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Speaker 1: What's up. It's way for Angela Yee.

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Speaker 2: I'm Angela Yee on a Wealth Wednesday with my Wealth

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Speaker 2: Wednesday partner, Stacy Tisdale.

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Speaker 3: I'm Stacy Tisdale about to start what I know is

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Speaker 3: going to be my favorite Wealth Wednesdays. Yes, because we

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Speaker 3: have pinky col Heyes, because I.

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Speaker 1: Just got married. Hey, hey, I'm keeping waiting to.

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Speaker 4: Sphenated. Okay, my husband understands.

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Speaker 1: You've been pinky cold a long time.

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Speaker 4: I think depending on what room my man, okay all

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Speaker 4: the time. But I'm pinky cold, Hayes, I'm excited to

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Speaker 4: be here.

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Speaker 1: Are the kids' names hyphenated? Also?

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Speaker 4: No? No, no, okay, all right, okay.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, congratulations to you because you are

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Speaker 2: in town opening a location number fourteen for Sluddy Vegan.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you know it's funny this morning when I was

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Speaker 4: coming here, I'm like, damn fourteen locations and I didn't

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Speaker 4: lose my mind yet, like I don't want to through

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Speaker 4: so many changes, And here I am, and I'm just

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Speaker 4: so grateful that I've had the opportunity to build a

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Speaker 4: brand such as Slutty Vegan that is really touching people everywhere.

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Speaker 4: Like now, this business is a household name, and I

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Speaker 4: can't believe I'm the person that created that. Yeah, so quickly,

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Speaker 4: so quickly. It hasn't even been six years.

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Speaker 2: And in spite of people feeling like, oh, the names

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Speaker 2: slutty Vegan or I was on a panel yesterday and

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Speaker 2: it was so funny because we were just talking about

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Speaker 2: like different things that we have, and I was like,

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Speaker 2: I'm just excited that, like my coffee is the exclusive

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Speaker 2: partner for study Vegan Breakfast, and for me to be

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Speaker 2: in a room with all these like super corporate people

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Speaker 2: and to be able to say slutty.

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Speaker 1: Vegan and everybody nod in their head like yes, Vegan.

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Speaker 1: It's a great feeling.

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Speaker 4: It is a great feeling. And I think what the

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Speaker 4: brand has been able to do is show people that

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Speaker 4: you can re engineer words right, Like slutty doesn't mean provocative,

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Speaker 4: it don't necessarily mean racy. The concept don't have nothing

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Speaker 4: to do with sex. It really is a way to

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Speaker 4: draw people when to have the conversation about veganism. And

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Speaker 4: we've been doing that for six years and it's been working.

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Speaker 3: You've helped people's wealth, you've helped people's health, you've been

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Speaker 3: their role models and you're giving back and you also

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Speaker 3: now are doing these incredible educational projects and different things

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Speaker 3: in American Sash.

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Speaker 4: Yes, American Sash is the bomb. You will really be

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Speaker 4: good for American Session. I'm God tell and you gotta come.

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Speaker 4: But American Sash really is an opportunity to bring celebrities, creatives,

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Speaker 4: creative executives together in the name of ideation. Right. So, like,

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Speaker 4: I don't care how much money you got, I don't

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Speaker 4: care how much followers you got. It don't matter how

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Speaker 4: many people know you. All that matters is this, right,

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Speaker 4: So if we can come with collective collaboration on big ideas,

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Speaker 4: then it's a win for everybody. So we put these

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Speaker 4: four hundred people and we just build. And I can't

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Speaker 4: tell you everything that happens in the room because the

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Speaker 4: marketing is no marketing. So like, you come, no phones,

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Speaker 4: no cameras, You just really come with a pen and pad,

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Speaker 4: and everybody like locks in and build billion dollar ideas.

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Speaker 2: And Picky will be on on social media like here's

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Speaker 2: an idea, go, here's an idea. Take this go Like yeah,

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Speaker 2: because you do. And I think even for you, you know,

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Speaker 2: where you are right now with study begin and also

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Speaker 2: with Barbigan. Congratulations, Barvegan, come into Baltimore where you're from.

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Speaker 4: Barbie can come into Baltimore. Slutty began coming to Baltimore,

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Speaker 4: and then even us s Letty Began is going to

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Speaker 4: what a year ahead.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I was gonna say, but even when you first

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Speaker 2: came up with this idea, you had no idea that

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Speaker 4: That's what I was gonna say. Differently too, I still

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Speaker 4: don't know what I'm doing, though you know that's false.

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Speaker 4: You listen, No, I don't write so, and I think

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Speaker 3: How do we make peace with that feeling of feeling

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Speaker 4: I ain't at peace with it, to be honest. I

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Speaker 4: feel like the moment that I get comfortable, then then

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Speaker 4: a cancer in business. And and I literally have had

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Speaker 4: the biggest lesson even just recently. You know, I had

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Speaker 4: a result of that, I kind of like took my

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Speaker 4: I trusted people to run the business, which they did.

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Speaker 4: don't know who needs to hear this. So when I

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Speaker 4: like every day is a new challenge for me to

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Speaker 4: that way because I get to fall back in love

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Speaker 2: I've always said that if I would have known all

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Speaker 2: have did it. You know, because if you know what's

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Speaker 1: And sometimes it's better to just it loosely.

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Speaker 2: Know what you want to do and what you want

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what's interesting is and shout out to

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Speaker 3: You always I heard you say that you always envisioned

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Speaker 3: Sludy Vegan as a billion dollar brand and that that

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Speaker 3: really important to it success. What did you mean by that?

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Speaker 4: Slutty Vegan is a billion dollar brand. The money just

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Speaker 1: Of Our Lives and all of the show It's my day.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt like that was my day too, And

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Speaker 3: Surprising part to you of all of your success getting sued?

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Speaker 4: And it's so important. People don't realize the power of

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Speaker 3: And it doesn't get looked at it the same when

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Speaker 3: This is officially Derek.

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Speaker 3: To come on Wealth Wednesdays.

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Speaker 4: can be a millionaire on TikTok. Right, So, like people

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Speaker 4: don't have to come and work in the restaurant industry.

438
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Speaker 4: The reality of it is is the restaurant industry compared

439
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Speaker 4: to other industries, the pay is not as good as

440
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Speaker 4: a lot of industries. Right, So I make sure to

441
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Speaker 4: pay my employees in a way where they can have

442
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Speaker 4: a sustainable way of living. That's number one. Incentivizing them,

443
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Speaker 4: giving them opportunities benefits. Yes, like if you work forty

444
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Speaker 4: hours of slutty vegan in the restaurant space, you are

445
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Speaker 4: going to get benefits That really doesn't happen in the

446
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Speaker 4: restaurant industry. And just providing them the opportunity to move up.

447
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Speaker 4: I'm not the CEO that like, you gotta work here

448
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Speaker 4: for a year before you get promoted. If you have

449
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 4: for three months and you run the circles around everybody else,

450
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Speaker 4: you got the job.

451
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Speaker 2: And if there's ideas that you have, I'm always open

452
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Speaker 2: to hearing you know, other things that you feel like

453
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,200
Speaker 2: could be beneficial to the business. People who are creative,

454
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Speaker 2: who can do great content. You know, that is so necessary.

455
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Speaker 2: That's a hard thing to hire for too.

456
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Speaker 4: It's very hard. That's my hardest thing, right, I'm hiring

457
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Speaker 4: for that right now. So if that is you call me,

458
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Speaker 4: send me a DS make content, to make content.

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Speaker 1: Me thinks that they're great content.

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Speaker 4: They're not, and they're not. They're not. And the reality

461
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Speaker 4: of it is is, you know, I'm an older millennial, right,

462
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Speaker 4: so like TikTok is not my ministry, it's not so

463
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Speaker 4: we are the Instagram era, right And because I'm not

464
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Speaker 4: verse in TikTok, it's really difficult for me to be

465
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Speaker 4: competitive in that space. And I just don't have a

466
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Speaker 4: bandwidth to like sit and learn it. So I'm looking

467
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Speaker 4: for somebody who really can come and just own my

468
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Speaker 4: TikTok and just give more creative ideas. Like you know,

469
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Speaker 4: we have the marketing down pack. But like, if you

470
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Speaker 4: want to be the best, you gotta walk like the best,

471
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Speaker 4: talk like the best, act like the best, will look

472
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Speaker 4: like the best, and I want to be the best,

473
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Speaker 4: so I need to find the best. So that was

474
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Speaker 4: a PSA. If anybody listening, that's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is so important because I know you have

476
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Speaker 3: a background in production. My backgrounds and television production, so

477
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Speaker 3: you think producing contents, producing content, and really had to

478
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Speaker 3: learn social social media totally different animals, and this background

479
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 3: will help you and you know these types of things

480
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Speaker 3: long form and really finding that right person and how

481
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Speaker 3: important is that to branding and really finding the right people?

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Speaker 1: That is your thing too, brand marketing and branding.

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Speaker 4: It is it's not the food. The food is good,

484
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Speaker 4: people are food's very good. Think you the food is good.

485
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Speaker 4: They're gonna come, but they're not coming for the food, right,

486
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Speaker 4: They're coming to see what the hype is about. And

487
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Speaker 4: that's how they learn about the hype.

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Speaker 1: When you walk in and they chicken head.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Well, the reason why they learn about the hype

490
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Speaker 4: is by way of the marketing and branding and social media. Right,

491
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Speaker 4: So like the face front of it all has to

492
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Speaker 4: be inviting, it has to be a space where people

493
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Speaker 4: are like, oh damn, I gotta come there, like I

494
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Speaker 4: gotta see what the hype is all about. But it

495
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Speaker 4: requires the people who are quick on their feet, super creative,

496
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Speaker 4: Like I love having creative geniuses around me because they're

497
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Speaker 4: going to come up with the ideas that are different

498
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Speaker 4: from what everybody else is doing. And then it'll continue

499
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Speaker 4: to drive traffic through the business. More people will come

500
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Speaker 4: and we'll be able to continue to grow the brand

501
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Speaker 4: and make it a household name like it already is.

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Speaker 2: You know what I want to talk about to expanding

503
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Speaker 2: the way that you have because like you know, this

504
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Speaker 2: is your fourteenth location that's opening, and like you said,

505
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Speaker 2: one of them you had to close because you realize

506
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Speaker 2: the location was not it for you.

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Speaker 1: So talk to me about how difficult that is.

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Speaker 2: Because sometimes we had this idea and I had we

509
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Speaker 2: do something, We spend money, we invest in it.

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Speaker 1: How did you know it was time to walk away?

511
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Speaker 2: And then when you think about expanding, how do you

512
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Speaker 2: know where you want to go and when is the

513
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Speaker 2: right time?

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Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting, this is actually my first time

515
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Speaker 4: publicly saying it. What I just told you about one

516
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Speaker 4: of the locations. The first day that I opened, I

517
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Speaker 4: had people outside protesting because they didn't want me there,

518
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Speaker 4: and obviously they didn't look like us. And what I

519
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Speaker 4: realized is I knew it from the beginning. I'm like,

520
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Speaker 4: I don't know about this one. I don't know about

521
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Speaker 4: this location. It wasn't typical to the areas that I

522
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 4: put Slutdy Vegan in, right, And I'm like, hmm, this

523
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Speaker 4: don't feel good in my spirit, but we're gonna roock

524
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Speaker 4: out anyway. And that was over a million dollar lesson

525
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Speaker 4: that I had to learn. But the reason why I'm

526
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Speaker 4: okay saying it now because as I evolved as an entrepreneur,

527
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Speaker 4: the biggest companies have had to close certain stores because

528
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Speaker 4: they weren't operationally sound or they weren't working properly. It's

529
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Speaker 4: a part of the process. The more you open, the

530
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Speaker 4: more you realize, and then the more you evolve as

531
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Speaker 4: a business owner. You got to be able to make

532
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Speaker 4: smart decisions in your business. So if I was to

533
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Speaker 4: if I was keeping that location open, it was going

534
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Speaker 4: to kill my AEV and that was my average unit volume,

535
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Speaker 4: right like, it was going to kill the overall scope

536
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Speaker 4: of the profile of the business. So I actually made

537
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Speaker 4: a conscious, intelligent decision as an entrepreneur. My ego could

538
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Speaker 4: have gotten away and said, well, I don't want to

539
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Speaker 4: close the slut Vidion locations, and my emotion could have

540
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Speaker 4: gotten away.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to get me.

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Speaker 4: But then I had to make a financial decision that

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Speaker 4: was going to benefit the business in the long run.

544
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Speaker 4: And now that I look back and I'm publicly saying

545
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Speaker 4: this for the first time, I'm glad that I did it,

546
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Speaker 4: and I hope this is a testament to entrepreneurs that listen,

547
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Speaker 4: you got what's the song said? You got to know

548
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Speaker 4: where to hold them, no where to.

549
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Speaker 1: Fold them, no where to walk away, no way to run.

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Speaker 4: Okay, And that's shout out yes. You really got to

551
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Speaker 4: know and that is what makes a good entrepreneur because

552
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Speaker 4: you know how to pivot, you know how to be

553
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Speaker 4: a chameleon, and you know how to make really difficult

554
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Speaker 4: decisions even when you don't want to make them.

555
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Speaker 2: And then as far as expanding, how do you know, like, okay,

556
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Speaker 2: this is uh And I learned this when I was

557
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Speaker 2: taking courses at the Small Business Services. But they said

558
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Speaker 2: location is going to be the number one reason that

559
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Speaker 2: your business does or doesn't work like one of the

560
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Speaker 2: top top reasons. So how do you determine this is

561
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Speaker 2: where we need to be or we should be and

562
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Speaker 2: it's time to expand because some people might be like, wow,

563
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Speaker 2: that's quick, like six years, fourteen locations plus the bar vegans.

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Speaker 4: So what I've I've realized in my brand is that

565
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Speaker 4: Sludy Vegan works really well when they are in vegan

566
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Speaker 4: food deserts. So this evolved so before when I first

567
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Speaker 4: started Slutdy Vegan, it was in food insecure areas, right,

568
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Speaker 4: And let me tell you about evolution. When you're an entrepreneur,

569
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Speaker 4: you should always be evolving. So if you were have

570
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Speaker 4: asked me this almost six years ago, my answer probably

571
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Speaker 4: would have been different. But as I evolved in business,

572
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Speaker 4: I've realized a few things. I realized that putting Slutty

573
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Speaker 4: Vegan and vegan food insecure areas, not just food insecure,

574
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Speaker 4: but vegan food insecure areas a really good opportunity for

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Speaker 4: me to be able to introduce that. And that doesn't

576
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Speaker 4: necessarily have to be a low income community perfect because

577
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Speaker 4: it's you, yeah, you be and you, me, me and

578
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Speaker 4: me exactly. What I also learned is that Sludy Vegan

579
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Speaker 4: experience is like no other. Floody Vegan is more of

580
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Speaker 4: an experiential brand, right, So like Sludy Vegan needs to

581
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Speaker 4: be in the Vegas Is, in the Miamis and Californias,

582
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Speaker 4: in the New York's and very dense populated locations because

583
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Speaker 4: people always have a really, really great first time experience.

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Speaker 4: So we need to be in places where you see

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Speaker 4: a lot more tourists. And that's what I just learned

586
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Speaker 4: over the years. I probably want to said this almost

587
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Speaker 4: six years ago, but as the business continues to grow

588
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 4: and we level out and we diversify where we put

589
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Speaker 4: the locations, I realized that with those findings, Slutty Bee

590
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Speaker 4: can can continue to grow. We did a brand equity

591
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Speaker 4: study with Mackenzie. I don't know if you ever heard

592
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 4: of McKenzie yep. So we did a brand equity study

593
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Speaker 4: with Mackenzie, and they really listed out the really great

594
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Speaker 4: locations for Slutty Vegan, good locations and bad locations. So

595
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Speaker 4: right now we follow in the blueprint, okay, and that

596
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 4: blueprint allows us to go in spaces that is more

597
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Speaker 4: of a short shot than playing Russian Roulette.

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Speaker 3: With Missy's Coffee and tell us about that.

599
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Speaker 4: So you know, it's funny because we've been talking about

600
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Speaker 4: it for a while. I guess we got to get

601
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Speaker 4: every time we see chap all right, we got to

602
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Speaker 4: taste that coffee. I get that coffee and then coffee

603
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 4: drinker and I don't drink. I probably had two cups

604
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Speaker 4: of coffee in my life. Me too, my whole life, yeah,

605
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 4: my whole entire life. So I don't drink coffee. I

606
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 4: don't know anything about coffee, but obviously I do my research,

607
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 4: and I know Angel is a great business woman. So

608
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Speaker 4: when the opportunity came, I'm like, all right, we're about

609
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 4: to beta tested in my Edgewood location. So that's what

610
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 4: we're doing right now, beta testing it in Edgewood, and

611
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Speaker 4: then now we're officially rolling it out in Bleaker Street, right,

612
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 4: So like our beta did well in Edgewood in Atlanta,

613
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Speaker 4: and now we're officially rolling it out in Bleaker Street

614
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 4: on the weekends, and then we're gonna roll out every

615
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Speaker 4: single day and we will do it with the coffee.

616
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Speaker 4: And I'm excited about it because this is just yet

617
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Speaker 4: another opportunity to empower my sister. Live Tom I was.

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Speaker 1: I was like, because next.

619
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Speaker 3: Muhammad from time and they were just beaming and I.

620
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Speaker 1: Saw you like that day. Yeah, the next day it

621
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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, let's lock this in.

622
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Speaker 2: But I also, you know, even when I talk about

623
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Speaker 2: when it comes to partnering and working with people, because

624
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Speaker 2: we just wanted to make sure. To me, I knew

625
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Speaker 2: this was something I wanted to make it happen, Like

626
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Speaker 2: from when you first had said it was a long

627
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Speaker 2: time ago, you were like, one day we're gonna do breakfast.

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Speaker 1: We got to talk about it. And then I'm a

629
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Speaker 1: woman of my word.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely was like, oh my god, come on, Picky,

631
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Speaker 2: because I know this was a big deal for me

632
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Speaker 2: just because of the brand, the person behind the brand

633
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 2: that always matters so much to me, and so to me,

634
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Speaker 2: it was just kind of like, this is amazing for

635
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Speaker 2: me to be able to do this partnership because of

636
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 2: how great you are at marketing. So I know something

637
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 2: like this is going to be a big boost for

638
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: my business, which is a pretty new business.

639
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 4: But it's an even exchange, right because let me tell

640
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 4: you what you do for my brand As I continue

641
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 4: to grow, it shows that I'm also sharing the space

642
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 4: with other black owned entrepreneurs right black owned businesses, and

643
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 4: that's a big deal as you grow in business, like

644
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 4: I'm not waiting till I get all the way to

645
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 4: the top and just like be in solidarity with other

646
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 4: companies that are arising up to the occasion. I'm doing

647
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 4: it now. So as I lift, I climb right. And

648
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 4: obviously you ain't need my push like you are media Maven, right,

649
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 4: But for us to be able to collaborate and work together,

650
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 4: it's just another example of what more entrepreneurs should do

651
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Speaker 4: in their industry.

652
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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to make sure I super serve, like

653
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 2: if I could be there, Yes, I'm there, and I

654
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 2: already go to the location and even and I'll be honest,

655
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 2: even if you would have been like this isn't gonna work,

656
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 2: I still would be going to Slutty began and you

657
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: still be sitting right here, Like it isn't even just

658
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 2: about that.

659
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: It just helps.

660
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 4: Yes, But I will say Angela.

661
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 3: Is a wonderful, phenomenal partner. I can tell you I

662
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 3: came as a guest on her show about eight years

663
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 3: ago and somehow, well the Wealth Wednesday's brand was born.

664
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Speaker 3: Just I always tell people Angela thinks it's like bad

665
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 3: luck to not be good to people and not damn

666
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 3: nonest wonderful.

667
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: But we started wealth Wednesday.

668
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: We started this as something that I was like, let's

669
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Speaker 2: get some free financial you know, support to our community

670
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 2: and advice. And we started it at my juice by

671
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 2: that's your birthday January third.

672
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 4: Do you know what's so funny what she just said? So,

673
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 4: and I know this is a little off topic, but

674
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 4: that literally is my mindset. I feel like God is

675
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 4: always testing you when you come in and are encountered

676
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 4: with other people right, good, bad, or indifferent, and I

677
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 4: feel like God gives you the test, like all right,

678
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 4: are you gonna be good to this person? Are you

679
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 4: gonna do right by this person? Are you gonna be

680
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 4: fair to this And if you aren't good to this person,

681
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 4: I feel like that's when the good karma does not

682
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 4: come to you. So like that's my philosophy. That's literally

683
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 4: and everything that I do, everything that I I know.

684
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: You do things.

685
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 2: And that's why I really like aligning with Pinky also

686
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 2: just because even doing American sets, like you know, obviously

687
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 2: I follow you and I watch everything that you have

688
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 2: going on. But the fact that she's like I just

689
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 2: want to come together and come up with ideas. And

690
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 2: I want other people to become entrepreneurs and I want

691
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,239
Speaker 2: everybody to have an LLC, and I want to make

692
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 2: sure I'm gonna help this person. You guys can shadow me,

693
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 2: and now we're gonna give some money for your business

694
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 2: to help you, and I'm gonna shout out your business.

695
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: I've seen people who have clothing lines who just by you.

696
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 2: You went on your tour, your books to her and

697
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 2: you were like, I'm gonna wear all these black owned brands.

698
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: And that helped people's business.

699
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 4: Brands all over the time. Yeah so much.

700
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but that something like that can help somebody's

701
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 2: business go from like you know, kind of flat to

702
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: now it's spiking up.

703
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: And now it helps them get to the next level.

704
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 2: Now they have something to say when they're trying to

705
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 2: do more collaborations or whatever.

706
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 3: It is mean so much to people that you're valuing

707
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 3: ideas in that time and just the world.

708
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 4: It feels so good. And I just I feel like

709
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 4: in turn, I always continue to get blessed and God

710
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 4: is so good to me, and I believe just naturally

711
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 4: innately it's because it's important for me to be good

712
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 4: to other people you.

713
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 2: Know, and a lot of times like I look at

714
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 2: it like some things I can't control. You know, people

715
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 2: won't take advantage right, and they do and they will.

716
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: And I think it's hard to sometimes say I get

717
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: taken advantage of, I have to stop doing good things.

718
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 2: But I think it's even harder to be like, I

719
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 2: have to continue to do good things. And that's important

720
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 2: to me just because people will tell me, Angela, you're

721
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 2: too nice. Yeah right, but I'm not going to change

722
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: who I am because everybody's not like that. I learned

723
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 2: my lessons from certain people, but that doesn't mean the

724
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: next person.

725
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 3: You don't want anybody but to teach you not to

726
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 3: do too much.

727
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: Sometimes, you know what I mean?

728
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 4: Because I also had to create boundaries because there are

729
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 4: people that will abuse your kindness, and you have to

730
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 4: understand how to compartmentalize people genuinely needing you and you

731
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 4: supporting them from people that are just naturally taking advantage

732
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 4: of you and being a vulture, because those people do

733
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 4: exist and it's not fair to us because we are

734
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 4: givers and helpers and builders. So you just really have

735
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 4: to protect your energy and just use that spirit of

736
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 4: discern it to identify like what is what.

737
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna let anything anybody does stop me from

738
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 3: being a nice person. And because you can see through

739
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,719
Speaker 3: to somebody's essence, you can see through all of their

740
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 3: stuff and always forgive. But that does not mean you

741
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 3: don't set boundaries.

742
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you have to set those, have to set them.

743
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: And I would be right at this bar Vegan.

744
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 2: First of all, I just also want to say, we

745
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 2: don't talk about Barvegan and how amazing that restaurant.

746
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 4: You know, Barvegan was really just I was sitting on

747
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 4: my blue couch there, okay, and I came up with Barvegan,

748
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, bar Vegan, I want to create

749
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 4: a restaurant, this Vegan they got a bar and call

750
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 4: it Barvegan. And I had no idea that I was

751
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 4: creating another more ulti million dollar brand, and it just

752
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 4: happened like that. That's how I know. I'm like, you

753
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 4: know what, this is such a blessing to be able

754
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 4: to be the anchor of all of these things. Why

755
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 4: if you can be popping and.

756
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 2: There's such a difference between people who have an idea

757
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 2: and then just be like, I forget, I'm not going

758
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: to do it. And people who have an idea and

759
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 2: then say, well, let me figure out how can I

760
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,239
Speaker 2: make this happen? Yeah, you know, and that I think

761
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 2: is going to be the difference between people becoming successful

762
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: and creating wealth for the future generations and people who

763
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 2: are just like I could have did that, I should

764
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: have did that.

765
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Speaker 4: And you know what, I want to give some advice

766
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 4: to all the entrepreneurs listening to this, because obviously, I'll

767
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 4: be honest, it's easy for me to come up with

768
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 4: an idea and execute right, I have the means to

769
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 4: do so. But what I had to do to get

770
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 4: to this position is I had to get super laser

771
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 4: focused on Slutty Vegan. When I first created my company,

772
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 4: right like tunnel Vision, I'm not thinking about nothing else.

773
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 4: I'm not doing nothing else. I'm making sacrifices, I ain't

774
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 4: going out, I'm not partying like I'm making the main

775
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 4: thing the main thing. And when the main thing started

776
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 4: to grow and scale and become a household name and

777
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 4: a money revenue generating machine, then I started to focus

778
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 4: on other things like, Okay, now I could use this

779
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 4: money to continue to create more ideas. But you have

780
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 4: to make that thing that you have focus on it.

781
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 4: A lot of times people come to me like, well,

782
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 4: I got these three ideas, I want to do this,

783
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 4: and I want to I'm like, No, focus on the

784
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 4: first thing first and make that thing so great. And

785
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 4: as that thing becomes great, that becomes your umbrella. Just

786
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 4: like a trust.

787
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 3: It becomes your umbrella that jumps out at you when

788
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 3: you were like researching and looking at your story. It's

789
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 3: like she stayed in her lane.

790
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 4: Yes, stay in that lane. Stayed And then when you

791
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 4: realize what that lane is and manifested and it becomes successful,

792
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 4: then all of your other great ideas you'll be able

793
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 4: to focus on them and use the resources from the

794
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 4: first thing and to create funnels of other income with

795
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 4: those other ideas.

796
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 2: You know, Pinky, being that you are very lazy focused

797
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 2: and you know what it is that you went when

798
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 2: you raised money twenty five million dollars for your business?

799
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 2: What was that like for you as far as having

800
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 2: to balance, Like, did you have to give some ideas

801
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 2: some control?

802
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: You have to now compromise certain things? What was that

803
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 1: like for you?

804
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 4: You want to know the truth. Yes, you're the money person.

805
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 4: So I'm sure that you probably heard this before. I

806
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 4: cried when I got that money. Oh god, yes I can.

807
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 3: It was probably the most beautiful validating cry.

808
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 4: It wasn't it. It was beautiful. Yes, scary, it was scary, terrifying.

809
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 4: That comes with it for a lot of reasons, right,

810
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 4: And I think that it's specifically in our communities, just

811
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 4: based on my experience. Like I used to be like,

812
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 4: it's me, it's mine. I created this. I don't want

813
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 4: to share it. I don't want to give it up. No, no, no,

814
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 4: no no, Like I work for hard for this. Yeah,

815
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 4: Like that's how I used to be. And there was

816
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 4: two sides of the coin. A part of me was like, Okay,

817
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 4: this money will give me the resources to be able

818
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 4: to grow the company in a major way. But then

819
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 4: on the flip side, I've always had this complex like

820
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 4: I don't like people telling me what to do. I

821
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 4: just don't. I'm being honest, right, So you know, when

822
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 4: you get money from an investor, not it's not that

823
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 4: people tell you what to do. Now you have a

824
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 4: board stability, Yeah, you have a board, and you have

825
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 4: to have board meetings and there has to be a

826
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 4: board vote. And although I'm the chair of my board, right,

827
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 4: you still have to answer to them. You still have

828
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 4: to answer to the board, so it's not a specific person,

829
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 4: but you got to vote. So now you gotta have

830
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 4: real systems. Before it used to be like and it's

831
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 4: still like this for the most unless it's like a

832
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,280
Speaker 4: super decision, like if I decide to close my business,

833
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 4: like I have to get bored approval to do that, right,

834
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 4: because now I'm a corporation. I'm no longer just a

835
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 4: regular entity. Right. But that's hard sometimes because back in

836
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 4: the day, it used to be just like all right, pinky,

837
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 4: like I want to do this, and I do it

838
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 4: right now if it's a really really big decision, right,

839
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 4: And I've had to adjust and navigate around that because

840
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 4: like having a team of partners. In my mind, I

841
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,399
Speaker 4: thought that it wasn't easy. But I have some really

842
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 4: good partners, which is a blessing. And those partners not

843
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 4: only have the resources I can call them in the

844
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 4: middle of the night, they don't get on my nerves

845
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 4: because we're in a professional relationship, right, see it as

846
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 4: much as you do. They wanted to succeed as much

847
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 4: as I do. So shout out to Richie Leu, Dennis

848
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 4: and the New Voices family and Ehi. Danny Meyo, who

849
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,800
Speaker 4: created Shakeshack is one of my investors as well, and

850
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 4: I just have the best set of people helping me

851
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 4: to grow. So that crowd was a scary cry, but

852
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 4: it was also very beautiful because as a black woman,

853
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 4: to raise that kind of money to create one hundred

854
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 4: million dollar brand, you really don't see it a lot.

855
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 4: So I get to be the example for other black

856
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 4: women that it is possible and you could do it too.

857
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 3: You don't see it at all. I mean three ts

858
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 3: what seven tenths of venture capital money goes to black women?

859
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 3: Last year venture capital investing overall, excuse me, it was

860
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 3: down about forty percent, and a black women down eighty percent.

861
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 3: Talk to us about access to capital. It's just you know,

862
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 3: getting harder and harder and harder.

863
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 4: You know. It's interesting because I have a difference of opinion,

864
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 4: and only because I'm in the space, like and it

865
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 4: might be biased because I'm in the space, but I'm

866
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 4: gonna tell you what I think. And again, this ain't

867
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 4: low because I'm not like, I'm not in your world, right,

868
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 4: But what I realized is it actually seems like well

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Speaker 4: up until recently when the economy started to shift. I

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Speaker 4: feel like the easiest it's been was during COVID. Oh definitely,

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Speaker 4: you understand what I'm saying. When COVID happened, like people

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Speaker 4: was I fund like a stripperney.

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Speaker 3: It changed so much last year because of all the

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Speaker 3: affirmative actions stuff exactly.

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Speaker 4: So like there was a point and I can remember

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Speaker 4: from twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, it was so

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Speaker 4: easy to get money. We were oversubscribed, like they opportunities

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about commercials, opportunities and engagement. They were throwing money.

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Speaker 4: You know why, because in lieu of everything that happened

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Speaker 4: with George Floyd god Rest's soul, I believe that big

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Speaker 4: companies felt like they had a responsibility to support smaller organizations,

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Speaker 4: right black owned businesses, specifically minority owned businesses. So it

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Speaker 4: was so much easier. All you had to do was

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Speaker 4: have a right business, right that a lot of people

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Speaker 4: were talking about making some revenue, and people will be

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Speaker 4: paying attention to you. So when we talk about it

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Speaker 4: was difficult, yes a long time ago for black women

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Speaker 4: to get money, I felt like those two years, like

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Speaker 4: that period made it a lot easier now Now it's

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Speaker 4: loded back now.

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Speaker 3: And rugs not sliding anywhere. The rug has pulled.

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Speaker 1: Out, the rug is gone.

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Speaker 3: People are being sued for giving money to blacks and

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Speaker 3: not give an opportunity and shot.

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Speaker 4: Out to and Simon. She's handling that beautiful with the

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Speaker 4: fearless mind. And she's actually one of my investors. So like,

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Speaker 4: I've really been a big supporter in her movement before, during,

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Speaker 4: and after right now, you know what I mean, And

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Speaker 4: and and the fact that we even have to have

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Speaker 4: those conversations with what she's dealing with just tells us

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Speaker 4: that the time is like it changed, but it ain't

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Speaker 4: changed that much. You understand what I'm saying. So I

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Speaker 4: say all that to say that the opportunity to get money,

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Speaker 4: the pickings are slim, but as long as you are

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Speaker 4: creative with it, it can still be possible. And how

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Speaker 4: can it be pop is having a super laser focus

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Speaker 4: on your business and building something that is so irresistible

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Speaker 4: it don't you could be green? Right If you build

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Speaker 4: something so irresistible, people cannot deny it, And I think

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Speaker 4: that that will start to solve the problem. And then also,

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is a whole other conversation when we

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Speaker 4: look at the government, where we are right now, like

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Speaker 4: a lot has changed, especially as it relates to business

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Speaker 4: owners and how we grow our businesses and the kickbacks

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Speaker 4: that we get and the benefits that we get in business.

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Speaker 4: It seems like it's getting harder and harder. So I

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Speaker 4: pray that I can be an example with providing more

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Speaker 4: opportunities by way of American Session all the other things

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Speaker 4: that I'm doing to help provide a space for black women,

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Speaker 4: black men, minorities, women owned businesses to be able to

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Speaker 4: have the space, to be able to get money to

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Speaker 4: grow their companies.

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Speaker 1: Wealth Wednesdays. You know, we are giving them up here

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Speaker 1: every weekend.

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Speaker 2: I know, some gems for us, but like you said,

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Speaker 2: I've been following your journey from the beginning, and so

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Speaker 2: it is such a pleasure for me to be able

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Speaker 2: to say you can get coffee up list people at

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Speaker 2: SLETTI vegan for breakfast now and breakfast is a new

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Speaker 2: thing for you guys. Also, I mean you just started

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Speaker 2: serving breakfast this month in March.

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Speaker 4: We did very new We're getting a lot of that.

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Speaker 4: Did mornings are good people are people are just learning

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Speaker 4: about it. We actually did a rollout with no marketing. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: we're just gonna open it first. So this is the

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Speaker 4: first real marketing that I've done outside of like posting

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Speaker 4: on social about breakfast. So now we're about to do

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Speaker 4: like a full on marketing rollout. So I'm excited to

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Speaker 4: be able to officially launch it here. And I know

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Speaker 4: the breakfast is gonna be great. I know.

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Speaker 1: And they have homemade biscuits from Scratch.

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Speaker 3: Biscuits and Angela's coffee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and pretty soon next time, Pinky is gonna be

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Speaker 2: a coffee drinker. I cannot wait to see.

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Speaker 4: You will not you never you never know, you never know.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, honestly, Pinky, thank you so much. I cannot

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Speaker 2: you know, Like I said, no matter what, I always

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Speaker 2: support you. But I'm just really excited about our partnership

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Speaker 2: and working with you as a human being and as

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Speaker 2: a person is an honor for me.

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Speaker 4: So thank you, appreciation.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to both of you for what you're doing together,

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Speaker 3: the example that you're being in.

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Speaker 1: Emy and you Tuesdacy, we do.

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Speaker 3: We thought I was just about to say this is

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Speaker 3: you are now part of the Wealth Wednesdays family and

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Speaker 3: we have plans for you and she will be in

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Speaker 3: our entrepreneurs group, which is free to all of you.

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Speaker 3: Just sign up for Wealth Wednesdays for entrepreneurs and you have.

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Speaker 3: If you guys could feel the energy in this room

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Speaker 3: right now, these three black women are gonna do a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, thank you, well,