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Speaker 1: representing organization that provides children facing adversity with strong and endearing,

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Speaker 1: professionally supported one to one mentoring relationships that ignite the

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Speaker 1: power and promise of youth. Nearly half a million children

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Speaker 1: and metroid Land to live in commlearly is with low

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Speaker 1: well being. That's very important. Did I say that their

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Speaker 1: vital mission is to recruit volunteers to become mentors to

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Speaker 1: The president and CEO of Big Brother, Big Sister Foundation

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Speaker 1: and volunteer Recruitment manager of Greater loss ange A, Greater Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: Kwami Johnson and Juliet. Yeah that's name. You look at me,

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Speaker 1: She mouthed her name. I need the help on the phone.

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Speaker 1: She wouldn't have been no help. But welcome to my studio.

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Speaker 1: First of all, how are you doing, Qualmie? Oh man,

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Speaker 1: I'm great man, it's Monday. I'm blessed to be here.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you giving us this opportunity to come in.

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Speaker 1: Cool and Juliet, you have a Nigerian heritage. Yes, yes, um,

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Speaker 1: first generation night Jaring American crazy story. I was born

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Speaker 1: four years Absolutely, that's that's great now. The initial question

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Speaker 1: is I gotta ask you, comic, what is Big Brother

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Speaker 1: Big sister. So Big Brothers, Big Sisters a Metro Atlanta

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Speaker 1: we match young people in need all across the metropolitan

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Speaker 1: We you know have great results of you know, kids

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Speaker 1: with the apps. Well, you know, it's it's it's a

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Speaker 1: little bit of both ra Sean like of course running

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Speaker 1: every day and the movements that we do. But I

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Speaker 1: actually did a thousand set up every day, five days

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Speaker 1: a week for the majority of my career. Um, so

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Speaker 1: those apps were not only, I guess beautiful, but they

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Speaker 1: were very functional because the four hundred uh like you

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Speaker 1: mentioned that was my expertise on the American record holder

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Speaker 1: painful exactly, and wanted to run the final hundred. Well,

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Speaker 1: you really need to have a strong course. So I

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Speaker 1: did a lot of training to to get those six

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Speaker 1: pack apps that I missed them about. Okay, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: wait wait, you just said that athletes has never stopped. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about you slipping there. Let people talk you

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Speaker 1: right there. But banana banana splits and everything. A thousand

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Speaker 1: you did? A thousand was the leg raises or you know,

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Speaker 1: because some people cheat when they say a thousand sit ups?

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Speaker 1: Would you put the locked fingers behind the head? Sit up?

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Speaker 1: What type of sit us will you do? I was

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Speaker 1: doing all kinds of we called we said, I would

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Speaker 1: say core exercises. I would do the traditional core, we

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Speaker 1: would do weighted core. We would be planking time time

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Speaker 1: to core said, ball core, physio, ball core, all kinds

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Speaker 1: of different core exercises, focusing on the front core. I

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Speaker 1: don't feel the back. A lot of people forget that

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Speaker 1: your back is a part of your core, the private stability.

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Speaker 1: I do a lot of core training on my back

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Speaker 1: as well. You know, it's really interesting when I when

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Speaker 1: I look at athletes and who are as accomplished as you.

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Speaker 1: You know, because of the fact that you know there

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Speaker 1: you can look at different things become seasonal it is.

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Speaker 1: That's such a thing, that's a seasonal period for a

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Speaker 1: track athlete. No, I mean, I feel like we don't

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Speaker 1: train year round. When I was training competitively, I would

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Speaker 1: take four to six weeks off every year. But even

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Speaker 1: that time, even though yes I wasn't running or in

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Speaker 1: the gym, I was still operating like a high level athlete.

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Speaker 1: So I'm still trying to eat well and resting well

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Speaker 1: and still taking care of my body. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's anything as a seasonal professional athlete. I think that, um,

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Speaker 1: it's usually profession a professional athlete, it's uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a year round tip it mint uh, and you're

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Speaker 1: always thinking about trying to get the best out of

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Speaker 1: your body even in the off season. Well, you know

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Speaker 1: because of the fact that, you know, when I think

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Speaker 1: about just trying to be in shape. I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you something, I'm the worst person you hang out with me. Um,

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Speaker 1: you really be going, Rishawn, ridiculous the way you are,

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Speaker 1: you know, because I fool people. You know, I look

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Speaker 1: like I'm in shape and then you go, yes, you

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Speaker 1: do really desserts before you eat your meals. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: stop looking at me like I'm crazy, because that's gonna

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Speaker 1: happen all the time. And so do you do you

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Speaker 1: train people? Or do you do you do people? Could

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Speaker 1: people come to you? I'm sure you know, because I've

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Speaker 1: looked at the resume, but what do what do you

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Speaker 1: do when people ask for training, advice or or just

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Speaker 1: look at you? They said, well, oh, you know from Jamerica?

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Speaker 1: You know, just God given, you know, I just I

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Speaker 1: do my thousands set ups, I've got fast feats, this

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Speaker 1: is my life. Yeah, because people just assumed that you

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Speaker 1: just were giving it, you know, and that's that's an

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Speaker 1: insult to what you have achieved as an athlete. Correct.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean did god given challenge is just

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Speaker 1: the basis um and the foundation and you have to

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Speaker 1: build on if you want to be a great athletist.

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Speaker 1: So I was definitely going and gifted with UH with speed,

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Speaker 1: but I mean too many hours and worth and commitment

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Speaker 1: to be able to be the best in the world.

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Speaker 1: That you also asked if I coach other esthletes and

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Speaker 1: stuff that you know, I'm so grateful for the amazing

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Speaker 1: coaches I've had my entire career fromm not cut out

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Speaker 1: to be account I don't feel bad. Don't feel bad, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but but what do you think I do love? And

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Speaker 1: I'm really passionate about it's mentoring young athletes, and so

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Speaker 1: never athletes reach out to me or any athlete that's

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Speaker 1: kind of been in my shield, whether HUM in Austin

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Speaker 1: THEUT asking until some of the young professionals. I'm always

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Speaker 1: excited about helping to mentor them to guide them through

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Speaker 1: that transition from the collegiate ranks into the professional ranks.

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Speaker 1: So I don't coach athletes, and if athletes young athletes

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Speaker 1: reach out to the social media or dm ME, I

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Speaker 1: always try to send them back and encouragement or something

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Speaker 1: I feel I could share that might help them get

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Speaker 1: over the home. But as far as coaching, I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's something I never say never, but it's something

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Speaker 1: that's in my future. Okay, mommy Nation will get off

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Speaker 1: their Mommy Nation. How can individuals connect with that? So

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Speaker 1: the first thing is and I would love for them

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Speaker 1: to check out the actual blogs. So it's mommy with

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Speaker 1: an eye, not a why mommy nation dot com where

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Speaker 1: we have over three hundred blogs on pregnancy, on life

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Speaker 1: the full breath of what motherhood, um and being a mom,

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Speaker 1: of being a woman and a wife looks like. So

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Speaker 1: you can connect with the fair We're also on Instagram

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Speaker 1: and Facebook UM. But I also would love to invite

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Speaker 1: and encourage other moms. So but of course, the main

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Speaker 1: place to check us out as mommy Nation dot com.

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Speaker 1: We talked to good Luck. I would I wouldn't they

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Speaker 1: keep keeping them all so much. What a treat to

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Speaker 1: connect with you, and I definitely definitely would love to

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Speaker 1: connect to be going Atlanta. This will make sure that happen.

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Speaker 1: I got some people in here. There's a foodie interview

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Speaker 1: right here now, so you know, everybody know it, gets

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Speaker 1: excited about my food. I would prograb something called rashaun

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Speaker 1: Eats where I go, and that list exciting restaurants all

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Speaker 1: over the country, whether I've been there or not, or

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Speaker 1: I've been the most of them. That this restaurant that

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about today, I posted on Rashaan McDonald Rashaw

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Speaker 1: McDonald on my Facebook page before I went there because

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Speaker 1: it was so highly recommended, and I finally went there

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Speaker 1: last week and they lived up to the hype. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of hard because sometimes people are hyped. They talk, Man,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get there. You gotta get the beach cobbler

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Speaker 1: French too, you know that, and the chicken biscuits. Man,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get that, that bractic food. And then you're

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Speaker 1: going there and you know, but they lived up there

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Speaker 1: because I gotta I got I got my table. You know,

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Speaker 1: it was just field with plates, and so my guests,

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Speaker 1: uh sitting next to me in the studio to day

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Speaker 1: you know, and I read there you reopened the Atlanta Club,

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Speaker 1: which is I want to stay downtown. Please work with

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Speaker 1: the money making conversation. The owners of Atlantic Breakfast Club,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Sanders and O. Sirus Ballard, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank Can you get close to the mic because see

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Speaker 1: see I I wanna talk to Anthony real quick because

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Speaker 1: I had a question in my portal said are we

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Speaker 1: allowed to use profanity? So I want to know I've

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Speaker 1: I've done this show for two years. I've never had

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Speaker 1: a question like that in my portal or we are allowed.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what do I need to

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Speaker 1: get the button ready for you? Or what's going on there?

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Speaker 1: And what's going on? No, I just always wanted to

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Speaker 1: con it when people, you know, if I'm never gonna

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Speaker 1: use my platform to tell my story, you know, have

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Speaker 1: some great stories to have something not so great stories

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Speaker 1: and some salt in it. Yeah, sometimes sometimes depending on

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Speaker 1: who's my audience, depends on who's listening, depends on Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna keep the salt out

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Speaker 1: of this conversation. So Cyrus, We're good. Was it any

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Speaker 1: profanity words of charge that I need to screen you

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Speaker 1: on before we get started with this interview. Uh no,

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Speaker 1: not at all. Good, Okay, cool, good. I just want

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Speaker 1: to get that out of the way because I've never

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Speaker 1: seen that in my portal and I went, wow, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty strong. Let me get that out the way first,

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Speaker 1: because I can handle. Because I was, I could say,

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Speaker 1: I'm a former, I'm still I'm a stand up comedy

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Speaker 1: death comedy jama I've done Steve Harvey was my opening

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Speaker 1: act when I started doing stand up comedy, So I've

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Speaker 1: used the words, the salty words on stage, so I'm

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Speaker 1: not I don't run from that language. So they made

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Speaker 1: I made a lot of money talking like that. But

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Speaker 1: for the general public, they definitely see what take take

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Speaker 1: me off the hair. So let's talk about these foods.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about my experience of going to your restaurant,

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Speaker 1: the Atlantic Breakfast Club. You know, my staff immediately said,

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Speaker 1: first of all, like I stated earlier, it has been featured.

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Speaker 1: If you go to baker spotlight dot com and click

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Speaker 1: Rushan Eats, you're seeing click Breakfast, you see your restaurant

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Speaker 1: will pop up um my board producer. Uh, he highly

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Speaker 1: recommended it. You know, you know people recommend stuff Anthony osires,

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Speaker 1: they get they get aggressive, you know, they touch you people,

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Speaker 1: they touch you. You know you better go, you know,

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Speaker 1: I go. Okay, you touching? Man? Man? Are you forcing

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Speaker 1: me to go? Because he felt the food was that good.

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Speaker 1: He said, there were always a line there. And then

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Speaker 1: my staff came to me and they said, Rachean, they

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Speaker 1: want to make sure that when you come that you

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Speaker 1: let them know ahead of time. I said, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't do that. I want to go in there

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Speaker 1: and enjoy the experience. The experience was amazing. Okay. So

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Speaker 1: so when I got there, you know, I drove around

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Speaker 1: trying to find me a place to park, all right,

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Speaker 1: because it's right over there by the Georgia Acquirum. Correct. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Then I realized, you just parked right across the street

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Speaker 1: at the Georgia Acquirtment. That's why I wounded up. Parking

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Speaker 1: right across the street was comfortable, it was easy, and

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Speaker 1: I walked across the street. That was that the hotel,

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Speaker 1: the spring Hill Sweets. I was walking up the street

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Speaker 1: from spring Hill Sweets to the restaurant A line of

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Speaker 1: Practice club. I smelt this aroma of great food. I

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Speaker 1: almost felt like they had a fan in front of

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Speaker 1: my face, you know, with the food. Just let me know.

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Speaker 1: And then I got there there was that was a line.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a line that heard me away, but there

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Speaker 1: was someone, which is a good thing, you know. I

641
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Speaker 1: mean you you want to be in places that you

642
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Speaker 1: can't get in sometimes because you want to figure out

643
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Speaker 1: why they want to get in before you. So the

644
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Speaker 1: the staff was with gracious, put me down, they spoke.

645
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Speaker 1: I sat down, and for my staff, I took up.

646
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Speaker 1: I took a smath and I took a deal. I

647
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: told him, hey, man, because you have great pictures, because

648
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,719
Speaker 1: you have on you on your screens, you have like

649
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Speaker 1: pictures of different food and people having a good time

650
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Speaker 1: and different events and things like that. And then on

651
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Speaker 1: your menu, I said I could just I said, just

652
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Speaker 1: let me order. So I ordered the peach cobbler French toast. Okay,

653
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Speaker 1: that's who made that one up? Who who made that one?

654
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Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Bro, No, don't be

655
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Speaker 1: don't I loved Hey, don't be looking over it that.

656
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I made that one. Okay, So now that's

657
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Speaker 1: a combination though of peach cobbler in French to How

658
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Speaker 1: did that come about? Now, because you know you could

659
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Speaker 1: talk to me how it came about. I think, you know,

660
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Speaker 1: it's just just the thought process of education for food.

661
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Speaker 1: What we wanted was something was a t l you know,

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Speaker 1: we wanted something that's spoke indigenous to the city. We

663
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Speaker 1: wanted peaches. We wanted peach, we wanted cobble or we

664
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Speaker 1: wanted brown sugar, we wanted sent him, and we wanted

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Speaker 1: we wanted audacious though. We didn't want to just have

666
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Speaker 1: it just a regular peach cobblin the regular French toes.

667
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Speaker 1: So we combined it to being in the breakfast industry.

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Speaker 1: That that that that will work in New Orleans, that

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Speaker 1: work in Houston, that working doll that work in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: So so I'm like, you know, you might think it's

671
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Speaker 1: authentic of made it for the Georgia peach of Atlanta, Georgia.

672
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Speaker 1: I'm from Houston, Texas. Boy that work from I can

673
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: took that home to my my sisters all up there,

674
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Speaker 1: the child down on that. So you got something working

675
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Speaker 1: there right there. So that's why people coming all over

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Speaker 1: the country to your place. Okay, then I had the

677
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Speaker 1: that that that that breakfast bowl. Tell me about how

678
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Speaker 1: the breakfast bowl came up from well almost uh tell

679
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Speaker 1: everybody was in that. It's grits rank there right there.

680
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Speaker 1: I'm a grit man. I'm a grit man. Six sisters,

681
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Speaker 1: two brothers, straight out of fear for Texas. My wife

682
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Speaker 1: she knows we're talking about grit yesterday. Brother, she said,

683
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Speaker 1: you because I don't know what like my grits a

684
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Speaker 1: certain way. And brother, y'all, brother, thank you, thank you.

685
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Speaker 1: You couldn't understand. That's a session art. Brother, Brother, it's

686
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Speaker 1: some people like there, it's some people. I'm dancing. Man.

687
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: I was in this lounge. Okay. You know when these lounges,

688
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Speaker 1: one of these lounges, you can you know, you can

689
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Speaker 1: fly a lot. They let you need lounges. And somebody

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Speaker 1: decided to put grits out there. Oh no, they did

691
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: not know what they were doing. I called the people

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Speaker 1: in the back, that's excuse me, before y'all ruined other

693
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: people's lives eating these grits. Get them out of here.

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Speaker 1: So you know what I'm talking about. Everybody cannot make

695
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Speaker 1: grit talk about because y'all can make gritch overever. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Well. I mean it's like, how if you're

697
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Speaker 1: from we're from the South Man, we're from Florida. We're

698
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Speaker 1: both from Florida. So whether he was doing siris, yes,

699
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Speaker 1: oh sorrys from Miami. I'm from North floor. Yeah, that's

700
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Speaker 1: that's you know. But there's nothing like a good bowl

701
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: of grits, man, because grits. Grits takes patience. You can't

702
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: expedite the process, so it being made correctly. People that

703
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Speaker 1: you know, you don't know why you appreciate a good

704
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Speaker 1: bowl of grits until you've seen the process, because your

705
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Speaker 1: bowl of grits might be Oh I cook them really nice,

706
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Speaker 1: and they had a good brand. There's their stone ground.

707
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Speaker 1: But my migrits are who came up with grits. I

708
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Speaker 1: saw I saw a woman with with the rocks in

709
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: her hand, grating corn to add water to while the

710
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: man were in the field to survive. That's where grit started. Me.

711
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: Grits tell the story of how don't even get here?

712
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: How are you at this table right now? Because someone

713
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Speaker 1: took the to the byproduct of corn and rub it together.

714
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 1: It was nothing. They added water and they found salt

715
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Speaker 1: and they stirred it up and they fed twenty people

716
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Speaker 1: with it. So that's what grits are too. So people

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Speaker 1: that valuate tell you the process, right, Yeah, I put

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Speaker 1: a little pep on that. When I was younger, my

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00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: mom with throw some bacon grease on top of whoa okay,

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Speaker 1: lookay let me. Then I had to do your do

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Speaker 1: you we're running that time here on the first break

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Speaker 1: salmon croquette now with some tastes there, see, I dude,

723
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Speaker 1: that's all I grew up on with sam croquette. So

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Speaker 1: so when Samantha said we're shutting, they got your food

725
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: over here, I said, we guys to get the croquette.

726
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: How did that make it to the menu? Brother? Because

727
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: it's not everything that everybody. It might be South, but

728
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Speaker 1: everybody's not serving soum a croquette now. No, um, you

729
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: know that's floatable. As we grew up over fishing grid

730
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: like fry fishing grid, mullet and catfishish. You shill make

731
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Speaker 1: me cry, now, I get it. You know some of

732
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: us Atlanta Breakfast Club, just the executive chef here, oh

733
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Speaker 1: sorry's he backed that. He didn't said anything because he

734
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Speaker 1: letting him have to float because he know over crying

735
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: looking at this man here. You know, I'm about think

736
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: I'll be leaving the day y'all closed the three right see,

737
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: I'll be We'll be over there. They know I pay,

738
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: so they might open up me on the table, not

739
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: that I know. You know, well the salmon years, it was.

740
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: It's something that's indigenous to Georgia. I think kind of

741
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: respect where you are. But we're not gonna we didn't

742
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: use cast salmon. We want to use the fresh salmon. Absolutely.

743
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: We want to use fresh because that's how we could

744
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: take our fine dining and busics experience and to convert

745
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 1: that into quaint breakfast food. Good. Now, I'm sorry, You've

746
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,479
Speaker 1: been very nice sitting back there. You're the co owner

747
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: of the Atlantic Breakfast Club. You know you said when

748
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: he said he's the executive chef, and you said, hey, Roshan,

749
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: I know my lane. Okay, what is your lane when

750
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: it comes to the good company, good for good food

751
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: and company? Well, you know it's um, it's a it's

752
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: an interesting lane because it uh pours over into a

753
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: lot of what he does. But you know, for me,

754
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: I've been a student of all the great food that

755
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: he's produced and the ingredients and the various menu concepts

756
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: that he's also produced. So I've learned in this kind

757
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: of structure, I've learned how to incorporate my business function

758
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: with how how do we grow this brand effectively? But

759
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: using these key ingredients and profiling him as an executive

760
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: chef on a whole another level in terms of creating

761
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 1: that platform that's timeless. So for us, it's about doing

762
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: something new and fresh, even even on the business side

763
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: of it. So that's been fun, that's been interesting. Um,

764
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: I mean we talk about it every day. It's it's

765
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stress involved in what we do,

766
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: but it's manageable. And I don't know if anyone ever realized,

767
00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: but this is some exciting stress. It's pretty siding and

768
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: you know the the titling song living your best life,

769
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Speaker 1: you know, we that's what we are truly doing. So

770
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: when we came, when our paths crossed, we both came

771
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: from backgrounds of heart learned lessons and truly we were prepared,

772
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: uh in those in those lessons we've been we've been

773
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: prepared for this moment, for this time, and now we're

774
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: just excited about all the opportunities, because I can tell

775
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: you this, every opportunity that that is before us has

776
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: walked through those doors on to forty nine and Ivan

777
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: Allen Junor Boulevard at the Atlanta Breakfast Club. I'm sorry

778
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: you guys about to open a new location. Tell us

779
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,240
Speaker 1: about why you open a new location. Doesn't make you nervous?

780
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: You can open new location, and how do you promote

781
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: the new location so it won't get you know, we'll

782
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: take away from your your primary location right. Well, the

783
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: y is is simple. It's because, um, we a blessed

784
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: to have people like yourself who demand a great product

785
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: in many different areas and location. So we we definitely

786
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: have to answer the call for that. Um, it's a

787
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: it's a twist on the food concept in itself. It's

788
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: more of an abbreviated version of what we're doing now

789
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 1: to Lanta Breakfast Club. But nonetheless it is a truly

790
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,720
Speaker 1: exciting venture. UM. The interesting thing though with this particular

791
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: location is it is a historic building on three forty

792
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 1: Auburn Avenue, down the street from ebonez Or Baptist Church.

793
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Speaker 1: And so therefore, um, we sat down one day, we

794
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: looked at it and and although you get a location

795
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: most times people you know the ideas, let's do the

796
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:48,240
Speaker 1: same thing we did here. You know, we're we're pretty gutsy,

797
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: you know, we figured, you know, let's create a different concept.

798
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: And this concept involves a craft, a nitrocraft beverage that

799
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: through other relates sh ships, we've been able to cultivate.

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00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: So this new location is dubbed as the Atlanta Breakfast

801
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: Club Chicken and Waffles Nitro Coffee Counter. Um. So this

802
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 1: this is a combination of great coffee, nitro craft beverages,

803
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 1: and specialty chicken and waffles in terms of just how

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00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: he has crafted that food concept. And and Mary the

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Speaker 1: two thank you for coming up show. I know you

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Speaker 1: guys busy got lined to do it right now. Wait,

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Speaker 1: you know y'all, but I appreciate you. You all about business.

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Speaker 1: You're all a boy business too, and know the money

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Speaker 1: main conversation is your home Atlanta Breakfast Club. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: The owner of Dillard Hospitality Group snoop, Hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I'm happy to be on this

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848
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: I get. You know, I just tell people I go

849
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: to bed, but I feel like going to bed. But

850
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: I do wake up at the same time every day.

851
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: And you know that's because a lot of people think

852
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: you can just drift your times. You know, I get up. No,

853
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,919
Speaker 1: you can't talk about that whole process of a day

854
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: in the life of you. And then I want to

855
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: talk about your your foundation because I got you for

856
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: two breaks. Don't want to talk about a number of things.

857
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 1: I also want to talk about the money making Mondays

858
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: that you do as well. So let's talk about a

859
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: day in your life, snoop, a day in my life.

860
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: So UM. Generally, so you know, as we know, today

861
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 1: is Monday. So normally on Mondays, I meet with follow

862
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: my GMS and my higher up and UM, just make

863
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: sure we're on the same page, talk about any issues,

864
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: any two dos, UM, anything we want to improve on,

865
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: and then I kind of make my rounds and check

866
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: on the businesses and so UM throughout the week. UM,

867
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: I kind of I really, I'm very organized and I

868
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: kind of round myself on the set schedule. So that's

869
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: what I do. On Monday's. Tuesdays, I normally get out

870
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: and look at real estate properties and UM, take care

871
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: of a couple of other little meetings. Sometimes I'm gonna

872
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: do business consultations UM on Tuesdays. UM. On Wednesdays, I

873
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,240
Speaker 1: normally work on my app and then Friday is generally

874
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: kind of my personal day. Thursday is kind of a

875
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: clean up day, UM, just going to the businesses and

876
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: making sure that they're executing the way that we need

877
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: to be now. With that being said, on mondays, I

878
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: do money making conversations. Then you do money making mondays

879
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: on your Instagram. That's why I know it's sence you.

880
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk one day, Okay, So tell us how

881
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: this money making mondays start on your Instagram account. Yes,

882
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: so money making mondays. Um, I saw that maybe about

883
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: four years ago. Um, and pretty much what it is

884
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: it's a platform or free platform for me to be

885
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: able to give advice to other entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs. Um.

886
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: And so what I do is, um, it's a lot

887
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: of storytelling, telling my story and how it is that

888
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: I get to where I am today. UM. And it's

889
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: an open platform. I do it live on my Instagram

890
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: UM and answer various questions you know, from other individuals

891
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,319
Speaker 1: out there. So, UM, it gives gives people kind of

892
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: that one on one time and access to me, right

893
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: because see that's why I started. Money making conversations started

894
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page. And so when I was managing

895
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, you know, people are always coming to me,

896
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: can you mentor me? Can you can I call you?

897
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: You know the same That's why she know the same

898
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: things happened to her whole time. You can you can?

899
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: You can I get your number? Can I get your email?

900
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: Money making mondays, okay a p m each standard time

901
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: on my Instagram count at who is new? You can?

902
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: You can get online and then you can follow me

903
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,760
Speaker 1: and then you can ask me any questions. I mentor

904
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: you through my Instagram account. That's what she's saying, and

905
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: then she give Then other people have similar questions and

906
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: she can answer thousands of people. Are hundreds of people

907
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: at the same time from an expert standpoint, because generally

908
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,920
Speaker 1: people have the same question. They are the same How

909
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 1: do I start a business? How do I have all attacks?

910
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: Or how to employment? All all the things that people

911
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 1: need to know. But the fact that you're taking time,

912
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: because I know that's why I started the radio show,

913
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: because I know on my Instagram card I was just

914
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: doing I wasn't even doing it live. She's smart, She's

915
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: doing it live when she could talk. I was doing

916
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: a chat, so you know I was chatting. Somebody asked me,

917
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: of course you do they want to know? Another course,

918
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: about six eight courtions down before I wrapped up with

919
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: that one person. So I know the value of what

920
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: you're talking about but again it's still about giving information

921
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: to people, not charging for the information. You know, taking

922
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: advantage of the blessing is given to you, you returning

923
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: it with this information portal call moneymaking Mondays. Now let's

924
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: talk about Dillard Hospitality Group. That's you. How did it

925
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: come about? You know, I said earlier, you're a serial entrepreneur.

926
00:47:54,800 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: Talk about different business businesses that you have under that umbrella. Yeah,

927
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: so I've been an entrepreneur for the past eleven years,

928
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: ever since I was about I went to in Banner

929
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: but the a sixteen, graduated at twenty, and I've been

930
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: owning businesses ever since. About a year after college and so,

931
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 1: um once I kind of had my travel and era

932
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: and you know, some of those failures that actually started

933
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: having successful businesses, um I decided to kind of put

934
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: them under this umbrella Dealert Hospitality, you know, for all

935
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: of my restaurant tentures. Um So, I've been here. I've

936
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: been here in Atlanta for about ten years. I started

937
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: a party bus company when I first moved here, A

938
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: party of us, a party of bus company. Now, what

939
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: exactly was that party busking, What exactly was that? Um?

940
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 1: If I owned party buses and so people could rent

941
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: the buses to take them out. UM. And so it

942
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: was a really big thing, you know, back when I

943
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: was doing it. UM. But yeah, so UM I was

944
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: doing that, and I was doing it for about two

945
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: or three years. It was it was fairly successful. You know,

946
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 1: we've profited you know, over six figures a year and

947
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: things of that nature. But it wasn't something that I

948
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: love and something that I really enjoyed UM. And what

949
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: I really love and enjoy doing is the actually the

950
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: restaurants and the lounges and so UM. I saved my

951
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: money from that business then was able to open up UM,

952
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: which was my second lounge. I opened up my first

953
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: lounge when I was twenty four, but my second one,

954
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: which ended up being my first successful one, was the

955
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: Hookah Hideaway with the owned right off of Auburn Avenue

956
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: on yet THEO Junior Drive, and so UM started that business. UM.

957
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: A couple of years into that venture, I was able

958
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: to connect with the Rapper two Chains UM. I had

959
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: wanted to do a second location UM and the business

960
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: people kind of linked us together. I felt like we

961
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: would be a good, good payer to do business with

962
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: each other. UM and they were right, and um, you know,

963
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: we we got together and we did Escobar Restaurant at

964
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: the top of Us. We later opened Members Only Loud.

965
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: She was just right downtown as well. Um, and then

966
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: I also owned craze Um Slely by myself and the

967
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: restaurant venture that I just opened a couple of weeks

968
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: ago at a little five point And you know that Snoop, Snoop, Snoop,

969
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: you're too much that you know, because you're not even

970
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:33,240
Speaker 1: stressing in this. I'm tired listening to you, Snoop. Somewhere

971
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 1: along the line, I gotta stop you and say, first

972
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 1: of all, you know, I went to Vanderbilt when I

973
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: was sixteen, graduated when I was twenty. Jesus casually I

974
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: went to I went to universitys to I was eighteen.

975
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: I graduating, Okay, I'll just let you know what you're

976
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: talking to. Okay, I got a math degree. But I'm

977
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: gonna just slow you down. Now. I'm proud of my

978
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: looking degree, but I wasn't sixteen and twenty okay. And

979
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: then my next restaurant and then I had the Party Kings.

980
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: We're making six figures, but I wasn't happy with the

981
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: way I was making a six fake and I gotten

982
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: business with a rapper. We hit it right off, you know,

983
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: hit so now we got that, we got this, we

984
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: got that, and then crazy I decided to do that

985
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: on my own. Now let's talk about that. Let's talk

986
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: about this thing. You're gonna have a driver next year

987
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: because I want you to live to you old and

988
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald telling you right now. You never met me before,

989
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: but you know, I love you, girl, and I want

990
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 1: you because you're doing stuff for the community, You're doing

991
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: stuff for yourself. You're showing women a form of empowerment

992
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: that you can do business multi levels of business in

993
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: the hospitality world. Okay, what we know is a male

994
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: dominated world. Okay, and so and being successful. So so,

995
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: I jokingly just stopped you so you can hear yourself,

996
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: because people like me, like you have a general tendency

997
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 1: to just keep doing stuff. But don't understand that what

998
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: you're doing is not normal. You know that you know

999
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: what you're doing is not normal. Correct, Yeah, true, because

1000
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: a lot of times I think when you're super motivated person,

1001
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: you always doing a lot of things. You know it,

1002
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: Definitely it's really important to stop and smell your own

1003
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: roads and you know what I mean, And you know,

1004
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 1: kind of give yourself that pat on the back, you

1005
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: know you do. We forget to do that, you know

1006
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: you do. And I think that's important. That's why I

1007
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 1: developed this show because it's about being having a balanced life.

1008
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't I wasn't really understanding that being

1009
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: able to because I was just onto the next, onto

1010
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:35,280
Speaker 1: the next, onto the next. And sometimes you get nervous.

1011
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: Sometimes that nervousness drive you to the next because you

1012
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: don't know if you miss out on an opportunity, would

1013
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: it come around. But you know, your brand is such

1014
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: snoop that you know, I'm just looking at I'm just

1015
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: looking at now, you know. Now it's just it's just

1016
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: it's protecting you know what I'm saying, allowing you to

1017
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,440
Speaker 1: sit back and and like I said, and you have

1018
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: the right to sitting in the throne. You have the

1019
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: right to sit in the throne and understand these are

1020
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: the people who are allowed me to be great. And

1021
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: because you've done the work, you've got you got the

1022
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: resume to justify that you are great. And so when

1023
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: I look at this, now, tell us about the Crave

1024
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: restaurant here it was a little five points tell us

1025
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: about that menu. Yeah, so Crave restaurant. It has a

1026
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: really unique concept behind it. What I did is I

1027
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: looked at the phenomenon that we haven't here in Atlanta,

1028
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: which is, um, you know, most of the people here

1029
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: are not from here. You know, You've got a melting

1030
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,240
Speaker 1: pot of people. They come from different cities and countries

1031
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. And so um, a lot

1032
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 1: of us that aren't born and raised here in Atlanta.

1033
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: We come from other cities, and we've got signature dishes

1034
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: and things of that nature that these other cities are

1035
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,919
Speaker 1: known for that a lot of people crave and miss

1036
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: you know once the once they moved here. So UM,

1037
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: I kind of played off that, and um, we serve

1038
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: things like Maine Lobster Roads, Billy Cheese Steaks, Detroit, Coney Islands, Uh,

1039
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: Chicago Guy Roles. So I took items from popular cities

1040
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: around the country, UM, and just put a mall together

1041
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: on the menu. And so you know, you've got people

1042
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: coming in from Ohio that are used to their five

1043
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: points skyline chili um, and they can they can literally

1044
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 1: get it right there and crave and it takes you know,

1045
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: just like it used to taste back at home. So um,

1046
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 1: that's the unique concept that I came up with it

1047
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: crave And like I said, we've been up for about

1048
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: two weeks. We'll be having our brand opening. Um the

1049
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:25,320
Speaker 1: end of this. Okay, okay, okay, cool, now, no, no,

1050
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: you know I gotta I'm a foodie. Now if you

1051
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,320
Speaker 1: don't let me if I'm not there for it, because

1052
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: you know, I do this thing called is my little uh.

1053
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: I put it on my I got almost a million

1054
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: followers and I post popular restaurants, popular either reason I

1055
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,080
Speaker 1: go to and you know you you'm a girl, so

1056
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: I gotta be there to support you because of the

1057
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: fact that you come out and try some of this

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