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Speaker 4: Hey, little play makes your day, and today it made

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Speaker 5: All right, guys, welcome back eyl Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: Secondician, second home. Man.

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Speaker 5: This is definitely a second home for us. Anytime that

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Speaker 2: So you know, I saw somebody's that put us in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that was crazy. That was okay, Like, yo,

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Speaker 6: of twenty four.

441
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Speaker 3: It was called the G Spot. I actually have it

442
00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:25,600
Speaker 3: tattooed on my neck.

443
00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:27,600
Speaker 4: Yeah.

444
00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,320
Speaker 6: That was how I lost all of my money because

445
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,600
Speaker 6: number one, you know, the club, we just we didn't

446
00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,159
Speaker 6: do it right. I didn't know anything about doing venues

447
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:39,959
Speaker 6: at the time. The people that I was working with

448
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,280
Speaker 6: for kind of crooks, apparently they didn't know anything yet.

449
00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:43,600
Speaker 5: So like when you say you didn't do it right,

450
00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,119
Speaker 5: because we haven't really covered the night life yet, like

451
00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:47,760
Speaker 5: we interviewed, shout out to Kenny Burns.

452
00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:48,160
Speaker 4: That's our.

453
00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, but as far as we have an

454
00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,200
Speaker 5: interviewed a club owner, Yeah, I don't think.

455
00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,560
Speaker 6: I didn't have like the right licenses a license. Yeah,

456
00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,960
Speaker 6: we pretty much. I just opened up the door.

457
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,520
Speaker 4: On some ghetto like we're open.

458
00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,760
Speaker 2: Initially that was like the dream, right, It was like, yo,

459
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 2: I want to get into this life. Yes, right, So

460
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,640
Speaker 2: like now the wet dimes that the club thing. Did

461
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,520
Speaker 2: that become a tour or like because I was trying

462
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 2: that out?

463
00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:13,800
Speaker 3: We did? We did.

464
00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,560
Speaker 6: We went to various cities and went to Birmingham, we

465
00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 6: came here to Atlanta, so we also went to other places.

466
00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:20,840
Speaker 3: And what we would do is put up to.

467
00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,359
Speaker 6: The strip clubs like in the parking lots and stuff

468
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,920
Speaker 6: like that and get the calendars off. And I would

469
00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,200
Speaker 6: always take my girlfriend and maybe a couple of other models.

470
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:29,959
Speaker 6: I used to these models come to my house three

471
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,679
Speaker 6: days a week. They had to work out. Some of

472
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 6: them lived with us.

473
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 3: I mean those was the days. Yeah.

474
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 6: So anyways, ended up doing my first spot with some

475
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,000
Speaker 6: people that just you know, were not good business people.

476
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 6: I didn't have good business practices. At the same time,

477
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,919
Speaker 6: myself wasn't as familiar with you know, the licenses and

478
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 6: the requirements and things of that nature that were required

479
00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,240
Speaker 6: to be legally open.

480
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:00,920
Speaker 3: And Asheville at the.

481
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 6: Time was not a city either that promoted black businesses,

482
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,640
Speaker 6: especially not the way that Atlanta does. So I ended

483
00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 6: up losing my entire investment and that spot was shut

484
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:13,119
Speaker 6: down within about two months.

485
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 2: About how much money we lost.

486
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 3: I lost forty thousand dollars also at the same time.

487
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 6: So remember I was telling you I had all these

488
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,879
Speaker 6: little rental properties and stuff. Well, a lot of the

489
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 6: people that were in those rental properties they couldn't pay

490
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,920
Speaker 6: their rent and things of that nature. So I had

491
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,879
Speaker 6: like one last property and I ended up turning that

492
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 6: into a spot called the Kitty Cabin.

493
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Speaker 3: I don't know if y'all read about that.

494
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:34,399
Speaker 2: I did not.

495
00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 3: I did not, But I actually did that with my homegirl.

496
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:39,959
Speaker 6: She don't mind if I talk about it, but her

497
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 6: name is Brooklyn Tanker. She was on that reality show,

498
00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,359
Speaker 6: her whole family, the Tankards.

499
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,200
Speaker 3: On one VH one. But we did that together, and.

500
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:50,880
Speaker 6: That was a spot where we would have like girls

501
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 6: dance and kind of do a few other things. And

502
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 6: so that's why I got shut down. The time door

503
00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 6: was kicked in, and so it was a lot man

504
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:04,959
Speaker 6: it was a lot that I went through. And so

505
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 6: after that, you know, both of my sources of income

506
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 6: was shut down. Of course, the lady I was dealing

507
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 6: with was gone by the enshall. I'm dried up, I

508
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,320
Speaker 6: ain't got no money, that isn't going right.

509
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 3: And so exactly.

510
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 6: And so at that point it was kind of like,

511
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 6: you know, what am I going to do? And so,

512
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 6: you know, to be honest with you, I kind of

513
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 6: went back to something that I knew they kind of

514
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,199
Speaker 6: helped me get through different times, which was, you know,

515
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 6: being in the streets myself selling drugs things of that nature.

516
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,359
Speaker 6: And once I had kind of hustled up on a

517
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 6: little bit of money, I had met some guys that

518
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 6: had an idea, had kind of put me on an idea,

519
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 6: which was these mugshot newspapers that were very popular at

520
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,719
Speaker 6: the time. So I don't know if you guys had

521
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 6: seen them, but they were those newspapers that used to

522
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 6: sit on the counter and the gas stations. They'd be

523
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 6: right up there, and they came out weekly and they

524
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 6: had mudshots of people that had been arrested, and they

525
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,360
Speaker 6: were like, you know, we should do something like this.

526
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 2: And so my story is so long, this is, this

527
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 2: is this is the face it.

528
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 6: So came up with face It with a guy that

529
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 6: I was associates with at the time.

530
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 3: He was from Detroit.

531
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Speaker 6: And when I tell you, a lot of people from

532
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 6: Detroit are crooks, and I.

533
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 3: Can say that because I.

534
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 6: Am from Detroit, and you know, a lot of them

535
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,239
Speaker 6: are just super slick. And so anyway, this guy we

536
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 6: had got this little paper off the ground, didn't take

537
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 6: us no time to get it going, and I mean

538
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 6: he was so excited. He had never had his own

539
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 6: business before. And when I tell you, the MF just

540
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 6: started stealing out the gate.

541
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 3: I mean like it was just like, could not trust him.

542
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 6: Because what we did was we would have somebody put

543
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 6: the publication together, it would come out, and then you

544
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 6: have to go to the stores and collect your money.

545
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 6: So of course, like if I'm not right there with him,

546
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 6: you know, he doesn't necessarily have to be honest. Then

547
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 6: he started changing the banking password and information and stuff

548
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 6: like that, and so almost immediately I was just like,

549
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 6: you know what.

550
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 3: You can have this.

551
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 6: You know, I'm not no amount of money is you

552
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 6: know my piece? I'm not about to be fighting with

553
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 6: you daily. You know, at first I kind of came

554
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 6: to him with tears in my eyes, like, you know,

555
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 6: like dude, please don't do this, Like this can be

556
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 6: a big business together, you know, like I have a

557
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 6: daughter to feed. You know, I was only when they

558
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 6: had kids at the time. I'm like, I got a

559
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 6: daughter to feed. Like, you know, I'm really putting in

560
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 6: a lot.

561
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 2: Are you the business business mind behind these ventures? Because

562
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,360
Speaker 2: I'm thinking like this right, so, like you're the one

563
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 2: creating the LLC everything. So even a publication, that's something

564
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 2: that we've never spoke about before. How what's the process

565
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: of even doing that? Like what's the startup course to

566
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 2: even do it?

567
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 3: It's not a really big startup costs.

568
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 6: You know, the main thing that you're going to pay

569
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 6: for outside of setting up the business, it's going to

570
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 6: be actually having a publication printed. So that's you know,

571
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 6: really your main costs. You know, I would say we

572
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 6: probably got that in mind. You I pay for all

573
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 6: of it because I was the one in the money

574
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 6: with the money. I was in the streets, you know

575
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,199
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. So I think we probably get that

576
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 6: going with maybe just like five thousand dollars. So I left,

577
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 6: I totally I let him have it. I left left it,

578
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 6: let him have faced It. I started researching, Okay, where's

579
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 6: another city I can put me money in, and so

580
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 6: then I went to Knoxville and I started caught up

581
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 6: in Knoxville, and that ended up being very successful. Then

582
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 6: I went to Western Kentucky. I done another edition there.

583
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 6: I went to South Florida.

584
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 3: I done it.

585
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,479
Speaker 6: Not South Florida, North Florida. I'm sorry, Tallahassee, Saint Petersburg.

586
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 2: Caught up different from from face It.

587
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's the same idea, but it's a different publication

588
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 6: because remember I let old boy.

589
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 2: You can have it, Okay, gotcha?

590
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 3: So I had an audition.

591
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 6: So I ended up having five different editions, and then

592
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 6: ended up moving here to Atlanta, Georgia, and doing it

593
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 6: here in Atlanta as well, changing.

594
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 3: And so and so.

595
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 6: Anyways, it was doing okay, but it just it never

596
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 6: made me a lot of money.

597
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 3: You know. I never made more.

598
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 6: Than like sixty thousand dollars a year, you know, doing

599
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 6: this paper. But I also really didn't have to do much,

600
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 6: you know, I maybe worked two or three days, you know,

601
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 6: out of the week. And so how I ended up

602
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 6: getting out of that is there was a white guy

603
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 6: that was up under me that I had. It's kind

604
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 6: of the face of the company, you know, because you

605
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 6: got these funky jewelry towns and stuff. You know what

606
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 6: I'm saying. That there's gonna be some stores that he

607
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 6: can get in that they won't let me.

608
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 4: And you know what I'm saying.

609
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 6: So he basically ended up turning on me. You know,

610
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 6: he wanted to do a paper hisself. You know, I

611
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 6: never knew it, but there was something he had wanted

612
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 6: me to.

613
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 3: Change the name of mine too.

614
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 6: I guess he thought that it would make it more commercial,

615
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 6: you know. And so long story short, there was one week.

616
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 6: It was after I moved here, and there was just

617
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 6: one week where like all of my employees quit on me.

618
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 3: And one week, you know.

619
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,679
Speaker 6: So it was like Monday, the graphic designer Tuesday, a

620
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 6: couple of the managers Wednesday, the people that lay the

621
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 6: paper out Thursday, the people that delivered the paper and

622
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 6: didn come Friday.

623
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 3: You know, this manager he quits.

624
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 2: So you leave Tennessee to come to Atlanta. Within the week,

625
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,679
Speaker 2: everybody in Tennessee has left you.

626
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 6: Now within a week, I would say this was probably,

627
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 6: I believe within like the first.

628
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 3: Six months of me being here.

629
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 6: So then I go there that following week to see

630
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 6: what's going on. You know, of course I have no

631
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 6: staff at this point, so I have to go and

632
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 6: do everything myself and also see like, wow, all these

633
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 6: people in Clinton, what's going on. I going to the

634
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 6: first store, and of course I see a mine ain't

635
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 6: even on the shelf. No more, they done took mine

636
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 6: off the shelf. I don't know what he didn tell now,

637
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 6: but it's another new paper with this same name that

638
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 6: he wanted me to name mine. And of course he

639
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 6: had my list of stores when I was paying him

640
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 6: to carry the paper, so he was able to come

641
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 6: in and undercut me. And so I ended up just

642
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 6: letting them have it because there was just no way

643
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 6: I could beat him in that city, you know what

644
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 6: I mean.

645
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 3: I wasn't about to move there. I didn't.

646
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 6: I was starting to grow to really become in love

647
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 6: with the city of Atlanta and wanting to kind of

648
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,479
Speaker 6: get into some different things here and so, and especially

649
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 6: like I said, I wasn't even making more than like

650
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 6: fifty five or sixty thousand dollars a year.

651
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 3: So I ended up letting him have it.

652
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 6: And after that I ended up starting my party bus

653
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 6: company with the girl that I was dating at the time.

654
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 3: We started a party bus company together.

655
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 6: It was super successful, but I hated it, just like

656
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 6: I hated I didn't like that paper because I was

657
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 6: somebody who had been arrested in different things of that

658
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 6: nature myself. So I never even like felt comfortable telling

659
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 6: people what I did for a living, because you know,

660
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 6: it's just like I could be in this ship myself.

661
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: You could on the cover of the papers. I'm listening

662
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 2: to the story, right, and even when I was reading

663
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,479
Speaker 2: the story, I'm like, you face betrayal once, right and

664
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: still recovered, came back. You faced it again and still

665
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: came back. Like what what was it that inside of you?

666
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 2: That was just like, you know what, I gotta keep

667
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 2: going because like I can imagine that too.

668
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, what you're gonna do, lay

669
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 6: down and die, you know what I mean? Like you

670
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 6: know cause if you quit, then you know you know

671
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 6: where you're gonna end that, you know what I mean.

672
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 6: So it's just like you have no choice but to

673
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 6: keep going. And I had always been inspired by just

674
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 6: different people successful stories. There used to be a show

675
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 6: back in the day call behind the music that I.

676
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 2: Just it's okay, yeah, we know that.

677
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 6: And so all of these super successful people that you know,

678
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 6: everybody is inspired by, they have a story. Everybody that

679
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 6: is successful has been through these things.

680
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 3: You know.

681
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 6: Nobody just has this perfect story, you know, unless you

682
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 6: know you are genetically and blessed. Genetically blessed. And what

683
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 6: I mean by that is, you know, you're born into

684
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 6: being Michael Jackson's kids, or born into being Beyonce's kids

685
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 6: or something like that. But you know the rest of

686
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 6: us have had to really work to get where we are.

687
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 6: And you know, you're gonna go through some things, you

688
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, And I feel like the more

689
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 6: that you go through it prepares you for the level

690
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 6: of success. You know that God is going to allow

691
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 6: you to make it too. And I've been through even

692
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 6: more things than those, you know, even as being successful.

693
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

694
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 6: I've had people that work for me to try to

695
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 6: get my trade secrets, you know what I'm saying, And

696
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,719
Speaker 6: know that you know, they're just gonna try to open

697
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 6: up their own restaurants, stealing reservations lists and menus, different

698
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 6: things of that nature.

699
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

700
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 6: So those things continue to happen now now as often,

701
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 6: you know, because I truly have like a great team

702
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 6: around me now, you know what I'm saying.

703
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 3: But that type of stuff is just a part of

704
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 3: the game.

705
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 6: You know. In my younger years, it didn't feel well

706
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 6: and I took some hits, and you know, I was

707
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 6: discouraged and probably kind of went through some lightweight depressions

708
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 6: and stuff like that, because after that newspaper thing, I

709
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 6: really did not know what I was gonna do. I

710
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 6: was in that same girlfriend's boutique. My daughter was outside

711
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 6: selling bottled waters. I was inside selling five dollars smoothies.

712
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 6: And now I have a restaurant on that same street

713
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 6: right down the street, you know what I'm saying. It

714
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 6: just really didn't know I had made some T shirts

715
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 6: and selling those, you know what I mean. It just

716
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 6: really did not know what I was going to do next.

717
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 6: And you know, the Nika time I had a house,

718
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 6: I was flipping that seld and we ended up buying

719
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 6: a party bus, and that that was the first business

720
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 6: that I ever owned that made that grow over six figures,

721
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, party bus, And so it

722
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 6: was called party bus kings based here in Atlanta. A

723
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 6: lot of people kind of met me from that first

724
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 6: original business. But I always wanted to get back into

725
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 6: you know, promoting or owning my own you.

726
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 3: Know, lounge or something like that.

727
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 6: So with that party bus company, I just started saving

728
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 6: as much money as I possibly could.

729
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 3: I went one whole year and I never.

730
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 6: Bought a new nothing, a new shirt, a new pair

731
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 6: of pants, a new pair of shoes.

732
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 3: I mean, I felt totally poor.

733
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 4: You know how much did you say?

734
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 3: I had a whole different Virginia.

735
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 6: Probably that first year, I probably saved about forty thousand dollars,

736
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 6: and so I had that. I stayed glueding to that

737
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 6: party bus business for about two years. I used to

738
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 6: drive the buses myself on the weekiands gave up a

739
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 6: lot of weekends to do that got to the point

740
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,239
Speaker 6: I hated drunk people. But after that, you know, I

741
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 6: was blessed enough to I had moved to right around

742
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 6: the corner from here Arborn Avenue and Jesse Hill, and

743
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 6: there was a little spot that was available that I

744
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 6: eventually leased, and I turned that into the Hookah Hideaway.

745
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 6: So that was my first project here, and it was

746
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 6: a cornerstone of Atlanta.

747
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 3: It was one of really one of the.

748
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 6: First real after hours you know here in the city

749
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 6: of Atlanta. And so I did Huka Hidaway. And while

750
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 6: I did Huka Hideaway, I got a lot of success there,

751
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 6: and I decided I wanted to do another location. I

752
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 6: ended up doing Posh Ultra Lounge and making experienced a

753
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 6: similar situation of backstabbers and things you knows nature uh

754
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 6: huh again. But at the same time, I also was

755
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 6: looking for a spot here in Atlanta. So I was

756
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 6: looking for a location here in Atlanta. And when I

757
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 6: first moved here, I was enamored by the street, Peter Street,

758
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 6: because it was right there in Casterlebury Hill, and coming

759
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 6: from Nashville, I really wasn't used to seeing like a

760
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 6: lot of black owned restaurants and bars right next to

761
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 6: each other. So this was a street of black owned

762
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 6: restaurants and bars and that had good walk up traffic

763
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 6: and things of that nature, and so I really wanted

764
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 6: to own something over there. So I went and looked

765
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 6: for a spot over there. And while I was there,

766
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 6: so I applied for a spot and a couple of

767
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 6: days later I had a trip to Jamaica. So I

768
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 6: went on this trip to Jamaica. Long story short. When

769
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 6: I come back, I'm going through customs and a custom

770
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 6: officer comes up to me and kind of like grabs

771
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 6: me by the army was like are you mi?

772
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 3: Shehall Dillard.

773
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 6: I'm like yeah, And this was only maybe like my

774
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 6: second or third time even going out out the country.

775
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 3: So I'm just like, what is this about?

776
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 6: So anyway, it takes me to the back, tells me

777
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 6: there's a warrant from o arrest in Nashville, Tennessee. And

778
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 6: so he's like, you know, do you know what this

779
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 6: can be about? And I'm just like no, not at all.

780
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 6: I'm like, I mean, I did used to live in Nashville, Tennessee.

781
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 6: And he's like, you know, well, there's this printing company

782
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 6: that has a now so when this newspaper shut down,

783
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 6: you know, they didn't put the last the money that

784
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 6: was collected into my account, and so the check that

785
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 6: I had wrote that printing company and ended up bouncing

786
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 6: at the time, I didn't have money to cover it.

787
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 6: That I des I just go on with life. I

788
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 6: figure it's fine. But you know, white people they don't

789
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 6: play upout they they had filed or warn't for me,

790
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 6: and they was They was like this girls gonna We're

791
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 6: gonna get her one day. So anyways, I ended up

792
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 6: going to Clayton County Jail and I was there on

793
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 6: no bond. They were waiting to see if Nashville wanted

794
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 6: to come pick me up, and they said that they did,

795
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 6: and so I stayed in that jail for about two

796
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 6: and a half weeks waiting on them to extradket me

797
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 6: to Nashville, Tennessee. So at the same time, I'm still

798
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 6: trying to check on business affairs because mind you, I

799
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 6: still down the Hookah hadaway at this time, I'm still

800
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 6: in process of new and posh Ultra lounge and invested

801
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 6: in that spot. And I've also, you know, had put

802
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 6: in an application to get a spot on Peter Street.

803
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 6: So I ended up calling that realtor one day. He

804
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 6: has no idea I'm calling him from jail, and so

805
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 6: he didn't even hear the story until I told it

806
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 6: in an interview two chains as well. And so anyway,

807
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 6: I called him and I'm like, hey, you know, I'm

808
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 6: just calling a check on that spot.

809
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 3: You know, and he was just like, you know, well,

810
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 3: you know.

811
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 6: Unfortunately that when they don't really want another lounge, you know,

812
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 6: in that location. He was like, you know, but there's

813
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 6: another location right down the street. He was like, you know,

814
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 6: it's not really right there, you know, right by that

815
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 6: other stuff that you wanted to be at. But he

816
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 6: was like, you know, it's right down the street. It's

817
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 6: a nice location. He was like, you know, and it's

818
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 6: actually owned by a popular rapper. You know that's you know,

819
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 6: from here in Atlanta. And you know, he said that

820
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 6: he heard about you, he knows about the who the Hideaway,

821
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 6: and he's interested in going into business and being business.

822
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 3: Partners with you. And I was just like, I'm like,

823
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 3: wait a minute, now, you know what I'm saying. I

824
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 3: know that. And so I was just like, well, who

825
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 3: is it?

826
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 6: Cause you know, to me, just because you say it's

827
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 6: a popular rapper, it doesn't mean I want to do

828
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 6: business with him, because you know, some people aren't smart,

829
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,240
Speaker 6: they aren't good business people whatever.

830
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 3: And so I'm like who is it? And he was

831
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 3: like two chains? And I was like okay.

832
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 6: You know, because when I had moved here, I really

833
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 6: liked his music and I felt like he was intelligent,

834
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.

835
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 3: So I was just like, okay, how much the sounded that.

836
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 2: This is the phone call from jail.

837
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 3: I'm in jail, and so that's crazy.

838
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 6: Shortly thereafter, it's time for me to go back up

839
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 6: to my little cell, and I remember telling my salemate,

840
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 6: who I'm cool with to this day, I was just

841
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 6: like Grandma's to open up a spot with two And

842
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 6: I know she probably didn't believe me because I'm Marvin's

843
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 6: doing one of them, that I own a spot card

844
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 6: the Hook Highway and all this, and you know, people

845
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 6: be lying in.

846
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 2: Jail, you know what I'm saying.

847
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 6: So anyways, I ended up being extra dighted. They picked

848
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 6: me up like a couple of days later, give me

849
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 6: to Nashville. Once I get to Nashville, all of the

850
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 6: charges are mysteriously jobed dropped. So I just sat in

851
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 6: this jail cell for two and a half weeks for nothing,

852
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 6: after riding a paddy wagon like this, chained up at

853
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 6: my arms and my to the floorboard and right and

854
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 6: so get up there. They dropped the charges and so

855
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 6: I immediately go back to Atlanta that same day, and

856
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 6: two days later I met with two chains at so

857
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 6: they had the bet awards. He flew back and the

858
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 6: following day we met at the Hookah Hideaway, and I

859
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 6: remember like that whole night I couldn't even really like sleep,

860
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 6: and I really just meant like starstruck or nothing like that.

861
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 6: But I knew that like if we ended up doing

862
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 6: this spot, then it would be like life changing for me,

863
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. And so I was already

864
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 6: doing like really well for myself, but I knew that

865
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 6: this would get me to, you know, that next level

866
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 6: of success. So I remember meeting him and like the

867
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 6: Hookah Hideaway, like it's probably not even as large as

868
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 6: this one little room.

869
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 3: It was maybe a thousand square feet.

870
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 6: So they had a little kitchen that like, you know,

871
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 6: was using deep fryers, you know, to cook.

872
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 3: They didn't even have a real kitchen or nothing.

873
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 2: Ernest, What's up? If you ever walk into a small

874
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 2: business and everything just works, Like the checkout is fast,

875
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 2: the receipts are digital, tipping is a breeze, and you're

876
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 2: out the door before the line even builds. Odds are

877
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 2: they're using Square. We love supporting businesses that run on

878
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 2: Square because it just feels seamless, whether it's a local

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Speaker 6: I'm like, if you think it's too small. If you

921
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 6: think it's not you know, commercial enough, you know that.

922
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 6: I so I just thought of my hand, well, I'm

923
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 6: gonna just show them the numbers because we was.

924
00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 3: Moving at the trap.

925
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 2: Jump.

926
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 6: And so anyway he comes in and we had just

927
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 6: immediately have a connection. A lot of people kind of

928
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 6: say that like we acted like he actually caused me

929
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 6: twin but like a lot of people kind of say

930
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 6: that we acted like and stuff like that.

931
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 3: We immediately had a connection.

932
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 6: And it was like he was trying to sell hisself

933
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 6: to me, like, yeah, so I got these rappers at

934
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 6: the time, Fresh rest in Peace, he was alive, you know,

935
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 6: young Dolf, a couple of other people.

936
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 3: He was just like, yeah, I got this going on,

937
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 3: that going on. You know, me and you together, you

938
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 3: know we're gonna And.

939
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 6: So he basically just felt like, yeah, if you can

940
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 6: do forty some thousand a week at this little.

941
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 3: Spot, ain't no telling what.

942
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 5: So you was doing forty thousand a week out the

943
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 5: hookah lounge after hookah, how how was you doing?

944
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: That?

945
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 6: Was liquor or liquor and food and we were staying

946
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 6: up on the six o'clock in the morning.

947
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 3: We used to I mean it used to be like

948
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 3: a street block party every single week.

949
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 2: But what's I mean? This is the I feel like

950
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 2: this is the the mecca of black business, right, But

951
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 2: what is that process like to even get a lounge? Like?

952
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 2: What are the things that somebody has to do in

953
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 2: order to even the first thing that you need to do.

954
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 6: Is number one, you want to find a dope location.

955
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying that I'm gonna have good

956
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,280
Speaker 6: parking that you don't have to put a lot into

957
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 6: depending upon your budget.

958
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 3: You know.

959
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 6: Secondly, you have to get a building permit to even

960
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 6: do whatever construction or whatever you're gonna need to do.

961
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 6: You've got to get your liquor license. You've got to

962
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 6: get your food permit. You have to get a business license,

963
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 6: putting your menu together, staffing funding, you know, all of

964
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 6: those things. So it's a lot that comes into it.

965
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 6: And Who Can hide Away is where I really learned

966
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 6: the tricks of the trade. I would say, who Can

967
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 6: hide Away? And then that first Escobar because that first

968
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 6: Escobar was my real first restaurant, and so when we

969
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 6: first opened, I mean it was super packed and a

970
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 6: lot of it based off of his name, and you know,

971
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 6: of course, he doesn't know anything about the restaurant industry

972
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 6: at all, you know, even still to this day, Like

973
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 6: he asked me the other day, what was a bar back?

974
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 6: And he says, you know, he gives me my credit.

975
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 6: That says, you know, I wouldn't have none of this

976
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 6: shit if it wasn't for you, you know what I'm saying.

977
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 6: He knows I could do this without him, you know

978
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 6: what I mean. You know, his job is to be

979
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 6: two chains and to promote you know, heavily.

980
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 3: You know what we have going on.

981
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 6: But we just came in and just really worked well together.

982
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 6: The trust is there, the respect is there. And I

983
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 6: had the time to be able to really learn the

984
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 6: restaurant industry, to learn how to put a good team together,

985
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 6: to learn how to value people. Just learning so many things,

986
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, and taking a lot of

987
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 6: the things that I had learned, a lot of mistakes

988
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 6: that I had learned in some of those former businesses,

989
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 6: you know, and put those into what I have today.

990
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,439
Speaker 6: And so fast forward, like you guys said, we've got

991
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 6: the two Escobar locations. We're about to do Esco Seafood

992
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 6: on Edge with that right around the corner from here,

993
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 6: I ended up deciding to close who can hideaway voluntarily?

994
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 6: So I had a five year lease there and I

995
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 6: decided not to renew my lease and just closed that

996
00:43:58,360 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 6: spot for several different reasons.

997
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 3: Number One, the area.

998
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 6: Had a lot of crime. There was a lot of

999
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 6: crime in that area. It got to the point we

1000
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 6: were just getting such big crowds of people. It kind

1001
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 6: of scared me, you know what I'm saying, especially in

1002
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 6: that crime infested area.

1003
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 3: The spot was really small.

1004
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 6: I had already talked him into doing this spot members only,

1005
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 6: which I knew I wanted to be after hours as well,

1006
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 6: and I felt like would replaced that on more of

1007
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 6: an upscale level. And just you know, sometimes you have

1008
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 6: to know when the gig is up and when it's

1009
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,959
Speaker 6: time to walk away from something, you know what I'm saying.

1010
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 4: So but yeah, so let me ask you this.

1011
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 5: So we in the day and age of COVID nineteen,

1012
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 5: which you're a serial entrepreneur, but all your business is

1013
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 5: are brick and mortar. Atlanta is different from everywhere else

1014
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 5: in the country because it's still open and nowhere else

1015
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 5: is really open. It's kind of amazing if you think

1016
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 5: about it. But how have you been able to manage

1017
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 5: during COVID like you got any of right, because honestly,

1018
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,720
Speaker 5: what I heard from party promoters is that it's actually

1019
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 5: up in like Atlanta, like right, Like the revenue was

1020
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 5: up because everybody's coming from all over the country to

1021
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 5: go party.

1022
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 6: And that is exactly what's happening. We're you know, I

1023
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 6: probably travel every two weeks, you know, so during this

1024
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 6: I've been to Cabo, I've been to Toulone, I've been

1025
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 6: to I just got back yesterday from a trip from

1026
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 6: La and Vegas, and there's no city right now like Atlanta.

1027
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 3: You know, you wouldn't even think we was going through

1028
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 3: a pandemic here. Yeah, see nothing, y'all have my mask,

1029
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 3: but yeah, you know it.

1030
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 6: It makes Atlanta a hot spot. Like I get a

1031
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 6: bunch of friends coming in from Philly tomorrow. So it

1032
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 6: was crazy because when we shut down, you know, I

1033
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 6: was of course very scared and nervous. You know, I

1034
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 6: had never been in a situation where my businesses could

1035
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 6: shut down from anything other than you know, lack of

1036
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 6: whatever on my behalf, you know what I'm saying. So

1037
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 6: to just be told that and then you don't know

1038
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 6: when you can open a Union. It just was a

1039
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 6: very very scary time. And so then when the governor

1040
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 6: allowed us to open, it was just crazy because I

1041
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 6: felt like it was going to be slow, you know,

1042
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 6: I feel like it would be like a slow start,

1043
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. But literally, our cells at

1044
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 6: every location are up by about thirty five to that

1045
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 6: Escobar Downtown location I'm talking about. When we closed, we

1046
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 6: were doing eighty thousand a week. We're doing like one

1047
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 6: hundred and forty thousand a week. Now. We've got so

1048
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 6: many out of a lot of it is out of

1049
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 6: town or you got a lot of Philly, a lot

1050
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 6: of Detroit, a lot of people from Miami are starting

1051
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 6: to come up.

1052
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 3: Miami currently has a curfew now they got to go

1053
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 3: to bed at eight pm.

1054
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 4: Really, that's crazy.

1055
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, So it's people in Atlanta are extremely blessed. You're

1056
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 6: seeing people buying g wagons every other day, you know,

1057
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 6: are jugging, they getting these.

1058
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 3: People, They're getting these fraudulent SBA Long. Yes, the fact

1059
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 3: stimulating this city.

1060
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 6: You know, I think Atlanta is going to be one

1061
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 6: of the only cities that's not gonna, you know, have

1062
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 6: any you know issues, you know, come next year, because

1063
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 6: a lot of these cities are going to be broke,

1064
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 6: you know, next year because a lot of these cities,

1065
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 6: like one of the reasons why Governor Kemp said that

1066
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 6: he opened the state up is because we have so

1067
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 6: many business owners here, and the business owners here pay

1068
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 6: so many so much in taxes, you know, like I

1069
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,760
Speaker 6: have to pay back all of the taxes from everything

1070
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 6: that we sell. Then we have three percent alcohol taxes

1071
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,879
Speaker 6: that we have to pay, so you know, they taxing.

1072
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 3: Us twice, you know what I mean.

1073
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 6: So for restaurants and lounges not to be open, and

1074
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 6: that's where a lot of the money is coming from,

1075
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 6: to pay the roles, to pay the teachers, you know

1076
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 6: what I mean, and things of that nature. You know,

1077
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 6: that's really going to hurt a lot of these other cities.

1078
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 3: So it is, really, it is.

1079
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 6: It's just amazing that like this one little city in

1080
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 6: the country. Now I think Houston is also similar, but

1081
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 6: not as many people are traveling to Houston, you know

1082
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 6: what I mean, because Atlanta is already a place that

1083
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 6: a lot of people be wanting to come to anyway,

1084
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. And then so just the

1085
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 6: fact that we're open like this, and then you have

1086
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 6: so many choices of rest staurants and lounges and things

1087
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 6: like that to go to. We have definitely felt the

1088
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 6: effect of being one of the only cities in the

1089
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 6: country country that's open.

1090
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 2: I feel like when when people watch the news and

1091
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 2: they see Texas the numbers going up, it kind of like,

1092
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 2: we're not going to go to Houston. I have a

1093
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 2: question about this though, because this is a unique place.

1094
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 2: Members only. It's here, but above us is Remedy Sweet Salon.

1095
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 3: Remedy Salon se Sweets.

1096
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 2: So when you were looking for a property, were you

1097
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 2: looking for a multi level or a mixed use property

1098
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 2: to have this vision come to.

1099
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 6: Similar I was only looking for Remedy Salon Sweets just

1100
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 6: to do on my own. I just felt that was

1101
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 6: an easy business model. You're basically like a landlord with that.

1102
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 6: So I have twenty two suites up there, and you know,

1103
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 6: you've got stylists, estheticians, last texts, different things of that nature,

1104
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 6: and they rent out their own suite and they pain rent,

1105
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 6: you know, once a week. And so I was only

1106
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 6: looking for that. And then that same landlord that I

1107
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 6: was on the phone with in jail, he was the

1108
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 6: one that found me that, and then he was like,

1109
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 6: let me show you this spot downstairs.

1110
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 3: You know you may like this. And you know I

1111
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 3: came down here and saw this, and I was just

1112
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 3: like this might be cool.

1113
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 5: You know.

1114
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,240
Speaker 3: I hadn't done another lounge in like two years.

1115
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 5: And so that was how I so a couple of questions.

1116
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 5: The nail salon business is a really big business and

1117
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 5: it's been a lot of sweet sweets.

1118
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's different. So like how it's set up

1119
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 2: is like because I obviously I have a wife and

1120
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 2: a daughter. Is like, there's a bunch of suites that

1121
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 2: have different businesses inside that pay you rent, should have

1122
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 2: their business, the landlord, a bunch of businesses.

1123
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 5: But it's sor right, But it's what exactly is is

1124
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 5: nail salon.

1125
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 6: Is a barbers slash texts instetisician just everything.

1126
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 2: Have a barber shopping there.

1127
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 4: The last how big? How big is the space as.

1128
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 6: Big as this spot is the exact same spot this spot,

1129
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 6: so about thirty four hundred square.

1130
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 5: Feet Okay, So like just like there's a bunch of yeah, okay,

1131
00:49:57,960 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 5: so that's an interesting model.

1132
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 4: Thinking they have that in New York.

1133
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah they do, they do. Yeah, I was gonna

1134
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,760
Speaker 2: say the last check thing is something that's.

1135
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 5: Well, the last chech thing is is is a pandemic

1136
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 5: within itself. Theyre going too far with that, then theyre

1137
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 5: going to business thought mank on their eyes and all that.

1138
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 5: But even with okay, all of that stuff is still

1139
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,439
Speaker 5: service based businesses where it's like people, especially black people,

1140
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 5: they get their nails done, they get their eyelashes done,

1141
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 5: they get their haircuts, stuff like that. And for a

1142
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 5: long time, especially the nail industry is run by people

1143
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 5: that's not black, and that's been a big thing. So

1144
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 5: was that part of your decision making, Like you knew

1145
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 5: that you know there was a need for it, and

1146
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 5: did you think being a black business owner did that

1147
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 5: come into play, Like, you know, I might as well

1148
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 5: do it. They might support me more than the alternative.

1149
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 6: The beauty industry is very popular here, so it was

1150
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 6: kind of like a no brainer to me. I was

1151
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 6: really just looking for like some good daytime money that

1152
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 6: would be headache for it, because doing the restaurants is

1153
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 6: very stressful. It's a lot of details. You know, it's

1154
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 6: one of the hardest industries to be in. There's a

1155
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 6: lot of people. You know, your money goes through so

1156
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 6: many hands before it gets to yours. So you've got

1157
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 6: a lot of room for theft there. And there's just

1158
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 6: so many different things you know, that you have to

1159
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 6: you know, like with these restaurants, I literally I probably

1160
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 6: get about two hundred emails a day. We got group me,

1161
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 6: like in this group me right now. I've only been

1162
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 6: sitting here with you guys for this little short period

1163
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 6: of time and I probably have a million messages.

1164
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 4: As you see, that's for the restaurant.

1165
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 3: These are all for the restaurants. Only one. It's this

1166
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 3: one little Remedy Saligne, you know what I'm saying.

1167
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 6: So I wanted something that would be some good headache

1168
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 6: free and that girl that manages Remedy Salion Suite, she

1169
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 6: rarely ever caused me, but some good little headache free money.

1170
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 6: I knew that it would be successful because like also,

1171
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 6: like I said, I do those business consultations, So I

1172
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 6: got a lot of people that I've helped do businesses

1173
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 6: and things of that nature. And so a lot of

1174
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 6: the girls that came there, they said they wanted to

1175
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 6: be there so they can kind of be around me.

1176
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 6: I do free business consultations for the sweet owners to help.

1177
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 3: Them improve their businesses.

1178
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 6: But you know, we live in a city where in

1179
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 6: this city, you know, people are really interested in their appearance.

1180
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 3: You know, I'm wanting to things of that next.

1181
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 6: And salon suites have become more and more popular because

1182
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 6: people wanted to get around the salon away from the

1183
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 6: salon model. Like me, Like when I get my hair braided,

1184
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 6: the girl actually comes to my to my house. But

1185
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 6: before I was able to find somebody that would do that.

1186
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 6: I love going to a salon suite because I don't

1187
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 6: like talking to a lot of people when I go

1188
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 6: to the salon, you know, and especially now that I'm

1189
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 6: more well known, you know, people are gonna be asking me.

1190
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 3: A bunch of questions and all of this stuff.

1191
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 6: And then like during these times of COVID, people would

1192
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 6: rather get those services. Then in a salon swite, it's

1193
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 6: just you and that one person versus being around a

1194
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,320
Speaker 6: bunch of people in a busy salon.

1195
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 2: Now I'm thinking about it, like you go to one,

1196
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 2: you actually go to a salon suitek regular because Buzz

1197
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 2: has a barbershop, but.

1198
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 5: Because you go to the barbershop on a Saturday and

1199
00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 5: it's like a bunch of random people talking about non

1200
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 5: since they're lying and stuff. So me, it's just like

1201
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 5: I don't got time to be waiting, Like you know

1202
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,479
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Me and my barbera shout out the bubs.

1203
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 5: We got a special relationship. I go to every Thursday,

1204
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 5: nine o'clock in the morning, Give me done, and I'm out,

1205
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 5: like you know what I'm saying. So that's actually but

1206
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 5: it's COVID is actually interesting too because it's like, now

1207
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 5: from a safety standpoint, it's a lot safer to just

1208
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,439
Speaker 5: be you and the person that you're dealing with, whether

1209
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,359
Speaker 5: it's nails, whatever, as opposed to like five hundred people

1210
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 5: just like just waiting. Well, let me ask you this

1211
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,760
Speaker 5: as far as the clubs and the lounges, because Atlanta

1212
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 5: has a bunch of clubs and lounges, and I always

1213
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 5: wonder what makes one club popular over the other club right,

1214
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 5: because it's like so many clubs open and close all

1215
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:44,239
Speaker 5: the time. Obviously, you know it's marketing and you have

1216
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 5: a big name attached to it with change, But in

1217
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 5: your opinion as a club owner, as a lounge owner,

1218
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 5: what separates the elite clubs lounges from the ones that's

1219
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 5: just struggling.

1220
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 3: I think it is number one.

1221
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 6: Like so, like mine are a little bit different, even

1222
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 6: though we have the association with chains.

1223
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 3: Probably that the only one that that really makes a

1224
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 3: difference is that Escobar Downtown location.

1225
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 6: But like I don't base mine off of celebrities and

1226
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 6: different things of that nature. So, like you know, you

1227
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 6: have a lot of these clubs that their main thing

1228
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 6: is they have to book artists, you know what I'm saying.

1229
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 3: I never get into that type of stuff.

1230
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 2: You know.

1231
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 6: I like to provide a good vibe, a good atmosphere,

1232
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 6: in good food, you know, at my establishment.

1233
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 3: So mine are more lounge based versus club based.

1234
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 5: You know.

1235
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 6: With the clubs, a lot of times they only open

1236
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 6: two three days a week, you know, and you can't

1237
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 6: afford to have no off night, you know what I'm saying.

1238
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 6: But when you up at seven days a week, you

1239
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 6: can afford for one or two nights to be slower,

1240
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So from my spots, people

1241
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 6: primarily come for the food and they come for the vibe.

1242
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it. I mean, speaking of the Basketball lounge,

1243
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 2: it's like one of the craziest stories part of your

1244
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 2: stories that I thought was like, Uh, the Basketball family

1245
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 2: is trying to fight you for the name. Huh, Like

1246
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 2: what is that even about?

1247
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 3: Crazy?

1248
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 6: And I think that happened during the pandemic. We were

1249
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 6: on TMZ a lot. We were in the Shaved Room

1250
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 6: a lot. The moment that we decided to open up

1251
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 6: our lounge to open Escobar back up.

1252
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 3: It was a really big deal.

1253
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 6: Two Chains got drugged for it, you know what I mean,

1254
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 6: just like because you know, a lot of black people

1255
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 6: were kind of like, you know.

1256
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,839
Speaker 3: Oh, you know, they shouldn't be letting y'all open so soon,

1257
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,879
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, like they trying to kill

1258
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 3: the black people. He only kimp only doing it because

1259
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 3: he wanted to kill the black people.

1260
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 6: And then you know, we had our mayor shout out

1261
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 6: to our mayor, Keisha Lance Slots.

1262
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 3: Who was very opposed, you know, to the businesses opening.

1263
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 6: She actually contacted us and asked us not to open.

1264
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 6: And you know, so we had already made a decision

1265
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 6: to open, and that was on the Shaved Room. Two

1266
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 6: Chains got a lot of shade for that, and so

1267
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 6: then we decided not to open. We ended up feeding

1268
00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 6: the homeless, using the restaurant to feed the homeless for

1269
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks and then we opened back up,

1270
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 6: and so all of this stuff was just detailed, you know,

1271
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 6: on Shade Room and on TMZ, and I think that

1272
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 6: that's what got the attention of the Escobar family.

1273
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,240
Speaker 3: And I just think they kind of fishing for something.

1274
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I read it. I'm like his brother, like what

1275
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 2: this is crazy?

1276
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 3: Apparently, I ain't care. I just went to old Mansion.

1277
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 4: The irony of it, that.

1278
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 6: Article had came out that Friday. I was into loan

1279
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 6: that Monday at this man mansion, kicking it.

1280
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 2: This is a general right here.

1281
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 5: So as far as your business model, like you got

1282
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 5: a bunch of different businesses, do you look to say, Okay,

1283
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm good at this, so let's just open

1284
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 5: more lounges, more restaurants, or like, what's your what's your

1285
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 5: strategy to like when you keep opening new businesses?

1286
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 4: Is it kind of like just piggyback off.

1287
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 6: I feel like I have the blueprint down and I

1288
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 6: can continue to do this, you know, as long as

1289
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 6: I pick the right locations. I just feel like it's

1290
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 6: like no stopping me, you know what I mean. Like

1291
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 6: because so like, for example, I had originally wanted to

1292
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 6: expand into like the South Florida area, and I'm glad

1293
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 6: that I didn't because now like this is a good

1294
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 6: time to like kind of like look at this pandemic

1295
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 6: and see how various cities you know, are operating. So

1296
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 6: now for me, I would expand to like a Houston

1297
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 6: or something like that. So like if something like this

1298
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 6: ever happened again, you know, I know.

1299
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 2: Like how to move. So I mean, prior you said

1300
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 2: or previously you said that the restaurant businesses a headache

1301
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 2: in itself, So then why over more restaurants?

1302
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 3: Because I love it.

1303
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:38,439
Speaker 6: I make great money, really really good money, more money

1304
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 6: than I ever thought I would make in life. I

1305
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 6: make with most people make in a year in one week,

1306
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So when you're doing something

1307
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 6: like that, you can't help but to continue doing it.

1308
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 6: I continue to find good people and good help. I've

1309
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 6: turned my businesses into a full fledged company, Dealert Hospitality Group.

1310
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 6: I continue to learn how to do things properly in

1311
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 6: the right way, to avoid lawsuits and different things of

1312
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 6: that nature. And I just feel like as long as

1313
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 6: that I have help and I have different people in

1314
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 6: different positions, like I said, I go out of town

1315
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 6: every two weeks, you know what I mean. So, and

1316
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 6: I'm opening three businesses.

1317
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 4: At the same So what's the deal of hospitality group?

1318
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 4: I saw the T shirt.

1319
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's my hospitality group that pretty much houses

1320
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 6: all of the restaurants. So I have a corporate office. Well,

1321
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 6: shout out to my videographer. She's one of the individuals.

1322
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 6: They are my director of operations who's basically right up

1323
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 6: under me, so he manages the he so the gms,

1324
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 6: they manage.

1325
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 3: The actual restaurant. They manage all of the.

1326
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 6: Employees in the restaurant. My director of operations, he manages

1327
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 6: the GMS, and I managed the director of operations. Some

1328
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 6: of the gms don't even have my telephone number.

1329
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 5: It's interesting because I feel like you're a very interesting

1330
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 5: person because you have a street side, but you also

1331
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 5: have a corporate side as well. Like you went to

1332
00:58:57,360 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 5: one of the best colleges in America and you actually

1333
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 5: were financial advisor, so obviously you have business like not

1334
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 5: only just street business, but like general business. But then

1335
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 5: you know, you obviously were in the street as well

1336
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 5: for a certain period of time. So be like your

1337
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 5: business minde as you just broke down. I don't really

1338
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 5: think that there's probably too many restaurant tours or club

1339
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 5: owners or promoters or whatever that actually have like a

1340
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 5: board of directors, like like a set corporate instructure like this.

1341
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 3: The white ones.

1342
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 4: But that's what I'm saying. As far as like I mean,

1343
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 4: and a lot of you know, the black ones.

1344
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 6: They really don't want to pay the money, you know

1345
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:33,439
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. Like I make about eighty thousand dollars

1346
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 6: a week. I could make one hundred dollars thousand dollars

1347
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,439
Speaker 6: a week, but guess what, I rather take that eighty

1348
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 6: and have me a life to go live.

1349
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. And I enjoy providing opportunities

1350
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 3: for other people.

1351
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 5: So was that something that you came in the game

1352
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 5: right away with that business mindset like, Okay, I'm gonna

1353
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 5: have this structure.

1354
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1355
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 6: I always knew that I wanted to once stand who

1356
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 6: could have the way one was successful. I knew that

1357
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 6: I wanted to do more, and I knew that I

1358
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 6: would need more people to help me, and so I

1359
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 6: researched that and found out what positions I would need.

1360
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 6: What's the name of them with their job description is

1361
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 6: and just as I started making more and more money,

1362
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 6: I started replacing myself in different areas because guess what,

1363
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 6: Once upon a time, I was doing all of this

1364
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 6: stuff on my own my phone.

1365
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 3: You see, my phone ain't run.

1366
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:18,919
Speaker 6: I want since open here because that's what don't Nobody

1367
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 6: had my telephone number, so that's the only way they

1368
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 6: can reach me is that group me or email. But

1369
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 6: I was just having this conversation with my girlfriend because

1370
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 6: I had seen y'all standing outside and I was like,

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Speaker 6: is that them?

1372
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Speaker 3: I was like, why are they standing outside?

1373
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 6: Way?

1374
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Speaker 3: Ain't nobody helped them? And so I'm just like, it's

1375
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 3: more there, And so I was just like I was

1376
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 3: on her. I was like, I was like, dang, I

1377
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 3: wish I had more numbers. She was like, baby, you

1378
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 3: ain't getting mom got my telephone numbers.

1379
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Speaker 6: But yeah, but if that wasn't the case, I wouldn't

1380
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 6: be able to do things like do these interviews. I

1381
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 6: wouldn't be able to do things like do business consultations.

1382
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be able to be a mother.

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01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 3: To my daughter.

1384
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 6: You know, I wouldn't be able to be in relationships

1385
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:58,439
Speaker 6: and not be stressed free. But because my phone would

1386
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 6: be ringing off the hook with every issue and problem.

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Speaker 5: I think it's important to highlight, especially for black businesses,

1388
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 5: because they said, like COVID nineteen has wiped out fifty

1389
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 5: percent of black businesses across America. It's like a economic

1390
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 5: crisis and a lot of them with brick and mortars.

1391
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 5: But a reason why I think a lot of businesses fail.

1392
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 5: It's a variet of different reasons, but a lot of

1393
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 5: times there's a difference between having a hustle and having

1394
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 5: a business. And it's like you're hustling, you don't really

1395
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 5: have systems in place, and I feel like, you know,

1396
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 5: you like kind of breaking that down explaining that can

1397
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 5: kind of give people some idea that you can't just

1398
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 5: do everything yourself, like you can't be the rest of

1399
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 5: our owner and then wipe the tables and then fry

1400
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 5: the fish, like you know, at first, you gotta do

1401
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 5: what you gotta do. But it's important to reinvest in

1402
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 5: your business. And I'm pretty sure that's one of the

1403
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 5: reasons why your businesses have been successful. It's not just

1404
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 5: because like you said, you know, it's popping and you

1405
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 5: got you know, two chains and you've got the buzz,

1406
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 5: but you got the business structure. Business structure down. So

1407
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 5: can you just kind of just tell people how important

1408
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 5: that is, because, like I said, there's a lot of

1409
01:01:58,240 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 5: entrepreneurs that listen to.

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01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 3: You know, you have to have your systems in place.

1411
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 6: And one of the things, you know, my director operations

1412
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 6: one of the things that he brought to the table.

1413
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 6: And it was funny because he was just my publicist

1414
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 6: when I first met him. There was another guy that

1415
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 6: was supposed to be my director operations that kind of

1416
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:15,439
Speaker 6: stabbed me in the back and ran off and opened

1417
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 6: up his own restaurants and stuff. But he came in

1418
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 6: and kind of listened to everything I was saying and

1419
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 6: put it on paper, you know what I mean. So

1420
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 6: now we have job titles and job descriptions all on paper.

1421
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 6: We've got a company manual. So it's just like it's

1422
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 6: so much easier to bring people on, it's so much

1423
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 6: easier to replace people. We know what everybody is supposed

1424
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 6: to be doing with their hours need to be, with

1425
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 6: their pay needs to be you.

1426
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.

1427
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 6: And so that's another reason why I'm able to open

1428
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 6: up so many businesses at one time.

1429
01:02:41,760 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 3: You know, even these I did three in one year.

1430
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

1431
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 6: I did, I did Crave, I did this spot in

1432
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 6: Esco South all in the same year, you know what

1433
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 6: I mean. And then this year during a pandemic, I'm

1434
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 6: doing two remedies and Esco Seafood. And it's because not

1435
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 6: only do I have all these people on the team,

1436
01:02:58,200 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 6: but we got these systems in place.

1437
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:02,439
Speaker 3: So it's like everybody know like they already was doing stuff.

1438
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:03,360
Speaker 3: I ain't even told.

1439
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 2: Them the manual.

1440
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 5: So you have a manual like McDonald's, like absolutely, because

1441
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 5: the people don't know that, Like you open a McDonald

1442
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 5: you just can't wing it like they got even how

1443
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 5: you fold the follow the franchise rules.

1444
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 4: That's interesting. How many employees do you have?

1445
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 6: I just did an interview before y'all, and I was

1446
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 6: trying to think about this. I would say, uh, maybe

1447
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 6: about three hundred.

1448
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 4: Three hundred.

1449
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:36,439
Speaker 2: Really it's franchising something you're thinking about in the future. Yeah, good,

1450
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 2: that's all right. So I know that creating the night

1451
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:43,480
Speaker 2: life or the after hours lounge was an old goal

1452
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:45,439
Speaker 2: of yours. What's the new goals?

1453
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 3: My new goals are more like personal goals.

1454
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 4: Man.

1455
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 6: I want to get married, I want to have more kids.

1456
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 6: I'm looking about my dream house between now and the

1457
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 6: end of this year. That's actually a really big mind

1458
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 6: of talking about that. The day he was like, you know,

1459
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 6: that's the only thing you miss and you know it's like,

1460
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 6: you know, your dream house or whatever.

1461
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 3: So I want to do that and.

1462
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 6: Just you know, be able to continue to like have

1463
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 6: opportunities for other people and give back, you know what

1464
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 6: I mean. I'm in a place to really be able

1465
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:17,919
Speaker 6: to give back to people and not have to worry

1466
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 6: about how this is going to be paid, how this

1467
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 6: is going to be paid. And for so many years

1468
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:23,240
Speaker 6: that was my life, you know what I mean, a

1469
01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 6: lot of us years I couldn't really travel, you know,

1470
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 6: the way that I wanted to because I didn't have

1471
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 6: these systems in place. So a lot of mine is

1472
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 6: more so, you know now focusing on my own personal

1473
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 6: goals because I gave so much of my life to

1474
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 6: you know, opening and running these businesses.

1475
01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 2: So I mean, speaking of giving back, I know, I

1476
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 2: don't know if it has it started your own nonprofit.

1477
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's called Her Impact Foundation, and so we do.

1478
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 6: Like right now, we're doing a backpack drive that's going

1479
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 6: on into.

1480
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 3: The end of the month. We've collected over one hundred.

1481
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 6: Backpacks field with school supplies and different things that nature.

1482
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 6: I'm going to donate some laptops to some schools as well,

1483
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 6: you know, because I know that you know, now they're

1484
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 6: switching to the you know on and you know a

1485
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 6: lot of these kids, you know, they don't have their

1486
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 6: own laptop, you know what I mean, And so some

1487
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 6: of the schools are trying to provide them, and some

1488
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 6: schools have the budget for him, and some don't, especially

1489
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 6: with you know, what they've experienced, you know, with COVID.

1490
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 4: So we do that.

1491
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:21,400
Speaker 3: We feed the homeless all the time.

1492
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 6: We do uh Friendsgiving during Thanksgiving, we do a charity

1493
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 6: during Christmas.

1494
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 3: For my birthday.

1495
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 6: I actually we had to cancel it because my birthday

1496
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 6: is April third, so it was right in the midst

1497
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 6: of this. But I turned thirty five this year, so

1498
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 6: I was going to take thirty five young women upstairs

1499
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 6: and you know, pay for them to be pampered, you know,

1500
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 6: up there. And so I'm always just kind of like

1501
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:50,560
Speaker 6: trying to think a little different things that I can

1502
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 6: do to give back and you know, make my impact.

1503
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:58,720
Speaker 5: That's that's like just being in Atlanta, since we're in Atlanta.

1504
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 5: I want to just speak about this afleet. It's like

1505
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 5: it's different city, like compared to anywhere else, Like we're

1506
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 5: from New York or anybody else anywhere in the country.

1507
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 5: Can you just speak about like how like to me,

1508
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 5: it's encouraging, Like I come to Atlanta and it's like, oh,

1509
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 5: this is the largest dump truck company owned by a

1510
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 5: black guy, or this every every business is black owned business,

1511
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 5: like you know, for what's your thoughts on the city

1512
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 5: of Atlanta? And yeah, maybe you know, like we were saying, you.

1513
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 6: Know, I'm not originally from here, so I've been living

1514
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 6: here it'll be eleven years, you know, the end of

1515
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 6: this year, and I was I was just you know,

1516
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 6: extremely inspired. You know, like I never had a business

1517
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 6: that made millions of dollars, you know before I moved here,

1518
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 6: and the ones that I had at other than that

1519
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 6: newspaper company, I couldn't even get form legally because of

1520
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:46,720
Speaker 6: you know, some of the racism and things of that nature,

1521
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,000
Speaker 6: you know that I was experiencing in the city hall

1522
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 6: and different things of that nature. So to come to

1523
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,840
Speaker 6: a city like Atlanta, number one, I had never experienced it.

1524
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,240
Speaker 6: Just a city where you know, you're seeing so many

1525
01:06:58,320 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 6: black people driving luxury vehicles. I wasn't even used to

1526
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 6: even happening to vallet all the time trying to be cheaper.

1527
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,439
Speaker 6: Another thing about it is that you know other black people,

1528
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 6: instead of hating on these people are actually inspired, you know,

1529
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 6: like given on my I G I get tons of

1530
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 6: messages daily of just you know, people telling me how

1531
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:24,360
Speaker 6: inspired they are a boy me and different things of

1532
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 6: that nature. And you know, I'm kind of a loud,

1533
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 6: flashy person, so of course every now and again somebody

1534
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 6: is hating or something like that, but you know, you

1535
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 6: really don't give much of that. And a lot of

1536
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 6: the people here that are successful, they really support each other.

1537
01:07:36,160 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 3: You know, most of us know each other.

1538
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 6: I got one of them group meets right now is

1539
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 6: all of the club owners and restaurant owners. You know,

1540
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:47,439
Speaker 6: we came together at the beginning of this pandemic because

1541
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 6: we didn't really know how we was gonna make it.

1542
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 6: We didn't know it was gonna turn out like this.

1543
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 6: We didn't know they was gonna start giving out money

1544
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 6: like it was applicis.

1545
01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.

1546
01:07:57,400 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 6: I didn't know that, you know the city was going

1547
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 6: to open back up and that we were gonna be okay.

1548
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:02,880
Speaker 6: You know, we still had this group me and help

1549
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 6: each other out, you know what I'm saying. So I

1550
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 6: think that's a big thing. You know, it's a lot

1551
01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:12,240
Speaker 6: of inspiration here. There's a lot of events and seminars

1552
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:15,920
Speaker 6: and you know, people that are successful they put together

1553
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 6: you know, like a little different things for people other

1554
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 6: people to be able to come out and learn how

1555
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 6: they can be successful as well. So I never had

1556
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:28,120
Speaker 6: stuff like that in Nashville, never even known of things

1557
01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 6: like that in Nashville.

1558
01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 3: But here you got stuff like that going on all

1559
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:31,720
Speaker 3: the time.

1560
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:32,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's crazy.

1561
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 5: Like our mutual friend Alex good Energy, so you know,

1562
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 5: him and his whole crew missed two weeks out him

1563
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 5: five hundred shots to all of those guys, and I

1564
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:43,960
Speaker 5: think every week they like Neo Davis, they meet like

1565
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:46,080
Speaker 5: once a weekend. They just shared different ideas And I

1566
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 5: was just telling my friendship more, I'm like, Yo, this

1567
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 5: is dope, like because like.

1568
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:51,640
Speaker 6: A lot of I just paiged five thousand dollars to

1569
01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:53,759
Speaker 6: do him five hundreds class next.

1570
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 4: Month, Okay, And I'm like, I don't know, I'm still learning,

1571
01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:57,400
Speaker 4: still learn Yeah, but.

1572
01:08:57,479 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 3: I got money, but he ain't spending he is he

1573
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 3: and it's coret, but.

1574
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 4: It's no man's power. It is power in that.

1575
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,839
Speaker 5: And it's like, you know a lot of times, especially

1576
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,160
Speaker 5: coming from New York, were like real cynical people where

1577
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 5: it's like.

1578
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 2: No trust herself.

1579
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 4: Trust.

1580
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 2: We really got a New York state of money.

1581
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 5: That's a fact. And even with the music, I could see,

1582
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 5: like I think that's really helped Atlanta. It's like they

1583
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:22,680
Speaker 5: work together, and it's the power in that instead of

1584
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 5: just trying to be cliquish, like trying to find fault

1585
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:27,120
Speaker 5: in what this person is doing, Like, we go a

1586
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 5: lot further if we move as a unit.

1587
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:31,600
Speaker 2: I feel like your legacy is being cemented like this.

1588
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:34,880
Speaker 2: Your story is incredible. Tell me how it feels now

1589
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:38,719
Speaker 2: that your daughter's coming of age and is she interested

1590
01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 2: in running these businesses? And how proud of you to

1591
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 2: hand it down to her.

1592
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,800
Speaker 3: She's going to do it. I'm extremely proud of that.

1593
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:46,680
Speaker 3: I'm extremely proud of her.

1594
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:48,560
Speaker 6: I'm almost about to like she had a couple of

1595
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 6: two years now, but yeah, because you know, she originally

1596
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:56,400
Speaker 6: kind of wanted to do her own thing, and I

1597
01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 6: didn't talk her out of it or anything like that.

1598
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 6: But she started off just having a job doing the

1599
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 6: social media and so just being around and you know,

1600
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 6: of course, like when I come home, my business had

1601
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 6: comes off. So you know, I'm not telling her about nothing.

1602
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 6: And so she didn't even realize like how people looked

1603
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 6: at me or viewed me until she started working for

1604
01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 6: me and being in the businesses.

1605
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 3: And now she just even admires me more.

1606
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:23,680
Speaker 6: Of course, you know, she knows that I'm her mother,

1607
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,600
Speaker 6: but you know, she realizes like who I am and

1608
01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 6: what I've done in the platform that I'm one, And

1609
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 6: you know, she's proud, you know, to wear a Dealer

1610
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 6: Hospitality Group shirt that's her last name, you know what

1611
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 6: I'm saying, and to have a company that you know

1612
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:41,559
Speaker 6: can be passed down to her you know. So that's

1613
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:43,600
Speaker 6: really that's the best thing about it, you know what

1614
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 6: I mean, that's what you do it for, so that

1615
01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,519
Speaker 6: this is something that can feed generations to come, you

1616
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:52,400
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. So definitely like extremely proud of that,

1617
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 6: and she's really good you.

1618
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 3: Know at it already.

1619
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 2: She's social media.

1620
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:58,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, she runs all of the social media. It doesn't

1621
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,320
Speaker 3: run my personal I'm like.

1622
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 2: I'm like I was on yours.

1623
01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 4: The businesses, the business businesses.

1624
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 3: All of the business ones.

1625
01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 6: And then she's also started so she just turned twenty,

1626
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 6: but she started doing like learning, you know, some shift

1627
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 6: lead managerial things, close and open the restaurants and different

1628
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 6: things of that nature.

1629
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 5: That's a feeling that I really wish everybody could feel

1630
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,120
Speaker 5: at least one time, Like you know, it's just a

1631
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 5: it's a proud feeling as a parent. Like I have

1632
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 5: a son, he's nine, and you know, he played basketball,

1633
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 5: and so we rented a house in La, the whole

1634
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,080
Speaker 5: the whole podcast crew, and we had we was in

1635
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 5: our families in La. So I'm trying to work out

1636
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 5: with him, like on his game while we're in La.

1637
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 5: He's like giving me push back, like I don't want

1638
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,160
Speaker 5: to work out, dada. So I'm telling I'm like having

1639
01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 5: a conversation like you if you want to go to

1640
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 5: the NBA, because they always tell you want to go

1641
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 5: to the NBA. I'm like, you want to go to

1642
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 5: the NBA, you gotta practice every day, like you're not

1643
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 5: just going to get there by accident. So he's like,

1644
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:53,560
Speaker 5: I don't want to go to the NBA anymore. So

1645
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 5: I'm like, all, you don't have to. I'm like, so

1646
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 5: I might, So what do you want to do? He's

1647
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 5: like I want to do what you do. So you

1648
01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, It's like it's a dope feeling

1649
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 5: and so exactly, I'm like, all right, you get to

1650
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:07,920
Speaker 5: play video games about entrepreneurship and you know, it's dope

1651
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 5: to make money and it's dope. But it's like the

1652
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 5: family legacy is extremely and it's something that you know,

1653
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:16,720
Speaker 5: it's it's one thing like you can't pass a job

1654
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 5: down to your family like you can, but you know,

1655
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 5: it's it's always politics involved. You know, you got a boss,

1656
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 5: so it's like if you are the boss, the sense

1657
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 5: of pride that your children have and you it's a

1658
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 5: little different, you know. So that's something for people to

1659
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:32,160
Speaker 5: think about.

1660
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:34,040
Speaker 2: And our kids, I mean, they're always around each other,

1661
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 2: so like they hear that conversations like my dad is

1662
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:40,040
Speaker 2: on YouTube. It's like a big deal of them. It's

1663
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:41,880
Speaker 2: it's like it makes it really proud because they look

1664
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 2: at Aaron a Lisia like is this and it is

1665
01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:45,800
Speaker 2: like we're not working for us when.

1666
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 3: They ask, you know, when people ask them are.

1667
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 5: Exactly yeah, nah, Snoop. That's it's been a pleasure. Anything

1668
01:12:57,120 --> 01:12:59,720
Speaker 5: that you would like to make the people aware of

1669
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 5: or let them know what do you have anything going on,

1670
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 5: new business ventures, anything like that.

1671
01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 3: Like that talked about the new business ventures.

1672
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:08,639
Speaker 6: But you know, if anybody wants to find me, I'm

1673
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:12,560
Speaker 6: on Instagram and who is Snoop? Like I've mentioned, I

1674
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:16,919
Speaker 6: also during the pandemic, I filmed uh six different courses,

1675
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,679
Speaker 6: three of which are free courses. I would highly recommend

1676
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 6: I literally beg people during the pandemic to invest in

1677
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 6: the stock market because a lot of the stocks were down.

1678
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 6: I knew that this was a man made recession and

1679
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:30,720
Speaker 6: that as soon as the economy started to bounce back,

1680
01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:32,479
Speaker 6: as it's starting to do that, there would be a

1681
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:36,640
Speaker 6: lot of earnings and so definitely encourage people to, you know,

1682
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 6: invest and just get that knowledge. There's so much knowledge

1683
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:41,559
Speaker 6: out there, and YouTube is definitely one of those places

1684
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 6: to go to. But my course site is courses dot

1685
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 6: Who is snoop dot com My website just to kind

1686
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 6: of hear more about my story, my businesses and the

1687
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 6: things that I have going on is who is snoop

1688
01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:53,800
Speaker 6: dot com?

1689
01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 3: As well as Dialer Hospitalitygroup dot com.

1690
01:13:56,400 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 5: What's your what's your We didn't get a chance to

1691
01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:01,200
Speaker 5: talk about that is what's your st for stock investing?

1692
01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 5: You have a such strategy or so, I'm a long

1693
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 5: term long term by a hole.

1694
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't do a lot of the.

1695
01:14:07,680 --> 01:14:11,480
Speaker 6: I'll reinvest my dividend. I also have a financial advisor.

1696
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:13,720
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, So I have quite a bit of.

1697
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:15,679
Speaker 3: Money, almost a million dollars in the stock market.

1698
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 4: So any particular sector like tech, tech or.

1699
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 6: One thing that I will encourage people to do, Yes,

1700
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 6: tech tech is definitely. Tech is big right now, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Test, Tesler,

1701
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 6: of course, Tesla.

1702
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:29,640
Speaker 3: Those are some of the main ones. But it's a

1703
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 3: lot of other little ones like Gap stock is good

1704
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 3: right now?

1705
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 4: What else?

1706
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 3: There's a there's a lot of different ones.

1707
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 6: I've done good with a few of the airline stocks,

1708
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:41,680
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. Especially for somebody like me

1709
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:45,679
Speaker 6: that's going to buy and hole, not day trading, day traders.

1710
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 3: You have people to do options. You got one of

1711
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 3: my boys.

1712
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:50,680
Speaker 6: I don't know if you guys know, Black Robin Nashville,

1713
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 6: who owns Minerva in the weekend, but.

1714
01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 3: He hit me like snoop, you do options. I made

1715
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:58,200
Speaker 3: seventeen grand a day off.

1716
01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 4: Options is the way, and.

1717
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 6: So I'm always looking for new things as well, you

1718
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 6: know what I mean. But for somebody like me that's

1719
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:10,439
Speaker 6: as busy as I am, I don't have time to

1720
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 6: sit and do four rex time to sit and do

1721
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 6: day trading. I you know, sometimes have time to look

1722
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:20,600
Speaker 6: up a little different stocks and stuff like that. But

1723
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:24,679
Speaker 6: I utilize my financial financial advisor. But two things tips

1724
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 6: that I do want to get people before I get

1725
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:30,599
Speaker 6: out of here of ways that you can save and invest.

1726
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:33,080
Speaker 6: One of the ways to save that I did is

1727
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 6: number one, cut your debit card up. So a lot

1728
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 6: of times, like when people go out or they go places,

1729
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:40,600
Speaker 6: you know, you get their debit card and you just

1730
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 6: get to swiping, you know what I'm saying. But like

1731
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:45,439
Speaker 6: you go out, you know, go to the ATM, take you,

1732
01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 6: you know, one hundred two hundred dollars out the bank.

1733
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 6: I don't know much fun you're trying to have for

1734
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:51,640
Speaker 6: the night. And then once that's over, you ain't got

1735
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 6: your debit card. You have no way to even be

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Speaker 6: able to spend more money, you know. So that's that's

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Speaker 6: a really big thing, you know, it's the hardest part

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Speaker 6: is saving your first one hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: But once you do that, it's so much easier.

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Speaker 6: You know, you'll see your money continue to accumulate and

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Speaker 6: kind of almost get to the point where you're kind

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Speaker 6: of obsessed with it, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: So you know that's that's definitely one thing too.

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Speaker 6: On the investment side, one of the ways that I've

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Speaker 6: been able to accumulate my portfolio to get as big

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Speaker 6: as it has been is that I automatically invest each month,

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Speaker 6: and so that's what I call paying myself first. So

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Speaker 6: I make sure that it comes immediately out of my

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Speaker 6: checking or savings account and goes into my investment account,

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Speaker 6: and you know, you get to the point that you know,

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Speaker 6: you don't even miss it, you don't even see it.

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Speaker 6: Of course, you know you want to do your budget

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Speaker 6: first and see what it is that you can afford

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Speaker 6: to actually invest. But those are just two things that

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Speaker 6: I want to leave y'all with, as well as the other,

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Speaker 6: you know, knowledge we just talked about. But thanks for

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Speaker 6: having me, guys. I appreciate meeting y'all. I watched a

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Speaker 6: couple of the episodes and so it was like earn

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Speaker 6: your leader. I normally don't do things on Friday, and

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Speaker 6: especially not this late, so I was just like, Man.

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Speaker 3: I gotta do that.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thank you for having appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: Man, choice some housekeeping night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Shot everybody on patreon dot com that is proud

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Speaker 2: to pay program. Obviously. You know tear four and five members.

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Speaker 2: You have access to e y l University, the number

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Speaker 2: sessions with our brother MG, the mortgage guy, and the

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: A lot of investment tips in there. I know we've

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Speaker 2: been driving some gems in the options game. So shout

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Speaker 2: We are going to be dropping some some some really

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Speaker 5: Shout out to Atlanta once again. He was doing an

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Speaker 5: eighty five South show yesterday. Yeah, the bros. They had

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Speaker 5: some jokes. I can't wait for that. Shout out to them, man,

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Speaker 5: And yeah, once again, make sure you subscribe like comment

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday to ob brother jamal Man. Happy birthday, Broth,

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Speaker 2: Happy birthday Man Atlanta. That's right, we're going to turn

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