WEBVTT - The Jilly Anais Episode 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.720 Yeah, get know, boys, it's back and reloaded all in 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.119 your mind. Yeah, not deep throating. This is for the streets, 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.400 the reel, the railroading, the distant franchise, the truth, the scapegoating, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:14.760 and they ain't knowing we speak the truth, so they 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.680 ain't quoted because we wrote it. The North South East 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.279 Coat g B B. Were keeping your head bobbing, it 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.640 ain't no stopping and wants to be drops head by 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.280 then the system is so corrupt they throw the rock 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.320 out of their heads and then blame it on us. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.640 Don't get it twisted on code and me dancing for 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:40.080 no buttment biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces out. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.000 Collectively we are the ghet old boys, reloaded with another 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.360 episode of information and instructions to help you navigate through 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:53.720 this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, Jilly and Nice, Hi, 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.120 how are you welcome to the show? Thank you for 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.480 having anything? Man? You got that doing your thing? What 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.960 is it that you can't do? You dance? I haven't 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:05.520 figured that out yet. You dance, you're seeing you act? 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:11.479 You're a writer? You know your novelist? Now? Yeah, author, 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.080 that's what they call authur And what else. What else 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.399 do you do? You cook? You cook? I do? Um, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.319 I have a perfume line. That's out. I mean the 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.119 list goes on and on. I am boss baby, ball 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:33.800 around around. I am yeah. Those those six fs of yours. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:43.280 Let me see if I can recite a family? Faith? Yes, food, fitness, 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:48.240 fashion and fun. Yes, you got them all. Did you 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:52.800 come up with that? Absolutely? Yes, everything to do with, 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.680 you know, a glimpse of who Julie is. Especially when 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.800 I did my cookbook, I wanted to, you know, give 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.840 a glimpse of what went into the cookbook. It wasn't 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.680 just food. It wasn't you know, just um recipes and 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.680 ingredients and just how to make, you know, step by 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.680 step a dish. It was about family, It was about 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.080 um faith. Um. I really wanted to show, you know, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.400 like where I come from. UM. I wanted to show 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.760 my really who Julie wasn't it? It was literally a 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.760 cookbook slash look book is what it really was. Um. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:30.280 Every single recipe had a different look to it, so 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.560 as you flipped the pages, it's a look with the 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.720 recipe and then obviously the instructions and ingredients on the 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.519 how to, but everything that went into it was literally 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.520 a two part because I'm not just you know, a 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.960 person who cooks. I'm all into fashion. I'm you know, 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.560 a person who comes home from a long day in 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.320 my you know, whatever fit I'm in and I cook 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.600 and I make food. And so it was like something 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.079 that was really real. I wanted it to just be 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.720 you know, I'm not a you know, sixty year old 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.600 person who's just doing a cookbook with like, you know, 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.000 eight kids. Like I wanted to have the youth in it. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.880 I'm only twenty six and when I did the cookbook, 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.000 I was five, I think, Yeah, I was twenty four 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.320 years old. And during quarantine, I did it during quarantine. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:10.960 I was twenty four years old when I did it, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.040 and um, and literally I wanted to bring that youth. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.079 I wanted to really bring who I was into that cookbook. Yeah, 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:24.560 you know, let's talk about the title, This Boss Babe 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.960 Can Cook. You know, when I read that title, I 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.520 was very satisfied that you did not name that book 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.360 this Boss Bitch Can Cook, you know, because I mean, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.560 you know, I'm just glad you didn't name the title that. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.600 You know. It's like, it's like, because I know a 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.760 lot of you know, you know, people like to say 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.000 that a lot, you know, but I just think that 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.320 just saying that one little word, that putting that babe 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:53.840 in that you could put a lot of different words 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.680 in that, but babe makes the book sexy. It makes 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.960 it sexy, and it makes it like you know, um, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.920 I feel like the branding, the marketing was able to 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.880 go longer and hit a lot more crowds and you know, 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.320 not be offensive. Right yeah, right, Yeah, that that was 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.520 a good That was a good look on that title 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:21.320 A boss. I mean you you really embrace that term, Like, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.520 where did that come from? And then, by the way, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:28.359 I do know your dad, Yeah, I know Jews. Jews 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.320 is a good dude, man, the most incredible man. And 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.280 I'll say this, you know, like Jews is one of 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.640 those dudes that don't switch up. He's been solid. No, yeah, 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.200 my daddy's the same. He's been a solid cat for 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.839 a long time. My daddy really believe it not gives 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:50.560 me my like street cred. Yeah, yeah for sure. So 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.120 so where did so? I guess that comes from? And 0:04:54.200 --> 0:05:00.960 foremost my dad my mom both yes, angels complete definitions 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.440 of a boss. Let me start there. I literally had 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.320 no better role models than them. I'm so blessed to have, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.760 you know, my parents to look up to in all 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.880 aspects of life. Um, they've been married for since Jesus 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.520 was a baby. They literally have been together all that time. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.839 UM My mom is the most hard working, independent woman 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.640 I've ever met. My dad is the backbone to our family. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.919 So to see those two perspectives literally growing up, I 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.760 was so blessed to see that firsthand, and UM, honestly, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.239 it made me never want to strive for anything less 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.080 and to be honest with you, Um, really, once I 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.680 started getting older, it was really like in high school, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.800 first and foremost, the stage and everything has always been 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.479 the forefront of my life. I've been doing dance since 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.279 I was two years old, took a love to the 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.840 stage at a very very early age. But it was 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.840 really around in high school when I wanted to finish 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.040 high school early and I didn't see myself going to college. 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.839 But I knew just in my heart that at I 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.960 had a different path of life. Mind you, both of 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.520 my parents being bosses, both went to college, both got 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.360 a degree, both graduated, and so I was the first 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.760 one of my family to want to take this different 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.520 path of life and I had the most incredible supportive 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.600 parents who truthfully saw the same in me. Was like, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.159 you know, we don't think she's gonna be do this 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.479 same path of life. And they My dad actually was 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.720 the one. His words will never leave me. He said, 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.080 school will always be there, your youth won't. He was like, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.320 so go ahead and go get it. And ever since then, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:37.040 I took that by storm and I just literally everything 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.279 that's coming to my path, everything that I've ever thought about, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.680 I just do it. I have no cap no limit 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.600 to what I can do. UM. Music is my first love. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.000 I have been doing music forever. Music has always been 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.560 my first love. I actually just dropped a project March 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.559 Study one. UM. The EP was called Copy and Paste. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.279 Is called Copee and Paste, and it has fourced songs 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.719 on it. For I wanted to keep the project short 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.000 just because I wanted to you know, today's people have 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.240 a short attention span, and I just wanted to pick 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.480 the four best songs that I feel like described me 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.440 in the state that I'm in. I feel like right now, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.840 you know, I've learned so much in the past year 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.800 of my life than ever and like one was a 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.080 hell of a year, so two I just wanted to 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.360 really just in a stense, put that all in my music. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.880 Just there's been so much growth and I just opened 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.120 up for Chris Brown at the Toyota Center on March nineteen, 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.800 and that just is still a high. Yeah, you're doing 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.560 your thing, doing your thing, I feel. You know, like 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:48.680 the the new EP has four tracks. The previous EP 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.560 had five. Right, It's so funny because you as that 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.560 that EP is like a long gone Yeah, well yeah 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.960 that it's long gone, but that that thing had some 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.200 bangers on it. You know. It made me tell this 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.320 chick that I was in a new safe you know 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.160 what I'm saying. That was just a single. Know, I 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.920 was just telling this chick. You know what I'm saying, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:14.160 I'm feeling a new kind of safe you know. Um, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.720 all right, a good month. I need a whole newsance. Yeah, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.200 you know I'm in a new safe space. Uh, because 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.520 I'm feeling sexy. I know that's right. And you know 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.360 there's gonna be some different rules. It's gonna be some 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.200 different and you know, let me know if you got 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.839 to wait, you know, when I tell you what you do? 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.360 You know what's funny? That was my entire track list 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.680 for the Chris Brown concert. I started with wait and 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.679 then I didn't perform let me know though, um because 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.440 I had an eight minutes sets. So I started with 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.680 wait for It. Then I went into Sexy, then I 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.719 went into um different rules, and then I went into 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:59.760 new safe. Yeah yeah, yeah, I had no idea that 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:03.320 you could dance that well and you could sing that well, 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:08.600 like like you're really you're really talented person, and I'm 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.480 checking you out and I'm I'm like, I'm glowing because 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.240 I'm proud anything. Hahtown, I'm proud like when you do 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.120 it on a different level, you know, like when you 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.480 do it on like at the next level type, it 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.160 really uh, it really makes me proud because yeah, yeah, 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.600 this is the beginning. You're on the you're on the 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.680 you're right there. You're like you're like a step away, 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.359 one or two steps away, and bam, it's going boom. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.960 That's how it's gonna be, you know, because yeah, you 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.559 got it, you got it, and you you have you 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.160 got a good team got to be checking you out. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.200 You got a good team, you got a good support system, 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.199 and you got a good work ethic. You gotta get attitude. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.480 That's a lot you know, like most people, you know, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.560 they missed one or two of those things and that's 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.520 why they won't make it. And you know that's always 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.680 an exception, but you know, usually when you have all 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:09.880 those two's like you have, it's it's stamina impossible to lose, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.480 you know. So you know, I think like when somebody 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:18.840 plays this thing back, you know, another year to us, 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.160 so they would be like, damn, well it did. It's 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:27.680 a prophet. Yeah. So so so talk to us about 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.200 growing up in the more household and why did you 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.440 drop the name your last name you went by, you're 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.360 going by your middle name. I never dropped it. Um 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.240 just funny enough. Like when I started to do Instagram, Um, 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.520 as you know, you need an Instagram handle, and Jilly 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.960 has always been like what people call me, Jillian is 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.440 my first name. But when I wanted to do an 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.280 Instagram handle, funny enough, um, I don't want to be 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.680 like my full name. Well, I just didn't want to 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.520 put my government name like Jillian needs more like you know, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:07.959 so I was like, you know, you know, I don't know, 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.600 I don't know why I never put that, but um, 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.240 I just always like the ring that a niece had 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.079 to it um. And then when I was actually gonna 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.640 do it, I was really gonna put Jillian a Nise. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.880 But when you spell that out, it's j I L 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.079 L Y A N A N A I S. And 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.240 it was too many A N A N A, like, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.600 you know, so I just cut out the A N 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.280 on Jillian and then obviously kept the A N on 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.760 a Nie so that way it flowed better. So it's 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.679 just Jilliannie instead of Jillian and all these A N 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.000 A and A I S. Like. I just kept it 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.960 like that, and it just always really just took a 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.200 ring to it and branded, and you know, for the 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.760 most part, I really just go by Jilly. I don't 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:53.400 introduce myself as jillianese. Um. Obviously it branded to where people, 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.680 you know, naturally just say Jilliannie. But I just go 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.320 by Jilly. Whenever I do all my stage stuff, Um, 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.600 I introduced introduce myself as Jelly. My logos just have 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.880 Jelly on it. Um. When I do when I write books, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.960 cookbooks and stuff, that's when I go by my legal 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.800 name Jillian and Nise Moore, just because I feel like 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.720 business wise, it's a whole different perspective and I want, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.120 you know, my legal government name on it. Um. But 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.960 whenever I do music and um everything like that, I 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.560 just do jelly. Yeah. That's a good marketing strategy all 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.320 because when you look at some of those one name stars, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:37.280 I think, yeah, you got Madonna chair yea, Rihanna, yeah, 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:42.480 Michael Michael. Yeah, that's a that's a good move. I 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:47.000 think that's that was a good look. Yes, yeah, let's 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:54.400 get into your run as miss teen here. Yes, yeah, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:59.719 that was That was quite an experience, right, Oh yeah. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.560 It was my first pageant ever. My dance teacher at 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.560 the time, she convinced me to do it. I was 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.680 I'm not a pageant girl. I do not want to 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.880 do this. That's not what I'm into. She was like, no, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.400 I just think you should. It would be a really 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.559 great opportunity. Long story short, I did it first pageant ever, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.960 and I'm talking about I competed against girls who've been 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.160 doing this since they were like toddlers, doing the toddlers 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.280 and tears and so this is they live, breathe, eat 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.280 pageant world. And I walked in there first pageant ever 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.400 and one Missy in Houston just like that. Oh they 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.400 was mad. They were mad. I don't know, I can imagine, like, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.920 what was the most difficult part of the contest to you, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.520 You know, I wouldn't even say there was a difficult 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.080 part because, like I told you, I love the stage. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.719 The stage has always been my second home. So UM 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.520 I was with the Miss America organization, and with that organization, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.400 UM there's different categories. Obviously, there's the you know, Q 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.880 and A, there's the walk, and then there's also talent. 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.439 That's the difference between the American organization and the USA one. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.679 UM USA is just strictly like model esque, whereas American 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:08.360 organization has talent. And my first one, UM, I actually 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:13.120 did a dancing singing number and I just killed it. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.560 I killed it and I was just me. Whenever you 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.520 do the you also have, prior to the actual competition, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.440 you have um a what's it called, like um an 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.160 interview with the judges. It's just you and like six 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.840 people at the table asking you questions and all of that, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.600 and I'm just I've always been me. I've always been me, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.440 And I guess that resonated with the judges and it 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.640 was a unanimous vote. I was missing Houston. Did you 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.000 feel like you had like an edge on somebody, like 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.320 with a particular talent that you have, Like when you 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.200 looked at the competition you went in and saying like, 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.520 no matter what happens, when we get to this point, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.200 I'm gonna killer. Um. I mean, you know, I just think, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.160 to be honest with you, I've always just been focused 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:56.520 on me. That was like the thing with all the 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.640 other girls. They were just so worried about everyone else, 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.040 whereas I wasn't. I was like, at the end of 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.840 the day, I have nothing to lose. I didn't really 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.800 want to do this anyway, so I mean, you know, 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.920 I'm not really worried. They had singers and opera singers 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.760 and girls who were like in the corner going like, oh, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.160 you know, practicing and stuff, and I was just like 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.800 I was backstage with my mom and she really was 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:21.720 just like, let's just get it. And no, my mom, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.400 I think, no, No, my mom. She's never been nervous 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.600 like she just she gets excited. My mom is just 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.040 she loves watching all of this unfold. I think, especially 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:33.960 for the Chris Brown concert, no one was more excited 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.640 than her, Like, no one. I don't even think I 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.320 was more excited than her. And it's just awesome, Like 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.680 she you know too for both my parents to see 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.120 the baby girl, like, you know, really doing what they 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.720 said they would do. I graduated from high school early. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.520 I graduated at seventeen, walked with my class at eighteen 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.120 years old. But um moved to l A at eighteen 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.680 years old. I'm twenty six right now, and just to 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.240 see how far I've come, and you know, where I'm 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.680 at in my career right now and literally still nowhere 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.240 where I want to be. It's just, you know, I 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.440 said what I was gonna do, and I'm making the 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:12.560 damn thing happen. Yeah. How is l A compared to Houston? Um, 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.800 I know it's certain things about l A, but I 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.960 want to hear your perspective. Yeah, they're two complete, completely 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.880 opposite ends of the spectrum. Like, um, but I moved 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.400 to l A strictly for work, strictly for business. You know, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.200 there's a lot of people who get caught up in 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.320 the life, by the grace of God, that was never me. Um. Never, 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.680 what do you like about l A that you don't 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.120 like about Houston? And what do you like about Houston 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.760 that you don't like about l A? Or if you 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.960 don't have to use word like you just say what 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.280 benefits does Well? I mean the weather in l A 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.440 is perfect, It's so dreamy. I mean you wake up 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.200 every day happy because the sunshine is just shining all 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.360 the time. But I mean, I just didn't feel like 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.800 I could get my career off the ground in Houston. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.880 I did not feel like that at all. Um, So 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:03.360 I left and career off the ground in Houston. Left 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.400 to Beyonce left, but she got her career got off 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.920 the ground, and she was in Houston when she signed. Yea, 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:15.720 the entire group was here when they signed, because I remember. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.439 I remembered it because when they signed, I took the 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:25.200 girls to Carribus for a celebratory dinner. Favorite. Yeah yeah, 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.199 I love crowd was crowd was on Curby and my 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.800 parents got engaged there like thirty years ago. Is that right, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:37.639 Mr crab that's family. Yeah. Cabbus is legendary. Um No, 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.920 I mean, everyone you know, to each its own. Everyone's 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.919 path is different. But personally, I just felt like I 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:51.359 needed to move away, two push my career and start 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:53.919 to go in the direction that I wanted to go. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.560 And I didn't know a single soul in l A. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.080 When I first moved didn't know anyone but I that 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.399 you moved to I moved when I first moved out there, 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.399 I moved to North Holliga. Yeah. And then after like 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.320 a year or so, once I like got acquainted with 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.960 l A, I moved to Glendale and I've loved Glendale 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.200 ever since. Um, it's way more suburby. But you know, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.800 I didn't know anything about l A when I first 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.720 went nothing at all. And UM, needless to say, I 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.600 didn't know a single soul anyone. But it was just, uh, 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.480 a leap of faith. That's literally the only thing I 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.240 can describe it as. I am. God was telling me, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:29.879 you know, this is what you need to do, and 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.200 I listened, And I mean it's been paying off ever since. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.320 Who gave you the tip to move to North Hollywood? 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.000 No one? When I moved out there. Yeah, I just yeah, 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.800 whenever I went out there, I went out there. Um. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.560 I was living in a hotel for a little bit, 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.840 and then UM started to mingle and UM network and 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:53.440 meets yes by myself eighteen years old and then UM, 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:58.040 I was working on like an EP then and UM, 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:02.440 I just started researching apartments. UM. At eighteen, I wasn't 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.000 making any money so my parents would be the ones 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.000 to pay for it. So I was like, you know, 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.080 in a apartment that you know, a reasonable budget. I 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.520 was looking at the high rises and stuff then, but 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.680 um apartment and I found the one in North Hollywood 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.080 and it was just perfect for the time being. UM. 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.600 And that's when I was just like, you know, I 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.480 want to make this thing official. I told my parents 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.920 and they got me the apartment. Then then a year later, 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.080 I remember I called them and I was just like, 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.440 I want to move to a bigger space. My mom 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.240 was like, but like, you know, how are you gonna 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.000 do that? And now she was like no. I remember 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:37.760 she was like, UM, okay, but we're not going to 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.320 be paying like, you know, double the rent. I was like, 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.119 it's okay, I don't need you all to pay anything anymore. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.720 I got it and ever since then I never looked back. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.800 Nineteen years old. From there on out, I became one independent. 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.040 Now how how were you able to pay for yourself? 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.080 For me? Social media took off? Social media really took off. Um. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:01.080 I became a huge, huge sensation on social media. Instagram, 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:08.840 which which platform started paying dividends first? Um Instagram Instagram, Yeah, 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.880 Instagram started first and then YouTube and then they went 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.919 hand in hand um, and then pretty much it was 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:22.560 all of them. Um. I would get crazy brand deals. Um. 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.920 Literally everything I posted was a brand like I would 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.480 never I would get paid for every post, so I 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:33.879 never my Instagram still is a business. Um. And really 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.240 how I began to make my livelihood and support myself 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:38.959 and it was just an amazing feeling, you know, not 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:40.800 having to have my parents take care of me anymore 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.080 and to fast forward to now being able to now 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.880 give back to my parents, which is the most incredible thing. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.040 You know, It's it's been a long way, a long journey, 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.720 but I mean I still, like I said, I still 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.840 have a ways to go. But I mean, yeah, it's happening. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:10.960 Girl Boys reloaded podcast will be right back after. You Know. 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:15.440 What I like about your your Instagram is that your pictures. 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:21.639 Although you're you're dating a very high profile guy, your 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:26.120 pictures on Instagram is primarily about you. It's your life. 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:28.440 It's when you go down, you don't say, oh, she's 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:32.400 she's roaching off of her relationship or whatever. You look 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:37.439 at that Instagram, you know, the first thought is Jilly. 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:42.960 Before I met him, he was already jilly right, yeah, yeah, 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:48.280 but but but but but you know, still there are 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:52.400 people that that they're gonna explore that. Yeah, they're gonna 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:58.000 take that situation, explore that. And how is the sewn anyway? Good? Incredible? 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.160 He's a good dude, you know, shout after Sean Watson, 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:05.919 real good dude. Uh solid day one, you know, And 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.520 it seems seemed like you're pretty good, like with surrounding 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.159 yourself with good energy. Absolutely, I believe in that. I 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:18.160 feel like you're a product of what you surround yourself with. Yeah, 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:22.880 and that starts with your parents. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. I'm 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:28.520 looking at a video of your six and I'm mad 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.679 that you didn't invite me, because boy, y'all look like 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.280 y'all were having some fun. Man did we? We had? 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:39.200 It looked like the best time, the best time. Who 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:43.399 was the even coordinator for that? Oh? My party planner. 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.399 She does all my stuff. Her name is Chloe. She's incredible. 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:51.960 I gotta connect with Chloe because everything looked perfect, it 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:56.520 flowed perfectly. I found her um. I was searching on 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.000 Instagram when I first dropped my cookbook. When I first 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:01.000