1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: At ADP, we understand the importance of building the right 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: team and offer the data insights to help. Just as importantly, 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: our AI technology helps you pay the team accurately grow 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: stronger with a dp HR, talent, time and payroll. Hi. 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: I'm Sarahcustack. I'm the NBA analysts for they S Network, 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: and I'm hosting a new podcast called NBA Flashback. NBA 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: Flashback takes you back to the best moments in NBA 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: history through exclusive archival audio from the NBA vault, and 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: each week we'll have new interviews with the legends who 10 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: were actually on the court. Check out NBA Flashback on 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 12 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: get your podcast. Look for your children's eyes and you 13 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: will discover the true magic of a forest. Find a 14 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: forest near you and start exploring it. Discover the forest 15 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: dot Org, brought to you by the United States Forest 16 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: Service and the accounts of My next guest is Tyra 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,839 Speaker 1: ma Rex. She is a Brooklyn native or love Brooklyn, 18 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: New York for five years Manhattan, so I never lived 19 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, but I know Bob Brooklyn. She's a Brooklyn 20 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: neighbor who's the design director of design and merchandizing and 21 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: development and OVO and an entrepreneur craft in her own land. 22 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: As the only daughter of hip hop legend jam master 23 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: j of RUNDFC, she quickly understood her aptitudes and the 24 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: impact that she created within this world. A lot of 25 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: people don't do that. That's why I wanted to go 26 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: on the show to talk about that. Amongst her many endeavors, 27 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 1: Tya was working alongside Tiana Wallace, daughter of rapper Biggie Smalls, 28 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: to create Juicy Pizza. Now you got me at the 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: pizza park, right. Juicy just made me want to land 30 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: stand in line. The Eaters came as a cammerer and 31 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: the biggest smallst to bring back the embodiment of Brooklyn 32 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: to l A. Do you know what I'm saying, y'all. 33 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: They're bringing the East Coast to the West Coast. Were 34 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: plans to get back to the local homeless community. Juicy 35 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: Pizzas is scheduled to open your twenty twenty one. We'll 36 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: talking about that. Tyra Marrix is a serial entrepreneur, which 37 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: means that she got her hand in her hand, her 38 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: hand and a lot of things. At the age of 39 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: twenty one, she sought out her first venture of Wealth. 40 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: It's called Wealth, a streetwear peril brand with a simple 41 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: sentiment of being happy. Originally on this flight New York 42 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: Flight NYC of Flight New York City NYC is the 43 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: logo that was on their flight in NYC. Soon to 44 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: be international brand Game more than two point three million 45 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: dollars in sales within the first three years of business. 46 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: You know who you're talking to. Please welcome to money 47 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: making conversation. Tyra my Rex. How are you, Tyra? I'm great? 48 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: How are you well? You know, if people are listening 49 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: to the show, they can't see this amazing view in 50 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: your back because you're based in Los Angeles, California. You know, 51 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,119 Speaker 1: I know you're New York City born, but you can't 52 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: get that view. Can't get that view I'm watching behind 53 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: you in New York City. No, no, you can't. So 54 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: tell me about yourself. You're you're still relatively young as 55 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: an uh an entrepreneurship in the in the I guess 56 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: the millennial space has really taken control. It's a technology 57 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: that has allowed young people to dive into the entrepreneurial 58 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 1: role so quickly, or just a different desire, a different 59 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: time that we live in right now with internet and 60 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: video phones. And I grew up with the rotary with 61 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: don telephone. It's the ear as I grew up with tyra. 62 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: I lived through the rotary without telephone. Then I would 63 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: live through the text then I lived through the giant 64 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: cell phones, and now in the in the nanties, I 65 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: got a little small rotor motor roller telephone, which at 66 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: the time when I purchased it with twelve dollars at 67 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: the time. And then now we're living in an age 68 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: where you know, you basically tap your phone and see 69 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: somebody across the world and visually. So talk about how 70 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: technology plays a role in your life and it's made 71 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: you so motivated to win. I think that technology and 72 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: the advancement of social media is definitely playing a huge 73 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: role in um the amount of entrepreneurs we have today. 74 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: I feel like the generation that I grew up in specifically, 75 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: like we saw the crossover from you know, not being 76 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: able to be on the house phone and the internet 77 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,119 Speaker 1: at the same time, from dialupe to wireless um from 78 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: three G two four G two five g UM and 79 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: now you know, the technology is is getting even more advanced, 80 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: and I feel like social media has a huge influence 81 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: where you know, before when you had to set out 82 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: a press release or anything like that, it was something 83 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: that was effects or you know, scheduled or anything like that. 84 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: Now we can share information with just the touch of 85 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: it button and influence the masses. Um. You don't have 86 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: to subscribe to magazines, you don't have to subscribe to 87 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: anything that is a subscribtion, subscription cost um. So these 88 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: gems and these tools that may not have been as 89 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: relevant and resourceful um ten years ago or at the 90 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: tip of our fingers, which is pretty much influencing the 91 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: human mind in an entirety. So I feel like it 92 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: does play a huge role in the amount of entrepreneurs 93 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: that we have today. And it's it's a beautiful thing. 94 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: So basically, uh, and I have a clear understanding this. 95 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: Sometimes I ask questions not because I don't know, it's 96 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: because I want to make sure that people who are 97 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: listening or watching have a clear understanding of your gifts, 98 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: your ability to take advantage of was made available because 99 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't do that. A lot of 100 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 1: people are still working on traditional ways of trying to 101 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: purchase media on radio or trying to pull up a 102 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: billboard or still putting up signs and barbershops and beauty salons, 103 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: which still work, by the way, but because of social media, 104 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: it effects and creates engagement, sometimes with thousands and sometimes 105 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: with millions. When did you realize social media can be 106 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: used for you effectively tyra and and putting together your 107 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: dreams and also building your brand. So luckily for me, 108 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: I was on Twitter before everybody was verified. Um, Like 109 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: I was like on Twitter, like one of the first people. Well, 110 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: I wouldn't say the first people were, Like I was 111 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: on Twitter before the wave. Um. And then Instagram. I 112 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: actually stumbled upon Instagram thinking was apt to just like 113 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: edit pictures. Um. And that was before the algorithm. So 114 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: Instagram used to the way my brand actually like got out. 115 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: There is Instagram. Now, if you masked follow people on Instagram, 116 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: you would for sure get blocked. But um, when Instagram 117 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: first started, we would just sit there all day and 118 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: like follow a bunch of people, um, and that just 119 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: translated into sales um. And eventually Instagram, I think we 120 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: were like maybe following like six hundred thousand people were 121 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: like two hundred thousand people following back. But um, Instagram 122 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,679 Speaker 1: eventually shut that flight NYC page down. But it grew 123 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: that audience that stuck with us UM and allowed us 124 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: to just reach out to celebrities before you know, an 125 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: algorithm happened, or you know, they could. They were getting 126 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: paid to be brand ambassadors and just hone and create 127 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 1: those relationships. UM. So like DM ing a celebrity in 128 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve was very accessible. It wasn't h oh, 129 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to you, Oh, here is 130 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: my rates. It's you're doing those things. Everybody is following you. 131 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: You know that's back when the popular page was a 132 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: thing on Instagram. Now we have to explore before it's 133 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: like the popular page. If you've got a certain amount 134 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: of likes in a certain amount of time, you're on 135 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: a popular page. So we understood that algorithm and UM 136 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: just like back during people who followers like celebrities and 137 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: learning your market, Like if we want to sell close 138 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: that we're from Brooklyn, We're going to everybody who follows 139 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: FAB and follows everybody that they that are that's following 140 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: Fab because we have that network. So it was pretty 141 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: much just being young but understanding that this in tech 142 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: is going to go to the next level and abusing 143 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: what they had to offer before they knew the potential 144 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: or had that that range to be able to be 145 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: a platform that blocks you for this and blocks you 146 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: for that. Because if Instagram came out the gate with that, 147 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: nobody would have Instagram. It wouldn't be where it is today. 148 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: So um, just taking advantage and learning, learning the market 149 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: and how to use tools before you know we can't 150 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: use them anymore. Because I'm gonna tell you right off 151 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: the bat. I know, I was still managing Steve Harvey 152 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: at the time. We had like about a million fan 153 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: club members, and I would I would look go TV 154 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: and I see the little Twitter logo and next to 155 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: the CNN anchors or sports anchors, and I was like, 156 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: and I was resistant to change. And that's why I like, 157 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you about it, because when 158 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: you were resistant to change, other people in the process 159 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: of participating, and you're kind of like getting behind the line, 160 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: that line is getting longer in front of you, and 161 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: so and so I was resistant. Eventually came over, of course, 162 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: but it probably about a year took me to realize 163 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: that I should start investing my time and start growing 164 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 1: and participating with social media. And so so many people 165 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: are resistant to change and your business change is that's 166 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 1: kind of like the norm? Why is that? And how 167 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: did you stay ahead of the curve tyra? I think 168 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: that at first, I was pretty much reluctant to change. Um. 169 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: I'm still a person that had has trouble with change. 170 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 1: But the only thing in life that is constant is change, um, 171 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: and we have to constantly move and adapt to that change. 172 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: If I would have been a person that's just like 173 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay on Facebook and you know, not go 174 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: over to Twitter in two thousand nine, I probably wouldn't 175 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: have had that jump ahead of the curve um that 176 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: I have today. And um, I think that a lot 177 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: of that success can be credited to just you know, 178 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: jumping onto things. Um. There was an app that you 179 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: could go live. I think it was like you stream 180 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: or something like that, where like celebrities will go live 181 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: and engage with their fans and and stuff like that. 182 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: And I was like on those apps, and you know 183 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: before Instagram had a live um. You know, so it 184 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 1: was like before you could just tweek Twitter pictures out, 185 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: you know, we had to store them in butt locker 186 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. 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Well that's important because I want to talk 227 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: to go back to ov OH where you create designs 228 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: and for all the stories located in North America, Canada, England, Japan, 229 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: to match each demographic. I want to stop right there 230 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: because right there, my mind about to explode because right 231 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: there you said each demographic. So I'm looking at the 232 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: very calm individual. You know, you don't feel like you're 233 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: drawing as we talk. You know, you feel like, you know, 234 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: I just slow it down, you know how to shift gears. 235 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: I let me repeat what I just said. She creates 236 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 1: creates creates designs for all stories located in North America, Canada, England, 237 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: and Japan to match each demographic. And the head of 238 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: two Merchandise were artists like Drake Party next Door Wow 239 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 1: talk to me. You know how? This is about time management. Now, 240 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: this is about the ability to be able to stop 241 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 1: the clock, know where you're at, and also to show 242 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: superior leadership. And also people have to trust your decisions 243 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: that you make. Let's kind of like navigate slowly because 244 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: I don't want to brush over this because I brought 245 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,839 Speaker 1: that up for a reason, because you're superior talent. And 246 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: I'm I'm a big personal bragging about my time management. 247 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 1: But you kind of like putting me in a I 248 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: should go back in my love corner and just just 249 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: just curl up when I talk to you, How do 250 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: you do it? How do you pull it off? Um? 251 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: I would say My main thing that I had to 252 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: learn to adapt to it is not being afraid to 253 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: ask for help. UM. When I first started out, I 254 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: was a person who thought that, you know, not having 255 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: eight ours a sleep means you have eight figures or 256 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: you know, just like the the little cliche things that 257 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 1: we take and we learned and adapt from watching different 258 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: successful people. UM. And I was very stubborn in the 259 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: in the thought process of thinking that no one will 260 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 1: get it done the way I get it done. And 261 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: sometimes I still think that. But it's okay to have 262 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:55,679 Speaker 1: a team, and it's okay to ask for help, and 263 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 1: it's okay to admit your weaknesses and flaws, and it's 264 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: okay to say, look, I need to break, can you 265 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 1: cover for me? Um? And the most important thing, because 266 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: when we think that we constantly have it, we're literally moving, moving, moving, moving, moving, 267 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: until we crashed into a big wall, and when we 268 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 1: crashed into that big roll, the recovery is harder than 269 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: just stopping along the way and say, hey, I need 270 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: it come out. Wow. You know when I I think 271 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: about when I look at my life, when I try 272 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: to share all my interviews, is that not that my 273 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: life is so important. I've done so many different things, 274 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: but also I try to learn from an interview an interview, 275 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: like I always brag about how little sleep I get, 276 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: and then and that's my badge of courage, my badge 277 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: of or choice that I promote that you gotta work 278 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: hard in order to achieve your dreams. You're also saying 279 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: in your my interview with use to reach out, that's true, 280 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: but you should also apply to who you are. Because 281 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: everybody's of course to success, it's not tied to how 282 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: they did it, but how you can apply to your 283 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: life so you can do it equally successful without burning 284 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: yourself out. Because I don't see as a person who's 285 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: going to burn herself out. Why is that? UM? I 286 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: feel like quite often we just get caught up in 287 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: like this person is successful, so Oprah successful, she's a millionaire, 288 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: Let me mimic her lifestyle. But there's a lot of 289 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: successful people. And you know, Oprah's path is for Oprah, 290 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: and it works for Oprah because that's the way that 291 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: God ordered her steps. Um, it's not gonna work for you. 292 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: So you have to pull different pieces of different people's 293 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 1: story and figure out figure out what adapts to you. 294 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: Don't change who you are, but become a better person. 295 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: Don't like, I feel like life is too short to 296 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: just like mimic other people and you know, become a robot. 297 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: You know, you gotta figure out what works for you, um, 298 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: because you know, we have one life and it's it's 299 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: pretty short. Um, so you don't want to spend it. 300 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: You know, you want to spend it making as a 301 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: few mistakes as possible. Mistakes are inevitable, of course, but 302 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: we want to make it, spend it making as few 303 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: mistakes as possible. So it's just like you know, figuring 304 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: out what works for you quickly and always being able 305 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: to know that that may not work in in a 306 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: year from now. So you you're gonna have to figure 307 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: out how you're gonna change and quickly, and if you 308 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: need a break for even if it's six months to 309 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: a year, don't be afraid to take that break because 310 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: which for you is going to be for you? Well, 311 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: that's that's really important. Now when I mentioned earlier that 312 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: she's a serial entrepreneur during the pandemic. During the pandemic, 313 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: now she opened the gym called Method uh Method Gym 314 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: down and down first black owned by the way in 315 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: downtown to l A. Which is what you know. I'm 316 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: going like, okay, really really, so first of all, doing 317 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: the pandemic, you're gonna open a business, Okay, let's talk 318 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: about that decision. And then being the first black owned 319 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: gym in downtown l A. Which is which is revitalized, 320 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: by the way, if you go down there, I remember 321 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: we're back in en eighty with Steve already. Now I 322 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: did a broadcast outside of Staples. It was like parking 323 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: lots and cars. Now you go down there l A Live, 324 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: it doesn't even look the same anymore. It's like crazy 325 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: beautiful down there. So when when you talk about you 326 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: a visionary, and I got to put the word vision there, 327 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: attached it to your name, Tyra, because of the fact 328 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: that you make in the decision not based on what 329 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 1: the situation is currently about what it will be in 330 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: the future. That's what visionaries are So to open the gym, 331 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: why you wanted to open the gym? And why did 332 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,959 Speaker 1: you choose downtown l A. Um. So I kind of 333 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: came in on the project when the location was already chosen, 334 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: so I didn't really have too much saying that. But 335 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: I thought downtown LA was a good area because it's 336 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 1: pretty much where everyone who comes to l A. Um 337 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: they moved to, like Downtown LA and Koreatown all in 338 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: that area. Um. I too when I first came to 339 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: l A lived in that area, so I know, like 340 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: downtown of is is coming up. Um, you know, the buildings, 341 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: the luxury buildings and things like that, And that's pretty much. 342 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,120 Speaker 1: If I had to pick an area to have that mix, 343 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: that melting pot of you know, a market, it would 344 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: be downtown l A. So that's why the location once, Um, 345 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: you know they told me where it would be. I 346 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, absolutely, I think exchanges. Now, what classifies what? What? 347 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: What's the gym? Is it? Like I said, is it? Wait? 348 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: Is it exercise classes? There's a cycling classes? What qualifies 349 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: method gym as a gym? And what attracts people to 350 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 1: either membership or weekly pay as you go? What is 351 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: the process of generating revenue and Method gym. So at 352 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: the Method we have this one class which is a 353 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: class where you use a versus climba, which it's pretty 354 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: much stimulates climbing a mountain. So this is also a 355 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 1: machine that Lebron James uses for an hour a day 356 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: every day UM. And the met Con class pretty much 357 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: is a mix of lifting weights, then uh cardio a 358 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: bike and the versa climba which allows you to burn 359 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: anywhere from six hundred nine hundred calories in a thirty 360 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: minute interval while working all three metabotic systems at the 361 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: body at the same time, so you're pretty much getting 362 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: a very extensive workout in thirty minutes. So that's our 363 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: like main thing that we're pushing and it gets people in. 364 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: But then on the other side of that we also 365 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: have a boxing gym UM which you know people love boxing. 366 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: And then on the outside we have an outside turf 367 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: that allows you to link cables and stuff like that 368 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 1: so you can have circuits UM. And then we have 369 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: a recovery room and asana, so we pretty much cover 370 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: all bases UM to be able to you know, apply 371 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: to an appeal to anyone who wants it. So all 372 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: of our classes ending con. So we have met con, abcom, 373 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: booty con like anything that you can think of ad class, 374 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: a class just for your glue, to a clap just 375 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 1: for boxing. If you want to do a circuit, we 376 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: have it. And then of course you know met Con. 377 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: So it's pretty much you know, to find your niche 378 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: and where you fit in. And then every Wednesday, for 379 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: like females who may not be into working out but 380 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,479 Speaker 1: they want to be empowered and be around other females, 381 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: we have a Woman Crush Wednesday work out um where 382 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: just females get together at ten thirty and come together 383 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: and we throw a free workout for them to be 384 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,239 Speaker 1: able to feel confident in working out and make that 385 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: leap of faith. Well, let's talk about my favorite part 386 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: of this interview. We're gonna continue, but did you see pizza? 387 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: Because I am a foodie. You might not know that 388 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: about me. I'm a foodie. So let's talk about the 389 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 1: whole concept of doing the pizza, which is, you know, 390 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 1: there's a difference because I've lived in New York, I've 391 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, I'm born and raged in Houston. 392 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,439 Speaker 1: I'm now based in the Lata, so I know there 393 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 1: are different pizzas a different part of the country. I 394 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: love the thin pepperoni pizza New York, I love the 395 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: deep dish of Chicago, and l A gives you a 396 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: mixture of both. And then Houston collect steals from everybody. 397 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: But they throw a little text next on a lot 398 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: of their pizzas, so you can get a little bit 399 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: of everything. They do a great great I think thin pizza. 400 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 1: I like to believe in the state of Texas, especially 401 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: in Houston. So what brand are we bringing to Juicy 402 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: Pizza in Los Angeles? And where do we start? Uh? 403 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 1: With the menu? Absolutely so Juicy Pizza is basically a 404 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: New York experience. Yes, so we are bringing straight New 405 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: York pizza to l A um from everything including the water. Uh. 406 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,719 Speaker 1: So you know it's it's straight New York slices New 407 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: York pies. And then to add a little twist, uh, 408 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: you know, New York is like a melting pie. Um. 409 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: So you can go here and you know you're gonna 410 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: get great food. You're gonna get great Jamaican food, You're 411 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: gonna get great Indian food, You're gonna get great Chinese food. 412 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: So all of the favorite things that were might go 413 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:26,199 Speaker 1: to Um. You know, growing up, we made toppings on 414 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: the pizza. So you know, New York is known for 415 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: Chinese food being great. So you know, I love to 416 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:34,959 Speaker 1: be from broccoli growing up. So we have a bee 417 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: from broccoli pizza. Um, there's a fried lobster pizza. There's 418 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,360 Speaker 1: a oxtail pizza. And then you know you have your 419 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: your your jerk chicken pizza. And then you have your 420 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: standard you know, pepperoni and cheese pies as well. What 421 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: grows in the forest trees? 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Who thought of all this fantastic craziness? 449 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: And does it come as a small medium, a lodge 450 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: and a twelve inch or are they supersize size pizza? 451 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: What do we have here? So we have the standard 452 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: new York eighteen inch pizza. Um, that's we only sell 453 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: one side just so you know, make it. Keep the 454 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: s op going and the standards because the amount of 455 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 1: traffic that we're gonna have, we have to be able 456 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: to keep quality control at the same time. So we're 457 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: only orferring twelve inch pot I mean sorry, eighteen inch 458 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: fives as well as slices. Now, slices are a great 459 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: so you will do you won't. You won't get into 460 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 1: any strong bowlies and all that stuff. Just we have 461 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 1: a side salad and New York there's a infamous Delhi 462 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: sandwich called the chop Cheese, So we have chop cheese, 463 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: egg ros and a side salad in addition to those 464 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: eighteen inch fives. I'm talking to a Vision version. The 465 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 1: Vision are a serial entrepreneur Tyra MYRICKX. You know there's 466 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: always a passion in everybody. I think when you when 467 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: you see so many things done a certain way, it's 468 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: always a desire to give back. And uh, that's part 469 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: of your aguesst Dna. I know you you you know 470 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 1: you're tied to your your father's foundation. But talk about 471 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: the whole process of giving back and what's the goal 472 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: of giving back. I feel like just it should be 473 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 1: our second nature, you know. Um the goal of giving 474 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: back there really isn't a goal, it's it's pretty much 475 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: just my intuition to try and change and help as 476 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: many people as I can. There's things that I do 477 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: that I don't. I don't vocalize or or as acts 478 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: for accolades. Um from I just feel like when we 479 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 1: are when we have so much, you know, put in 480 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 1: a position where we have so many blessings, it means 481 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 1: nothing if you don't share them with other people. You know, 482 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: like you can be used as a catalyst to change, 483 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: and you know, you may be put in this position 484 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 1: just to change the lives of those around you. Like 485 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,239 Speaker 1: how many lives can you change? How many people can 486 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: you touch? It's really not about the money, because the 487 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: money can be made and be spent and be made 488 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: and made over again. If you have somebody and you 489 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,719 Speaker 1: come across the life, it maybe your your duty and 490 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,479 Speaker 1: your calling to just you know, change that life or 491 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: or or be a piece of the change in that 492 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: person's life. Um. So I think that you know, just 493 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,479 Speaker 1: inspiring and helping and and moving through you know, my 494 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,959 Speaker 1: trials and tribulations, like I didn't just get on this 495 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: road and it's been smooth sailing. So even in the 496 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,679 Speaker 1: in the aspect of just sharing my story and helping 497 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: other people not go or hit the same bumps in 498 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: the road that I hit. Um, you know, that's all 499 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,239 Speaker 1: a part of giving back and and trying to you know, 500 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: be a catalyst for change. You know, when I when 501 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: I when I'm interviewing you, tire the interesting thing that 502 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: pops up because there's so many young people who want 503 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: to be you, especially when you hear the words celebrities, 504 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 1: uh like Drake and party next door. You're doing the 505 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: merchandise for them. Explain the process of that, because I 506 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 1: know the merchandise and the people immediately just think T shirts. 507 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: But that is a multibillion dollar business for artists, not 508 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: just musical artists but athletes but also entertainers of so 509 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: many different elks talk about being the head of merchandise 510 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: for their tours and how exactly does that work? So um, 511 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: pretty much, you you know, have to first thing comes 512 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: first is knowing the artist and knowing the market, the 513 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: artist's market. Um, because I've bummed a lot of collections, 514 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: you know, just going with my design background, like oh 515 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: this is genius, and you know it doesn't really appeal 516 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: to uh, the artist's market. So just knowing your artists 517 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: and knowing their market and what they like and then change, 518 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: you know, putting a little bit of you know, artistics, 519 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: artistic background or just you know, things of that people 520 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: will normally think of. Just thinking outside the box and 521 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 1: infusing it all together and creating a collection. UM. Tour 522 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: merchandise is essentially, I would probably say the easiest because 523 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: it's you don't change. So we can be on tour 524 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: for three months, clip take a month's break, and go 525 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: back on tour for three months and we're still selling 526 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: the same merch um as far as like day to 527 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: day operations with O v O. Every Friday or every 528 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: other Friday, we're rolling out a new collection, and that 529 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: new collection has got to be based off of the 530 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: numbers of the last collection and what's old more and 531 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: what regions sold more um. And then you also have 532 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: different regions where like you know, in the UK and 533 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 1: Germany and things like that, they actually like are still 534 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: wearing the jeans with the rhyme stones on it. So 535 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: you gotta really know every market and how you know 536 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 1: the best way to get an R o I. Um, 537 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: and not even just get a R o I, but 538 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: get R o I and make it influential, make it cool. 539 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: We don't want to just put out stuff because look 540 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: this is selling. It's just like, look this is the market. 541 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,679 Speaker 1: We can switch this up. We can change it and 542 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: be that game changer. Um, and and make this different. 543 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: She's in the pizza, she's in the physical fitness, she's 544 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: into clothing, she's into giving back. Uh, you know what 545 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: have I missed anything? Time? Giving back? Your into clothing, 546 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:54,400 Speaker 1: your the pizza, your the physical fitness. Whatever I missed? Um, 547 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: I think that's pretty much it. And you're cool and 548 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 1: you laid back and you know how to manage your time. 549 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: You want to lose your will. You will go crazy 550 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: trying to do all these things. The blessing of this 551 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: interview is that, first of all, I always tell people 552 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: that being young allows you to change things, allows you 553 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,479 Speaker 1: also recover from mistakes. And I'm not saying she's made mistakes, 554 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: but what she's doing is she's living a life based 555 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: on what she feels that she can do, based on 556 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 1: her efforts, based on her She's not You know, when 557 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: when you look at people who's I'm sure you've heard this, 558 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: Tyra girl, You doing too much. You need to sit out. 559 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: What do you say to people who tell you that? Um, 560 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,239 Speaker 1: I think that's crazy because my grandmother used to tell 561 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: me that all the time. Like anytime I say I 562 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: was getting into a new business mention, she's like not 563 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: having it. Like my grandmother was pretty much that from 564 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: that generation. Where and and it's understanding. But I have 565 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: to tell my friends all that that's all the time 566 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: when they say, you know, my mother is not supportive this, this, 567 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: and the third, I'm like, you got to realize we 568 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: come from a generation that's not the same as their generation. 569 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: And their generation it was you go to school, you 570 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: become something or you know, you take the city test 571 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: and you make your salary and you know how you're 572 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: gonna provide for your family. So it's very unheard of. UM. 573 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: So I would just say because personally, like I had 574 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: to hear it every day. Um, growing up with my grandmother. UM, 575 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: And I decided to make this venture. Like my mother, 576 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: she was pretty supportive. Just you know, do it. I'm 577 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: gonna support you. I how can I help you? Know? 578 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 1: That entrepreneurial spirit I got from my parents. But my 579 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: grandparents didn't quite understand it, and so I started paying 580 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: their bills and it's like okay, you know, and then 581 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: it's like, you know, my grandmother's bragging about me. You know, 582 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: Like you gotta prove yourself, just like you would in 583 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: any industry, um, anywhere you go. If you had a 584 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: job in a hospital, if you want to work your 585 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: way up in that hospital, whether it be from a 586 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: nurse to like the head nurse, you have to prove yourself. 587 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: And it's no different in the industry or the being 588 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. You know, the more accolades you get on 589 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: your belt, the more knowledge that you get, the word 590 00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 1: that you're able to prove yourself and show yourself and 591 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: and let people know that you know what you're doing 592 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: and you know what you're talking about. People are gonna 593 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: gravitate in a track to like this person knows what 594 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: they're doing. Um. So, don't ever, ever ever get insecure, 595 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: caught up in somebody else's thoughts of you, because only 596 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: you know your true potential. Well, it's really important that 597 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: you said about your grandmother. I know my father when 598 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: I quit my job to be a stand up comedian 599 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: in his mind. He couldn't even wrap his head around 600 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: that because you know, he couldn't figure out hourly wage. 601 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: He couldn't further or for the hour week, how you 602 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: bore how you're gonna get paid. All I know is 603 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: that that is what I wanted to do with my life. 604 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,479 Speaker 1: I put a plan in place to be successful. At 605 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: least I thought that was the right plan, and many 606 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 1: years later, it's not something I've regret it. I'm on, 607 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm on doing an interview with an incredibly talented young 608 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: person like give you Tira Merrits. And so I want 609 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: to thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation sharing 610 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: your story because you all uh as they say that 611 00:31:54,880 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: this is politefully say a beast and that's a compliment. Okay, again, 612 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Pleasure. 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