WEBVTT - CHANEL WEST COAST - Make it a Spicy Quesadilla 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.080 What's up, guys, it's your West Coast and this is 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.240 Kohlie with with eating while broke up. So today we 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.000 are going to be having chanel West Coast? What are 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.520 you cooking for us today? I'm cooking with case to Dilla. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.560 I'm not the best cook, but you know I could 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.160 whip up a good case Todia. So I'm making a 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.079 cause to dilla with pepper jack, cheese, butter and tapatio. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.320 So where'd you learn this? Um? Just like I think 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.840 I learned it from being a friends houses honest weeping, 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:33.320 because like I grew up here in l A and 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.280 like I had a lot of messan friends and like, yeah, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.080 I just kind of like the afternoon snack. Yes, it 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.920 was like, hey, we're going over to Sarah's house. I 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:44.960 have a lot of a lot of different friends growing up. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:49.040 But yeah, let's see here. You need this graded. So 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.000 I do the grocery shopping for the show, and no, 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:58.360 sounds crazy here. I don't want to. Oh I'm not 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:00.440 even gonna be shredded. So I didn't know. Do you 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.880 want me to like help shredd? Yeah? Can't you? Because 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:07.000 I'm not like good at at using the shredder. Okay, yeah, 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:08.600 I'm gonna I would just cut it and put like 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.080 little slams if he right on there? You know, yeah, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:17.319 I was. I was like, where's the pepper jack shredded cheese? 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.200 You know? So tell me how did you get your 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.920 big break? Like, oh, it's such a long story, but 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:28.520 really I got I guess you have to say. I 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:33.480 got my break through my MySpace music page. Yeah. So 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.920 I basically started like wrapping and singing when I was 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.560 a teenager, and then I made my Space being page, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.800 and uh, from that page, that's how I met robbed 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.160 your deck, So that page? Yes, what did he like 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.320 my space too? Like it's such a it's such a 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.520 long story, like I basically met his cousin. Let me 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.000 make sure I'm not burning this one on. How hot 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.360 is it? I'm just keeping on low for right now. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.640 That's plenty of cheese for I think, just to start 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:13.359 places like it looks good. Yeah. So yeah, And I 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.760 used my mindspace to like just like network and like 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.160 I wouldn't sit there adding people all day long. And 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.560 one of the people I added was Rob's cousin, Drama. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.120 And then I became friends with like Drama and like 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:32.480 his boys, and I then met Rob through them and 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.040 it's a long yeah, it's a it's a really long story, 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.680 but like I'm trying to make it shut um. And 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.320 like they had heard about me, like because I was 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.040 already pursuing rapping, and like everybody, I think kind of 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:43.560 like thought it was funny. I was just like little 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.359 white girl who wrapped. They were probably like, who what 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.000 does she? Like? They thought I was crazy, I think, um, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.519 and so yeah, they told Rob about me, and pretty 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.600 much that's how it happened. Yeah, and then I asked, 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.760 like I asked Rob to come to one of my shows. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.440 I had some my little show where you have to 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.680 like sell your own tickets to perform, and like I 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.079 get these I would get these those shows on my 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.880 crickslist and ship just so I could like try to 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:14.320 perform somewhere. And basically, uh, I asked for all to 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:15.760 come to a show one day and he was like, oh, 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.519 I can't make it, but he was like, UM, did 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.440 you want um, I want to put you on an 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.200 episode of my new show. And so I was like, okay, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.720 like let's do that a su yeah yeah, and so 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.600 uh so then I went to go do one episode 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.200 and that was my first day of Fantasy Factory. Now 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:39.800 that the landscape for women rappers is way more competitive. Um, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.760 and I'm not sure if you're still signed a Young 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.520 Money are you know, I'm independent, But that's a whole 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.360 long story. I was never like officially signed. I was 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.120 like Young Money by affiliation, and Wayne like gave me 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:57.320 the co signers. Oh ship, that's a big pepper. I 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.080 was like, what's the cheese anyways? Um? Yeah, so Wayne 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.720 gave me the Coast sign and then there was just 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.760 all these complications with my deal getting done and it 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.760 was held up forever, and I kept getting all these 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.720 excuses from like the lawyers and my old management, and 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:13.880 I don't know. It was just like I guess not 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.080 the right timing or whatever. But like me and Wayne 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.400 are still cool. Um. But yeah, I'm independent. I like 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.320 fully fund everything I do and like make all my 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.440 own decisions and all that. That's awesome. And there's a 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.120 lot of like behind the scenes that you have to 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.680 deal with, especially with like cash fill right, I would imagine, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.640 oh yeah, like in the pandemic. That made it even 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.960 harder because normally like as an independent artist, it's it's 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.120 actually I mean, I love it because I don't have 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.760 to um pay anybody back, you know what I mean. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.560 Like when I do these gigs, the money goes in 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.320 my pocket like or that, you know, my my agents, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.040 whoever books the gig or whatever. But um yeah, when 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:54.840 you're with the label, they get a huge piece of 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:59.120 everything you do. And so uh, I feel that I'm 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.480 really smart with how much I spend and how much 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.520 I make back, like you know what I mean. So 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.800 during the pandemic, that's when it got a little hard 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.680 because it was like I wanted to put out my 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.000 album that year. I'm like, this is a great year 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.800 to put out music. You know, people are at home, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.160 all lives are like ready, you know, so it's like, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:16.960 this is a great time to put out music. But 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:22.000 um uh, there was no gigs. So I'm putting all 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.640 this money into videos and photo shoots and studios time 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.840 and you know stuff like that, and and so I 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.360 had to invest a lot and then I wasn't able 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.039 to make as much back. So now I'm like trying 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.120 to because you were releasing it even through the pandemic. Yeah, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.000 oh that's yeah, that's a tricky situation. Yeah, because I 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.400 realized the pandemic was a good time to put out music, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.760 especially because people who were signed to labels were a 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.479 little bit held up, probably because things were shut down. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.400 So I'm like, okay, I'm independent, nobody's good to be back. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.760 I need to drop this now while everybody's at home 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.640 like needing new content. Um So it was a good 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.000 time to invest in myself. I feel like and invest 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.520 in my music just now I got to recoup and 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.120 and like get all these gigs and get the money back, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.000 you know. So that's a lot of like behind the 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.680 scenes business stuff. Now. Was there ever a point in 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.440 your career where you're like, that's it. I may just 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:19.600 tap out, Like, um, I wouldn't say, I Like, there's 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.040 been times where I'm like, I don't want to pursue 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.039 I will always make music as a hobby, like that's 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.120 just what I do. Like I've been writing poetry making 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.400 little songs since I was a kid, like for fun, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.840 Like that's just what I do. It's like what I 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.240 do when I'm board, Like it's my hobby. Um but 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:37.920 there was a part a part of me that at 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.920 one point I was like, I don't want to pursue 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.280 this and keep putting money into this, you know, like 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.640 make songs for fun, maybe just put them out on SoundCloud, 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.479 like who cares? You know what I mean, not even 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.200 try type thing. There was a time when I started 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.839 to feel like that, and I was like I should 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.800 invest all my money into real estate and do other 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.400 business ventures. And I'm like, no, you know what, I 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.599 can still invest in real estate, still do other things, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.160 and still invest in my music. There's there's a time 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.680 and place for everything, you know. So it's just um 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.440 about spacing it all out the right way, you know 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:14.520 what I mean? And you still take ridiculousness yep, NonStop, NonStop, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.840 Like what does your schedules look like? Yes, like we 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.520 filed six episodes a day, three days the leaks, so 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.520 like yesterday I did six episodes. Tomorrow I do six episodes, 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.560 and then um next and then I'm off for two 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.720 weeks and then we go back to filming again. And 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.560 now you don't film all years, like two weeks out 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.640 the year or three weeks. No, we film all year, 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.160 no way, Like it's like I'm off two weeks, then 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.920 I filmed two weeks, and I'm off two weeks. And 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.880 I filmed two weeks and I'm off two weeks, which Um, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.360 for trying to travel anywhere abroad not easy. I've basically 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.720 never been fucking anywhere. But yeah, because it's like I 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.240 want to when I finally travel, I want to travel 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.160 and like be able to see Europe and all these 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.160 places like I want to go over like two days. Yeah, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.320 and now with COVID and getting tests to go to 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.960 all these different trees and like, you know, yeah, it's 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.200 a lot. So where have you traveled so far in 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:12.040 my life? Mexico, Scotland, the Philippines, Spain. Colin sounds interesting. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.400 Colin was interested. It looked real old. There was castles everywhere, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.280 like yeah, like literally there's like all these castles that 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.840 you can rent on like Airbnb, Like they're literally like 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.440 literally little castles. But a lot of them don't have 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.800 a lectricities. But yeah, their streets are like all cobblestone. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.920 It looks like you're, you know, like in the past. Yeah. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.559 And so in the industry, as far as girls, do 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.280 you feel like the women supports you? Um, I definitely 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.679 have a lot of like women artist friends. Do all 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.760 of them know? Yeah? No, you know, I think it's 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.480 really important as a woman artist to support other women artists, 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.880 and there are some that are just a little bit 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.560 more catty and that are more competitive and like whatever, 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.679 Like that's cool. They can be like that, you know. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.880 So like everybody has their own personality. Yeah, yeah, So 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.240 where do you want to go next from here? Definitely? 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.040 I mean, I just I'm at a point in my life, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.840 especially after the pandemic, where I think just being healthy 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:16.800 and happy are the two most important things. And healthy 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.960 I mean like physically and mentally, you know what I mean, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.959 Like like those are the two most important things to 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.040 me at this point. So I don't want to do 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.040 anything that's gonna like make me stressed out or give 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.199 me anxiety or like I get anxiety real easy. So 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.000 like it's like it's you know, it's just a point 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.719 in my life where it's like it's not worth the 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.439 extra stress. I'm gonna keep making music, I'm gonna keep 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.640 doing me, but I'm not gonna like overly stressed about 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.000 things like I like I used to, And I'm just 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.559 kind of like going with the flow. Now. Did you 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.839 go through any type of depression during the pandemic or 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.080 were you like just really it was more anxiety than depression, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.800 because I feel like I used the time wisely, and 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.600 I liked having that time off. I was like, Okay, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.200 this is great to have this time to like really 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.400 focused on my craft. And like, you know, I was like, 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.040 we couldn't get nails done for like three months, so 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:07.839 I used to play violins. So while I didn't have 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:09.400 my crilics, I was like, let me just get on 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.360 the violin again. I was about these nails. As soon 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:14.880 as the nails a lotto back up, I was like, oh, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.640 put the violet. But yeah, you know that it was 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.600 funny to use that time and and I didn't get 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.000 really depressed, but I did get a little bit of 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.760 anxiety because I like to be around people and and I, 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:28.800 you know, I just felt like I was just like 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.760 in my house so much that I started to go 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.920 a little bit crazy. You don't have any like friends, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.360 secret get togethers oh we got a few, okay. Now, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.720 in the beginning of the pandemic when everything first started, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.360 were you like, I don't know if I believe this 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:42.839 or were you one of those people that were like 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.160 I believe in a PC. I went through I went 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.400 through my phases, I went through my face. The first 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.280 couple of weeks, I was like cleaning door knobs like. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.160 I was like, literally, like so scared. I was like, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.400 this is like the zombie apocalypse or something. I was 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.600 one of those people I did like horn toilet paper. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:04.400 I was like, no, you're tewed up like, I was like, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.040 this is the womb the list. I didn't know what 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.520 the hell was going on, and um and I had 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.240 so I'm pretty sure I had COVID before the lockdown, 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.319 and so I had had it like a month before 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.719 that made it through it. It was like I thought 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.560 I was gonna die though, And so once the lockdown 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.240 happened and I knew what was going on, I was 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.839 like like I felt like I was a liability or 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.319 something too. I was like I gotta stay inside. Like 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.599 I feel like I was a super spread when I 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.400 had it, because I'm one of those people that work 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.120 through being sick. So when I had it, it was 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.520 a weird sickness. It went through like a couple of phases. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.839 So I went to a video shoot. I went to 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.520 a photo shoot, Like did you tape ridiculousness? No, I 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.280 didn't take ridiculousness until I was gonna say, hey, guys, 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.120 if you got sick, you know, But like a couple 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.840 of people from the video shoot I did and from 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.440 the photo shoot had got sick, and so they told 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.920 me later when I told him, I said, yeah, I 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.000 think I had it around them. They're like, girl, a 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.079 couple of people got sick after that. You I think 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.679 you were spreading it. And so so I definitely was 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.440 like at the beginning of the pandemic, like super on lockdown, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.679 like and then I'm not gonna lie. I heard this 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.000 Burger King commercial and that should tripped me out and 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.319 I was like brainwashed us. I was like there, so 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.600 I'm cleaning my house and I hear on the Burger 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.040 King commercial they go, America needs you to stay on 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.960 your couch. I was like, what, Okay, stay inside that's 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.800 one thing. Keep your social distance that's another thing. Stay 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.719 on your couch. Those lines hit me hard because I'm like, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.440 I'm like, you know, I might have relaxed a little 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.160 bit during the pandemic, but I was still staying busy, 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:37.920 staying on my grind like he's this time and I'm like, 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.680 stay on the couch. And I was like, m there's 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.679 something going on. They're trying to keep us at home 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.160 and keep us lazy, like I was like they're trying 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.360 to make us sick. It's a Burger Key commercial saying 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.599 stay on your couch, you know. Like so I don't know, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.599 I just started being like, okay, maybe this is like 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.000 some weird thing to like I don't know, like I'm 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.400 you know, not a conspiracy theories. But I was just 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.880 like I just started questioning things, you know, and um, 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.599 I also just was like that looks good. Yeah, I 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:11.320 think it's done. Good. Feed me now, feed me chanel Um. Yeah, 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.319 you know, I went through my phases. I went through 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:17.280 my phases. Awesome, it looks so good. I definitely made 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.040 sure to stay healthy and like you worked out a lot, 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.040 worked out a lot. I was juicing, taking vitamins. I 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.240 was following like all the rules. Um. I get tested 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.400 a lot for work too, so it's like I constantly 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.319 no negative, you know, like we're getting tested when we 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.800 film like every like forty eight hours. So yeah, I 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.280 went through the pandemic and I thought I was gonna 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.079 survive not catching COVID, and then I randomly took my 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.680 cousin in um who like many went through like a breakup. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.280 Yeah that's all I'm doing. I'm not bold, I'm crazy, 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.959 I know. Oh my gosh, like is it it's not 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.120 hot hot? Oh jeez, Well if you end up going 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.720 up on the show, just you know, I mean laugh. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.439 I'm one of those people like if you get hurt, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:10.959 I'm laughing. That's fine, Okay, keep going on. But yeah, 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:15.200 I had called COVID and I knew me really because 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.959 there was like body aches and fever and just I 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.960 started having all these symptoms and I was like, oh, 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.720 I can't believe I called it. And my cousin at 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.120 the time was like, you don't have it. And I 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:27.800 was like, dude, you need to get tested because he 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.680 came in sick. And then I tested positive and I 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.800 was like oh. And I was apart from my husband 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.160 at the time. I'm like I didn't see him for 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.960 a month and now I got to go longer. That sucks. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.760 And I was like counting down the days so I 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:45.160 can be uh COVID free, you know. But um, when 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.200 it first happened, I thought, like the economy. I was like, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.360 there's no way they can lock down all these businesses 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.880 and all this stuff. I was actually shocked at that 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.920 was possible. Obviously it failed history, you know, because apparently 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.640 in history they did it again? You know, all of 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.480 a sudden you were researching when the pandemic like this 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:05.360 ever happened before. Yeah, yeah, it's happened. Yeah yeah. But 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.480 I didn't really take it serious until like my money 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:13.480 started to disappear and I was like, okay, can I 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.400 get a job somewhere? No, it's like that's that's another thing. Yeah, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.320 it's been hard to see. Like, I see it's good. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.480 You like it, Thank you, Thank you for feeding me. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:29.240 On the topic, it's like hot, but I don't know 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:30.760 if it's the cheese that's hot or the tap of 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:37.120 to you you mean it's hot. Yeah, sorry, I really 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:42.120 like spicy stuff. I'm probably over here like dripping capaccio. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.960 So have you had like men just do some ridiculously 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.080 over the top stuffhen you're trying to get business done 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.160 or trying to push you around like um, like even 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.240 for me and as a woman in business, like sometimes 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.440 you have to for lack of better word, like become 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.160 a bit just to get some kind of respect to 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.320 get a job done. And it's like you have to 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.680 turn all the way up because they think yourself. Do 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.760 you have to deal with that a lot? Or um, 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.440 let's just say that I've never like I've always been 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.040 like a tomboy too, so I've had like a lot 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.240 of guy friends, like I've never until I was like 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.040 twenty five, I didn't really like notice sexism. I didn't 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:24.880 like to see it was a thing. And then things 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.000 started to occur to me like oh, that's sexist, all 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.240 that's sexist and like and then once I started to 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.440 realize that I was experiencing things like that, it started 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.520 to build up. You know. Like I'm good at like 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.720 I'm good at like maneuvering through the business and like 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.640 keeping my mouth shut when I need to do whatever, 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.200 but there has been times where I've had to really 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:53.400 speak up and and be like the situation sexist. And yeah, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.320 it's it's not easy to do that, you know, especially 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.320 because it's like I've heard people be like, oh, this 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.000 person they are crazy about a guy, like you know 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.679 that the celebrity or whatever. But but that's that's how 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.479 he like, you know, you know, like that's like how 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.760 he makes the magic happen or something. And it's like, okay, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.680 but if a girl were to act crazy like that, 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.640 they call her a diva, you know what I mean. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.040 But um, so like that I think that there's like 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:20.040 these double standards and I don't know, I have had 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.760 to kind of find my voice to speak up a 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.520 couple of times, like yeah, that's that's I think a 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.919 difficult balance for a woman a name with the me too, 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:33.520 a movement they it was, it was, it is great. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.920 But then there's also like always a catch to every 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.919 great thing where it's like we don't want to abuse 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:45.600 the power either. But then again, I think guys are 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.119 now terrified to so you've been like, look at a 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.440 girl's but or something. They're like, I don't want to 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.200 compliment you. Is it okay? No? No, literally there is 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.320 people like that and I'm like, yeah, it's fine, Like 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.800 I don't mind somebody telling me. I looked pretty like yeah, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.560 you know that's was not weird about it, like sniffing 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.800 my ear at the same time or something like what 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.760 was like something you invested in that or that didn't 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.520 pan out the way you wanted and you felt that hit. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.320 I had won a little venture I started with my 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:22.320 friend and really we both had high hopes. You know, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.000 she's just not a single mom. She's a mom with 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.040 two kids, and she has a nine to five job 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.520 and I'm really busy myself. But we had wanted to 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.840 start like a jewelry line, and we invested some time 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.200 and money into it, and it just it didn't pan out. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.000 But I think it's because we we really both didn't 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:42.959 have the time that each of us needed to put 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.320 into it, you know. And that was one that was 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.960 one thing that did like not really pan out. It 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:53.040 kind of failed. But um, from that, I learned, okay 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.040 with the next thing I start. After that. The next 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.480 thing I did start was my clothing line, L Cartel, 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.920 and that's done much better and I didn't the same mistakes. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.479 And you know, do you think time is more important 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:08.440 than money when it comes to business? Um? What do 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.920 you mean exactly? Like, do you like you were saying, 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.240 like when you and your friend did this, you guys invested, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.520 but you didn't really have the time to invest into it. 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.840 Do you think your time is more important than the 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.720 actual capital that you put in? Yeah? Well, time is 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.600 definitely important. It doesn't matter how much money you have 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.920 if you're not going to take the time to do 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.680 what you have to do to promote it or to 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.359 send the packages out when people make the orders. You know, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.320 So there's got to be the follow up. You know 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.240 what I'm saying. Um so, yeah, so it's important to 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.760 have the right team and the right structure around you 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.080 when you're starting a business like that. And that's what 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.359 I realized, and I've told her too, for if for 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.440 the future, if we start another thing together, like we 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.560 just need to make sure we have more hands on 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.280 deck instead of trying to take on so much ourselves. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.880 But we don't have the time for it, you know. Yeah, 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.040 but I think it's cool that you guys did do 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.000 you kind of did learn that lesson because sometimes people 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.720 look at like celebrities are you know, and they say, oh, 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:13.280 well you're rich, you have this huge, big team And no, right, No, 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.720 I didn't come from any big team. Like I was 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.520 like telling, um, I throw his name was like, I 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.840 who walked me in here? What's his name? I was 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:22.520 telling Drew, were just walking in here? I was like, yo, 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.399 I said, we were kids and said we used to know, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.520