1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: My guests on Money Making Conversations Masterclass feature Guess is 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: today as a therapist turned heart healthy food entrepreneur. Shown 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: Your Scott. We're shouting the spotlight on her Stmrie salad 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: dressing companies so others can learn more about her heart 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: healthy and delicious products handcrafted from her very own kitchen 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: that is saving lives. She's based in Chicago. Their products 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: are vegan healthy, heart healthy, low sodium, dairy free, gluten free, 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: and delicious Dressing, marinades and sauces are shown. Your God 9 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 1: never intended to make history by creating something to help 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: people suffer from suffering from such a preventable disease. Heart 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: disease is affecting black people and women by astounding numbers. 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass are shown Your Scott. 13 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: How you know what, Miss Scott, I'm great, Thank you, 14 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: Thank you for having me hin Well, let me just 15 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: because we're talking about heart disease. I remember you know 16 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: that it's a silent killer. There always say heart disease facts. Everybody. 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: You know, I'm not trying to turn this into a 18 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: dog show because I want to talk about, you know, 19 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 1: her salad dressing and she's an entrepreneur and how she's 20 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: she's trying to grow her brand, and she and her 21 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: brand is tied to salad dressing, but she's figured out 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: a way to not only serve a great product, but 23 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 1: also serve a great product, and how that can also 24 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: help you live longer. Heart disease, here's a fact, is 25 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: the leading cause of death for men, women, and people 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. 27 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: One person dies every thirty six seconds in the United 28 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: States from cardiovascular disease, about a hundred and about six 29 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,279 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine thousand. Let's get that democratic About 30 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: six hundred and people in the United States die from 31 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: heart disease each year. That's one and mber four deaths. 32 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: I'm making this statement. Was something personal motivated you that 33 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: motivated you to create this line of salad dressing? Yes, absolutely, 34 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: losing my mom when I was fifteen and feeling helpless. 35 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: I felt helpless in that moment um. You know, she 36 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: complained she was normal that day, totally normal, normal activity, 37 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: cooking during the usual household chores, and that evening she 38 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: was just like, I need some air. She didn't know 39 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 1: what it was, but she couldn't breathe and then all 40 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: of a sudden she collapsed and said, you know, the 41 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: last thing she said would make something of yourself. And 42 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: that was the last time I saw her and heard 43 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: from her. So yeah, now that that impacted me and 44 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: a it was a negative thing that impacted me in 45 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: a positive way, right because you didn't know and and 46 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: when did you find out what you know, the exact 47 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: reason for her death? And how did that affect you? 48 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: Because you had to It was an educational period you 49 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: had to go through to know it wasn't your fault. 50 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,839 Speaker 1: It was something that you know, somebody, some people said 51 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: the word God's will or her time and all. You know, 52 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: there's a lot of cliches come out when people die unexpectedly. 53 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: And so how did that whole period of a guilt, frustration, 54 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: sadness um manifests itself until you being an entrepreneur who 55 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: has an award winning salad dressing right now and Marinate talks, Well, 56 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: it really it changed me. You know, the sudden impact 57 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: of losing her changed me. You know, it was eye 58 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: opening and it was just something that made me realize, like, wow, 59 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: there's something you know that I need to do. You know, 60 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: I need to make something of myself number one. That's 61 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: what she said. So at that moment, I took nothing 62 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: for granted, like everything was intentional, even finishing high school 63 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: in three years. Games were over and so, you know, 64 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: being helpless in that moment, I felt like I needed 65 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: to be in healthcare. So I looked into becoming a nurse. 66 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: That wasn't it, And so I found therapy and that's 67 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: that's where I found my need to help other people. 68 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: I love. I love what nursing? Wasn't it a nurse 69 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: that wasn't Why? Why? Why? Why not nursing? You know, 70 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: because you said it's so quick. That wasn't nursing. It's 71 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: not as easy as it looks. You know. Well, you 72 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: know a lot of people say, you know, like I 73 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: I would love to be a doctor, but I'm not 74 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: the person you won't cut, know you okay, because I 75 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: just don't have that. You know. It's it's like it's 76 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: it's a it's a couple of things I could not 77 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,799 Speaker 1: do in life, but you know I probably I would 78 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: want to do it. One it's being a pilot. You 79 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: don't want me landing your planes. It's something about coming 80 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: in and holding it steady. And a surgeon. You know, 81 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: I could probably we did this, but I'm sure, just 82 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: sure a couple of cavities would run me off, you know. 83 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's pretty So you went into therapy. When 84 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: you say therapy, that has a broad meaning there. What 85 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: what type of therapy did you go into? I went 86 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: into with the you know, physical occupational therapy license occupational 87 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: therapist and um so I'm very creative in that aspect. 88 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: That's why I am an entrepreneur. But I love to 89 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: help people too, so that fit right into what I 90 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: needed to do, you know, because occupational therapy is usually 91 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: a creativity to help people with deficits, you know what 92 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Rather it's mental, rather, it's physical, Rather it's 93 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: you know, anything you can really help the kids with 94 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: autism and special needs. It's so many different aspects that 95 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: occupational therapy working. So yes, I found my love there. 96 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: You know, my my mother, my mother in law and 97 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: sister law are registered nurses and they used to always 98 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: complain about their jobs, right and well, you know, an 99 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: interesting thing about it is that when I hear this 100 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: conversation that you're given and thank you for calling on 101 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: the show, money making conversation is that. You know, when 102 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: you start talking about salad dressing and you hear the 103 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 1: word because everybody wants your salad dressing to be great 104 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: and good, and we don't talk about them any because 105 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: I don't want to cross into this break because I 106 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: want to talk about how you got on the shelves 107 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 1: and how this whole product. But when you're talking about words, 108 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: these are the words that run people away when they 109 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: hear them that in their mind, it doesn't taste good 110 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: because we're so mentally I'm talking about the racial African 111 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: American community, especially, they're hear words like vegan, dairy free, 112 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: low sodium, gluten free. That's not gonna taste good. You 113 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: know that? Am I telling the truth? I promise you 114 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: you are low sodium black people hanging up on you. 115 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. So we gots to have 116 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: our salt. Okay, we got to have our salt. True 117 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: Now that Scott so So tell everybody why too much 118 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: salt is bad for you. Though supermuch salt is bad 119 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: for you. For one, it swells you up inside, it 120 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: increases I'm sorry, Noah, no Noah, I'm sorry, guys. No 121 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: one want to talk. Okay, it increases your volumes in 122 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: your blood vessel, and the health which decreases the amount 123 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: of your blood flow, you know, which increases your blood pressure. 124 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: So that's that's, that's and that's where the silent killer 125 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 1: comes in, right that we're talking about, you know, because 126 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: you hear these statements all the time. He was he 127 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: looked so healthy to me. He was just if you 128 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: were laughing. And unfortunately, when you reminisced back to your 129 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: mom's death, she was doing everyday towards she was just 130 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: living life and then she said I can't breathe, I 131 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: need to get some air, and she passed away. So 132 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: so we can walk through life feeling good and ignore 133 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: signs yep, yep. It's typically it's really like a gentle 134 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: swelling that you don't really recognize, you know, and so 135 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: they say, oh, you have five bloo presure you like 136 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: I do. You know, you don't really feel it. It's 137 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: a it's an internal gentle swelling that's coming from that sodium, 138 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you want to keep 139 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: that sodium low. You want to also continue to keep 140 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: moving because that helps to you know, it helps to 141 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: provide the vasil dilation at those days said a big 142 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: word there. We're gonna go to break here and come 143 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: back dilation. You know, I don't want to lose all 144 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: your your listeners with these de turn I'm trying to 145 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: keep you around this guy. We'll be right back with 146 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: more money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald's. 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You know 173 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: people say that, and you know I always keep a 174 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: cough drop in my my cabinet at home. With my 175 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 1: throat feels a little sore, I pop a cough drop 176 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: in a minute. I always tell people I'm not gonna 177 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: wait till I get sick. If I feel kind of 178 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 1: like it's coming, I call that prevented. And so I 179 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: look at what you when I want to reading about 180 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: your product. When I hear these terms about you know, 181 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: this is something that you didn't You create it, but 182 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: you didn't intend to fully understand the impact it will 183 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: have on people. I'm sure you're getting a lot of 184 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: testimonials about how how the food your salary dresser is 185 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: impacting people's lives. Let's talk about that. Absolutely. Yes, I 186 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: get pictures from customers all the time, and then you know, 187 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: it's just, um, it's inspiring. Its actually what keeps me going, 188 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: you know, for people to, um give me the feedback 189 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,559 Speaker 1: of why they like it, how they like it, and 190 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: how they're using it and how it's benefiting them. Um. 191 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 1: So that's it lets me know that the whole purpose 192 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: is being you know, it's being you know, created here 193 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: because um that I created it for people, not really 194 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: for myself. I do use the product and I love it, 195 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 1: but I really created it for others to benefit off 196 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: of it. And like when my mom passed, I didn't 197 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: know that it was the number one killer. Like that's 198 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: it's not talked about enough. You know, Um, it's the 199 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 1: number one killer even despite COVID, it's still the number 200 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: one killer. Every year, they're like so many new diagnosis 201 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: one point five million new diagnosis is the cardiovascular disease 202 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: related elements. That's that's that's crazy, and a lot of 203 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: it is because of lack of education. People don't realize 204 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: that they can have good food that tastes delicious without 205 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: all that junk in there. You know, Um, we have 206 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: a lot of products on the shelf that are seal 207 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: addressed in the merinated, are loaded, and chemicals loaded. Stuff 208 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: that shocked me that I didn't even know when I 209 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: started the product that that stuff was in there, like 210 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: stuff you can pronounce stuff They using grass fertilizer. But 211 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: yet we wonder why all the dialysis centers are popping 212 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: up in our community. Why is that no one's really 213 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: talking about what we need to have in our diets 214 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 1: each and every day to stay healthy. You know, what 215 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: we need to be eating each and every day to 216 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: keep our board pressure and tach. I'm one of those 217 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: bad people. I'm not gonna I I you can lie 218 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: me up. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sit on 219 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 1: this show like I'm a saint. Now you know, I 220 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: gotta admit I'm one of those people that eating that. 221 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: Like you said, some ingredients you can't evennounce the words. 222 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: That's me. I look at I've never I would tell 223 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: you this be God. I've never looked at the ball 224 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: picking the bottler, looked at the back, I looked the front. 225 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: If the color is right, I said, it's been a grid. 226 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,439 Speaker 1: I shaked it. I shake the salad dressing and go. 227 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: It moves in the bottle pretty good. Or I heard 228 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,599 Speaker 1: that name or that brand, I'm I'm it's it's in 229 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: my it's in my basket. I've never turned to the 230 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:42,599 Speaker 1: rounding with okay to it. I totally get it. And 231 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: you know what, and it's okay because that's what most 232 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: people are doing. And that's why that's why you're on 233 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation Masterclass. That's that's gonna tell the truth. 234 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: I have to bring up somebody who can slap me 235 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: in my forehead and said, stopped. I'm here to stop 236 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: the madness. Now, how did you create this product? Let's 237 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: let's talk about the journey. Let's talk about the dream. 238 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: We talked about the sadness, you talked about the inspiration. 239 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: How did you create this product? And who helped you? 240 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: You know, I know, you know we all started all 241 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: in vinegar based on different things. That the vinegrad is 242 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: like the number one if you don't how to make 243 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: it a salary dressing, all in vinegrad exactly that's it. Yeah, 244 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,599 Speaker 1: but my mom, my mom was a young lady and 245 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: had a huge family. I come from a big family. 246 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: To him one of fourteen, I'm actually done the thirteen 247 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 1: of fourteen from the same my dad. So my mom 248 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: cooked every day every day. She made these healthy. They 249 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: weren't healthy home cooked meals that were delicious, so her 250 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: products or I would take them to work, like the salads. 251 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: I would take them to work, and the co workers 252 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: love product. Like I was a salad girl. Like I 253 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 1: had to bring that to every function we had. They 254 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 1: wouldn't let me leave. Was like I heard stuff over like, 255 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: don't letter leave until we get the recipes something pretty 256 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: much my mom recipes. I just made them hard healthy 257 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: recipe from the home cooked meals that we would have 258 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: every day. I made them hard healthy and made them, 259 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: you know, delicious. You know, I wanted them to still 260 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: taste good, because no one wants to eat a healthy 261 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: product that doesn't taste good consistently, you know, absolutely after that. 262 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,599 Speaker 1: That's why I mentioned that because of the fact that 263 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: we tend to run, and we I include we meeting 264 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: Rashwan McDonald tend to run for things that we feel 265 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: doesn't taste right or not, doesn't taste, It doesn't have 266 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: a taste. We grew up, we grew up to know 267 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: or we're used to eating, and we rejected immediately, don't 268 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: even give it a shot. So so, but you have 269 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: a brand, you know, how did you start mixing the 270 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: right ingredients? I guess I want to know you know 271 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: because you I'm assuming you started in your home kitchen. Correct, Yes, well, 272 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: the product, the recipes are my mom's. I just made 273 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: them hard healthy which okay, I took the bad stuff 274 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: out and put good stuff in. Okay, let me ask 275 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: you this what what what would you can say or 276 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: the bad stuff you took out? And I'm not saying 277 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: it bad in a bad way. You just we're trying 278 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: to turn a meal that's really good into a healthy product, 279 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: right absolutely? Ye? Okay, So we know low sodium, it 280 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: probably had salt, and you turn that into what type 281 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: of salt would you have used with this coach your 282 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: salt or what do you do? You mineralized mineralized pin 283 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: Himalayan sea salt, which is beneficial to the body. It's 284 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: not going to cause you. That's not more, that's not 285 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: more than. That's not more. You know, you know I 286 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: grew up on that little that little blue blue salt 287 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: By right right, that's me that's met you lost him, Alan. 288 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna just say right now, you lost him. Alan. 289 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, but lord no, I 290 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: needs to be this is something that that needs to 291 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: be on my table because of the fact that you're 292 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: telling me Richard, your over sixty. You should look at 293 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: your died differently. Okay, just because you get up and 294 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: you you think you're looking fine in the mirror when 295 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: you when you're looking when you're leaving the house. So 296 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: your your blood pressure, which I do, go to the 297 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: doctor twice a year. I do that. You know. You know, 298 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: as you get older, you know you want to be 299 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: you know, you start thinking about being God as you 300 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: get older. Have on Let's see how I hold off this. 301 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: It's just neat and so true. Yeah, that's the yeah, 302 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we do it. Sometimes has to say Okay, 303 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: I gotta do better. You know, I gotta do that. 304 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying to say you don't have what 305 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,119 Speaker 1: you like every now and then, but on that normal, consistent, 306 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: everyday basis, we gotta we gotta really start putting some 307 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: you know, we gotta start like really being involved with 308 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: what's going on and going into our bodies, you know 309 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Now, you also have a marinade. You 310 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: have a salad dressing, and because I did, you know, 311 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 1: I looked up because I knew it was coming to 312 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: the show that I looked up some things you do. 313 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: So these salad dressing is also can be put on 314 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,360 Speaker 1: sandwichou used as a sandwich spread as well. Correct. Yes, 315 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: it's like you know, people have sent me recipes with 316 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff they've done with them, but they 317 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: are dressings and marinade, like you can marinage your salmon, 318 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: your shrimp, your chicken in them, and I mean just 319 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: delicious and still add any additional like onion powder, garlic powder, 320 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 1: if that's what you want, but it just really changes 321 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: the flavor and makes it something delicious. And more importantly, 322 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: when you're using ours, it doesn't have all those chemicals 323 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: in it because see a lot of those chemicals and 324 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 1: stuff they're using grass fertilizer stuff like that, Like why 325 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: is that even in food? You know? So that's one 326 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: main important thing that you know, you don't want to 327 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: just be pouring stuff on the you gonna make this 328 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: beautiful salad. Now you've got all this stuff out of 329 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: this dressing bottles? Like, what are you doing? You know? 330 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: And uh, I'm not saying don't have ranch every now 331 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: and then. Okay, well I'm gonna tell you something. I'm 332 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: gonna tell you something. If you lived as long as 333 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: I've had lived, then you've had ranch too much. Okay, 334 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: let drink ranching. Just it's you rouched you, you ranched out. Okay, 335 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: it's time to look at it, look at your life. 336 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: And you're eating habits from a different way. And that's 337 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: what this episode is about. This reason I brought you 338 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: on the show because I'm talking about being an entrepreneur. 339 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: I'm talking about planning your life, but we're planning your 340 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: life is also how you eat, and how you eat 341 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 1: determined when you can have a good day. You know. 342 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 1: We're just coming out of COVID. We saw that COVID 343 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: impacted the minority community more than any other community. And 344 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: what was it tied to high blood pressure, overweight, you know, 345 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: poor eating habits, and so we were attacked the first 346 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: by COVID and so and so I feel it's it's 347 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 1: fortunate that now you've made something available that doesn't doesn't 348 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 1: doesn't attack our path. I like to say, oh, this 349 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,719 Speaker 1: is not good, but this is something that people are 350 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: now finding value, not only in a good food that 351 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: you've created, a good salad dresser meritage that you've created, 352 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 1: but something they can enjoy. Talk about that absolutely. I 353 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: I can't like people don't want to leave the house, 354 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,479 Speaker 1: Like when I would make it at home for family 355 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: functions and they're like, I know you got that salad 356 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: that's apple peacon salad to day, you know, and you 357 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: can switch it up. You know, different recipes are on 358 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: our west side at s maries dot com, so you 359 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: can you can get those recipes and switch them up 360 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: any kind of way you like. But people literally like, 361 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: I know you made my salad, right, I know that 362 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: salid lady, I don't know. Oh, Ye're so enjoyable the interview. 363 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: You know, I love the salad dupen making Rashaun, Oh 364 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 1: my god, you've been cutting up well, I've been ranched out. 365 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: I was just time for me to change eating habit. 366 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: We're gonna be back for more. We're gonna talk about 367 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: the different dressings that you've made. Uh, your product line, 368 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: I should say, but also just talk about how did 369 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: you manage to get in stores and how people started 370 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: discovering your product on the shelves, because that's the exciting part. 371 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 1: Because we all have dreams. But when people started seeing 372 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: your dream and started championing your dream, that's a different 373 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: that's a different hide. We'll be right back with more 374 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return 375 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. But it 376 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: started somewhere, miss God. In regards to the recipes with 377 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: the foundation, you changed them up. I took some of 378 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: the lot as you say, the word bad things out 379 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,719 Speaker 1: of the recipe and made them health conscious. Just use 380 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: the word health conscious into the recipe. Now you okay, 381 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: it had what was that transition step to put it 382 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: in a bottle and it then take get to a 383 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: store and then they put it on the shelf. Talk 384 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: about that right absolutely. So you know you have the recipe. 385 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: We all have recipes, right, So you just create the 386 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: recipe and then once you create the recipe, packaging is 387 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: so important, you know, um, making sure whatever it is 388 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 1: you're selling, if it's some bakery, if it's if it's uh, 389 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: potato chips. If it's stuff that goes and bottles, you 390 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: want to make sure that you have it up to 391 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: whatever it is your competition is, you know, um, you know, 392 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: So did you go in the store looking at your 393 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: competition looking at their packaging? What were your idea to say? Okay, 394 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: because I'm telling you. In the salad dressing world, it's 395 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 1: it's it's a lot. Believe me. I go down that. 396 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: Like I said, I just look at the bottle that 397 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: has the nice color on it or familiar brand name, 398 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: and then I pick it up and I'm good. I 399 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 1: cannot tell you why I bought it other than the 400 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: fact that name sounds familiar. I think I've had that before, okay, 401 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: and then I get them out not that and based 402 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,159 Speaker 1: on memory. So you're battling, you know, people who are 403 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 1: tied to tradition, people are tied to not wanting to change. 404 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: And also people don't experiment that much in the saladdressing lane, 405 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 1: so do they speak to what they know and that's it, 406 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: you know, And so going the brand, Yeah, it's it's 407 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: you got to really be involved intuitively, like you have 408 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: to do it on purpose. Like people they're so used 409 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: to their brand that they've been buying for years. When 410 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: they come in the store, they's so they're just focused 411 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: on getting what's on that list. You know, you have 412 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 1: to creative ways to introduce them to your flavors. You 413 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,679 Speaker 1: know during the store Proskay cool, let's let's stop right there. 414 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 1: When you say creative ways to introduce them to your flavors, 415 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,439 Speaker 1: how did you do that? Um? We do a lot 416 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: of store promos. In store promos, um, you know, we 417 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: go out to community events. My passion is talking to 418 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 1: people in the community because I like to educate with 419 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: this product. Because that's why I was creating a memory 420 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 1: of my mom who died of heart disease, se Marie 421 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: with my mom. So this product was created with a 422 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: purpose to educate the communities about heart disease and UM 423 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: alternatives delicious alternatives, right and what you're what we're used to? 424 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: Like you said, Rishon, Yeah, no, no, no, let's let's 425 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: slow everything down here. Okay, who did you tell this 426 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: idea to just say, you know something, I think I 427 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 1: can get into sally dressing business? And did they say 428 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 1: go forward? And they went, girl? You crazy? What? What? What? What? What? What? Statement? 429 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: Did you get at the box. Well, well, people, they 430 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: harassed me for it. So I told my husband, I said, 431 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: I need to do something meaningful with this. I need 432 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 1: to do something meaningful with this. And you know, he 433 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: knows I'm an entrepreneur of my heart, like I've done 434 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: lots of stuff in the past, but you understand my 435 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: passion of losing my mom and stuff like that. So 436 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: you know, he's like, Okay, well we can just try it, 437 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: you know. So when he gave me the green light, 438 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: I said, let me just get the planning. You know, 439 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,719 Speaker 1: everything starts with the plans. So first and foremost, whatever 440 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: it is you want to do, you want to write 441 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: it out right. If you step down, look at your competition, 442 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: make sure you have it all together, you know, find 443 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: out the rules and regulations of that product. You know, 444 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: because everything you may can't just be putting the stores. 445 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: You know, being in Whole Foods is a big deal 446 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: for us here. Um, Whole Foods has a whole separate 447 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 1: list of standards. Like you, every product that you see 448 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: and want can't be in Whole Foods. And um, so 449 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: that landing and is a major you know, it's just 450 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: like a major accomplishment. So how did you okay, because 451 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to miss these steps because 452 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 1: you know you we know it's major. You're an African 453 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 1: American female. You know you're a therapist. You know you're 454 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: not a you know you're not trained in and making 455 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: salad dresses checking for a living. You didn't get a 456 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: recommendation letter from a competitor that makes sally dressing. I 457 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: got this sally dressing. Did you do you have to 458 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: give them a sample to taste or you come in 459 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 1: for a tasting session. How does that work? Yep, that's 460 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: what happened. Hopefuls was opening in Chicago in a local 461 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,199 Speaker 1: community in Inglewood, and they were looking for entrepreneurs um 462 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: and so you know, they was like, oh, you don't 463 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: live in the area. No, you don't fit. So I 464 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: guess they needed to meet a quota or something. I 465 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 1: was like, I was like, okay, God, if that's what 466 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: you want, then I won't be there because they said no, 467 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: you know. But then they called me back and I 468 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: was like, this guy, you're funny, Okay, whatever, because I 469 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 1: don't live in this zip code. Did you walk out 470 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: that as a attitude. I was just like I was like, okay, God, 471 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: that yesterday my time. You know, you did some funny. 472 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: First of all, I enjoyed this interview. I haven't laughed 473 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 1: as much a long time because I could just see 474 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 1: you walk out of that mad as heck went home, 475 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: says some fancy words to your husband about what you 476 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 1: thought of old foods. Right, I don't care. I tell 477 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: you how you love And so they called you back. 478 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: They called you back, They called me back for a 479 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: family for a tasting. I went down to the corporate office, 480 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: because it always starts with the corporate if you want 481 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: to get your product in doors and what happy how many? 482 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: How many bottles did you take down there? So a 483 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: couple of the throw at them. They said, no think 484 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: I took a ready made salad and I had a 485 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: couple bottles, you know, all the top ones that people love, 486 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: and they were just extremely impressed. It was extremely like 487 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: we we've outsold all their major brands and we're still 488 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: doing We're still doing that. And you know, being an 489 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: African American when I've received pushback, major pushback, but I'm 490 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: gonna I'm just not that I'm not cut from that cloth. 491 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: That's gonna stop. So I don't care. You could put 492 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 1: me on the bottom shove. I'm gonna tell my people 493 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 1: where the family yet, I'm gonna just you go just 494 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,200 Speaker 1: crawling the store. I'm on the bottom self, you see. 495 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 1: And so so why you know this is we're having 496 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: a lot of fun and I'm enjoying this interview with you. 497 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: The beauty of your story. It starts sad, but wow, 498 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: it's proven to be a blessing to so many people 499 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: and and and you know, because like it put you 500 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: on the bottom shelf and then you start going up 501 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: chelf shelves. When they came back and told you, you know, 502 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 1: people seem to like your se Marie. What what did that? 503 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: What did they ring to? It's just like, you know, 504 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: if you were a musical artist, you driving and you 505 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: hear your song on the radio, I think that'd be 506 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,360 Speaker 1: comparable to that. When you got that call right from 507 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: it's crazy like they were like you all sold all 508 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: the major brands we've had for years and like you know, 509 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: like the first month and stuff like that. So that 510 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: was just like mind blowing. I was like, Okay, people 511 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: like this stuff. They really like this. Okay, So the 512 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: next step of question, I'm still go, Okay, what what 513 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: will help you to explain what is stopping you from 514 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 1: going across country and leaving the Chicago market because your 515 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,719 Speaker 1: product is selling the world in the in the regional marketing. 516 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 1: What what's the next thing we're looking I'm open to investors, 517 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: you know, investors to help expand a brand because you know, 518 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:27,400 Speaker 1: it's a multibillion dollar industry and I'm the only black 519 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: girl doing this, and um, people love it. They love it. 520 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: So it's kind of like I want to give people 521 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: something that's helping them. You know, it's not just a 522 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: product that's delicious and taste good. It helps people, you know. 523 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: Um that's my that's my reason and my wife wanting 524 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: to do this. You know, because no fifteen year old 525 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: or anyone younger than me my sister was fourteen, should 526 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: have to move their best friends to something they didn't 527 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: even know existed in their parents, you know what I'm saying. So, 528 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: but you can't, but you can't order and you do 529 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: ship out of state? Correct? Oh yeah, we shipped nationwide. 530 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: We've shipped to every state so far. We get repeat 531 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: orders all the time. We shipp a lot in Atlanta, 532 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: ship a lot in Texas, California. You know, Tabitha Brown 533 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: is a big supporter. She comes to Chicago and she 534 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: looks for us and hops that just really do that 535 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: blew my mind. It was beautiful. But yeah, so that's 536 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: it's just been an amazing experience and something. And like 537 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: it took my husband bout WorldWind. Like you know, he 538 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 1: has this whole separate things of what he loved to do, 539 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: but he didn't expect for it to do what it's 540 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: doing now. So what's stopping me is mainly, you know, 541 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: like I said, going into other investing, if I had 542 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: a great investor, would be great. And you know, because 543 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: of COVID shut down a lot of UM manufactories and 544 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: stuff like that, so we have to go out of 545 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: state to find a better manufacturer. So we're working on 546 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: all those things. But those are the those are just 547 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: the only two things. Well, I'm telling you something. Thank 548 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,719 Speaker 1: you for calling in Moneymenting comes to do master class 549 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 1: an amazing product. S Marie's Salad Dressing based out of Chicago. 550 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: We can go online. Thank you. We're gonna talk soon. 551 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: First of all, you made my heart, as they say 552 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: stronger on this interview. I appreciate you. Stay safe, Okay, 553 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: we talked, so you guys. God bless you, but I 554 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: think