WEBVTT - The Secret to My Success 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.920 Welcome to the Secret of My Success, an inspiring journey 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.080 into the minds and experiences of those who've made it. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.600 This is where curiosity meets wisdom. Brought to you by 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.960 the Hartford Small Business Insurance, we dive deep with creative 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.040 business owners, unlocking the stories behind their road to success. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.880 It's about sharing, learning, and inspiring. So whether you're dreaming 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.760 of launching your own venture or seeking a spark to 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.360 push you further, check out these candid conversations, insights, and 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:38.080 strategies that transformed passion into profit, with real life tales 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:39.640 from the owners themselves. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.519 Hello, everyone, Welcome back. How's your jones on third It's 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.120 my favorite place, one of the places that I always 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.919 have to hit when I come back to LA. They're cookies, 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.640 the best cookies in the entire world. So up next, 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.840 we have a guess from the hottest zip code in 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:03.480 all of America from the nine two one MG podcast, 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.960 one of the creative forces behind the highly successful QBC 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.960 home decore line of products called. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.920 The BFF Collection. Everybody welcome Jenny Garth. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:27.880 Hello, Hi, Ray, Oh my gosh, this is so fun. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:29.520 I'm here. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.120 Wait a second, you're not Tori spelling? 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:33.600 Yes, I am. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.960 Bad news is Tory couldn't make it, so wells is 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:38.800 gonna fill in. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.319 We're so sorry, but. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.000 I'm here, so let's have some fun. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.520 Yeah, we are so happy. I'm gonna say we we wells. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.000 And I were so happy to be here with everybody 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.560 and talking about small businesses and all the innovative ways 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.720 that in creative ways that you guys have ventured into 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.440 small businesses. And I love to hear these stories and 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.280 so excited to you know, share some of my journey. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:07.520 Are this is weird? 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.959 Our journey? 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.680 Are you Tory spelling? 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.200 And answer any questions that you have? 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.320 So just happy to be here. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.240 Hi, listen, I'm sad that Toy is not here, but 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.840 I'm so freaking excited because I grew up in the nineties. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.320 And wait, what year were you born? 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:28.320 Nineteen eighty four? 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.000 I watched I didn't see that. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.400 I just look good, all right, Like you don't understand 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.959 like I grew up on Nano two and O on 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:46.120 Melrose Place, say by the bell Fresh Prince, And so 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.000 I'm so excited, and I know I want to talk 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.600 about like your podcast and like your side projects, but 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.440 I have to ask some questions about Nana two and 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:55.959 oh is that okay? 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:56.600 Hi? 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:57.040 Wait? 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:57.960 Hello? 0:02:58.960 --> 0:02:59.959 Well there's people up there? 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:00.720 Hello? 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:03.000 How is it up there? 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:04.520 You like? 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:04.919 Okay? 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:05.160 Good? 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.800 You happy? Okay? 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.200 Okay. When did you start working on the show? 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:13.320 Like? 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.519 How old were you when you started doing nine O 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:16.079 two and nine? 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.400 I think I was seventeen. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:20.840 I know I had my driver's license, so I was 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.079 either sixteen or seventeen. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.320 But that's a weird thing. So you're in high school 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:26.679 playing a high schooler. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.920 I was not in high school. I left high school 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.880 to pursue a dream of acting, which I didn't even have. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.800 I just stumbled into it. And then working and having 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.720 school at the same time wasn't as easy as it 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.840 needed to be. So I got my ged and started 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.640 working adult hours and paying adult bills real early. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.160 So did you ever go to prom or like Sadie 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.960 Howkins dances? Like did you do like normal high school stuff? 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:58.040 I did on TV? 0:03:58.360 --> 0:03:58.960 That's amazing. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.360 Yeah, But I feel like I really experienced all that 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.560 I needed to experience from those interactions, and. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:07.480 They were you know. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.200 I mean so often when you go to high school, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:12.920 you don't stay in touch with the people that you 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.680 were in school with. But I have been given the 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.839 great opportunity to stay in touch with all the people 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:20.800 that I went to high school with and to college with. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.679 So I feel, you know, really blessed by that when. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:30.120 You look back on that time, What is like your 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:31.919 fondest memory of doing that show? 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.000 Gosh, or do you like? 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.640 So? My wife is was on Modern Family and we'll 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.080 be watching the show and she'll go, I have no 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.240 recollection of doing this, and I wonder if you have 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:45.919 that too. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.960 Kinda yeah, because there was so much There's always so 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.800 much going on, and you meet so many people, there's 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.080 so much in your head at all times that it's 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.919 really hard to remember everything, all the little things. But 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.320 that is the coolest part of n Jump right into 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.400 the nine O two one OG real quick. Yeah, Tory 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.599 and I do a podcast called nine O two on OMG. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.560 That's on iHeart, and we are watching the show back 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.560 from the very beginning, the first episode, all the way 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.320 through what will be the ten seasons of the show. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.280 And yes, that's right, my heart. You will be picking it. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.280 Up on right now. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.080 We're on five okay, wow. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.080 But we we're watching it for the first time and 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:36.680 it's it's enlightening. It's because I don't remember. I never 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.600 watched it. I was always busy making it. We had 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.760 these crazy, insane hours that we worked, and there was 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.480 never time to sit down in front of the TV. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.680 Not to mention, I had a baby at twenty three, 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.240 so I was had a lot of balls in there. 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.920 But now going back and watching the show, it has 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.679 given me just a new respect, a new. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:58.640 Love for it. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.880 I swear to you, I'm a fan of the show now, 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.400 like I'm watching it from fan eyes, and I get it, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.960 Like I get why people love the show so much, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.160 and I get why it was so important to them, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.640 because when you watch it, we watch it week by week, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.640 and that's how you used to watch television, if you guys, remember, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.120 you had to be in front of the TV. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.240 Of whatever night it was, at whatever time it was. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.520 Yeah, and now through we don't have to do that anymore. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.760 But that makes it more exciting and somehow more meaningful. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.320 And I'm just really loving watching it and getting to 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:36.960 know that girl that played Kelly Taylor and getting to 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:43.360 look at her me through such a different lens and 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.719 have a deeper understanding and appreciation for even myself and 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.120 all those experiences that I got to have. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:54.120 I wonder if there was a character arc while you 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.200 were doing it that you didn't love, But now watching back, 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:58.560 you're grateful for. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:02.120 Well, I don't. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:04.360 Well. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.159 For years, I thought that I was a bad person 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.000 via Kelly because I stole Brenda's boyfriend Dylan. But I didn't. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:18.520 It didn't happen that way. They were broken up and 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.280 she was away, they were on a break. So I've 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.640 given my forgiven myself slash Kelly for that. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:31.680 Now, are there storylines that never happened that you wish had? 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:33.000 Looking back? 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.800 I think that there is no storyline that we didn't 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:42.800 do in those ten years. Specifically, my character was somehow 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.720 the butt of all the drama. She was you know, 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.560 shot in the parking lot, she was in a cult, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:53.840 she had a lesbian stalker, almost raped, burned in a fire. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.840 There's so many and look at you today. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.320 I made it proof that you can do any you 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:01.120 can get through anything. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.520 Yeah, So you guys are watching the show back in 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.520 real time, the listeners are watching it with you. I imagine 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.960 you're having guests from the show come on as well 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:17.120 and have their unique taken experience from it. What's that like? 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:21.520 Kind of like re reconnecting with some of these these 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:22.640 friends that you had back then. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.000 Well, we've been mostly focusing on our supporting cast members 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.960 because the show really launched so many young actors' careers 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.800 back in the nineties, and so we're going back and 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.560 touching base with a lot of the people that were 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.760 the supporting cast members. And that's really fun because they 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:45.800 came into that experience, like you know, with just flabbergasted 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.439 by getting to be on the show, and it was 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.880 such a hit and we were in it, so it 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.280 didn't feel that way to us. But now being able 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.520 to hear their stories of their experiences of being on 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.920 the show, it's it's pretty cool. And getting to know 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.840 them now as adults, you know. I mean, it's just 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:04.760 a different ballgame. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.680 Who is the least like their character from the show 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:11.480 in real like their character? 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:12.800 You know what. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.319 Honestly, in the very beginning of the show, if you 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.120 guys are fans of the show, you know that the 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.200 show started out very stereotypical. The characters were kind of 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.400 one dimensional, and everybody started to purpose. My character, in particular, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.640 was the bitch from Beverly Hills with a nose job 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.319 in the BMW, and that's how they. 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.240 Saw this character. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.640 But as the writers got to know each of us 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.120 actors individually and we spent a lot of time together, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.440 they started to do something that was pretty ingenious, which 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.559 was bringing in so much of who we were personally 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:51.080 as humans into those characters and sort of threading those 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.839 fibers into the characters. And I think in doing that, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.200 the reason that I feel it was so genius was 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:02.679 because it made these characters so relatable to everybody out 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.199 there watching it, whether they were from Beverly Hills or 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.280 whether they were from you know, the Ukraine or wherever. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.600 There was fans everywhere and so. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.960 And also this was the first time that people out 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.480 there had the chance to see what living in Beverly 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.040 Hills was like. And we didn't have the Internet. Then 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.520 there was no let me google it. You know, they 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.560 didn't they didn't know what it looked like. So we 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.079 got to take them into this exclusive, you know, glitzy, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.600 glamorous world for the very first time, and it was 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.480 just it just sucked you in. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:36.559 Listen. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.880 I could talk to you about this show like all 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.800 night long, but I know that there are other speakers, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:46.120 so I think that this whole night is about talking 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:52.360 about you. Know, side hustles and small businesses, and you've 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:58.000 you've taken this this career that started on this wildly 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.160 successful show that was a cult phenomenon, and then you've 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.000 been able to kind of like build this kind of 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:08.079 crazy brand from it. So I wanted to talk about 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:09.839 the BFF Collection if we could. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.760 Yeah, I mean it's interesting because we I didn't ever think, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:21.520 as a young actress, or even a middle aged actress, 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.959 that I could build my own brand and do something else. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.760 You know, I think it hasn't. It wasn't until honestly, 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.880 I was in my late forties, early fifties, I'm fifty 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.160 one now that my eyes kind of pivoted and my 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.880 reality sort of shifted and I saw all the things 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.559 that were that. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.600 I could do other than acting. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.400 And thank god, now with the strikes and you know, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.040 all the things that have happened, it's getting work is 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.000 not as easy as it used to be as an actor. 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.800 So pivoting has been really good for me. But I 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.880 think I didn't never think at fifty one that I 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.120 would be having my own small business with my best friend, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.000 starting up my own a separate small business that I'm 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.120 doing right now, creating a brand of my very own, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.000 and just to know that, you know, it's never too 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:19.240 late to sort of do what you always wanted to do. 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:25.120 Because I'm an idea person. I have these embarrassing whiteboards. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.120 Up on my wall in my office. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.800 I don't like people to see them because they're embarrassing 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:33.040 because it's all my like my genius ideas like listed out, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.560 and some of them aren't so genius. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.040 But I stare at them all the time. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.000 And I've spent many years thinking what am I, how 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:39.880 am I going to what am I? 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.120 How am I going to make this happen? 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.319 Or I can't do this, or letting all those voices 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.240 inside my head keep me from just trying, you know. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.400 And it was basically just fear, and was something about 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.040 turning fifty to fifty one that I just decided that 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.160 I wasn't going to be afraid anymore because I don't 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.160 have much time left and I just wanted. 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:01.080 To go for it, you know. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:01.760 Yeah. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.120 So that brought Tory and I to this sort of 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.680 the same place of loving working together and creating projects 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:13.000 that we could do together, and creating a brand that 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.560 we felt would speak to a lot of our fan base, 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.720 which is women, our age, some younger, some older, and 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.480 we partnered with QVC and we brought to life this 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.080 cute well brand called the BFF Collection and we've just 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.959 had such a great time creating these products. There are 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.800 some of our products up here. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.520 I know everything up here except the chairs, right yeah. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.800 I heard is our number one fan as customer ever. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.040 And we have a lot of our products up here 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.040 because we're very proud of them. And it's been doing 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.240 really well on QBC and the partnership's going really well. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:56.079 We had three drops in twenty twenty three. January was 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.960 our debut. We came out with our home decore line, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:05.559 which was the Ottomans, the bar cart, the Hurricanes, the trunk, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.160 all kinds of things like that. Then in July we 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.840 did a big event for QBC their Christmas in July. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:13.920 They call it CIJ. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:19.680 It's very popular with the QVC ladies and they buy 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.800 all their Christmas stuff. That sold out on air while 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.280 we were on air, which was great, so exhilarating and 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.400 exciting to be having that happen. And then we had 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.080 our last drop in September, which was our Culinary Collection 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.120 and those are some of the pieces over there. The 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.800 cakestand those beautiful chargers you see up there, the bread basket, 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.720 the picture of the pan, it's all here for you 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:42.520 guys to look at. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:44.160 We're kind of proud of it. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:49.280 So what up there is yours? And what up there 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.560 is tories? Or is it like an amalgamation of both 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.560 your aesthetics? 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.880 It is that it is a combo of everything. So 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:04.240 we'll bring an idea to the table, and that's that's what. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.840 I'm a collaborator, like I love when other people bring 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.360 me ideas on top of my ideas, ideas that are 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:12.520 going to make my idea better. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.160 And so that's how Torri and I kind of work. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.840 We'll say, hey, let's do a bread bull and then 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.880 we'll both bring our inspiration to the table and just 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.120 kind of meet in the middle. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.400 And usually without fail. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.640 Our our instincts are the same direction. We are kind 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.880 of picking the same things and and it's worked out 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.080 really well. We haven't had any big fights about like. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.240 Well I want it to be blue and you know, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.400 so how. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:48.560 You no no drama, no drama. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.800 Obviously you can get this stuff on QBC, but if 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.640 people want to go find out more about it, is 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.760 there a website? 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.360 Yes, it's the BFF collection dot com. Easy enough. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.760 Yeah, I'm supposed to. I'm playing the part of Tory 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.600 spelling today. They took the books away. I have a 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.720 bunch of books out. That's I put out a lot 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.840 of books. You did, They're great. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.240 You've written how many books? 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.000 Is it seven or eight? I don't know. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.720 There's a children's book. I know that, really. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:20.720 I googled it. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:25.120 There you might be, so there's that. But you also 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.000 are doing like like obviously i'm writing books seven or eight, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.560 one's a children's book, But you're also doing stuff on 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.120 your own as well. And I want to talk about 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:35.600 your clothing. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.240 Line, right, Yeah, that's I think by doing the BFF Collection, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.840 it sort of gave me that courage and confidence to 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.120 branch out on my own. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:50.000 And I have to tell you that the collection. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.560 The brand that I'm starting is called Me by Jenny Garth, 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:57.320 and it is it spawned from something a long time ago, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.840 which my character actually said a lot that was written 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.240 by the late Jessica Klein, who was one of my favorite. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:04.760 Writers on the show. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.720 She wrote a very profound line and I didn't really 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.919 understand the depth of it when I was whatever in 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.080 my early twenties. It was the moment when Kelly was 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.679 deciding between Brandon and Dylan. They came up to her 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.320 in the peach Pit parking lot and made her decide, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:30.440 and in that moment she said, I choose me. And 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.159 that has resonated me through the years and impacted me 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.080 on such a deeper level. And now that I'm older 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.680 and wiser and I have young adult women that I'm 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.120 guiding in this life, I say that to them a lot. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:47.120 Choose you. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.000 Put you first, because when you take care of yourself, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:55.320 you are more available to everybody in your life. And 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.120 we all know that old saying on the airplane when 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.400 the oxygen drops, you put on yourself first and then 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.359 you take care of the person next to you. And 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.200 that's kind of the backbone of my brand, and it's 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:14.159 just encouraging women, young girls, anyone really to listen to 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:19.560 themselves and choose to listen to themselves first instead of 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.760 other people. So my brand is Me by Jenny Garth, 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.960 and I've started just very preliminarily just doing some merch 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.200 with the slogan. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:31.080 On it that I Choose Me. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.280 A lot of stuff like this, just reminding me and 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.080 other people that this is an option you can choose 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.159 you it's not selfish, and I feel really good about it. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:43.479 You know. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.919 It's something that's percolated in my mind a long time, 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.320 and people always said. I remember I got my horoscope 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.639 reread once and they said, you're supposed to use whatever 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.960 platform it is, you know those things they say, if 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:01.760 you're in aries, you're more apt to be an entertainer 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.880 or someone in the spotlight or a public figure or whatever. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.680 That's what they said to me. I was like, oh, okay, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:06.399 what do I do with that? 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.520 And they also said you're supposed to help other. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.359 People in doing that, And I always thought, I'm just 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:12.080 an actress. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:13.120 How am I helping people? 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.080 Yeah, okay, I get it that they relate to the show, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.040 they relate to the characters that I've played, and that 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.800 moves them and touches them and makes us, you know, closer, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.120 But I didn't really understand what I was doing. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.960 And now I really do feel like this is. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:35.000 A calling for me to teach these lessons to women 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.199 that need to hear them. This is a message that 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.959 women need to hear, that everybody needs to hear. So 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.440 this is the merch part, is just the first branch 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.399 of the Me by Jennigarth line and coming out with 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.960 a clothing line for QBC as well, which is also 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.240 very exciting. It'll be out next year and I just 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:54.920 I don't know where it's going to go, but I'm 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.000 really excited about the options and the doors that are opening. 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.160 And then they wouldn't have opened if I hadn't looked 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.200 that fear right in the face and said no more 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.960 with you. I don't trust you anymore. You're a liar, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:07.960 and I'm going to. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:08.959 Do what I want to do. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:10.919 I love that I choose me. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:12.359 That's good. That's great. 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.919 Ashley and John are out in the audience. Do you 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.320 guys have any questions for Jenny? 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.280 I know John does right now, and then if you 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.239 guys do, raise your hands and we'll get to you 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:24.000 right after him. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:24.679 Awesome. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:25.960 Goodbye, Tory. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.080 Children, Go write a book right quick. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.960 Okay, So Jenny talking about choosing you a little bit. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:34.479 One of the questions we get a lot on our 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.800 podcast is about small business owners kind of being in 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.320 their head and needing to take time. How do you 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.040 choose you or what are some things that you do 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.080 to kind of in your very busy schedule to make 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.479 sure you're taking care of yourself and that your focus 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:48.240 is a priority. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.800 I am a calendar girl. I write it all on 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:56.000 my calendar. It's color coded. Everybody has a color on 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.560