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Speaker 1: Andela Yee.

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Speaker 2: I'm Angel La Yee, and y'all know we do our

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Speaker 2: Wealth Wednesdays once a week and I got my partner,

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Speaker 2: Stacy Tysdale here with me.

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Speaker 3: Happen Wealth Wednesdays everybody, and we are really going to

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Speaker 3: take you way up today, Yes, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Way up the way.

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Speaker 4: Hi hi, Hi up.

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Speaker 2: And we have the owners of Gumbo Brands, Kareem Butler

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Speaker 2: aka Luca Brasi, who is going to be Luco the

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Speaker 2: rest of his interview, and alexis Major.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Hi.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you guys, are you still engaged or married? Now?

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Speaker 4: We're in gee okay, gee, yeah, okay. That wedding is

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Speaker 4: going to be a whole thing.

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Speaker 1: We know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely like the Dynasty.

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Speaker 3: When did you come in because you started this in

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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen and you weren't together.

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Speaker 1: No, we were. We were together.

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Speaker 4: We've been together since two thousand and seventeen.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting to me doing business with your partner.

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Speaker 2: Some people would tell you it is the best thing ever,

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Speaker 2: and some people would tell you it has been a

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Speaker 2: nightmare for them. I want to talk to you guys

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Speaker 2: first about how y'all met, and then shifting into going

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Speaker 2: into business together and maybe this is also a good

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Speaker 2: thing because I know everybody want to hear about gumbo brands,

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Speaker 2: and you guys are like the biggest thing for people

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Speaker 2: on the streets, I think, and partnering up with cookies

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Speaker 2: and we're going to discuss the business of it and everything,

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Speaker 2: but before that, I want to talk about your guys synergy.

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Speaker 1: With each other. Right. Oh cool.

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Speaker 2: So before we started this interview, I was talking to

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Speaker 2: Alexis and she said, when she met you, right, y'all

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Speaker 2: moved in together pretty quickly and she was actually married.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I like to start from the beginning to

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Speaker 6: the end so they could be nothing but clarity. And

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Speaker 6: Alexis bagged me. Okay, she saw me and she just

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Speaker 6: sunk her teeth into me like a vampire. And oh man,

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Speaker 6: we haven't been separated ever since. So like the first

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Speaker 6: month that we were together, actually the first week, she

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Speaker 6: was like, listen, I'm in love with you. I do

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Speaker 6: have to be honest, I'm married, but I can't like

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Speaker 6: just sleep with you. I have to like come live

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Speaker 6: with you. So at the time I was staying in

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Speaker 6: the Bronx and we moved to New Jersey immediately.

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Speaker 1: And sounds like you loved her too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, oh yeah, I used to hear about the

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Speaker 4: rent cost every month. He was he had never paid

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Speaker 4: those type of prices. He was like, yeah, like what

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Speaker 4: crazy you?

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Speaker 5: They owned their apartment, so I didn't have.

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Speaker 2: To Like, you weren't used to any of them, You

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Speaker 2: weren't in reality, alexis for you though at that time

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Speaker 2: you also were a you were a sports manager and agent.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: When you guys first met, okay, yeah, so which is

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Speaker 2: a huge deal. Also, you want to tell him how

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Speaker 2: we met.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So we both had on really big diamond Cuban necklaces.

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Speaker 4: So we both had the same problem. Our locks were stuck,

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Speaker 4: and we both were there to get our locks taken

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Speaker 4: to the jeweler.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I felt so claustrophobic. I ran to the jeweler and

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Speaker 4: he had the same issue and.

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Speaker 1: We both there.

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Speaker 3: Conversation started.

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Speaker 4: Right okay, And I saw him and I watched his

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Speaker 4: interaction with the guys in the room and everything, and

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Speaker 4: I was like, I did you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I just like I had this outer body thing where

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Speaker 4: it was like if I was a guy, I would

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Speaker 4: just the way he carried himself and and he was funny,

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Speaker 4: but could you could tell he was kind of dangerous,

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Speaker 4: Like if I was a guy, I want yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: What were your thoughts when you first saw Alexis?

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Speaker 6: I was just speechless. My bottom lip was on my

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Speaker 6: big toe and my got it. I was with my

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Speaker 4: I'm like, and I knew I had an.

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Speaker 5: Angel out of the sky.

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Speaker 6: So she's like, so that's you driving at Bentley Truck

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Speaker 6: downstairs right, And I'm like yeah why. She's like, I'm

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Speaker 6: trying to see how. I'm like, like, book you like

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Speaker 6: my car, trying to be all professional. At the time,

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Speaker 6: I had LNS collection. I was doing furs and you know,

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Speaker 6: tailormate stuff for everyone, and I took out my car

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Speaker 6: and I gave it to her. So she looked at

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Speaker 6: me like and snatched my phone and put her number

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Speaker 6: in there. So I try to like wait it.

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Speaker 4: Out, like I know what I want.

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Speaker 6: I try to go get it like a week, you know,

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Speaker 6: not being so thirsty to give her a call. So

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Speaker 6: I immediately call her FaceTime first time a caller, and

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Speaker 6: she picks up the phone and guess what Alexis is

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Speaker 6: in her birthday suit?

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Speaker 4: Well, I was in the shower. Let's be clear, I

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Speaker 4: was in this shower. I answered, I was for the guy.

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Speaker 5: Ladies.

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Speaker 2: Ladies, you're not even supposed to FaceTime somebody like I

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Speaker 2: was what.

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Speaker 5: I was saying. I was devastated. So now I'm looking

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Speaker 5: you were devastated. I'm a very respectful so she called.

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Speaker 5: So she called me back.

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Speaker 6: She's like, what's wrong, Like, you are right, like you

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Speaker 5: And I'm like and I'm just stuck.

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Speaker 4: He's like, you just stand naked and I'm asking, like,

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Speaker 4: but I was shocked that he called me and I'm

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Speaker 4: in the show and I was like.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: I shot back and I answered and he's like hung

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Speaker 4: up and I'm like, oh.

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Speaker 5: God, where you are?

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Speaker 1: And Gumbo at that point in the shower was pretty drunk.

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Speaker 2: So now at that time, your husband, right, what was

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Speaker 2: your relationship like with.

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Speaker 4: We were just more of best friends and cole parenting.

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Speaker 4: We just had a new daughter and he had prior

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Speaker 4: got caught cheating things. So we said we were just

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Speaker 4: very planned and we were a very jet magazine couple,

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Speaker 4: It was more of a business thing for us whatever.

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Speaker 1: And it's happy for you.

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Speaker 4: And he was shocked because he thought, like, because our

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Speaker 4: loyalty was very strong to each other as business partners

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Speaker 4: needed to show my daughter real love because we.

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Speaker 1: Had wasn't it was.

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Speaker 4: My daughter to see me like be vulnerable because with

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Speaker 4: you have a date tonight, like like I know we

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Speaker 4: were friends, but I needed her to see like real

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Speaker 4: I found a person that I love. And also I

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Speaker 3: Okay, yes, and it's so much better better I can relate.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: So my daughter said, came to me recently, maybe a

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Speaker 4: couple months ago, and she goes, Mom, she goes to

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Speaker 4: a Christian school. Mom, you know, I'm just so I

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Speaker 4: love my life. And I said, you do, Eva, And

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Speaker 4: and I said, well, what do you love about it?

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Speaker 4: And she said, because I'm like Jesus. And I said, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 4: what does that mean you live like Jesus? She said, no,

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Speaker 4: I have a mom and two dads. See, Jesus had

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Speaker 1: Okay, And that's awesome. That made you feel like I

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Speaker 1: made some decision.

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Speaker 4: All this Every decision is life changing. Really your choices

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Speaker 4: really do you know pinpoint where you're going in life?

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Speaker 4: And that was like a that was a good decision.

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Speaker 2: So when you guys first moved in together, immediately right

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Speaker 2: when did you guys say okay, let's launch something. Because

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Speaker 2: I know for you, Luca, you were a hustle. You

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Speaker 3: You were selling CDs and everything on the street.

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Speaker 6: I sold CDs water f Yeah, I made Dipset very famous.

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Speaker 6: like thousands of CDs out my van and.

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Speaker 4: It was just like he's so humble.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like, come on, from where I came

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Speaker 6: from to where I am now, I have no choice

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Speaker 6: but to be humble. I have no choice but to

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Speaker 6: teach and educate people on what gumbo is, on financial freedom,

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Speaker 6: on generational wealth. Because when the Lexus and I got

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Speaker 6: really to help others get off of opiates, get off

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: We were trying to put is gumbo in their face.

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Speaker 6: But then a demand from the street. Everybody wanted it,

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Speaker 2: Now I want to ask you this because a lot

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Speaker 2: of people can have a great idea with great intentions, right,

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Speaker 2: but then how do you market and package that.

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Speaker 1: To make the demand the way they know? Everyone asks

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Speaker 6: The same question, like how do I market? And I'll

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Speaker 6: so but it's just organic, like I don't do it,

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Speaker 4: I do have my bachelors in marketing, okay, and the opportunities.

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Speaker 6: And so like Alexis like, oh, like he's so humble,

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Speaker 6: but no, I really am because God humbled me, He

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Speaker 6: want to like pass our blessings to everyone else that

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Speaker 6: like the members that brought into the brand. We just uh,

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Speaker 6: like I said, we educate them. We teach them how

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Speaker 6: to fix the credit, We teach them how to buy properties,

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Speaker 6: we teach them how to just you know, think outside

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Speaker 3: But just to back up to lexis to where you

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Speaker 3: came into this, because you're talking about just following your

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Speaker 3: passion and the things falling into place. You were very passionate.

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Speaker 3: I remember this with the with NFL players. You were

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Speaker 3: doing with pain management. Yeah, it was it was at

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Speaker 4: It was horrible to see, you know, my players get

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Speaker 4: be waiting for the morphine drip, Like they would be like,

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Speaker 4: it's almost one o'clock. They're about to give me morphine.

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Speaker 4: They're about to give me some oxy. Like I could

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Speaker 4: tell like they're the deep hole they were kind of

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Speaker 4: falling into. And and most NFL players already smoke weed, right,

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Speaker 4: Very easy? I hated all of them, you know, I

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Speaker 5: Been in business with people as well, like in real business,

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Speaker 4: So sometimes it's just time to go for yours.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why so many people want to become entrepreneurs because.

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Speaker 6: We want to be the people like you see the gumbos,

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Speaker 6: There's not like we don't do, and we just work.

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Speaker 4: And you have to be bold because it wasn't very

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like, oh my, something's gonna happen. You guys are

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Speaker 4: Our hobby is to grind. And I saw that in

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Speaker 1: The first date was our first date.

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Speaker 4: And he knows everybody there. He's the guy there, right.

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Speaker 4: like you know, waving my hand like no because I

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Speaker 1: You know, let's not do that to him, right.

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Speaker 4: But normally I'm the girl to be like it's on him.

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Speaker 4: But this guy I like, so I'm like no, no, no, And.

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Speaker 6: It was so manager they were real people because he

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Speaker 4: Like Keisha was like he is the guy.

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Speaker 5: And then shots he gave me half Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He was like, your friends think about Alexis since we're

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Speaker 6: It was a lot of hate because Alexis is by

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Speaker 6: and I think that God just sent me an angel

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Speaker 6: and people they weren't receptive of it at all because

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Speaker 6: it works if someone wants you to be like beneath

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Speaker 1: Don't know, they want to keep you in a certain

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Speaker 6: So when I got with Alexis, it was like all

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Speaker 6: you feel it, you know it, you know, and she

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Speaker 5: Of I just deaded everything, flatline everywhere?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he had like oh what did I do? Did

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 4: I was like, dude, we dated three months.

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Speaker 5: We're coming out.

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Speaker 1: I got out of that.

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Speaker 6: We're coming out of restaurant and she's getting text messages

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Speaker 6: like yeah, we waiting by your car, Like you think

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Speaker 6: he gonna sell cold?

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Speaker 5: Tin got enough money to keep you? Because I'm telling.

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Speaker 1: How profitable was that?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 6: Everything that Luca does, Yeah, everything that I do, I

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Speaker 6: was amazing. I did clothes for everybody. I did fifty

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Speaker 4: But we both were getting the phone calls from different

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Speaker 4: no hold on. Everybody was calling him saying, this girl

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Speaker 4: me saying, this guy is I'm telling you I know

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Speaker 4: He's trying to take.

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Speaker 5: All your this guy, so CDs, what are you going to.

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Speaker 4: Take all your money? Like he's he's a jigglow. And

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Speaker 4: I was like, this guy is not a jigglo. He

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Speaker 3: And yeah no, and and friends drinking, yeah right right.

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Speaker 4: And then his friends are saying this so much, and

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Speaker 1: Like she bought you what?

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Speaker 5: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: So I don't hate us still to this day.

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Speaker 3: So you guys jumped right in relationship to business. Let

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Speaker 3: all that, And I can see the point in that,

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Speaker 6: I think that cliche that opposite a tract is bs

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Speaker 6: because me and Alexis is the same person. She's a

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Speaker 5: Like I said, it's our lifestyle, it's our life. So

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Speaker 6: And we have so many people, so many couples, so

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Speaker 1: They're like, thanks our.

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Speaker 5: Everything.

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Speaker 4: And to do that for like inspiring people your family.

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Speaker 6: Like we don't know how you guys aren't at each

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Speaker 6: other's next because we see everywhere together every day. But

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Speaker 6: it's God's sin, right, And I'm a very guardfairing man

444
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,639
Speaker 6: and I believe in God, and without God, none of this.

445
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Speaker 5: Would be possible.

446
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,639
Speaker 6: First and foremost, I just know for a fact that

447
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 6: alexis and how different. And we do it organically. We

448
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,639
Speaker 6: don't do it for the likes or for the reaction

449
00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 6: from people. We do it to show people that you

450
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 6: can be like really really.

451
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: We see that just love the person. You gotta like that, yeah,

452
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 1: like it really not really like that. Yeah it's great

453
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:13,119
Speaker 1: when you.

454
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,680
Speaker 6: We just want to show, like you know, all people

455
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 6: that it can be possible, like you can't do it

456
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 6: and without it being friction or type of turmoil in

457
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 6: a relationship.

458
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:23,959
Speaker 5: Just because you're doing a business.

459
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Speaker 3: How did you build this business?

460
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: I mean with the love get to business? How did

461
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 1: you make all this money?

462
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 3: How do you build a company like this?

463
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 1: When y'all decided to do this, did you do a

464
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: business plan? Like what was the foundation.

465
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Speaker 2: I'm just curious because I've done things without a business

466
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 2: plan before, and I did it one time and then

467
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 2: after that I've always done one.

468
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 1: But it's kind of more for myself.

469
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Speaker 6: That's why I said it was God's sent because it

470
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 6: wasn't a plan. So after we saw ourselves like cattle pulting,

471
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:59,879
Speaker 6: like upwork financially, mentally, spiritually, we were like, you know what,

472
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 6: we got to make a pack with God. Yes, so

473
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 6: Alexis is going to tell you what we told God.

474
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 4: So we made a pack with God that we would

475
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 4: make so much money that we had to give most

476
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 4: of it away and made Yeah, and we actually Luca

477
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 4: at the time, well and now he's always been Muslim,

478
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 4: but I was Christian. And we were in La and

479
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 4: my pastor who from Miami, was giving us speech in

480
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 4: LA and I hadn't seen him in five years, and

481
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 4: it wasn't like we had a close relationship or anything.

482
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 4: He had a popular church that I would go to

483
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 4: because I have a really strong foundation with God. So

484
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my gosh, my pastor, the pastor

485
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 4: I went to, he's in town. We have to go there.

486
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 4: So we went and he be lined through the crowd

487
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 4: of the people and like I said, I didn't know

488
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 4: him one on one. And he grabbed Luca and he said,

489
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 4: you are going to be a multi high multi millionaire.

490
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 4: And Luca was like looking at him. He was like,

491
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 4: you're gonna do it in clothing and other things. He said,

492
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 4: and you're gonna change like it's gonna be big, it's

493
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,400
Speaker 4: gonna be something that's never been done before. And he said,

494
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 4: and you know why, God is telling me that you're

495
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 4: gonna do this, And Luca was like crying, blubbering, clyaring,

496
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,360
Speaker 4: and he was like why and he was like, because

497
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 4: you and her are gonna give away more money than

498
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 4: you make. He said, exactly the pack that we made

499
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,479
Speaker 4: the day before in bed laying now and we were

500
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 4: like from that point on that battery he put in

501
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 4: our back, that message, we were like, we were like, oh,

502
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 4: let's go, we're onto something we can't Yeah, we can.

503
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,199
Speaker 3: Hear in all those things you tell people, just all

504
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,400
Speaker 3: of the different things Gumbo is in. You're in apparel,

505
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 3: you're in doing all.

506
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 6: Sorts of dissi music, sports. We just signed Davis. I

507
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 6: saw that Gumbo was a very different entity. When we're

508
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 6: talking about cannabis because people haven't done with Alexis and

509
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 6: I have accomplished in this realm and this field. We're

510
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 6: not in competition with anybody. I think that's why everybody

511
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 6: loses and we win because we just do things, like

512
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 6: I keep saying, organically everything that we do. You know,

513
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 6: I may put a little you know, gumbo on top

514
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 6: of it, my flavor. I might be extra, but guess what,

515
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 6: that's what the people love.

516
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:35,959
Speaker 5: Now.

517
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Speaker 2: One thing I saw you said previously that was very

518
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 2: interesting to me and that I agree with, is that

519
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 2: you would.

520
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 4: Rather be the supplier than actually own, say the store. Yeah,

521
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 4: I don't want to be a liquor store. I want

522
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 4: to be blue label. I want to be Asus Spades.

523
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 4: I don't want to I owned those type of businesses before.

524
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 4: It's a lot of work, stress and stress.

525
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: That was a good point.

526
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 2: I recently saw somebody who I know who owned a

527
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 2: dispensary and they broke into her place like literally three

528
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 2: times in a month. Yeah, and it was to the

529
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 2: point where she was like, I just give up. She

530
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 2: was basically like crying, and it's bad because we.

531
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 6: Work so hard and being black and Latino people, and

532
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 6: like she said, just a four percent that it's like, wow,

533
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,439
Speaker 6: give up when we came as far.

534
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 4: And it's not even like regular robberies, like they're cutting

535
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 4: holes in.

536
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: The roof, right they cut a hole through the wall. Yeah,

537
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: like they got.

538
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 4: One hold types of like Spider Man stuff to get in.

539
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 2: And even the constuff happening because I know I have

540
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 2: brick and mortar locations not in this space, but that's expensive.

541
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, employees are expensive.

542
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 2: And then having to watch and make sure because somebody

543
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 2: definitely has to Micromana's especially a business like this.

544
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: Right Yeah.

545
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 2: And i' mean not saying not trying to discourage anybody

546
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 2: who this is their passion, but to know what you're

547
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 2: getting into.

548
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 4: Right, But it has to be your passion for that

549
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 4: type of business there, Yeah, in order to make it work.

550
00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 4: I owned retail stores before, and that was a very

551
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 4: big eye opener for me. I think it put me

552
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 4: in the mindset to know I'd rather have a product

553
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 4: to sell because we wake up to money. There's money

554
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 4: being made as we're sleeping, you know what I mean.

555
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 4: When you have a brick and mortar you have to

556
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 4: be there, you have to be on top of it.

557
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 4: You have to have good management you have to act

558
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 4: like you like everybody. It's just a lot you have.

559
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: To deal with reviews. Yeah, it's a lot of overhead.

560
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 4: It's a lot.

561
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 3: What are some of the ways you would tell someone

562
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 3: who wanted to be an entrepreneur and cannabis to get started.

563
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 4: I would say, start your brand and start amplifying the

564
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 4: greatness of what you're bringing to the table. And I

565
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 4: would also say the best businesses that I've seen and

566
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 4: that me and Luca have created is to create something

567
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 4: that cures a problem. We have women products coming out

568
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 4: in the next couple months. I am in pre menopause,

569
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 4: so I have a product coming out to help women

570
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 4: go to sleep. Because when you're going through menopause or

571
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 4: when you get to a certain age, a lot of

572
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 4: us women, especially women that are driven and successful, we

573
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 4: can't sleep. So I'm coming up coming out with a

574
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 4: CBN product that I've tested myself because I can't sleep

575
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 4: at all. That puts you to sleep and you wake

576
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 4: up not groggy. I have some things in there for

577
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 4: beauty so that you're getting everything at one time. I

578
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 4: also have a lot of topicals coming out for pain cramps.

579
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 4: I also even have some things coming out for people

580
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,719
Speaker 4: that are tenderhead with CBD products. Great, yeah, for your

581
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 4: scalp and things like that. Like any problem that I

582
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 4: like go through in life that I know that a

583
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 4: doctor would prescribe me xanax or a percocet or something.

584
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 4: I try to get with a good team and come

585
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 4: up with the cannabinoid cannabinoids to fix the problem so

586
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 4: that it's something organic and it's something good for you.

587
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: Just check.

588
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 6: We have the Gumbo wrap snack out right now, and

589
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 6: next we're going to do the Gumbo gummies and that's

590
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 6: going to be under Rap snacks as well.

591
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 3: You've grown a lot through partnerships. Yes, partnerships are smart

592
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 3: move for.

593
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 5: Cookies as well.

594
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 2: That's a great one. And I like the fact that

595
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like it's a competition. I like collaboration.

596
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 4: Yeah.

597
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 6: So I have some T shirts for you guys too

598
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 6: that I was trying to best gifts, but tomorrow it

599
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 6: will be better, promise, And the T shirt says.

600
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 5: Collaboration is better than competition. Okay, Luca Brasi right here

601
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 5: on the bottom.

602
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 4: I like that.

603
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 5: That's like one of my main slogans because I live

604
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 5: by it.

605
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 4: Not only that I just came back from Europe. I

606
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 4: was there for forty days with my daughter, and the

607
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 4: places that I were I had the most fun and

608
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 4: it was more impactful. Was Monte Carlo and Capri. There

609
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 4: were a lot, not a lot, but there were a

610
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 4: few people of color. There were multimillionaires that sat down

611
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 4: with me, other women and gave me the game like

612
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 4: and told me, hey, you need to get with this

613
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 4: person and I develop brands and I can help you

614
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 4: with this. And it was a lot of collaboration because

615
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 4: everybody there, God has everybody was like, let's meet at

616
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 4: Zuma at the rooftop at eight o'clock and let's see

617
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 4: how we all could work together.

618
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: I love that.

619
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 2: That's why I always say when I go to branch,

620
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I'm bringing together my friends

621
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: who we all want to figure out ways that we

622
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 2: can succeed. How can we help each other, How can

623
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 2: we introduce each other to people that actually we can benefit. Definitely,

624
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 2: relationships definitely, So it's not just about cent and around gossiping,

625
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: but a lot of it is about discussing business moves

626
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 2: that we can make.

627
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 4: Really, I kind of find with me and I think

628
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 4: this stays true to me and Luca. I don't really

629
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 4: have friends that I don't make money with, and it's

630
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 4: just because me. Money is a hobby for me. So

631
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 4: if you're not into it, what do we really have

632
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 4: to talk about? Because I'm not going to sit there

633
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 4: and talk about other people with you.

634
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 2: And even with my friends who I know have a

635
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: certain skill, I'll encourage them. I'm like, yeah, hey, you're

636
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 2: a real estate attorney. I've a really friend and I'm like,

637
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 2: you need to stat your own business.

638
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: I have a lot of clients.

639
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, come to this event. I want to introduce

640
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: you to this person. Let's start you off again with

641
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: some clients on the side. That way you can builde

642
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 2: your business. But I think that's great because sometimes it's

643
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 2: hard for people to think in that way.

644
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, and also in the black community, so we've had

645
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 3: so many struggles to do anything that a lot of

646
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 3: times it's like I'm the only and where I think

647
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 3: not in it's not in our mindset to bring others

648
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 3: along because you're fighting so hard for that one spot

649
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 3: in your head.

650
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 4: That's that's what they've tried to put on us for

651
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 4: so long. But the one thing that I can say

652
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 4: about now, I see that the women of hip hop, right,

653
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 4: the girls, we are really uplifting each other, Like even

654
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 4: when they have a lot like a little spot, it's

655
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 4: real quick, you know what I mean? Like, I feel

656
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 4: like the girls are winning because they really like uplifting

657
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 4: each other in digging each other up.

658
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 3: You're seeing that a lot no entry.

659
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I'm so quet and for me with my businesses,

660
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 2: I feel like my women, friends and people who are

661
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 2: even strange are the people that have.

662
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: Been the most supportive.

663
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Speaker 2: Like even just posting about that thirty unit building e

664
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 2: boy in Midtown with my with my girls, the people

665
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 2: that have been like reposting it is a lot of

666
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 2: people that are like and people have been sending me

667
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 2: messages like what can I do to help? You know,

668
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 2: one woman, Kim Carter, she's formally incarcerated. They did a

669
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: movie about her. Jennifer Hudson played her and Taraji directed it.

670
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: She reached out and was like, I want to furnish

671
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 2: three of those units using are non wow for these

672
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 2: women who are formally incarcerated. And I want to talk

673
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 2: about that because prison reform is a huge, huge, huge

674
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: part of the marijuana industry and what Yeah, and I

675
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 2: want to talk about what you guys are doing also

676
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 2: in that space and seeing everything that's happening with the

677
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: laws changing, people having been locked up for so long

678
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: and then being able to have access to getting these licenses,

679
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: but maybe not having the capital to even do what

680
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 2: they need to do to get things off of the ground.

681
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: So I would love for you guys to discuss that.

682
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean awarding people licenses, especially the way they're

683
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 4: doing in New York City that have cannabis crimes and

684
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 4: are coming home from cannabis crimes. That's amazing. But these

685
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 4: people don't have the money to cultivate the license, so

686
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 4: there has to be a grant or something in place

687
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 4: to help cultivate these licenses, because these people are going

688
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 4: back to our neighborhoods, and that's what it's for, to

689
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 4: help give jobs to people in the neighborhoods. These kids,

690
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 4: they want to be a part of the cannabis business.

691
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 4: It's you know, with Instagram and all these things, there

692
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 4: aren't that many sexy jobs out here anymore, you know

693
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 4: what I mean. These kids either want to wrap, they

694
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 4: either want to be in a gang or not. Yeah,

695
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 4: people want to be an influencer, but like this is

696
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 4: a real business that kids really take to. So why

697
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 4: wouldn't we put people in place and have grants in

698
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 4: place to help cultivate these licenses in those neighborhoods.

699
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 3: So you're providing grants, that's how you're working to tell us.

700
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 4: So we've been working with the government to get these

701
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 4: type of programs going. It's it's hard to get grant money, right,

702
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 4: So what I tried to do is see if I

703
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 4: could put together people that were getting the license with

704
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 4: like minded individuals of people of color that had the

705
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 4: means to be able to you know, cultivate it, so

706
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 4: it could be a fifty to fifty partnership.

707
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 2: I cant feel you you on that because it's still

708
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 2: federally right. It's a little funny with me.

709
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just want to connect the right dots and

710
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 6: put the people in the right place where they need

711
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 6: to be with these licenses.

712
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 5: So we're trying our best with you know, we're working

713
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 5: with what we have.

714
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 4: You know, we were working with one individual in the

715
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 4: government in New York, but they recently got arrested for

716
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 4: something else. Like you know, it's hard to deal with

717
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 4: you know, you don't know what people's real intentions are

718
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 4: and things like that. So we've kind of just put

719
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 4: matters in our own hands on We always answer all

720
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 4: every DM, we answer every phone call, and anything that

721
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 4: we can do to help someone get with someone else

722
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 4: or partner even if we partner up with people, we're

723
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 4: willing to do it because it's about our neighborhoods. It's

724
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 4: not about you know, the money.

725
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: Absolutely I agree with that.

726
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 2: That's why I think it's important that we're always having

727
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 2: these conversations for people too. And I want to talk

728
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 2: about some more of the collaborations that you guys have done.

729
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 2: And when did you start making a profit because sometimes

730
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 2: people think it's instantaneous and I want to Yeah, so

731
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 2: even laying out the groundwork.

732
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 6: For startay true, Like saying like, you know, you're not

733
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 6: going to really start seeing an income like I want

734
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 6: to a profit.

735
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, not even won't see a profit. We just started

736
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 4: seeing a profit maybe last.

737
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 6: Year, like after five years. I'm talking about working, stay dedicated,

738
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 6: staying grounded.

739
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 4: You know, we were lucky enough to make enough money

740
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 4: to pay our bills.

741
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 1: That was yeah, yeah, okay, I don't got to invest

742
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: in anymore.

743
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we were you know, we were able to

744
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 4: pay our bills. We did, and and I'm proud to

745
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 4: say this, we did take five steps back to go

746
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 4: twenty steps forward. We did down size. We went and

747
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 4: bought a cheap condo. We sacrifice, sacrificed, We lived in

748
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 4: it as we redid it. And during COVID we were

749
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 4: able to sell it for like a really great price.

750
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 4: But we had to like go through like a little

751
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 4: bit of struggle. And when that was over and we

752
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 4: saw like the progress that we made even with just

753
00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 4: flipping properties, we felt even better about us what we

754
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 4: were doing in cannabis, Like we knew like, okay, we

755
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 4: when we put our brain to something together, we execute.

756
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 4: So I just I just think it's about executing.

757
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 2: You just got to keep at it because I want

758
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 2: people to know it's not like I start this business

759
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 2: and then three months later.

760
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 4: No, but these kids think microwave kids.

761
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 5: That's what I call them. I call them microwave kids.

762
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 2: Because, yeah, what about some of the missteps that you

763
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 2: guys had. Just for people who are listening, like, don't

764
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 2: do this and we tried this and this didn't work.

765
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 2: Not that everything is a one size fits all, but

766
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: for you guys personally.

767
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm gonna be honest with you. A lot

768
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 4: of our missteps were blessings in disguise because they taught

769
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 4: us what not to do when we really had the money.

770
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 2: Right, Because that's why I'm not saying mistakes, but more

771
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 2: like missteps lessons.

772
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna be honest trusting people.

773
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be honest. And I didn't want it, but

774
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 6: I gotta be honest, right, family, Yeah, they will break you,

775
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 6: tear you down. They will do anything. They will see

776
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 6: they will rob you, they will they will do anything.

777
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 6: And I'm sorry to say it, but it's the closest

778
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 6: ones that's to you because you know, you feel compelled,

779
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 6: like you know, all right, you know I made it right,

780
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 6: I made it out the hood. I've accomplished something. I'm

781
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 6: financially free. I want to get back to my family, right, Yeah,

782
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 6: And do you feel so bad because you're like, damn

783
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 6: anything that I would do for them and then they

784
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 6: turn around and robbed me. Wow. And you know you

785
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 6: see this story, guys over and over again, right of

786
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 6: the black man being successful.

787
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 4: Oh, he changed, he changed.

788
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 6: You know, he got the big car, he got all

789
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 6: this and all that, but he don't mess with nobody

790
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 6: and do you say, wow, how could he act like that?

791
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 6: But he came from the block with us and he

792
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 6: did it. It's not the person that got successful, it's

793
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 6: the people on the side, your family, family, friends, to

794
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 6: your finances.

795
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 5: And it's sad.

796
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 6: It's sad, right, but it's even sadder when you're a

797
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 6: person like me that their heart is bigger than their body.

798
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: He'll give you this, give you anything, and.

799
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 5: Then you turn around and do something like that.

800
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 6: So it just takes me back to what I didn't

801
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 6: have and when I was really messed up and when

802
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 6: I had to do things because you know, drastic times

803
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 6: calls for drastic measures. So I kind of like, I'm

804
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 6: not making an excuse for them, but I kind of

805
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 6: see where they like at where they're at mentally, and

806
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 6: I just pray for them.

807
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 5: I say, God, you know what, you put your hand

808
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 5: on me, so that'd be a blessing for them.

809
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: You can love people from afar as just sometimes you

810
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: have to.

811
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 2: And I think it's really also important to realize that

812
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 2: when you're in a space when you're starting something new

813
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 2: and it's taking a while to make money, like you said,

814
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: four years in, you know, before you can even kind

815
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 2: of break even who is there investing in you?

816
00:39:59,800 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 3: Who?

817
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: Who was there?

818
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 4: Nobody?

819
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 2: So that's why sometimes you have to look at it

820
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 2: like with you know, with family and friends. Were you

821
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 2: there supporting me? Were you actually saying do you need anything?

822
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 6: You have to call them out because even though when

823
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 6: they support you and they do things like they now,

824
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 6: they're looking like, oh, you owe me something because I.

825
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 4: Was there, because I slept on your couch. Because I

826
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 4: slept on your couch, I should give you half a

827
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 4: million dollars.

828
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 3: Alexis, you're familiar with this a lot of work. I

829
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 3: used to do financial education programs for the NFL and

830
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 3: the number we all hear this stat NFL players are

831
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 3: broke three years after retirement. What is the number one

832
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 3: reason professional athletes go broke? It's not because they bought cars,

833
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 3: friends and family.

834
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 4: Friends and family. I was hired by athletes to protect

835
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 4: them from their parents.

836
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and everybody was hired. So you always got

837
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: in line, it's my manager, I can't do it.

838
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 4: Yeah. They would always put it and I would always

839
00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 4: Luca even would ask me. You'd be like, why is

840
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 4: his I only hate you so much? Like when we

841
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 4: first got to God, but because I'm the gatekeeper of

842
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 4: the checkbook.

843
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that is a valuable lesson.

844
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they assume you have so much, you know what,

845
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 4: it was a big thing for me. My families not

846
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 4: really like that. They don't really ask me for things,

847
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 4: but just the hatred that I see in their face

848
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 4: that it's not them and it was me. That's the

849
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 4: hurtful part, you know what I mean, Because I would

850
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 4: do anything for them, but they don't even want anything

851
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 4: from me because they're just so angry that it was me.

852
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: Oh man. And this is why sometimes entrepreneurship and success

853
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: can be really lonely.

854
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 5: Yeah.

855
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, A lot of times.

856
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 6: It's funny that you say that, because a lot of

857
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 6: times Alexis says, well, baby, you know what's wrong?

858
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 5: Or you know, we got this and we're so.

859
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 3: Happy, and I just been looking like you feel like

860
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 3: you can't trust anybody.

861
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 5: It's not even that, it's.

862
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 6: Like, I wonder why all this time my lady didn't

863
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 6: like people, Like now I'm around people and I'm like,

864
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 6: you know, I'm smiling with these pearly whites, and I

865
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 6: want to hurry up and get out of here.

866
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 4: We we just got rid of our huge house. We

867
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 4: bought a huge house. It was our dream home. We

868
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 4: just saw Christmases that we're going to be in this

869
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 4: beautiful you know. He just knew, like in our heads.

870
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 4: In our head it was gonna be the cook We

871
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 4: were gonna have barbecues, and we were gonna, oh the

872
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 4: blueprint for the pool and trying to make in the summertime.

873
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 4: Our house was gonna be open door. We never were

874
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,720
Speaker 4: able to have one activity in our home. We couldn't

875
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 4: let people know where we lived.

876
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, reality, Listen, that is crazy, and sometimes people

877
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 2: see your success and don't know what's really going on.

878
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, behind the scenes, it's crazy.

879
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 4: People talk about, oh yeah, you guys should be careful.

880
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 4: People in the streets they you guys shining. We done

881
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 4: had people that knew exactly where we were at trying

882
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 4: to trying to get to us.

883
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 3: So we got to call them out. If anybody really

884
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 3: cares about you, they're not going to ask you to

885
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 3: put yourself in a compromise.

886
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 4: They don't care about us.

887
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: That's what we had to realize that.

888
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 4: It was and that is the hardest uh thing to

889
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 4: learn being successful.

890
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 3: If they don't care about you, they get stuck in

891
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 3: their stuff. You gotta extend your perception see who they

892
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 3: really are. But you also got to protect yourself.

893
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 2: And that's why sometimes people be like, oh, you got

894
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 2: a whole new group of people around you.

895
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 1: You don't.

896
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 2: But sometimes that group of people it is you know,

897
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 2: they always tell you, right, the people that you hang

898
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 2: around with, you see yourself in that and that's where

899
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 2: you'll end up to. And so you want to make

900
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 2: sure that you're always around people who are uplifting you.

901
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 2: But also being around more successful people brings more success to.

902
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 4: You know what. And even what was crazier for us

903
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 4: too was our successful friends that we looked up to

904
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 4: and we supported and we were just down for when

905
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 4: we passed them financially o mg, ouch, they didn't like

906
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 4: they didn't like us anymore.

907
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,919
Speaker 5: They were saying people were going to kidnap me people.

908
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 4: They don't want to know where we live because if

909
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 4: something happened to us, they don't want to be on

910
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 4: that list. And what are you trying to do with

911
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 4: this company?

912
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 5: Gumbo?

913
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: What is this little as it.

914
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 4: Was?

915
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 5: It was just you know what I think?

916
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 6: And Frank, people spend their whole lives trying to build

917
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 6: a brand like gumbo and they never were successful, or

918
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 6: people have had in the past cannabis companies that were

919
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 6: very well known and they didn't go anywhere.

920
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 5: What's for you was for you, And that's just that.

921
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 2: That's just because this is kind of like a unicorn.

922
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 2: We see a lot of celebrities on ourselves.

923
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 6: Sound like Isaac, She sounds like Patel unicorn. Yeah, you guys,

924
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 6: are you record? I never see he said, I've never

925
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 6: in my life seen this ever before.

926
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 2: Because we see a lot of celebrities that will get

927
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 2: into that space. They launch a brand and they have

928
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 2: all these different things going on, but then it just

929
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 2: kind of goes away. And I also see a lot

930
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 2: of people who want to get in the cannabis space,

931
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 2: but I don't even look.

932
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: At you as a person. Yeah smoke, Yeah, who doesn't even.

933
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they want to because they think it's profitable

934
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 2: and they think it's a quick that's either thing.

935
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 4: That's the thing.

936
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 5: What happened when we sat down tell us jay.

937
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 4: Z told us stay away from people, places and things,

938
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 4: and you damn yeah, And he told us, and then

939
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 4: he told and then he told us. Guess what, guys,

940
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 4: your work speaks for you. We I'm interested because your

941
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 4: work has spoken for you and that was like the

942
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 4: biggest compliment.

943
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: It's the truth. Yeah, that is.

944
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 6: I would never have to even do business with them,

945
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 6: just by him telling me that. Yeah, that sparked a

946
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 6: different few under my fire, and I will not stop until.

947
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 4: Not to mention his words. Maybe the hustler I am.

948
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 4: You know that's reasonable doubt, definitely, you know what I'm saying.

949
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 2: Where do you see Gambo growing into in the future.

950
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:25,720
Speaker 2: What are the plans?

951
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 4: I believe that Gumbo has an endless business plan. We're

952
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,959
Speaker 4: going heavy into merchandise. We're going heavy into CBD, which

953
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 4: you'll see in seven elevens and all around the world. Yeah,

954
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 4: Gumbo Rex We're going OTC with it, which is over

955
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 4: the counter. You will be seeing us with functional mushrooms

956
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 4: in places like Walgreens and Whole Foods. We're actually doing

957
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 4: a mushroom retreat in Jamaica at the end of this

958
00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:00,959
Speaker 4: month to help people with PTSD and UH. We're also

959
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 4: coming out with a functional mushroom line for for people

960
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 4: to take away and to help with different ailments.

961
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,280
Speaker 3: All things plant healing, all things.

962
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 2: That used to be so taboo that Yeah, all of

963
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 2: a sudden everybody's like, I'm into this because you know,

964
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: I love natural.

965
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 4: It's all natural.

966
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 3: Okay, we're gonna go have our samples now.

967
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for coming to Danis. Thank

968
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: you everywhere.

969
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 5: Thank you, and so for me.

970
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 2: This was just a really educational lesson for all of

971
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 2: our listeners to be able to understand the people behind

972
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 2: the brand, because I do feel like that matters a

973
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 2: lot when it comes to the choices that we have

974
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 2: and what separates, you know, one brand from another.

975
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: I also care about the people behind the brand.

976
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 4: Thank you, But also too, it's really good to keep

977
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 4: promoting and letting other brown and brown people know what

978
00:47:55,360 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 4: brown people are doing, like the organic brand meal Mayela.

979
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: By the way, they spotted the show.

980
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 4: Guess yes, I use their product Mayell. Mayell just sold

981
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 4: to Procter and Gamble for six hundred million dollars.

982
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I'm happy about that.

983
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 4: Why is this not all over? Why are we not

984
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 4: screaming this over every news channel? This is possible. You

985
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 4: don't have to have a wicked jump shot to become

986
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 4: a millionaire or a billionaire. We are smart, we are capable,

987
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 4: and we're gonna keep going.

988
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: Yep.

989
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 2: I love brands that Black Girl Sunscreen is also that's

990
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 2: my favorite factor for this show before I even came

991
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 2: on the air.

992
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 4: That's my favorite I ever listen had the zoom yes

993
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 4: to get that nice golden brown and not peel. That

994
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 4: product is amazing and that's why I love this show.

995
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,479
Speaker 6: The brand, a brand that you can trust, a brand

996
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 6: that has integrity, a brand that we hands on. You know, Christmas,

997
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 6: we went to one hundred and thirty fifth and Fifth

998
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 6: Avenue and it was called a Miracle on Fifth Avenue.

999
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 5: We rented out the whole school. We gave away two

1000
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 5: million dollars toys.

1001
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. I love that.

1002
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 6: The day before that, we were on forty second Street.

1003
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 6: We called that black We brought out the whole target.

1004
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 6: We gave away toys on.

1005
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 4: Forty We shut down forty second Street with the police department.

1006
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 4: It was amazing and we handed.

1007
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 6: Still Halloween, Thanksgiving comes around, we go around Michelle, the

1008
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 6: Queen of Harlem, Michelle Smalls and I and Alexis. We've

1009
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 6: been doing it for the last ten years, Michelle said,

1010
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 6: the last three years that we've.

1011
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 5: Been doing it.

1012
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,439
Speaker 6: She said, no, now you guys are going to start

1013
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 6: showing and telling people that you've been sponsoring this for

1014
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 6: the last ten years because y'all way, y'all want to

1015
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 6: be and we just love to give back.

1016
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 5: We give because we have, We have because we give.

1017
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 5: Therefore we will never never be without.

1018
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 4: And it was great to see my eight year old

1019
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 4: on Christmas Day handing out toys to.

1020
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 6: Other kids what she wanted for Christmas. She says she

1021
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 6: wanted to give the towards the way to the kids

1022
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 6: that didn't have there.

1023
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 5: You go, all right, Gumbo, thank you so much.

1024
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 2: Where do people find you who are listening? If they

1025
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 2: want to find the brand to find you individually, you.

1026
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 4: Can find me at Alexis Major on I G and

1027
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 4: Lucas Is I Am, I'm sorry.

1028
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, a flat Trap, Underscore, Big Gumbo, one

1029
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 6: hundred follow.

1030
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 4: Yeah he has to say that because there's eight hundred faith.

1031
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: Okay, Wow.

1032
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 3: Make sure y'all know we're going to have a lot

1033
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 3: of your stuff in our Wealth Wednesdays for Entrepreneurs Facebook group.

1034
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 3: We're gonna put a lot of free and for everybody's

1035
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 3: sign up for that.

1036
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 4: And if you see the chips and any Bodega's support,

1037
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 4: buy some chips.

1038
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 5: They're really, really good Gumbo.

1039
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: Of course it is the best out right. Now I'm

1040
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: gonna go test it out and test this out to appreciate.

1041
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 1: We also want everybody's having.

1042
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 4: Us when everybody check out money Bag Yo on his

1043
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 4: tour please, I know his tours tonight in in Brooklyn,

1044
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 4: but if you can get to d C or any

1045
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 4: of the other states, amazing.

1046
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 6: Signed like the tours are canceled. But every show that

1047
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 6: we've been to was so loud and and.

1048
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 4: We just added seven more dates.

1049
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah right, they we'll get that out.

1050
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 5: Larger than life tour. Ye see the Gumbo bus all right.

1051
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 3: And if your guys are out there tonight on Wealth

1052
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 3: Wednesdays after Party with Jay White, Malik Yoba and you

1053
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 3: may know the actor from New York Undercover, Empire, Cool Runnings.

1054
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 3: But he also talks about an organization that he started

1055
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 3: that helps young people, very young people of color, get

1056
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 3: into real estate.

1057
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: That's a documentary.

1058
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 2: I see him all the time in Brooklyn. Shout out

1059
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 2: out to him.

1060
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 3: And you can catch him tonight eight pm. Team ye

1061
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 3: Facebook page Free Wealth Wednesdays after Party with Jay White,

1062
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:00,879
Speaker 3: And this is going to be a good one.

1063
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 4: Wealth Wednesdays, Wealth Wednesdays.

1064
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: We love Wealth Wednesdays, and we love Gambo.

1065
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:07,959
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, thank you, thank you for having

1066
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 4: us

1067
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 5: Way up