WEBVTT - Risk It For The Biscuit w/ Etienne & Ivy Coco Maurice 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.560 You know, social media has a way of bringing people 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:09.080 across your timeline and something about them just resonates where you're. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.440 Just like, these are my people. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.680 I don't know them, but I'm going to claim them 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.440 as my family. That's how I feel about my guests today. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.840 Dead ass, dead ass. 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.120 I love that. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:25.760 Hey. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.920 I'm Kadeen and I'm Devout and we're the Ellis's. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.920 You may know us from posting funny videos with our 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:33.800 voice and reading. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.040 Each other publicly as a form of therapy. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.040 Wait, I make you need therapy most days. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.680 Wow. Oh, and one more important thing to mention, we're married. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.680 Yes, sir, we are. We created this podcast to open 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.559 dialogue about some of Li's most taboo topics. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.760 Things most folks don't want to talk. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.960 About through the lens of a millennial married couple. Dead 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.120 ass is a term that we say every day. So 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.760 when we say dead ass, we're actually saying facts one 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.160 hundred the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.880 We about to take Bilos off to a whole new level. 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:13.160 Dead ass starts right now, all right, So, typically for 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.840 my listeners out there, everyone knows that we do storytime 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.760 every episode, but I actually have a guest today who 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.960 would like to do story time for a change, which 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:21.640 is awesome. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.240 Oh and I'm so excited to hear what she got 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:25.959 to say. So take it away. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.560 Guess it's not a it's not a story story, but 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.760 you offered to story time. Just tell the story. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:33.520 You know. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.040 It's just funny because I remember being in college with 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.600 my friends and I think it was when you were 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.520 having your first son, and I don't know. My friends 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.640 and I were on Pinterest and we saw this picture 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.720 of you and your husband that went viral with the 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.279 ten the tens, Yes, with my first born. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:49.640 Yes. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:50.960 And my friends and I were. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.600 Like, oh my gosh, we're going to recreate photos like 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.360 that when we're like getting married. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.240 And I'm like, oh my. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:57.040 God, that's so funny. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:57.360 Wow. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.480 And to be sitting here with you, and upon a 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.600 time I was in my dorm room with my friends 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.800 looking at your pregnancy and now you have four kids. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.960 I that's crazy because baby, at the time there was 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.120 only one. Yeah, there was only one. And fast forward 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.320 for I know, so now look at us. Now we're here. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.680 Now we're here. So I made the vision board. Huh, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:23.400 you made the vision board. I've heard that before. I 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.040 love that. Thank you so much. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.000 I feel so honored, and I feel like if anything 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.000 being on someone's vision board like that, it's just a 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.120 testament to displaying what it's like to be in a healthy, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.280 awesome marriage and your journey through parenthood. And that's literally 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.720 when we just tried to put out there, because that's 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:41.880 just our life organically. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.880 So absolutely, thank you for that couple of goals time. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.520 I love that. I love that. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.640 It's so funny because today we have siblings on I'm 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.799 going to tell you who they are soon, but it's 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.080 funny to see the sibling banter back and forth because 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.040 my brother, my sister, and I we literally make fun 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.000 of each other all day every day. So I love 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.920 that quick story about actually to piggyback on story time 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.440 because I feel like I'm compelled to tell this right now. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:13.600 I was so invested in this young man's wedding story. Okay, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:23.320 so invested, badmind. Hurricane Beryl was taking her broad back 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:29.560 self across the Caribbean, and I'm literally on vacation at 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.960 the time in Hawaii with my husband and watching play 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.080 by play Instagram stories from you guys. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.880 Because I said, there's no way of. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.800 Every day in a year that you decide to plan 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:44.320 a wedding. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.880 Yeah, the week of July. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:48.160 The week of. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:53.600 July six where a hurricane would fix itsself to make 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.480 its way across our beloved the Jamaica, when somebody is 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.440 just trying to marry the love of his life. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.760 Was trying to just have a simple wedding. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.280 That's all we're trying to do. And I was so 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.440 invested that I was watching the play by player. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:08.760 I said, this has to happen. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.280 I was literally praying for you guys every day that 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.200 things would divert and it would work out. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.039 And so said, so done. And I love that. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.240 And I think y'all's prayers work because it happened. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.960 It happened, It happened. We'll talk more about that in 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.880 a second. Okay, all right, karaoke time. Did we come 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.920 up with a song for karaoke folks? 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.480 Because I would go to a classic that I feel 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:46.799 like you guys should know. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:57.080 Listen, got somebody, She's a beauty, very specially. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:58.719 Take good care of me. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.279 The dude day. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:08.840 Ride by my Side, nine Day. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.120 That was the song that I entered into our wedding, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:16.880 me and my wife. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:24.280 I know, I was watching it collective. It's a Jamaican thing. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.039 We already know when that beat drops on that song, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.440 no letting go, no holding back, Baby Wayne Wonder, I 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:29.839 love that. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:30.279 I love that. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:31.560 All right, let's take a quick break. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:33.880 You know, we're gonna vibe here off camera for a 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.880 little bit while we pay some bills, and we'll be 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.560 back with the meat of the show, and I'll introduce 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.440 our two guests for today's episode. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:40.520 Stay tuned, y'all. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.400 All right, So, I want to introduce really quickly to 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.320 everyone my two guests for today, the dynamic duo, the 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.839 siblings that everybody really knows how much I adore my 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.279 siblings and how close we are, and I always admire 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.240 looking at you two in the way you love each other. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.080 I think that's one thing that's reson through your social 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.520 media is your interaction together and just even here today 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:09.279 in this space. So Ivy and Ivy, Coco and Etty 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.040 and Maurice are creatives, entrepreneurs, and the children of one 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.480 of the great Black mothers of our generation, Cherry Lee 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.479 Ralph Fellow Yachtes or yachties as we say back home. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.719 Ettien and Ivy have set out to make their own 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.240 marks in the world through wellness, fashion and community connection, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.960 which I absolutely adore. Their organization Walk Good La born 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.839 out of the need for self care and somatic practice 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.800 during the COVID era Black Lives Matter protests, but rides 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.480 the safe space for black and brown Angelino's to engage 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.520 in movement practices while building community. Ivy is also the 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.360 founder and creative director of House of Ivy and Attilier, 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.719 inspired by her grandmother or your grandmother collectively Ivy Ralph, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.760 whose legendary creation the Koreebus shirt jacket became a symbol 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.120 of the resistance of the People's National Party in Jamaica 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:11.600 in the nineteen seventies. Baby rich, culture, rich roots, culture rich, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.600 giving all this thing and rich spirit. Thank y'all so 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.320 much for being here with me today at TN and 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:17.920 Ivy Coco. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:19.320 Do you just go buy Ivy or Ivy Cocoa. You 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.800 can got me just Ivy, just iv her Coco. Is 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.440 that just like a thing for your sibling. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.560 Or the name. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.600 When she was in my mom's when our mom's stomach, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.080 I pointed out to the stomma. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.360 I was like Coco, Coco. And then Coco was born. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.880 Oh my goodness, I love she became. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.400 An adults, and that she wanted to be called Ivy Cocoa. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.320 Ivy Coco I mean, is there's so much history to 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:45.760 the name Ivy in our family. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:46.800 Well, tell me about that. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.960 Well, you know, our grandmother is just basically the root 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.000 of I feel like who we are is how we 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.200 embrace our Jamaican roots and our Jamaican American culture. And 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.680 Eta and I spent a lot of our summers back 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.960 home in Jamaica, like literally from the day school is out, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.600 you don't come back to the United States until the 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.400 Sunday before school starts. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.520 Well, actually we made a pit stop, so we'd stop 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:16.440 in Long Island to visit our grandfather in Westbury. Never remembers, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:22.480 Oh my god, young, you know. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.120 Stopping what are you talking about. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.520 We would stop in Westbury for like maybe like a week, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.400 and then we'd go from New York. We'd take off 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.720 from j K and then we'd land in Norman. Manly, Wow, 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:36.679 that's how it went. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.280 You don't remember that you were too excited to get 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:39.679 to Jamaica. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:40.000 You don't. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.680 You don't remember, because literally I would That was literally 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.719 our itinerary. We stopped see Grampy and then we go 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.440 to Jamaica Sea Grandy. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.680 I remember Grandpa was already there when we read. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.320 Sometimes sometimes he would even meet us there. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.760 Yes, I remember, yeah, but I remember. I remember. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.600 We spent a lot of time in Westbury, like our 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.160 our holidays, Collis and. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:03.200 Lot of time. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.480 So you guys were originally based in New York. You 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.959 didn't always live in La. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.920 We Yorks in New York. Well, we've always. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:15.280 Lived in LA but she would just travel there to grandparents. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.040 Gotcha, gotcha? Gotcha? 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:18.680 Sounds good. So that's awesome. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.280 So the rich history behind that, and I want to 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.040 talk more to you Ettin about that. After posting some 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.920 wedding content, you had gotten some people who didn't quite 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.839 understand how your grooms men were dressed. So well, we'll 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.480 address that a little later in the show, but I 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.079 just wanted to start off by giving you guys all 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.880 the praise and all the accolades for everything that you 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:42.840 are doing, you know, individually, together as a collective, the 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:44.800 strides that you're making out here in LA to get 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.960 people to be very mindful and conscious of their body, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.320 their mind, their spirit, their soul, having that collective, having 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.240 that community. I tell my husband, when we were out 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.480 here in La for our short stent that I really 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.200 didn't have time to connect with like minded individuals who 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.120 were kind of on the same path and had the 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.640 same values in morale. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.480 All compass, I would have stayed longer. You actually hit 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:06.400 the nail on the head. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.440 Had we found maybe that community, our tribe of people, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.280 that kindred spirit, kind of connection, we might have stayed 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.120 longer and might have been convinced to find something out here. However, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.960 in the meantime, when I do come to visit, I 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.000 do like to connect with folks like that. So you 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.319 guys have been on my list of folks to chat with, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.760 just because I do have that deep admiration for what 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.680 you both are doing, especially if you don't mind me 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:28.600 giving your ages. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.040 Yeah, thirty two and twenty nine. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.880 I mean at thirty two and twenty nine nine, you 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.440 guys can be doing a lot other things. And the 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.520 fact that you're so invested in your community and your 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.040 culture and you celebrated so much, I think is something 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.679 to be admired. So shout out to y'all. Thanks enough love, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.600 enough love. So tell me about why you started Walk Good, La. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.720 Yeah, well, Walk Good started out of a need to 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.480 get active, But do it with purpose. And so after 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.960 the killing of Ahmud Aubrey, the unfortunate killing of Joy 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.480 Floyd and Breonna Taylor and so many black lives that 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.319 were taken from us, I felt like this innate need 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.040 for us to come together, for me to bring my 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:13.080 community together and get out there and protests, but in 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.440 the form of movement through running in my neighborhood in 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.319 mid City. I had gone to a couple of other 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.360 protests at that time, and I was moved to start 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:27.360 my own community. And so, you know, walk Good started 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.839 out as my production company, walk In Productions, because I'm 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.400 a filmmaker and an actor. But at that time, I 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:37.560 felt like it wasn't necessary to bring my community together 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.520 through my production company. So I wanted to be out 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.760 of I wanted to be through community. And by that 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.000 somebody asked me, so, what is. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.520 The organization called? And I was like, walk Good. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.320 LA, And that's how walkot LA was formed. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.080 And so we would protest on Saturday. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.360 And at the first protest, my cousin Marley, our cousin Marley, 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.520 she just got to let go from a yoga studio, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.640 and I asked her to like, got us some breath 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.280 work and some yoga stretches. At that time, I was 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.079 not into yoga at all, Like I go to a 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.000 few classes here and there. But when she was guiding 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.760 everybody in these yoga stretches and these poses, I was like, wait, 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.560 there's something here right. So I pulled mart this aside. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.840 I was like, yo, we should come next week to 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.880 the park and do yoga again. So we would protest 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.120 on Saturday, do yoga on Sunday, and then breathe good. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.880 Our yoga class was born, and we had. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.839 Like thirty five thirty seven people at the first one, Wow, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.080 and each class it started to double, and by the 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.640 time we got to the end of the month, we 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.839 took over the whole entire park. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:44.640 So this is that the park. 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.520 So it's not that you had a brick and mortar location. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.199 It was just people gathering outside in. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.560 The park that we grew up on down the street 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:52.640 from our mother's house. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:53.680 Wow Wow. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.840 So you say it was a form of, I guess 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.640 in a sense, movement therapy for folks who needed it 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.520 during a time that was very very dark for us, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.200 where you met with any kind of pushback or vitriol 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.719 just from like the overall la powers that be I 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:11.520 guess I should. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.040 Say, yeah, I definitely think so. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.040 I think when you're taking a stance like that and 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.600 you're in the streets on a weekly basis, we protested 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.800 for ten weeks straight, you know, you might have some 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.560 people honking their horns or saying negative things, or maybe 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.480 even just throwing a water bottle over you. I had. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:26.640 I'll never forget that. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:27.480 Did you throw it back? 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.440 Is the you're just so intu it. 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.480 It's like you can't even focus on anything else, right, you. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.120 Know, Yeah, no, I get you so, I mean, but 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.640 the thing about it is that there was some hatred, 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.480 but there was so much love. And because of that love, 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.640 that's how we were really able to grow. So what 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.000 started as twenty five or thirty five people in the 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.000 park ended up becoming two hundred and fifty three hundred 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:50.720 people in the park. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.840 So it really got to be a mass of people. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.440 Oh absolutely, because it was the thing to do and 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.240 it was like the safe thing to do that was 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.760 intentional and it was cool like for lack of a 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.720 better word, for lack of better words, we literally made 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.560 healing and wellness cool, like it was something that people 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.440 were able to participate in and actually be impacted at 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.880 a time where we were all feeling stagnant and felt lost, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.800 and you know, we came together as a family and 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.560 we showed up every Saturday, every Sunday, and when the 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.840 protests started to dwindle, you know, we still kept going 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:30.960 to the park to do yoga, and then we were 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.800 able to implement our social justice message through the yoga classes. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.920 So while we were out there, you know, protesting and 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.640 saying I can't breathe on Saturday. On Sunday, we would 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:50.800 encourage everybody and it became it became something uh, not 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.840 only intentional, but really beautiful. People were able to find peace, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.119 enjoy through some of the darkest times that we were experiencing. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.720 Ought into it originally Ivy when he gave there, because 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.320 you know something your siblings com up, comes up with 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:05.920 an idea and you're just like, I don't know about this. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.800 But honestly, honestly, that is exactly how happened. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.360 I guess if you want to be there. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.280 But asking what she was doing on the first day 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:16.320 we started to protest. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.560 No, no, honestly, I think the first thing that actually 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.520 had a shoot, I got booked. You know, like everybody 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.960 was starting to go back to work during virtual bookings. Yes, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.760 so I actually was working during our first protest, and 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.240 then my brother the second protest, he was like, the 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.080 next Saturday, were doing it again. So I'm like, all right, cool, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.640 I'll be there, like I don't have to work. And honestly, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.920 I was so grateful during that time that I was 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.000 able to work. You know, that there was some money 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.600 I could put in my own pocket, and she. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.920 Don't want to do it on another day, I was like, no, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.040 it's happening. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:52.040 Yeah, yeah, And. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.360 It was great because you know, we were actually getting 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.760 donations from protesting and sending it to the families that, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.120 you know, Browna Taylor's family. We were sending them as 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.040 donations that we were receiving from our protests, So we 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.280 were actually raising money and awareness for people. But I 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.720 think the great thing about having a sibling like my brother, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.440 who's so daring and different, is that like you have 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.320 to risk it. You know, if you don't risk it, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.840 you don't get the biscuit. And so you know, we 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:21.520 are really wanting that biscuit, right, biscuit biscuit. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.080 This is mit Coco over here. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:34.920 She like, give me five prompts. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.000 And you take the credit for that because everybody is. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:37.760 Eating. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.400 You have some nice food on the biscuit. You know, 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:45.040 it tastes nice and sweet right now. Honestly, I think 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.320 that's the great thing about what walk Good was is that, 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.440 you know, this is somebody that took a chance on life, 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.800 and you know it really followed his heart. And I 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.760 think that's the greatest thing about is that, you know, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.120 sometimes I will lead with my mind and he will 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.400 lead with his heart. And I think that and I 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.879 think that that is one of the greatest things he 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.600 could have done, because we've seen the growth of what 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.800 you know, putting love first looks like. 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.040 Oh for sure, And I love that you said that 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.240 you weren't deterred from the negativity that may have come 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.040 your way. You know, even just with social media, people 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:19.399 ask me all the time, you know, what do you 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.160 think about the negative comments? Is that I don't even 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.119 see them, right, I don't even see them because, you 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:27.639 know what, the love and the admiration far outweighs and 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.040 supersedes the negativity. So it's like, why focus on those 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.680 things when the abundance of love that you're putting out 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:35.080 is just growing exponentially. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.280 So love that, yeah, absolutely, I love that. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.480 So at what point did you realize, like, we're really 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.760 onto something here. Now we can find different ways to 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.840 build out what what good La looks like because people 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.000 are listening are a lot of entrepreneurs or people who 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.439 have ideas, and the point of this podcast is to 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.480 share your experience so people can say how we build 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.880 something from the ground up using what was our passion. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.000 Man, we saw the park full up, you know, I 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:04.040 was like, yeah, this is insane, like literally every just 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.639 imagine just like a big old park and just nothing 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.359 but to see a black and brown folks beauty in 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:15.160 the park doing yoga and just taking moments to breathe. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.360 I think that was when I realized. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.879 Because what we had left to go to Jamaica for 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.120 the whole month of January in twenty twenty one, and 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.439 then we came back in February twenty twenty one and 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:33.520 our first breathe Good back, we saw how our community 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:38.200 had trippled and in size, and then we were like, okay, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.800 well now we could start hike good. So we started 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.199 hight Good, which is our community hig club that we 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.880 do once a month. Then we did and then we 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.719 brought back run Good and we did our run club 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.760 every Wednesday, and then we started Film Good, which is 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:59.119 the first film and wellness festival ever. We started You Good, 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.000 which is a Black men's healing circle. We started You 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.600 Good Yeah, which is a Black women's healing circle. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.280 Everything everything is good. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.200 That's when we realized that we were able to expand 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.439 and offer things that weren't just yoga and actually provide 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.679 spaces of healing through the arts for underrepresented communities for sure. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.760 Now, Etty, and how has your being a survivor of 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:27.000 gun violence? Has that at all informed how you work today, 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.040 whether it's just with Walk Good, La or just any 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:30.000 of your other endeavors. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.560 One hundred. It's funny you bring that up because I've 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:33.600 been thinking about this a lot. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:39.880 In my first year of starting Walk Good, I had 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.600 met with with the healer and she had asked me, said, 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.480 what is the part of your body that best represents you? 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.440 And I thought my heart, just like my sister said, 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.160 you know, I leave with my heart. I give everything 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.840 with my heart. And she kind of like you know, 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.040 cocked the head and was like, think about it deep. 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:03.200 It was almost like a symbol rafiki moment. I'm really 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:07.480