1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: And of course I'm here with my Wealth Wednesday partner 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Stacy Tuesday. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: I do Wealth Wednesdays everybody, and we are so excited 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 2: that Jasmine Crow from Gooder is here. 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: Yes, Jasmin Crow Houston. 6 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, married woman. Now you are a married woman now 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,159 Speaker 3: building more wealth. Right, that's so I think about it. 8 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 2: So Angela and I were talking about how this all 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: came about and how you all connected. 10 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 3: It was so great. 11 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 4: So Angela was an honoree at Accelerate her this year. 12 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 4: I've been following her for many many years. But something 13 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 4: I was like, I'm going to reach out to Angela 14 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 4: and tell her about this grocery store that I'm opening, 15 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 4: because I think it's a conversation that we need to 16 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 4: be having about affordability of food. And of course Angela 17 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 4: is just a girl's girl. And she wrote back and 18 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 4: she was like, yeah, we need to talk about this, 19 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 4: and this is how it came together. 20 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad because, honestly, like one of the 21 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: main things that I focus on when it comes to 22 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: things I want to do outside of work is about 23 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: like food insecurities, food deserts. You know. Having had a 24 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: juice bar in the past that was part of what 25 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: my passion was. Now I have a coffee shop, but 26 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: I'm always trying to think of ways that i can 27 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: do things in the community to help people that need 28 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: it the most. And it's so interesting because the way 29 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: that you started your organization, and I know you can 30 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: by way of Phoenix to Atlanta, but was seeing an 31 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: issue but also realizing that the issue isn't necessarily that 32 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: there's not enough food, is how do we get this 33 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: food distributed to people who really needed. 34 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, the distribution, I would call it, the logistics of it. 35 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 4: And so I went to college in North Carolina, went 36 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 4: to Phoenix. That was the first time I ever fed 37 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 4: people that were experiencing homelessness, and I always talk about 38 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 4: setting up that day and then when it was time 39 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 4: to serve, the people that were helping me volunteer were 40 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 4: on the other side of the table to be served 41 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 4: and get food, and it was it was just a 42 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 4: realization that it could happen to anybody, like everybody's a 43 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 4: couple of paychecks away. I think even recently there's a 44 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 4: post going viral about members of the military service in 45 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 4: line at a food bank because of the shutdown, And 46 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 4: so that's the reality it's only one or two paychecks 47 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 4: that people miss and they could need food. But what 48 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 4: I realized is it was just take whatever we give you, 49 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 4: and there was no dignity in it. It was just like, Hey, 50 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 4: it doesn't matter if you're kosher, you're halla, you don't 51 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 4: eat meat, you're vegan, you're gluten free. 52 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 3: This is what we have and just take it. 53 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 4: And so when I started first feeding on the streets, 54 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 4: it was like optionality, Like, let's have five or six 55 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 4: different options that people can choose from. And that's what 56 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 4: always made us different. 57 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 2: Right you started with Sunday Soul, Yes, and tell people 58 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 2: about that and how it really called attention. 59 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 3: It caught on. 60 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 4: I mean I started one day I posted on Facebook 61 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 4: in twenty thirteen. That's when I moved to Atlanta, so 62 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 4: I've been in Atlanta since twenty thirteen. I was like, Hey, 63 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,679 Speaker 4: I want to create this initiative called Sunday Soul. It's 64 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 4: going to be like good old old school music soul food. 65 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 4: And you know, we turned it into like a pop 66 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 4: up restaurant because it got so popular that we would 67 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 4: feed three to four hundred, five hundred people every single week. 68 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 3: We were out there long. 69 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: When you were paying for this out of your own. 70 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was so crazy. A food bank was supporting 71 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 4: me at first, but then I got a citation and 72 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 4: he was like, yeah, my board member said I can't 73 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 4: support you, and he just kind of cut us off. 74 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 4: And then I was chewponning and price matching and going 75 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 4: to different farmers' markets and like literally I would go 76 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 4: to like ten different stores to get the best prices 77 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 4: of everything. I always say, I'm the reason Walmart doesn't 78 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 4: price match anymore because at first I used to have 79 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 4: all of the all the advertisements, and then they stopped it. 80 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 4: So I would feed. I mean, and this is I 81 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 4: could never do this now, but probably five seven hundred 82 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 4: dollars I could feed that can but I can never 83 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 4: happen now. I was making pasta and chicken and tacos, 84 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 4: and I had krab legs on weekends, like I literally 85 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 4: I remember krab legs being five ninety nine a pound. 86 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: Well times anymore, not anymore, you can't, but the dignity 87 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: of that where you're serving food to people, but it's 88 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: like gourmet. 89 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 3: Food, yeah, like special food. 90 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 4: I remember, just I mean, there was this video that 91 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 4: went viral, the one that helped me start gooder of people. 92 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 4: They were cheering, they were like, praise God, like they 93 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 4: were sitting down. It was a little plastic cup of water. 94 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 3: That's all they were drinking. 95 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 4: And they were just like acting like they were at 96 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 4: a restaurant and toasting, and they just I mean, it 97 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 4: was like, as soon as you take away people's choice, 98 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 4: you take away their dignity. And I was part of 99 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 4: that in the beginning. I remember being part of a 100 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 4: group making all these sandwiches and taking them out on 101 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 4: the streets and a guy says to me, what is 102 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 4: that And I was like, Oh, it's peanut butter and jelly. 103 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 4: He's like, oh, I'm allergic to nuts. And I'm thinking 104 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 4: we just made fifteen hundred peanut butter and jelly sandwiches 105 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:33,119 Speaker 4: that we're thinking we're going to go and give to people. 106 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 4: And that's a very common ymon. 107 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: I know that we used to have to really clean out, 108 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: like everything goes you should make because people have so 109 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: many allergies you could literally kill somebody. 110 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 4: Yes, it was big, but we had made fifteen hundred 111 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 4: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, So it's just our heart 112 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 4: was in the right place. 113 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 3: But the thought is what if it was you? And 114 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 3: it just goes back to what we. 115 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 4: All learned in kindergarten, treating people how you want to 116 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,559 Speaker 4: be treated. And it is like giving me an option. 117 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 2: It's so nice to hear you talk about this because 118 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 2: it's so close and it's so home, and you've giving 119 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 2: people so much dignity. But you're a major social entrepreneur 120 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 2: and you've really turned Gooder into an incredible business. 121 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 4: It is you know, I was thinking about that the 122 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 4: other day because I was I think sometimes is in 123 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 4: the business you get discouraged, right, it's not great every 124 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 4: single day, Like the things that we see are always 125 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 4: so positive, and I was just I was getting discouraged, 126 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 4: and I started thinking, like Jasmine, think of everybody that 127 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 4: you've worked with, Think of all the people that you've fed, 128 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 4: and the fact that over the last you know, nearly 129 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 4: nine years, you have built a multi multimillion dollar business. 130 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 4: And I never would have dreamed that. I was even 131 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 4: telling my friend today like we wouldn't. I would have 132 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 4: never thought I'd be, you know, sitting with Angela. Ye, 133 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 4: Like it is just such an honor to think about 134 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 4: where you start and where you go. 135 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: You know, it's also not easy being an introvert, and 136 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: you said that earlier. You know, you've been doing TEDx 137 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: ta ta yes and doing all of those things and 138 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: really having to network with people. Candy birds, I know, yes, 139 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:04,720 Speaker 1: what's in you? Actually? 140 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 4: And now we open the grocery store with him in 141 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, and I always say, now, we just 142 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 4: opened grocery store twenty nine last WEDNESDA a week ago 143 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 4: and in Birmingham, Alabama. And I just think, like Gonna 144 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 4: just trusted me with the first vision of just like, hey, 145 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 4: I really want to build this grocery store, and he 146 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 4: funded it and from that store, thinking twenty twenty one, 147 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 4: four years later, twenty nine grocery stores we've opened. 148 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: Now, how is that for you? Though? Because we were 149 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: discussing before the interview started networking and how important it 150 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: is to be you can think to yourself, Okay, I 151 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: want to do all these great and positive things, but 152 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: peoplen't need to know about it. 153 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 3: People have to know about it. 154 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's just and also too, you have to 155 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 4: deliver on what you say you're gonna do. And I 156 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 4: think that's the biggest piece of like me going to 157 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 4: someone like a gunner and saying Hey, I have this idea. 158 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 4: We're gonna build a grocery store inside of your old 159 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 4: middle school. You know, he has to trust me and 160 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 4: it has to work, and it has to And a 161 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 4: lot of times you're building as you're flying, right like 162 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 4: you're like I think when we opened Gunner's store, we 163 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 4: have ten days. 164 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 3: It was I talking about you're building as you're rocketed. 165 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 3: It was like ten days, Like I called the principal. 166 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 4: The principal say, yes, you know his team because these 167 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 4: are big stars, they're torn, they have dates. 168 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 2: You know. 169 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 4: The team was like, hey, we could do September eleventh, 170 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 4: twenty twenty one. And I mean it was definitely in 171 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 4: September when I had started working. 172 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 3: On this, so we were like building it. 173 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 4: Then they were going to put clothing and foot locker 174 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 4: was coming in and all these sponsors and it was 175 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 4: like all of this came together in ten days. But 176 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 4: from there, now you have to you have to build 177 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 4: your your plan to replicate it. Right, It's like, okay, 178 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 4: how does this operate? How many people? How many people 179 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 4: are eating every single week? How much do bags cost? 180 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 4: And then we have to continue to iterate because you 181 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 4: know what's happening now is food costs? 182 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: Right? They keep going up. 183 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 4: I mean, I remember buying a pound of ground beef 184 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 4: for three dollars. 185 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 3: You can't get a pound of ground bee now for 186 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 3: under seven. 187 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: And along with all of that, a lot of programs 188 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: are being cut. Now, how has that did your business? 189 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 4: I mean, and I hear from seniors specifically now that 190 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 4: we have a grocery store that anyone can come in 191 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 4: and shop in. My food stamps got cut from eighty 192 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 4: four dollars to twenty three dollars to sixteen dollars a month, 193 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 4: you know, and you're thinking like, how expensive is food? 194 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 4: Because that's the thing I think we all don't think 195 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 4: of when we think of poverty. It's always like, oh, 196 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 4: people need to hustle, they need to go to work, 197 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 4: they need to get up. What if you're a retired 198 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 4: teacher or a retired nurse, your retirement is the same. 199 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 4: It doesn't matter that ground beef went up to seven dollars. 200 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 4: The government's not giving you a four dollars. They're not adjusting. 201 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 4: So now people are like, Okay, how do I feed myself? 202 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 4: How do I feed my pet? They love their pets, 203 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 4: and so they're having to make these critical decisions every 204 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 4: single month, like am I going to pay for you know, food, 205 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 4: or am I going to pay for bills? A lady 206 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 4: came into the grocery store the other day and she 207 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 4: told one of our employees, I need to get ten 208 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 4: dollars worth of groceries on my face and we were 209 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 4: like what. 210 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 211 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 4: She was like just remember me, okay, and I'm gonna 212 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 4: have to come back. I don't have it right now. Right, 213 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 4: that's what we're right now, This. 214 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 2: Is any fifty fifty four million Americans, yes, are hungry. 215 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 3: Like this, don't know where their next meal is coming from. 216 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 2: And the things are changing so rapidly. As you're talking 217 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 2: about how important, it's so scared, where do you see 218 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 2: your role in all of this now? 219 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 4: I mean, I think we are needed now more than ever. 220 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 4: I feel like we've always been needed, But it's like, 221 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 4: who's gonna keep us alive? Because our model is so different. 222 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 4: We're doing something. We're not a food bank, We're not 223 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 4: a food pantry. We're dignity first. We want cities to 224 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 4: come in and partner with us to help us reduce 225 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 4: costs for more people. That's how we see the idea 226 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 4: of like a municipal grocery store, not a city ran 227 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 4: grocery store, a good Ran grocery store. We built a 228 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 4: deli inside of this store. Seniors can get a meal 229 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 4: for five dollars. We have two dollars and fifty cent 230 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 4: kids meals one dollar cups of coffee every day. Just 231 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 4: things that are so affordable so that people can stay alive. 232 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 4: And a friend of mine messaged me the other day 233 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 4: and she said, my dad loves this store. 234 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,719 Speaker 3: It makes him feel so good to be able to. 235 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 4: Treat me and my daughter's family like that's that's unheard of. 236 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 4: It's unheard, and so I think we are needed now 237 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 4: more than ever. 238 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 3: I worry about. 239 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 4: What the next couple of years look like, because we're 240 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 4: just in twenty twenty five. You know, we've got to 241 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 4: still get through what's just kind of taking shape. 242 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 2: You're a social entrepreneur and I was recently part of 243 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 2: the You Win Week here in New York, and that's 244 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 2: just all anybody's talking about social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship, do 245 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 2: tell people what it is. And when you hear Gooder 246 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,079 Speaker 2: and your mission, the first thing you think is nonprofit. 247 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 2: It's not. You're very intentional about creating a for profit company, 248 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 2: a b corporation. You're a social entrepreneur, Tell people what 249 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 2: that means. 250 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 4: The first thing I saw when a video of my 251 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 4: work feeding on the streets went viral is that businesses 252 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 4: are throwing away millions of pounds of perfectly good food. 253 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 4: And I feel like we've all seen it. You've been 254 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 4: to Kala. You call it it's a logistics problem. But 255 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 4: the thing is, Stacey, people were paying waste management companies 256 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 4: millions of dollars a year. None of us are going 257 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 4: to not pay our trash bill. Yeah, you don't want 258 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 4: to sit on our track. 259 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: You have to do that. 260 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 3: You have to do that. You have to pay for 261 00:10:59,320 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 3: your trash. 262 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 4: We're just talk kind of finds, rodents, everything that comes 263 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 4: with it. So perfectly good food was just being thrown 264 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 4: away and people were making money off of it. And 265 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 4: so my thought was, what if I was a different option. 266 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 4: What if I take this food in instead of throwing 267 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 4: it away, I get edible food to nonprofits and start 268 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 4: making sure that it's feeding people. So it was a 269 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 4: business model in that because I was still handling the 270 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 4: logistics of picking the food up, getting it delivered, and 271 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,319 Speaker 4: giving the business back all of the data around who's 272 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 4: this food going to, how many meals have they provided, 273 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 4: how many tax deductions do they have, how many pounds 274 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 4: of food have they kept out of landfill? And that 275 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 4: was the business for the first three years, and then 276 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 4: we got hit with the pandemic and really in a 277 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 4: matter of week, all of my customers were like, oh, 278 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 4: our cafeterias are closed. 279 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 3: We don't have any food. And I was like, how 280 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 3: are we going to stay alive? 281 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 4: And we were so fortunate enough to get a call 282 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 4: from the then superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools who said, Hey, 283 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 4: all of our students get free breakfast and lunch and 284 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 4: now they're going to be learning virtually. Can good or 285 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,199 Speaker 4: work with us to get this food delivered to them? 286 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 4: And so that was her first contract to deliver school 287 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 4: mills to students during the pandemic, and it turned into 288 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 4: delivering mills to seniors, delivering mills to families. 289 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 3: We were who was giving you the food? 290 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 4: I mean well, people were giving us the money and 291 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 4: we were going to get the food. So that was 292 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,199 Speaker 4: the greatest Sarah Blakeley from SPANKX gave me one hundred 293 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 4: thousand dollars. She called, can you imagine someone was like 294 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 4: j has been Sarah Blakelyy's trying to get in contact. 295 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 4: We're like I was like, okay, a couple and the 296 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 4: legs right, So then she did. She sent me and 297 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 4: my friend legans, like I said, they said legs. 298 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 3: Yes, that's so funny, but yeah. 299 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 4: She she gave one hundred thousand dollars a pee from 300 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 4: Quality to Control Music, gave one hundred thousand dollars to 301 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 4: feed families in Atlanta. Unit Away came in with three 302 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars, and then I started hiring word of 303 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 4: mouth all just by doing the work. And that's what 304 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 4: I talked about, being intentional and saying like, hey, if 305 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 4: you give me this, this is how many families I 306 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 4: could feed, I'm going to give them all this food. 307 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 4: I mean we had these they were called Gooder boxes. 308 00:12:58,120 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 4: I mean we had everything in those boxes? 309 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 2: Right? How did you scale all this? 310 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 4: It's I mean, God, because sometimes I'm sitting here think 311 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 4: like how did I do it? We used to go 312 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 4: to the grocery store at like six o'clock in the 313 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 4: morning when they would open and get like four or 314 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 4: five baskets and we'd have vans come the vans would 315 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 4: be full with food like in baskets. And there's so 316 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 4: funny because during the pandemic, people like you know, other 317 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 4: people got to eat too, and I was like, we 318 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 4: feeding the hood, We feeding it. They found it was 319 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 4: just for us. I'm not just stopping stop pumping. That's 320 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 4: what was happening during the pandemic. Everybody was wearing yes, 321 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 4: you know this whole thing. 322 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: This makes so much sense to me because for any 323 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: business owner, instead of hiring, you know, to throw away 324 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: all of this good food, and they do like sometimes 325 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: argy by the pound, you know, and how much stuff 326 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: you have, I would much rather donate that food to 327 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: people who need it, because nobody wants to throw away 328 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 1: good food. I remember being younger and there were certain 329 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: places where after a certain time the food was half price. Yeah, 330 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: it would be like I'm gonna wait too, you know, 331 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: because they have to get rid of that stuff and 332 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: they'd rather not throw it out. So that makes perfect 333 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: sense to me, you know, to be able to do 334 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: something like that, and then that should make you feel 335 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: good as a business owner, like at least you know, 336 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: as as I'm running my business, I'm doing my part 337 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: to make sure that people can get this instead of 338 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: just throwing it away, because that's crazy. 339 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 3: To me, it's crazy. 340 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 4: I mean, and we've been fortunate to work with some 341 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 4: really big partners, I mean everyone from Delta to the NBA. 342 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 4: We were at the NBA here for the draft in 343 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 4: New York in June. 344 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: It was the Hotes stay on record. Yes, yes, it. 345 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 4: Was so amazing. Yes, oh he had it rocking out 346 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 4: there too. You're like Kingdome Park in Harlem and we 347 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 4: had like so many families come out. 348 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 3: It was all the new NBA drafts. 349 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 4: So when you think of that, Stacy, I would those 350 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 4: opportunities have ever been afforded to me if I was 351 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 4: a nonprofit Possibly, I think it would have taken a 352 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 4: lot longer because I was a business and it was like, Hey, 353 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 4: this is the service, this is what we'll do, this 354 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 4: is what you'll get. It was an even exchange, and 355 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 4: I think it has opened up doors for us to 356 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 4: work with so many more people. 357 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: What type of world does technology play and what is. 358 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 4: A huge Yeah, we we are big daddage driven, like 359 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 4: how many meals are we serving? What's the economic value? 360 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 4: I think we've provided about eighty three million dollars in 361 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 4: economic value to the communities that we've served since we started, 362 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 4: and we measure that. So that's a big piece of it. 363 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 4: For our food logistics piece. It's like when a business says, hey, 364 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 4: I have excess food. We are pinging drivers. Drivers are 365 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 4: picking that food up. It's then getting delivered to a nonprofit. 366 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 4: When the nonprofit receives it, they signed for it like 367 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 4: they would a UPS package and their signature is auto 368 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 4: generated on a Gooder donation letter from that nonprofit for 369 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 4: our clients. So all of this is happening in real 370 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 4: time with technology. So at any given time, our clients 371 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 4: can see who the food is going to, how many 372 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 4: pounds of food they donate it, what's their tax right 373 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 4: off because they have the letter and they're seeing, they're 374 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 4: measuring able to see what they're doing in the community. 375 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 3: So it's amazing. 376 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: Now tell us how the hybrid model works. Also when 377 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 1: it comes to families coming in to get an affordablelek groceries, 378 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: because it is you pay for some people, So how 379 00:15:58,440 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: does that work. 380 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 4: It's it was amazing, you know, and shout out to 381 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 4: the City of Atlanta and just cities that are working 382 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 4: with entrepreneurs to be innovative I think we think of 383 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 4: innovation always in like AI, what if we just do 384 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 4: something different to serve families, right, So I went to 385 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 4: the city of Atlanta, this is over a year in 386 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 4: the making, and I said, hey, we would love to 387 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 4: test having a real grocery store. At this point, all 388 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 4: of our grocery stores have always been free, like the 389 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 4: gun and model, in the school, in the senior home, 390 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 4: kids and seniors. 391 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 3: Get access to the food. 392 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 4: But what about people that just live in the neighborhood 393 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 4: that need access to food? And so we were able 394 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 4: to work with this city by where they provided us 395 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 4: the funding to provide two hundred families for free every 396 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 4: single month get to shop at our store. But we 397 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 4: put on additional funding to keep the cost down for everybody. 398 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 4: And so where someone else would pay, you know, seven 399 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 4: dollars eight dollars for something at our store maybe five 400 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 4: ninety nine or six. And it's just so much more 401 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 4: affordable for the mass, if you will, because we already 402 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 4: had the building, so we already had to be there 403 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 4: to serve the two hundred families for free. What does 404 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 4: it look like to have a little bit more funding 405 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,360 Speaker 4: to serve anybody that walks through the door, we put 406 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 4: the deli in. We accept snap EBT, so you can 407 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 4: use your Snap benefits on both the deli. So now 408 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 4: get a meal, get sandwiches for the family at sandwich 409 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 4: night twenty dollars. The whole family eats dollar ice cream 410 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 4: scoops two dollars and fifty cent kids meals. And then 411 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 4: we have ten dollar grab bag meals which are also 412 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 4: Snap eligible. And we have this week chicken and waffles. 413 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 4: We have chicken Tara Yoki rice bowls ten dollars. A 414 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 4: bag feeds a family of four. 415 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: Wow, can you. 416 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 2: Your moment now? Because with all these cuts, so you're 417 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 2: providing a need of service for cities. 418 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 4: People coming like, let me get six of those bags. 419 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 4: This is what I'm eating for the rest of the week. 420 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 4: I mean literally, teachers have told us they don't eat 421 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 4: without these bags. And the lady told me the other 422 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,439 Speaker 4: day like, as long as those bags are here, I'm 423 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 4: gonna get them. Because it's just it's a way to budget, 424 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 4: you know, to think like, Okay, hey, thirty days in 425 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 4: the month. If I get and think if you're a 426 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,400 Speaker 4: family of two, now that meal that's for four gives 427 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 4: you leftovers for a night. Yeah, And now for ten dollars, 428 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 4: You've got two days worth of food. 429 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: You know, I have to ask you some personal things, Jasmine, 430 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,199 Speaker 1: when it comes to cooking, Yes, because I know you 431 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: had this in Phoenix. You were making cupcakes. 432 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 3: Yes, I had a cupcake try. 433 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 4: You had a cupcakes with Joan and that's where it 434 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 4: was car shout out to and Shamara. 435 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 3: That's where the idea came from. 436 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: And you were also donating fifty cents from like you know, 437 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: certain cupcakes for to give to nonprofits. Right, So I 438 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: want to ask you where your love of cooking even 439 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: came from. 440 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 4: You know, I couldn't afford to go home. It's you know, 441 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 4: the funniest story. I my dad was military. I went 442 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,400 Speaker 4: to high school in North Carolina. When I was looking 443 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 4: for colleges, really wanted to go to like Howard, USC. 444 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 4: My parents made this big deal like, oh, we want 445 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 4: you to stay in this state so you could drive 446 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 4: home my freshman year, they moved to Portland, Oregon. 447 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: Like, hello, are you going. 448 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 4: Now? I'm in North Carolina by myself, and I started 449 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 4: working in retail. And anyone that works in retail knows 450 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 4: you don't have Black Friday off. So one Thanksgiving I 451 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 4: couldn't afford to go home, and I just it was 452 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 4: just like I couldn't take a flight and then be 453 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 4: back the next day. So me and my friend got 454 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 4: together and we cooked for I want to say, like 455 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 4: nine people. 456 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 3: We made enough food for like one hundred. We had 457 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 3: a Betty Crocker. 458 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 4: Cookbook, baby, and we made a damn and turkey, I 459 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 4: mean every single thing that you could make. And like 460 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 4: my friend was working in the cafeteria. That was her 461 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 4: work study, and she had learned how to seize in 462 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 4: the turkey. 463 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 3: So that's how I learned how to cook. 464 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 4: Betty Crocker, It's not like you grew up. I was 465 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 4: a latch key kid. My parents were going to school. 466 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 4: I was eating like Kraft macaroni and cheese like I 467 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 4: was like I remember. 468 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: Those, Yes, I remember putting baloney in the. 469 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 4: And I would make sugar toast, like I would just 470 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 4: take a piece of bread with some butter and sugar 471 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 4: like that was my act. 472 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 2: That's a delicacy. 473 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 3: I mean, well that's what I lived off of. 474 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: Man, listen the day said we had to go through 475 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 1: so that it's just interesting to me that because it 476 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: felt Do you love to cook though, or. 477 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 4: You know, I feel like I don't get to cook 478 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 4: as much now as I used to, but I do 479 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 4: love to cook. Like I'm a I'm a Thanksgiving I'm 480 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 4: like an entertainer, like you know, come to my house. 481 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 3: For We're going to have it all. 482 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 4: Like I like to do, stuff like that, Eastern branches 483 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 4: and things of that nature. 484 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: Specialty. 485 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 3: People seem to say that I make the best collar greens. 486 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 3: That's what I mean. 487 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 4: That's that's what I've heard that about collar greens and lasagna. 488 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 4: Those are the two things that people have asked me. 489 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 4: And I fry turkeys, but I have like a jerk turkey. 490 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 4: I have a honey limon pepper turkey. I see them behind. 491 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: Yes bed like a gooder cookbook. That's all I'm saying. 492 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 1: That's great because it could be like other people's recipes 493 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: to feed people with other people's recipes. 494 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 4: Everyone to say, person, yes, a gooder cook. 495 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 2: And one thing I wanted you to touch on before you go, 496 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 2: you are a badass entrepreneur. I was reading that you 497 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 2: actually bring hungry people to corporate board meetings. 498 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 3: You know, we do a lot, I would say. 499 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 4: One of the biggest things that kind of kicked me 500 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 4: in the head the other day, if you will, just 501 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,479 Speaker 4: like shocking is how many people that were living on 502 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 4: the streets that are eating and shopping at our stores. 503 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,479 Speaker 4: And that was It's just I guess I didn't realize it, 504 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 4: like I saw this man I left this store one night, 505 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 4: something happened. We put out our excess food every night 506 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 4: at our grocery store, so you know, we never. 507 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 3: Throw anything away. 508 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 4: So if something expires that day, at the end of 509 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 4: the night, we put it in a basket and it 510 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 4: says free, you take what you need. 511 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 3: It's perfectly good. 512 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 4: And we are in a very large, highly transient, unhoused area, 513 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 4: and so whatever we put out is gone. And one 514 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 4: guy came he was like, hey, my name is Trevor. 515 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 4: I live under the bridge. And it just was like 516 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 4: such a can you just imagine like the way he 517 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 4: just said, this is where I live under the bridge, 518 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 4: which is like, you know, less than half a mile 519 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 4: from the street. 520 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 3: So we have had so. 521 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 4: Many people in our building that are on housed that 522 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 4: it doesn't you just don't know that. It is like 523 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 4: they're in the building, they're shopping, they're getting their dollars 524 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 4: scoop of ice cream, they're using their dollars and then 525 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 4: you leave this and then you're like, oh, man, like 526 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 4: he was just in the store ordering food, but he's like. 527 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 3: Sleeping on the streets. 528 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 4: So lots of people that are hungry, but they are people, 529 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 4: their people, and they're buying with dignity and so you 530 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 4: don't even know. And like I never knew until, like 531 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 4: I said, it just hit me one day when I 532 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 4: left the store and saw people that had been shopping 533 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 4: in the store sleeping under the bridge. 534 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 2: And you show this to corporation. 535 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think everybody needs to see this because at 536 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 4: the end of the day, everybody has a story and 537 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 4: I don't know anybody's story, but what I know my 538 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 4: purpose and their story at that moment is to feed them. 539 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 4: And I always say, you know, definitely this is wealth Wednesday. 540 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 4: But you talk about like having a richer life. I 541 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 4: may never die like a multi multi millionaire, a billionaire, 542 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 4: but at the end of my life I will be 543 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 4: able to stand before I got and say people were 544 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 4: hungry and I fed them. And I think that just 545 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 4: makes me feel like I've done something right. 546 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 2: Like totally so proud of you. How can people connect 547 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:54,199 Speaker 2: with you? 548 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 4: Work with gooder all that yeah, I really, you know, 549 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,120 Speaker 4: I want to get to cities like Detroit, New York. 550 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 4: I think our model really needs to be other places. 551 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 4: We do have our Gooder grocery stores, the ones in 552 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 4: schools all over the country, you know, from San Francisco 553 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 4: to Colorado. We've opened them in Tennessee. But we just 554 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 4: need to work with more people. So I am Jasmine 555 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 4: at Gooder dot Co. We are Gooder Co on all 556 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 4: social media and I'm just inviting people to figure out 557 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 4: how we can work together. I want to get to 558 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 4: places like the Delta, Mississippi. I want to go to 559 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 4: Little Rock, Arkansas. Places in Detroit where they're telling me 560 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 4: there's not a grocery store like inner City proper, like 561 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 4: I should be there. Like you know, I'm a woman, 562 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 4: I am a black woman. I really care about how 563 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 4: people eat and how they're served. And I care about 564 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 4: people and I think that matters, and so please connect 565 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 4: with me. I want to like any city. I mean, 566 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 4: I know that's a big conversation in New York right now, 567 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 4: like these city ram municipal grocery stores like come and 568 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 4: talk to us, because I think our solution works and 569 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 4: it's tried and true. I mean I've been working on 570 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 4: this for ten years in January, so this is not 571 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 4: an overnight thing. 572 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: And you can see where your money's going to for 573 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: people who want to donate or people who want to say, okay, 574 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: I have this person. Like any type of connections can 575 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: be valuable. 576 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 4: I work, We work with different celebrities work. I mean, 577 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 4: you know, Gun is not the only person we've worked with. 578 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 4: We work with a lot of NBA players like work 579 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 4: with us. You know, like if you want to do 580 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 4: something in your community, you want to give back, you 581 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 4: want to change something, like we are a real solid 582 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 4: partner to do it with. We've done it for a 583 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 4: lot of people, and we help a lot of people. 584 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: All right, don't worry, girl, I got some ideas already. 585 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: The cookbook. 586 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 3: When it's revealed, we'll come back here and it's going 587 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 3: to be on that bookshelf. 588 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 2: You have a forever friend in wealth Wednesday. 589 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 3: Oh thank you. 590 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: And I think the cookbook we need, like for holidays, 591 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: we need to figure out because I think sometimes in cookbooks, 592 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: I notice it's just like a small male. We need 593 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: you to like put things in here so people can 594 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: make like ten yeah for ten people or something like that. 595 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 3: Or just enough to give to us. 596 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, man, that's a great enough enough to give give 597 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 4: and not throw away, because I will say Thanksgiving is 598 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 4: the most wasted food in the country. 599 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 1: They been given a all them raw turkeys. Yeah, like okay, I. 600 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 4: People over indulge and they over make and like if 601 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,160 Speaker 4: you don't have your in my grandma's house where everybody's 602 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,239 Speaker 4: coming and eating you after, what is it? I think 603 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 4: Pliza was like, after the third day, you got to 604 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 4: throw it away. So much gets throw it away. I 605 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 4: think he was like, you're going to the er. Yeah, Ray, 606 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 4: that goes viral every year, but it's a big deal. 607 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 4: So the most wasted day for food in this country 608 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 4: is Thanksgiving, So make a little lesson this. Yeah, I 609 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 4: just don't get the thirteen pound turkey. You don't need 610 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 4: the twenty six pound turkey unless you're making turkey salady. 611 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 3: You're feeding people, you can get. 612 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 1: What about the your freezer from last year? 613 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, there's time to go leftloaders six months so 614 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 4: much it die away and don't put that back on 615 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 4: the table. 616 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 2: This thing. 617 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: All right? Well, Jasmine, thank you so much, and we'll 618 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 1: definitely be in contact because I'm going to figure out 619 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 1: like some ways we can collapse. 620 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:55,959 Speaker 3: Oh I love that. Thank you. Guys. 621 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: Welcome Wednesdays and Days