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Speaker 1: My guests on Money Making Conversations Masterclass. The featuring gas

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Speaker 1: Is today is a therapist turned heart healthy food entrepreneur

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Speaker 1: are shown, Your Scott. We'll shining the spotlight on her

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Speaker 1: s Marie Sally Dressing Companies so others can learn more

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Speaker 1: about her heart healthy and delicious products handcrafted from her

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Speaker 1: very own kitchen that is saving lives. She's based in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Their products are veganal, heart healthy, low sodium, dairy free,

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Speaker 1: gluten free, and delicious dressing, marinates and sauces are shown.

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Speaker 1: Your Scott. Never intended to make history by creating something

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Speaker 1: to help people suffer from suffering from such a preventable disease,

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Speaker 1: heart disease. It's affecting black people and women by astounding numbers.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Are shown,

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Speaker 1: Your Scott. How you know what mis Scott?

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Speaker 2: I'm great, Thank you, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Rashaan Well, let me just because we're talking about heart disease.

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Speaker 1: I remember you know that it's a silent killer.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 1: I always say heart disease his facts. Everybody, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to turn this into a dog show

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Speaker 1: because I want to talk about you know, her salad dressing,

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Speaker 1: and she's an entrepreneur, and how she's trying to grow

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Speaker 1: her brand, and her brand is tied to salad dressing,

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Speaker 1: but she's figured out a way to not only serve

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Speaker 1: a great product, but also serve a great product, and

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Speaker 1: how that can also help you live longer.

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Speaker 3: Heart disease, he's a fact, is.

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Speaker 1: The leading cause of death for men, women, and people

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Speaker 1: of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

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Speaker 1: One person dies every thirty six seconds in the United

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Speaker 1: States from cardiovascular disease, about one hundred and about six

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine thousand. And then get that number correct,

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Speaker 1: About six hundred and fifty nine thousand people in the

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Speaker 1: United States die from heart disease each year. That's one

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Speaker 1: in every four deaths. I'm making this statement. Was something

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Speaker 1: personal motivated you, that motivated you to create this line

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Speaker 1: of salad dressing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, losing my mom when I was fifteen and

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Speaker 2: feeling helpless. I felt helpless in that moment. You know,

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Speaker 2: she complained she was normal that day, totally normal, normal activity, cooking,

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Speaker 2: doing the usual household chorist and that evening she was

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Speaker 2: just like, I need some air. She didn't know what

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Speaker 2: it was, but she couldn't breathe and then all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden she collapsed and said, you know, the last

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Speaker 2: thing she said would make something of yourself. And that

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Speaker 2: was the last time I saw her and heard from her.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, now that that impacted me, and it was

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Speaker 2: a negative thing that impacted me in a positive way.

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Speaker 1: Right because you didn't know and when did you find

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Speaker 1: out what the you know, the actual exact reason for

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Speaker 1: her death?

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Speaker 3: And how did that affect you?

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Speaker 1: Because you had to That was an educational period you

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Speaker 1: had to go through to know it wasn't your fault.

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Speaker 1: It was something that you know, somebody, some people said

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Speaker 1: the word God's will or her time and all. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of cliches come out when people die unexpectedly.

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Speaker 1: And so how did that whole period of a guilt, frustration,

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Speaker 1: sadness manifests itself into you being an entrepreneur who has

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Speaker 1: an award winning salad dressing right now and Marinate talks.

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Speaker 2: Well, it really it changed me. You know, the sudden

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Speaker 2: impact of losing her change me. You know, it was

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Speaker 2: eye opening and it was just something that made me realize, like, wow,

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Speaker 2: there's something you know that I need to do. You know,

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Speaker 2: I need to make something up myself number one. That's

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Speaker 2: what she said. So at that moment, I took nothing

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Speaker 2: for granted, like everything was intentional, even finishing high school

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Speaker 2: being helpless in that moment, I felt like I needed

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Speaker 2: to be in healthcare. So I looked into becoming a nurse.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't it, And so I found therapy and that's

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Speaker 2: that's where I found my need to help other people.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I love what you said. Just got your nursing, wasn't it?

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Speaker 3: The nurse that wouldn't me?

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Speaker 2: Why? Why?

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Speaker 4: Why?

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Speaker 3: Why not nursing? You know, just because you said it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is extremely It's not as easy as it looks.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of people say, you know, like I would love

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Speaker 1: you won't cutting on you, okay, because I just don't

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Speaker 1: It's it's like it's it's a couple of things I

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Speaker 1: and holding it steady. And a surgeon. You know, I

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Speaker 1: it's pretty So you went into therapy. When you say

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Speaker 1: therapy did you go into?

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Speaker 2: I went into with the you know, physical occupational therapy

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Speaker 2: is licensed occupational therapist, and so I'm very creative in

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Speaker 2: that aspect. That's why I am an entrepreneur. But I

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Speaker 2: love to help people too, so that fit right into

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Speaker 2: what I needed to do, you know, because occupational therapy

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Speaker 2: is usually your creativity to help people with deficits, you

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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Rather it's mental, rather, it's physical. Rather,

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Speaker 2: it's you know, anything you can really help the kids

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Speaker 2: that occupational therapy work in. So yeah, so I found

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Speaker 2: my love there. You know, my mother, my mother in law,

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Speaker 2: to always complain about their jobs, right right right.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know then, interesting thing about it is that

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Speaker 1: when I hear this conversation that you're given and thank

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Speaker 1: you for calling on the show.

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Speaker 3: Money making conversations.

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Speaker 1: About is that you know when you start talking about

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Speaker 1: salad dressing and you hear the word because everybody wants

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Speaker 1: your salad dress to be great and good, and we

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Speaker 3: The many because I don't want to cross it.

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Speaker 1: Do this break, because I want to talk about how

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Speaker 1: you got on the shelves and how this whole product.

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Speaker 1: But when you talk about words, these are the words

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Speaker 1: that run people away when they hear them. In their mind,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't taste good because we're so mentally. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about the racial African American community, especially, they hear words

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Speaker 1: like vegan, a dairy free, low sodium, gluten free.

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Speaker 3: That's not gonna taste good. You know, Am I telling

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Speaker 2: I promise you you are.

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Speaker 1: Low sodium black people hanging up on you. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you right now. We got to have our salt. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we got to have our salt.

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Speaker 2: That is so true now.

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Speaker 1: But Scott so So tell everybody why too much salt

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Speaker 2: Though too much salt is bad for you. For one,

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Speaker 2: it swells you up inside, it increases it help I'm sorry, Noah, no, Noah,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, guys.

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Speaker 3: NOA want to talk.

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Speaker 2: Okay, increases your volumes in your blood vessels and the

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Speaker 2: which increases your blood pressure. So that's that's, that's.

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Speaker 1: And that's where the silent killer comes in, right that

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Speaker 3: He was he looked so healthy to me. He was

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, and when you reminisce back to your mom's death,

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Speaker 2: Yep, yep. It's it's really like a gentle swelling that

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 2: You don't really feel it. It's a it's an internal

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Speaker 2: gentle swelling that's coming from that sodium, you know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying. So you want to keep that sodium low.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to shy away from the

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Speaker 1: reality of your food is a good products. It's very popular,

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Speaker 1: it's being sold online. But we have to say why

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Speaker 1: is it also valuable to you as a health product?

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Speaker 1: You know, like you know people recommend you know, they

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Speaker 1: say take an aspiral day, keep it. You know people

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Speaker 1: say that, And you know I always keep a cough

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Speaker 1: I always tell people I'm not gonna wait till I

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Speaker 1: get sick and I feel kind of like it's coming.

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Speaker 1: I call that preventive. And so I look at what

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Speaker 1: you when I when I'm reading about your product, when

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Speaker 1: I hear these terms about you know, this is something

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Speaker 1: that you didn't you created, but you didn't intend fully

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Speaker 1: understand the impact it would have on people. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you're getting a lot of testimonials about how how the

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Speaker 1: food your salad dress is impacting people's lives.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yes, I get pictures from customers all the time,

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Speaker 2: and then you know, it's just it's inspiring. Actually what

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Speaker 2: keeps me going, you know, for people to give me

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Speaker 2: the feedback of why they like it, how they like it,

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Speaker 2: and how they're using it and how it's benefiting them.

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Speaker 2: So that's it lets me know that the whole purpose

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Speaker 2: because that I created it for people, not really for myself.

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Speaker 2: I do use the product and I love it, but

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Speaker 2: I really created it for others to benefit off of it.

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Speaker 2: So that's one main important thing that you know, you

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Speaker 2: That's apple peacan salad day, you know, and you can

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Speaker 2: you made my salad, right, I know that I'm kind

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Speaker 1: Oh, you're so enjoyable to interview, you know, I love

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Speaker 2: Rashaan, Oh my god, you've been cutting up.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've been ranched out.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the different dressings that you've made,

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Speaker 3: Because we all have dreams.

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Speaker 1: But when people started seeing your dream and started championing

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Speaker 4: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass

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Speaker 1: But it started somewhere, Misscott, in regards to the recipes

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Speaker 2: Talk about that right absolutely, so you know you have

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Speaker 2: you want to make sure that you have it up

440
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Speaker 2: to whatever it is. Your competition is.

441
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Speaker 1: You know, you know, So did you go in the

442
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 1: store looking at your competition looking at their packaging?

443
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,160
Speaker 3: What were your idea to say?

444
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 1: Okay, because I'm telling you, in the salad dressing world,

445
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:43,400
Speaker 1: it's a lot.

446
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 3: I mean it is.

447
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:45,399
Speaker 4: Believe me.

448
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,119
Speaker 1: I go down that aisle, like I said, I just

449
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,199
Speaker 1: look at the bottle that has the nice color on

450
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: it or familiar brand name, and then I pick it

451
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 1: up and I'm good. I cannot tell you why I

452
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: bought it other than the fact that name sounds familiar, right,

453
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 1: I think I've had that before, okay, and then I

454
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 1: get them out not that and based on memory, So

455
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 1: you're badlying. You know, people who are tied to tradition,

456
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,400
Speaker 1: people who are tied to not wanting to change, and

457
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 1: also people don't experiment that much in this salad dress

458
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:20,919
Speaker 1: lane so.

459
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Speaker 2: They speak to what they know and that's it, you know,

460
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 2: and so going to brand is yeah, it's it's you

461
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 2: got to really be involved intuitively, Like you have to

462
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Speaker 2: do it on purpose. Like people they're so used to

463
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,719
Speaker 2: their brand that they've been buying for years when they

464
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 2: come in the store, so they're just focused on getting

465
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Speaker 2: what's on the list.

466
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Speaker 1: You know.

467
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Speaker 2: You have to find creative ways to introduce them to

468
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Speaker 2: your flavors, you know, doing the store prom.

469
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Speaker 3: Okay, cool, let's stop right there.

470
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Speaker 1: When you say creative ways to introduce them to your flavors,

471
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Speaker 1: how did you do that?

472
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Speaker 2: We do a lot of store promos. In store promos,

473
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 2: you know, we go out to community events. My passion

474
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 2: is talking to people in the community because I like

475
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,199
Speaker 2: to educate with this product, because that's why I was

476
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 2: creating a memory of my mom who died of heart disease.

477
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,640
Speaker 2: Essie Marie was my mom. So this product was created

478
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 2: with a purpose to educate the communities about heart disease

479
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:23,360
Speaker 2: and alternative delicious alternatives, right and what you're what were

480
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 2: used to? Like you said, Rashon, Yeah.

481
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, let's let's slow everything down here. Okay, who

482
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Speaker 1: did you tell this idea to to say, you know something,

483
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Speaker 1: I think I can get into Sally dressing business. And

484
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Speaker 1: did they say go for it or they went, girl,

485
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Speaker 1: you crazy?

486
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Speaker 3: What what?

487
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Speaker 2: What? What?

488
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Speaker 3: What? What statements did you get at the box?

489
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Speaker 2: Well, well, people, they harassed me for it. So I

490
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 2: told my husband, I said, look, I need to do

491
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 2: something meaningful with this. I need to do something meaningful

492
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 2: with this. And you know, he knows I'm an entrepreneur

493
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 2: of my heart, like I've done lots of stuff in

494
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: the past, but he understand my passion of losing my

495
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,920
Speaker 2: mom and stuff like that. So you know, he's like, Okay,

496
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 2: well we can just try it, you know. So when

497
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 2: he gave me the green light, I said, let me

498
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 2: just get the planning. You know, everything starts with the plan.

499
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Speaker 2: So first and foremost, whatever it is you want to do,

500
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 2: you want to write it out right. Step down, look

501
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 2: at your competition, make sure you have it all together,

502
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 2: you know, find out the rules and regulations of that product,

503
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 2: you know, because everything you make can't just be putting

504
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 2: the stores. You know, being in Whole Foods is a

505
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 2: big deal for us here. Whole Foods has a whole

506
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 2: separate list of standards like you every product that you

507
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 2: see and want can't be in Whole Foods, and so

508
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 2: that landing in is major. You know, it's just like

509
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 2: a major accomplishment.

510
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Speaker 3: Okay, so how did you? Okay?

511
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: Because you know, I don't want to miss these steps

512
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Speaker 1: because you know you we know it's major. You're an

513
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Speaker 1: African American female. You know you're a therapist. You know

514
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: you're not a you know you're not trained in making

515
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 1: salad dresses, setting for a living. You didn't get a

516
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Speaker 1: recommendation letter from a competitor.

517
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Speaker 3: That makes sally dressing.

518
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: I got this salad dressing. Did you do you have

519
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: to give them a sample to taste? Do you come

520
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: in for a tasting session? How does that work?

521
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,199
Speaker 2: That's what happened. Whole Foods was opening in Chicago in

522
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 2: a local community in Inglewood, and they were looking for

523
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 2: entrepreneurs and so you know, they was like, oh, you

524
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 2: don't live in the area. No, you don't fit. So

525
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 2: I guess they needed to meet a quota or something.

526
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,120
Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, okay, God, if that's

527
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: what you want, then I won't be there because they

528
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 2: said no, you know, but then they called me back

529
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 2: and was like, miss.

530
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Speaker 1: Got you funny, Okay, whatever, because I don't live in

531
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Speaker 1: this zip code.

532
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Speaker 3: Did you walk out there with some attitude?

533
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,439
Speaker 2: I was just like, I was like, okay, God, I

534
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 2: guess today my time.

535
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: You know, you're just so funny. First of all, I

536
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 1: enjoyed this interview if I haven't laughed as much a

537
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,679
Speaker 1: long time, because I could just see you walk out

538
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: of that mad as heck went home, said some fancy

539
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: words to your husband about what you thought of old foods.

540
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 2: Right, okay, let me tell you how holy love.

541
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 3: And so they called you back. They called you back, They.

542
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 2: Called me back for a samply, for a tasting. I

543
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 2: went down to the corporate office, because it always started

544
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 2: with the corporate If you want to get your product

545
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 2: in stores and what have you.

546
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 1: How many bottles did you take down there? So a

547
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: couple of them, they said.

548
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 2: No, I took a ready date salad and I had

549
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: a couple of bottles, you know, the top ones that

550
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 2: people loved, and they were just extremely impressed. It was

551
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 2: extreme and like we we've outsold all their major brands

552
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 2: and we're still doing We're still doing that.

553
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Speaker 3: Wow.

554
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 2: And you know, being African American one, I've received pushback

555
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 2: major pushback. But I'm gonna I'm just not that I'm

556
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 2: not cut from that cloth. That's gonna stop. So I

557
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 2: don't care. You could put me on the bottom shehelf.

558
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell my people where to find me at.

559
00:26:58,359 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 2: I'm going.

560
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 3: You just crawl in the store.

561
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: I'm on the bottom shelf, you see.

562
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 3: And so so yeah, wow.

563
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: You know this is we having a lot of fun

564
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: and I'm enjoying this interview with you. The beauty of

565
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: your story is starts sad, but wow, it's proven to

566
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: be a blessing to so many people. And and and

567
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: you know, because like I said, put you on that

568
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: bottom shelf and then you start going up chef shelves

569
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: when they came back and told you, you know, people

570
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: seem to like your sse Marie, what.

571
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 3: What did that?

572
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: What did it bring to It's just like you know,

573
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: if you were a musical artist, you driving and then

574
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,479
Speaker 1: you hear your song on the radio.

575
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 3: I think that would be comparable to that. When you

576
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 3: got that call right from.

577
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 2: Hope, it's crazy like they were like you outsold all

578
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 2: the major brands we've had for years, and like you know,

579
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 2: like the first month and stuff like that. So that

580
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 2: was just like mind blowing. I was like, Okay, people

581
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 2: like this stuff, they really like this.

582
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: Okay, So the next step of question, I'm sure my

583
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: artists will go, Okay, what what will help.

584
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 3: You to expand?

585
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: What is stopping you from going across country and leaving

586
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: the Chicago market because your product is selling so well

587
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: in their regional marketing.

588
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 3: What's the next.

589
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 2: Day we're looking. I'm open to investors, you know, investors

590
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 2: to help expand a brand because you know, it's a

591
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 2: multi billion dollar industry and I'm the only black girl

592
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: doing this and people love it. They love it. So

593
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 2: it's kind of like I want to give people something

594
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: that's helping them. You know, it's not just a product

595
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 2: that's delicious and taste good. It helps people, you know.

596
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 2: That's my that's my reason and my wife wanting to

597
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: do this. You know, because no fifteen year old or

598
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 2: anyone younger than me my sister was fourteen, should have

599
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 2: to lose their best friends to something they didn't even

600
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 2: know existed in their parents, you know what I'm saying.

601
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Speaker 4: So, but you.

602
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 3: Can't, but you can't order and you do ship out

603
00:28:58,680 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 3: of state? Correct?

604
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we shipped nationwide. We shipped to every state

605
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 2: so far. We get repeat orders all the time. We

606
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 2: ship a lot in Atlanta, ship a lot in Texas, California.

607
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 2: You know, Tabitha Brown is a big supporter. She comes

608
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 2: to Chicago and she looks for us and booms. That

609
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 2: just really just that blew my mind. Right, it is beautiful.

610
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: But yeah, so that's it's just been an amazing experience

611
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 2: and something like it took my husband by whirlwind. Like

612
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: you know, he has this whole separate things of what

613
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: he loved to do, but he didn't expect for it

614
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: to do what it's doing now. So what's stopping me

615
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: is mainly, you know, like I said, going into other investing,

616
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: if I had a great investor, would be great. And

617
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: you know, because of COVID shut down a lot of

618
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 2: manufacturies and stuff like that, so we had to go

619
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Speaker 2: out of state to find a better manufacturer. So we're

620
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 2: working on all those things. Those those are just the

621
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: only two things.

622
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Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you something.

623
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Speaker 1: Thank you for calling in on money Mate Chemisation and

624
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: master class an amazing product. Essa Maurice Salad Dressing based

625
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: out of Chicago and go online.

626
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 3: Thank you. We're gonna talk soon.

627
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Speaker 1: First of all, you made my heart, as they say,

628
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: stronger in this interview.

629
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Speaker 3: I appreciate you. Stay safe. Okay, we talk something.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Guys got pleasure. But I think