.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, no, like you can literally ask
Speaker 1: you to my friends. They probably think I'm a weirdo
Speaker 1: for that they call me. But no, I go to
Speaker 1: my mom. Like I said, was like one of the
Speaker 1: hardest years of my life. And who did I confide
Speaker 1: in every day? My mom. That was it, my mom, my,
Speaker 1: mom and mom. It sounds like to me that what
Speaker 1: your mom and dad did was empower you with the
Speaker 1: empower you with the idea of being able to think
Speaker 1: for yourself and figure it out for yourself. It's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna plant this seed and give you here's the options.
Speaker 1: Which one do you think? Absolutely, that's the perfect way
Speaker 1: to put it. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I can relate to
Speaker 1: what I mean, I can. I can recognize it because
Speaker 1: you know I did the same thing with my kids. Yeah. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: your brother, what does he do? Basketball? He's in school,
Speaker 1: he's in college. Um, he plays basketball, and he is
Speaker 1: just so tall. Now we're three years apart, I'm the
Speaker 1: older sibling. Is as good as your dad was better? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's better and he's just my brother. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's beyond basketball. My brother is just so smart.
Speaker 1: He is like I learned from him too. That is
Speaker 1: my best friend too. He I'm telling our family were
Speaker 1: so close, like we're the most tight knit family. But um, no,
Speaker 1: joke of what I do is you know for him,
Speaker 1: like it's really too Yeah, no, it is. It is
Speaker 1: to show him that you know, this ship is possible.
Speaker 1: It's you just gotta you gotta want it. And the
Speaker 1: thing is, you gotta want it more than anybody else
Speaker 1: wants it. And you know, no matter what anything looks
Speaker 1: like that it doesn't come easy. You know, I work
Speaker 1: my butt off. I work at work. I just told
Speaker 1: you I come from I came from a shoe literally
Speaker 1: right after this, I'm going to another shoe that I
Speaker 1: have rehearsal tonight and I won't even get home until midnight.
Speaker 1: I've been gone since six am this morning. So I just,
Speaker 1: I mean, I work for everything that's coming my way.
Speaker 1: You know, nothing's handed to me. And most importantly, like
Speaker 1: I said, I just you know, I show him that,
Speaker 1: Like you know, it's nothing like a worth it work, ethic, nothing,
Speaker 1: yeah nothing. How protective are you over the women that
Speaker 1: may try to come into his life? Very very because
Speaker 1: you know, one, he's such a beautiful boy. Man now, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I'm like, he's not a boy. He's twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: but he's always gonna be like my baby brother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and um, he's so beautiful. Um and you know too,
Speaker 1: because of who he is, because of who his sister is,
Speaker 1: because of you know, who I'm affiliated with. You know,
Speaker 1: you never know people's intentions. And he's told me that
Speaker 1: several times, like people will be like, oh, you're Jillie's brother,
Speaker 1: and then like, you know, start talking to him, And
Speaker 1: I don't like that, you know, because obviously that's the
Speaker 1: one thing he always tells me. He's like, I hate
Speaker 1: being called your little brother. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just I want somebody who's just so
Speaker 1: good for him, who's so just genuine, you know, um,
Speaker 1: who really loves him, loves him the way my mom
Speaker 1: and him. My mom and I love him, obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: in a different factor. But I mean, no one loves
Speaker 1: my brother. No other woman loves my brother. How my mom,
Speaker 1: my grandmother and I love him. And you know we
Speaker 1: are so tighten it. Um that whoever comes along to be,
Speaker 1: you know, blessed to be in his life and be
Speaker 1: his leading lady just you know, needs to be able
Speaker 1: to carry and when I say carry the way innocence,
Speaker 1: I mean just carry that strong woman way of like
Speaker 1: protect think him too, you know, especially black men in
Speaker 1: this world, you gotta be their backbone. And I believe
Speaker 1: in that. I believe I've seen my mom do it.
Speaker 1: I'm someone's backbone, and you got to protect these black men,
Speaker 1: and so, you know, just someone who is in it
Speaker 1: for the real reason and in it for the long haul.
Speaker 1: I believe in that for sure. I think he'd be
Speaker 1: okay if he listens to his tribe, because the tribe
Speaker 1: is strong. Yeah. Very Let me tell you something. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm very good at peeping game. I'm very good at
Speaker 1: checking people out, checking out personalities and stuff, very good.
Speaker 1: And you know what I see is a strong knit unit,
Speaker 1: a strong family, good energy, good people. And that's the
Speaker 1: way you pick them. You pick them one at a time.
Speaker 1: It's like when you go on the water. You have
Speaker 1: a war chest and you put your pieces in place,
Speaker 1: one at a literal. And this is what you have
Speaker 1: to do when you're bringing people into your family, into
Speaker 1: the circle. They have to be vetted one at a time.
Speaker 1: And as long as he does that, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: all right. But if he's trying to go against the
Speaker 1: grain and say, well, you know, I love it and
Speaker 1: I don't care what nobody else talks about it, he's
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna fall off a cliff. Him just because
Speaker 1: we are so close, podcast will be right back after
Speaker 1: the how do you yourself? Uh vet, people that come
Speaker 1: into your life you know that may may have like
Speaker 1: the wrong intentions, may have ulterior motives trying to get
Speaker 1: close to you because of who you are or who
Speaker 1: you're affiliated with. Well also by the grace of God. Again,
Speaker 1: it's just, Um, I've been blessed to have uh small
Speaker 1: circle that I've had for such a long time. Um,
Speaker 1: there's been very rarely like new people come in. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm a very really good judge of character as well.
Speaker 1: I am. I can see through bullshit as well. And UM,
Speaker 1: I think I just I'm not really like, um, I
Speaker 1: don't have time to really just go out and just
Speaker 1: make friends. So I think that also is why I've
Speaker 1: had the same circle for so long. Like literally, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't have anyone new in my life. I
Speaker 1: don't everyone around me has been my newest person in
Speaker 1: my life would probably be exactly. That's so funny how
Speaker 1: you were saying that, because I was gonna say certain
Speaker 1: people I work with, like my stylists, and those people
Speaker 1: have come in within the past like a couple of years. Um,
Speaker 1: my assistant, she's been with me since I'm moved to
Speaker 1: l A. So she's been with me for eight years,
Speaker 1: so I literally have no one really knew. And like
Speaker 1: you said, on a professional level, those are the newest
Speaker 1: people just building my team finding you know, um, a
Speaker 1: team that fits Jilly today, not jelly back. Um, but
Speaker 1: those are the newest people in my life. Those are
Speaker 1: the newest people. Um. I've been in a long relationship now,
Speaker 1: so it's really no one knew, Like it's the same team,
Speaker 1: the same people. UM. And I think that's a blessing too,
Speaker 1: because whenever someone does come around. My mom is also
Speaker 1: a really good judged character. Like my mom, one of
Speaker 1: my girlfriends, Um, she's actually coming down. She fights in
Speaker 1: on Saturday, or came down for the show looks but
Speaker 1: she came down for the show, the Chris Brown Show.
Speaker 1: And um, my mom told me early on when we
Speaker 1: first met, when and when we were in l A.
Speaker 1: That she was like, she's gonna be your life friend.
Speaker 1: Like hold onto that. And my mom was so right,
Speaker 1: Like she came down for my birthday, came down for
Speaker 1: the show, like she comes down for my big events.
Speaker 1: She's a supportive friend. And you need people like that
Speaker 1: in your life, you know, you need people who genuinely
Speaker 1: want to see you win just as much as they're winning.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not like I think that's the beautiful
Speaker 1: thing too, is having relationships where you both lift each
Speaker 1: other up, both motivate each other. And I like people
Speaker 1: around me who like to be just as successful. You know,
Speaker 1: I never want to be the richest person in my room.
Speaker 1: Then I'm not in the right room. I never want
Speaker 1: to be the you know, not like the smartest person
Speaker 1: in my room, because then I'm not Then I'm not
Speaker 1: in the right room. So I think it's so incredible
Speaker 1: to have other such strong, smart, successful women and men
Speaker 1: around me, um who are really on their grind, because
Speaker 1: it makes me want to hustle ten times harder. Literally,
Speaker 1: I'm and you mentioned your assistant, and I'm in the
Speaker 1: market for assistant, and I'm scared to death because I've
Speaker 1: never actually had a full time assistant. And I'm scared
Speaker 1: to death because I hear these horror stories about these
Speaker 1: assistants who steal money, who write these tell all books
Speaker 1: and all of this type of stuff. How how did
Speaker 1: you find your assistant? My assistant was literally an angel
Speaker 1: sent from heaven. She just like fell from the sky.
Speaker 1: That's how I found her. No, Um, I kid you,
Speaker 1: I kid you not. It was I found her funny enough.
Speaker 1: So she's been my assistant for She didn't start off
Speaker 1: as my assistant. She just started off doing UM. I
Speaker 1: was looking for someone to make me a website when
Speaker 1: I moved to l A and I had a roommate
Speaker 1: at the time. Um. When I first first moved to
Speaker 1: l A. UM, and my roommate was from Canada, and UM,
Speaker 1: she knew I was looking for someone to do my website.
Speaker 1: And she was like, oh, I have a friend in
Speaker 1: Canada who is really good in the text space. Um,
Speaker 1: she can do your website. She did mine. I was like, okay, perfect, easy.
Speaker 1: So that led into her managing my website. So, you know,
Speaker 1: anytime I needed an update, if I was dropping a song,
Speaker 1: if I did a new photo shoot, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to update my website, she would do it. That then
Speaker 1: turned into little other things like if I needed help
Speaker 1: with something else, she would do it. And then um,
Speaker 1: obviously I The next year I moved out from my
Speaker 1: roommate and got a place on my own, she continued
Speaker 1: to do my website. UM. If I needed like research
Speaker 1: on something, I was like, you know, how can I
Speaker 1: find like a pr here. She'd helped me find it,
Speaker 1: and then before I knew it, she just became my
Speaker 1: full time assistant and we were like, we need to
Speaker 1: put a label on it, like you're my full time assistant.
Speaker 1: And Um, I had never met her right, never met
Speaker 1: her in person. She lives in Canada. UM, so six
Speaker 1: years of us working together never met I just met
Speaker 1: her for the first time. Um. She came to l
Speaker 1: A when I was shooting my new safe music video.
Speaker 1: I flew her out to l A because I needed
Speaker 1: help on set. And it was so crazy because when
Speaker 1: I tell you, there's literally besides my family, there's no
Speaker 1: one I talked to more than her, Like I literally
Speaker 1: talked to her. She's an extension of me and we talk.
Speaker 1: There's no like um nine to five with us. It's
Speaker 1: literally like to twenty four to seven days a week
Speaker 1: the way we work. And she has that same grind
Speaker 1: that I have, and I just I love her for it.
Speaker 1: And so I flew her out to um l A
Speaker 1: when I was shooting my new safe music video last year.
Speaker 1: UM and UM it was so crazy because like when
Speaker 1: we saw each other, we hugged and we're like I've
Speaker 1: known you for six years and I've never met you.
Speaker 1: Mind you, She's been my assistant all this time. Like
Speaker 1: literally all we do is spacetime. All we do is talk.
Speaker 1: We literally have calls and we text and email all
Speaker 1: day every day. So it didn't even feel like I
Speaker 1: was meeting her for the first time, but it was.
Speaker 1: And then I flew her again. Excuse me, I flew
Speaker 1: her out again for my Different Rules video shoot. And
Speaker 1: then she's coming out. She came out for the Chris
Speaker 1: Brown concert, and UM, I mean, she's just I couldn't
Speaker 1: do this without her. She's a big, big, big pardon
Speaker 1: who Jilia is like everything. I mean, I literally I'm
Speaker 1: so blessed. Like it's a secret gym that I refused
Speaker 1: to share with anyone, because I mean, she's just she
Speaker 1: was made for me. Um, I trust her with my life.
Speaker 1: I literally trust her beyond anything, And I'm just blessed
Speaker 1: to have, you know, someone like that that I could
Speaker 1: trust and who wants to see me grow as well,
Speaker 1: and you know, really understand the process and understand the
Speaker 1: work ethic, and you know, she does so much stuff
Speaker 1: for me in sense of making my brand in my
Speaker 1: career grow and she loves it. She loves what she
Speaker 1: does for me, Like she literally tells me all the
Speaker 1: time it's her dream, Like she loves it. So I
Speaker 1: know she's gonna be with me for life for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah she lives there. Yeah she's a year older than me.
Speaker 1: So you don't see you don't ever see you guys
Speaker 1: like being like physically together all the time one type
Speaker 1: of assistant. Um maybe, Like the thing is, it's so
Speaker 1: crazy because it's just like we don't it feels like
Speaker 1: she's next door to me. We don't need it. It's
Speaker 1: not like she's a person who goes goes for hours
Speaker 1: like she we talk all day every day, and I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure if I unlock my phone right now, I
Speaker 1: have a message from her, like since we just haven't
Speaker 1: checked it, like we talk all day every day. And
Speaker 1: so in a sense, I guess to really answer, I
Speaker 1: don't need her like here next to me. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: but who handles stuff like that? Like if you need
Speaker 1: somebody that like with you to move around, like okay,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're in you're in l a. Yeah you're
Speaker 1: moving around. You gotta go to a party. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't just have your sex security you don't send your
Speaker 1: security on errand uh, you don't say your security to
Speaker 1: go and run to the store, for you can need
Speaker 1: somebody to go to store. Who you're saying, Um, Well,
Speaker 1: as crazy as it is, you know, I've never really
Speaker 1: like I have an assistant stylist. You're very close to blowing.
Speaker 1: I think I would have her if she Yeah, she
Speaker 1: would probably come because she's the only person I trust
Speaker 1: with it all. Um, whenever she came down. Um, she's
Speaker 1: really great with my parents too, Like she loves them.
Speaker 1: She's the sweetest girl ever. I think when it comes
Speaker 1: down to it, she'll she'll be the one to move
Speaker 1: to where I'm at for sure. Easy. Yeah, easy. I
Speaker 1: would definitely get her a place. And yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want just anybody on my team and in my business.
Speaker 1: And you know, she knows everything business wise, and you know,
Speaker 1: business sometimes becomes personal. And she's been there all through
Speaker 1: it all. And it's just been a person who turned
Speaker 1: into family, who does my work. And it's just like
Speaker 1: I said, like her work ethic is just as much
Speaker 1: as mine. And you can't find that, like you can't.
Speaker 1: People are lazy and she's not lazy at all. She's
Speaker 1: not lazy anything. I don't know. She knows, and we're
Speaker 1: literally a missing like we're the matching puzzle piece to
Speaker 1: each other. And so I definitely think to answer your question,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just so hone in on like you know,
Speaker 1: just every day like working work and working working. I
Speaker 1: haven't thought like you know, once everything does really take off.
Speaker 1: But it would definitely have her. I would definitely have
Speaker 1: her come to where I'm at for sure. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I need I need inside, I need some help,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm and I'm just see if anybody out there.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm paying six figures. So I'm serious about
Speaker 1: this and you got to you got some work to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but um, I do appreciate you coming on to the show,
Speaker 1: and I know you you spoke about uh something personal.
Speaker 1: First of all, your your handles, Yes, what's your handles? Everything?
Speaker 1: Everything is Jillianese, my instagram on Twitter and my youth
Speaker 1: you my website, well, um all my social handles are
Speaker 1: jillian Nie j I L L Y A N A
Speaker 1: I S. My website is I am jelly dot com.
Speaker 1: You can find everything on my website, social handles, my cookbook,
Speaker 1: my perfume line, my EP, all things music, every music
Speaker 1: project I've ever done, all on I am Jilly dot Com. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So before we go, a little Bertie told me something
Speaker 1: about you. What did a little Bertie tell you? The
Speaker 1: little Bertie tells me that you are a huge fan
Speaker 1: of pizza and you like your pizza fin crust, Pepperoni,
Speaker 1: sausage and halla penos. I sat here, I hear things,
Speaker 1: you know. I got I got ears here, I got
Speaker 1: ears arsace. So I got had a buddy right that
Speaker 1: that that is uh that owns uh with his family,
Speaker 1: the whole family. They owns this place called Brother's Pizza.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been there? No? Is that in Houston pizza? Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it out though. You should try it
Speaker 1: out like pizza. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 1: try it out for sure. I am ye say less? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say less. Is the other thing? Cross Talapenioka.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing this right now. He's gonna break come in here. No,
Speaker 1: no stop it, this is going. I heard so much
Speaker 1: about you. This is no stop. His brother and is
Speaker 1: that Joe man? They take care of me. This this
Speaker 1: is my go to place. See this, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: This is my go to place for pizza. Oh my good.
Speaker 1: Message at three I go, I go to sleep early
Speaker 1: because that's how him health as welcome, right. And I
Speaker 1: saw him that this morning. Just like you said, you
Speaker 1: stay on the grind from like five six a making
Speaker 1: home so many nights. My day starts at five am.
Speaker 1: Ago work out early in the morning to go back home,
Speaker 1: protein shake, get to work. I do this all day.
Speaker 1: But my family, we've been doing this, uh for since
Speaker 1: nineteen eight. Oh my good, Texas. They came down from
Speaker 1: New York and we've been doing it forty two years. Now.
Speaker 1: Where do you make locations right around Houston. I'm located
Speaker 1: right here at Highway six and Nights and right where
Speaker 1: the Mercedes Benz dealership in the top golf Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we've been there for one years. Oh my good. We
Speaker 1: got all our problems go to New York and everything.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm sorry. You can bring home. I
Speaker 1: brought a large meets for Brad, but I know he
Speaker 1: couldn't make it. So even the guy in there, he
Speaker 1: was like, probably give it to you to take home
Speaker 1: to your family. I will take it, Okay, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: Can I really really like family to us? You know,
Speaker 1: he's been coming to us for years and everything, and
Speaker 1: every time something happens, like we always can't make it
Speaker 1: because sometimes we're short on workers. Right, But every now
Speaker 1: and then he's like, hey, I need a favor, I
Speaker 1: got a request or can you make it here? Right?
Speaker 1: The last time I got to chill with Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg is like what you see on TV. Yes already,
Speaker 1: I said, I heard so much about you and everything. No,
Speaker 1: thank you, Honestly, I used a career. I heard some
Speaker 1: of your music and everything. Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: It's going to be right up there. Just keep you
Speaker 1: appreciate that, honestly, thank you. Appreciate Definitely. I hope you can. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I will, no doubt, no doubt. I know it's a
Speaker 1: little way out the ways, but no, yeah, there's nothing
Speaker 1: but drive exactly. This is absolutely this is a great way.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Absolutely. After you eat that, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk it up. I don't like talk. I
Speaker 1: don't talk stuff up too much, but when I do
Speaker 1: talk to believe you. I believe you. Oh New York,
Speaker 1: stop the stuff. You're gonna be like, you're gonna feel
Speaker 1: like you've been jipped like anything else. After you eat this,
Speaker 1: you don't feel like I love how like thin? This
Speaker 1: is too? It's my favorite think I mean, don't even wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, think it's good. But like you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not a person like it's too much bread. So this ye,
Speaker 1: and that's a wrap, y'all. I appreciate you all right
Speaker 1: in a minute, y'all, No more talking. This episode was
Speaker 1: produced by a King and brought to you by The
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