1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Please work with to Money Making Conversations master Class. The 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: franchise owner of a Nothing Bontcake location, Charlie Shaw, I'm wonderful. 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: How are you shying? I'm happy to be here. Thank 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: you for having me. Well, first of all, let's talk 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: about the relationship. You know, in my business, somebody had 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: delivery gifted me You're prob and I was happy. Manybody 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: know what they followed and they know I love sweets. 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: And I immediately invited you because I asked you. I said, 9 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: because you know I'm gonna be honest with I. I 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: stereotyped it. I thought she was just a delivery person. 11 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: She said, no, I am the owner of this location. 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: I went wow, and I said, could you come on 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: my show? And we've been going back and forth because 14 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 1: your schedule has been busy, and finally you're able to 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: come my man show in Black History. Mom, it's proud 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: and talk about what you do. Let's talk about before 17 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: you made this decision, Charlie, to be a franchise So 18 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: a little background. I'm a CPI. So I've been in 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 1: accounting my whole life. Always knew I wanted to be 20 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: an accountant. From Philadelphia. I went to Temple University for 21 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: my undergrad and accounting had a taxation class, and I 22 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: think I want to do taxes. So I went and 23 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: got my masters and taxation, and um that's what I did. 24 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: So I was a tax accountant for most of my life, 25 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: and I thought I would do that for the rest 26 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: of my life. I'm gonna tell you something I am 27 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: afraid to do time. I would degree in mathematics. You 28 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: cannot even an easy for him. I get nervous that. 29 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: I swear to you, I will go to h and 30 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: whatever whatever about that don't tax I would take it 31 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: easy for him. Okay, you know, just just do it 32 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: you So for you, I am like borrowing down to 33 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: you to say, because you're confidently saying the taxes, that's 34 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: what I do. I do taxes, taxes when you look 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: at it, the guy and I've people tell me I'm 36 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: pretty smart. My degree, you know, I made it easis. 37 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: But I swear to you, I will not do my taxes. 38 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: I've never ever done my taxes because they intimidate me 39 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: in the whole process of making a mistake. Intimidated and so. 40 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: But so that means that you have to be a 41 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: confident person. Then, right, yeah. You know, UM, the law 42 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: changes often, so you're always doing your continuing education credits 43 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: and understanding the new laws and you know once you 44 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: and don't get me wrong. I started out as a 45 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: personal tax return prepared and when I moved to Atlanta, 46 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: I decided I want to be a business tax return 47 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: prepare And I was totally intimidated by that. UM, but 48 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: I googled a c p A I called her. I 49 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: told her, listen, I want to work for free. I 50 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: don't know business taxes. Can I please come to your 51 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: office and you teach me? And I learned for free, 52 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: just free, free, free, free, free free. So she's said, 53 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: uh yeah, so because she asked for your resume and 54 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: she saw, I'm gonna get this person this skills a 55 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: temple graduate for free, knowing what your ultimate goal was exactly, 56 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: so she um, it's a huge mentor for me. And 57 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: so I learned business axes and I had a corporate job. 58 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: That's how I moved to Atlanta UM from Philly. UM 59 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: large bank made me an offer that I couldn't refuse. 60 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: So packed up, you know, a little jeep, and I 61 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: moved to Atlanta. UM found an apartment three days later 62 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: and in Tucker. So Tucker has been where I moved 63 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: to first, at my first home, had my first job, 64 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: and now the Bakries and Tucker. So I have deep 65 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: roots with Tucker Tucker Georgia because it syndicated national. Yes Georgia, 66 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: Yes it is. Now let's let's talk about that. The differences, 67 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, because we always talking about fear on this show. 68 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: You know you you you moved, you know, you are 69 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: all female, you know, transitioning from another major market to 70 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: another major market. But it is northeastern, NATA South. Were 71 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,839 Speaker 1: there any what were the fears and making that move, 72 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: that decision to come to Atlanta, because there were some 73 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: there were a lot of fears. Um, but I it 74 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: was done of Philly. You know, I needed to change. 75 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: So I kind of left it open to where the 76 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: job opportunity took me. So d C, California, there were 77 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: all options, Texes. So when the door opened to Atlanta, 78 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: I was like, well, that's where I need to be. 79 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: So I came confidently with fears of what if I 80 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: don't do well at this job? What if you know, 81 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: what if? What if? What if? But I was like, 82 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: I could always go back to Philly, you know, all 83 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: my families in Philly, So you know that's um always 84 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: was a fallback plan if it had to be, but 85 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: never looked back. You know. Interesting, if you guys want 86 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: to talk and join this conversation. I remember when I 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: left IBM to pursue a stand up career, and I 88 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: left on great terms, and in fact, I tell people 89 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: when the Showman, I was in tears when I made 90 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: that decision a year in advance because it was such 91 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: an emotional decision that even though that knew working for 92 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: ib AND was not my future, it just didn't It 93 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: didn't excite me. I felt I saw myself being blocked 94 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: in creatively, and I went, Okay, this is not me. 95 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: And so because they had a successful model and they 96 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: wanted people to grow in that model, and I wanted 97 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: to do things outside of that model, and I went, no, 98 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: this is not me. But I know for a year 99 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: I kept thinking I can always go back, you know, 100 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: and then finally I said stop. Stop, stop that theory 101 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: that security blanket away, and stop that theory that you 102 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: can go back, and because that's not why you left. 103 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: You left to pursue your dreams. And that's right, that's 104 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: key right there. You left Philadelphia to pursue your dreams, 105 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: and in doing so, you had to take away that 106 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: thought process. When did you take away that thought process 107 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: that I had that you could always go back? Well 108 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: to make it even more you know, I took a 109 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: temp position at this bank. I didn't even have a 110 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: signed contract. I took a temp job and took a 111 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: leap on faith. So once I proved myself because I 112 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: was confident, I was like, I can do the work. 113 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: I got a full time contract about my apartment, started 114 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: building my network of friends, and I was like, this 115 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: is my home now, you know. And so so you 116 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: did free work. We don't come back after this break. 117 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: You've got a lot of talking. We did even talk 118 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: about cages. His story is so interested. But you're the 119 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: perfect guest for the show because I want people to 120 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,559 Speaker 1: hear how it seems simple, it seems difficult, but fear 121 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: drive so many people from reaching their their ultimate dream. 122 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: And it is walking away. You know. I know that 123 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: my I've walked away from a lot of levels. So 124 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people said you always seen and 125 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: people have called me a renaissance man, and sometimes I 126 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: don't know what that means. But when they look at 127 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: my resume, go you did this, you did this, you 128 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: did this, and you've been good at all these things. 129 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: And I say, because everything I do, I have done 130 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: in my life I wanted to do it. How you doing, Victoria? 131 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: You're calling in on Money Making Conversation Master master class 132 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: and you're speaking to me, And Charlie Shop asked, what 133 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: what can I what are you talking about? What question 134 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 1: can we ask me? Help you with? Good evening? Good evening? 135 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 1: How are you good? Good? Um? Okay? So um, I 136 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: was listening and I just want to come in you 137 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: um for taking a chance from moving from the Northeast 138 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: and then coming to Atlanta and all that. Um, was 139 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: there ever a time in your life where you didn't 140 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: have it all together? Like me and like you, you 141 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: couldn't hold on some money and it would just liquidate? 142 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: And Victoria, I'm a c p A right, I'm gonna 143 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: count and I take care of everybody's money. However, George, 144 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: your power had me no lights one day when I 145 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: came home. Okay, so you know, Rashaw was talking about 146 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: saving and how you wish you could, you know, save 147 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: and put things away. It was so easy for me 148 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: to tell my clients yes, you need to save, you 149 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: need to put ten percent here, you need to do, 150 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: you know, but just keeping it real. It's hard to 151 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: implement those things where you financially or where you want 152 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: to be. So absolutely the struggle was absolutely real. And um, 153 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: I just think the key to it was just standing 154 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: in my lane. You know a lot of my friends 155 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: was like, Oh, we're going out, We're going out. Nope, 156 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: not me, not tonight. You know, you know, you have 157 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: to sacrifice, um a lot of things in order to 158 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: get to where you need to be. So, like Rashawan said, 159 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: if you don't have a plan, you can't. You know. 160 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: I had a spreadsheet that I opened up every morning 161 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: when I was in Corporate America, and it was my debt. 162 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: I had all my credit cards on the spreadsheet. I 163 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: had a payment breakdown on how I was going to 164 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: get each balance to zero, and I was committed to 165 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: the two hundred dollars here, to two fifty here, the 166 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 1: hundred fifty here, the saying, oh I got a zero 167 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: balance on my Discover card, let me use that ten 168 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 1: thousand from there paid down my master card and then 169 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: I got zero interests on the bank. You know, it 170 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: was just maneuvering and figuring out, but having the plan 171 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: and being committed to the plan. And that's how was 172 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: able to get myself out of that credit card. That 173 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: that is inevitable when you don't come from money and 174 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: you have an undergrad degree, you have a master's degree. 175 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: You know, you move in your by yourself. You don't 176 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 1: really have that family support system. So no, it was 177 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: absolutely real and I just had to sacrifice Victoria. Did 178 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: she happy out with that answer? My mom would think 179 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: to my ask like, how how would I how would 180 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: I be able to um being part of the franchise 181 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: of are you just? Are you saying that bunk Nothing 182 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:44,839 Speaker 1: Bunt Cakes is offering franchise opportunities? Absolutely? Um. You know, 183 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 1: I speak to a lot of potential new franchisees and 184 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,719 Speaker 1: a lot of them are very intentional. I want to 185 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: open a Nothing bunt Cakes. That was not my story 186 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: of Victoria Nothing Bunt Cakes was not necessarily the plan. 187 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: The plan was to open a bakery and Tucker in 188 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: this new plaza that needed a bakery. So I was like, Okay, 189 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring a bakery to Tucker. We don't have 190 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: a bakery. I had a client that had a different 191 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,199 Speaker 1: bakery franchise. So it was initially going to be something else, 192 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: and when that didn't work, the landlord is looking at me. 193 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: He's like, hey, Charlie, where's that bakery you're bringing. I'm scrambling, 194 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,599 Speaker 1: you know, like, oh Jesus, I'm googling bakery franchise. You know. 195 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: Other things popped up, and then it morphed into nothing 196 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: bunch cakes. So I would say the plan was to 197 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: have a side business, but sometimes you have to have 198 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,319 Speaker 1: to open it up just a little bit and be 199 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: receptive to the pivots and the changes and saying, Okay, 200 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be this, but this 201 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: is coming full circle for me, so let me embrace 202 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: this and make this work. What's the definition of a franchise? 203 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what's these? Question? Three? Not your last question? 204 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: I was saying, a great movie to final Netflix is 205 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: um the founder. I believe it's called McDonald's. So it 206 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: takes you through the whole franchise like life. So basically Victoria, 207 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: two women came together twenty plus years ago. They had 208 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: a great buntcake and great frosting. Right, they said, listen, 209 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: let's open up a little bakery. Let's have a store, 210 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: you have a business. It does well. You create, um, 211 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: a cookie cut type of thing. You know, you mastered 212 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: the recipes, and it's like, can I give somebody this 213 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: and can they do it without my expertise? And once 214 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: you prove the concept, and if you watch Shark Tank 215 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 1: a couple of episodes, you'll learn all this. Once you 216 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,359 Speaker 1: prove that the concept can be done by anyone anywhere, 217 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: that's the birth of franchising, right. So okay, so they said, look, 218 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: we have the recipe, we have everything. We you know, 219 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: worked out the kinks, we know how many people you 220 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: should hire, we know you know what locations are do 221 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: well with this, and they kind of mapped it out. 222 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: They give you the blueprint, So you take the blueprint. 223 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: Where you buy the blueprint? Lets you buy the blueprint. Victory, 224 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 1: let me tell you something I've been baking since I 225 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: was ten years old. Really good. I'm sorry, Look, I 226 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,559 Speaker 1: want to do this. I'm Victoria. I'm not I'm not 227 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: denying that Victory. First of all, that's what this show 228 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: was designed. Money Making Conversations master Class was to get 229 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: the community excited about speaking to people like Charlie because 230 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: they do exist. They do exist. And there they do 231 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: have uh stories, and her story has gravitated you and 232 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: hopefully motivates you to be a star. A star like 233 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: she said the bakery, you know, like I said, I'm 234 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,839 Speaker 1: an award winning baker and I and I have no 235 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: desire to open the bakery. But you go to my timeline, 236 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: you think I'll baked, and the people are pounds everything 237 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: to look you eating something. And but but it's the passion. 238 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: I hear the passion in your voice. I think what 239 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: she's saying right now is that what is the plan? 240 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:12,719 Speaker 1: You know what is the plan? And she speaks to 241 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: people all the time, and so no, your question. I 242 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: teach you about asking questions. Your curiosity is incredible, but 243 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: now it has to be put on paper. And once 244 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: you put it on paper, then the the emotional pushback happens. 245 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: You know, how do you make that dream happen? And 246 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: that's really where it all starts. You know, whether you 247 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: want to be a singer, whether you want to go 248 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: to college, they're always dreams, but there are when you 249 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: start creating application to that dream, that's when the struggle happens. 250 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: And when that struggle happens, how do you react to it? 251 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: What is your plan the pushback on there, because we 252 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: all have rainy days, we have rainy days and relationships, 253 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: we have rainy bads on job, and there were rainy days. 254 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: Doesn't necessarily mean rain It's just means difficulties. It means 255 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 1: when it's supposed to be sunshine's gloomy, and how do 256 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: you act doing gloom? And so this show Money Making 257 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: Conversations master Class that you're listening to, and Charlie's doing 258 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: an amazing you know me, I should be worried about her. 259 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: You know, she just brilliant sitting over here, just responding 260 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 1: so confidently and casually to these questions. And to have 261 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: a guest like that, she's in studio, she came in here, 262 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,239 Speaker 1: she brought in some of her samples. It's to show confidence. 263 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: And I just want to thank you for calling in 264 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: and leave your number and your ZIP and your email 265 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: address so we can reach out to you, Okay, Victoria, 266 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: because we really want to continue that conversation. Plus I 267 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 1: want to send you one of my Money Making Conversation 268 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: guys to the success. All right, thank you so much, 269 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 1: And I I go to sleep with with this station 270 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: on like it's always on in my room and I 271 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: really find refuge and it so thank you so much, 272 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: Thank you, Victorian. Make sure leading information from me. We'll 273 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: be right back with more money Making Conversations Masterclass with 274 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass 275 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald's getting a little brain sending up in there. 276 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: We know the thing about it now. You you said 277 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: you were going in there. But I know we're about 278 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: to wrap this break up in a few minutes here, 279 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: but I want to ask you a couple of questions 280 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: for me there. You were going in there to open 281 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: a bakery at the side business, at the side business, 282 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: and you just say like that, okay, let me get 283 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: your history here now temple, okay, accounting c p A. 284 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: Where did the baking skills if there were none? There 285 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: were none, okay, Yeah, I used to just cut the 286 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: cookie roll, you know, like spray the pan and like 287 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: just put the little block of chocolate chip, don't want 288 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: it stick it in the oven. Yeah, that was the 289 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: extent of my baking skills. You know. Also, someone set 290 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: seven years ago you're going to own a bakery, I 291 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: would say, wow, interesting because I don't bank so so 292 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: so you in Tucker, George. You you but you're in 293 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: a visionary because you feel that you want to feel 294 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: a need. Okay, so walk us through that step of 295 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: going to the landlord telling them what you wanna do. 296 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: Did you have to have a plan? And the first 297 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: plan wasn't nothing, but talk about that, okay. So the 298 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: plaza was coming, great location, and Tucker, I need to 299 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: be a part of it. I'm driving by every day 300 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: going to my corporate job. So one day I took 301 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: a right and I found, you know, sign, rolled down 302 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: the number, called him, Hey, I have an idea for bakery. 303 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: Do you have any space available? Absolutely? How much space 304 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: do you need? I'm just talking about, you know, kind 305 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 1: of faking it, TiO, I made it, and so I 306 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: was kind of on the hook to bring a bakery. 307 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: So that is when the will started spending and I 308 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: was like, oh that fell through. What else can I do? Oh? 309 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: I was committed to bring in the bakery. Okay, okay, 310 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: you open in? When did you start this? Late fifteen? 311 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: Late fifteen we started communicating with the landlord. I'm at 312 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: den Or one night and I had nothing. Bunch cakes 313 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: in California at a cousin's birthday dinner and it was 314 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: the best cake I ever had, and I thought, Wow, 315 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: I gotta come back to l A to get this cake. 316 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: You know that the Yeah, it's moist, the cream cheese. 317 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: You know. So I had it, tasted it. I just 318 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: didn't know it was a franchise. I didn't know there 319 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: was one here in Georgia. I didn't know any of 320 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: that until someone mentioned it again and I said, oh, 321 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 1: let me google google nothing bunch Cake franchise. Boom came up. 322 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: I'm almost signing a deal with another bakery franchise. Okay, 323 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: so the spirit said, don't just see what nothing bunch 324 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: Cakes has to say. I emailed them. She replied back. 325 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: I told her what was happening about me with this 326 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: other franchise. She said, wait, don't you do it? Charlie. 327 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: Hear me out, and I heard her out and the 328 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: rest is history. You know. I canceled the deal with 329 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: the other bakery franchise, and when with nothing but the kicks? 330 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: So um so, why just off air? Where are black 331 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: women the fastest growing segment in entrepreneurship? From what I 332 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: see and all the amazing black women that I know, 333 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: I think our mothers have a lot to do with that. 334 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: I know my mother, Um, you know, she pushed her 335 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: girls to be what she was not able to accomplish, 336 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 1: you know, So it was just having that fierce you 337 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: know that, you know, amazing black role model of a 338 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: mother to say, you need to travel, you need to 339 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 1: go to college, you need to be better than me, 340 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 1: you need to do better than me. You know, the 341 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: school is your number one priority. Um, that just pushed 342 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: me to continue to see myself out of North Philly. 343 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: You know, Um, a lot of my friends didn't never 344 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 1: been out of North Philly, so they couldn't see themselves 345 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: living outside of North Philly, let alone you know, having 346 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 1: a business or going to college. So I think our 347 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: mothers are the backbones of two while we're so successful, 348 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: and we're very passionate women. I grew up with six 349 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: of them, so I know about the female passion. We 350 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna find out how big her bakery is, 351 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: the pros and cons of franchising, what to consider before franchise, 352 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: And she said, you know, she's about to sign another 353 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: local franchise location bakery. And then she sat down with 354 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: nothing but cake individuals and they said, hey, we're the 355 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,199 Speaker 1: one and she's not looked back. If we're right back 356 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 1: with more Charlie, Sha bass, Charlie, you've got another phone 357 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 1: called Is that Tehran or Tehran Tarran? Is it Tarran 358 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: like the capital? Right? Okay. I appreciate you, my friend, 359 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: and I apologize. In my name is Roushan. You think 360 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: I would get everybody's name right? And I apologize, you know, 361 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: I apologize. Yeah, yeah, I say the same thing when 362 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: I get someone else's name. Well, what name I can't 363 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: get wrong? It's Charlie. It's Charlie. And Charlie's on the 364 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: show with me and we're talking about franchising. What's your 365 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 1: question today that you might want to ask me or her? Well, 366 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: I just wanted to, uh, you know, give give your 367 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: props um. I listened to w C okay often, and 368 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: I just was listening in on the conversation, and I 369 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: just wanted to say, you know, thank you all for 370 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: just supporting black owned businesses as well as uh, you know, 371 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 1: small businesses and on the whole. But black owned is 372 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: definitely uh respected, yea, yeah, what is your name? I'm sorry? 373 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 1: You know, I really appreciate the wrong because of the 374 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: fact that you know, when you when you're trying to 375 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: talk to people, there's fear and that, you know, especially 376 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: offering advices like what's the what's the scam? Because black 377 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: people have a natural you know, scam radar. You know 378 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: that there's another agenda here, and the agenda here is 379 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: just providing information, that's all and and basically what we're 380 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 1: having it's just a conversation and we we as allowing 381 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 1: you to listen in on our conversation that we might 382 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: have in a restaurant, that we might have, you know, 383 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 1: walking down the street, and these questions, like Victoria was 384 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: so exciting to hear you call in and say, I 385 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: really appreciate this conversation. It's what we want to hear. 386 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: That's the conversation you want to create. And the thing 387 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: I loved about Charlie's conversation was she was just a 388 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: business minded person that got into this and that's what 389 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: stops so many people. You didn't have to be a baker. 390 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: You just have to have the passion and the ability 391 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: to work hard to achieve your successes a franchise e. 392 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: That's what excites me about the conversation. What are your thoughts? 393 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: Absolutely well, you know, the journey, the journey. Uh sometimes 394 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 1: you know, in the beginning is the shaky road, you know, 395 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: and it takes you know, it takes that vision to 396 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: be uh ignited. And like you said, you know, fears 397 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 1: is that thing that stops most people's ideas and visions 398 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: and goals because they don't really know what they're stepping into. 399 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: And as I was hearing her story and uh stories 400 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: before hers, um, you know, I definitely related and uh 401 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: you know again, UM, I just you know, I just 402 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: appreciated just hearing everyone's journey to where they are now. 403 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 1: And um, and I know that you know, in the future, 404 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: I know, I'm quite sure there's you know, there is 405 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: a long term goals. You know, this is you know, 406 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: other goals that Yeah. But but as far as what 407 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: I've heard, you know, I definitely um related to you 408 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: because she has a little announcement to tell us. And 409 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: thank you for calling show. We'll be right back with 410 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's 411 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. How 412 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: you tell In me off air, he was talking about 413 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: long term goal was short term goal? Now, short term 414 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: goal was just to get a place open and bakery 415 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: with a name on it. There was repsible. Now you 416 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: told me, all fair, what else is about to happen 417 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: in your life as an entrepreneur as a franchise e. 418 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 1: Well you now are Sean. I let my cp A 419 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: Licensed Labs and so I said, you know what, County, 420 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 1: That's not my thing anymore. This is my thing now. 421 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: So now how can I transition to this to legacy 422 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: to open another one? Yeah? So, um, thank god I 423 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: just got my approval a couple of weeks ago. I 424 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: was nervous, just like, oh, I hope I could announce 425 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 1: on the show. But it was a true blessing and 426 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: a lot of hard work. You know, I definitely deserved it. Um. 427 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: Tucker is four and a half years old now, so 428 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: I kind of worked through the kinks of being a 429 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: small business entrepreneur to, you know, now be confident to 430 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: open another one. Now was the time being on that opening. 431 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: So the territory is central Atlanta. Hey, Atlanta? We coming? Um, 432 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: you know, I was like, I mean where is in Atlanta? 433 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: You know? So Tucker was the closest location to the 434 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: city of Atlanta, so that our second baby will be 435 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: in the city. We're going to cover everything from North 436 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: Shrewood Hills to downtown. So we got Atlanta covered. Well. 437 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: You gotta know you got your third phone car Thomas. 438 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: How you doing, Thomas, Charlie's here long with Rashan McDonald. 439 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: What's your question? I just want to say good even 440 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: to both of you. Am an avid listener. You want 441 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: to commend Charlie the system before CPR, just for all 442 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: that you're doing me being a business owner, myself a 443 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: new a fairly new business owner. Um the want that 444 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: you talked about, uh, Charlie, the pivot and you know, 445 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: giving that you have an accounting background, want something totally 446 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: unrelated to what you were doing, and and the thing 447 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: that I find to be true and you sound of 448 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: a similar nature. But God, I commend you, commend you, 449 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 1: commend you. I love her Son for this platform giving 450 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:17,360 Speaker 1: others to come on here to learn, quire, share, continue 451 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 1: to build an uplift each other. And like ra Shan 452 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: talking about earlier, that fear, I too know. I've wrestled 453 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: with it for years, but by the grace of God, 454 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: last year I pushed through myself. So I can go 455 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: on and on. But I won't just keep it short. 456 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 1: But I just want to commend you. I'm gonna make 457 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: I eat it nothing nothing but cakes um every now 458 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: and again. I was first introduced to it about three 459 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: years ago at a corporate function, and I do make 460 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: it a point to go there. Now that I know 461 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: that you have a location in Tucker, I'm gonna make 462 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: it a point specifically to come to see your location. 463 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 1: And congratulations to thank you. I just wish you well 464 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: to much success on your current a as well as 465 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: your new endeavors you're about to embark up on. Thank you. 466 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much, Thank you so much. Well, 467 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: you know this is the childish of bad show. She's 468 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: my co host or money making Conversation Mouse to class 469 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: and Charlie um the second location. Yes, so we're just 470 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: working through the l o I. And you know, for 471 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: those of you who are thinking about owning a business 472 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: having a brick and mortar actual storefront, an l o 473 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: I is a lease of intent. So before you have 474 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: a lease for space, you negotiate kind of like the upfront. 475 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 1: How much am I going to pay per square foot? 476 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: How much is this? How much is that? How long 477 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: will the least term be? What do you cover? What 478 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: do I cover, you know, so they're gonna pay the exactly. 479 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: So we got really lucky with Tucker because it was 480 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 1: a brand new construction, brand new facility, brand new plaza, 481 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: brand new space. The timing was right because the unit 482 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: was not built out yet, so we were able to 483 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: work with my contractors and my landlord and do everything 484 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: one time. You know, a lot of times you're working 485 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: with the structure and you know your your architects says, no, 486 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: the thinks should be up over here, so now you 487 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: gotta dig up the cement, move the pipes, you know. 488 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: So we were able to save a lot of money 489 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: just by working together from the very beginning and getting 490 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: everything built out the way that it was required. So 491 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,159 Speaker 1: I was I don't think that. I know that's not 492 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: going to be the case for the second one. It's 493 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: an existing structure for the space that I would like 494 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: to hopefully UM move into. It's off of more Land. 495 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: It's a really crazy, busy plaza. But I think nothing 496 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: but cakes can hold our Now you delivered to my offer. 497 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: Did how are you gonna do that? Because you like 498 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: that personal touch. You'd like to be on the front 499 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: line of meeting your customers, like that you know, and 500 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: I still will. I just won't be able to do 501 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: all of them, you know. Um, you absolute really need 502 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 1: a full team to help me be completely successful. I 503 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: think I am best at building relationships marketing. That's my 504 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: new job. I'm out the decayed Chambers of Commerce. I'm 505 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: a member there. I'm a member of my Tucker and 506 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: Business Association. I'm out planning the seeds, you know, so 507 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: when they start to grow, the business can grow. Um. 508 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: And you just gotta know which you're what you're good at, 509 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: and when you're not good at. I've met other business 510 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 1: owners who are not people people, you know, so they 511 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: hire other people to do that for them. It's a gift. 512 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: It's a gift, and I'm thankful for it. And I'm 513 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: um thankful to be in the position to be able 514 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: to build those relationships because a lot of times businesses 515 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: come to communities and they take take take from the community, 516 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: and they don't give back to the community. So it's 517 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: very important to me to um give back to the 518 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: community that I live in. I'm still a resident of 519 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: Tucker or the beauty of our conference. First of all, 520 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: finally got you in here. You are amazing, not only amazing. 521 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: Just your story is just special and if it fits 522 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: so many things that I talked about every week, and 523 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: the fact that you're opening another location, and and the 524 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: fact that you're not a train baker, the fact that 525 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: you just saw an opportunity, did your research and that's why. 526 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: And then overcame the fear of people, don't you don't 527 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: do that? While you why are you doing something you 528 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: don't do? That's what just show money making, money, money 529 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: Making master money Making Conversations master Classes all about. And 530 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming on the show 531 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: and thank you for the next together and uh putting 532 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: on social media before we eat. We see you next week. 533 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 1: This Roshan McDonald. I'm the host of Money Making Conversations 534 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: Master Class and thank you y'all. You're welcome. Thank you 535 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: you've been listening to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. 536 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: Always remember to lead with your gifts. Money Making Conversations 537 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: Masterclass is a presentation of thirty eight fifteen Media Incorporated