WEBVTT - B SIMONE - Spaghetti Alla Impossible 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.320 Guess what, y'all welcome to another episode of Eating While 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.160 Broke And guess what. We are out of the podcast 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.319 studio and in Atlanta again, and guess who we have 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:17.439 here with us? The amazing, the amazing be Simone is 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.280 with me. Dang. I thought she's gonna give me more 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:29.160 like the amazing, the amazing comedian actions influencer Willing outcast 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:54.920 here eating problem. But I want to tell you guys something. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:57.800 I was messing with her schedule all day and I 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.520 was like, she's gonna be ferocious. She's gonna be ferocious 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.440 to me, and I'm terrified. Now, I was like, are 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.440 you crazy? I was terrified because I was like, I 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.440 don't believe that I promised you. I was washing this 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.080 just like, oh, I don't know how to tell Dolly 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:19.840 this and writing and your ribs are great. She so 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.800 nice to me, and I was like, thank you Jesus. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.240 Sometimes they could be hard and you don't know. But 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.399 I want people to know this because sometimes you see 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.760 someone on camera on your phone and you assume stuff 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.200 about them when you don't know, and it's just like, 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.040 I meet you and I have this amazing story to tell, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.000 and I want people to know the other side, I'm 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.400 trying to keep my energy and I'm actually really really tired, 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.399 and you know how that goes. I'm like making sure 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.679 my energy is up because I'm actually excited to do this. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.440 I've never done anything like this. Yeah, cooking on camera. Yeah, 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.800 like cooking and you know, and then you got to 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.400 cook your broke dish. Yeah. She can't even put on 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.800 a girl show for us. She got Yeah, but one day, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.840 you know, she invite us. You know, maybe we could 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:05.400 have her rich dish. Yeah, rich dishes like like Chipotle. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.720 So I eat Chipotle every day all the time. I 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.440 had it today. I'm gonna have to find out at 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.839 the end of the interview. What be Simona orders Chipotle? Yeah, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:19.920 because I like, oh, I feel like you're gonna be healthy. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.359 I order all the like. But see what you thought 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.880 always vegan. I'm not vegan. I just don't. I'm pesketarian, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.720 Like I eat salmon sometime, but I don't eat meat. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.480 But I eat dairy. I'm actually fasting from dairy right now. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.640 But why because I'm doing a seven day fast with 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.240 my team so we can have clarity because we have 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.560 something coming up in eight days. Oh, I'm we're about 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.320 we're about to learn. What do you have us eating today? Okay? 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.639 So we are eating spaghetti, y'all. But today it's a 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.600 little different than my struggle male because when I used 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.920 to struggle, I was eating meat, so it was like 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.080 regular ground beef. But now I haven't had meat for 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:02.560 six years excluding seafood. Um, So we're using impossible meat 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.839 and now I've never you're not even going to know. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.120 If you didn't know, you wouldn't know. Well, I'm just 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.400 curious to see, Like, how do you know an impossible 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.680 meat is cooked? Because I would assume it's fake meat. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:19.240 It's brown. Oh, well, you're gonna today, so we're gonna 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:20.880 have and then what are you gonna name this? So 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:25.280 when we're looking at the cookbook, what is be simone 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.400 spaghetti going to be called? Oh my god, can I 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.960 think about that is gonna be called? I was gonna 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.600 be You got to the end. Why don't you start 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.680 cooking for okay? Okay, okay, let's go to the kitchen. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.760 That's giddy. So first I wait, am I telling you 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.839 how I do it? Tell me? Yeah, you gotta walk 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.680 us through it. First of all, I don't cook, Okay, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.160 I don't go to the grocery store. You know, I 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.440 don't have a car, which I talked about all the time, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.000 so I'm definitely not going to get no groceries. I 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:56.120 uber eat. I eat out. So when was the last 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:01.400 time you've in the kitchen? When he was wrote, Yo, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.800 that's where I wanted to be out. Okay, guys, I 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.040 want to be like the last time I wasn't again. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.520 Now what's the last time I cooked? Oh? I did 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.080 get high? Can I say that on here? You can say, okay, 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.000 this is and I'm not gonna lie. I made some 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.320 cookies baked. Did you actually make them from scratch? For 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:27.359 the little bit scratch tall house? They like that. My 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.680 cousin came over and she bought them. But that was like, okay, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.400 the little squares you just put on the things I know. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.920 I love my brother, I love them. Oh my god. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.359 Just for the record, you should always keep that in 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.960 your house. So like if we go on your fridge, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.320 there's no food, nothing is there water? Like what I 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.200 go into your house and like, smote, I'm gonna hit 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.880 that fridge. I open it. Did not do that. There's nothing. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.279 There's alivera plant because the hookah fell in my lap 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.040 the coal and I had on shorts and I had 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.080 to heal that. So I rub alivera in between my 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.839 thighs daily. But other than that, there's nothing in my fridge. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.000 I didn't know el overt could do that. It helps. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.479 You got the actual quant. Okay, so we go in there. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.120 It's like we're gonna starve to death. There's not even 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:13.320 leftovers of what Oh my god? Okay, okay, but if 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.440 we have leftovers of this, can take it? Yeah, yeah, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.320 go for it, all right. So what we're gonna do? 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.960 She wants to take her. That's how you know someone's real. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.960 All right. She boiled the noodles already for us. So 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.160 they're right there because he was not about to boil them. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:28.960 You know, they take a little long. Did you test 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:30.320 to see me? Was ready to throw it on the wall. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:36.320 You want to start throwing out because and we have 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:46.240 the impossible meats? You guys oil with that? Okay, well, 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.640 we're gonna take a little bit of oil here. Let 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.279 me oh, I know I got out of shot. Hold on, 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:55.200 I'm sorry. Guys. Have y'all ever had like you never had, 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.640 like a vegan burger? Yes, like sluty vegan or something 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.640 like that, or like, let me tell you before I leave, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.600 I'm gonna have slutty vegan. Girl. You don't even you 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.600 wouldn't even know. It's not so I love my guilty pleasure. 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.160 A lot of people don't know. This is like, uh, 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.159 if anyone's in town and they're like, what do you 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.200 want to eat? Thank you? You're so hilarious. He's a mother, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.960 she's a wife. Oh shit, I haven't done this in 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.120 a long time. Oh god, I'm over here like crisco, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.719 all right, but a little bit of that. So I 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.960 only assumed usually with ground beef, there's fat in it. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.880 I feel like you're gonna need more than that. More crisco. Yeah, 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.600 I want to do too much grease. Oh really, No, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:41.960 I'm learning. I mean, I don't know what impared. No, no, no, impossible. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.600 We're gonna figure it out together, all right. So we 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:51.240 turned the oven on the stoves and we're just gonna 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.680 put it in there, y'all. And now impossible me isn't me? 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.880 It's not it's uh, there's one of these things. Oh yes, perfect, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.839 thank you. And then what we're gonna do is we 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.560 have all this seasoning. I'm a pepper girl. I love pepper. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.560 We got Tony's. Don't put too much because you don't 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.000 want you to clesh fraw to be out the root. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:15.080 So we're gonna that. It was sizzling quick. Do you 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.880 want Do you feel like you're on one of those 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.080 contestant cooking shows. That's admit us to make this meal. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.800 It's oars sizzling quick. Oh it is turning brown. See 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:31.280 for all y'all listeners, it's turning round. So I'm surprised 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.080 you don't do like spaghetti with meat balls. Oh yeah, 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.400 they had been possible meat balls. Oh no, I'm saying 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.119 for your broth this you used to do ground ground 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.880 beefs Yep? Was it because it was like cheaper and easier. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.840 I just I grew up eating spaghetti all the time, spaghetti, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:52.800 hot dogs, burgers, drunk. You know I didn't really, You're right, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.840 I should have put more grease. This is too high. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.000 It's burning. I think it's not burning, but it's not okay, 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.800 turning stick to the panda. So yeah, I didn't grow 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.720 up eating healthy. So what was going on at the 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.040 time when you were consuming hot dogs, spaghetti and all 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.400 of that. Let's go back to Pleasant Girl. I just 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.880 got back from Dallas, Texas. Um the house I grew 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.920 up in. Actually, my grandmother still stays there, literally, in 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.160 the hood of Dallas, Pleasant Grove. You know, she has 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.320 a nice hone. She fixed it up and stuff. But 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.160 you know, older people, they ain't never gonna leave. So 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.960 I'm like, you know, you want to stay here, you 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.120 don't want to leave. Her daughter lives around the corner. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.839 She's been there her whole life. You know, she owns 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.480 the house, so you know they're not gonna leave. But 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.280 Pleasant Girl was where I'm from, and I mean, it's 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.199 the hood of Dallas. But you know what's crazy. When 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:47.720 I was growing up, I didn't It wasn't like I 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.640 felt like I grew up in poverty. I never knew, 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.760 you know, until I was older, like an adult, and 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.800 I was like, it's just like the hood. Now do 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.600 you think that's because then the environment you were in 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.040 was all the same or like what made you realize 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.920 later I needed for nothing? It wasn't like I grew 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:10.400 up in, like, you know, a horrible living situation. So 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.000 it was it was good. You know, all the fresh gear, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:19.240 did I I mean, yeah, I'm like, you know, and 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.439 then you know, I got older. In high school, I 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.800 started doing hair and my grandmother's kitchen. So I was 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.080 making bank, y'all. In high school, I really thought I 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.720 was popping. I started traveling and stuff because I was 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.760 making so much money. I didn't have bills and I 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.600 was living with my grandmother. So I mean for entrepreneur, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.120 very early early, And where'd you learn how to do 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.760 hair from? I taught myself. I just randomly started breaking 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.679 my doll's hair. That's one moms it. So I randomly 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.520 started doing hair, and then I was good at it. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.480 If I see something, I can do it. Yeah, you 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.000 know how badly I want to learn how to do 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.760 corn worl I'm gonna I'm gonna test out this theory 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.560 on dolls. I guarantee it's not gonna come out as 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.360 good as yours. Yeah. So I started making money. Your 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.520 young entrepreneur, I did a lot of stuff. I was 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.680 in network marketing. Like anything I put my mind to, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.520 I could sell it. But I would only sell stuff 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.840 I'm believe in though, so it didn't have to be 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.360 like you know, so commercially and addie. I was like, 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.600 if I like the product, I'm gonna sell it. Where 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.000 did you get your entrepreneurs from. I don't know, was 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:25.080 there there was no entrepreneurs in your family? Now up around, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.080 I'm like the first that I'm in. My dad's a pastor, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:32.640 my mom was a pharmacist. Yeah, my grandmother's are tired. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.320 So I used to always think that in order to 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.360 be an entrepreneur. Now you have just ended my theory 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.720 that you had to have grown up in a home 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.160 where you had came by one. I don't think so. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.319 So there's people that go to school for entrepreneurship, and 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.880 I'm always like, but I feel like our generation is like, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.640 not first generation. Of course, there's been entrepreneurs for decades decades, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.200 but our generation is a lot of first generation millionaires 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:01.199 and entrepreneurs. Like it's like, you know, you know, we 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.880 just have access to a lot of stuff, and when 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.360 you believe you can do something, you literally can. So 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.040 so I just knew. I was always in the arts. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.439 I grew up like dancing, acting, theater, doing hair, anything creative. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.120 I did not want to do anything outside of that. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.120 Going to get a job was never in my cards. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.000 It was never even thought about it. No one in 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.160 your household was like, get a job, Well, obviously you 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.040 started obviously like I had 's like I was a waitress, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.680 I worked at um boutique I had, but I never 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.880 I knew it was all temporary. Yeah, I used that 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.160 to like save my money and at night I was 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.240 in the studio where I was hustling or you know, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.839 doing doing hair. What was your childhood dreams? I wanted 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.200 to be a hair stylist and do music. I wanted 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.920 to own hair salons and be I thought I was 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.240 gonna be on story or something that never happened. Well, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:55.240 not each, not yet, not yet. So um, so you're 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.720 you're actively you say you want to do hair and 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.600 all this stuff, but you actually aren't doing it in 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.920 high school. So technically you're hitting these milestones. So what happens? 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.719 You end up moving the needle forward more every time 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.640 you accomplish something. Yeah, and just you know, the more 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.800 I did, the more I was never satisfied. So I 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.600 always wanted the next name. That's a good and a 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.000 bad thing, y'all. Like when she reached that goal, it's like, Okay, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.280 what's next, what's next? What's next? But you also have 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.720 to appreciate all the milestones that you did hit. I 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.400 don't think I still think I have a problem with 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.160 that to this day, Like I'm appreciating the milestones kind 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.120 of like Okay, I did that, was next? I did 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.480 that was next? Okay, great, Okay, what's next? Like I 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.400 did that already. I feel like one of the consistent 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:42.640 things I noticed been interviewing successful, successful, successful people is 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.600 that you guys hit the milestone and then you're like, 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:50.320 what's next? So if that was good, she's kind of 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.200 a drug, like I don't know, like that manifestation ship 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.560 and like reaching your goals. It's just like proven to 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.240 yourself and it's not a game. But it's like kind 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:03.880 of like anything I say out of my mouth, anything 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:05.439 I put my mind too, is going to happen. I 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.480 don't worry about the how, I don't worry about the wind. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.640 I just know what's gonna happen. Where do you think 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.280 you get You got that from them? God? Seriously, God, 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.160 Like it was just in me from birth. I don't, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:21.080 honestly don't know, Like I have no idea, just I 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.200 was born with it. I guess. So looking at you today, 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:29.679 you're a wall and out. You're a viral sensation influencer. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.400 That's what they say. What's the definition of sensation? Because 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.439 I'm canceled, You're canceled. That's good. That's good though it 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.760 is honestly, it's really good because as long as people 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.840 are talking about you, obsessing over you and watching your 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.160 videos and having something to say, you're on everybody's mind, 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.839 which because you slave it over the stone. This takes 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.480 a while, it's I know, but it's just some still 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:58.720 a ran pieces. So was there ever point in your 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.959 career coming up that you doubted yourself where something happened 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.920 where you were like, Okay, maybe I'm doing a bit much. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.600 I wouldn't say doubt it myself, but it's definitely been 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.640 mill stones, Like, I mean, you know, tough things to 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.480 fight through, but I always knew. I never in my 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:18.960 mind got to a point where I was like, this 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.800 isn't gonna happen. Never, But there was a point where 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.360 there was like a little bit of oh my god, yeah, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.640 I've never been out the house I was living in. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.600 I was making a thousand dollars a week with no 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.400 bills at like twenty years old. That is a lot 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.920 of fun, like just doing hair and kicking it and traveling, 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.480 and I you know, then I was like, Okay, I'm 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.240 gonna save some money. I'm gonna get a car. I 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.080 spent like seven grand on a car or something. And 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.080 then I was working at a strip club, not stripping. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.400 I don't think nobody would come see me shrip and 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:55.840 I'll be doing the chicken hands. Um. But I was 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.160 a waitress and I was like I had I hated it. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.040 I saved my money, got my car, and I was like, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.040 I'm gonna save up three thousand dollars. I'm gonna moved 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:07.480 to Atlanta. Why Atlanta? It was either Atlanta or l A. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.920 In l A, I was like, in my mind, way 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.960 too expensive. And I came to visit Atlanta a lot. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.360 I love the culture. I love kicking it with my 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.760 people out here. I love the blackness. Yeah, I was 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.040 just saying that. Today I went out and it was 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:25.880 the first time I went out and everybody was black everywhere. Yeah. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.760 The only dun type was I was at Walmart and 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.560 I felt like all the shows were empty and I 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.880 didn't know what we're trying to get. I was trying, yeah, exactly. Yeah, 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.200 I was trying to pick up your groceries, right, trying 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.400 to pick up my struggle meal. But yeah. So I 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.880 just moved with three thousand dollars. That money was going 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.520 in a month. I was like, what, So then what 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.680 did you do? Girl? I got three jobs. I was waitressing. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.080 I uh, you know, served food at the tavern at 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.920 fix Spots. I don't even know if that's there anymore. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.000 M I worked at a boutique shout out to Tea. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.160 He gave me my first little job out here or 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.560 um yeah, and I did hear on the side, but 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:08.000 it was bad and I didn't did you. Me and 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.320 my best friend from Dallas moved out here. She and 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:11.440 she was one of the people that told me. She 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.520 was like, if you do not move to Atlanta, then 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.160 I'm not gonna be your friend of her, Like you're 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:20.040 holding yourself back and you're meaning basically a great friend 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:25.440 out to Pharaoh. Yeah. Yeah, so we struggled for a 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.040 long time. I didn't have a bed for like six months. Yeah. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.920 I like that. I know. I let me tell you, like, 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.640 when I was going through that ship, I was not 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.160 like woe is me. I was just like, this is 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.520 my life right now, but as a temporary yes, And 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.000 you have to remember that if you truly believe it, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.640 it will be temporary. I knew it was. Yes, I 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.840 had nights where I cried, Yes I had stressful moments, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.720 but it was never like I'm sleeping on the floor. 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.400 It was like, all right, we in grind mode, like 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.760 I'm about to make it. I just gotta keep putting 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.960 one for after. You can go back on my YouTube, y'all. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.840 Like when I first moved to Atlanta, I have YouTube 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.800 of me like playing gospel music. It's still on YouTube 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:09.480 crying the video, like our our basement flooded. We were 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.920 living in like the hood. Man, it was some get 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.440 But this whole move to Atlanta was in person. What 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.320 um I wanted have spaghetti sauce to this? Or yes, 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.800 we're gonna mix it all together. Okay, I think, yeah, 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.040 you probably need to go We're gonna mix it together. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.480 You so you want to add the sauce to the meat. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.440 Is that how you do? Yeah? I haven't cooked spaghetti 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.800 in a decade, so honestly, okay, But it just goes 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.760 all together, right, it does. But you want you can't 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.840 just put the noodles in here, right, Because we're gonna 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.439 put all this in the pot. I'm gonna trust you 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.440 to do it. That's that's smart and a little dry. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:56.360 You want it? Edit this out perfect? Add sauce. Yeah, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:01.240 let's put the sauce on jingles because they dry sauce. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.200 And then we're gonna endit me right, you're asking me. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.840 We need our own cooking, so yep, and then we're 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:10.800 gonna mix this all together. It is gonna be good. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.320 Slide this sad and then you need to heat it 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:20.119 up again or no, let me see? Uh maybe not? 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.479 I think you will? You do? Okay? Should I turn 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:30.359 it all low for you? Yo? You need a cooking, 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.400 so you need a cooking. You would be you would 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:39.359 be great. So you're what was the mission for you 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.560 coming out, say, Atlanta? What was your end goal in 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:46.200 your mind? I'm gonna be a uh superstar. I'm gonna 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.639 do music. I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna do music. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.879 I'm gonna I mean, of course acting and I was 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.800 always in theater. I never never thought about myself being 0:18:55.200 --> 0:19:00.160 a comedian. Stand up comedian is ever ever. So you're 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:05.120 out here with jobs. How does a girl moving out 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:10.720 here with three jobs, struggling pursuing music end up becoming 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.320 be simone? As we all don't like what what happened. 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.679 What were those moves that happened? Really? I mean I 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.440 was in the studio every night, I was recording. I 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.879 put out a project. None of that stopped. Like I 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.679 put out a project, it's it's still got music on 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.080 iTunes and you can like look it up. Um, I 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.800 make like ten dollars a month off of it. Nobody 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:36.720 listens to that. Um. And you know I was in 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:38.879 the studio. It was literally like get a bed or 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:46.199 pay for studios. But once social media took off, like Instagram, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.600 I took advantage of that. If this is what's popping 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:50.960 right now, this is what I'm gonna use. And I 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.399 took advantage of Instagram eight years ago when you know, 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.679 it wasn't that many people on They're doing comedy, It 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.440 wasn't oversaturated, it wasn't it was a brand new act. 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.520 So you got an Instagram before fun? Yes, yes, I 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.879 didn't have you didn't you know? I use Instagram, but 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:12.119 I came from my Space. You know, use my space. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:13.760 I had my top eight, I had my music on 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.080 my Space. I was, you know, yeah popular on my Space. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:18.320 And I took it to p Interest, and I took 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.040 it to Facebook. Then I took it to Instagram, so 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.719 my I think my you know tribe or whatever followed 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.040 me all over. But of course it was nothing like 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.440 how it is now. But um, social media made me 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.720 a comedian. I'm telling you all, people will tell you 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.440 what they want from you. Do not without compromising who 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.520 you are in your roles. Give the people what they want. 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.880 I would post my music, it would get four thousand likes. 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.800 I would post a comedy video, it would get four 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.480 hundred thousand. Well, I'm gonna give you all this, you know, 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.159 and you can still do it in certain ways. Do 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.720 a comedy skit and play your music in the background, 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.120 or do a comedy skit and shout out to music later. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.359 But they didn't want my music, you know, so I 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:03.600 gave them comedy. If you had to range yourself between entrepreneur, comedian, 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:10.000 music artists talent on screen like after actress, which one 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:14.359 would you say? Would you rate yourself as number one entrepreneur? 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:16.679 I was gonna say that. I didn't want to say 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:22.600 you like sneur because everything is under that umbrella, and 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:24.600 it's Jesus, I hate that click click What does that do? 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:29.440 It's just it's just the light, the light lighting you're 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.800 so cute. Should we put the top on? Let it 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:37.720 get warm? You are absolutely adorable. Yeah, entrepreneur. Everything else 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:42.720 is under that umbrella. So entrepreneur is my comedy side, like, 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.520 you know, doing stand up, studying that, selling merge, making 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.320 people laugh, putting out a stand up special, having them watch, 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.120 you know, like all of that is entrepreneurial. And then 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.959 um be Simon beauty, cosmetic line, entrepreneur this, you know, 0:21:57.720 --> 0:21:59.919 and and there's so much of touch on with you 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:04.280 because you're so multifacet I've watched you over the years, 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.960 and I've watched you. I want to say, I don't 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:09.760 want to say it, and I get it wrong and 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.080 then you but I want to say, I've watched you 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:18.440 make your first million on Instagram. I watched you experience 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:20.600