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Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the Professional Homegirl Podcast. Before

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Speaker 1: we begin today's episode, we want to remind you that

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Speaker 1: reminder that tough times don't last, but professional homegirls do

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Speaker 1: enjoy the show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, professional Homegirls, Welcome back to this week's episode of

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Speaker 2: the Professional Homegirl podcast. Ishagirl Ebinez here and today I

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Speaker 2: am excited to talk about my very first annual Professional

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Speaker 2: Homegirl Turkey Drive that would be located in memphisennesc on

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Speaker 2: November twenty first at two pm at Riisell Elementary. This

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Speaker 2: is something that I've been working on for two years now,

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Speaker 2: and baby, it is a lot when it comes to

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Speaker 2: organizing community events. So my homegirl, She's gonna be joining

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Speaker 2: me today and it's gonna be a very casual conversation,

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Speaker 2: but I just wanted to dive into everything from what

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Speaker 2: inspired me to start this initiative, to the challenges child

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Speaker 2: that I face, and also just the incredible support from

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Speaker 2: my professional Homegirl community.

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Speaker 3: I'm just so thankful for you all.

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Speaker 2: And also the impact that I'm looking to make. So

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Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about why events like these are so important.

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Speaker 2: And also I just feel like this is a very

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Speaker 2: candid behind the scenes when it comes to organizing a

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Speaker 2: community event. So if you are looking to do something similar,

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Speaker 2: this conversation is definitely for you. So get cozy, sit

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Speaker 2: back and relaxed.

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Speaker 3: Turn the vallum up.

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Speaker 2: Because the behind the scenes of the first annual Turkey

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Speaker 2: Drive Professional Homegirl Turkey Drive in Memphis and a c

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Speaker 2: on November twenty first, at two pm at my elementary

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Speaker 2: school of Riiseell Elementary starts. Now, y'all, this is gonna

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Speaker 2: be a different episode because normally we I have conversations

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Speaker 2: feel like it was only fair to provide some insight

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Speaker 2: and behind the scenes on this goddamn Turkey Drive.

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Speaker 4: Baby.

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Speaker 2: I have my friend on and she's been with me

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Speaker 2: since I've been working on this, and I call her

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Speaker 2: my big love sus.

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Speaker 3: But to my big little sus, how you doing, how

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Speaker 3: you feeling?

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Speaker 4: Hey, girl, thank you so much for having me on.

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Speaker 4: I'm so excited to talk about this because the people

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Speaker 4: need to know how hard you have gready to make

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Speaker 4: this happen. Okay, so hard, like, y'ah.

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Speaker 2: So hard, like I don't even think people understand what

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Speaker 2: it takes to create a community event like it was y'all.

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Speaker 2: It took me out a couple of times.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but man, I'm so excited. Man, I'm just so

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Speaker 4: excited for what you're doing. I'm just doors are opening,

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Speaker 2: Now, you've seen the entire range of emotions like going

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Speaker 2: from a friend's perspective, what's one word you would used

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Speaker 4: One word?

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Speaker 3: The first word I came to my mom was stressful.

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Speaker 4: No, what No, that's not the word that came to

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Speaker 4: my mind. I think you persevered. Mmm, because had it

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Speaker 3: Yea, No, that's a good word. That's a good word.

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Speaker 2: So when I first told you about the Turkey drive, like,

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Speaker 2: what was your initial thoughts?

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Speaker 3: I thought you were nervous.

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Speaker 4: I was not nervous. You were nervous.

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Speaker 4: Well, here's the thing I'm and I think we have

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Speaker 3: No I did. I did, but we'll talk about it.

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Speaker 4: But go ahead, okay. And so oh I didn't know

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Speaker 4: When that I didn't come through, I got a little nervous.

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Speaker 2: So well, listen, we can't worry about the how. We

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Speaker 2: got focus on what exactly. Yeah, So just to give

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Speaker 2: wanted to have a conversation about some things with the network.

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Speaker 3: And I always go to this.

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Speaker 2: Restaurant and I get my turkeys from them, right, And

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Speaker 2: so when I noticed the opportunity and I was asked

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Speaker 2: if I'd be interested in doing some sales work with them,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, hell, yeah, Like I like them, even though

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Speaker 2: all right, cool. I was like, and it's not meant

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Speaker 2: to be. Tom is already here for Thanksgiving. Let's try

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Speaker 2: again next year, right. So when next year came, which

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Speaker 2: is this year, I was just like, Okay, let me see,

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Speaker 2: or probably somewhere in Q one, but that same director.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, like, can you give me the I

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Speaker 2: think he's like the vice president of something email. So

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Speaker 2: she was like yeah, So I started emailing him. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a.

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Speaker 2: Media come on, Like, y'all know one thing about me.

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Speaker 3: I am very professional, you know that, right?

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Speaker 2: So I did all that and I'm emailing the nigga

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Speaker 2: some point I'm just like, yo, like I have to

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Speaker 4: You know, I believe that, right, No, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And so I was like, you know what, let me

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Speaker 2: call one of the one of their locations at that's

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Speaker 2: I'm telling her I'm from Memphis, that I I and

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Speaker 2: she was like, I want to help you. So I'm like,

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Speaker 2: all right, cool. So she give me her regional manager's information.

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Speaker 2: So I emailed the regional manager. He follows up.

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Speaker 3: Y'all.

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Speaker 2: While he's following up, he included me in the email

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Speaker 2: thread between him, somebody from operations, all these different people

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Speaker 2: and everybody's so fucking excited. So remember I think I

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Speaker 2: because I was excited.

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Speaker 3: I gotta tell you too, I think we all got excited.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not one to make an announcement, but like,

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Speaker 2: I just felt so good and so secure. But I

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Speaker 2: will say one of the things that I did learn

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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely. But do you think that your excitement was

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Speaker 2: Both mm hmmm, both because I know how impactful this is.

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Speaker 3: This is gonna be from Memphis.

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Speaker 2: But I also feel like, damn, you're about to get

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Speaker 4: Is this the same restaurant that didn't come through?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the same rend that didn't come through, right, okay,

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Speaker 2: so make that this is the same restaurant since day one.

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Speaker 2: So I'm following up to the regional manager because they

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Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, cool, I'm not gonna hold y'all up.

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Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a very optimistic person, but something deep

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Speaker 2: plant no seeds. I'm like, leave me just being positive.

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Speaker 2: So I'm constantly emailing them following up, y'all.

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Speaker 3: I am the follow up queen.

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Speaker 2: Bum this back upright, just following up, push back up back, girl.

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Speaker 3: You're like, did you see this email?

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Speaker 2: And so I think it was like maybe a month

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Speaker 4: My thing is, so y'all gonna see feeding people in

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Speaker 4: the line, now, how does that make sense? Anyway?

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Speaker 2: So that's when we started like I was being transparent

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Speaker 2: I don't think my friends knew like the entirety of

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Speaker 2: me the turkeys, I'm like, well, how much does the

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Speaker 2: turkey cost wholesale?

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Speaker 2: This is the gotcha bitch? Yeah, he tells me. He

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Speaker 2: was the old Thank you so much for not for understanding.

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Speaker 2: You know, we appreciate that the turkey the price to

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Speaker 2: do a wholesale would be, let's say, fifty dollars right

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Speaker 2: per turkey per turkey?

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Speaker 4: Nonsense.

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Speaker 2: First of all, now listen, I may not be the

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Speaker 2: I still cut I'm not come on now.

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Speaker 4: No that so.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, this nigga playing on myself. He

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Speaker 3: think I'm stupid.

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Speaker 2: So I call old girl back at the restaurant who

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Speaker 2: gave me the ali to the regional regionals manager and

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Speaker 2: I was like, you know, donla, he's telling me it's

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Speaker 2: this match and she was like, well, that's funny because

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Speaker 2: that's retail price.

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Speaker 3: I said, exactly, wow, wow, is that not crazy?

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Speaker 4: So if that's retap price for fifty dollars, you know,

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Speaker 4: if they're getting those turkeys for at least thirty or

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Speaker 4: I was just about to say that, no, that has

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Speaker 4: I'm just so excited you were able to reach your goal.

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Speaker 2: she was like, I'm gonna hit you back up by Monday,

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Speaker 2: Charlotte was like, let me call me, let me put

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Speaker 4: What I said, let me put my Canadian voice on.

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Speaker 2: I was like, you think it's because I'm a nigga

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Speaker 4: And you didn't know that, did you say? Too?

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Speaker 3: Why you even called back? Why even say you got

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 3: So then I think you called the place right? What

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Speaker 5: Remember?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: No, No, it wasn't John. It was I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then he's like yeah, sure, whatever. And then

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Speaker 4: I said, no, no, no, no, no, I spoke to someone.

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Speaker 4: Then they I left my number. They call me back.

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Speaker 3: No you I think you said that you was gonna

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Speaker 2: And then Charlotte just went ghosts y'all. I was at

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Speaker 3: She said, give me a second, give me a second.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, Charlotte does this all the time, Bro.

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Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, this went well, and k you

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Speaker 3: And it did not remind y'all I was.

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Speaker 2: I was at work. I was like, I was starting

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Speaker 3: It's like, not fine?

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Speaker 4: Is North and South Memphis? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Well, here's the thing I did say that. I did

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Speaker 3: Well, there you go, guys. That's why I mean, get

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Speaker 3: You know, and I wasn't annoyed at you.

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Speaker 2: I think I was just annoyed with everything, like because

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Speaker 4: But I do think that this was actually preparing you

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Speaker 4: Nobody else really, like, like nobody's gonna have to take credit.

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Speaker 4: Nobody can't take credit other than the word in you,

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Speaker 2: And the phgs, the professional Homegirls and the ps right

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Speaker 2: you need is turkeys and she started laughing. I'm like, girl,

442
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,199
Speaker 2: all I need is turkeys, right. And so because at

443
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,880
Speaker 2: this point I started asking people. I was sending my emails,

444
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 2: I asked my my close friends and family. Then I

445
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,879
Speaker 2: started asking my phgs and then people started spreading. So

446
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,679
Speaker 2: at this point, like within a week, like we was

447
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 2: growing when it came to the donations and so she

448
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,080
Speaker 2: was like, well, I know the vice president of a

449
00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,719
Speaker 2: food a grocery store and it's no problem.

450
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 3: It's done.

451
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 2: So I'm like, oh shit, okay, so I right, So

452
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 2: I told you, I told Ajah. We all excited. So

453
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 2: I had a call with him the next day and

454
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 2: he was like, yeah, like you need a hundred. I'm

455
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 2: waiting for them to give me the quote, but it's

456
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,680
Speaker 2: not a problem. And I was like, yeah, I'm so excited.

457
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:49,400
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god.

458
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 2: So I'm telling her about everything I've been through and

459
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 2: I was just like, you know, this is gonna really

460
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,400
Speaker 2: do the city of Memphis. Like it's gonna it's gonna

461
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 2: be it's gonna feel good. And he said, wait Memphis

462
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 2: and I said, oh man.

463
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 4: He said wait what I thought it was glocal right.

464
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 3: He thought it was local. And I said, how does

465
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 3: she forget to tell the man that it was in Memphis?

466
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 4: Did she know?

467
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: Yeah?

468
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 3: I saw her. I told her and he was like, well,

469
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 3: if you wanted to shift up these birds.

470
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 2: It's gonna cost you a lot of money. He was like,

471
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 2: you know, because they frozen. And I'm even entertaining the idea.

472
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, how much wuld it cost?

473
00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 3: And he was like, honestly, right right, you can make

474
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 3: this happen.

475
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,439
Speaker 2: And he was like it wasn't even worth it. And

476
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,280
Speaker 2: then he told me. He was like, you know, maybe

477
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 2: you could just drive down there. I said, with one

478
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 2: hundred frozen turkeys from New York to Memphis. So then

479
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 2: this is when Aja, I think she started having her

480
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 2: doubts because she was like, maybe you should just do

481
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 2: it in New York, like you got to connect there,

482
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 2: like just wait, do Memphis next year. And I'm like, no,

483
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 2: I'm doing this turkey drive in Memphis covering YEP. And

484
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,720
Speaker 2: I think I drank the whole bottle that night, he did,

485
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 2: I remember, yeap. I ain't talking to nobody.

486
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,119
Speaker 3: And did I don't know. Something told me.

487
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 2: I just went online and I started researching, and something

488
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 2: told me to check out Whole Foods in Memphis, m

489
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 2: and I called them and I signed a soul defeated y'all.

490
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,679
Speaker 2: I was so sad, like I didn't have no energy,

491
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 2: and I called the Whole Foods in Memphis. I spoke

492
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 2: to John shout out to him, and I was just like,

493
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 2: I'm like, John, if you can help me, just let

494
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 2: me know.

495
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 3: I said, if you can't, cut me off so I

496
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 3: don't have to keep wasting my breath. And he was like, yeah,

497
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 3: no problem, we got you. Let me plus the order.

498
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 3: And I was like, what.

499
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 4: That's crazy, isn't it crazy?

500
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 2: And I think I didn't cry on the phone with him,

501
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 2: but I think I started like just tearing up because

502
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 2: I was like and I think I was just so

503
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 2: nervous even up until like maybe like a couple of

504
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 2: days ago, because I called him again and I was like, hey, John,

505
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 2: just checking in, make sure we're good.

506
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 3: And he's like, hey, but hey, how's it going.

507
00:23:53,920 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 4: I said, That's what I'm talking about, John, done, has

508
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:01,160
Speaker 4: your bag?

509
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 3: He had my back, man.

510
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 2: So we are close to it or by the time

511
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 2: you hear this episode, donations will be closed, but I

512
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 2: don't know.

513
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 3: I might open. I might keep it open because I

514
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 3: want to get more turkeys, but.

515
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 4: I think you should keep it open because more turkey's

516
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 4: more families.

517
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,360
Speaker 2: Yeah right, but right now we are close to four thousand,

518
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 2: and the goal was to raise three thousand. Yeah right,

519
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 2: she's laughing, y'all.

520
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 4: That's amazing, amazing, amazing. But I think of it the

521
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 4: children who are going to eat like that, that alone is.

522
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 2: Yes, s yeah right, No, I agree, And I just remember, like,

523
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 2: you know, just growing up and you know, missing a

524
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 2: couple of meals. And that's the reason why I wanted

525
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 2: to do it at my elementary school at Rozelle, because

526
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 2: you know, I am a partner with them, and I

527
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: went to I think it's like the inauguration or just

528
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 2: like to learn more about what the partnership details. And

529
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 2: I don't know, I was a so shocked that, you know,

530
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 2: there are kids who who who families don't have money

531
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 2: for uniforms, or who families don't have money for food

532
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 2: or like, I don't know, and I was just like, damn,

533
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 2: Like my elementary school was just such a really special

534
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 2: moment in my life. Like I'm the friends I go

535
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 2: to school, I went to school with her, I'm still

536
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 2: friends with to this day. And I was just so shocked,

537
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 2: and I'm just like I just want to do something

538
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 2: and give back to that space and like just help

539
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 2: them out because I'm just like, wow, like people can't

540
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 2: even afford like the basic needs, you know what I'm saying.

541
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 4: Do that? Yeah, I hate when kids like kids man, Like,

542
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 4: I mean, I understand adults too, but there's something about

543
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 4: children not having it just it hurts men, you.

544
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,479
Speaker 3: Know, it really does, especially when you see little kid

545
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 3: that look like.

546
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 2: You, you know, little nappyhead. You know, you'd be like,

547
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 2: let me get this kid something to eat.

548
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 4: There's a girl that lives in the neighborhood. I don't

549
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 4: know where she is now, but one time she came

550
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 4: to my house and she was like, is your daughter home?

551
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 4: It was like six in the morning, and I'm like, what,

552
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 4: why are you here? Like, well, I just want to

553
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 4: see if your daughter's home. And then I'm like, well,

554
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 4: she's she's eating breakfast, so she's not going to leave

555
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 4: it now, and she's like okay, And then I said,

556
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 4: she said, well can I eat breakfast too? I was like, well,

557
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 4: I didn't know what to do because I didn't want

558
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 4: to feed someone's child. Yeah, I don't allergic reacting to anything.

559
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 4: I don't know if DA had any like food restrictions

560
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 4: or nothing, So I didn't do it. But I said, well,

561
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 4: if you could tell your mom to call me and

562
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 4: you know, and then we'll talk and then I'll be

563
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 4: able to do that for you. And that didn't happen.

564
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 4: The next day she came back and I just gave

565
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 4: her next you know, like to to even go to

566
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 4: school with. But I always think about that, that girl

567
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 4: and what you're doing. I just think that it's just

568
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 4: such a testament to your heart. That's like me too.

569
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 4: The ability to help children, it's just so important, you know,

570
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 4: and I loved it that you're doing that.

571
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 3: So yeah, me too, me too, me too.

572
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 2: And just to think about what you said, like, I

573
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 2: think we have to stop being afraid to ask for

574
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 2: help because when I tell you, my professional home girls

575
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 2: really held it down. Yeah, like I think they were

576
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 2: because I sent out a very long email to my

577
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 2: newsletter in my newsletter, so definitely sign up if you haven't.

578
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 2: And it was so many people that were so shocked

579
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,239
Speaker 2: that I was going through all this.

580
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 4: And I also love that you was this the second

581
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 4: news leater you sent out the first one because the

582
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 4: first one was about.

583
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 3: To drive right about the drive.

584
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, So you know what touched me about that newsletter

585
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 4: is the numbers. That's that the.

586
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 2: Stats, Yes, twenty four property right, like that's a that's

587
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 2: a big number.

588
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 4: A number for the US, Yeah, because I mean these

589
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 4: someburds are often you know, talked about in under developed countries,

590
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 4: but here, I didn't know that was that lot or

591
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 4: that high rock. Yeah right, But yeah, nobody knew what

592
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 4: you're going through. But I feel that there's a level

593
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 4: of vulnerability, that vulnerability that needs to share with your audience,

594
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 4: you know, specifically if it's a community like yours, right,

595
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 4: and so we need to know what's going on so

596
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 4: we can help. And the fact that did that look

597
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 4: at you know, it's your goal. So yeah, amazing, I know.

598
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 2: So I definitely want to give a shout out to

599
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 2: those who have volunteered. I'm not volunteer, but those who

600
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 2: had donated, I definitely want to give them a shout out.

601
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: Even if you couldn't donate, just just by sharing sendings

602
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: to people who did donate, like it really really means

603
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: a lot.

604
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 3: Obviously.

605
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: I want to give a shout out to Charlamagne and

606
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: the President Dolly a Black Effect Network, Black Off podcast

607
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 2: network that.

608
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 3: Really made it. It really does something to me.

609
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: I don't know, I feel like this whole name Turkey

610
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 2: Drive has been making me so emotional, you know.

611
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 4: Man, because your emotions Okay, yeah, Like it's just I

612
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 4: don't know, it's just like I don't know about if

613
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 4: y'all know this feeling.

614
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure you know this feeling, Charlotte, but it's

615
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 2: just like I don't know, I can just feel that

616
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: God is just so happy with me, Like.

617
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like one of the things that we are

618
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 4: called to do in this world, just as Christians, but

619
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 4: just anybody is to fear the hungry, to cut those

620
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 4: who don't have anything to do, and like, you know,

621
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 4: take care of the widows and so yes, for sure,

622
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 4: God it's pleased with you. Yeah, absolutely absolutely, I believe

623
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 4: that too. So yeah, it's pleased with the way that

624
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 4: he just kept going, yeah, in the face of adversity, because.

625
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 3: Literally in the face.

626
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,959
Speaker 4: Y'all ain't eating this. I'm not doing nothing.

627
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 2: Listen, I get I can't tell you how many times

628
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 2: Charlotte had to like hit me on the side and

629
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 2: like you need to breathe.

630
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 4: Right, because girl, but it was worth that. I'm so

631
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 4: and it's here.

632
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 2: It's here by the time y'all hear this. The Turkey

633
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,479
Speaker 2: Job will be on November twenty first, at two pm

634
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 2: at Rozelle Elementary, Memphis, Tennessee. Three eight one one four.

635
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 4: What's one thing that you would have done differently and

636
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 4: one thing that you would have changed from this whole experience.

637
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 2: One thing I would have done differently I would have

638
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 2: asked sooner. I would have asked sooner. I think that

639
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: I don't know why I was on bear.

640
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 3: I don't know. I guess i'd be feeling like I.

641
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 2: Should be able to do certain things or I don't know,

642
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: you know, how you put your own stuff on the pedestal.

643
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 2: But it's like, girl, like there's nothing wrong, Like you

644
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: got here because of your community. Your community knows who

645
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,719
Speaker 2: you are, Like there's nothing wrong with leaning in and

646
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: asking them for help. So I think next year, definitely

647
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 2: I have my nonprofit ready, but I definitely think that

648
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: I would help ask people a little bit sooner, because

649
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's great that we was able

650
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 2: to raise close to four thousand dollars in next to

651
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 2: two and a half weeks, I mean less than two weeks.

652
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 4: What is one thing that you would do again that

653
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 4: you did this year for the ones to come?

654
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 3: I have no turkey drive.

655
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 4: I guess the same question, right, yeah, one thing you

656
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 4: said that you would do as sooner, and I guess

657
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 4: the second just.

658
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,479
Speaker 3: A yeah, right.

659
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 2: But you know what, Honestly, I feel like I wouldn't

660
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: probably change anything though, because I just feel like it

661
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: just made me believe myself even more, like there's nothing

662
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 2: that I cannot do. I feel like if I really

663
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 2: put my mind to it, I can make it happen absolutely,

664
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 2: And I ain't never did a turkey drive before.

665
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 4: No, And that's the thing, Like, I think that this

666
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 4: experience is definitely I opening for you to see what

667
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 4: needs to be done, what can be done differently next year.

668
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 4: And I think I do believe it's just gonna get bigger.

669
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,959
Speaker 4: It's gonna be bigger partnerships, bigger collaborations, many more families

670
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 4: used to feed. Yeah yeah, And you don't want to

671
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 4: start with a hundred that's a big number.

672
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 3: See, I always feel like it wasn't a big number.

673
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 3: I'm so hard on myself.

674
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 2: No, like twenty is old, Like that's not a big number.

675
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying that that's insane. A hundred families

676
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 4: that's what some churches feed. Yeah and established, right, you know,

677
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that you're not.

678
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: Established, but yeah, organizations like yeah yeah. But I also

679
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 2: think that because when I was talking about it with people,

680
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 2: especially from a network, like I think people were really

681
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 2: proud to even like just want to help, because like,

682
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 2: I don't think too many people with businesses, especially.

683
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: With podcasts, are doing things of this magnitude.

684
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm not talking the bigger platforms because

685
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: I do know like other big platforms do it.

686
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 3: But I don't know.

687
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: I think it's just when you when something has been

688
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 2: so good to you. I think it's good to give back,

689
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 2: like especially when you.

690
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 4: Can absolutely and then you're going back to hometown.

691
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Speaker 2: I ain't know.

692
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 3: I'm about to be on Bill Street fucked up. Yeah,

693
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 3: I'm about to be huh.

694
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 4: What is that? Well?

695
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 3: Bill Street? So Bill Street is like it's downtown.

696
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 2: I was in downtown New York, but it's downtown Memphis

697
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 2: and it's like a big ass street where you just

698
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: hang out different bars, different clubs and stuff and you

699
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 2: just have a good time.

700
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 3: Now I haven't been there forever, but.

701
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 4: You know it's gonna be a good time.

702
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 3: Oh it's gonna be a good time because the way

703
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 3: I'm about to be acting.

704
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 2: But just to give y'all. To remind y'all again, the

705
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 2: Turkey Drive is November twenty first, at two pm. It'll

706
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 2: be this Thursday coming up to come out, and I

707
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: have a feeling it it's going to be crazy. I

708
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: hope my elementary school is ready at Roselle Elementary. If

709
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 2: you want to volunteer, it definitely hit me up. I

710
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 2: have a few people that's volunteering. But I feel like

711
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: it's going to go by so fast.

712
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 4: Have they already put the way out there the school?

713
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 4: They know? Obnestly, I'm sure they have.

714
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think another this lady I spoke to,

715
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: she's like one of the eldest in the community. So

716
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 2: she called me and we were just talking and she

717
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 2: was just like wow, like she said, the fact that

718
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 2: one of Roselle's babies is doing this, and I was like,

719
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 2: oh my god.

720
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Speaker 4: Oh.

721
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: I was just like yo, like, I don't know, It's

722
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 2: just so funny how life works out, man, they really do.

723
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: And she was so happy, so proud, like she was

724
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 2: really I don't know, it makes me emotional, but she

725
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just feels good to know what

726
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 2: people are proud.

727
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 4: You know. I think that we need to make sure

728
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 4: that all the news networks are there right now. Tell

729
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 4: them they.

730
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,280
Speaker 3: Need I've been working on the press, kid emailing people.

731
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 3: I have a couple of things working on, so I

732
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 3: have a it's going to be a good event.

733
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 4: Though, did you make a nadive voice? You know?

734
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 2: She really was like people are telling you no, cause

735
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 2: you probably go nigga, let me.

736
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 3: Call him, let me call him. I'm like, okay, call him.

737
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 4: And they told you no to They sure did. I'm

738
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 4: over here on some why this is Charlotte calling from

739
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 4: the ebony I show girl. No thank you.

740
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 2: And also, like I said, if you want to donate,

741
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 2: I might keep the page open till then because I will, like,

742
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: since we are over one hundred, I will only get

743
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 2: close to one fifty. And I'm also including my own

744
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 2: money into this. Two guys so or maybe two hundred.

745
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, if we got some ballers I calls.

746
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 3: I'm listening to this, okay, too high.

747
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 4: Yeah.

748
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: And also for those who have donated, you will be

749
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: included and a thank you marketing collateral. So definitely make

750
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: sure to let me know which name you would like

751
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 2: to use, either if it's your personal name or your

752
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 2: business name.

753
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 3: And then that's it. I guess I'll see y'all in

754
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 3: Memphis November twenty.

755
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 4: First, it's so exciting, congrats friend, extremely.

756
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 2: Proud of you, Thank you friend. And then last one,

757
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 2: I lead y'all. Charlotte is my prayer warrior baby. Oh yes,

758
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 2: Charlotte will pray you out of any storm. Okay, I will, so,

759
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,479
Speaker 2: Charlotte listen with a prayer for the Turkey drive.

760
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 3: All right, Well, right by your hands.

761
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 4: By your heads. Boy, just wanting to thank you so

762
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 4: much for this opportunity that you've given Ebaney, this this

763
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 4: beautiful and grandiose idea. We pray that you go before

764
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 4: her as she gets ready to get to Memphis. And

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00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 4: I just feel it the families that are there blessed

766
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 4: by this beautiful idea that you've given her. We blessed

767
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 4: the families, bless every person that has partnered with her.

768
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 4: And I just pray for all those people who also

769
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 4: gave that thinking blessed one hundredfold for the donation, cause

770
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 4: I really do believe that she is good ground and

771
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 4: good soil. We know the importance of giving into good soul.

772
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 4: So we pray that you continue to bless circuity and

773
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 4: open doors for her, and that you continue to just

774
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 4: do what needs to be done in her favor. It

775
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 4: is so in Jesus name.

776
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 2: Amen, Amen and listeners. Professional Homegirls, thank you, thank you,

777
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 2: thank you so much. I feel like my professional Homegirls

778
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 2: have been with me for a very long time. It

779
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 2: will be six years that we had the podcast. We

780
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 2: have a lot of new professional homegirls thanks to the

781
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 2: partnership with Black offec podcast Network and I don't know.

782
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 2: I just really been in the spirit of gratitude. So

783
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 2: I'm just really thankful you're.

784
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 3: About take cry out. No I am.

785
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 2: I you know what it is, because when you can

786
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 2: really be a blessing to somebody, because like, I know

787
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: what it feels to go without it. I don't know,

788
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 2: I'm you the same because you have kids. But I

789
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 2: really have a soft spot for kids. And maybe it's

790
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 2: because of my own childhood trauma that I had to endure,

791
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 2: and yeah, just I don't know, like I was just

792
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 2: so shocked to learn about the things that what's going

793
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 2: on within that community and just with the school need,

794
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 2: and you know, I definitely want to keep supporting them

795
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 2: and think of other ways I can support them as

796
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 2: far as like fundraising. They need some uniform, so y'all

797
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 2: get your pocketbooks ready for that, because like I really

798
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 2: want to be able to help them. And I don't know,

799
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:40,919
Speaker 2: I feel like a kids shouldn't have to go through

800
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 2: certain things, you know.

801
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 4: And I think I really do think that this is

802
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 4: the beginning of something bigger than turkeys. I'm telling you

803
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 4: right now, like, yeah, my words, I think it's gonna

804
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 4: be bigger than turkeys. It's going to be like Christmas

805
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 4: back to school.

806
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to we put this fair.

807
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 4: It's gonna happen.

808
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna be. Damn this bitch doing every holiday.

809
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 3: I'm doing toys for.

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00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 4: Times, right, your money, the money, I'm money.

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00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 3: But by that time we'll be a nonprofit, y'all.

812
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 2: So we're not the podcast, but the nonprofit that I'm

813
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 2: working on, and then we can get these big corporations dollars. So,

814
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 2: but to the listeners, thank y'all so much, man, thank you,

815
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you.

816
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 3: It has really been a lot of hard work, a

817
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 3: lot of tears, a lot of drinking would have been

818
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 3: available if I had one, But.

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00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 2: In all honesty, it was definitely worth it, and I'm

820
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 2: so looking forward to being home and doing this Turkey drive.

821
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Speaker 2: So thank you all for supporting one of my dreams.

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00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 3: Again, till you, yes, and.

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00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 2: Until next time, guys. I see y'all in Memphis, November

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Speaker 2: twenty first, two pm at Risdale Elementary, LA.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna stay. Bye oh bye, y'all to the show.

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Speaker 4: I thought you're doing your ass. Bye, y'all, thanks for

827
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Speaker 4: having me.

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