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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: Its way up with Angela Yee on our Wealth Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: So Stacy Tisday is here.

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Speaker 3: Happy Wealth Wednesdays everybody, and we are hungry today.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna feed you today.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna feed your bellies. We're gonna feed your soul

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Speaker 3: with donuts.

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Speaker 2: Nothing better than that and Cloudy Donuts. And we have

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Speaker 2: the partners from Cloudy Donuts here, Derek Falcon and the

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Speaker 2: amazing Zodi too Jewel. Thank you for joining us, Thank

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Speaker 2: you for having it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys for having us. I appreciate it. So

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Speaker 4: excited to be excited.

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Speaker 2: You know, I was talking to Zode because it's Women's

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Speaker 2: History months, so we were talking about things that we

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Speaker 2: could do in collaboration. You know, once you guys opened

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Speaker 2: the shop in Brooklyn, I was like, there's definitely gonna

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Speaker 2: be some synergy here for us to absolutely make some

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Speaker 2: amazing things happen. But I also saw you guys both

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Speaker 2: at Earn Your Leisure when they had their book launch

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Speaker 2: and Derek and I did the panel together. Derek, so

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. I feel like

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Speaker 2: I see you doing everything else. I'm like, when are

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Speaker 2: we gonna have our sit down?

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Speaker 4: Awesome yeah, I appreciate it. I'm excited to be here.

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Speaker 4: As you know, we meant about three years ago and

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Speaker 4: you were one of the first people to try our product.

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Speaker 4: Not knowing me, you gave us a shot. You tried

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Speaker 4: to donut backstage and we reposted it that went viral.

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Speaker 1: That was at King's Theater.

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Speaker 3: Yah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't remember that, so.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to thank you for that, and I'm appreciative

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Speaker 4: of the platform and everything that you built. So I'm

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Speaker 4: excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm appreciative because these are vegan donuts, and sometimes

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Speaker 2: people think vegan is nasty incredible, but it's incredible. I

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Speaker 2: always tell people, once you start trying things like this,

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Speaker 2: you won't want artificial flavorings or anything like that because

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Speaker 2: when things are fresh like this, it just tastes better, honestly.

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Speaker 4: And that's why in our community can be a little

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Speaker 4: bit of a table to approach veganism, right because like,

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Speaker 4: even as black people in general, most of us grew

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Speaker 4: up in a scratch kitchen. What we grew up with

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Speaker 4: big products that were made by our big mamas, our moms,

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Speaker 4: and it had all of those fresh ingredients. So like

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Speaker 4: when we got into the world. For black people in general,

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Speaker 4: it's how I expectation when it comes to desserts and

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Speaker 4: bake goods. So we are happy that we have a

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Speaker 4: vegan product that's an alternative when it comes to certain

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Speaker 4: dairy allergies or people not having people having exposure to

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Speaker 4: eggs and things like that. So it's how can you

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Speaker 4: give them something in a traditional form but with a

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Speaker 4: non traditional approach.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I think with the danges of what we're

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Speaker 2: putting in our body right now and people being a

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Speaker 2: lot more aware of that.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're seeing certain things getting banned.

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Speaker 2: We see when we go to other countries they don't

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Speaker 2: even use certain products.

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Speaker 5: It's incredible that yeah, and we're taking people back to

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Speaker 5: our roots already. We know for people of color, whether

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Speaker 5: you're from the Caribbean, we already are people that have

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Speaker 5: practiced plant based diets. So we're doing it in a

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Speaker 5: really sweet way where people are like, Okay, this is

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Speaker 5: something that I can ease myself into. So it's really

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Speaker 5: great to be able to provide, like Derek said, people

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Speaker 5: that have dairy a versions, people that are not free,

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Speaker 5: but also people that just want to enjoy the lifestyle

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Speaker 5: in a luxury way. You know, it's for all people.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to be vegan to have Cloudy Donut.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about how we got here, because this

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Speaker 2: was not your first business. For Derek, I know everybody

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Speaker 2: know the grind that happened before that because you had

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Speaker 2: another restaurant.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So I had a restaurant in Baltimore called Homemade,

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Speaker 4: And really, like I always tell people, I'm the black

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Speaker 4: Man's possibility, right, how can the ordinary man do extraordinary

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Speaker 4: do really well and scaling your life with it. So

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Speaker 4: when you start with something, we are told that we

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Speaker 4: have to go up to something that we're passionate about.

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Speaker 4: But to be honest with you, I wasn't really passionate

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Speaker 4: I readed two years I spent in solid turk confinement.

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Speaker 4: And when I was a sild Targe confinement, it was like,

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Speaker 4: all right, you really don't got access to anything. So

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Speaker 4: all I had access to was the newspaper, right, the

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Speaker 4: Sunday paper, really thick, It got the funnies in there,

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Speaker 4: the comedy section and things like that. And I would

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Speaker 4: read the financial section, and it said that most people

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Speaker 4: who became wealthy didn't do it all, didn't do it

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Speaker 4: off for one thing. They had a lot of little things,

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Speaker 4: seven streams of income. And when I came home, I said,

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Speaker 4: So I started with one restaurant, which led to another restaurant,

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Speaker 4: it's really about the seven streams. How could I, as

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Speaker 4: and I wasn't a rapper, but I still had personal

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Speaker 4: aspirations that were similar to those gentlemen, and it was

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Speaker 4: really like, Okay, I'm gonna start with a restaurant. I'm

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Speaker 2: I want to say that's an anomaly in itself, though,

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Speaker 2: because the restaurant business is not being one of the

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Speaker 2: able to maintain that, to maintain the quality, to maintain management,

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Speaker 2: and then to even just I feel like the majority

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Speaker 2: of restaurants end up shutting down, But for you to

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Speaker 2: do that, that's an anomaly in itself.

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Speaker 1: Like to have a restaurant that was successful.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so most of the guys and you know women

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Speaker 4: who start restaurants, like you said, it's a high failure rate.

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Speaker 4: The chances of making it are slim to not slimming

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Speaker 4: wasn't gonna fail at whatever I did. I could have

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Speaker 4: be successful. I could have been making purchase. I would

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Speaker 4: specifically when it comes to the documentaries that I recorded,

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Speaker 4: car what's really about Like can I I mean can

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Speaker 4: I like fuck it? M like it got it happen

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Speaker 4: for me, Like you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: like you're talking about like in front of projects. My

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Speaker 4: father was a dope thing. My mother went through subsidized.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I ain't I don't care about none

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna make a way. And that's kind of like

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Speaker 4: the energy and yeah, not being defined by it and

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Speaker 4: more or less, like you say, not allowing it to

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Speaker 4: be an obstacle in your life. So you gotta realize

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Speaker 4: I come from the day to day obstacle being death

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Speaker 4: for jail, so it's easy for me to like get

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Speaker 4: into it with like the health department. That's light work.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: At the same time, this is also a love story.

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Speaker 2: I do want to yeah this So now, Zodi, you

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Speaker 2: came into the picture also now you had a job.

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Speaker 2: You're a teacher, yes, you know as a teacher, and

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Speaker 2: I could see you being a great teacher.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I was, thank you.

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Speaker 5: I was a teacher for fourteen years.

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Speaker 2: Just from watching your videos and seeing you speak about

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Speaker 2: certain things like reverse gentrification, which we'll talk about shortly too.

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Speaker 2: But now, how did you guys end up teaming up

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Speaker 2: because some people also listen, you guys are anomalies, because

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Speaker 2: some people will also tell you did not go in

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Speaker 2: out great, so talk to me about that.

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Speaker 5: So Derek and I met initially in twenty eighteen at

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Speaker 5: a music festival in DC. That's where I'm from. Derek

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Speaker 5: from Baltimore is Broccoli City, and I was immersed in,

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Speaker 5: So I personally I don't remember, but.

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Speaker 3: The person that.

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Speaker 5: I was having a good time, but the person that

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Speaker 5: Derek was with was following me on Instagram and gave

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Speaker 5: He's always been forward facing it. So he was he

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Speaker 5: I'm a nice person, you know. I would post the

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Speaker 5: daily devotional a lot and he would reply and just

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Speaker 5: to holler or anything like that. But when my grandmother

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Speaker 5: looking for an entertainer for the to perform and Derek said,

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Speaker 5: that is so nice, Like I would love to FaceTime you,

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Speaker 5: you know, we talked after that FaceTime for several weeks.

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Speaker 5: We met on Actually soon we'll be celebrating six years.

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Speaker 5: We met on March twentieth, twenty nineteen, and we've been

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Speaker 5: to talk about the conversation we had when I came

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Speaker 4: We had been together for yeah some change, and yeah,

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Speaker 4: say enough is enough because we don't have enough. And

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Speaker 4: getting what we're getting and we already don't have shit.

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Speaker 4: So how do you now change the narrative? And I

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Speaker 4: think it specifically can start with a two income household

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Speaker 4: mutual sweat equity until the person has the best plan.

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Speaker 4: So I always tell people, once you get over the

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Speaker 4: good luck, you get some good money. Right. So I

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Speaker 4: always believe that no matter what household you in, the

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Speaker 4: person that's in charge of the business should be the

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Speaker 4: person who was the smartest with the best plan. It's

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Speaker 4: not about being a man or being a woman or

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Speaker 4: Miss Zodi, I had two restaurants, in a food truck,

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Speaker 4: I owned the building. My death to income ratio was

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Speaker 4: How often have you walked down Rodeo Drive and seen

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Speaker 4: It's not the big things that you do every day,

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Speaker 2: I agree with that it's a lot of sacrifice that

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Speaker 4: And so much space.

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Speaker 2: And when you talk about like going on rodeo driver

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Speaker 1: The America's first suburb.

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Speaker 5: It is just exactly America's first suburb.

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Speaker 2: But to your point, nothing there is like black owned.

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Speaker 2: They're like ridiculously expensive. I've always known that since I

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: came in and Derek and I were in the store.

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00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,040
Speaker 5: We were like unpacking boxes. We hadn't opened yet, and

437
00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,280
Speaker 5: she thought that we were the movers.

438
00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:43,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure she.

439
00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,800
Speaker 5: Thought we were the mover. She was completely floored. She

440
00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,080
Speaker 5: couldn't believe that we were the proprietors of the business,

441
00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,440
Speaker 5: and she said, I've been here my entire life, I've

442
00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,879
Speaker 5: never seen a black owned business, so I did for

443
00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:55,800
Speaker 5: the research. I found out Okay, when it comes to

444
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,679
Speaker 5: food and bevers, we were the first, and it was

445
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,399
Speaker 5: really important. And I learned through Derek to understand the

446
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,320
Speaker 5: difference between like a black owned neighborhood and a black

447
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:11,960
Speaker 5: occupied community, because there's a difference speaking specific to real estate.

448
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,800
Speaker 5: And so that's when we started to open our eyes

449
00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 5: to understand, like, what we're doing here is what I

450
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,639
Speaker 5: call reverse gentrification. So it's all about bringing our black

451
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,240
Speaker 5: owned business into affluent communities, apps and of color, and

452
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 5: providing value. So we're not just coming in and saying like, yeah,

453
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 5: we're cloudy, donut, what's up, Come get a donut like

454
00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 5: we are. We gave out so many complimentary donuts. We

455
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,399
Speaker 5: connected with so many neighbors, and we were actually the

456
00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,679
Speaker 5: first on our block. There's several businesses. We were the

457
00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,600
Speaker 5: first business in the community to open, like have a

458
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:48,000
Speaker 5: ribbon cutting ceremony with the councilmen. We opened two days before,

459
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,719
Speaker 5: you know, we opened the store. So all of that

460
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,760
Speaker 5: was really intentional, you know what I mean, And unfortunately,

461
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,040
Speaker 5: you know, for some people even to this day, and

462
00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:58,840
Speaker 5: definitely when we open even people within our community just

463
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,639
Speaker 5: couldn't wrap their minds around why we would go to

464
00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 5: a white neighborhood. But Derek, I mean he had insights on,

465
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,159
Speaker 5: you know, finding the place. I remember when you found.

466
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 3: Call it reverse gentrification. I call it initiate inclusivity.

467
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:17,959
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely So for me, yeah, I turned into like

468
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 5: a young angela.

469
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,680
Speaker 4: Right. So you walk in down Montague Street with your mom,

470
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 4: because kids are taught things subconsciously through visualization.

471
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 1: Right.

472
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,880
Speaker 4: So you see this all white neighborhood and they own

473
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 4: all this stuff where I came from. You bet not

474
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 4: break or funck nothing up, right. You know, we overhere

475
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 4: amongst these white folks. Now be on your best behavior,

476
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,359
Speaker 4: right exactly. We're just talking about so black people have

477
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,920
Speaker 4: been able to kind of navigate through white society from

478
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 4: a space of fear what they're afraid of? Right, So

479
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 4: I never was afraid of white folks. I actually grew

480
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,400
Speaker 4: up in a neighborhood free of all white folks, never

481
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 4: seen them until we had interactions with the police from

482
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,679
Speaker 4: Baltimore City, the second largest black city in the country. Right. So,

483
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 4: as a black man who was successful, I always lived

484
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 4: in these affluent neighborhoods that was not only absente color,

485
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 4: but abstinently like people like myself. So I mean I

486
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 4: lived in I lived in Beverly Hills and I couldn't

487
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 4: connect with nobody. I lived in Tribeca. I couldn't really

488
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 4: connect with nobody. So I wanted to put businesses in

489
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 4: neighborhoods where I would personally live. But I wanted to

490
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 4: bring a level of authenticity to the neighborhood too. That also,

491
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 4: you gotta show white folks sometimes that listen. I could

492
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 4: do the same shit, and I could do it better.

493
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 4: It's just what it is. You know. I ain't gonna

494
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 4: lie to you. I wasn't moving there to be friends.

495
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,480
Speaker 4: They don't move to our neighborhood to be friends. I

496
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,680
Speaker 4: had a product that was dynamic, they got a built

497
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 4: in audience, the kids and people who liked what we got.

498
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 4: And our goal is to build up by our brand

499
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 4: and include black people. But also we are aware that

500
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,439
Speaker 4: we do have white customers who buy the product. But

501
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 4: it's really about shaking it up. So like black people

502
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 4: always say, you should have went in bad style as

503
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 4: a black neighborhood, that's not a black neighborhood, that's a

504
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 4: black occupied neighborhood with a bunch of Georish boyson and everything.

505
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 4: That's it. That's not a black people. Yeah yeah, yeah,

506
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 4: So we really gotta figure it out. So how do

507
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 4: we grow our brands if we continue to do the

508
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 4: things that we do. That's why I always push enough

509
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 4: is enough, because we don't have enough? Right So all right, well,

510
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 4: let's talk about the twenty five black businesses that in

511
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,920
Speaker 4: bed Style that still haven't been able to scale. Let's

512
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 4: talk about the twenty five black owned successful businesses in

513
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 4: Atlanta that still get lack of access to capital. See

514
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 4: the thing about it in America is this, no matter

515
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,439
Speaker 4: how good you are, you still black. And I know that.

516
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,639
Speaker 4: So I know that no matter how good we are

517
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 4: in Brooklyn Heights, no matter how good I am in

518
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 4: Beverly Hills, I'm still only gonna get but so far

519
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 4: because of my blackness. Right, So then your mindset is like, well,

520
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 4: fuck it, it's house money. Let's put the store wherever

521
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 4: we want put it. Let's sell whatever we want sell,

522
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 4: and that people who fuck with us let them come

523
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 4: whenever and however they want come. That's freedom. See, that's freedom.

524
00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 4: And then a lot of people don't understand that because

525
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 4: a lot of entrepreneurs and spaces where they kind of

526
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 4: gotta bust the ass to make ends meet, and now

527
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 4: they gotta walk on eggshells. But then you basically back

528
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 4: to being a little girl on Montague Street, afraid that

529
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 4: if I say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing,

530
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be in the same situation. So I always

531
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 4: tell people, right, we spent our childhood trying to be adults,

532
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 4: and then we spent our adulthood running from our childhood.

533
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 4: You gotta look at it like this. I'm already a nigga,

534
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 4: I'm already black, I'm already from the ghetto, my father

535
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 4: already a dope thing. Open a motherfucking spot up and

536
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 4: see what happened. Right. I don't care what they say,

537
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 4: I don't care what they do. I'm here for me

538
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 4: and if I don't shake it up, because I could

539
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 4: have easily opened up a fried chicken spot and bad

540
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 4: style and had a bunch of guys out there drinking

541
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 4: and smoking and had all the rappers pull up, and

542
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 4: that would have did something for the community, right, negative

543
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 4: may be positive, well, who knows, But what would have

544
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,360
Speaker 4: changed for a person that's me? A young version of myself.

545
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 3: What do you want entrepreneurs to take away from that?

546
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 4: So I speak for specifically for black people. I just

547
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,199
Speaker 4: gotta be honest with you because the white reality and

548
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 4: the black reality is totally different. So I always tell

549
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 4: black people, for white folks, it's twenty twenty five. For us,

550
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 4: it's nineteen twenty five. When it comes to our entrepreneurs,

551
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 4: we have to move from a space of fearlessness. Yeah,

552
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 4: don't be afraid to take a chance and make a choice.

553
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 4: You gotta live with it. They gonna hate you either way.

554
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 4: Some people don't wanna come in just cause it's vegan.

555
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 4: Some people been dying, They come in cause it's vegan.

556
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 4: Some people mad we're in Brooklyn Heights. But then it's

557
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 4: black people who live in Brooklyn Heights, like it was

558
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 4: never no black people here. I'm so glad you here

559
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 4: right right, So Dan, if you do, Dan, if you don't,

560
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,880
Speaker 4: just rock out and make sure that whatever you do,

561
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 4: if you give it your all, it'll give you everything

562
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 4: you want.

563
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 3: M speaking of fearlessness, you're going into film now cause

564
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 3: you haven't done enough?

565
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, so so yeah, we we got a

566
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 4: docu series called The Seven streams and it's really it's

567
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 4: really about this. So in our community there's a lot

568
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 4: of love and support and people who want the game

569
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 4: right and they want the game, and I'm like, all right,

570
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 4: how can Like Zode taught me a term called the

571
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 4: medicine and the candy, where like, how can you give

572
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 4: somebody something that's good for him, but how can you

573
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 4: present it in a way that they are attracted to it.

574
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 4: So we're gonna fashionize the brand in the sense that

575
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 4: we're gonna do four boxes a year, like fashion drops

576
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 4: win a summer, spring fall, and when we drop the boxes,

577
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 4: we'll drop seasonal content that led up to us dropping out.

578
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: Excellent, Yeah, for dessert boxes for a dessert boxing.

579
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 4: Okay, so the dessert box itself will be fifty dollars retail,

580
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 4: but if you subscribe and get the dessert box, then

581
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 4: you'll get the content as well. Some people won't be

582
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 4: interested in the desserts and will want the content, and

583
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 4: then you feel like you want because I didn't want

584
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 4: to position myself as like I'm the model, I'm the

585
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 4: high to guy. I didn't want to be like a

586
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 4: guy like I can teach you how to grow crypto,

587
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,400
Speaker 4: How to build a restaurant, Like, I'm not that guy,

588
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 4: and I feel like that sometimes we put ourselves in

589
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 4: that space. It allows you to kind of be ridiculed.

590
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 4: Damned if you do, Damn if you So I was like, well,

591
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 4: look if I give him a box and then I

592
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 4: give him like ten principles. So I got ten principles

593
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 4: called like Biggie had the ten Crack Commandments, I got

594
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 4: the ten Black Commandments. Ten principles that black people can

595
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 4: live by in general that can allow you to make

596
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 4: it through tough situations that are difficult, whether it's a relationship,

597
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 4: whether it's a job, whether it's feeling like you're down

598
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 4: or out or like for all the guys that I

599
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 4: speak for coming home from prison, yeah yeah.

600
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 5: And those are principles that Derek has taught me. I mean,

601
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 5: aside from being you know, partners in the business in life,

602
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 5: he served as a major mentor to me because being

603
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 5: somebody that went to art school their entire life, I

604
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 5: was taught that creativity is finances are the death of

605
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 5: creativity and go into something in your things, which is

606
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 5: wild when you have this art form in your thing

607
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 5: and now you are trying to figure out how you

608
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 5: can monetize it. You find yourself in a way in

609
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 5: which you you know you're in a battle with yourself.

610
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 5: And so the Ten Black Commandments have been really positive

611
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,199
Speaker 5: in my life because I really had to recenter myself

612
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 5: coming from a you know, a single mom that doesn't

613
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 5: have a lot of financial savvy and even assisting her

614
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 5: and understanding how can I how can I again shift

615
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 5: the narrative of how life goes for us?

616
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, So it's like stuff like enough is enough

617
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 4: because we don't have enough, meaning like yo, it's as

618
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 4: general as why not get together and do something we

619
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 4: already broke, right, you know what I'm saying, enough is enough.

620
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 4: If I'm in a position at PR and I could

621
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 4: give you a leg up like Angie doing us a

622
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 4: major favor by saying, like, yo, I'm already gotta show

623
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 4: I like what you got going on, enough is enough

624
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 4: because we won't have enough. So our black media, like sometimes

625
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 4: our black media gatekeepers and it's like, well you'll cover

626
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 4: like Shade, but you don't want to cover us, and

627
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 4: we really winning, you see what I'm saying. Or this

628
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 4: is another thing that's extremely important. The media and black

629
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 4: culture typically want to see us two ways. They want

630
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 4: to see. It's bagging and crying that we get ready

631
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 4: clothes because.

632
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: Then now we'll we'll we'll rally up.

633
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll rally up and spend some coins on something

634
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 4: at a time, right, Or they want to see us

635
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 4: in a conforming standpoint like okay, well I'm a time.

636
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 4: Basically I'm exactly who White America wants me to be.

637
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 4: They've accepted me, so now I can get that deal.

638
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 4: But when you really standing on, like na, I'm really

639
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 4: doing something with a real black woman and we really

640
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 4: got two locations, it's like, well, that's not a story.

641
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 4: They already made it, right, you see what I'm saying. Total,

642
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 4: And it's crazy because it's like, Yo, this should be

643
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 4: a story that allows us to become successful, free of debt,

644
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 4: free of outside interference, and allow us to create a

645
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 4: vertical that can now grow and employ people in our community.

646
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 4: Like it's so crazy because we're in Brooklyn Heights and

647
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 4: everybody who work for is black and brown, and people

648
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 4: walk in and don't even notice that. Yeah, versus like

649
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 4: when we in like in Atlanta and Baltimore, it's like, oh, yeah,

650
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 4: you got all black kids working there? You black you're

651
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Speaker 4: doing this, I'm gonna walk straight in. So we need

652
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 4: our community to come out and not only support but

653
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 4: also consumed by the product. If you don't eat donuts

654
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 4: or you don't eat vegan just coming there. W wish

655
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 4: me the most success and brighten my day, cause some

656
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Speaker 4: days it be fucked up.

657
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Speaker 1: Hey.

658
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Speaker 4: I mean, you gotta realize, yo, were walking outside around

659
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 4: all these rich, privileged white people who never been around

660
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 4: black people, and it ain't bad style, right, but how

661
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 4: do you kind of shake it up? You gotta shake

662
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 4: it up because black people are not a monolith, right.

663
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 4: We can be multiple things at multiple times. Like you

664
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Speaker 4: know how many black people I know that's wealthy that

665
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 4: still eat sweet potato, but there still love fried chicken,

666
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 4: that's still like racter shit, And like they can't they

667
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 4: can't have that connectivity because it's like, well, if I

668
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 4: go back and I'm in the hood, they hate me,

669
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Speaker 4: and then I ain't black enough for the rich white

670
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 4: people who are around me. You gotta realize, successful black

671
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 4: people go through a lot of bullshit because we always

672
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Speaker 4: in the middle.

673
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Speaker 3: I grew up in that and write you know, I'm

674
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Speaker 3: actually writing a book called you know the Price of

675
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 3: growing up in racial isolation. But what I hear when

676
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: I'm listening to you is your mindset and black people

677
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 3: are an incredible study and resilience, and that there are

678
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 3: stories just never told that way and what you went through.

679
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 3: Where does this resilience come from? I know it's in

680
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 3: our nature. We're all to remind yourself that what you

681
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 3: are resilient that you can share with our audience.

682
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Speaker 4: So my thing is this, right, I feel like that

683
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 4: it has to be an extremely huge why right? I

684
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 4: mean some days I get on zodia nerves, you get

685
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 4: on my nerves. And we got collective goals, but what

686
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,479
Speaker 4: helped us make it as a couple, it's independent goals.

687
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 5: Mm.

688
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 4: So like I don't really always treat it like a road.

689
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 4: It's stay centreated. Just like this. If we driving down

690
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 4: the road and it did come across, we keep going.

691
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 4: Because there's a stop sign, we keep going. If there's

692
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 4: a detour sign, we find another way. Well, black people

693
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 4: have to understand it's it's not gonna always be about

694
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 4: a passion or a certain amount of income. It's gonna

695
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 4: really boil down to like, yo, what type of life

696
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 4: do I wanna live? And how do I see myself

697
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 4: and nothing else fucking matters. Yeah, not wide opinion, our

698
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 4: black opinion. Now what nobody say, because at the end

699
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 4: of the day, if you stay focused on that journey, bruh,

700
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 4: you gonna get where you gotta go. It might be

701
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 4: a different role. That Drake Road and the Nipsey hustle

702
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 4: role was two different roles. But when you saw them

703
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 4: at the end of that role, you've seen two successful brothers.

704
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 4: That's what you see. If you see a bunch of

705
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 4: moguls in the corner, they all might not have the

706
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 4: same role, whether it's Robert s. Smith Don people was

707
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 4: at Tyler Perry, but you see three winners. If I

708
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 4: see Angela, yeah, if I see Beyonce and I see

709
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 4: Viola Davis, they all winning. You can't miss with none

710
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 4: of those people. And I think, like we are concerned,

711
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 4: we're focusing on the next man role, stay in your line.

712
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 2: Oh now, I gotta ask you, Zodie, how what made

713
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 2: you that you guys briefly talked about how she left

714
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: her job, you know, because of the plan, right, this

715
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: was the plan that felt like it was gonna work.

716
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Speaker 1: How was that for you? You said you didn't think

717
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Speaker 1: twice about it.

718
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, so I was. I spent the majority

719
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 5: of my educational career teaching in elementary school. I was

720
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Speaker 5: a theater teacher, and then I ended my career. You're

721
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Speaker 5: teaching in early childhood because I did a stint in

722
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Speaker 5: middle school and it was wild and I was like,

723
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Speaker 5: oh my gosh, I need to understand the psychology. How

724
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 5: did we get here? So I wanted to go back

725
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 5: to early childhood. I was in a position where, you know,

726
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 5: I think for myself, I've always been a woman of service.

727
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 5: I've always been a person to take care of other people,

728
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 5: and I think that sometimes we can find ourselves in

729
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 5: ways where we say like, oh, like, you know, I'm

730
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 5: taking care of this person. I'm taking care of this

731
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Speaker 5: because it's easier to take care of somebody than to

732
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Speaker 5: take care of yourself. So when Derek and I had

733
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Speaker 5: a conversation one day and I was just like frustrated

734
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 5: with my like coworkers, and I was like I'm over this,

735
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Speaker 5: and he was like, all right, Like he's a very

736
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 5: serious person, as you can tell, right, and so like

737
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 5: if he's not the person that you come to and

738
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 5: complain like because.

739
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Speaker 4: So like this what I did just kind of chaman.

740
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 4: So she was working and she told me what she

741
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 4: was making a week, and she was catching ubers to

742
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 4: a job, and then she was paying for like helan

743
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 4: and I went over the numbers and I was like, zoh,

744
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 4: so you know, like you basically net like three hundred

745
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 4: dollars a week. Yeah, after all of her expenses, right,

746
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 4: the teacher's more. Yeah, teachers don't make a lot of money.

747
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 4: So she loved that. She was passionate about it. She

748
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 4: had did it for so long. And then I realized,

749
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 4: like she said, she's a service woman, so she had

750
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 4: taken care of so many other people up to the

751
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 4: time that her grandmother passed, that she never really considered herself,

752
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 4: despite the fact that she's done a lot of great

753
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 4: things and contributed towards society, she didn't consider like, yo,

754
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 4: you can get an hit, you can get a bank account.

755
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 2: Because I think we also think that part of being

756
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 2: in service is not making a lot.

757
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 4: Right.

758
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: Right exactly?

759
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like being financially successful with being a person

760
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: that also is a giver and yeah yeah, yeah, yeah undred.

761
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 5: And then also to be honest, taking taking advantage of

762
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 5: the experiences that you have. Because I grew up like

763
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 5: upper middle class, so I already grew up with a

764
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 5: level of privilege. Privilege, so I assumed that things would

765
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 5: just fall into places they have, and you know it's not.

766
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 5: So you get with a grinder that you realize you

767
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 5: gotta work for everything.

768
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: That's why I'm savage because.

769
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 5: Now like I'm not playing, like absolutely not playing.

770
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 4: Like lives and like and like I just said, like

771
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 4: like like you're right. They make it synonymous. They make

772
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 4: the giveaway with being broke.

773
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: And that's why activists you shouldn't know, the home.

774
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 3: A hard time about it.

775
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy, you're an activist. Why is this person

776
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: flying first class? Like why not? Absolutely?

777
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 4: You know, people kind of like they kind of make

778
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 4: us the devil one. It's like, Yo, we're gonna do

779
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 4: this pop up with you, but we gotta make some money.

780
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 4: And they're like what about the community, Like, yo, there's

781
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 4: no community without capitalists, right, was able to do the things?

782
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 4: They get rich and they get the money to their

783
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 4: white wife and she passed it up to the white

784
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 4: nonprofit she might might not care about. That's just we

785
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 4: gotta understand our reality and the world that we working in. So,

786
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 4: like I gave a reality. I say, yoh, you make

787
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 4: three hundred dolls a week. I could pay you that.

788
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 4: Quit the job. She was on our lunch break. She said,

789
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put my two weeks and when I get.

790
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: Off the lunch break, Yeah, stressed my arm.

791
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 4: That was it. Yeah, I mean, it's just because I

792
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 4: think and like you say, speaking to a level of seriousness, right,

793
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 4: I think for black men, it's the most important time

794
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 4: to be ultimately serious. Like it's no reason for me

795
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 4: to come on for prison, have all these things against me.

796
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 4: Wake up every day black dealing, whether I'm dealing with FBI,

797
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 4: DA task for as robbers, other drug dealers. So I'm

798
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 4: in a corpor world and I'm dealing with health department,

799
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,240
Speaker 4: I f ire the department. I'm dealing with the neighbors complaining.

800
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 4: So it's like I'm already waking up behind the line.

801
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 4: So I treat life like a track race and it's

802
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 4: seven of us in the lane. I'm the seventh. So

803
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 4: how am I playing? You know what I mean? So

804
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 4: I came out with Adventures. I was on it. So

805
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 4: I was like, yo, quit the job. I'm gonna pay

806
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 4: you that. I could pay you more than that. And

807
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 4: then after she quit the job, I was like, look,

808
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 4: moving with me and we could work more hours on it. Yeah,

809
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 4: but everyone money, yeah, and save money, and everybody's not

810
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 4: built for that. So then we moved together. And then

811
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 4: I mean the brain grew manifold. It was basically eight

812
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 4: thousand followers. When I bought the Donuts Shop, I had

813
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 4: eight thousand follows. She grew it in a seventy something thousand.

814
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 4: I didn't really know anything about community because I was

815
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 4: I lived a very recluse life. I came home from

816
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 4: President I had did so much shit in the street

817
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 4: and the people so like, I never I never been

818
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 4: on I still to the day, never been on Facebook.

819
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 4: I never been on Twitter or Twitch or XC none

820
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 4: of that. But I owned everything, Yeah, And I really

821
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 4: had real money in a real credit score, and I

822
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 4: really had real businesses that I really owned, and I

823
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 4: really worked out, and I really was a man. I

824
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 4: really stand for certain things, and that mattered to me

825
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 4: more than like, you got a million followers, and you know,

826
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 4: I didn't really know nothing about the social world. But

827
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 4: I think she opened up the social world to me

828
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 4: in a positive way in which it allowed me to

829
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 4: change and for my business to grow to be here today.

830
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: It's interesting that you didn't know much about it, but

831
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: she was DM and her from the.

832
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 4: And it's crazy because one of the page Yeah yeah, yeah,

833
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 4: right right, you're right, And I'm always telling that to you.

834
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 4: I like, yo, if you ever left me, I'm anno.

835
00:37:55,800 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 5: Enough that you do say that I can find our reallylationship.

836
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 5: You know, our business relationship is Derek builds the world

837
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 5: and I bring people into it.

838
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 2: Okay, that's and I think that also works in business

839
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 2: when people have different roles. You sometimes you can't have

840
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 2: two people doing the same thing. Somebody is good at this,

841
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 2: and then this what you do compliments what that is.

842
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like forming something instead of us

843
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 2: bumpingheads doing the same thing.

844
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 5: And so you're I was going to say, and to

845
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 5: the point when you said that, sometimes people say, like

846
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 5: in business, like you shouldn't work with your partner.

847
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 3: Right, Sometimes you shouldn't.

848
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 5: Sometimes you shouldn't.

849
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: I will say, sometimes you should.

850
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 5: I will say, like you said, everyone has roles, and

851
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 5: so I would say to like women that are listening

852
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 5: to this or you know, significant others that are working

853
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 5: with their partners, to understand and trust your partner and

854
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 5: the role in which you're in, because we have found

855
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 5: ourselves in spaces where me being a woman of service,

856
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to help. So I'm thinking like, Okay,

857
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 5: let me step off base so I can help with

858
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 5: this and help with this, And that's how riffs can

859
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 5: come occur, Like they can arise that way because you're

860
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 5: not staying, like Derek said, in your lane. But as

861
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 5: a woman, I'm thinking not like I see something, I

862
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 5: gotta fix it because it's just a it's an innate

863
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Speaker 5: thing that we do. But trusting the role and the

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Speaker 5: position is definitely a way in which I think can

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Speaker 5: work really well.

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Speaker 3: And I admire both because I do the work I

867
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Speaker 3: do with couples in money. It's really difficult, but it

868
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 3: can also be the best learning experience. If you're willing

869
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Speaker 3: to go that distance and understand what someone's real intentions are,

870
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 3: you can learn so much about each other. So partners

871
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 3: shouldn't work together. Soulmates can though.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean, And then, like like Zodie was saying,

873
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Speaker 4: staying your lane and don't bite off more than you

874
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Speaker 4: get you right, So like, for example, some of the

875
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Speaker 4: goals that we have as black people cannot be accomplished

876
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 4: in our generation. It's just not realistic. I think the

877
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Speaker 4: generational is something that's incremental and built over time. Right.

878
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Speaker 4: So another thing that kept me really focused is that

879
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Speaker 4: I understood the role that I played within my family

880
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 4: dynamic based off of the generation that I was born in.

881
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to build one hundred million dollar company,

882
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Speaker 4: but I can get to seven streams. So I always

883
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Speaker 4: tell people, when you tease slow, they learn fast. When

884
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Speaker 4: you teach fast, people learn slow. So my whole goal

885
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Speaker 4: with Zodie was not trying to become the wealthiest, most

886
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 4: successful company. It was just a brick by brick. I'm

887
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 4: gonna show you how we did this, and then i'm

888
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 4: gonna show you how we did that, and then little

889
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 4: that we can accumulate. Then i'm gonna show you how

890
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 4: to take care of it, and then i'm gonna show

891
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 4: you how, if you want to, you can grow it.

892
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 4: And that's enough. See a lot of times we don't

893
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 4: comp out our life, And what I mean by that

894
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 4: is that we don't come up with a dream like

895
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 4: that we want to live and then actually put a

896
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Speaker 4: real number to it that can make it make sense.

897
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Speaker 4: And then take your skill set and allow yourself to

898
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Speaker 4: incrementally glean into that number. So like when people see

899
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 4: it and they say, like, so, what's cloudy donut? Is

900
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Speaker 4: it gonna be fifty stores? It'll never be fifty stores

901
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Speaker 4: because that's not the economic goal that we have. We

902
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 4: don't have a donut of a year goal. We don't

903
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 4: have a James Beard or Ward goal. We don't have

904
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 4: a New York Times Best donut goal. We gotta get free,

905
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 4: go wake up and not do nothing goal.

906
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Speaker 3: Pass it in awareness, because what you're talking about, like

907
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 3: my father's generation, his father's generation, they in so much pain.

908
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 3: They want I'm gonna save the whole family.

909
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and make everything.

910
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 3: I'm gonna fix everything like that, And they didn't have

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Speaker 3: that educate, the financial literacy education to do that. But

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Speaker 3: you know, I just you guys are gonna come back

913
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Speaker 3: very very soon.

914
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Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, come back. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Listen, every time I see Zodio when I did the

916
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Speaker 2: earn your Leazy thing, I was like, y'all put the

917
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Speaker 2: donuts to the side for me, please.

918
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Speaker 1: That's the only reason.

919
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Speaker 3: Now finished next week because I'm gonna eat these doughnuts.

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Speaker 5: Now, well, well, we actually brought you guys a preview

921
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Speaker 5: of Cloudy Cakes.

922
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Speaker 1: I saw you got.

923
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Speaker 3: Cakes, cloud Were you eating those of the music festival?

924
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Speaker 1: Or they're just right? We're talking about we have today?

925
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Speaker 4: So we got a brown sugar pineap upside down with

926
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Speaker 4: more of like a bourbon glaze. I think I'm excited

927
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Speaker 4: for y'all to try that.

928
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Speaker 3: Aren't you fasting this week?

929
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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: And then we have a lemon blueberry with fresh lemonclaz

931
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Speaker 4: on top.

932
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Speaker 1: Lemon berry, but I want you to try to eat pineapple.

933
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Speaker 1: That's the only food I would say lemon blue bear,

934
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Speaker 1: So pineapple for you?

935
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Speaker 3: Yeah?

936
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Sorry, didn't last thing.

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Speaker 3: How can people they can find you through us? We're

938
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Speaker 3: going to feature you, guys and wealth Wednesday's newsletter. We

939
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 3: were talking we're going to partner on the the zillion

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Speaker 3: things and how can people find you on social media?

941
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Speaker 5: So you can find us on social media? U Cloudy

942
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Speaker 5: Donuts all thing Cloudy Donuts. There's two handles we have

943
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,919
Speaker 5: in both Cloudy Donut Truck and Cloudy Donuts with an S.

944
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Speaker 5: You can follow me personally to learn about my neo

945
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 5: entrepreneurship experience through a woman's perspective at Zo D two.

946
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Speaker 5: That's my name and then collect the Brown Collective. You

947
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 5: can find us there and that's what you'll learn a

948
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 5: lot about the Seven Streams, which Derek will be dropping soon.

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Speaker 1: We got a little previews, yeah, yes, absolutely.

950
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Speaker 3: We were sitting there watching. We're like, oh, we're late

951
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Speaker 3: for our next interview.

952
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're right. People need to see the whole journey.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, so thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and on Teamwealth Wednesdays dot Com, we're gonna be

955
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Speaker 3: profollowing them in our newsletter and if you could remember

956
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 3: all those handles we got to we got to Yeah, yeah, I.

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Speaker 4: Think that's pretty much it. I will say they can

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Speaker 4: reach his homemade brunch, which I was turning into like

959
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Speaker 4: a seven Streams. And then we have a newsletter with

960
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 4: the Brown Collective that will give you information that's to win.

961
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Speaker 4: The doc you series is going to drop and the

962
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Speaker 4: cakes will be available online next week.

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Speaker 3: Did you hear my stomach?

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Speaker 1: All right? Thank you? Okay, pop up