WEBVTT - APRIL SHOWERS - Sugar Cheese Toast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.279 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating Wild Broke. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.720 I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have a 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:10.959 very special entrepreneur in the building. We have April Showers, owner, 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.080 founder and creator of Afro Unicorn. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.200 So what are you going to have us eating today? 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.720 Well, first of all, thank you for having me. I 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.439 love Eating White Broke, and we're going to get back 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.840 in the day and get some. But you call it 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:33.159 what I call it, sugar toast, cheese toast, sugar cheeseeat. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:58.800 Well, this is the first time we've ever had sugar 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:04.919 cheese toast on our show, which excites me because I 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.400 am always excited about something new and different as far 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.319 as it broke dish and we've taped over fifty episodes 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.640 at this point, so this is good. This is good. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.160 We're building momentum. The only downside is that it's sugar 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.759 cheese toasts. So but I'm hungry, so I make it work. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.160 But you know what, it was always good. Really, It's 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.600 been a while, but I've always I used to love it, 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.240 so I'm hoping it wasn't just like hunger. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.400 Yeah, well, we gonna see today. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.560 But the good scene is that you are hungry. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.400 Yeah, I'll probably use a whole on this show. There's 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.839 only been like two episodes where I was like, there's 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.120 definitely no way I'm finishing it. And that was we 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.480 had a guest to a pickled egg and I was like, 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:51.080 never again. It was absolutely terrible, and everyone behind camera 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.000 knows that I couldn't complete mission, and I said early 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:54.960 on I'm going to finish it. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:55.680 I could not. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.720 It was terrible, but the guests loved it and that 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.600 was their thing and I respect it. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.960 But I can definitely pallet this. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.960 Okay, But before you get into like making this cheese 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.880 sugar toast, which is just simple ingredients. What buttered bread, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.520 cheese and white sugar? 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:15.400 Right? Yep, that's it. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:20.560 Tell me for all our listeners about afro Unicorn and 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.840 the products of afro Unicorn and where they can get it. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.160 Okay, So, like you said, I'm April Showers. I'm founder 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.400 of afro Unicorn, which is a lifestyle brand formd women 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.280 and children of color. How unique, divine and magical we 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.960 truly are. I'm the first black woman to have a 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.440 licensed brand character of major retail and what that means 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.600 is that my products sit on the shelves next to Disney, Marvel, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.720 and Nick. Those are my direct competitors. I am the 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.919 modern day Hello Kitty. We decided to create Afro Unicorn 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.680 basically to give representation where there wasn't any before because 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.840 I was being referred to as a unicorn because I 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.240 have multiple businesses. I own to operate an insurance agency. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.280 I'm also a licensed real estate broker. I'm a single 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.639 mom of two amazing boys. And so my friend kept 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.760 telling me I was a unicorn. And so finally, after 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.640 two years of like, Cortel, so why do you keep 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.160 calling me a unicorn? He said with April, You're managing 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.280 your businesses, you have your boys, your unicorn. So I 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.440 went to go Google to see what unicorns were all about. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.240 I saw that they were unique, that they were mystical. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.000 I'm definitely black girl magic, I'm definitely unique. I started 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.480 to use that emoji on our phones over and over again, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.440 and then one day it hit me, like, why is 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.200 it only white? Like who determined with these attributes that 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.920 it was only supposed to be white? So that moment 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.720 no longer resonated with me. I went to find one. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.480 I couldn't find one, and so I decided to just 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.320 create it and be the change that I wanted to 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.800 see and create a platform to help other entrepreneurs. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.960 So just so we know, before you leave the studio, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.560 I'm gonna have you autograph every piece of item in 0:03:55.600 --> 0:04:00.240 here because I feel like I'm so inspired. I I'm 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:05.800 literally looking at the Afro Unicorn stuffed animal so differently 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.160 hearing that background, because it's not until. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:11.880 You said it I realize that you're right. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.400 When I think unicorn, I think of a white horse 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.720 with maybe rainbow hair straight here, and I'm looking at 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.520 Afro Unicorn, this beautiful brown horse with curly hair. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:23.600 And. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.160 I'm so happy right now. Oh my god, that's amazing. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.480 I love the entrepreneur in you, cause you're like even 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.839 the fact that your friend called you that and that 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.880 questioning of like why are you calling me that? I 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.880 feel that inquisitive like questioning like well, okay, why are 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.200 you calling me this? Oh? Well, you know, because you 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.480 create all this magic right in your life. And then 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.520 you went did your research, you were using the Unicorn brand, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.440 and then you took it a step forward further and 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.760 said I'm going to just go ahead and inspire others 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.480 and create change. The change that we don't see every day. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.359 I think one of the guys from Airbnb, Haad said it. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.719 They said, like entrepreneurs see or paint the world that 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:07.679 we haven't lived. 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:08.200 In yet or something. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.360 Yeah, it's called the white space. So finding the white 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.800 space and that you color in. Wow. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.479 Wow. So tell us some of the products that we 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:17.000 can get. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.000 Wow. So we have you mentioned Walmart. We have over 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:28.159 eighty five skews at Walmart from party celebrations. That's the 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.400 first category. So I have twenty one SKUs. When you 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:35.000 think party, you think streamers and napkins and plates, but 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.760 we also have press on nails over there, and hair 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.599 bows and and many plushes. Anything you could put in 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.080 a grab bag we have in the party section. And 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.200 then we just launched for summer. We have slipping slides 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.720 and pools and water blasters what and floaties. I have 0:05:53.760 --> 0:06:00.640 thirty items over in the water section. And here accessory 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:01.400 you have. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.440 Band aids, which I don't know why. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.640 Are my very very favorite. We actually have a lot 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.719 of original music too, so we have a song called 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:16.160 unicorn Ouch that goes with the bandages. So yeah, bandages 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.720 are my absolute favorite favorite currently in the market. But 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:25.640 we are launching fruit Snacks next month, which I'm beyond 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.280 because I manifested my fruit snacks. I manifested everything, but 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.800 fruit Snacks was really like the thing I walked in 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.680 the grocery store. I was like, I want to be 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.120 in this aisle, and then we're going into that aisle 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.080 just a year ago. So we have When I say, 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.680 African Crana is a modern day Hello Kitty. So if 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.000 you think Hello Kitty and all the items that Hello 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:47.800 Kitty is on, that's what we're on. We have a 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.680 full fashion line at Target. Oh you're a Walmart and Target, Walmart, Target, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.440 Jac Pennies, Cohl's, We're entering into CVS. We met with 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.279 Macy's last week. We'll be going to Macy's in the 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:05.440 spring of twenty four. Yeah, We're We're going everywhere, Nice 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.240 Dollar General, We'll be everywhere. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.760 So I hope my listeners don't hate on me. But 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.600 I have a daughter and I would love I'm gonna 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.960 shoot my shot. Okay, I usually shoot these shots off camera, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.080 but you know, if you ever want a little ambassador 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.600 with some sas you know what I'm saying, my daughter 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.600 is willing to do it. Okay, We're gonna have a 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:29.680 sidebar conversation. She's gonna see these Afro Unicorn horse Afro Unicorns, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.880 and she's gonna be so ecstatic that she's gonna be like, yeah, Mom, 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:33.280 I'm down. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.400 I'm totally down to be an ambassador. She's so. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.920 The thing about Afrinicorn, that whole ambassador thing is Afrinancorn 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.360 is a grassroots brand. That's what separates us from all 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:48.720 other major brands that are out there. We highlight our customers. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:50.920 So when you go to our page, I post three 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.920 sixty five, three times a day minimum, they're all my customers. Wow. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.720 I've been doing it for four years straight. 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.160 So do we just tag you? 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.040 And then they're all my special ones, my babies that 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.800 I do like when when stuff drops, I want them 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.000 to see it first so I can get their reactions first. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:11.000 I will get them products. But we literally grew grassroots, 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.000 which is customers tagging us. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:13.720 Wow. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.320 We'll talk about all the celebrities that jumped on board organically. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.720 I've never paid anyone to rock our support. After Unicorn, 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:28.320 it has truly been a grassroots movement and it's it's 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:29.680 been pretty phenomenal. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.080 Well before we get into the crazy that it took 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.120 to launch this phenomenal brand. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.439 Let's uh, let's see. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.360 You make this teach us all am, I gonna I 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.680 guess I'm gonna make it with you, right, so tell 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:44.360 me how it's done. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.760 We're gonna make this sugar cheese toast. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.640 It's pretty simple. You're gonna start off with your basic butter. 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.000 Okay, we got the butter and bread. Okay, we got 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.439 the bread. Do I just take a slice? 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.360 Take a slice? You get to take it. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.360 We got the butter knives, so the the oh, it's 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.760 the butter soft everybody? 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.559 Yeah, you got the og butter. She I mean this 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.200 is definitely the eating Why broke butter? The country crock? 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.000 So a country croc goes on smooth? Is it real butter? 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:18.640 I don't even know? 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.000 So that's what I was about to say. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.760 So I learned only on eating while broke. I learned 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:27.200 this that real butter. There is a difference between this 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.880 country rock and real butter. And once you try real butter, guys, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.319 I'm sorry you will never go back. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.320 To this croc. But you know, I don't know. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:38.720 And I slather, am I supposed to be slaughtered? 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.400 There? You are? You put it like you know, but 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.720 this is bringing back memories. I'm about to go give 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.760 me some Country cross over real. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:47.600 Oh you don't even eat it? 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:53.480 Look no, but this is it goes on smooth. Their 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:58.040 ads were like, it goes on smooth, all right. So 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.480 we got our bread all lathered. Uh, so the next 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:06.959 step is to take your beautiful American in the plastic cheese. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.040 I thought you were going to say the sugar went 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.600 on for that's crazy, okay, So in my head, I 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.920 envisioned it more like cinnamon toast, you know, back in 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.000 the day. I don't know if you ever had it 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.360 where you put the cinnamon on the yep, yep. Okay, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:21.560 So we got the cheese on. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.200 Put that cheese that right in the middle of the bread, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.480 got it? And that Since the sugar is close to 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.760 how to make this, maybe that's why I learned how 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.439 to make it, because my mom wanted me to figure 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:34.760 some stuff out for myself. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.079 That looks like a lot of sugar, Yeah it is. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.280 Is that supposed to be? How it looks for real? 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.640 And I want to spread it all over even lee. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.720 Yeah, she made the sugar snow on the bread. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.200 I'm gonna try this with as much sugar, but I 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:50.960 am definitely afraid. 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.040 You probably were like five when you were making you know, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:55.560 I want. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.000 To say that shout shout out to l A U 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.439 s D. I want to say this was in a 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.000 cafetina period too, But maybe I'm chripping. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:06.760 We'll see I am, okay, So then okay, so what 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:07.120 do we do? 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.400 I passed that. Yeah, we're going to pass it to 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.480 me and then I'm gonna put them both in the 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:12.240 toaster oven. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.320 Hey, guys, that dish took like one second. If you 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.440 are literally as broke as broke can be, right now, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.920 I promise you the whole loaf of bread was five bucks, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.280 and I got I think sixteen slices of cheese for 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.160 five bucks thanks to inflation. So if you're really struggling 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.000 out there, I would say that you can have what 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:40.040 twenty cheese sugar sandwiches if need be, for ten bucks. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.400 So well, I guess more right, because then it would. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.600 Be like a dollar sandwich. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:51.480 I don't know. But anyways, while April's toasting, if you want, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.920 you can leave the plates over there for now. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.880 I can get all up in the kool aid. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.840 Okay, So what was going on when you were eating 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:05.439 cheese sugar toast, like, what was going on around that time? 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.280 Take me back, Well, I probably was growing up like 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.439 you said, I was a little girl, but I do 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:16.120 remember feednus to my kids when after my divorce and 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:21.960 moving out and no starting life, not starting over, but 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:22.800 the continuation. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.560 Well, take me take me back to the original OG date. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.200 What was your household like? Was it a single mom? 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:30.440 Was it dual parents? 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.880 I was doing it was dual parents. People don't believe 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.240 my name is really April Showers, but my daddy is 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.280 Herman Showers. It is my biological name. I grew up 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:42.120 on eighty ninth in Western in south central Los Angeles, 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:44.079 and you guys. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.959 Were below middle class or middle class. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.320 I think my family worked for the state, so they 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.800 were they were middle class. So we're gonna really dive 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.280 into my story and how I am who I am 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.080 because although I grew up on eighty ninth and Western, 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.960 my mother sure I experienced outside of eighty ninth and Western. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:04.840 I think that's so important. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.080 Like a lot of people that I see come on 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.720 this show, they had a mom or dad or someone 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.400 take them out of that traditional neighborhood to show them 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.079 just a peace of the world. There are kids actually 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.760 that live in LA that have actually never seen the beach. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.800 So just to give you guys perspective of oh well, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.600 this happens in every household. No, Like, we're in twenty 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.120 twenty three and kids who live in Los Angeles still 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.080 have never been to the beach. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:32.360 Will continue yep. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.320 I went to high school with a girl who had 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.800 never been to the beach. She lived was probably because 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.640 of proximity she lived like in Altadena, but still the 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.440 beach is the beach is not that far. But my 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.040 mom made a point if it was just to go 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.640 to a movie theater or go out to eat, we 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.480 were going to Beverly Hills, or we would come to 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.840 the valley, or we'll go to Rowland Hills. She just 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.880 made sure I had a different experience and I was 0:13:55.920 --> 0:14:02.400 around different environments and different peoplevated me in my entire life. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.760 On my on my entrepreneurship journey, was that a lifestyle 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.120 I wanted a different lifestyle. I didn't want to just 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.360 be eating cheese of sugar toast, and then a lifestyle 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:13.680 I wanted. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.400 You said both your parents worked for the state. I 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.600 used to have a theory. I'm gonna see if you 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.880 can crack my theory and say I'm wrong. But I 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.920 used to have a theory that most entrepreneurs had to 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.400 have experienced an entrepreneur somewhere in their journey because traditionally, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.320 you know, you grow up in a home with parents 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:33.360 that have jobs. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.160 You're trained more to go. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.480 To school, be good in school, and then you get 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.000 a job. Was there did you have exposure to an entrepreneur? 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.440 Pop my meth, pop it go. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:49.280 Ahead, Okay, okay, good, good hopping it because I think 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:50.800 what it was. And we kind of talked about your 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.360 daughter and how she what's the word that you use 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:55.840 because I'm not good at words. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.640 Oh, cognitive, She's more cognitive than expressive. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:03.120 Yes, So my mom would take me different areas and 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.800 I would see different lifestyles, and then I would like 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.080 talk to the school counselors and find out, like how 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.880 much does this, you know, occupation paid. I'm like, that 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:17.600 ain't gonna equal budget to where I'm trying to get 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.800 to a life. So I was around working people, I 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.400 was around politicians. I did have one aunt who was 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.480 a state farm agent, and I did become a state 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:28.920 farm agent. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.800 I have twelve Now they're kind they're kind of the entrepreneurs. Yeah, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.360 well they're almost like franchise, we are, we are, we are, So, 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.040 I will say so kind of not alway all the 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.360 way popping your bubble shaking. But she's not like she's 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.680 a distant like she's not blood on. So in my families, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.960 there's no real entrepreneurs. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.760 I just I've been Did. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.200 You see someone on TV that I've been bossy all 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.680 my life? There? 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.360 No, I'm glad you said that because I've been reading. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.520 I told you, I've been doing a lot of research 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.680 on failure. And there's a word. I saw this Ted 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.760 talk and one of my my my friends sent it 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.200 to me was on grit. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:15.640 Have you heard you've heard grit? 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.600 So they're saying that people that are successful the thing 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.560 isn't like academics and like how educated you are. They 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.280 were saying like there was this common quality that people 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.320 that took things all the way to the end had 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.760 this word called grit. And literally, this lady that did 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.160 the Ted talk, like some company funded hundreds of thousands 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.360 of dollars to her just to research this characteristic grit. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.160 So I feel like hearing your story, the word that 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.880 would describe you would probably be grit. Based on what 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.040 I've been reading recently. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.040 So people that know me know that I have the 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.240 slogan I say all the time. They're going to probably 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.840 say before I say it, it's all gas no breaks. Okay, Yeah, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:02.160 you got grit, great breaks with like b r e A, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.240 you know, like breaking, like like taking time. I'm like no, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:15.320 like I'm going yes, all ye yeah yeah. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.240 The way based on this article that I read, it 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.680 would be grit. So so maybe yeah, you weren't exposed 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.040 to entrepreneurs, which, by the way, they're trying to still 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.520 figure out how does a kid get grit? So some 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.960 I'm I'm looking at my daughter like, man, I hope, 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.120 I hope you got that card of grit. But no, 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:34.719 like seriously, grit is like a combination of characteristics. So 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:42.760 based on African Afro Unicorn being the first licensed Disney character, 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:50.000 not Disney, I mean licensed character own by a black woman, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:52.480 you definitely have grit. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.360 Yeah, you definitely have great who competes against Disney, who 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.640 competes against Yes, exactly, Sorry for the fumble. No, You're 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.600 all good. I'm just checking her toast over here. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.280 Yeah, I've been known to burn things on this set 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.080 because I she's not cooking on it. 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.280 Yeah, she's not cooking on the stovetop. Guys. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.199 Uh and whatever. Someone is cooking in the oven, our 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:21.879 little toaster oven. I will say that traditionally that food 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.920 gets burnt because I definitely don't pay attention to it. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.080 Oh wow, it looks you don't even see the sugar 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.080 on it a lot. 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:37.480 Okay, show it to the camera. Oh oh, it's nice 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:38.480 and warm. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.639 Very nice and warm. I'm really excited about this. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.480 You know, you guys are gonna see me eat it 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:45.520 in like three seconds. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:46.360 I feel really bad. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.399 We gonna make you some more because you're hungry. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.600 Hungry, Okay, I'm hungry. It smells good. I kind of 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.800 want to cut it just to see the cheese stretch. 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:54.320 You know. 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.440 I this is bringing back memories when. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.040 I cut well, the outside is all crispy. Now, I 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.720 get why you put it in the oven. It is perfect. 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:03.680 I'm excited. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.320 I get into it. Okay, people will see me. All right, guys, 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.760 we're gonna go in for the taste test. And just 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.400 so you know, all my listeners, first season, I was nice. Okay, 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:19.960 towards the end of the first season, I was like, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:21.320 I'm gonna have to keep it real because there was 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.760 some some dishes on our first season that I was 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.800 not feeling. So I'm gonna give you a rating from 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.360 one to ten to tell you how good this dish is. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:48.160 Here we go, cheers. This is brilliant. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.800 I would never think sugar. I would have never thought sugar. Honestly, 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:59.240 I would have done without the sugar. But there's just 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:03.080 definitely something teach your kids, if you know one teaching 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.479 the grilled cheese. This is like grilled cheese with sugar. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:11.400 I love it. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:13.800 For a broke dish. 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.760 Based on everything, I would give this like a a 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:19.560 seven and a half. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:22.920 We're is good, and it's only because. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:27.399 Because it's so broke. 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.440 I don't know if it was like if it was 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:32.440 it was you know what it is, maybe because I 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.560 would prefer like a piece of meat. But like if 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.920 I were on a budget, like and I was almost homeless, 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.000 and I'm starting a brand out of my garage, like 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.359 this would be the dish. It would be, you know, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:43.240 this would be my dessert. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.119 At the end of the way that you described it. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.159 That's a tin. If you're gonna develop a whole business 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.480 out of your garage based off of this cheese sugar toes. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:51.120 That is a tea. 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.359 I'll tell you this, I'm gonna finish it. I'll probably 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.320 asked you to do me another one. I'm definitely gonna 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.680 do another one, and I'll probably make this for my daughter. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:01.000 Or myself late at night. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.000 And I love the way we toasted it. I think 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.760 it made a difference because if you would have had 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.520 the hard test, it would have worked. But it's like 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:13.840 soft on the inside and then it has the nice 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:18.359 ridging crustal Okay, I would say a ten. 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:19.560 You hit a ten. 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.000