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Speaker 1: your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about
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Speaker 1: recording okay and we're on yeah, and oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't have the FCC down my back, so girl,
Speaker 1: we can talk. Yeah, a real conversation. You was like,
Speaker 1: I want to say something extraction of stuff, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's just keep it real. So first and foremost, this
Speaker 1: is vitamin D with daring day. You may have heard
Speaker 1: me make mention, but to you, okay, okay, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'll find coming in high You know I'm an airy
Speaker 1: so it's like, um, anyway, I'm back to you, so
Speaker 1: vitamin D. Let me just tell you real quick. It
Speaker 1: started underneath the comforter in New York, but it's a
Speaker 1: part of my name. Essentially, you get vitamin D for
Speaker 1: the sun, so I'm here to shed light and see
Speaker 1: your life. It started off using lyrics of popular music
Speaker 1: because you know, my thing has always been to inspire
Speaker 1: and to motivate people. Hence I got life tattered in
Speaker 1: my mouth. I know that, but it ain't gangster like
Speaker 1: you don't because you all saw it. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I would't even love to hear this story. This this
Speaker 1: is art. It's like art. Mind you. I got three
Speaker 1: and thought I'm the most gangster you know. Bye bye anyway,
Speaker 1: So yeah, starting with that, and I would use the
Speaker 1: lyrics of popular music because I was like, yo, I
Speaker 1: want to motivate and inspire people, but don't want to
Speaker 1: come just like a motivational speaker or like you go
Speaker 1: to CEOs and it's like you can't connect similar to
Speaker 1: the work you do. You got other people with this diversity, equity, inclusion,
Speaker 1: but are you on the streets knowing what the people
Speaker 1: need because you're constantly telling people, but are you communicating exactly?
Speaker 1: So um, I said, well, let me go away where
Speaker 1: people can't, where people are, let me reach them. Everybody
Speaker 1: loves music, so you might hear a track back that
Speaker 1: ass up and that's about standing in your integrity. You
Speaker 1: might you know, get to see and she talking about
Speaker 1: being titanium. That means your bulletproof. Nothing can penetrate you. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know. So anyway, here we are now. I love
Speaker 1: that you have this platform. It's needed. It's needed because
Speaker 1: real conversations are needed, real conversation and we're not able
Speaker 1: to have those real people. But I'm not able to
Speaker 1: you know, speak my You're trying its entirety. Wow, you
Speaker 1: feel that way? I knew. I feel like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's on the editing floor. You know that
Speaker 1: I wouln't say what I want to say, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it's going to be on the editing floor
Speaker 1: because I don't feel like people think it's important to
Speaker 1: leave that in there. I don't feel like it's intentional.
Speaker 1: I feel like they maybe don't think that that's important.
Speaker 1: They've heard it before, but they haven't heard it the
Speaker 1: way I've said it. You know what I mean, I
Speaker 1: hear you, and you know what that's even how I
Speaker 1: feel over KJLA. Yeah, family, I host from page KJLA.
Speaker 1: But I always say make room. Yes, like you can't
Speaker 1: tell me how my life experience, whether produce my trauma
Speaker 1: or reaction from trauma, or just how I live my life, Like,
Speaker 1: who are you to say what my truth is other
Speaker 1: than me? I am the truth, I am the way, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I am the life. Absolutely can I shine, absolutely touching
Speaker 1: while it's high. I lets you wonder, you say, Dawn,
Speaker 1: you just got on here and you just talking. Who
Speaker 1: is this? Well, this is the one and only Shirley Ryans. Shirley,
Speaker 1: you ain't know because you two finally had these headphones on.
Speaker 1: But that was around of applause. I went up and
Speaker 1: did a shitty But this is Shirley rains and all
Speaker 1: I can think of that Kirk Franklin track Rain Down,
Speaker 1: Rain ain't down, oh me? Oh but you know, but
Speaker 1: in the same essence, just like how God rains down blessings.
Speaker 1: You are raining down blessings to people I don't want
Speaker 1: to say, who are homeless, who are experiencing homelessness, who
Speaker 1: are experiencing encampment. Why do you want to say that?
Speaker 1: Because you know, I spoke with somebody. I'm on the
Speaker 1: metro myself right now and even biking and running into
Speaker 1: running across, coming in contact and this gentleman I try.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, are you homeless? Homeless? He said, no,
Speaker 1: I'm an encampment and he viewed it that was based
Speaker 1: on I guess this one individual viewed it as a
Speaker 1: way of Um. I guess it was like a judgment
Speaker 1: or a slander, and I so can I receive you?
Speaker 1: Because it wasn't for him. It wasn't I want to say,
Speaker 1: a condition and not his state of being or essence.
Speaker 1: But does it mean the same thing perhaps, But I
Speaker 1: wanted to make room to say, okay, encampment. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like and I hear that a lot, and I
Speaker 1: don't feel like it has anything to do with the word.
Speaker 1: You don't think it's like an identity people referred to
Speaker 1: as homelessness, because like that's how you identify. No, No,
Speaker 1: you know, is your condition? It is homelessness. I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like when we're arguing about a word
Speaker 1: to put it, I feel like the argument of trying
Speaker 1: to find a proper word for ugly situation should not
Speaker 1: even be That's like saying she was violated, she was
Speaker 1: taking advantage of No, she was raped. Let's not trying
Speaker 1: to find a pretty word for ugly situation. So my
Speaker 1: whole argument is this, why are we worried about what
Speaker 1: we call them when how we're treating them is this way?
Speaker 1: It doesn't They don't wait shuggly. They gotta know who
Speaker 1: you are. Lord. Well, we're coming in hot, coming out, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I got Shirley Rains Shirley Rains It's founder and
Speaker 1: executive director of Beauty to the Streets, a non profit
Speaker 1: organization that aims to serve the homeless by providing necessities
Speaker 1: alongside the things that make us feel inherently human. A
Speaker 1: hot shower, a hearty meal, the hope inducing feeling of
Speaker 1: looking in the mirror and loving what you see. Rains
Speaker 1: in her nonprofit, Beauty to the Streets, has been a
Speaker 1: stronghold on Los Angeles gid Row since twenty seventeen, providing food, clothing,
Speaker 1: and hair and makeup services weekly to hundreds of people.
Speaker 1: As of now, her organization has focused their efforts in
Speaker 1: Long Beach. Currently, they are partnered with cow State Long
Speaker 1: Beach helping them stock their food and pantry, and it's
Speaker 1: also working to get a food truck on campus a
Speaker 1: few times a week to support unhoused students. Vitamin D Family,
Speaker 1: You Better Radio wims, Shirley rained, Hey, okay, so now
Speaker 1: we started. Okay, thank you Vitamin D Family for having me,
Speaker 1: and thank you doing oh doing like the break of day.
Speaker 1: You've got to catch your violence high. Okay, guys, Okay,
Speaker 1: so I told you about Shirley Scharlie and I, um
Speaker 1: we actually met. Oh my gosh, and I shared with
Speaker 1: bits and pieces with you all about me being on
Speaker 1: front page. But we met on front page and I
Speaker 1: had her come in because I saw this woman, our
Speaker 1: own social media passing off for I said producer body,
Speaker 1: who is this? And then now, since the interview on
Speaker 1: KJLAH one or two point three, owned by the legendary
Speaker 1: Living Treasure, Detroit's own Stevie Wonder you were on stage
Speaker 1: with Lizzo, haul Off says, I don't even want to
Speaker 1: jump to the next thing. Girl, you outside and listen,
Speaker 1: that was a secret that I had to hold onto
Speaker 1: for a couple of months. So you was in my
Speaker 1: face at King and tell let t boty Listen, Um,
Speaker 1: that was an amazing honor. What was that about? Tell me?
Speaker 1: Tell me T was Lizzo Um accepting the People's Choice
Speaker 1: Award the PCAs And you know she's a really sweet person.
Speaker 1: Listen has worked with us before. Look, that's not my
Speaker 1: first time meeting Lizzo. Lizzo has actually had us come
Speaker 1: to her house and pick up clothing. Fallback says, yeah,
Speaker 1: how did you get in contact with Lizzo? Lizzo actually
Speaker 1: reached out to me. She did a post about us
Speaker 1: one time and I was the thing. I was working
Speaker 1: in skid row and all of a sudden my phone
Speaker 1: just would not stop vibrating, and I was like, where
Speaker 1: is all this coming from? And I went to TikTok
Speaker 1: and Lizo had actually did a post about me and
Speaker 1: shared and she encouraged people to donate to us, a
Speaker 1: black run nonprofit, and I got tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: boxes of donations. Lizzle donated money and it just was
Speaker 1: a whirlwind. I thinked her and that was the end
Speaker 1: of it, and later we had a need for plus
Speaker 1: sized clothing and Lizza was cleaning out her closets, so
Speaker 1: she hit us up and said, hey, you know, come
Speaker 1: to my house and pick up for clothing. So they
Speaker 1: put every single thing on a hangar and gave us
Speaker 1: all of her clothing, girl everything stuff I had seen
Speaker 1: her on TikTok with I'm not going you identity, it's
Speaker 1: something it stood out to me because I've donated, you
Speaker 1: said on a hangar. Usually when I think of people
Speaker 1: are donating clothes, they're the one and throwing it in
Speaker 1: the bag. Yes, bunching it in the bag, said, she
Speaker 1: hung it on the hand. First time we ever got
Speaker 1: donations on their Yeah, she put every single item on
Speaker 1: her hangar and didn't have us go to her assistance
Speaker 1: house or anything. Had us pull up to her house
Speaker 1: because she said, I'm a real person, a real person.
Speaker 1: So we'd already connected and I think during the DMS
Speaker 1: and she said, you know, you're welcome. And so when
Speaker 1: this honor came up for her, she wanted to shed
Speaker 1: light on some people who she felt like deserved the spotlight.
Speaker 1: Seventeen amazing people. You know, I got to meet up
Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor's mom, Tomka was there and we I mean,
Speaker 1: she's amazing. This is the house when you guys are
Speaker 1: on stage. This is at the Awn State. Tamika was
Speaker 1: part of the seventeen I see. I only saw clips. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tamika was there. Brianna's she's a girl. This queen is
Speaker 1: so strong. We had girls one she's hilarious girl. I
Speaker 1: spend my days where she's hilarious girl. Seventeen were amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Tamika was there and it was just amazing meeting her.
Speaker 1: It was such an honor just to be in the
Speaker 1: presence of all these women. And I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like it's hard for me to receive
Speaker 1: those things, because, like I said, I'm just following instructions.
Speaker 1: There's literally a book that tells you're supposed to help people.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't make this up. I didn't create it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And so um, it's hard
Speaker 1: to receive that. But when you sit in the room
Speaker 1: with people like that and you hear stories and you
Speaker 1: get to be on stages like that, I think it
Speaker 1: just reaffirms you know that you're on the right track
Speaker 1: because they say, birds of a feather flock together, and
Speaker 1: if you see fruits blossoming upon you, that means you
Speaker 1: on the right block. You know, it takes somebody that
Speaker 1: thinks that they're less than to get jealous of someone
Speaker 1: else just because God is blessing somebody next to you.
Speaker 1: Don't you got enough sense to say God is in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, in the white room at the right time.
Speaker 1: Your ego get you the fastest way. The best thing
Speaker 1: you need to do you have on your way to
Speaker 1: your ego is a kneepad. That part right because you're
Speaker 1: falling on your knees. But they don't hear me though.
Speaker 1: So the fact that you are amongst all these great women, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what does that say about you? You know what, I
Speaker 1: am a very grounded person. It's very hard for me
Speaker 1: to receive and take confidence, especially for this work. One
Speaker 1: thing me and Tomica talks about a lot. One thing
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not one of these things is
Speaker 1: not like the other like I have. You know seven
Speaker 1: meis I'm considered an influencer, but I can't even influence
Speaker 1: my baby daddy to marry me. Girl, I'm not in here.
Speaker 1: But that was so real. You coming in and I
Speaker 1: want to explore, but we gotta go here. I'm an
Speaker 1: activist and so it's hard to be in those spaces
Speaker 1: and receive that because I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: times it's the messenger who gets the praise while the
Speaker 1: message gets pushed to the back. And I always have said,
Speaker 1: pay attention to the message and not the messenger, that's all.
Speaker 1: And people fought me for my habits. I'm like, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be looking at what I'm doing behind the scenes
Speaker 1: that for my life. Pay attention to my message. My
Speaker 1: roots are firmly planted. You know, our fruit is good.
Speaker 1: You know you could tell a tree by its fruit.
Speaker 1: So I was telling big Titis in the car ride home.
Speaker 1: I mean up here, you know. And when people seem
Speaker 1: to look at me and judge me because I don't
Speaker 1: fit this image of what they think. Come on, I'm
Speaker 1: someone like me who does the work I'm doing, it's
Speaker 1: supposed to fit. Then it's like, okay, you know, then
Speaker 1: they have a problem with it. But no, my fruit
Speaker 1: is good howl means my roots are in good soil.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And then again I keep saying,
Speaker 1: don't pay attention to me. I'm the messenger. The message
Speaker 1: is completely different. So you keep talking about this message.
Speaker 1: What's the impact of What have you seen with the
Speaker 1: impact of your message? What is your message doing? Miss rings?
Speaker 1: I hope my message we ain't hope. We have to
Speaker 1: a firm to speak what it is, not, what enable
Speaker 1: it could be, what it is? Well, from what I
Speaker 1: see in my DMS on social media, it is helping
Speaker 1: people to move in their own community, you know, and
Speaker 1: shed a light on homelessness. And it shed a light
Speaker 1: on the people who are experiencing homelessness what they're going through.
Speaker 1: It's humanizing people. You know, people were so I think
Speaker 1: it's when they come in and found our nonprofit. We
Speaker 1: provide choices. You know, you want your hair done. What
Speaker 1: We don't put food in the bag. I don't have
Speaker 1: to eat it just because you're homeless. Just because you
Speaker 1: don't have four wall structures, doesn't mean you should eat meat.
Speaker 1: If you're a vegetarian, it doesn't mean you should eat
Speaker 1: sugar if you're diabetic. It doesn't mean your standards change
Speaker 1: just because your circumstances change. So they have a right
Speaker 1: to keep those same standards without those circumstances. But people
Speaker 1: think that they don't sometimes they think they negate those.
Speaker 1: But why but why we're referring to is your organization
Speaker 1: entitled Beauty to the Streets? Correct? When did you start
Speaker 1: this organization again? Gosh, I think it was like around
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen or some twenty. Been in in
Speaker 1: the seventeen correct, And I just already going out. It
Speaker 1: wasn't really an organization. I was going out with another
Speaker 1: nonprofit police project in the backstreets of Los Angeles. And
Speaker 1: where is the backstreets in the la um behind skid Row?
Speaker 1: There's some So skid Row is a fifty five block
Speaker 1: radius where they're en campuses, their encompasses um like about
Speaker 1: eight thousand homeless people in that fifty five block radius.
Speaker 1: And it's a really dangerous place. So you got some
Speaker 1: people who are vets, you got LGBTQ, trans community people
Speaker 1: who don't want to stay in that population. So they
Speaker 1: kind of go, await do you said dangers? Why don't
Speaker 1: you want to drive by a girl? Yeah? Was it there? Oh? Yeah? Girl?
Speaker 1: You you you said dangerous? Well that's that's that's that.
Speaker 1: But that's not a girl, that's life. I'm from Compton.
Speaker 1: Wait what happened. You're doing good work down there. If
Speaker 1: somebody tried to shoot you, you know what, it's just
Speaker 1: it's the streets, you know. What do you mean by that? Like,
Speaker 1: I've never I haven't been in a drive by. So
Speaker 1: when you you're you lit, what does that mean? Like
Speaker 1: you're talking to somebody and then somebody came spraying bullets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: basically we were walking down the street and something happened,
Speaker 1: and you know, gunfire arose and we were just on
Speaker 1: the block and serving at that time. And of course
Speaker 1: you were serving, yes, you were doing the work. Yes,
Speaker 1: And are you sure? How do you know that you
Speaker 1: were the target? We weren't. I don't think we were.
Speaker 1: If we just were in the wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 1: That could have been somebody's baby. It could have been
Speaker 1: and that's my mother that was trying to get from
Speaker 1: this abusive relationship, or perhaps somebody that fell into some depression.
Speaker 1: It could and that sounds dangerous, but let me let
Speaker 1: me let me say this. I've been doing this work
Speaker 1: for seven years. That's the first time. How many shootings
Speaker 1: have you heard about that? At school? Come on, or
Speaker 1: at the bank talking or a Walmart, catching a Costco
Speaker 1: on the buses or people's homes. There's more shootings in
Speaker 1: those places in the skin row. So while this sounds
Speaker 1: dangerous and it looks violent, and I think it looks more,
Speaker 1: it looks worse. It is because you got this environment, yes,
Speaker 1: and then you got this nonprofit serving and these good peoples.
Speaker 1: The dramatic yeah, but it's the same dramatics of what
Speaker 1: happens behind the closed doors that we don't see the
Speaker 1: same dramatic or what it happens in the church and
Speaker 1: every place as we go. So this is why I
Speaker 1: want people to see it's happening everywhere. You know, am
Speaker 1: I scared to skip row? I'm more scared to walk
Speaker 1: into a Costco because I don't know who's upset that day?
Speaker 1: So you still go down the skin roll servant? We
Speaker 1: do not. We do not. Is it based on the
Speaker 1: shooting or it is protection from my team? I have
Speaker 1: to I have It's not just me. I have to
Speaker 1: consider we're a nonprofit. We have a full team now,
Speaker 1: and you know, I have a full team, and I
Speaker 1: have a family, and I've grown a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: And the spirit will move you when you need to move,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you just have to accept that there's there's
Speaker 1: a there's a closing to every opening, you know, and
Speaker 1: I feel like it was a time to move on.
Speaker 1: And look at we've got the colleges. Now, we've got
Speaker 1: good fruit going on. So sometimes break so needed. I
Speaker 1: love skid Row dearly. Okay, I've loved the men in
Speaker 1: my life dearly, but they've been very dangerous for me,
Speaker 1: and I've had to leave them. Yeah, sometimes you love
Speaker 1: me and you got to leave some dangerous things. I say,
Speaker 1: sometimes the greatest form of love is letting go. And
Speaker 1: I learned that with my mom's transition. But hold on.
Speaker 1: You talked about the backstreets La Give it to me.
Speaker 1: You said that that now you're on the backstreets of
Speaker 1: LA working which is behind, yeah, behind skid Row, or
Speaker 1: some of the elderly are in Polly's Project. He he
Speaker 1: goes back there and he feeds and brings clothing and
Speaker 1: all those things. Polly's Project, Paully's Project. That's it's a
Speaker 1: nonprofit that it's been in skid Row for a very
Speaker 1: Los Angeles for a very long time. So I came
Speaker 1: up under Polly's Project, and I'm the women in the
Speaker 1: trans community, and everybody begin to compliment me on my
Speaker 1: hair and my makeup, my earrings, and I think my
Speaker 1: third time out with him, I'm like, you guys want
Speaker 1: these things because it'sund like they were hinting. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you could. So I brought makeup. The next time
Speaker 1: I came at sample makeup, I had a lot, and
Speaker 1: I brought some colors weren't I wasn't using. And then
Speaker 1: the next Sunday I went out with Paul. They hadn't
Speaker 1: they didn't have the makeup on her, their hair wasn't done.
Speaker 1: I'm like, do you even't like it? They're like, well,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a mirror, we don't have water. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh well, let me bring some water. So I went
Speaker 1: to targeting about a fold up chair and about an
Speaker 1: igloo container, and I bought some red solo cups and
Speaker 1: I began to just boil water at home and I
Speaker 1: would drag it with me and I would wash their
Speaker 1: hair and chairs, and I would take um, I would
Speaker 1: take grocery bags like trash bags and time around its smocks.
Speaker 1: And I was slowing him down a little bit because
Speaker 1: he was like, Okay, I'm ready to go to next
Speaker 1: block and feet I'm like, hey, maybe I'll come out
Speaker 1: here on the day when you don't come, like on
Speaker 1: a Saturday. He was like, oh, that would be good.
Speaker 1: And they started calling in a makeup lady, and young
Speaker 1: kids used to come and try to get makeup from
Speaker 1: me in the backstreets. I'm like, where y'all all that there? Like, well,
Speaker 1: we're in skid row. I'm like, well, let me go
Speaker 1: over there and take care of y'all. And so that's
Speaker 1: how I ended up in a skid row. And that's
Speaker 1: how I ended up doing my own thing. And then
Speaker 1: I took the social media. I'm like, oh, look, y'all,
Speaker 1: I need more help. Like everybody won't make up in here,
Speaker 1: and I don't handle money, and I to the social media.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, maybe I should like make my name
Speaker 1: something that I do. I'm I'm gonna chase my name
Speaker 1: to beat to the street. And I did that, and
Speaker 1: I was just doing my thing, and then I think
Speaker 1: I was turning fifty and this lady hit me in
Speaker 1: my DM She's like, hey, I have a birthday present
Speaker 1: for you. You said, what what Jesus scare me? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I was on the roll sided it is
Speaker 1: what she tried oh you is what she tried. You
Speaker 1: said you do. We're turning fifty. I'm about to be
Speaker 1: fifty five on the twenty nine of my birthday. I'm listen.
Speaker 1: No no no, no, no no no no no no no
Speaker 1: no no no no no no no no no no
Speaker 1: no no man, no no no no. It's very rare
Speaker 1: that you can give me like this. You want to
Speaker 1: know because numbers speak to me. I see, no, see,
Speaker 1: I didn't have to read it because your energy and
Speaker 1: your vibrance, it's so vulnerable that it's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me guess, but yo, what you're still sitting, you're
Speaker 1: holding to God be the glory. She could be set
Speaker 1: readjust my life. First of all, I told you she
Speaker 1: come in here with some emeralds, I mean luscious like
Speaker 1: a gem hair. The lashes are whisping to dreams that
Speaker 1: only angels could speak. Okay, and then it radiates this
Speaker 1: golden eyes shadow that kisses with the orange almost like
Speaker 1: the sun. So if you need it to get light,
Speaker 1: you just look into her eyes gen with jewels on
Speaker 1: her nose and her lips. Oh my god, what a dip.
Speaker 1: Then she gives it with the who girl on your lap.
Speaker 1: Now you better stop. Now, don't put me in the bob.
Speaker 1: Maybe come sit on your lap now, girl, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to get some feelings. Now you better stop. You better
Speaker 1: pull what in the world surely I know no, listen,
Speaker 1: I do not have to give it his life. There's
Speaker 1: nothing like this was a genuine reaction. Yeah, okay, can
Speaker 1: we get back to the story, Dawn. I'm glad you asked. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this lady dm ju Yeah, I'm turning fifty. And
Speaker 1: she says, I would like to gift you a nonprofit status.
Speaker 1: I've been following you and I think you're gonna do
Speaker 1: some good work. One day and I didn't turn down
Speaker 1: anything free, and I'm like, okay. She was a lawyer,
Speaker 1: so Danis Snados. She remains my lawyer today, and she
Speaker 1: gifted me my nonprofit status and with that, she gave
Speaker 1: me her accountant for a year. She said, me and
Speaker 1: my husband are gonna pay for you to have our
Speaker 1: accountant for a year. Yeah. She's like, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna need this. I think you're doing great work. And
Speaker 1: I was like okay, and I kind of just put
Speaker 1: it in the closet, put it aside, and then one
Speaker 1: day I got a call from Good Morning America and
Speaker 1: they were like you need to be a five, O,
Speaker 1: one C three are you? I'm like, oh wow, that
Speaker 1: lady gave me that paper I was, I think, hey, am,
Speaker 1: And things just shot off from there and I'm like,
Speaker 1: let me contact that lady. I'm like, hey, you remember
Speaker 1: that paper you gave me? And then she became a
Speaker 1: really good friend and she's my lawyer for life and
Speaker 1: Larry is still my accountant. Wow, what everything was room
Speaker 1: for you? Yes, ma'am, you understand that. And it's like
Speaker 1: it's no secret your gift isn't giffing. Wow, wow, real quick,
Speaker 1: somebody is listening like, oh my gosh, what are they
Speaker 1: talking about? What does she look like? What's your social media?
Speaker 1: So somebody can take a pick while they sitting in beauty?
Speaker 1: The word beauty, the number two, the and streets spelled
Speaker 1: is z on the nbauty to the streets on Instagram,
Speaker 1: TikTok Facebook, beauty two streets on Twitter. Because you don't
Speaker 1: have enough characters over there? Oh is that? What do I? Yes?
Speaker 1: That can't hold us back? Then? Is there a rap
Speaker 1: someone or anything? Yeah? Bet streets dot org check it out,
Speaker 1: check it out y'all see what we do out there.
Speaker 1: So along with Beauty to the Streets, you got something
Speaker 1: called Foody to the Streets. That the same. What's that
Speaker 1: it's our food truck. So we were gifted a food truck. Um,
Speaker 1: we were gifted a grant. And this grant came from
Speaker 1: a person who wants to rename an anomalous, remain anonymous.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, tongue tight remain anonymous. And um, they
Speaker 1: gave us one hundred thousand some dollars. But here's the thing,
Speaker 1: and I really liked that. They didn't want to give
Speaker 1: us cash. They wanted to give us something that was sustainable.
Speaker 1: And you know, and I always wanted a food truck
Speaker 1: because I felt like I wanted to be able to
Speaker 1: go feed whenever we could feed, self sufficient and self sustaining.
Speaker 1: And that's what we did with it. So we got
Speaker 1: Foody to the Streets. Rick on my team, it's I
Speaker 1: got some manifests on my team. Rick is my Rick
Speaker 1: and Sydney have been with me for the longest on
Speaker 1: my team, and probably five years ago, Rick said, I
Speaker 1: told him I wanted food truck. He said, if we
Speaker 1: ever get it, we gotta name it foody to the streets.
Speaker 1: So many we gotta He looked at me, is that
Speaker 1: you got to give it to Mas said, it's yours.
Speaker 1: It's done, It's done. So Rick named that truck five
Speaker 1: years ago, real talk. And when we actually I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe he's I told you, I told you,
Speaker 1: I knew he would always get one. And we called
Speaker 1: it foody to the streets. Wow, envisioned like two fish
Speaker 1: and five loans and some manifests on my team. How
Speaker 1: did you get this team? They just saw you doing
Speaker 1: social media? Yeah, social media is power. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: I've as it's been a transition and a tough time
Speaker 1: finding the right people. But you know, God will always
Speaker 1: do that little sifter and make sure that the right
Speaker 1: people remain. Like when you're soakn beings, and if you
Speaker 1: ever want to people wonder how you know God. You
Speaker 1: gotta experience God to know God things that aren't unexplainable. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you have a testament just says
Speaker 1: that you had a story. And half the time when
Speaker 1: we got a testament, that's because we've been tested. I
Speaker 1: have been tested to the extreme. You know, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times and That's why I think I
Speaker 1: have the following I have. I know I have the
Speaker 1: following I have because, yeah, and my story, it doesn't
Speaker 1: like what I have doesn't come from a great place.
Speaker 1: When people are like, I want to be just like
Speaker 1: you and be careful what you wish for. What do
Speaker 1: you mean by you know? I would like for people
Speaker 1: to say, do the things that I do. Don't say
Speaker 1: you want to be like me? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because the way I got here is not the way
Speaker 1: you think I got here. I got here through trauma.
Speaker 1: I got here through pain. I got here through brokenness,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. This wasn't like a lifelong
Speaker 1: dream to do some work like this. This is taking
Speaker 1: all of my broken pieces and finding a home for them.
Speaker 1: And then home happened to be beauty to the streets
Speaker 1: and the work that I do. So this all comes
Speaker 1: from a broken place. But that's okay because it allows
Speaker 1: me to do the work that I do. But it's
Speaker 1: important to share that story because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people are like, I can't wait to get myself
Speaker 1: together so I can do the work that you do.
Speaker 1: Who said I'm together? I mean, I'm doing the best
Speaker 1: I can. But I don't want to create this false
Speaker 1: image like you see on social media of you know,
Speaker 1: people with millions of followers and blue check marks and
Speaker 1: you know, going out doing great things and it coming
Speaker 1: from great places, because it makes it people feel like
Speaker 1: who are struggling, that they can't do great things. And
Speaker 1: I have panic and anxiety disorder. I buried a child,
Speaker 1: but every day I live with that, I deal with.
Speaker 1: You said you bared or buried, buried a child. That's
Speaker 1: how my nonprofit started. I mean, that's how my pain started.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? What happened? It was
Speaker 1: when I was I was married when I was younger,
Speaker 1: in my twenties, and just stupidly gave up my housing
Speaker 1: for my husband travel with him. He went a wall
Speaker 1: from the Marines. You know. I ended up pregnant with
Speaker 1: my daughter and I had my firstborn son. He was
Speaker 1: his stepfather, and he was you know, five days his
Speaker 1: third birthday, and we were just running around with this
Speaker 1: with my husband. I made poor choices and gave up
Speaker 1: my housing. Essentially was homeless myself. So you have experienced, yes,
Speaker 1: but not sleep well. Yeah. I didn't like sleep on
Speaker 1: the streets physically because I kept walking car or your
Speaker 1: cousin's count. I mean I literally walked the streets all
Speaker 1: night when my baby's covered in a struggler like I was.
Speaker 1: You know, that life for me, so my my, my
Speaker 1: passion for this was you know, being in hotels and
Speaker 1: not having a place for my little boy to play
Speaker 1: in the backyard. And um, you know, the day before
Speaker 1: I had gone to the doctors to get my you know,
Speaker 1: my OBG exam because I was pregnant with my daughter,
Speaker 1: and um, he just was so restless, you know, and
Speaker 1: he got in trouble when he got back to the hotel,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, let me just
Speaker 1: he needs the backyard. I'm gonna send him to my
Speaker 1: grandmother's just great grandmother's. You know, she raised me. You know,
Speaker 1: my life was really broken. But this is the one
Speaker 1: who spoke life and me and taught me everything and
Speaker 1: made me who I am. And I had an uncle
Speaker 1: who had some you know, mental problems, and we've all
Speaker 1: grown up in the house. We all knew there was
Speaker 1: medicine in the house. And you know, even though he
Speaker 1: was five days to his third birthday, he too knew
Speaker 1: the drill you don't touch or drink or eat anything
Speaker 1: unless Nana said so. And you know, unfortunately, that day
Speaker 1: brought about a lot of anxiety and you know, I
Speaker 1: can't even get into it, but I knew there was
Speaker 1: something wrong that whole day, Like the spirit was just
Speaker 1: like with yourself. Yeah, I knew something was wrong with
Speaker 1: my son. And I'm like, I got a bad feeling.
Speaker 1: So I called. I'm like, I say okay, and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's good. He's playing. I'm like okay. I'm like you're sure.
Speaker 1: She's like yeah. I'm like, go check because she's like
Speaker 1: it's fine. Well, I'm like, well, I just got a
Speaker 1: bad feeling and I just couldn't sleep all night, you know,
Speaker 1: went to get him the next morning. He was in
Speaker 1: the back seat of her car and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's sleeping. I'm like, oh, that's odd. And I you know,
Speaker 1: my life was so I'm gonna keep it a buck
Speaker 1: with you. I was gonna get my food stamps, you know,
Speaker 1: I was on welfare and I was gonna get my
Speaker 1: food stamps. And I got out of the car and
Speaker 1: he didn't move his head to catch your breath, and
Speaker 1: in the seat of the cushion as something just said
Speaker 1: get back in the car and take him to the hospital.
Speaker 1: And I was like okay, and I was like, na,
Speaker 1: we need to go to the hospital. My grandma was like, no,
Speaker 1: he's fine, and you know, we took him to the
Speaker 1: hospital and he wasn't fine, and everything in me said
Speaker 1: he wasn't fine, and he was very tired, and he
Speaker 1: kept saying he wants to sleep, and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: you need to walk, you need to stay awake, and
Speaker 1: you know, everything in me was kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna make it, and you're torturing him by
Speaker 1: walking him, so you should just say everything you need
Speaker 1: to say now, because this isn't gonna end the way
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna end. It was very clear, the
Speaker 1: instructions were very clear. They were very clear. This was
Speaker 1: not gonna end the way I wanted it to end.
Speaker 1: So I told him I loved him, and he told
Speaker 1: me he loved me, and I let him go to
Speaker 1: sleep on my shoulder and I walked him in the hospital,
Speaker 1: and you know, I didn't come back out without him.
Speaker 1: Had the whole family come and my husband ended up
Speaker 1: coming and everybody was distraught, but I sat there. I
Speaker 1: don't know, It's just like this this knowingness that I
Speaker 1: don't know it was in for me anyway. I was
Speaker 1: gonna kill myself when that was over. I was six.
Speaker 1: I was pregnant with my daughter when that happened, So
Speaker 1: I didn't really freak out too much because I thought,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lift through this. I'll just kill myself
Speaker 1: when it's over. And you know, and by the time
Speaker 1: I had her three months later, I forgot to kill myself.
Speaker 1: I was in such a dark place. It gets a
Speaker 1: lot darker than suicide. People think suicide is the lowest.
Speaker 1: If you hang on, he gets a lot darker. Really,
Speaker 1: when I got back to suicide, I was happy. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, thank god, I'm back. It was a
Speaker 1: dark It was a dark, dark, dark place. Did you
Speaker 1: get much support from your husband? I got no support
Speaker 1: from Was he a narcissist? He was a rapist? But
Speaker 1: him out to be a rapist. Years later it came
Speaker 1: out he had raped a twelve year old. He went
Speaker 1: to prison, he turned I hadn't buried the rapist. He
Speaker 1: was a rapist? Did he didn't have any dealings with
Speaker 1: any of your children? He did? He did? He raped
Speaker 1: her youngest daughter, So how okay? So what does that
Speaker 1: look like now your relationship as far as with your children,
Speaker 1: understanding the importance of just having a home. You know,
Speaker 1: I see, well, all of those experiences shaped and molded me.
Speaker 1: Not the one with the husband, because I take no
Speaker 1: blame for that, you know what I mean, that's his
Speaker 1: own demons. But certainly giving up stuff for a man traveling,
Speaker 1: you know, not keeping my own you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm so strong minded when I see young queens doing
Speaker 1: stuff like that, like I understand, you know, partnership, but
Speaker 1: we have to be very careful because I too. I'm
Speaker 1: taking care of women on the street who are married
Speaker 1: for many years. Stay at home moms didn't get a
Speaker 1: job because hubby said I'm gonna take care of you.
Speaker 1: He turned fifteen, he cashed her in for somebody else,
Speaker 1: and she's homeless. Their story is nothing more than just
Speaker 1: depending on a man because he said, I got this,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately you gotta get it too. So let me
Speaker 1: ask you this. I still he found out what he
Speaker 1: did to your youngest daughter. Could you walk away at
Speaker 1: that moment? That didn't happen at that time with me.
Speaker 1: He wasn't with me when that happened. That happened many
Speaker 1: years later. I kept so you allowed her to be around. Nope,
Speaker 1: never did happen. I took I never he really saw her.
Speaker 1: When I got pregnant with her and I found out
Speaker 1: what he did, I left the state and he never
Speaker 1: saw her. A family member disagreed and thought said he
Speaker 1: had a right to see his children and sent my
Speaker 1: children against my will to their dad. Use a lie.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm telling y' I've been through a girl.
Speaker 1: I got what. They sent my child down there, yea.
Speaker 1: I blame myself again. I was experiencing some struggles of
Speaker 1: homelessness and the family member said they would take my
Speaker 1: children in for me, and they did. But when they
Speaker 1: took my children, they said, you know what, they have
Speaker 1: a right to be with their dad, and I sent
Speaker 1: them to be with their dad. I'm like, you what,
Speaker 1: And before I can get him back, he did what
Speaker 1: he did, and the police called me and my daughter
Speaker 1: was sent back, and shoot, buipolar did this day? I
Speaker 1: can only I don't. I can't imagine. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of trauma. Oh yeah, that's just bits and pieces. That's
Speaker 1: not even a girl. That's light work right there, compared
Speaker 1: to the other stuff I've been through well, piece by piece.
Speaker 1: You know, you can make a beautiful picture. It can.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's why I can understand the stories
Speaker 1: I hear in the street, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like people been through some things. Everything, ain't you know,
Speaker 1: peaches and cream. Some people have suffered extreme circumstances. I
Speaker 1: know I have, and people counting me out because of that.
Speaker 1: You know, people told me I wasn't gonna rise from that.
Speaker 1: You know, people thought it was over. I thought it
Speaker 1: was over for me. I thought there's no way to
Speaker 1: come back from this, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: there's no way to love again and trust again when
Speaker 1: you've married someone who's done, who's done something so deplorable,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. There's no way to have
Speaker 1: another child when you when you've buried a child, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like there's no replacing, there's no replacing.
Speaker 1: People are like, but I owe you overcame that, you
Speaker 1: became Beautyshire Street. No, no no, no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 1: You know I didn't overcame what you don't overcome a
Speaker 1: death of a child, you accept I accepted it. I
Speaker 1: didn't overcome it. I had to accept it, and it
Speaker 1: took me many years accepted and I had to accept
Speaker 1: it because if not, it was gonna kill me. It's
Speaker 1: gonna destroy me inside out. Well, we're talking about how
Speaker 1: this inside job has led to some great outside work
Speaker 1: you've been doing. Right. We got Shirley Rains right here
Speaker 1: on vitaingin t with Dante. I'm telling you, it's a
Speaker 1: real conversation, what a real person right now. Um, we're
Speaker 1: talking about beauty to the streets and those experience and homelessness.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we know that the first black
Speaker 1: woman mayor of LA it's called the state of emergency
Speaker 1: on homelessness? But what does that really mean? Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna dive in. We'll be right back. Callaway, peace. What's
Speaker 1: up everybody? This is trade change And you are listening
Speaker 1: to Dawn Day. Right before the break you had shared. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't have appropriate words, but things I feel like
Speaker 1: no one would want to experience a death of a child,
Speaker 1: or even learning that your child had been assaulted, especially
Speaker 1: by a father, and there was nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: And the first thing that came to my mind is like, wow,
Speaker 1: and what you describe? Where was your choice? Yeah, these
Speaker 1: circumstances didn't give you an option with a choice, and
Speaker 1: when you came in, one of the first things that
Speaker 1: we discussed when you talked about beauty to the streets,
Speaker 1: as you said that we want to give those who
Speaker 1: are experiencing homelessness a choice. If you have diabetes, you
Speaker 1: should not have to eat food that's gonna bring up
Speaker 1: your sugar. If you are vegetarian or Venian, why should
Speaker 1: you have to eat me? Options? Yep, yep, And I
Speaker 1: had none. I felt like I think that's where it started.
Speaker 1: I'm not know that's where it started. The passion comes
Speaker 1: from my son because I didn't have a choice. I
Speaker 1: had to accept that. You know, I didn't have a
Speaker 1: choice if my son died. I didn't have a choice
Speaker 1: about a lot of things I felt in life. I
Speaker 1: didn't have a choice what happened to me in nine
Speaker 1: years old or ten or eleven, twelve, thirteen, forty fifteen
Speaker 1: or sixteen, you know what I mean. So I think
Speaker 1: it's so empowered. Choices are empowering, and that's why the
Speaker 1: hair and makeup, even though people don't see those as choices,
Speaker 1: it is like what color would you like your hair? Like?
Speaker 1: Any choice is empowering, even if even if it's just
Speaker 1: picking your hair color, picking the length of your eyelashes.
Speaker 1: That's all I could provide back in twenty seventeen and
Speaker 1: back in those years, just those things. And I took
Speaker 1: a lot of criticism on social media because people are like, well,
Speaker 1: that's not important. One, that's not important when they're not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. They're not going anywhere anywhere. When you take
Speaker 1: a shower and sit on the couch, but you want
Speaker 1: to get up, you have the choice to get up
Speaker 1: and feel good and look good, and they want that
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, I kind of a testament. I've
Speaker 1: been wearing hats for a bit. You know, I have
Speaker 1: my blonde locks in and you know, I went in
Speaker 1: for you know, they say, I go to go so
Speaker 1: you know all they started doing. Then I said, lord,
Speaker 1: so I had to put a hat on. That didn't
Speaker 1: make me feel good. Girl, got my hair color together, baby,
Speaker 1: got in the salon. We're not even finished attaching or
Speaker 1: you know, assessing them. But I can't tell you that
Speaker 1: that's probably this energy that you're feeling. The excitement. I
Speaker 1: felt like, oh my gosh, yeah, I got my hair
Speaker 1: up in my points don't have a had one girl.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting when individuals aren't feeling the best throughout
Speaker 1: the day. Don't get your nails done. That's who I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Put your feet up. I don't care if you're drinking
Speaker 1: your tea. You're doing something that just makes you feel
Speaker 1: like you inherently beautiful. That's what I say. If you
Speaker 1: call a friend right now and say, girl, I lost
Speaker 1: my job and my man left me, she gonna say,
Speaker 1: let's go get our nails done, let's go get our
Speaker 1: hair done. None of your circumstances have changed. You still
Speaker 1: don't have a job, your man still left you. But
Speaker 1: it's just a little pocket of air. It's just a
Speaker 1: moment that they're giving you to, you know, take that
Speaker 1: little break. And that's what the homeless need to. People
Speaker 1: are like, well, they're not getting them off the street. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not what my mission is about. Beating to the
Speaker 1: street is providing pockets of air. Getting the homeless off
Speaker 1: the street is a city is a city issue. That's
Speaker 1: not what I provide. I'm just trying to give CPR.
Speaker 1: Come on until the real responders come, paramedics and then
Speaker 1: the emergency room exactly, come on, catch it. But I'm
Speaker 1: not the life saver. I'm the temporary help. I never
Speaker 1: said I was it. So when people are like, or
Speaker 1: you should be doing this instead of this, Nope, I'm
Speaker 1: doing exactly what my calling is, to go out there
Speaker 1: and provide life saving measures. Because I didn't have those things,
Speaker 1: I had to you know how hard it is to
Speaker 1: CPR on yourself. I had to bring myself back to
Speaker 1: life the death of my child, from all the circumstances
Speaker 1: I've been through. I had to speak life into myself.
Speaker 1: Nobody did that. I had to find a reason in
Speaker 1: the will to keep going, and not just to keep going,
Speaker 1: but to try to not fall into a poor me situation.
Speaker 1: Not to pour me story. Suggusts me story. People bury
Speaker 1: kids all the time all the time. Its adjusts me
Speaker 1: story now to pour me story. But I had to
Speaker 1: get into that. I had to learn to separate myself
Speaker 1: from earthly possessions. You know, every time now I pray
Speaker 1: to God like these are God's loans, children's are God's loans.
Speaker 1: I had to detach from everything down here. That's why
Speaker 1: I don't care about money. I don't care about those
Speaker 1: things because I've lost the child. I've lost the most
Speaker 1: precious thing in the world. Nothing down here is yours,
Speaker 1: and I spend enough time being selfish, and I feel
Speaker 1: like the rest of my journey here is to certain people.
Speaker 1: And I have enough information, I have enough experience, says
Speaker 1: that I've gone through to make that happen. You know,
Speaker 1: don't let it be for nothing, Don't let it. I
Speaker 1: never asked God to take my pain away from bearing
Speaker 1: a child. I asked him to make it make sense
Speaker 1: because I know the pain ain't gonna go nowhere don't.
Speaker 1: And so I don't have my child. But there's people
Speaker 1: on the street that don't have a mother. Oh maybe
Speaker 1: I feed that child since my child not here to feed.
Speaker 1: That's what I always say when I see people out,
Speaker 1: you know, experiencing homelessness. I'm always like, that's somebody's bag. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: somebody's bad. Somebody changed that diaper, Somebody loved them, somebody,
Speaker 1: I don't care if it was motherfucker. Somebody at some
Speaker 1: point in time cared enough to when that baby cried,
Speaker 1: somebody ran to a room and picked them up. Somebody
Speaker 1: has loved that spirit, and somebody would won't that spirit
Speaker 1: to be content to be loved by somebody. And as
Speaker 1: a person who's experienced those things in the street myself.
Speaker 1: I know that a lot. I get a lot of
Speaker 1: messages and deals from people who are like, I don't
Speaker 1: know where my love one is, but I hope that
Speaker 1: you're taking care of them, because they want to know
Speaker 1: that someone else is loving on them when they can't
Speaker 1: be loved. They want to notice somebody out somebody out
Speaker 1: there takes care of them and cares about it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I love the idea that we're acknowledging that it
Speaker 1: is somebody else's baby. How we need to look and
Speaker 1: put eyes on people, How we need to do something.
Speaker 1: How is the city thing? So we know we have
Speaker 1: Mayor Careen Bass in office, and she has declared a
Speaker 1: state of emergency on homelessness. What are your thoughts? Absolutely none.
Speaker 1: They declare everything all the time. Okay, So let's be clear.
Speaker 1: What is a state of emergency. It is a situation
Speaker 1: in which the government is empowered to be able to
Speaker 1: put through policies that it would normally not be permitted
Speaker 1: to do for the safety and protection of its citizens.
Speaker 1: Now what will a quote unquote state of emergency look
Speaker 1: like for homelessness? Okay, let's talk about it. Gives Mayor
Speaker 1: Bass some power to lift red tape around the things
Speaker 1: like building affordable housing and shelters, or investing in services
Speaker 1: and resources without going through a competitive bidding process like
Speaker 1: she would under normal circumstances. So let's just be clear.
Speaker 1: Because we talked about what it's going to do, it
Speaker 1: will not do. What it will not do is that
Speaker 1: it will not bring in any additional money. So don't
Speaker 1: think because it's an emergency, all the money is coming. No,
Speaker 1: we have more power and where the money is going.
Speaker 1: And then plus it will not grant us and influx
Speaker 1: of social workers or resources. So it's not about adding
Speaker 1: It's more so about control and pushing what we have do,
Speaker 1: pushing what we have half through, dang thoughts, you didn't
Speaker 1: change your position to everything? How you feel? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, all of that changed our
Speaker 1: position to everything. BT lavit and you know it's it's
Speaker 1: all of that is fine, and Dad, I don't have
Speaker 1: a problem when anything that you just read. I'm all
Speaker 1: about the facts. If you have started that when there
Speaker 1: was maybe five thousand homes in La County, maybe you'd
Speaker 1: have got somewhere. Let's talk about the facts. The facts
Speaker 1: are these. You have seventy thousand homes in La County alone,
Speaker 1: you have close to eight thousand, probably more if you
Speaker 1: do if a sensus, if everybody really takes the sense
Speaker 1: and a fifty five block radius. Okay, each structure that
Speaker 1: you build in Los Angeles, the destruct of the laws
Speaker 1: in the code permits two hundred and fifty people per building.
Speaker 1: You've got eight thousand people in a fifty five block radius.
Speaker 1: If you can only house two hundred and fifty per
Speaker 1: structure you build, where are you going to build enough
Speaker 1: structure to house seventy thousand people. That's a small city.
Speaker 1: It's become an epidemic. It's too big right now. And
Speaker 1: I love that you said that, because that's what you
Speaker 1: said on the front page. In fact, you said, and
Speaker 1: I quote, it's not that the new mayor is not
Speaker 1: going to do her job, is that she can't correct.
Speaker 1: It's gone too far. Correct. Basically, there are too many
Speaker 1: people on house. I like what you said. You said, Hey, Dawn,
Speaker 1: how are we going to build up these buildings? Correct? Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Why don't we use what we have?
Speaker 1: So it sounds like that's what KB is doing with
Speaker 1: her inside safe program. Let me tell you so, just
Speaker 1: as you reflected, how about how many people are experiencing
Speaker 1: homeless as we said about sixty six seventy thousand, so
Speaker 1: one of the twentieth that's when KB had launched or
Speaker 1: Inside Safe program, which what it is is that it
Speaker 1: means that the city will use master leasing to sub
Speaker 1: lease hotels and motels for property owners. Okay, so some
Speaker 1: of these hotels, motels that are just empty, let's use
Speaker 1: it these room they will provide shelter for the unhoused
Speaker 1: while the city works to build more affordable housing. So
Speaker 1: right now the weather is changing, it's cold outside. I
Speaker 1: know what I felt conduct call coming out the garage,
Speaker 1: be getting to building. What about when you're sitting out
Speaker 1: there and let alone, you may have holes on your shoes,
Speaker 1: you may not have the proper code. Now as well,
Speaker 1: with the Inside Safe program, it's a directive will be
Speaker 1: issued to fast track affordable housing and shelter applications within
Speaker 1: sixty days. We all know you might be pushed on
Speaker 1: the back runner. But again, the reason why it's the
Speaker 1: state of emergency is because now we have rules and
Speaker 1: regulations that are supposed to enforce and push through. Let's
Speaker 1: give it a moment hold on it. Says, now, which
Speaker 1: this process will take usually take sixty to nine months
Speaker 1: for the application. So we're going from sixty days to
Speaker 1: nine months, and this program will cost under one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars. Now you sound like you're shocked, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying this the reason why we got all these motels
Speaker 1: and hotels open. Rather than having other people that made
Speaker 1: you don't come in to run them out? Why not
Speaker 1: using for the city. Here's the thing, she got the budget.
Speaker 1: As a business, your main thing, your focus is on
Speaker 1: the red lining. You want to ensure that if I
Speaker 1: got this room, I got this building, I'm getting the money.
Speaker 1: If the city is offering the money. What's the problem?
Speaker 1: You said, Hey, gone, we got all these people that
Speaker 1: don't scare roll. How can we house them? Can we
Speaker 1: be honest? You're out there? How many people are actually
Speaker 1: gonna make the choice to go? Now? Out of that,
Speaker 1: who's willing to go? Can we start there? And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of situations there, and I can see the
Speaker 1: nimbies coming out. Not in my backyard, because again there
Speaker 1: is red tape you those buildings. As soon as the
Speaker 1: homeless come there, the neighbors will complain. Not in my backyard.
Speaker 1: Those are residential areas still, and that is the problem.
Speaker 1: The reason they're gonna have water, they're gonna have shoulders
Speaker 1: to showering to get dressed. No, they listen, they're trying
Speaker 1: to get us shut down right now. I won't even
Speaker 1: say where we are, our new location, where we're all
Speaker 1: right now, the neighbors are complaining by where we are.
Speaker 1: People don't care. So she's gonna come up against the nimbies.
Speaker 1: Not in my back Nimbies, Not in my backyard. So
Speaker 1: not in my backyard, Nimbi. So the nimbies are gonna
Speaker 1: come out and say not in my backyard, and then
Speaker 1: they're gonna push back. It's not that they don't have
Speaker 1: the right ideas. That has gone too far. The reason
Speaker 1: skid Row should be their home is because it is
Speaker 1: not a residential area. It is a business area. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Nimby will not have a problem like I
Speaker 1: was saying on your other show with the flower market
Speaker 1: in the backyard. They're not gonna have a problem with
Speaker 1: the with a fabric with a fabric store in their backyard.
Speaker 1: Move the businesses and leave the homeless in the in
Speaker 1: the business district. It's not residential there are no neighbors
Speaker 1: around the complaint. Now should should businesses who have been
Speaker 1: there for twenty thirty years be forced to move because
Speaker 1: of this? Well, that is the city's fault. And this
Speaker 1: is what happens when I say it's a gang green situation.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you lose a part of the body when you
Speaker 1: don't treat it properly and treat it right away. They
Speaker 1: should have treated this before it become a gangering situation.
Speaker 1: Seventy thousand people is basically losing the leg The city
Speaker 1: has absorbed the loss of skin Row, and I think
Speaker 1: that budget that you're talking about should be used also
Speaker 1: to absorb the moving of some of those businesses that
Speaker 1: leads these big warehouses. Now we could begin to make
Speaker 1: these structural buildings for the homeless, and they most certainly
Speaker 1: can house a lot of them. Well, can I talk
Speaker 1: to you here? I've spoken to some individuals, like I said,
Speaker 1: beyond the Metro. I ran it to this woman, Sandra
Speaker 1: Jeremiah and I right outside the grocery store and I said, hey, Sandra,
Speaker 1: I said, why are you outside? I had a representative
Speaker 1: loof ruth Land, the Verde ain't pad Land Verde. She
Speaker 1: was on from this organization called path if you are
Speaker 1: experiencing homelessness called Staves Pound two on one. However, her
Speaker 1: thing was, is that Sandra who was experiencing homelesses? She said,
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to go down to themselves shelters. They're dangerous,
Speaker 1: people are using drugs, people will become assaulted. So when
Speaker 1: you say to me, hey, John, let's get this warehouse,
Speaker 1: saying house all these people here, where is the safety
Speaker 1: in that? At least if I'm in a motel or hotel,
Speaker 1: I feel as though I got protection in my room.
Speaker 1: My kids are safe. There's a bear right here. But
Speaker 1: I hear you, and then I want to come to
Speaker 1: you at this What about the whole notion? You know,
Speaker 1: you said your whole idea is to make sure that
Speaker 1: people feel human. I know, I understand. I see where
Speaker 1: your logic is going, say hey, push or make sure
Speaker 1: everybody stays in ski role. But wouldn't it be more
Speaker 1: of a human feel to have them be in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I get the people don't, but we got to help
Speaker 1: each other. When do we create the change? Because having
Speaker 1: them in a warehouse, how do you get to see
Speaker 1: the aspiration of what it looks like to have a
Speaker 1: family or just the normal things to do, because I
Speaker 1: feel like being on ski roll you kind of been
Speaker 1: ostracized from society. Yeah, I don't mean like warehouse like
Speaker 1: bump is. I mean create create tiny homes within that
Speaker 1: create their little spaces within that. I don't mean lump Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I want them to have their own. I
Speaker 1: actually think one of the things I've also looked at
Speaker 1: as well with the city of Los Angeles is, and
Speaker 1: let's talk about it, the yards and yards of empty
Speaker 1: buses that have just sitting there. The trains that have
Speaker 1: just been sitting there. I'm from I was born in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven. I see all these old box car
Speaker 1: trains sitting there. Those can be converted into tiny homes.
Speaker 1: Those can be confirmed and then they can do like
Speaker 1: I think, those can be converted into tiny homes, do
Speaker 1: like a couple of you know, like group bathrooms within.
Speaker 1: They're almost like a mobile homes that we haven't heard of.
Speaker 1: You hear people all the time talking about they turn
Speaker 1: in school buses into a mobile. There's tons of empty
Speaker 1: buses out there, There's tons of empty box car trains.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why we aren't using what we have
Speaker 1: to create individual tiny homes for them. And by those,
Speaker 1: I say, yeah, they're gonna need somewhere to put those. Okay,
Speaker 1: bring those in the skid row. But I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot of options. I don't I don't think her
Speaker 1: ideas are necessarily bad. I think everything looks good on
Speaker 1: paper but not applicable. Let's not talk about forget the
Speaker 1: fact that the city actually had a lawsuit against them.
Speaker 1: Wait for the homeless. This you remember there's somebody sued
Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles. They had ninety days to
Speaker 1: get the homeless off the street. They had a lawsuit
Speaker 1: against them. This was the second time the cities Los
Speaker 1: Angeles was sued and told to get the homeless off
Speaker 1: the street. We knew nothing was going to happen. And
Speaker 1: people came to me. Newspapers call me, you, reporters call me.
Speaker 1: The city has been sued and the homeless will be
Speaker 1: off the street in ninety days. What do you think
Speaker 1: about that? I just kept working because I don't think
Speaker 1: anything because it's not going to happen. And here we are,
Speaker 1: what two years, three years later, and nothing happened to them.
Speaker 1: So what do you say to people that say homeless,
Speaker 1: this is a choice. I say that choices come from
Speaker 1: traumatic places. I say that sometimes people do choose things,
Speaker 1: but unconsciously, there's a subconscious choice and an unconscious choice.
Speaker 1: I see how you can see it like they're choosing
Speaker 1: to stay here. People that say, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: offered them a home and they don't want to be here.
Speaker 1: They choose, they're choosing the street. Fear is traumatizing, you know,
Speaker 1: going into a structural building, taking on responsibilities, living that
Speaker 1: life again. It's scary. Women who have gotten divorced or
Speaker 1: break they don't want to love again. It's very scary
Speaker 1: going back into something that traumatized you before. So imagine
Speaker 1: losing all your structure, possession, your worldly possessions, having to
Speaker 1: acclam make yourself to a life on the streets. And
Speaker 1: then here's an opportunity to get all that back. But
Speaker 1: what if it doesn't work, what if I don't succeed,
Speaker 1: what if it's just another failure? And by that they
Speaker 1: would rather choose subconsciously, unconsciously, that life on the street
Speaker 1: then to take that chance again. And it's trauma. It's
Speaker 1: nothing more than trauma. And that's where we have to
Speaker 1: work with them. That's why I don't think building them.
Speaker 1: If you build the buildings, they still won't come. You're right,
Speaker 1: it's not because they're lazy. It's not because they don't
Speaker 1: want it. It's because they're scared. And let's just be honest.
Speaker 1: Something new we heard, We hear people have been incarcerated
Speaker 1: for years. Yeah, that outside and be like I don't
Speaker 1: know what to do, and get locked back up saying like,
Speaker 1: oh I feel comfortable here, and hey, look listen. You
Speaker 1: know vitamin dia is all about shedding a life because
Speaker 1: if you want to be better and you want to
Speaker 1: do better, you got to be able to see better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't act. There hasn't been a time at once in
Speaker 1: your life that you didn't take an opportunity because you
Speaker 1: didn't know what was going to happen. Absolutely could have
Speaker 1: been that job. It could have been very well, fallen
Speaker 1: in love. It could have been creating this idea right
Speaker 1: in that book, even releasing the way you know what
Speaker 1: you gotta do, Brian to have another baby, trying to
Speaker 1: conceive again after the loss. Nobody wanted to disappoint me.
Speaker 1: So you would rather not get married again. To get
Speaker 1: married again, you would rather be childless to try to
Speaker 1: have a baby again and have a miscarriage, You would
Speaker 1: rather sleep on the street. Are you choosing not to
Speaker 1: have a child? Norma stopping you? Are you choosing to
Speaker 1: stay at that job with no money? No, you just
Speaker 1: don't know you're worth of no value. So you're still
Speaker 1: sitting at that underpaid job. You're not choosing that. You
Speaker 1: just don't know. You have options. And the options you
Speaker 1: have are kind of scary. And because this is what
Speaker 1: I got, And what if I take this chance on
Speaker 1: getting a higher paid job and it don't work out,
Speaker 1: I'll just stay where I'm at. I'll just stay where
Speaker 1: i'm at, accept the money I get because this is
Speaker 1: such a chance. And same thing with them, same difference
Speaker 1: with them. I'm seeing them get right to the door
Speaker 1: with the and do something stupid. I'm like, oh my god, well,
Speaker 1: how can we get unstuck? How do we get and
Speaker 1: remove ourselves? And it's a oh god, girl, And that's
Speaker 1: a bigger question, you know. And I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be real with you. I'm still working through my
Speaker 1: own trauma. I'm I'm still trying to work on my
Speaker 1: own path of enlightenment. But I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: know how to get Sometimes when you've gotten so far underwater,
Speaker 1: it's too dangerous to come up all the way because
Speaker 1: you you get these bubbles in your body so lower.
Speaker 1: But slowly, by slowly, someone is sharing that little, that
Speaker 1: little air pump with you and slowly bringing you to
Speaker 1: the top. Now you're gonna look up. It's a long way.
Speaker 1: I've never tried to get to the top. What I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do is create pockets of air under the
Speaker 1: water where the people are. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't really know if it's important to get to
Speaker 1: the top. I don't know if we'll ever get healed
Speaker 1: enough to get to the top. But you can't survive
Speaker 1: off of pockets of air. You can, And I think
Speaker 1: sometimes acceptance is key. And this is this is such
Speaker 1: a gosh a girl, This is such a mess up
Speaker 1: situation and with homelessness. And I think I come from
Speaker 1: where the place I'm moving from is just kind of
Speaker 1: working from where they're at, and I'm reading from where
Speaker 1: they're at, accepting that this is what it looks like
Speaker 1: for right now. What can I do today? I can
Speaker 1: feed you today, I can love you today. I can
Speaker 1: do your hair and stuff today, and we'll work on
Speaker 1: tomorrow tomorrow. And everybody, you know so oftentimes miss the
Speaker 1: importance of a right now and we understand right now
Speaker 1: is where we find our peace of mind. And if
Speaker 1: they say that without a vision of people will perish.
Speaker 1: What did you see? Well, Beauty to the streets is
Speaker 1: allowing people to see themselves right here, right now, exceedingly
Speaker 1: and abundantly. We are God. We are trying. We are trying.
Speaker 1: We've been doing it for a couple of years now
Speaker 1: and it seems to be going well. So far, so good.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance. My time is really running out.
Speaker 1: I really need to be heading out because housekeeping needs
Speaker 1: to be here. But I'm sure the people are wonder
Speaker 1: who is Big Teeth? Why is he always putting? Uh?
Speaker 1: Who is this name? Big? Who is first? Who is it?
Speaker 1: Big Tea? Is my people? Come on? I say hi,
Speaker 1: come on, Big Tea yourself. You tell them who you are.
Speaker 1: Y'all know, I'm Miss Shirley's personal protection agent, her merch security.
Speaker 1: Big Tea. Y'all see me on TikTok, Instagram and all
Speaker 1: of that. He's my personal security. You know, every sense
Speaker 1: the incident with scar Row and stuff and me just
Speaker 1: being you know, a little known. These days, I have
Speaker 1: to move a little differently. And and I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm working. I'm working at Big Tea is at with
Speaker 1: me at three o'clock in the in the Huh, how
Speaker 1: do you mean? Oh? Well, you know, um, gosh, big
Speaker 1: you know, we brought security in. That's it's Scared Row.
Speaker 1: We brought in a group of security guards here blessing us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know, and I'm gonna keep it real with you.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't have a security guard of color.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, hey, y'all, I gotta have a security
Speaker 1: guard of color down there, Like I gotta have this balance.
Speaker 1: It's dynamic. You know. I need me a brother down
Speaker 1: here because we need to have every representation down here.
Speaker 1: And Big Tea came along, and you know, he's been
Speaker 1: with me, and when the incident happened in Scared O,
Speaker 1: he you know, he was with the likes of the
Speaker 1: rappers and he came on over to the humble nonprofit
Speaker 1: side and um, you know, he's you know, he's a man.
Speaker 1: He gets me, drives me home and then makes sure
Speaker 1: he opens doors and gets me to my elevator and
Speaker 1: and Steh, I'm working two and three in the morning
Speaker 1: and he's stared with me four and five because I work,
Speaker 1: and he's at the where I was with me watching
Speaker 1: my back while I'm loading in the dark, and watching
Speaker 1: my back while we're feeding in the dark, him amongst
Speaker 1: the others. So Bit team, what does this work mean
Speaker 1: to you? Honestly, it meant a lot. To be able
Speaker 1: to see the things that she do and the impact
Speaker 1: that it has. It kind of makes me look at
Speaker 1: the situation and like she said, I've done security with
Speaker 1: a lot of like different type of celebrities far as
Speaker 1: like rappers and stuff like that. So to be on
Speaker 1: this side of the industry, it's like it's a it's
Speaker 1: a different view. And to see the things that she
Speaker 1: do for the community is like very awesome. So it's
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Speaker 1: hand out makeup bags to a very deserving group of
Speaker 1: homeless women in a different city for my birthday. They've
Speaker 1: asked for We visited cities before they asked for makeup.
Speaker 1: I didn't have it. So we're gonna drive. He's gonna
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Speaker 1: It's not enough queens straightening crowns. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you had me on the one
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have you back, But if people aren't always
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Speaker 1: And that very day I got in, it was a
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Speaker 1: couldn't always doing something for the homeless, so you adjusted
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