1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. I am Rashaan McDonald, the host 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 1: of Money Making Conversations Masterclass, where we encourage people to 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stories and start planning their own. 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: Listen up as I interview entrepreneurs from around the country, 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: talk to celebrities and ask them how they are running 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: their companies, and speak with dog profits who are making 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: a difference in their local communities. Now, sit back and 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: listen as we unlock the secrets to their success on 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Wow, this is ra Sean McDonald 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: and it's hot, hot hot. You know this show runs 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: different times of the year, but right now, on this 12 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: day as I record this show and give it to 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: you live is very hot. It's not running around hot. 14 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: It's like you're going to shade you steal hot. It's 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: that kind of hot. Out them. I am your host, 16 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald telling you how hot it is. Our host 17 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: is weekly Money Making Conversation Masterclass show. The interviews and 18 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: information that this show provides off for everyone. It's time 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: to start reading other people's success stories and start living 20 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: your own. Now. If you want to be a guest 21 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: on my show, please visit Moneymakingconversations dot Com and click 22 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: the be a Guest button that's right click the b 23 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: a Guest button and then you fill out the information 24 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: as to while your background on the show and guess what. 25 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: Love to have you as a guest. Because this is 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: an entrepreneur show by nonprofits. We want to tell your story, 27 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: share your story and maybe it will motivate other people 28 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: or point them in the right direction if they're confused 29 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: about how they're running their business or their nonprofit. Now, 30 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: before we go into further, I want to talk about 31 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 1: a concert that's happening July sixth, weekend, Caring Briggs Contempo Orchestra. 32 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: Reasons I want to promote this cars. I'm not promoting. 33 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: I just want to tell you about July six that's today, Okay, 34 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: Caring Briggs Contemple Orchestra. Because of the acts that's on 35 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: the show. This is just a few of the accents 36 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: on the show. Because my boy Tommy Davis, comedian Tommy Davis, 37 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: you know, Living Color of Fame. He'll be on the show. 38 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: He will be telling jokes and you know he can sing, 39 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: and he gonna do his thing. That's gonna be on 40 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: the show. Oh, Leita Adams will be on the show, 41 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 1: My Boy Phil Perry. If you have never heard Phil 42 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: Perry sing, He's one of the most underrated artists I've 43 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: ever met and heard in this country. And then Regina 44 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: Bell gonna be in the show. Additionally, ten other performers 45 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: will be on this show. But I just want to 46 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: highlight people that I know I'm specifically coming out to 47 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: see July sixth. It's gonna be July six at the Bridge, 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: a Stockbridge Amphitheater. If you want interested in visiting this 49 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: website to get tickets, which I hope you want to 50 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: do Stockbridge Amp that stockbridgeamp dot com. That's right, July six, 51 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: My Girl, Karen Bridge, Contemporo Orchestra or Leader Adams, Get there, 52 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: Get there, Phil Perry, Regina Bell, Tommy Davis, and many 53 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: many more. Spend some time with your family. You know 54 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: you can bring your stuff too. He's one of the 55 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: events where you can bring your food, bring your barbecue, 56 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: bring your drinks and have a good time out there. 57 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: Bring your shade, everything out there forgetting listen it on 58 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: with my show. I got some wonderful guests because they're 59 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 1: gonna tell me about mistakes I made with my business 60 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: because they're successful with their business. My guest, who's up 61 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: front right here, is one of the co owners of 62 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: the Perfect Note. It's a dinner shupper club featuring live 63 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 1: concerts in Atlanta, Georgia. That's where it's located, as well 64 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: as in Birmingham, Alabama, the Big Ham. Each location specializes 65 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: in Southern classics on their menu and music. The caters 66 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: to grown folks ages thirty and up. Please bucking the 67 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: money making Conversations masterclass Tremaine Thompson. 68 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 2: How you doing, my brother, man, I'm doing wonderful. While 69 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 2: we are such a great introduction, I don't know how 70 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 2: to respond. 71 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna respond, and I got that. I got 72 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: a lot of things to say to you, my man, 73 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: because you know the thing about this show, mister Thompson, 74 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: owner of Perfect Note, and the other owners who. 75 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 2: Sir, my wife Karen. So that's what we call. 76 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: Yes, sir. Absolutely, you know I'm not gonna get on 77 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: this show and just call you the owner, okay, because 78 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: it's gonna be another conversation with the interview nions. Well, 79 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: why you couldn't say my name? You're too busy? 80 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 3: Well you think t K Productions stand for Okay, there 81 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 3: you go. 82 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: The brother I'm mad got married in eighty eight. I 83 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: know the rules and I understand it and I get home. 84 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 1: If I'm on hear it, I'm gonna hear it good 85 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: because I won't say the right thing. How you doing, Sisily? 86 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: That's her name. She's gonna get mad because I says 87 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: her name on Rader. She's gonna get mad about something. 88 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 2: Now. 89 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna tell you something, my brother, perfect note. 90 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 1: Tell everybody what is the perfect note? Before we start 91 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: talking about running a successful business? What is the perfect note? 92 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 2: Got you? 93 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 4: So? 94 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,039 Speaker 2: The perfect note is a basically you kind of summed 95 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 2: it up with a dinner supper club. We've been in 96 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 2: music all about lives, and our purpose is to be 97 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 2: able to have grown folks for something for them to 98 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 2: be able to continue to still. Do you know it's 99 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: not a lot out here for us to grown folks 100 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 2: to be able to do and do it with clarity 101 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 2: and do it with quality. And what we produced, we 102 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 2: produce concerts. You fully see them in for production concerts, 103 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 2: and then while you're sitting in the same room, you 104 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 2: actually have great cuisines as though you're sitting in a 105 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 2: restaurant that's being serviced by our what we call our 106 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 2: service attendance that be able to take care of your 107 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 2: needs while you're sitting in your seats for the show. 108 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 2: So dinner and show is our concept and it's been 109 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 2: very successful for us as being one of the only 110 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 2: multi location block owned business for entertainment venue. 111 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: Now from New York. From a lifestyle standpoint, born and 112 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: raised in Houston, Texas now and this type of setup 113 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: I've seen several times in experienced in New York, you know, 114 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: So what made you believe? And you started in Birmingham first, correct, 115 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: that's correct, and then you moved your location to Atlanta. Now, 116 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: tell us about the Birmingham experience. What motivated you because 117 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: it's smaller market, so you you you're cultivating and somewhere 118 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: safe taking business risks launching in a market with a 119 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,479 Speaker 1: smaller or you know, African American share, and I apologize, 120 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: you're probably drawing a diverse audience because you're talking about jazz. 121 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: You're talking about a lot of diverse music as well 122 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: as a great food menu. Tell us why you started 123 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: in Birmingham and then saw the desire to shift to Atlanta. 124 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 2: So I guess we kind of have to backfuttle just 125 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 2: a little bit. Is we started it in Chicago, Okay, 126 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 2: me and my wife. That's how TK production started. We 127 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 2: were just concert promote so we did gospel. Gospel was 128 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 2: our main ingredient, uh to where we did a lot 129 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,799 Speaker 2: of the tours, a lot of the concerts in Chicago, 130 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 2: And that's kind of how we created our name. And 131 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 2: our name was based off of our company was based 132 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 2: off of our character. So we knew that without a 133 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 2: shadow of a doubt, if the company went down, we 134 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 2: went down, because that means we didn't live up to 135 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 2: our character's standards and our kingdom building standards were just 136 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 2: serving kingdom business. So our whole thing is. Then when 137 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 2: we moved to Alabama in two thousand and eight, then 138 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 2: that's when me and my wife got married. In two 139 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 2: thousand and seven, we decided to move because her mom 140 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 2: had passed away. So we moved and then we had 141 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: a high agus for probably about maybe four years, and 142 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 2: we just got tired of not having anything to do right, know, 143 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 2: and so we agreed, we said, let's go back to 144 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 2: our roots. And our roots was music and because we 145 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 2: knew the healing and the love and the passion for 146 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 2: music that we had, and we did our first concert 147 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 2: in bessemer Alaba, Bama called Intimate Jazz and Conversations. And 148 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 2: when we did that, we brought in Gerald Off right 149 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: was our kickoff artist, and nobody knew us and so 150 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: but we knew we had a good product. We presented 151 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 2: that product. It packed out day one and the rest 152 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 2: was history after that. And that kind of cultivated to 153 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 2: create us to be able to birth perfect note and 154 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 2: that's when we birth first because we grew so tremendously. 155 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 2: We opened the doors. We found out that people loved 156 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 2: to sit in the same atmosphere to be able to 157 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: eat some food. And we didn't have a restaurant at 158 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 2: that time. We were just utilizing a banquet facility. 159 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 1: Wow. 160 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 2: They used to come in there and we set up 161 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 2: the chairs ourselves, we set up the tables ourselves. It 162 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 2: was just me and my wife. We went involve Linen's 163 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 2: to be able to decorate the atmosphere as a as 164 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 2: a kind of like a jazz supper club, and we 165 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 2: created the atmosphere, you know, and then people didn't see that. 166 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,079 Speaker 2: At the end of the show, you know, we had 167 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 2: to break down one hundred and stuff, well three hundred 168 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 2: and some seats about ourselves as well too, So it's 169 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of dignity and to be 170 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 2: able to super facilitate and see our goal and now 171 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 2: Perfect Note happens, and then we opened up our venue 172 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 2: twenty sixty. That's where Perfect Note was born in Birmingham, Alabama. 173 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: We know that's a wonderful story, and it's a story 174 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: about putting the work for your dream. I remember that, 175 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: you know, the journey to get there is always fun. 176 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: You know, you look back on it because staying there 177 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 1: is a lot of work. It really is. My wife 178 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 1: and I was talking about the other night about that, 179 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: you know, being successful. Really it's hard beginning to be successful. 180 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: It's fun, you make mistakes, you laugh about it, but 181 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: when you get up there's when you really see the competition. 182 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: Talk about that journey. You talked about the start, but 183 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: talk about that journey Perfect Note and then come into Atlanta. 184 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 2: Wow. So it's if I could just sum it up 185 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 2: at a high level, the journey has. If we did 186 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 2: not have God on our side, the journey would have 187 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 2: been a lot more difficult and we probably wouldn't be 188 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 2: here today. But just to be able to stand the 189 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 2: test of everything that we've been through COVID and you know, 190 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: all of the ups and downs of the business. We 191 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 2: definitely probably couldn't do that. But what we did, you know, 192 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 2: he dived in because our home goal and motive was 193 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 2: not about making and I know the show and let's 194 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 2: kind of goes sound kind of crazy because I'm on 195 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 2: the money making show. But it wasn't motivated by that. 196 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 2: It was motivated by serving. And so when we knew 197 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 2: how to serve, the money came because we served the 198 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 2: people in regards to where we were looking at him 199 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 2: to only that magnitude. So when COVID came, all of 200 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 2: our fellow partners and people fell through the wayside, and 201 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 2: I prayed and my wife prayed. We said, God, what 202 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 2: is it for us to do? We don't want to 203 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 2: close our doors. We got employees, we got people. So 204 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 2: he said take it out to the streets, and we 205 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 2: took it out to the parking lot. We had no 206 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 2: drive ups or anything like that, no way to really 207 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 2: kind of forecast about the goals or how to even 208 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 2: do it. We just did it. We fed the people 209 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 2: for five items they could students for five dollars that's 210 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 2: how we started it out and Man Rashan, they came 211 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 2: and packed out the parking lots and droves and listen, 212 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 2: you know, and God just stared with me. He said, listen, 213 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 2: when this is over, how you've reached out to the community, 214 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 2: they're going to reach back out to you. And we've been. 215 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 2: They've been feeding us every since when we fed them. 216 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: Know, I truly understand your story and I really appreciate 217 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,559 Speaker 1: your story. And money making conversation isn't about the money. 218 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: It's about the story. It's about the journey. And I 219 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: always tell people all the time when I do deals, 220 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: it really isn't about the money, because if you go 221 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: in and you make it about the money, then you're 222 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: gonna make the missed while you're doing it. A lot 223 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: of times, what's the motivation? What's the end goal? Because 224 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: I'm a community debased person. Tremain and to hear that 225 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: story lets me know why you want and while you 226 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: still win it because when you give back, people will 227 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: give back to you trifold tenfold, and that's what you're doing. 228 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: Please let people know you can never leave the community 229 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: when you're talking about serving them a product and asking 230 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: for their money. 231 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, that's right. So that's how what happens. We 232 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 2: start seeing ourselves being a tourist attraction. And so when 233 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 2: actually we had an article that came up in the 234 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 2: Huffington Post and we did not know anything about it, 235 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 2: but this lady we found out later that they put 236 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 2: us on the radar and they put us at one 237 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 2: of the top one top businesses in the US to visit. 238 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 2: And because we was wondering, it's like, wow, why you know, 239 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 2: we don't even harready have our uncle folks here. You 240 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Every time I act because i'm 241 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 2: host too as well as well as cook, as well 242 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 2: as do everything else that's provided for the business to 243 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 2: ensure that it goes. But when I'm hosted, I ask 244 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 2: people where they are. And I've been hearing this point. 245 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 2: I've been here in Atlanta majority of the time. And 246 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 2: so that's what kind of motivated us to spread our 247 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 2: wings and stand out on faith once again to go 248 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 2: to Atlanta, because we had people that will come all 249 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 2: the way to Birmingham to visit us from Atlanta, and 250 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 2: so we said, I'm okay, you know, that's that's where 251 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 2: we need to reached out from where we need to 252 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 2: go and that's what we end up doing. We end 253 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 2: up going there and spreading our ways. Open up right there, Marietta, Georgia. 254 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,839 Speaker 2: And you know it's been there for ten months now 255 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 2: and you know we're having fun. It's growing, and of 256 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: course there's anything, but we're having fun. 257 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: Well, you're doing what you're supposed to do. And first 258 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: of all, Perfect Note wonderful name for a business. I'm 259 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: talking to Tremaine Thompson, one of the co owners. He 260 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: owns it with his wife, Black owned business. But when 261 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: he comes back, you know, we won't talk about that 262 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: menu because I'm a food guy, Tremaine, I got to 263 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: know what about the food, my friend? Okay, But also 264 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: I want to talk about the mistakes I made when 265 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: I opened my business because that's important to people. You know, 266 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: they look at people they think they're successful. You're successful. 267 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: There's a lot of bumps in their success. Because I 268 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: want you to hear my story and then we can 269 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: share it to the listeners so they won't make the 270 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: same mistakes. Talking to Trumaine Thompson, one of the owners 271 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: of Perfect Note one is based It originally open in 272 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen in Birmingham, Alabama when it became a tourist attraction. 273 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: Now is available going on ten to eleven months in Atlanta, Georgie. 274 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 4: Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more 275 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 4: money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making 276 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 4: Conversations Masterclass hosted by Rashaan MacDonald. Money Making Conversations Masterclass 277 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 4: continues online at Moneymakingconversations dot com and follow money Making 278 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 4: Conversations Masterclass on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 279 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: He knows I'm a foodie guy. And when I say 280 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: he knows, that's Tremaine Thompson, one of the co owners 281 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: of Perfect Note. And you know, I go to the website, 282 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: tell everybody about the website, tell her about retell the 283 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: hours operation because I want to make sure people understand 284 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: about the Perfect Note and it is a must go 285 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: to venue. 286 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 2: So we're open right now. It's Wednesday through Saturday. That's 287 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 2: from five to basically five to eleven, and we kind 288 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 2: of do it a little bit different. It's based off 289 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 2: of how the shows go. 290 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 4: Uh. 291 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 2: And then on Sundays we have a great Sunday brunch 292 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 2: from twelve to five with music happening at one o'clock 293 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 2: and three o'clock and the website is perfect. Note live 294 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 2: atl dot com. Once again, that's perfect. Note live dot 295 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 2: com to be I'm sorry, it's perfect. Note live atl 296 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 2: dot com. They can be able to go right there 297 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 2: to our website. And then we're getting ready to start 298 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 2: lunch next month. We're getting ready to lunch lunch. So 299 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 2: you know, anybody who looking for that lunch crowd, that's. 300 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: What what day is that gonna be when you start 301 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: launching lunch Cause I want to come back. I want 302 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: to I want to be one of the one of 303 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: the first customers in for that lunch day. I have 304 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: been said yet. 305 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 2: Yes, So we're looking at Live. Let's got the calendar 306 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 2: right here. It is that first win and on side 307 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 2: of second it's the July tenth. 308 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: Will like okay, cool, yes, sir, you're like that, okay, awesome. 309 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 2: From eleven to three, from Wednesday through Friday, eleven to three, 310 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:18,159 Speaker 2: Wednesday through Friday. 311 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: And that's about expanding the you got a venue, you 312 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: got employees. Now you're looking to take advantage of the 313 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: fact that rent's being paid anyway, and so it's another 314 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: hours right there, just to do it right with potential customers. 315 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, we have to. Hey, I've 316 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,959 Speaker 2: learned a long time ago. They said, if you have 317 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 2: square footage that you're not using, then you know that 318 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: that's money you're not making. So we have to you know, 319 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 2: we got square footage that we're not using. We have 320 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 2: a kind of like a private area that seats about 321 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 2: fifty people and it's a perfect size for lunch to 322 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 2: be able to do table turns for lunch. And so 323 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 2: we all decided collectively to be able. 324 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: To do that brun What is brudge? Should that worry brunch? 325 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: B are U and h what exactly that Sunday brunch? 326 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: Excite me right now, Tremaine. 327 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 2: So if you get a little bit of breakfast and lunch, 328 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 2: that's when we pull out our You know, if I 329 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 2: had more time, I definitely tell you my backstory of 330 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 2: even how I got into the food industry. 331 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: Okay, this is your show right now, this is your talk. 332 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 2: You know. So I come from a corporate America and 333 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,360 Speaker 2: when when my granddaddy always told me, he said, never 334 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 2: get into anything that you don't understand. So I left 335 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 2: corporate America before I was thinking about going into brick 336 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 2: and mortar and went into waffle House my first full 337 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 2: experience of what was well waffle House because I needed 338 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 2: to learn how to cook, and I didn't realize what 339 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 2: God was preparing me for. So I give my hats 340 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 2: off to waffle House cooks because they cook everything, every 341 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 2: protein you can think of except for prye on a 342 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 2: two and three inch or a three foot grill. And 343 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 2: I've learned how to speed cook and do all that, 344 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 2: and I didn't know God was getting me in for 345 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 2: preparation because we have to do that on that end 346 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 2: when we're trying to serve one hundred and fifty people 347 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 2: within two hours, So that's a hump in the kitchen. 348 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 2: So I had to learn that skill expression to be 349 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 2: able to teach my folks or teach my cooks on 350 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 2: how to be able to speed cook, but make sure 351 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 2: that it's all quality, it's done, and everything comes out 352 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 2: exactly the way that you would do it in a 353 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 2: fine dining or anything else in that regard. So that's 354 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 2: how I got into the food part of it. And 355 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 2: I'll run you know, hey, I hang with the best 356 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 2: of them now, you know, not learning from my experience 357 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 2: at waffle House, well, you know my cooking credit. 358 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: Well, you got to because they cook under pressure because 359 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: you're staring at them. Okay, you see what's going down 360 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: right there. You can't cook any more intense pressure than 361 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: at a waffle house. Now we're talking more than the 362 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: owners of the perfect nut, no perfect note, And so 363 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: I want everybody to understanding about the perfect note is 364 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 1: that this dinner supper club the music for thirty and up. 365 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: Explain to us at the perfect note. When you said 366 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: thirty and up, what does that mean? 367 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 2: That's grown folks. You know, people who were tired of 368 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 2: the clubs. Not nothing against the club So get me wrong, 369 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 2: if we got any club owners, that's on the line tonight. 370 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 2: But you know people who really kind of wanted to 371 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 2: transition to safe environment to you know, we don't have 372 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 2: hookahs or anything in that regards even against those things. 373 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 2: But it's just to where you can dress up, you 374 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 2: can come out, have a good time, you can mingle, 375 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about you know, people just 376 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 2: all in your face, you know it just and then 377 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 2: I love the part. This is what I really love, 378 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 2: is how music brings all of your demographics together, Yes, sir, 379 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 2: all of your demographics there that we got Asians we 380 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 2: got whites, we got you know, Hispanics. We got everybody 381 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 2: coming under one roof. And they're creating culture, they're creating relationships. 382 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: We've had people getting married because they've been coming in 383 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 2: single and then they mingled and they left out and 384 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 2: now they got wedding bells going on. So we've had 385 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 2: a lot of them things come right there through our 386 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 2: venue because it's just that place of presence. They feel good, 387 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 2: you know, and with they service well. And that's what 388 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 2: we call with the thirty and up, we call them 389 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 2: grown folks the way you really can have a grown 390 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 2: folks atmosphere. 391 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm one of those grown folks, and I'm gonna 392 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,719 Speaker 1: be there being a grown folks in quiet, eating, clapping 393 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 1: when I was supposed to clap, dressed right, you know, 394 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: walk being polite, opening the door when people supposed to 395 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 1: get the door open, pushing it chair open when the 396 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 1: chairs will be pulled back, all those good things. You know. 397 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: When I opened my business way back in ninety two, trade, 398 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: I just opened the doors. 399 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 2: Brother. 400 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: I didn't have a budget, I didn't understand taxes. And 401 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: I want you to explain to people the importanness of 402 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: preparation when you when you have a dream but don't 403 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 1: have a plan of operation attached to dream, please explain tomorrow. 404 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: The mistakes I made should never be repeated if you're 405 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: trying to be successful long term in the business, and 406 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: that's what you're doing with perfect note. 407 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 2: And man, I'm glad you stated that it was very 408 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 2: This road was a very difficult road to accomplish based 409 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 2: off of because the resources was just not there. We 410 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 2: took all of our finances for one case, everything you 411 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 2: can think of that we can get loans, and we 412 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 2: extended it all into the business. You know, it was 413 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 2: either as they say, go all in or go home. 414 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 2: So we didn't have really no other choice because if 415 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 2: we left it or we decided to throw in the towel, 416 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 2: then that means that we're throwing in the towel of 417 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 2: everything that we put in. We're throwing in our whole life, 418 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 2: you know, our whole life savings. So I'll say always, now, 419 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 2: as I look at it in hindsight, it's always good 420 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 2: to get a mentor somebody who has been in it, 421 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 2: that went through the rough roads of the business, and 422 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,679 Speaker 2: if they're willing to be able to share knowledge or 423 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:39,959 Speaker 2: just be able to you know a mentorship you. I firmly, firmly, 424 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 2: firmly expressed that you get behind somebody who can be 425 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 2: able to kind of lead you, because there's no book 426 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 2: for us. You know, we don't have the same unfortunately, 427 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 2: we don't have the same leisure as our other counterparts, 428 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 2: just don't you know. And and they don't help give 429 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 2: a successful how to be successful book. Yeah, we can 430 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 2: go to Barns and Nobles and buy different books about 431 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 2: how to do certain things, but their templates because once 432 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 2: you get into it, you have to really find out 433 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 2: what your niche really is, you know, and and if 434 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: it's gonna be successful for you or not. It might 435 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: have been successful for them, but what is gonna be 436 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:28,640 Speaker 2: successful for you? So always get figure out some kind 437 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 2: of foundation. If I do it all over again, I 438 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 2: will always assure That's why now I dig back. When 439 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 2: people ask me about business, how to get in it 440 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 2: or how to start it, I say, let's talk give 441 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 2: a number. Information is free. I don't own it, you 442 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 2: know what I mean, So why should I be trying 443 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 2: to not give it? You know? That's the blessings. When 444 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 2: Jesus walked through the lands, he didn't say just because 445 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 2: I had all power, but I'm gonna go hold it 446 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 2: until you you know, give me something, whatever it may be. Yeah, 447 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: you have to give him of course your you know, 448 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 2: your life standards. But at the same token, the blessings 449 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 2: was free, right, so if you wanted to receive those, 450 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 2: those was given to you, you know, so you didn't 451 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 2: have to you know, scrape or go through a lot 452 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 2: of red tape to be able to do that. All 453 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 2: you have to do is be willing, be willing and 454 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 2: open and to be able to listen to whatever is 455 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 2: is needed. And so that's just kind of been our 456 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 2: road in our journey. But it wasn't easy. You know, 457 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 2: it wasn't easy, and by no part of entrepreneurship is easy. 458 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 2: And so that's that's kind of been our journey, right. 459 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: Well, we know it's a good journey because it's a journey 460 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: that you are sharing with us on this show. Is 461 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: a journey that gets me excited before we wrap up, 462 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: tell us exactly, I know, it's Wednesday through Saturday, then 463 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 1: on Sunday it's Gospel Brunch. July tenth, you're going to 464 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: be opening up for lunch from eleven to three. That's 465 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: an experience that you're not delivering right now, but you realize, hey, 466 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: that's something we're available to do. In the Atlanta restaurant, 467 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: which is right there in Mariatta, if you were familiar 468 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: with the Atlanta community. His restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, which 469 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: I would call it restaurant Perfect Note, which is a 470 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: live dinner supper club which we hear music and down 471 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: on fantastic food, is a stable because guess what, he's 472 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: from Chicago. You know. I always say, you know black 473 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 1: people from the South that went north. He went north 474 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: and they came back to the South. Now they went east, 475 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,880 Speaker 1: so they trying to conquer it. Now would that being said, 476 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: are you going to open up more Perfect Notes around 477 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: the country, Tremaine. 478 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna lead however God leads to us, that's 479 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 2: where we're gonna go. We I think right now, if 480 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 2: we was able to take what all of the consumers 481 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,439 Speaker 2: when they come in, they probably would have had us 482 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 2: in every neighborhood possible, all the way from here to 483 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 2: you know, d C. So everywhere we go they want 484 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 2: a Perfect Note because of that experience. And I'm thankful 485 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 2: and a honor to be able that we're just being 486 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 2: able to be vessel was to provide that and give 487 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 2: a safe haven for people to be able to fill 488 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,479 Speaker 2: the presence when they come in and feel comfortable and 489 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 2: want that in their own cities. So we are looking, yes, 490 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 2: to answer your question. We are looking to spread our 491 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 2: our our dream and our our our product to other cities, 492 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,479 Speaker 2: especially in Chicago. We got to go there. You know. 493 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 2: Nick Coleone was one of my good friends before he passed, 494 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,959 Speaker 2: and uh he was me and him was working on 495 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 2: the deal to be able to put it in Schomberg 496 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 2: and one in Schomberg right before he passed. So I 497 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 2: owe it to him to still continue that dream and 498 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 2: legacy to put that in for our jazz great that 499 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 2: we lost. 500 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 3: Uh, Nick, I'll tell you what the city I want 501 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,959 Speaker 3: to thank you for coming on the show Perfect Note 502 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 3: again Wednesday through Saturday. 503 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: On Sunday, July tenth, will be open from lunch from 504 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: eleven to three. The original location is based in the 505 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 1: Big Ham that's Birmingham, Alabama. Tell your wife I'll see 506 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: her soon. I will definitely shake your hands soon, my friend, 507 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: and join a great plate of good food at the 508 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: Perfect Note and sitting back like a grown person supposed 509 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: to be sitting back and joining some good music. See 510 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 1: you soon, my friend, and thank you for coming on 511 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,479 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. 512 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 4: Please don't go anywhere, we'll be right back with more 513 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 4: Money Making Conversations Masterclass.