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Speaker 1: She is also the author of a book I just

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money Making Conversation Colleen or Tero. Hey, Hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: good morning. You know that I got the name correct?

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Speaker 1: a no nonsense, no nonsense guy to building a six

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Speaker 1: It means be able to monetize your brand, being able

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Speaker 1: start with You're gonna peel and dice about a pound

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Speaker 1: then you start with the bread pudding parts. You know,

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Speaker 1: you've got to have your milk in there. We can

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Speaker 1: You're gonna combine the sweet potatoes with your bread and

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Speaker 1: even achievable. Perfection is just not a cheapable So um.

641
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 1: The book starts off with body image and how those

642
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: negative seeds of me growing up as a young girl

643
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: were planted and how they festered, and how it distorted

644
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: my perception of what I should look like and who

645
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: I should you know, who I should be. But then later,

646
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: you know, after going through all the things that I

647
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: had to go through, which was really learning all the

648
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: lessons that I needed to learn. I was through all

649
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: of the smoke, the blue smoke and mirrors and kind

650
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: of find myself and kind of find where I'm supposed

651
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: to be and how I can use that pressure in

652
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: my life as a negative as a positive way. And

653
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: you are in life, you know. So it's that's the

654
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: self help, you know, just taking a negative and turning

655
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: it into a triumph. Well, the thing about it I

656
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: liked about the book is that and not that, And

657
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: I don't never say I like something just to be

658
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: liking it, you know, because I have you on the show,

659
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 1: because I'm a fan of you, of yours, and then

660
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: also when you had this book, you know, the thing

661
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: that caught me off was that it is it's a

662
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: motivational book, because I think that you have to share

663
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: a part of your life for people to understand when

664
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: you're giving advice, it's coming from an honest place. And

665
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: that's what you get from this book. It's coming from

666
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Speaker 1: an honest place. And exactly the reason I say that,

667
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Speaker 1: because I'm just talking about disable complix, which I don't

668
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Speaker 1: do is give away the book. I want you to

669
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Speaker 1: buy this book. It's a very good book, and she

670
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Speaker 1: broke it down the daughter, the athlete, artists to celebrity,

671
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: the wife, the mother, the fighter, the woman to conquer

672
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: up and each one of these titles define a very

673
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 1: important role in your life, which I think that if

674
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: you're a reader, if you're a reader of this book,

675
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: you will find yourself in one of these chapters. Am

676
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: I correct? Absolutely? Absolutely, And that was the whole purpose

677
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: of breaking it down that way, because there are different

678
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: stages that we have in life, and we're not one dimensional.

679
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: People are not one dimensional. You know, there are plays,

680
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Speaker 1: there are lots, There are a lot of different fascists

681
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Speaker 1: to to us as human beings, and I think that

682
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: it we need to to point out the fact that

683
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Speaker 1: we have to operate from different fascists of who we

684
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Speaker 1: are at all, sometimes at the same time, and that

685
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: can be very stressful. And I think that one of

686
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: the ways to kind of sit through that is to

687
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: buy is to be, is to be able to identify

688
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: what those different characteristics are. You know, the interesting thing

689
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: interesting things of out your book. This is the thing

690
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: about your book is that you know the number one

691
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: thing is said, don't ever ask a woman her weight, Okay,

692
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: and you have no problems that you know in your book.

693
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: You know you talk about weight at different important moments

694
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 1: in your life. Now, why is that important? And because

695
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: because I know why. But I just went from a

696
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: listeners standpoint, from a potential readers standpoint. Why did you

697
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: expose yourself like that in this book? Well, because I'm

698
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 1: not ashamed of who I am or afraid of who

699
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: I am. And being that I have a bachelor's degree

700
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 1: in nutrition science, I understand the difference between being my body,

701
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: body weight, the scale, the measuring case. All that is romantic.

702
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: It's really about how you feel in your hip to

703
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: waste ratio that's going to determine your health. Your waistline,

704
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: how big is your waistline? And I know with black women,

705
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: most of us are shaped while our waistlines are smaller

706
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: than our hips. And if you just if you determine

707
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: um your body size and type based on weight, which

708
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 1: can actually you can easily be a hundred and fifty

709
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Speaker 1: five pounds and be in tip top shape at five four,

710
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: but according to societal standards, that's overweight. So I have

711
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 1: no problem, you know, talking about how much I weigh

712
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: because it's good for my size. I know that my

713
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: height and weight are good, you know, and I'm very

714
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: very healthy. I can outrun most I work out five

715
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: six days a week, and I eat right, so I

716
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 1: know that I'm healthy. I'm not ashamed of my body.

717
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 1: And that's something that I had to come into because

718
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: that wasn't always the case. I wasn't always the case,

719
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Speaker 1: so I had to learn that. You know, we all

720
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: come in different shapes and sizes, and just because you're

721
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: very thin doesn't mean that you're healthy. And so my

722
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: goal is to be healthy and happy and so whatever

723
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: that is and whatever that looks like, I'm okay. And

724
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Speaker 1: you definitely have found it in this book and a

725
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: book I'm talking about. The weight is over Weight is

726
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Speaker 1: spelled w E I G H T is over My

727
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: journey to Loving my body from the outside end and

728
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: forewords by my bar Michael Eric Dyson. And we all

729
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,959
Speaker 1: know he can talk and he's and something to say.

730
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: Now I got you for another break, but I wanted

731
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Speaker 1: to talk about, you know, relationship, the importance of your

732
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: husband and your life to support the anchor, you know,

733
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Speaker 1: and I know the importance of having an anchor in

734
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: my life because of the fact that when things are bad,

735
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: you really need somebody you can turn to. Okay, even

736
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: when these are good, you need somebody you can turn

737
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: to and share it because they've been on that journey,

738
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: they up and down journey. Just give us some of

739
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: some some great things about your husband, you know, on

740
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: this Thanksgiving week and Christmas is coming up and high

741
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: important heeds play a role he's played in your life. Well,

742
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: first of all, it is my very best friend and

743
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: I'm extremely blessed to have him in my life. Without him,

744
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: first of all, without him I would not have my

745
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: to a fulfien. So that's first of all, um. Second

746
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: of all, Key One taught me how to really love myself.

747
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: I think that he was the key component because he

748
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: showed me what that love looked like on the outside,

749
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Speaker 1: jin the outside looking in loving yourself from the outside end.

750
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 1: But he showed me how to love myself from the outside.

751
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 1: He loved me no matter what, no matter what size.

752
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: You know, I'm pregnant. I'm two hundred and sixty pounds pregnant,

753
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, how am I gonna lose all this weight?

754
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: He doesn't care. He's still loving me regardless. He's still

755
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: loving me. What there's no makeup when my hair in calm,

756
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: all of that. So if a person can love you

757
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: unconditionally like that, how is it that you can't love yourself?

758
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: And you have your brain you sit over, you have

759
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: an opinion, and I can see why you have an opinion,

760
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: because you've lived a good life and the life that

761
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: than to be shared and relatable. That's why I understand

762
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,479
Speaker 1: you a lot more now since I've read this book,

763
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: and more people should read this book because they'll understand

764
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Speaker 1: you a lot more now and find you even more

765
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 1: relatable because what happens is when your celebrity people see

766
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: you only through that lens of a song or video performers.

767
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Speaker 1: When you read her book the weight is over the

768
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Speaker 1: weight weight spelled W E I G h D, you'll

769
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Speaker 1: find out she's just as human as you are. Uh huh,

770
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Speaker 1: that's right. So she Lean Lifestyle, How can we find

771
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773
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774
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Speaker 1: promote a diet. Um. Even though there is a digital

775
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: workout DVD that I put together with some some of

776
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,160
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782
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Speaker 1: you know. So it does work and it comes with

784
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785
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Speaker 1: For some people it is some people it is rocket science,

786
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Speaker 1: and some people need that written out description of what

787
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789
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790
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795
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797
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798
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799
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Speaker 1: and you guys are doing Jane Funder videos, I was

800
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801
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810
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811
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812
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Speaker 1: My next guest is a celebrity hair stylus. Of course,

854
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: I'm a ball hitted dude. So why am I interviewing

855
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: the celebrity hairstylus Because guess what she's gifted, She's talented.

856
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: You have to stop people always why he got ain't

857
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: got no hair in his head right now. For over

858
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Speaker 1: twenty six years into industry, she's a natural hair aspect,

859
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Speaker 1: a natural hair expert and inspirational beauty speaker and entrepreneur

860
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: creative her own signature for Leicia Leatherwood dtangler brush. She

861
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: conducts hair care workshops around the world and creates a

862
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Speaker 1: host of innovative hairstyles for a range of clientele in

863
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Speaker 1: the entertainment industry. Her styles include high profiles as its

864
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Speaker 1: Ray on HBO's Insecure, one of my favorite shows, Oscar

865
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Speaker 1: Award winning Oscar Award nominee Able do the name? You

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Speaker 1: know the director of Selma Mega superstar Will Smith, Grammy

867
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Speaker 1: Award winmer Jail Scott has know a lot of these people,

868
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Speaker 1: My man Terence Howard and who started Who's on an

869
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: Iron Man? The first before they brought in Don Cheetle.

870
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Speaker 1: He was the first one, and then the Empire Blackish

871
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: Anthony Anderson know him? You know the color Poper composing

872
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: and Grammy and Tony Award win nominee Brenda Russell. Actress

873
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Speaker 1: Nicole Arey Parker, know her Kimp Coach, no her Kimberly,

874
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Speaker 1: no her Boar and M Girl or play mty on

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Speaker 1: Luke Cage or no mcgirl right there? Anybody wanting coffee?

876
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Speaker 1: If you know the show you don't talk about? Okay? Cool?

877
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: As well as a host of entertainment executives, rising stars,

878
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: and beauty entrepreneurs. Her magazine cover and editorial spread exposure

879
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 1: include Vogue, Variety, Essence, l Ebony and more. Please work

880
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: on the money making conversation for Licia Leatherwood. Hello, how

881
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: are you come on? You? You you got a lot

882
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: to talk about talking about, you know to men? You

883
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: am I gonna talk that long? You have a career

884
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: twenty six years. Tell us how it all started. Uh. Well,

885
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: of course, like a lot of women who may or

886
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: may not admit this, my mother didn't know how to

887
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: do my hair. I had to take matters into my

888
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: own hands. And you know, back in the day, we

889
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: didn't have all these wonderful natural hair products that we

890
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,240
Speaker 1: do now. Uh. We had pro line, some soft shine,

891
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: you know, things like that. So basically, I am started

892
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: doing my own hair. I was my first client. And

893
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: from that point, when you say that doing your own hair,

894
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: what does that mean, I have a daughter? I mean

895
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: I actually had to take the comb, the brush, the

896
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: pony till holders, all those things and come up with stuff,

897
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: getting the mirror and try to figure out my texture

898
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: because my hair was a bit rough growing up. You know,

899
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: it wasn't soft, it was dry. There were a lot

900
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: of uh, just a lot of issues. And when you're

901
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: young like that, it's built into your self esteem, you know,

902
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 1: if your hair doesn't look like the other girls on

903
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: the block. So I wanted to look or feel pretty.

904
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: It's a young girl, you know, and that included my hair.

905
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: And so I am basically asked my mom if I

906
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Speaker 1: could do my own hair. And she said sure, and

907
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: they kept going from that point. Now, m it's a

908
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: difference from uh you learning it in your own it

909
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: becomes a childhood. It was about your beauty, it's about

910
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: self fixedeen what what's your esteem? When did you realize

911
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: that this is something that you should be doing as

912
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: a career. I think that I was working in corporate

913
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Speaker 1: America and I didn't feel the freedom I felt when

914
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Speaker 1: I was working on hair, like when I was doing

915
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: people's hair and how they would feel so good and

916
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Speaker 1: beautiful after I finished. I didn't have that same accomplished

917
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: feeling going into work, punching a clock, being in a

918
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Speaker 1: very high air conditioned room in a cubicle with a

919
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: bunch of people that I felt like I was doing

920
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: most of the work for. So for me, I decided

921
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: when I remember just being frustrated and looking out the

922
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: window of my uh you know building and saying I

923
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: want to be outside, and I said, you know, I'm

924
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Speaker 1: gonna take a chance and I'm going to figure this

925
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Speaker 1: out and go to Consont school. Because I went to

926
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Speaker 1: school late. I went to school at like thirty one. Um,

927
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Speaker 1: and most people when they go to constetology school, they

928
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: go at like nineteen twenty, they start young. But I

929
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: left Corporate America. I a little four one K plan

930
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: and all that to pursue hair. And everybody was like, well,

931
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: what makes you think hair is the way? There's a

932
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: hairsauce on every corner. What's gonna set you aside and

933
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: make you different? And natural hair was what made me

934
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 1: different because at that time there weren't any natural hair specialists,

935
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Speaker 1: and I only wanted to work on women that had

936
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Speaker 1: my texture because I knew what I went through as

937
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Speaker 1: a child and I didn't want anybody else to stuffer

938
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 1: through that now. So you know, really I love it,

939
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: you know story because it happened to me when you

940
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: when you lead Corporate America. Because everybody sees that that

941
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: income at eight to five, you know, lunch break, you

942
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: get up, you go home, vacation for one k. But

943
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: when you step out of that that lane, how are

944
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: you gonna make money? Are you sure? Did you pray

945
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: on this? Yeah, well don't come this way if you

946
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: if you, if you make a mistake, I love you,

947
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: but I don't love you that much. So so what

948
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: made you go ignore that, ignore the doubters to say

949
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: this is I've slept on it because I remember when

950
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: I left IBM. I made a decision a year in

951
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: advance to leave IBM, and I remember when I made

952
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 1: that decision. I actually had tears in my eyes because

953
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: it was such an emotional moment for me to say

954
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: that I was gonna do it. Because there's a lot

955
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: of people. Do understand, when you make these decisions, they

956
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: don't happen overnight. You you you have you have to

957
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: build confidence within yourself. You have to believe that because

958
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: there are so many people who don't believe it. You know,

959
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: they pat you on the back to you actually tell

960
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: them the truth, and then all of a sudden they

961
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: kind of scatter from you because they don't want to

962
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: be there and they think you're making a big mistake.

963
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: So you incorporate America people already to you got a

964
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: hairshops everywhere. How are you gonna jump out there, miss thing?

965
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: How are you gonna go out there and and make

966
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: a difference? How are you gonna get a check? You

967
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: know what? What? What? What? What was the driving forcing you? What? What?

968
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: Really think? One of the things that we don't do

969
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 1: enough of us, We don't look at our resources. There's

970
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: so many different types of resources we have around us

971
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: that we do not use. Um and I noticed people

972
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: don't ask for help. They don't know how to ask

973
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: for help. Uh. And I don't mean asked call somebody

974
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: and ask them to give you money because someone and

975
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: asked them if they know someone in your field or

976
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: doing what it is that you want to do, who

977
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: can give you advice? Like those are key tools, you know,

978
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 1: is to get the proper advice from people. And so

979
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 1: for me, what I did was I was already leaving work,

980
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: leaving my nine to five and doing hair after work,

981
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,479
Speaker 1: doing hair on the weekends, and I had to sit

982
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: down and look at the money I was making. I said,

983
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: let me not count this money moment to moment or

984
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 1: day to day. Let me look at what I'm making

985
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 1: in a month just off of doing hair, and let

986
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: me compare it to the salary I make at work. Now,

987
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,919
Speaker 1: if I leave this job, if I let's say I'm

988
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: making half the money I made that work and I

989
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: leave the job, that means I can make more. So

990
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,280
Speaker 1: it would only make sense to leave the job and

991
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: and to act on faith. And the other thing I

992
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: had was a very good resume. So if it didn't

993
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: work out. I could always go back to corporate America,

994
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 1: but that wasn't what I wanted. And when you really

995
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: want something and you have the will and the willpower

996
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: to get it, it manifest. And so it's so important

997
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,880
Speaker 1: for us to recognize how strong our will is and

998
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: how bad we wanted and to go for it, because

999
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 1: that means the God is trying to tell you something.

1000
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: It's your time. And so I don't think that people

1001
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 1: understand that they feel that feeling they want to move

1002
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: and they want to change, that they left fear interrupted,

1003
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: and that's not what it's there for. That that feeling

1004
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: of change and move means it's your time. You're saying

1005
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: things to me and saying things to my listeners that

1006
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: are going to change their lives, their life and their

1007
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: lives male and female, and so so what you always

1008
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 1: realize that your brand because of social media and I'm

1009
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: not telling anything you don't know. I'm just asking you

1010
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: to understand that your value is so tremendous and to

1011
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: have you on my show is because your value is

1012
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 1: so tremendous. And anytime you get back, because this is

1013
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: a version of giving back, I'm using your name to

1014
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: get back and educate people of color. M hm. So

1015
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: I UM have been. I really want for people to

1016
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: get involved and not because you know anybody because Oprah said,

1017
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: a Will Smith said, or you know, but just be

1018
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: motivated to support your community. I am, um really a

1019
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: big advocate for supporting black owned businesses, and I go

1020
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: around the community and find businesses to showcase because I

1021
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: think people don't understand what social media. We have a

1022
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: lot of followers, We have a lot of people listening

1023
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: and watching us, and that is our chance to use

1024
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: our influence to showcase others. So if I have a

1025
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: hundred thousands followers on Instagram, then I'm trying to put

1026
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: other people down that don't have that, that are starting businesses,

1027
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: but businesses with integrity. So make sure like your business

1028
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 1: is gonna do what it says it's gonna do, and

1029
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: that you have good uh customer service about your business

1030
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: if things go go haywire. But um, I really like

1031
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 1: to support in that way in my community by going

1032
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: around and showcasing black owned businesses that are newly operating

1033
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: or that have been around for a while. Uh. And

1034
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: today there is an event um and here in Los

1035
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 1: Angeles at my friends home and it's for the homeless veterans.

1036
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: And a lot of my colleagues, barbers and hairstylists are

1037
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: going from ten am this morning at four pm down

1038
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: to the homeless um house and they're gonna be servicing

1039
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: the homeless Petrians today so they can get free haircuts

1040
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 1: and hairstyles and facials. So I donated brushes to that.

1041
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: I've donated money to to the organization. UM there is

1042
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: uh also um some thing's happening over in West Africa

1043
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 1: and uh in Nigeria and in Senegal where they're raising

1044
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: money for schools uh there, and so I support in

1045
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: that way, and I just really try my best to

1046
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 1: let people know what's happened so we can all get involved. Felicia,

1047
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show. I will be

1048
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: ordering two or those Detangler brushes today. And you keep winning,

1049
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: young ladies, You keep winning. Okay, Yeah, we sort of

1050
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: stopped paying attention and wracked up a lot of that.

1051
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 1: Uh it was stressful. He blamed me for my credit

1052
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,359
Speaker 1: card debt and I blamed him for building that man cave.

1053
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Anyway, we stopped blaming each other, did our

1054
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: homework and read that a smart way to consolidate debt

1055
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: is to get a fixed rate loan. But getting a

1056
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: loan was brutal and a time drain. So I was

1057
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: in my man cave researching personal loans and I found

1058
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Speaker 1: best Egg. They have an A plus rating with the

1059
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Speaker 1: B B B and best Egg handles everything online start

1060
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Speaker 1: to finish, and Consumer Affairs gave best Egg five stars

1061
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Speaker 1: for their easy online loan app. And we could be

1062
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: approved and funded and as little as one business day.

1063
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Speaker 1: I applied online with no impact to my credit score.

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