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Speaker 1: Radio Loco Radio Radio Commies a Myth and Bullshit, a

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Speaker 1: less mommies of myth and bullshit. Last local radio radiophonic novella,

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Speaker 1: which is just a really extra way of saying a podcast. Welcome, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: thank you for tuning in. Once again, We've finally got

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Speaker 1: Finally we did it. We did it. Great job, good

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Speaker 1: We're so happy, excited to be recording today. It's a

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Speaker 1: And as you know, we always record at Radio Espasio,

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Speaker 1: true this first question is timely as we are recording

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Speaker 1: or damage your skin, because we don't want to like

423
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: irritate our skin in the quest to be hairless. You know,

424
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: it's not worth that sacrifice. No, I agree, you know,

425
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: just like there's it's obviously like more complicated than like

426
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 1: just love the skin you're in, but you know, like

427
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 1: whatever makes you feel good, like that's we advocate for. Oh,

428
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. Yeah, alright, next question, that question, Yes, what

429
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: did you all do for fun? This question was so

430
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: funny to me when I saw it, because I was like,

431
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what we do? We have fun? Yeah,

432
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, are we ever not working? Sometimes? We had fun? Okay,

433
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 1: I had fun last night. We did have fun last

434
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: fun last night. So I was telling the right, like

435
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: I have been basically on like a sex and dating hiatus,

436
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: Like I have not gone on a date a date

437
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: since um and hooking up. They're really like it has

438
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: not been great, Like I really haven't gotten you know,

439
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: the type of sex that I need and want and

440
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,959
Speaker 1: I'm accustomed to. You know why you'll and you know,

441
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: And that's the thing Like with the thing with like

442
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 1: one night stands is like you don't know what you're

443
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: going to get and it's usually nothing, and it's usually

444
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: not that good at least in my experience, Like first

445
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: times are just never really the best because you're like

446
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out like how it goes, exactly,

447
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 1: figuring each other out each other's rhythms and stuff. So

448
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: the last good situation I had, this guy was here

449
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: from out of town and he broke my bed friend

450
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 1: remember this story. So that was like the last good

451
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: you know, like hookup that I had. But it was

452
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: what like over a year ago more my hair was

453
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: still short. I think, right, it's been a long time.

454
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: You have some like good luck with like out of towners.

455
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: This is a girl because last night was the same situation.

456
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,640
Speaker 1: They don't make him good in l A. Apparently they don't.

457
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 1: Eli's trash, Ella's garbage. And if you ask anybody who's

458
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: like single and trying to date in l A, it's

459
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: l A is a terrible wasteland of a place. So yeah,

460
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: I know, I highly recommend to all my l A

461
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: bitches and out of towner get you out of town

462
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: because then they'll be gone, and they'll be gone. You

463
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: have to see him. But no, Like I had a

464
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 1: nice situation yesterday and I'm like, oh my god, my

465
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 1: my hoe tree is revived, Like I can I can

466
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: bring my hoka out of retirement now, so excited. Yes, yeah,

467
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: so that's what I do for fun. Res utilize your hokie,

468
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: utilize what do you do for fun? I love, love, love,

469
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: love to go dancing. That's like I feel like I

470
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: don't really do it as often as I used to

471
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm not single anymore. But even like

472
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: to this day, like just being able to go dancing

473
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: is just one of my favorite things to do in

474
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 1: l A or just in general wherever I'm at. Like,

475
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: I love like some music, I love any type of

476
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 1: you know, Latin South American music. Um, yeah, definitely, that's

477
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: like one of my favorite things to do. Um, brewery hopping.

478
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: I love. I love a brewery hop Like I love

479
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: to start at one and go to the others like

480
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: nearby because they're usually like close to each other. Um. Yeah,

481
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: I agree, Like l A is great for dancing if

482
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: you like to go dancing, and me too. I think

483
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: that that's one of the I'm guaranteed to enjoy myself

484
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 1: and have a good time if the music is right,

485
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: if the people are right, and folks are dancing, I'll

486
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: be on the dance floor and I'm gonna have a

487
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: great time. Yeah. There's a night that I really like,

488
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: um in downtown and it's Samericana, and my family and

489
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: I will usually all go to that and it's really

490
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: fun because it really it's it's a little more mainstream now,

491
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 1: like I think a lot of people go, but when

492
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: they first started doing it, it was very like in

493
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: like within intra community, like within the South American community

494
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: here in l A. Like it wasn't really packed. And

495
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: I think now like everyone goes, which is really dope. Um,

496
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: but that's definitely one of my favorite nights to go. Yeah,

497
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: and that's at the Continental Coal Continental. Good music, Good dancing,

498
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: so I would say, yeah, dancing is definitely something that

499
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: is an amazing thing to do. For fun, I like

500
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: to like veg out and stay home. Like my fun

501
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: has changed, morphed. If I can be at home and

502
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: just chill with my dog and my mother, I'm having

503
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: a great time. I love also like getting like having

504
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,479
Speaker 1: take out and like eating at home and like watching

505
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 1: some Netflix. Absolutely, we like we like the boring you know, yeah, like,

506
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: let's value the boring stuff because we're so tired. We're

507
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,239
Speaker 1: so tired. We're always tired. I mean, you know, we

508
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: rally and we keep it pushing, but yeah, we're tired.

509
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: I mean I think more and more I value, Um,

510
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 1: I value the fun of hanging out with my family,

511
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: hanging out with my sister. She has a dog, Jabba.

512
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 1: I have a dog, Papa. They're best friends, the dog park,

513
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: just living like our suburban lives. I agree, Um, that's

514
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,439
Speaker 1: how I feel. Like. Also with my partner, like he

515
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: like I didn't realize this about Sagittarius, but Breathe the Hood,

516
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 1: which was tweeting about how she's seeing a Sagittarius and

517
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: she was like, Okay, y'all, what do I pack for

518
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: the weekend, everyone was like basically like pack everything because

519
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: you never know what you're gonna do. And I didn't

520
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: realize that to be true, but it is like we'll start,

521
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: like if we spend our sundays together, we'll start like

522
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: somewhere that we plan, and then we'll end up somewhere

523
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: that we didn't plan. And like hug and I think, now,

524
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, this is why I've grown a love for sneakers,

525
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: because I just can't keep up in my heels anymore.

526
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: So I just like have to put the sneakers on

527
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: when I'm with him. She's an altering bitch. Now any environment,

528
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: anywhether ready to guys, I'm ready, I'm ready. All right,

529
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: thank you for all those wonderful look ask questions. We

530
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: love getting your questions and seeing what's on your mind. Alrighty,

531
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Speaker 1: So we're going to move in to a quick word

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Speaker 1: from our sponsor. So, as you know, we have as

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542
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Speaker 1: very valuable. Alrighty, So we're really excited to bring on

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00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: our next guest for the second half of this capitulo.

544
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: We have the amazing Julisa Prello from Riso's Curls. So excited.

545
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: We've been trying to get Julisa on the podcast for

546
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: a while. She's been one of our dream guests because

547
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: she's just really out here killing the fucking game. Julissa

548
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: was born and raised in l A. She is of

549
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: Mexican descent, and she is the founder and CEO of

550
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Speaker 1: Reso's Curls, a Latina owned hair care line aimed at

551
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: embracing and celebrating the beauty of curls, kinks and waves everywhere.

552
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: Riso's Curls was born out of a lifetime of frustration

553
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: for Julissa with a beautiful crown of curls, but an

554
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: advocate products on the market, Julisa spent years developing the

555
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: perfect formula that would ultimately become Riso's Curls. Fast forward.

556
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: After being on the market for more than a year

557
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: being an advocate for natural curls, helping women the beautiful

558
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: and felt confident in their natural hair textures, Reso's Curls

559
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: has amassed a global following of risos reins and has

560
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: been shipped to over fifty seven countries, all under Julisa's

561
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: passion and leadership. And Julisa does a lot Aside from

562
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: being the founder and CEO of Reso's Curls, she is

563
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: an active national speaker aiming to shine a light on

564
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: the topic of female empowerment with speaking roles at places

565
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: like Harvard, the U S Department of State of the

566
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: United Nations. She's also proud to be a co founder

567
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: of Lasas Crew, and organization curating events and workshops for

568
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: female empowerment and entrepreneurship. Julisa has a master's degree in

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00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: business from wake Force University. She's an alumni of u

570
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: c l A, and she has held corporate leadership positions

571
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: at nest Lee. In other words, Juliusa is a boss bitch.

572
00:31:47,920 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: She does it all, damn and and and and and

573
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: and and and um from it and ship and we're

574
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: really excited to have our next guest in the studio

575
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: with us today. So uh, we are incredibly excited. We've

576
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: been trying to get this morehead on the podcast for

577
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: a minute. Now. We have jet to the Jet Center.

578
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: She's busy, she's all over the place. But we have

579
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Speaker 1: in the stew we have in the studio Julius Oprado.

580
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: You know her from Rizo's Curls. Julisa, can you say

581
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: hi to listeners? Introduce yourself. Oh my god, I am

582
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: star struck. It is a look at our radio in

583
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: love lesh. So I'm so excited to be here. Y'all

584
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: are amazing. I've been girlfriending y'all for a while now.

585
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: Um and yeah, I'm Julia Brado, CEO and founder of

586
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: Resource Curls Curly Here product line. And yeah, I'm I'm

587
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: excited to be here with you all. Yeah, same girl.

588
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: I've been following you on i G for a while

589
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: and like you have been living your best life and

590
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: I'm just like sending your stories to Mala, like okay, goals,

591
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: like I want to be when I grow up. We

592
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: were we were really like into your Coachella experience. Every

593
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: outfit I was like, oh my god, look at the

594
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: looks that Ju Lisa is serving at Coachella. Living girl

595
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: fashion que like the outfit fashion que comes through though

596
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,719
Speaker 1: they love fashion. Que Jusa, you're here, We're in our

597
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: fem tech quarter. You are CEO, founder of Rizzio's Curls.

598
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit more about what

599
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: you do about your company, about your journey, and about

600
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: being a curly heard queen all the above? Yes. So.

601
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: Um growing up in predominantly Latino neighborhoods, Um, I was

602
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: always around my family and community, and I noticed that,

603
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, the majority of us had some type of

604
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: texture to our hair, like whether it was like a

605
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: little bit of a wave, whether it was curls, coils,

606
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: whatever it was. For so many of us, we had

607
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 1: to straighten our like we strained our hair. And Um,

608
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: I remember that. I always tell the story of like

609
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: people always asked like, what was the first time that

610
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: they thought of girls, And I'm like, actually it was

611
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: when we're going to and my cousins, like back in

612
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: the day, like in the hood, they didn't really have

613
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 1: flat irons like that yet, so they used like the blanch,

614
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: like an actual blanche, like an iron. Yes to iron

615
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: your clothes. So they put my head. I was like ten,

616
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: and they put my head over an ironing board and

617
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: they ate in my hairshirt with the clothes iron. And

618
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: let me tell you, I thought I was all that

619
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: because I got so many compliments after I gotta dig

620
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: the compliments, Like I was like, yo, I'm like the

621
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: hottest girl in the whole school of ten years old.

622
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: You know, that's like bringing back so many memories for

623
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: me right now, because it was such a thing to

624
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: straighten your hair. Every single day it was straight, and

625
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to have a straightener. My mom would

626
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: not buy me one. And in middle school, everyone was

627
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: straight in their hair and my mom was like, you're

628
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: not damaging your hair, like you're not doing it. She

629
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: was real, but she would she wouldn't let me, and

630
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 1: I was devastated. I was devastated. She would use a blanch, No,

631
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: she would use anything. I couldn't put any heat on

632
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: my hair. Interesting, which is probably for the best, Yeah,

633
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: you know it is in the long run. Yeah. So

634
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: that was me getting my hair blanch with the freaking

635
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: with the clothes um and I just remember being on

636
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: the ironing board and thinking like there's got to be

637
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: a better way. So um, I kind of that's kind

638
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: of where I started embarking on this journey to learn

639
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,240
Speaker 1: how to sell my hair. So um I started my

640
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 1: my my dad opened up his own So my dad's

641
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: the history of my dad is like he crawled through

642
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: the sowers to come to this country, like you know barely,

643
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: you know, had like ten dollars in his pocket type

644
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: of thing. His first job was like picking oranges in

645
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: the fields, and then he started working as a dishwasher

646
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: and moved up and up and would save all his

647
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:26,919
Speaker 1: money's and um, when I was around like thirteen years old,

648
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: he started his own like his dreams always started his

649
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 1: own restaurant. So he started out his own little restaurant.

650
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: My dad, Um, now his English is like I tell him,

651
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: it's poppin. You know he had but I'm like like

652
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: you American dad, But back then he didn't speak English

653
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: and he only everyone just go like two years. So

654
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: like I kind of managed the like business side of it,

655
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: and then he did all the food. So I grew

656
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: up in a restaurant with my dad, and like my

657
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: money's was like my tips that a lot of the customers.

658
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: Since I was just like, you know, such a good

659
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: little thirteen year old helper, they would be I mean,

660
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: I knew how to hustle these customers, you know. I

661
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: would be like, I have a school project on Friday

662
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: that I want to buy crayon, like that would give

663
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 1: me like an extra ten dollars or something. So anyway,

664
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: so I had my money's like years old, so we're

665
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: already an entrepreneur already, okay, So um, I would save

666
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: up all my money's and like buy every curly product

667
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: out there, and I was I always felt like they

668
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: were like selling dreams with regards to my hair because

669
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: the majority of the products either were like for beach waves,

670
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: or they were way too heavy for my hair, or

671
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: they would just provide like hold, or they would just

672
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: like and then for me, especially during that time, like

673
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: I was straightening my hair like every single day, like

674
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: you guys mentioned, so my hair was damaged. Um, so

675
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: I felt like I needed a product. I need something

676
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: to not just like moisturized, not just hold, but like

677
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: to extra define and like give my curl, my my

678
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: pattern a little help because it was like it was

679
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: already damaged like lacking from the heat damage. So I started.

680
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: So my grandma Um on my so my Maulita's both

681
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: of them actually, but specifically on my mom's side. She

682
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: was like the um, like the she she was the

683
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: one that would like birth, like help birth all the

684
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: babies in the pueblo. So she yeah, so she was

685
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: like super. She would do all the little medicines, like

686
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: she had all these little jars and like um you know.

687
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: So anyway, so from her Um, I grew up. Like

688
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: when I was little, I had xama on my scalp

689
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: and she would she cured me by using like savila

690
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 1: like olivera, and she would scoop up the inside and

691
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: use it as a mask on my scalp. And she

692
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: always taught me to like turn to the earth, to

693
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: care for our bodies, to care for our ourselves, like

694
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: on the inside and out. So with those learnings, like

695
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up for me like natural ingredients

696
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: and like turning to the earth was always something that

697
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: came very natural because that's how I grew up with

698
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: her Um. So I started making my own concoctions at

699
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: home because I couldn't find products that worked for me.

700
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: So I had like my little liman for like extra hold.

701
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: I would have like my little like um little savvy

702
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: lab mixes for like my scalp like I would do

703
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: like all these little concoctions. I would have flax seed

704
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: for like gel like. So I would carry them around

705
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: a little zip blog bag. Then I'll keep a storm

706
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: in the fridge and I would have my little lemon

707
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: and my little friends would call me the Liman girl.

708
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 1: But my curls were bopping right. I was like, y'all

709
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: hate it now, but my curls out here flourishing. So

710
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: I would run into a lot of I would call

711
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: them undercover curlies, like so many girls, especially like I

712
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: felt like Latina's were the biggest culprits of this because

713
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: for so many of us, our texture is the kind

714
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: that allows us to not need like chemicals to necessarily

715
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: It's like so easy to just flat iron it. It's

716
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: so easy to to strain it. It's not like we

717
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: gotta go do it at a specifics a lot. It's

718
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: like we could do that at home. So there were

719
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: so many undercover curlies. Um, so these girls like I

720
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: would run into them, like in the bathroom, my dorm

721
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: room in here and here, and they would be like,

722
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: my hair's actually curly. It could never look like yours.

723
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: And then I would be like, well, girl, where do

724
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: you live? And I would like go over to their house.

725
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: They would come to my house. I would go to

726
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: their dorm when I was in college, and I would

727
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: do their hair and I would teach them how to

728
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: do it, and for all of them it was their

729
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: first time like seeing their hair styled naturally, and I

730
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: would teach them a little concoctions and I would see

731
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: them the next week with like their little zip blog

732
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: bags or a little demon or whatever, and they would

733
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: start like wear rocking their natural hair. And when my

734
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: formulas took four years to create. Later when I was like, okay,

735
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 1: this whole like doing at home is like it's really

736
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: hard for it not to be spoiled, and like I

737
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: don't want to get sued with, like I want to

738
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: make sure like this is like FDA proved, and like

739
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: I don't know it's going on a person's head, yeah,

740
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 1: and I don't want it to go back. I can't

741
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: be like a y'all can only put it out of

742
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: the bag for like thirty minute, put it in the fridge,

743
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: because then it starts to smell like you know what,

744
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: it was all natural, like you're not using chemicals, and

745
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, So anyway, so the formulas

746
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: took four years to create, but once I actually launched,

747
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: like all those girls that I had helped throughout the years,

748
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: those like fifteen years since I was like freaking like

749
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: fifteen years old, they all became my first customers. Like

750
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: they were all the people that right away they were

751
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: messaging me like, of course I'm going to buy this.

752
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: It's been ten years since you taught me this. I

753
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: met you in the elevator at this place, and um,

754
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: of course I'm gonna support you. Like I'm still using

755
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 1: the same kind of process like thank you so much,

756
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and so I had forgotten like it

757
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: was like hundreds of people I had encountered. That's amazing

758
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: the community showed up for you in that way because

759
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: you also gave, like you gave a lot of you know,

760
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: your knowledge and your resources, and then they also gave

761
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: it back to you. Yeah, which for me it was like, um,

762
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 1: it was like that's how I knew that this was

763
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: like my path. This was like you know, my, my, my, my, my,

764
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: passion is because I was doing it when you know

765
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: I wasn't. It was like I did it because of

766
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: that's what felt right in my heart and not because

767
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: I was like making any money or even thought of

768
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: it as a business. Um. But yeah, and I love

769
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: the way that the knowledge was passed down from your

770
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: I would leave that to you and like the herbs

771
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: and the natural like ingredients. Yeah, because you know, since

772
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: we are in our FM tech quarter, like that's exactly

773
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: what you described is what we call fem technology, right,

774
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: and the way it is passed down and the way

775
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: that we can maybe reframe the way we think about science,

776
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: right and stem because what you were describing your doing

777
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: like medical, that was the science, right. It was definitely medicinal.

778
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: It was definitely scientific, but maybe it wasn't considered that

779
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: when she was doing it. I remember going up when

780
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: I was little, like she would always have a little

781
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: arnica flower and then she would use make tea. She

782
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: would like always use ana like she would boil it

783
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: and like put like whenever someone was injured, like you know,

784
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: clean us with it or whatever. And then when I

785
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: got old, started getting older, started seeing that in pills now,

786
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 1: and I'm like yo, Western medicine is finally catching up.

787
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: But when you I was little, like that was like

788
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,919
Speaker 1: oh this like this is not you know, it wasn't

789
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: respected as something that um actually works. And then now

790
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: like these doctors will prescribe it as like go get

791
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: these tablets of ana. It's like it's been gentrified, like

792
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: the natural like indigenous remedies really get gentrified and get

793
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: eaten up and swallowed up by corporate medicine and corporate tech.

794
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: I think this is a really good place to ask

795
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: you about, in general, your thoughts about hair care and

796
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: and beauty products and hair products as technology. Yeah, so

797
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: what a lot of people don't realize about the like

798
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 1: hair care space and beauty space in general is like espe. Actually,

799
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: when stylists go to cosmetology school, they go to learn

800
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: how to cut hair, deal with hair um. In our

801
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: society curly like what's been the norm is always straight hair.

802
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: So it's like you learn what the norm is is

803
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: straight hair. So everything that they're taught in schools, they

804
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: don't ever teach them how to style naturally curly hair.

805
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: They teach them how to strain it, they teach them

806
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: how to cut it when it's already straight. Like everything

807
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,959
Speaker 1: is conducive to somebody who has straight hair. Like even

808
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: what they learn of like how many times do shampoo

809
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: or hair how what kind of ingredients? Like all these

810
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: things that they're learning is all about the norm for them,

811
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: which is straight hair. And and a lot of people

812
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: think is like, oh, curly hair or textured hair is

813
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: so difficult, Oh my god, it's so this, and it's like, no,

814
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: it's not that it's difficult. It's that everything that we

815
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: know is based on a different texture and it's just different,

816
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 1: and we need to like understand that. Um. Different doesn't

817
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 1: mean like weren't difficult or bad. It just means like

818
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: I just need to relearn this. So um, even like

819
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: with with stylist, like getting even just a haircut, when

820
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: you go get your hair cut by like a regular haircut,

821
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: they're cutting your hair so it could be straight. And

822
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: so if you're trying to wear your hair naturally curly,

823
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: your texture is not going to like be as curly.

824
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: Like your hair is not going to grow in the

825
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: same way. It's not gonna do like even the angles

826
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: at which they cut it at. Curly hair is supposed

827
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: to be cut wet. I mean dry. Straight hair is

828
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: supposed to be cut wet. Like there's just like all

829
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: these little rules, um that we don't understand. And even like,

830
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: for example, UM, curly hair is usually or textured hair

831
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: in general is a little bit drier, and it's a

832
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: little bit more like delicate, Like it's not supposed to

833
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: be washed all the time. Like oils are good for

834
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 1: the hair, and in general oils, natural oils are good

835
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: for your scalp. So UM, a lot of these things

836
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,959
Speaker 1: that we've learned to like shampoo our hair all the time,

837
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: Like that's so bad for your up and your hair

838
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: and you're just adding to like your scalp being dry. Yeah,

839
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: what do you think, like in your experience, and because

840
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 1: you're a pro in this world, what are the things

841
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: that latin as that women of color that we tend

842
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: to do with our hair that are major no nos

843
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: that are more damaging than anything else. Yeah, So one

844
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: is UM washing you here all the time. That's a

845
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: huge one. I think that's like the biggest mistake that

846
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: we make is UM shampooing or hair all the time.

847
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: And even like for example, me, I only utilize ship

848
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: well one thing first and foremost, shampoo isn't meant for

849
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: your entire head for the rest of your hair. Shampoo

850
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: is meant for your scalp. The purpose of shampoo is

851
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: to clean, is to like um clean without over drying.

852
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: Is to like you know, open up these make sure

853
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: your hair follicles are not being blocked by any product

854
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: build up. It's just like to care for your scalp

855
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,439
Speaker 1: like your face, like another part of your skin. So

856
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, like the majority of these

857
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: products out here have silicones, sulfates, parabins, and in particular

858
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: what they have sulfates, and what a sulfate is, it's

859
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: pretty much a harsh detergent, and a lot of these

860
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: shampoos have sulfates. That's what makes it like super phamy,

861
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,479
Speaker 1: like that feeling of like extra wash. But if you're

862
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: putting that like a lot of these sulfates there, that's

863
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: what's in like detergents to like wash dishes like harsh,

864
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: and if you're putting that directly on your scalp, like

865
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: that's so bad for imagine putting something like that on

866
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: your face. Whatever. I think about that all the time,

867
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: how I spend so much time on my skincare and

868
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: like I'd never pay attention to my hair like I

869
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,760
Speaker 1: was recently that I transformed transitioned into like a paarabin

870
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: free shampoo. But I was like using like the Pantine

871
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: type shampoo for gear, like whatever, whatever, whatever my mom buy,

872
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 1: I would use that in my biggest recommendation, Like, even

873
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: if you don't care about the rest of your hair,

874
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: at least just care about your scalp, Like at least

875
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: just like treat your scalp because y'all gonna be complaining

876
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: when it's too late and you have early hair. Law, right,

877
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: what are this? This is a good a good one too,

878
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: because what are some of the mistakes that men make?

879
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: Their number one? So, just like I said, the chemicals,

880
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: Like so the majority of male products, especially styling products,

881
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: have silicones. The reason why silicones are bad is because

882
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 1: a silicone is like a plastic. It gives the illusion

883
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: of shiny and soft. And what a silicone does, It's

884
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: like it almost adds like a plastic from your hair

885
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: follicle through the whole strand. And of course it's gonna

886
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: look shiny, it's gonna look soft because there's like it's

887
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: like a plastic. But what happens to the hair follical

888
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: on your scalp. It can't breathe. If it can't breathe,

889
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: it can't absorb. It can't absorb nutrients, it can't like

890
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: fully grow and continue growing, so it falls off. So

891
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: what happens you experienced early hair loss? Um so in

892
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: exactly the same way, like the way working in a

893
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: behind the scenes and the manufacturing and like you know,

894
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: coming up with these ingredients. I see that it's so crazy,

895
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: how like so I see how like a bucket, a

896
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 1: huge bucket of like a silicone will cost nothing like

897
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: nothing too, and but the but the few a bucket

898
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: of like you know, a natural ingredient to also give

899
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: you that shine and softness. It's gonna cost you like more,

900
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 1: you know, but it's gonna help you in the long run.

901
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: And then with hair care, it's exact same way as

902
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: like food, like for example, making a mac and cheese, right,

903
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: that's like super unhealthy with a lot of butter or whatever.

904
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: It don't taste amazing that moment, right, but you're not

905
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: going to see the negative effects to like ten years

906
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: in when you have diabetes, when you have like all

907
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: these other like you know, your your health is its

908
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: hurting the exact same way with hair care and with

909
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: products that we put on our hair. It's like at

910
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 1: that moment those silicones or soul fates was all these

911
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: things feel great and they give you shine. But a

912
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: year later down the line, you're gonna see your scalp

913
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: um flaking, You're gonna see your your hair loss, you're

914
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: gonna see your hair not growing as much. You're gonna

915
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: see like all these other things. So it's like, it's

916
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: crazy how much like we need to And not only that,

917
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: but it's like what you're putting on your scalp, you're

918
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,240
Speaker 1: putting it on your into your bloodstream, like you're putting

919
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: it into whatever you put on your skin on your body.

920
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: It gets absorbed into your bloodstream. Like what I explain

921
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,319
Speaker 1: to people that I have a hard time understanding this,

922
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: it's like that birth control patch. All you do is

923
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: just stick that on anywhere, and it's so the hormones

924
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: that are released into your bloodstream is so strong you

925
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: could you don't you you don't get no no babies,

926
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean. So it's like, imagine

927
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: you're putting these chemicals on your head. Wow, I've never

928
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: even thought of that at all. I've never thought about

929
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: my shampoo entering my blood stream. Yeah, like and not

930
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: just your blooded stream. It's like that she does on

931
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: your go call your brain girl like so enlightening. So

932
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: put in general, like for me, like I only shampoo,

933
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: like I would say, I shamp again, everything is how

934
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: you are, for example, like your scalp. What I say

935
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: about my scalp might be different than somebody else. Some

936
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: people have very early scales, people have very dry scales.

937
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: To people have like different um um, you know, scalp necessities, right,

938
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 1: just like different skin types exactly, but in general, like

939
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: I would say, like figure out a way, like kind

940
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 1: of because most people more than none are washing their

941
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 1: hair with shampoo too often, right, so like I would say,

942
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: tested out, like see how often you really need to shampoo? Um,

943
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: even like natural ones. Like it's like it's okay to

944
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: not washing hair so often. So what I do I

945
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: co wash or I what I do is like so

946
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,439
Speaker 1: pretty much like sometimes what I do is I don't

947
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: I won't use shampool, I'll just do a conditioner. So

948
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: like sometimes like during that month, like it doesn't mean

949
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: like I haven't washed my whole head in a month,

950
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: it means like I haven't utilized a shampoo, so all

951
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: I've done in the shower is I'll just put conditioner

952
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: and again, so conditioner is meant for the rest of

953
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: your hair. So in the same way, how like certain things,

954
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 1: like for example, on skincare, if you have too oil,

955
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: if you put like certain argone oil, like it might

956
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 1: clog your pores. It might be too strong of oil,

957
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: too strong of moisture for your skin. Right, the same

958
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: thing with scalps. Scalp is like another skin. So a

959
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: lot of the ingredients and conditioners, they're meant for the

960
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: rest of your hair because the rest of your hair

961
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: needs really strong moisturizing reparative nutrients. Right, So when you're

962
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: using conditioner, it's like you shouldn't really put that on

963
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: your scalp, Like I mean, you could put close to it,

964
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: but like you put it on the rest of your hair.

965
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: And what I would do is like during that month,

966
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: like I usually maybe like once a week, I'll use

967
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: conditioner in my hair and I brush my hair and

968
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: then like I wash it. But I only really utilize

969
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: shampoo like once a month, maybe twice a month max.

970
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: And that's what works for you, that's a formula for yours,

971
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: and that's what works for me. And then like I

972
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: mentioned um So, our shampoo for example, has maringa oil

973
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: that's really good for scalp, like dry scalp and itchy scalp.

974
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: But I always tell people like if well, no matter what,

975
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: no matter what products you have, from the moment that

976
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: you pull something from the earth, it begins losing its potency.

977
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 1: There's no way to bottle full potency from like you

978
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: literally pulling it that moment and like using it on yourself.

979
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,240
Speaker 1: So I always like to pair my ingredients, my products

980
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 1: with natural things. So for example, like I'll do if

981
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: I want to do a deep mask, I'll take my

982
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: conditioner and like mix it with like coconut oil, olive oil,

983
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: I'll cooke, I'll mix it with like different things. If

984
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: I want to add like a little bit of like

985
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: if my scalp is like feeling weird, like a little

986
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: bit of like adnica like in there, if I want

987
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: to add whatever I want to do to it, I

988
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: do that. Like I if my scalp is for people

989
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 1: that we have some customers that will have like very

990
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: dry scalp or scalp issues. I'm like, literally, go pulla

991
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: works so good, Like get that gel and no it

992
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: smells funny, but like girls just washing her after you

993
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: shampoo in conditioner after like you'll be fine. Yeah, it's

994
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 1: really like has so many uses. My mother uses it

995
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: as the face mask and she puts it on every

996
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: night before bed. So good. Like we have a story

997
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: with pretty chip shot back to next. Our listeners are familiar. Yeah,

998
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: I've been friends with her since we were in high school.

999
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: And there was one time we wanted to go to Vegas.

1000
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: But then she got her appendix taken out right, So

1001
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: then like she had the whole like freaking um scar

1002
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: all big, right, So I was like, damn girl, like

1003
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: we're trying to go to Vegas like in two days, Like,

1004
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: ain't nobody trying to have your biggest scar, like if

1005
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: the stitches all open? So I got we we like,

1006
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 1: So I drove over there. I Rember with bubys, my

1007
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 1: little sister Joe over there, and I got her sail plant.

1008
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,479
Speaker 1: We put the saula on there and tell me why

1009
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:43,399
Speaker 1: it closed. I put anica and that closed. Two days

1010
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: we were in Vegas, living the best life, and she

1011
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: was in a skirt in mid like in a school,

1012
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: A skirt and tuptop cured her. She can test it.

1013
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: She can attested being healing and making her scar clothed

1014
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 1: enough for us to go party and get you. Oh

1015
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 1: my gosh, you are like you are a community quit

1016
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: then yeah, you're a healer girl? Okay, girl, healer? And

1017
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: what does she not do? Amazing? Wow? I love it.

1018
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: I want to ask, because you brought this up earlier,

1019
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: the three seas? Yes, what are the three seeds? What

1020
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: do they stand for? Yeah? So Reso's curls is curls, community, culture,

1021
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: and um, those that's like what our mission, That's what

1022
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: the business is, That's what girls is, and that's what

1023
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: we we adhere by. And the reason why the community

1024
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: and the culture part are just as important as the

1025
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: curls is because what I'm selling is not nearly as

1026
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: important as why I'm selling it and why I'm doing it.

1027
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: So in general, I think what you find in common

1028
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: with a lot of these like Latina businesses, Um, you guys,

1029
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: like you know so many of these other amazing latinas

1030
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: that you guys that y'all have featured. Um, what we

1031
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 1: have in common is like our why is so much

1032
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: bigger than our what are We're part of this a

1033
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: larger movement. We're part of a larger purpose and um,

1034
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: that's what That's why people connect with us, and that

1035
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 1: keeps us grounded and authentic, and that's why people are

1036
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: our community propelses forward is because the why is so

1037
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: much more important than what we are doing or selling. Agreed,

1038
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 1: I agree completely. I mean there's a story, there's a

1039
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: story behind it, there's a reason, there's ancestral knowledge, there's

1040
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: a grandmother. I mean earlier Julia and I were talking

1041
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 1: about just like how we as Latinos are drawn to gold,

1042
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: to otto, and I'm like, what's an ancestral calling? Like

1043
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:42,319
Speaker 1: our home countries mainly had them had gold. Um. And

1044
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: so you know it's not for nothing that you know,

1045
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: we're drawn to certain things like it doesn't just come

1046
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. And we still want our gold back

1047
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, we did Vatican City like our

1048
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: gold back. Um. This also reminds me to going back

1049
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 1: to kind of rewinding a little bit. You were talking

1050
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,239
Speaker 1: about mixing natural products and doing like hair masks and things.

1051
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: How many of us are mothers. We grew up with

1052
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 1: our mom's putting avocado in our hair. Even my mom

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00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: used to put mayonnaise in our hearts, a mask, right,

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00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: olive oil, all kinds of things and make us sit

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00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: in it for hours. And I remember being like, what

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00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: is why are you doing this to me? Why is

1057
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: there mayonnaise in my hair? But it's all these like

1058
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: home remedies that work, and because the store products are

1059
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: not doing what we want them to do, so we

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00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: need to use you know, what do we have in

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00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: the kitchen exactly? But um, yeah, I think um in

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00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: general to like a lot of these products. Sometimes, like

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00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: you'll see some of these products and it'll say like

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00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: avocado on the front or it'll say like olivera or

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00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: shave butter or whatever it'll say on the front of

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00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: the bottle, and then you go home and you use

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00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: it and you're like, well, I don't really like I'm

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00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: so confused why it is not working. And from the

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00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: manufacturing behind the scenes side, I've learned that like like

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00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: a lot of these companies don't They don't really care

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00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: about that why, and it shows when they're sourcing their ingredients.

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00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: So you can put on a label or you can

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00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: put on a bottle that you have included a certain ingredient,

1074
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 1: but you can buy a very watered down, non potent,

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00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: very non organic, very like you know, you sourced it

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00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:21,919
Speaker 1: from China literally like something that and you've never met

1077
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: the sourcer. You don't really know exactly where it's coming, like,

1078
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: you have no idea, you know, you have no interaction,

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00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 1: real interaction with who you're buying this from. So you

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00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: compromise potency for your margins. You're you're compromising this. So

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00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: a lot of the time when that doesn't happen, when

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00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 1: you're buying these products and it says it says it

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00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 1: has this, but then you're not seeing the result, like

1084
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 1: question it like absolutely, why is that so? Absolutely? And

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00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: so what what as far as like your ingredients and

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00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: your products and how the product comes together and where

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00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: it's made? Is that? Would you like to share a

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00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,919
Speaker 1: little bit about your process for anyone who's interested? Yeah,

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00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: so for me, um, I I don't know if I

1090
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: said this dream interview or before I told my process

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00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: right at four years how I yes, did you talked

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00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: about a little bit about that? Yeah? Okay, I was

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00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: like we were like chatting so much like before. I'm like,

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00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: I don't even know when this UM. So the formulas

1095
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: took me four years to create, and I worked with

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00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: two different labs. So the first lab that I worked

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00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: with was more white, and I felt like there was

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00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: bigger and like they were more like fancy schmancy and

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00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: laboratory laboratory exactly. UM. And I just like I I

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00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: didn't even get to like they didn't even really let

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00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: me like really connect with the chemist. It was like

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00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 1: very there's no it was very informal, and me being

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00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: new to this industry, like I didn't know there could

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00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: be another way. So UM two years in you know,

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00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: money and time spent, I just like I wasn't happy

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00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 1: with the products that I was getting the results of

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01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: the formulas that I was getting back. So then I

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01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 1: made the hard decision to go with it start all

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01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: over again with a new lab and this time it

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01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 1: was a family owned Nigerian owned um Lab manufacturing plant

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01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: and the chemist is Jamaican and she and I felt

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01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: like the connection there was the reason why we were

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01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: able to achieve like such great formulas was because the

1114
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: synergy was there. They understood the importance of these ingredients

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01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 1: like they understood they saw ingredients in the same way

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01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: that my culture sees ingredients as medicine like she saw

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01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: them as well, and she had all these stories as

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01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,280
Speaker 1: well of like using these different things, and it was

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01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: very collaborative. Like I was like, I really love this ingredient.

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Speaker 1: They're like, well, we really like moringa oil. We source

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Speaker 1: this directly from Nigeria, or we do this here, or

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01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: we do that. So it was like a really beautiful

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01:00:56,200 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 1: like black brown collaboration. And I would go back and

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01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: tested on my family and then she would go back

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01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: and tested on you know, their families. So it was

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Speaker 1: like a it was very you know, collaborative, um, and

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01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 1: it was kind of like emerging of our learning from

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Speaker 1: both of our cultures. Very cool. That's super cool. And

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Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot to say there too about

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01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: the black community and black women in particular really innovating

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01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: for many years now in hair care. And I mean

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Speaker 1: madam Madam C. J. Walker, who was like what the

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01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: first black woman millionaire and she made hair products for

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Speaker 1: black women, right, Like there's a lot of history, there

1135
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: is so much history. Amazing. Thank you for sharing that

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01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 1: because I don't think that wasn't like in the bio

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01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 1: or anywhere else. But that's like a really important piece

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01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: of the story, So thank you for sharing that with

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01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 1: our listeners. Of course, I'm in general and everything that

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01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: I do, I'm like, I try to work with and

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01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: collaborate as much as possible with black and brown folks.

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01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:00,439
Speaker 1: So absolutely as do we. That's the model, It's yes,

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01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 1: and that's where the community piece comes in, right, So, um,

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01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's anything you want to say also

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01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: about the community you've created hashtag rizzos Reinas because you

1146
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 1: have a lot of rainers out there, and you also

1147
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 1: not too long ago we saw we peepe that you

1148
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: had an ad out in Times Square. Oh my god. Yeah,

1149
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: it's about this movement and just going nationwide and being

1150
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 1: all over the place, Reina movement. So THESS Reina has

1151
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 1: become a whole movement because it's like it represents this

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01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: woman who was unapologetic about her culture, unapologetic about her presence,

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01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 1: unapologetic about what she brings to the table, and she

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01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 1: is going places she gives back to her community. She

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01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: is um you know, all about collaboration, all about empowering

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01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 1: other people that look like her, you know, giving back

1157
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: and um looking good while doing it, having fun, living

1158
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 1: their best life. Caring about their wellness, wellness of others

1159
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: and wearing so many different hats. And that's been my

1160
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 1: experience with meeting so many of our customers that are

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01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 1: you know now it's like a movement and they're my friends,

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01:03:15,080 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 1: and they're like these home girls that I've created, that

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01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 1: that that we've created this like amazing like family. We

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01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: call it like Reso's Rein family and that movement, and

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01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: they're like so proud to call themselves Resols now because

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01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: of like the wider messaging behind it. So with that

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01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: we kind of like, um, I would go to For example,

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01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: I went to New York and I threw a party

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01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 1: for like I asked the I tell people, I'm like,

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01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 1: I don't call the shots at Resos girls the reasons

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01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 1: now the shots like they're telling me what to do.

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01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:51,040
Speaker 1: So when I was in New York, I was like,

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01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 1: what do y'all want? I want to meet y'all like

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01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 1: I want to, you know, like I'm always yearning to

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01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: meet them because let me tell you, these girls are

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01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 1: so fully live, Like I mean, we got Resol Rey

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01:03:59,920 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: is to y'all cool, y'all really cool too, but these

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01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: right now, y'all got to give it up to these

1179
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: reasons to day. Now, it's like they're out here, Like

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01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: I'm always so inspired and so in awe of them online,

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01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: like a lot of them, Like that's when I first

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01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 1: meet them online, and I'm just like, so you need

1183
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: to tell me that you are doing your side like

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01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 1: blog and then you have three kids, you're a mom,

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01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: you're also going to school, you also work for this

1186
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: company doing this, and you're like, I'm just like what

1187
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: you're and you're supporting me and you're coming to my

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01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 1: events and then you're trying to volunteer to go do

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01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: some community work that you also do and like throwing

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01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 1: this something else. I'm just like, y'all inspire me so much.

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01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:46,160
Speaker 1: So in general, like I'm always trying to create situations

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01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 1: to meet them and interact with them and like, you know,

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01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: just be in their presence. So um, I was like,

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01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: what do y'all want? They're like, we want not turning

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01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: up because you'd be having parties in that lay, right,

1196
01:04:56,120 --> 01:05:00,120
Speaker 1: y'all want They're like, we want to turn up. So

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01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, we can have a night.

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01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, we had a res daya night out

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01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 1: there and it was like so late. It was like

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01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 1: three beautiful, curly haired girls and that was my first one.

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01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: And UM, we started doing more and more events like

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01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 1: I did UM more recently, I did a networking night

1203
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: where we did UM. We did like different like curated

1204
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: activity so that we everybody got paired with somebody to

1205
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 1: like share a business challenge and then they would help

1206
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: each other. Um, like accomplished that challenge by the end

1207
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 1: of the year. So like like everybody like met somebody

1208
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 1: else and like it's all about like growing and collaborating.

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01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 1: So we've been doing different events. I went to Puerto Rico,

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01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:44,479
Speaker 1: we did the same thing. We had another like women

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01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: empowerment event. UM. So it kind of now we're doing.

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01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: So that's where UM and it started. I'm gonna started

1213
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 1: in the summer. That's where it was born. And I'm

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01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 1: going to call it the Latina Ladder. And the Latina

1215
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 1: Ladder is um, lift as you climb, and I feel like, yeah,

1216
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: we lift as we climb, And I think that represents

1217
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: like the resources right, no movement that we've started and

1218
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: all of that good stuff. But um, as far as

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01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 1: a billboard, UM, I don't know if y'all saw the

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01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: Sex and the City, we saw the little short we

1221
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 1: thought it. Yeah, I want to be Carrie Bradshaw, Like

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01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 1: this is the thing about marketing. Was funny because I

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01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 1: got some messages after that about like this is not

1224
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: Latino marketing and I'm like, no, no, no, no, this

1225
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: is a hundred percent like millennial. I don't know what

1226
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 1: to call it, but it's like Latino marketing is, like

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01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 1: we like a lot of things. Yeah, sometimes I listened

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01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: to Metallica. Sometimes I want to go to like being

1229
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 1: a mosh pit. Sometimes I want to go work it

1230
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 1: out of Cardi B. Sometimes I want to go listen

1231
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: beat Carry Bradshaw with blonde hair, like you know what

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01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: I mean. I got a lot of interest, y'all. I

1233
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:52,120
Speaker 1: don't know. Box me into something that statement even me.

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01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: Thank you that. So if I want to do a

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01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: Sex and the City thing where like you know, with

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01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 1: a lot of brown women, I'm gonna do a sex

1237
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: in the city a little recreation with brown women, like

1238
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: let me do my things. So but anyways, I recreated

1239
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: the whole Sex in the City, um intro like it

1240
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: was really so cute. Yeah Instagram like frame by frame

1241
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: or y'all gotta go watch it. But um, instead of

1242
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 1: the bus. It's my billboard in Times Square with all

1243
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 1: these curls and brown women just like out there huge

1244
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 1: and we was on We had it um during New

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01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 1: Year's and during fashion week and during this time, and

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01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 1: I was just like it was so beautiful, like standing there.

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01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 1: When I went to see it myself, I was standing

1248
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: there and I'm just like seeing like it just stood

1249
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 1: out from like seeing all these like brown faces with

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01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 1: like huge curls. Um. It was just such a beautiful

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01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: sight to see. Amazing congratulations, gratulation. That's major, major, major moves. Yeah.

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01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 1: One of my goals with Resol's curls is to like

1253
01:07:57,360 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: put latinas put women of color, put curls into spaces

1254
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 1: that may we feel like a're not creative for us

1255
01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: sincessarily we've never really felt accepted or seen ourselves in

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01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 1: and make people feel so uncomfortable because we are comfortable

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01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 1: there and we are like making it look so much better.

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Speaker 1: I love it, I love it, love it. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today, Julisa. This

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Speaker 1: has been such a treat chatting with you. Yeah, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. Our listeners are gonna love this absolutely so, Julisa,

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Speaker 1: do you want to just share with our look on

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Speaker 1: what is where can they find your products? Where can

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Speaker 1: they find you, follow your work? And where can they

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Speaker 1: buy us curls. Yes, so follow us at Resource Curls

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, um, Twitter, like all of that. On Facebook,

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Speaker 1: we are at Resours Curls hair um and yeah you

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Speaker 1: can d m us ask us for tips, hair tips whatever.

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Speaker 1: Like we're constantly like telling people helping people to walk

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Speaker 1: through the transition of wearing their hair natural, to buy

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Speaker 1: our products Resource curls dot com um on there also

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Speaker 1: there's a store locator um little tab where you can

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Speaker 1: find it locally. Um and yeah, just like join thea

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Speaker 1: movement like what we're You're welcome. You're welcome to join us.

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Speaker 1: We're here with open arms. Oh I love it. This

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Speaker 1: has so we'll catch you next time. Look at mosas