WEBVTT - EYL #105 Player’s Ball feat. Mychel ”Snoop” Dillard 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.120 Coach, the energy out there felt different. What changed for 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:03.800 the team today? 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.000 It was the new game day scratches from the California 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.520 Lottery players. Everything. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:09.799 Those games sent the team's energy through the roof. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:11.880 Are you saying it was the off field play that 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.000 made the difference on the field. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.840 Hey, little play makes your day, and today it made 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:16.279 the game. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.319 That's all for now, coach, one more question play than 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.119 New Los Angeles Chargers, San Francisco forty nine ers and 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.440 Los Angeles Rams scratchers from the California Lottery. A little 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.480 play can make your day. Peace made responsibily. Must be 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.720 eighteen years or older to purchase late or claim. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.199 All right, guys, welcome back eyl Atlanta. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.640 Secondician, second home. Man. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.040 This is definitely a second home for us. Anytime that 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.640 we in the A is a blessing. So first and foremost, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.320 shout out to the good city of Atlanta. We got 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.879 this is our second biggest market, but it feels like 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:46.560 home for us. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.600 So you know, I saw somebody's that put us in 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:50.960 as an Atlanta based podcast. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.319 Yeah, that was that was crazy. That was okay, Like, yo, 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.800 tag the Atlanta based podcast. Somebody was like earn your 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.760 lisha I'm like, I appreciate it, but so yeah, today 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.680 we got that. We got a definitely exciting episode. One 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:08.600 of Atlanta's legends, A legend in the town, A legend 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:14.160 in the town. Michelle Snoop Dillard. Her story is mind boggling. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.200 I actually did some some reading on his very very 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.080 interesting story. And she's a serial entrepreneur. We're gonna talk 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.440 about all of her businesses that she owns. Got enough 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.640 time run it down right. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.119 Now, there's so many, man, I mean, we're gonna get 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.440 into it, but this is so many. Like I said before, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:33.080 if we had a meme like what a serial entrepreneur is, like, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.280 this is the living embodyment of it. And the story 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:36.080 is just so crazy. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.639 By way of Detroit, we gotta shout, yeah, that's a fact. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:42.960 So in Tennessee plays a part. But we're gonna get 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.840 into all that because it's a long list. Ya. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:51.680 So, restaurant, tour, nail salon owner. She's also a teacher. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.040 She actually I just found out, used to be in 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:56.760 the financial services. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.040 Industry financial advisor. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.200 Financial advisor, so she has a bad background and investments, insurance, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:03.520 retirement stuff like. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:04.720 That, real estate license. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.120 Yeah, for sure. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:09.600 You had your own publications. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.560 Yeah, for sure. And we're actually in her establishment right now. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.960 Members Only is one of one of her establishments. She 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:20.839 has a couple others, Crave Restaurant, Escobar Atlanta, Escobar South Side, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:26.120 uh Remedy Salon Suites, Nails Salon, and now we're members 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.639 only Crave, Crave shout out to Yeah, I said Crave. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.359 And one of our business partners, to Change, might have 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.040 heard of him. True, you might have heard of him. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:39.839 Shout out to Change. Shout out to Change. So, yeah, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.919 this is gonna be interesting, you know, conversation. Any time 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.600 that we get a chance to talk to entrepreneurs, there's 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.679 always a blessing and people always get a lot of 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.640 value and information. So first and foremost, before we start, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.040 thank you for joining us. Appreciate it. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.240 Oh, thank you for having me. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.440 It's always, you know, humbling to even be looked at 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:55.079 his interview. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:57.639 I appreciate that. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.720 No, So let's let's start at the beginning, because, like 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.120 I said, your story is interesting. It's like you just 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.360 wasn't born into being an entrepreneur. You had some adversity 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.359 and then you actually went to one of the best 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.040 colleges in America at a young age. And then you, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.560 like I said, worked in the financial industry. So can 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.560 you talk about your story and like how did you 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.480 get into the the business world? 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.160 And you think we got enough time? 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:22.640 You know, we don't. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.440 So just a little bit about me, as you guys said, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:29.959 you know, I'm from Detroit, Michigan. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.360 I grew up in Detroit. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.480 I kind of came from I came from a family 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.920 of hustlers. My dad was a big trump, big time 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.400 drug dealer. My mom, her family, she kind of came 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.760 from a lot of adversity. Her mother and sister was 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.600 murdered when she was fourteen. So just grew up pretty quickly, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.480 met my dad at a young age, had me and 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:56.000 my brothers, and of course being in the type of 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.000 environment you know, where your father is selling drugs, of course, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.000 a lot of times someone the right it's made. And 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.320 so there was a situation where somebody had kind of 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.440 kicked our dory and shut up the whole house and 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.360 caused my mom to leave my dad, and so she 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.720 ended up just kind of like fleeing, wanting to flee 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.520 the whole city, you know, because she felt like it 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.680 was so many negative influences, you know, especially more so 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.840 for my two younger brothers, you know, and didn't want 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.880 to see them, you know, trying to get into the 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:23.880 game and things of that nature, and wanted to show 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:25.919 them that, you know, there were other means, you know, 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.480 to be able to make money, you know, other than 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.040 just the street life. So we moved to Nashville, Tennessee. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.200 I already was kind of a couple of grades ahead. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.479 So I started school when I was three, and so 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.160 when we moved to Nashville, they initially was trying to 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.640 you know, put me back into my original grade. And 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.200 so they were like, Okay, well we're gonna give her 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.799 this test, you know, to see if she can even 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.200 you know, be I think maybe I was going into 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.280 like the fifth grade or something like that. And so 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.960 when they tested me, actually tested for the seventh grade. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.240 And so my mom was like, nah, just at least 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:00.360 let her be in a fit grade. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:01.760 I don't put her in the third grade. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.719 But you know, she's only you know such and said, 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.359 I think I was like eight at the time, you 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:11.640 know what I'm saying. So anyway, started school young, ended 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.560 up getting pregnant the first time I had sex when 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:15.599 I was in high school. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:16.960 So I had my. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.720 Daughter extremely young, got pregnant when I was fourteen, had 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.359 her when I was fifteen, had kind of just Kevin 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.599 as a secret you know from my whole family. Was 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:32.520 really just you know, a terrified kid. The family had 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.880 already been through so much, and it was just kind 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.360 of like one of them little lifetime things child where 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.400 you know, I'm holding the shit in not telling nobody. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.800 So once my mom ended up finding out, she was 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.520 like so distraught about it. She tried to get me 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.520 to put my daughter up for adoptions, and my daughter 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.640 actually spent the first four years of her life in 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:51.440 foster care. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.440 Shout out to my daughter. She actually works for my 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:55.159 company too. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:06:00.520 She's goes to Georgia State Dean's List student. Uh, definitely 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.159 one of the parts of you know, my life that 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.159 I'm extremely proud of. You know, everything definitely happens for 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.520 a reason. But that was kind of like the start 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.599 to you know, the adversity you know, for me. But 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.440 even after that, you know, I ended up going to 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.560 Vanderbilt University at the age of sixteen. Shout out to 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:20.840 VU Commodoes. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.479 We can't let that go. That's one of the best 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.560 business schools like in the country. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:26.560 It is it is. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.839 I actually mean I had a great experience at Vanderbilt. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.400 I originally did not want to go, you know, just 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.000 just kind of growing up in Nashville. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.039 I always wanted to get back to Detroit, which is. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.880 Where the roots was, which is where the majority of 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.880 our family was. We were the only ones that were 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.000 in Nashville. You know, nobody else came there. They everybody 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.039 thought it was slow, as so did me and my brothers, 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.080 and so all three of us, you know, just always 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.280 as soon as we were able to, wanted to leave, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.400 you know, Nashville, Tennessee. But you know, at the time, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.760 you know, I had just you know, had gotten pregnant, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.720 you know, my mom didn't know about it and all 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.400 of that stuff. So once that happened, it was just 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.320 like I can't trust you, girl, you ain't going you 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.799 ain't leaving this city. And then I got into Vanderbilt 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.000 and it was just kind of like how can you 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:11.840 turn it down? You know, And I had had some 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.440 scholarships and things of that nature, So ended up going 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.440 to Vanderbilt. Had a great experience, but my my experience 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.440 was a little bit different than how I am now. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.080 And it's so funny because a lot of the people 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:24.080 that I went to college with. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:24.720 You know, they're. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.640 Always like, man, I'm like now, you know, They're like, oh, man, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.560 I knew you was gonna be like super successful and. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.960 Stuff like that, and I'm like, how to class? Like 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.360 how you pick that up? You know what I mean? 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.120 So cause I was literally, I literally like grew up 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.200 on the college campus. You know, you just imagine I 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:47.080 had never even as a high school student. I remember 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.720 hanging out with friends like maybe twice, you know what 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.200 I mean out of the whole four years of going 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:52.640 to school. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.760 And you know, like I played basketball. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.200 So I got you heard about that somes. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.600 So I got some socialization there. But I wasn't like 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.200 your typical you know, definitely not like how I am now. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.440 I'm a very social person, so you know, somebody would 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.480 expect like in high school, I was always hanging out 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.160 or had a bunch of friends, and I did right then, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:12.720 but once I went home, you know, that was pretty 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.800 much it. I wasn't like the type that was going 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.000 to the movies, going to the mall, skating rings and 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.920 different things of that nature. So you know, you look 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.800 at somebody that kind of grew up like sheltered like that. 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.520 And then you know, I go to college, you know 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.080 that young living on the campus, and so. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.800 I pretty much kind of wild it out, you know. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:36.720 I started DJing, getting into throwing parties, messing with girls. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.960 I mean, you name it, you name it. I was 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.640 doing it, you know what I'm saying. And so the 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.960 education part was honestly the back burner for me, and 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.920 I really, you know a lot of times I look 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.520 back on that now that I'm so thirsty for knowledge 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.720 because being an entrepreneur, you know, I have to teach 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:55.600 myself things. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.720 You know, I have to get my own training, and. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.520 You know, make sure I'm watching YouTube and different podcasts 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.800 and you know, going to seminars and different things of 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.720 that nature, because you know, I'm the boss and I 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:06.720 have a lot of people up under me. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.120 So even if somebody think I'm doing something wrong, ain't. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.800 Not gonna tell me, you know what I'm saying. So, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.000 and I ain't gonna tell them if I don't quite 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.760 know what I'm doing, you know what I mean. So, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.400 but I definitely, you know, do wish that I would 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.880 have taken advantage, especially going to a college as prestigious 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.000 as Vanderbilt. You know where there's so much to learn, 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.679 so many different courses and things of that nature. But 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.040 I guess it just kind of all worked out the 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.160 way that they did because I think that kind of 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.560 brought out like my alter ego, which is Snoop. So 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.840 it's like my shell versus Snoop. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.360 So but anyways, I graduated from Vanderbilt at twenty. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.000 And like that, I mean that's in president of Solf, right, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.520 like you're saying to yourself, like just now, like I 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.160 really didn't play attention to the academics part, but like 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:49.880 you graduated with a degree. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.880 And I mean, when I tell you I was bad man, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.520 Like I my GPA was not the highest. I probably 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.520 graduated with like a two point seven gpa. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.679 Like that's good enough to get just ski. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.600 It up out of that thing. You know what I'm saying. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.760 I went to summer school, had to go to summer 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.600 school every single summer, wanted to go to summer school 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.040 every single summer because I loved being on campus and 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.600 you know, doing what I wanted to do in. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.680 Partying and all of that stuff. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.600 There's not probably not one black student that went to 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.520 Vanderbilt doing those four years that I was there. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:18.959 That don't know who I was. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.280 But yeah, so after that, like I said, I was 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.240 twenty when I graduated. I wasn't even old enough to 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:26.960 have a drink. When I went to college, I didn't 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.600 even have my driver's license. My friends taught me how 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.840 to drive. I literally got my driver's license the week 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:39.120 after I graduated from from college. But and so after that, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.120 and so then I also got my daughter as well. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.840 So you know, it's like, now it was time to 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.080 be a mother and decide what I was gonna do, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:47.680 and you. 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:48.920 Know, all of these different things. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:54.160 And so immediately after that, my great grandmother she had 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.280 always you know, kind of talked about and you know, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.559 her financial advisor. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.320 You know, and she was always the one. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.280 In the family who had, you know, the most money, 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.679 and you know, she was always talking about her assets 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.839 and kicking people out the wheel and who she was 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:10.680 going to lead this to and lead that to. And 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.719 so this financial advisor was somebody she kind of put 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.560 on the pedestal. And so I kind of said to myself, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.120 but maybe that's something, you know that I. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:17.760 Should get into. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:22.240 You know, my degree was in economics, and so you know, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.000 I was just like, Okay, let me check that out 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.800 and so, you know, to be a financial advisor, you 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:31.200 have to get your Series seven sixty six licenses and 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.520 your life and health insurance licenses. And so during the 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.000 time that I was studying for those licenses, I ended 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:43.000 up working at a very popular club in Nashville that 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.120 was owned by It was just like kind of one guy, 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.160 his name was Moe, who owned a lot of the 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:48.679 you know, lounges. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:48.960 And clubs there. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.280 And so I kind of said to myself, I said, 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.760 I said self, I said, you know, you should work 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.920 in this, you know, this club lounge environment, because you're 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.240 never going to be in an environment like this ever. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.040 Again a little did I know that I would end 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.000 up owning you know, several of them myself, decades going 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.040 down the line or whatnot. But anyway, so I worked there, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.000 and I just felt like I was always you know, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:12.880 going to Vanderbilt. You know, you think that you're going 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.560 to be in this corporate, you know, lifestyle. Most of 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.600 my friends that I went to school with, everybody was going. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.120 To graduate school except for me. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:20.520 You know. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.280 They they all had kind of come from two parent 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.079 households and their lives were planned out, you know what 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.640 I mean. They knew coming into their freshman year that 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.280 I'm going to law school after this. You know, I'm 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.760 going to doctor at school after this, or I'm going 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:35.960 to get my PhD. Or whatever the case may be. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.240 So for me, you know, I had already had a child, 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.800 and you know that I didn't grow up like that, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.400 So it was just like just for me, graduating from 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:45.480 Vanderbilt was kind of. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:46.600 Enough, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.840 So anyways, ended up once I ended up working there, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.760 once I got my licenses, I transitioned into this corporate 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:00.160 lifestyle and uh was basically, you know, had to dress up, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.880 wear suit to work every day. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:05.880 I'll never forget. I hate I HAE got my nose 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.400 pierced in college. And the guy was the white guy. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.880 In the name of the company it was American Express 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:13.880 Financial Advisors. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.480 So they were super uppity. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.400 And so I remember the very first day, you know, 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.320 I walked in and you know, I'm thinking, I'm looking 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.000 good and I'm in my you know, I was, I 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.960 was dressed real feminine back then, you know. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.199 So I'm in a little. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.040 Nice little blazer skirt and stuff, and you know, he 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.559 walk in and you know, he's. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.839 Like and immediately made me. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.520 Take that thing out I don't. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.040 And so so anyways, I did end up enjoying that 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.000 experience because it taught me a lot. It taught me 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:45.960 a lot about finances, It taught me a lot about 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:50.240 the stock market. It taught me the importance in saving 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.199 a lot of like the basic financial principles that I 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.360 used to this day. That that has helped me get 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.400 to where it is that I am. And I was 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.760 very successful in doing it, you know. So they that 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.280 was kind of a career that was more so independence. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.160 You know, you really didn't necessarily have to clock, and 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.480 you did kind of have to come in at a 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.200 certain time, but you really kind of made your own 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.920 schedule and had your clients and different things of that nature. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.040 And so I was becoming very successful at that. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:20.200 But they ended up closing that particular office in Nashville, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.480 and so when they did that, we had the opportunity 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.960 to either stay to either stay with the company moved 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.880 somewhere else, or to open up your own, you know, office. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.080 And so at the time I was also working on 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.040 getting I had started invested in real estate, and so 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.400 there was a guy, a black guy that I'm really 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:43.480 close with to this day. He was probably about I mean, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.360 if I was twenty one at the time, he was 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.160 probably maybe thirty four or something like that. But anyway, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.960 he was very real known. He had bought up a 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.000 lot of property in Nashville and things of that nature. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.640 And so somebody had put me in touch with him, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.760 and they was like, you know, you should go work 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.880 with him, you know, in his office. You know, he'll 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.440 really help mentor you and things of that nature. Shout 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.480 out to Lee Mallette, and so I ended up going 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.040 and working with him. His wife was a dentist. She 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.520 had a dentist practice right below us. And so he 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.520 ended up encouraging me to get my real estate license, 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.520 and then he actually let me, him and his wife 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.720 let me sell their like two million dollar home, you know. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.720 And so anyway that that's your first deal. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.360 That was my very first deal, and so that gave 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.440 me a nice chunk of money. I ended up, you know, 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.840 furthering myself into that. And then so I was doing 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.680 a financial advice and I was doing a real estate. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.600 This is around two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.920 where you know, you got this stock market crash where 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.880 those are like kind of two of the worst industries 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.160 to be in at that time. And then also at 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.000 that time in my personal life, I had kind of 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.120 got like my first girlfriend that I really actually cared about, 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.960 and she had a very very wild side to her. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.280 Shout out to the Scorpios, but she had a very 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.160 wow side to her. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.120 And it it kind of brought out a lot. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:07.120 Of that college you know, that college snoop if you 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.920 and Yo and so her and I. At the time, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.880 you know, so I was making money, I was doing well, 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.960 and so I said to myself, you know, I need to, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.560 like the three people that I spend the most time with, 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.400 I should be making money with them. And so, of 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.200 course the main one was her. She was modeling and 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.240 different things of that nature. And so I said, you know, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.680 I was like, you know, we should do a calendar together. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.640 You know, we should get twelve of the hottest women 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:34.440 in Nashville. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.360 And let me tell you, that was hard to find. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.320 I'm like, to Nashville. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.400 We got some people in Nashville. Yeah, yeah, shout our 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:44.880 voice and the Huskies. 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.960 Oh yeah, yeah, Clinton, Yeah, Clinton, those are That's that's 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:53.400 our feeling. But yeah, so I was like, you know, 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.640 we should do this calendar and so we did. I'm 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.400 the type of person that like, if I can dream it, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.320 I can make it come true, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.600 And so we did this calendar. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.320 We called it, uh we named the Wet Dimes and 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.879 the Key, and so the models were called the Wet Dimes. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.800 And so first I formed a model management company and 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.199 I had all of the girls that were in the 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.320 calendar signed to my management company. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:17.560 And then so we did this calendar. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.840 We produced it, and you know, I think we our 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.520 first batch was maybe like five thousand calendars, and so 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.119 the calendar came out nice and everything, and so then 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:25.920 it was like, okay, well. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:27.080 How much would you say? How much it was on 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:28.159 the calendar? Forty dollars? 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:28.640 Yeah. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.760 And then now we also did it behind the scenes DVDs. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.600 So we got really wild while we were calendar. Always 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.480 a lot of alcohol around and a few other things, 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.840 and so we filmed everything that was happening, and so 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.840 we also had the DVD. I think the DVD was 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.800 twenty five and so then it was just like, okay, well, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.439 how do we get this off the ground. You know, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.159 we gotta now, we gotta sell them, you know what 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.480 I mean. I invested all this money into this calendar. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.600 How much was the investment into the calendar? 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.520 And so I would say I probably spent about seven 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.840 thousand dollars into this project. Now, mind you, I was 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.320 still a financial advisor in real estate, but at this time, child, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:05.920 I'm no longer interested. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.320 In This is now snoo This is full blown stoop. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.280 Now this is full of blown snoop. This is two 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.160 thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. Ain't nobody trying 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:15.320 to invest with me? People are losing their houses like that. Also, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.320 at the time, I had also owned six investment properties 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.080 that's probably about twenty three, you know, and I own 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:22.800 the house that I was living as a really nice 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.080 house on the golf course. So I had definitely, you know, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.600 made a small success for myself that I would end 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.160 up losing everything. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:30.880 Very shortly thereafter. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.960 So we did this calendar, and so then it was like, okay, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.520 now we have to push it. So then I decided, okay, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:41.440 well what we'll do is I'll start We'll start promoting 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.720 nights at different venues and I'll have the wet Nimes hosts, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.280 the girls always bring everybody to the party, and then 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.919 I'll have them in there selling the calendars, and so 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.480 that's what we did, and that was how I became 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.200 a promoter and started to get into the hospitality industry 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.800 and see the behind the scenes of the hospitality industry. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.200 And so I'm always the type of person like I 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.520 want to be at the top, you know what I mean. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.199 So it was like, Okay, I'm the promoter, but you know, 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.200 I'm always having these conversations with the lounge owner or 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.919 the club owner, and so that kind of made me 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.080 want to know what it was like, you know, to 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:18.280 be an owner. And so I ended up shortly thereafter 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.400 opening up my first spot in Nashville at the age 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:22.000 of twenty four. 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.480 It was called the G Spot. I actually have it 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:25.600 tattooed on my neck. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:27.600 Yeah. 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.320 That was how I lost all of my money because 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.600 number one, you know, the club, we just we didn't 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.159 do it right. I didn't know anything about doing venues 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:39.959 at the time. The people that I was working with 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.280 for kind of crooks, apparently they didn't know anything yet. 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:43.600 So like when you say you didn't do it right, 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.119 because we haven't really covered the night life yet, like 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:47.760 we interviewed, shout out to Kenny Burns. 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:48.160 That's our. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.680 Yeah, you know, but as far as we have an 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.200 interviewed a club owner, Yeah, I don't think. 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.560 I didn't have like the right licenses a license. Yeah, 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.960 we pretty much. I just opened up the door. 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.520 On some ghetto like we're open. 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.760 Initially that was like the dream, right, It was like, yo, 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:06.840 I want to get into this life. Yes, right, So 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.640 like now the wet dimes that the club thing. Did 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.520 that become a tour or like because I was trying 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:13.000 that out? 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:13.800 We did? We did. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.560 We went to various cities and went to Birmingham, we 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.520 came here to Atlanta, so we also went to other places. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:20.840 And what we would do is put up to. 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.359 The strip clubs like in the parking lots and stuff 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.920 like that and get the calendars off. And I would 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.200 always take my girlfriend and maybe a couple of other models. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:29.959 I used to these models come to my house three 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.679 days a week. They had to work out. Some of 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.720 them lived with us. 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:40.960 I mean those was the days. Yeah. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.000 So anyways, ended up doing my first spot with some 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.000 people that just you know, were not good business people. 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.560 I didn't have good business practices. At the same time, 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.919 myself wasn't as familiar with you know, the licenses and 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.159 the requirements and things of that nature that were required 0:20:58.200 --> 0:20:59.240 to be legally open. 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:00.920 And Asheville at the. 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.680 Time was not a city either that promoted black businesses, 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.640 especially not the way that Atlanta does. So I ended 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.840 up losing my entire investment and that spot was shut 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:13.119 down within about two months. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:14.359 About how much money we lost. 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:19.240 I lost forty thousand dollars also at the same time. 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:20.840 So remember I was telling you I had all these 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.879 little rental properties and stuff. Well, a lot of the 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.040 people that were in those rental properties they couldn't pay 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.920 their rent and things of that nature. So I had 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.879 like one last property and I ended up turning that 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:32.639 into a spot called the Kitty Cabin. 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:33.879 I don't know if y'all read about that. 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:34.399 I did not. 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.359 I did not, But I actually did that with my homegirl. 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:39.959 She don't mind if I talk about it, but her 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.560 name is Brooklyn Tanker. She was on that reality show, 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.359 her whole family, the Tankards. 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:49.200 On one VH one. But we did that together, and. 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:50.880 That was a spot where we would have like girls 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.840 dance and kind of do a few other things. And 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:59.800 so that's why I got shut down. The time door 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:03.600 was kicked in, and so it was a lot man 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:04.959 it was a lot that I went through. And so 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.800 after that, you know, both of my sources of income 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:11.520 was shut down. Of course, the lady I was dealing 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:13.840 with was gone by the enshall. I'm dried up, I 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:17.320 ain't got no money, that isn't going right. 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:19.080 And so exactly. 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:21.119 And so at that point it was kind of like, 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:22.520 you know, what am I going to do? And so, 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:24.000 you know, to be honest with you, I kind of 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.600 went back to something that I knew they kind of 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:29.199 helped me get through different times, which was, you know, 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:32.760 being in the streets myself selling drugs things of that nature. 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:35.359 And once I had kind of hustled up on a 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:39.520 little bit of money, I had met some guys that 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.840 had an idea, had kind of put me on an idea, 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.560 which was these mugshot newspapers that were very popular at 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:47.719 the time. So I don't know if you guys had 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:49.920 seen them, but they were those newspapers that used to 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:51.680 sit on the counter and the gas stations. They'd be 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:54.520 right up there, and they came out weekly and they 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.480 had mudshots of people that had been arrested, and they 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.360 were like, you know, we should do something like this. 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.600 And so my story is so long, this is, this 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:05.480 is this is the face it. 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:08.800 So came up with face It with a guy that 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:10.240 I was associates with at the time. 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:11.240 He was from Detroit. 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:13.720 And when I tell you, a lot of people from 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:15.080 Detroit are crooks, and I. 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:16.400 Can say that because I. 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.880 Am from Detroit, and you know, a lot of them 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:23.239 are just super slick. And so anyway, this guy we 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:25.320 had got this little paper off the ground, didn't take 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:27.440 us no time to get it going, and I mean 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:29.440 he was so excited. He had never had his own 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.280 business before. And when I tell you, the MF just 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:35.000 started stealing out the gate. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:37.760 I mean like it was just like, could not trust him. 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:40.240 Because what we did was we would have somebody put 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:42.879 the publication together, it would come out, and then you 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:44.800 have to go to the stores and collect your money. 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:47.080 So of course, like if I'm not right there with him, 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.679 you know, he doesn't necessarily have to be honest. Then 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:52.879 he started changing the banking password and information and stuff 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:55.520 like that, and so almost immediately I was just like, 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:56.159 you know what. 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:56.800 You can have this. 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:00.560 You know, I'm not no amount of money is you 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:02.840 know my piece? I'm not about to be fighting with 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:04.879 you daily. You know, at first I kind of came 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:06.320 to him with tears in my eyes, like, you know, 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:07.920 like dude, please don't do this, Like this can be 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:09.639 a big business together, you know, like I have a 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:11.760 daughter to feed. You know, I was only when they 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:13.119 had kids at the time. I'm like, I got a 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:16.040 daughter to feed. Like, you know, I'm really putting in 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:16.440 a lot. 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.320 Are you the business business mind behind these ventures? Because 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:21.360 I'm thinking like this right, so, like you're the one 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:24.640 creating the LLC everything. So even a publication, that's something 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:27.399 that we've never spoke about before. How what's the process 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:28.960 of even doing that? Like what's the startup course to 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:30.639 even do it? 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:32.320 It's not a really big startup costs. 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:34.720 You know, the main thing that you're going to pay 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:37.320 for outside of setting up the business, it's going to 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:41.760 be actually having a publication printed. So that's you know, 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:45.119 really your main costs. You know, I would say we 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.280 probably got that in mind. You I pay for all 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:48.680 of it because I was the one in the money 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:50.240 with the money. I was in the streets, you know 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:53.199 what I'm saying. So I think we probably get that 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:57.280 going with maybe just like five thousand dollars. So I left, 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:00.000 I totally I let him have it. I left left it, 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:04.200 let him have faced It. I started researching, Okay, where's 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:06.240 another city I can put me money in, and so 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:08.360 then I went to Knoxville and I started caught up 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:13.439 in Knoxville, and that ended up being very successful. Then 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:16.240 I went to Western Kentucky. I done another edition there. 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:18.360 I went to South Florida. 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:19.320 I done it. 0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:23.479 Not South Florida, North Florida. I'm sorry, Tallahassee, Saint Petersburg. 0:25:23.640 --> 0:25:25.560 Caught up different from from face It. 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:29.200 Yeah, it's the same idea, but it's a different publication 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:30.480 because remember I let old boy. 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:32.720 You can have it, Okay, gotcha? 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:35.359 So I had an audition. 0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:37.880 So I ended up having five different editions, and then 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:41.560 ended up moving here to Atlanta, Georgia, and doing it 0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:43.520 here in Atlanta as well, changing. 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:45.080 And so and so. 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:48.000 Anyways, it was doing okay, but it just it never 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:49.080 made me a lot of money. 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:50.840 You know. I never made more. 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:53.240 Than like sixty thousand dollars a year, you know, doing 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:55.640 this paper. But I also really didn't have to do much, 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:58.040 you know, I maybe worked two or three days, you know, 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:01.919 out of the week. And so how I ended up 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:04.200 getting out of that is there was a white guy 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:06.320 that was up under me that I had. It's kind 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:07.960 of the face of the company, you know, because you 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:10.600 got these funky jewelry towns and stuff. You know what 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:13.240 I'm saying. That there's gonna be some stores that he 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:14.760 can get in that they won't let me. 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:15.600 And you know what I'm saying. 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:18.280 So he basically ended up turning on me. You know, 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.520 he wanted to do a paper hisself. You know, I 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:23.639 never knew it, but there was something he had wanted 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:23.920 me to. 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:25.240 Change the name of mine too. 0:26:25.280 --> 0:26:28.880 I guess he thought that it would make it more commercial, 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:32.240 you know. And so long story short, there was one week. 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:34.720 It was after I moved here, and there was just 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:37.119 one week where like all of my employees quit on me. 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:38.480 And one week, you know. 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:42.679 So it was like Monday, the graphic designer Tuesday, a 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:45.960 couple of the managers Wednesday, the people that lay the 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:48.960 paper out Thursday, the people that delivered the paper and 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:49.840 didn come Friday. 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:52.160 You know, this manager he quits. 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:55.920 So you leave Tennessee to come to Atlanta. Within the week, 0:26:56.080 --> 0:26:57.679 everybody in Tennessee has left you. 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:00.000 Now within a week, I would say this was probably, 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:02.040 I believe within like the first. 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:04.000 Six months of me being here. 0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:07.600 So then I go there that following week to see 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:09.439 what's going on. You know, of course I have no 0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:11.320 staff at this point, so I have to go and 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:13.800 do everything myself and also see like, wow, all these 0:27:13.840 --> 0:27:16.280 people in Clinton, what's going on. I going to the 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:19.000 first store, and of course I see a mine ain't 0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:20.960 even on the shelf. No more, they done took mine 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:22.800 off the shelf. I don't know what he didn tell now, 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:26.040 but it's another new paper with this same name that 0:27:26.200 --> 0:27:28.840 he wanted me to name mine. And of course he 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:31.280 had my list of stores when I was paying him 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:33.080 to carry the paper, so he was able to come 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:35.680 in and undercut me. And so I ended up just 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:37.480 letting them have it because there was just no way 0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:39.879 I could beat him in that city, you know what 0:27:39.920 --> 0:27:40.080 I mean. 0:27:40.119 --> 0:27:41.639 I wasn't about to move there. I didn't. 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:44.640 I was starting to grow to really become in love 0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:47.840 with the city of Atlanta and wanting to kind of 0:27:47.840 --> 0:27:51.479 get into some different things here and so, and especially 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:53.359 like I said, I wasn't even making more than like 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:55.640 fifty five or sixty thousand dollars a year. 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:57.400 So I ended up letting him have it. 0:27:57.480 --> 0:28:01.320 And after that I ended up starting my party bus 0:28:01.359 --> 0:28:04.000 company with the girl that I was dating at the time. 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:06.680 We started a party bus company together. 0:28:07.280 --> 0:28:10.760 It was super successful, but I hated it, just like 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.040 I hated I didn't like that paper because I was 0:28:13.040 --> 0:28:15.920 somebody who had been arrested in different things of that 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:18.960 nature myself. So I never even like felt comfortable telling 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:21.399 people what I did for a living, because you know, 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:23.320 it's just like I could be in this ship myself. 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:28.040 You could on the cover of the papers. I'm listening 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:30.800 to the story, right, and even when I was reading 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:34.479 the story, I'm like, you face betrayal once, right and 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:38.520 still recovered, came back. You faced it again and still 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:41.040 came back. Like what what was it that inside of you? 0:28:41.120 --> 0:28:42.600 That was just like, you know what, I gotta keep 0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:44.800 going because like I can imagine that too. 0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:46.200 You know what I'm saying, what you're gonna do, lay 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:47.920 down and die, you know what I mean? Like you 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:50.480 know cause if you quit, then you know you know 0:28:50.520 --> 0:28:52.120 where you're gonna end that, you know what I mean. 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:54.280 So it's just like you have no choice but to 0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:57.760 keep going. And I had always been inspired by just 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:01.400 different people successful stories. There used to be a show 0:29:01.400 --> 0:29:04.040 back in the day call behind the music that I. 0:29:04.080 --> 0:29:08.200 Just it's okay, yeah, we know that. 0:29:09.400 --> 0:29:13.840 And so all of these super successful people that you know, 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:17.520 everybody is inspired by, they have a story. Everybody that 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:19.840 is successful has been through these things. 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:20.120 You know. 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.800 Nobody just has this perfect story, you know, unless you 0:29:23.840 --> 0:29:27.520 know you are genetically and blessed. Genetically blessed. And what 0:29:27.560 --> 0:29:30.040 I mean by that is, you know, you're born into 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:34.080 being Michael Jackson's kids, or born into being Beyonce's kids 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:35.880 or something like that. But you know the rest of 0:29:35.960 --> 0:29:37.840 us have had to really work to get where we are. 0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:40.120 And you know, you're gonna go through some things, you 0:29:40.120 --> 0:29:42.240 know what I'm saying, And I feel like the more 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:45.240 that you go through it prepares you for the level 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:47.720 of success. You know that God is going to allow 0:29:47.760 --> 0:29:50.160 you to make it too. And I've been through even 0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:53.080 more things than those, you know, even as being successful. 0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:53.840 You know what I'm saying. 0:29:53.880 --> 0:29:56.920 I've had people that work for me to try to 0:29:56.920 --> 0:29:58.920 get my trade secrets, you know what I'm saying, And 0:29:59.000 --> 0:30:00.719 know that you know, they're just gonna try to open 0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:04.880 up their own restaurants, stealing reservations lists and menus, different 0:30:04.880 --> 0:30:05.720 things of that nature. 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:06.440 You know what I'm saying. 0:30:06.520 --> 0:30:09.680 So those things continue to happen now now as often, 0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:12.280 you know, because I truly have like a great team 0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:13.880 around me now, you know what I'm saying. 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:16.320 But that type of stuff is just a part of 0:30:16.360 --> 0:30:16.720 the game. 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:20.440 You know. In my younger years, it didn't feel well 0:30:20.560 --> 0:30:23.000 and I took some hits, and you know, I was 0:30:23.040 --> 0:30:26.280 discouraged and probably kind of went through some lightweight depressions 0:30:26.280 --> 0:30:28.720 and stuff like that, because after that newspaper thing, I 0:30:28.760 --> 0:30:30.360 really did not know what I was gonna do. I 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:34.520 was in that same girlfriend's boutique. My daughter was outside 0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:37.600 selling bottled waters. I was inside selling five dollars smoothies. 0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:39.960 And now I have a restaurant on that same street 0:30:40.040 --> 0:30:41.560 right down the street, you know what I'm saying. It 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:44.360 just really didn't know I had made some T shirts 0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:46.400 and selling those, you know what I mean. It just 0:30:46.960 --> 0:30:49.120 really did not know what I was going to do next. 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:51.240 And you know, the Nika time I had a house, 0:30:51.280 --> 0:30:54.280 I was flipping that seld and we ended up buying 0:30:54.280 --> 0:30:57.760 a party bus, and that that was the first business 0:30:57.760 --> 0:31:01.480 that I ever owned that made that grow over six figures, 0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:04.440 you know what I mean, party bus, And so it 0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:08.280 was called party bus kings based here in Atlanta. A 0:31:08.280 --> 0:31:10.000 lot of people kind of met me from that first 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:13.880 original business. But I always wanted to get back into 0:31:14.160 --> 0:31:16.440 you know, promoting or owning my own you. 0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:17.600 Know, lounge or something like that. 0:31:17.640 --> 0:31:20.640 So with that party bus company, I just started saving 0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:22.440 as much money as I possibly could. 0:31:22.880 --> 0:31:24.720 I went one whole year and I never. 0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:27.440 Bought a new nothing, a new shirt, a new pair 0:31:27.480 --> 0:31:29.720 of pants, a new pair of shoes. 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:31.320 I mean, I felt totally poor. 0:31:31.400 --> 0:31:32.560 You know how much did you say? 0:31:33.000 --> 0:31:34.400 I had a whole different Virginia. 0:31:34.880 --> 0:31:37.440 Probably that first year, I probably saved about forty thousand dollars, 0:31:38.160 --> 0:31:41.000 and so I had that. I stayed glueding to that 0:31:41.040 --> 0:31:43.120 party bus business for about two years. I used to 0:31:43.160 --> 0:31:46.600 drive the buses myself on the weekiands gave up a 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:49.000 lot of weekends to do that got to the point 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:54.239 I hated drunk people. But after that, you know, I 0:31:54.280 --> 0:31:57.320 was blessed enough to I had moved to right around 0:31:57.320 --> 0:32:00.080 the corner from here Arborn Avenue and Jesse Hill, and 0:32:00.120 --> 0:32:03.320 there was a little spot that was available that I 0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:06.400 eventually leased, and I turned that into the Hookah Hideaway. 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:09.800 So that was my first project here, and it was 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:12.080 a cornerstone of Atlanta. 0:32:12.160 --> 0:32:13.720 It was one of really one of the. 0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:16.720 First real after hours you know here in the city 0:32:16.760 --> 0:32:20.960 of Atlanta. And so I did Huka Hidaway. And while 0:32:21.000 --> 0:32:24.280 I did Huka Hideaway, I got a lot of success there, 0:32:24.280 --> 0:32:26.520 and I decided I wanted to do another location. I 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:30.120 ended up doing Posh Ultra Lounge and making experienced a 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:34.240 similar situation of backstabbers and things you knows nature uh 0:32:34.360 --> 0:32:39.320 huh again. But at the same time, I also was 0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:41.720 looking for a spot here in Atlanta. So I was 0:32:41.720 --> 0:32:45.000 looking for a location here in Atlanta. And when I 0:32:45.040 --> 0:32:48.800 first moved here, I was enamored by the street, Peter Street, 0:32:49.360 --> 0:32:52.200 because it was right there in Casterlebury Hill, and coming 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.080 from Nashville, I really wasn't used to seeing like a 0:32:54.080 --> 0:32:56.720 lot of black owned restaurants and bars right next to 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.400 each other. So this was a street of black owned 0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:02.440 restaurants and bars and that had good walk up traffic 0:33:02.480 --> 0:33:05.000 and things of that nature, and so I really wanted 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:06.880 to own something over there. So I went and looked 0:33:06.880 --> 0:33:11.480 for a spot over there. And while I was there, 0:33:11.600 --> 0:33:14.120 so I applied for a spot and a couple of 0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:16.640 days later I had a trip to Jamaica. So I 0:33:16.640 --> 0:33:19.680 went on this trip to Jamaica. Long story short. When 0:33:19.720 --> 0:33:23.440 I come back, I'm going through customs and a custom 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:26.520 officer comes up to me and kind of like grabs 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:27.680 me by the army was like are you mi? 0:33:27.760 --> 0:33:28.360 Shehall Dillard. 0:33:28.360 --> 0:33:31.240 I'm like yeah, And this was only maybe like my 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:33.680 second or third time even going out out the country. 0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:35.280 So I'm just like, what is this about? 0:33:35.480 --> 0:33:37.760 So anyway, it takes me to the back, tells me 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:41.360 there's a warrant from o arrest in Nashville, Tennessee. And 0:33:41.400 --> 0:33:42.680 so he's like, you know, do you know what this 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:44.840 can be about? And I'm just like no, not at all. 0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:47.360 I'm like, I mean, I did used to live in Nashville, Tennessee. 0:33:47.400 --> 0:33:50.280 And he's like, you know, well, there's this printing company 0:33:50.520 --> 0:33:53.920 that has a now so when this newspaper shut down, 0:33:53.960 --> 0:33:57.440 you know, they didn't put the last the money that 0:33:57.560 --> 0:34:00.200 was collected into my account, and so the check that 0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:02.480 I had wrote that printing company and ended up bouncing 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:05.120 at the time, I didn't have money to cover it. 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:07.680 That I des I just go on with life. I 0:34:07.800 --> 0:34:09.480 figure it's fine. But you know, white people they don't 0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:13.080 play upout they they had filed or warn't for me, 0:34:13.120 --> 0:34:15.279 and they was They was like this girls gonna We're 0:34:15.280 --> 0:34:18.799 gonna get her one day. So anyways, I ended up 0:34:18.800 --> 0:34:21.880 going to Clayton County Jail and I was there on 0:34:22.040 --> 0:34:25.399 no bond. They were waiting to see if Nashville wanted 0:34:25.440 --> 0:34:28.160 to come pick me up, and they said that they did, 0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:31.600 and so I stayed in that jail for about two 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:34.080 and a half weeks waiting on them to extradket me 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:37.000 to Nashville, Tennessee. So at the same time, I'm still 0:34:37.000 --> 0:34:38.880 trying to check on business affairs because mind you, I 0:34:39.239 --> 0:34:42.840 still down the Hookah hadaway at this time, I'm still 0:34:43.360 --> 0:34:46.120 in process of new and posh Ultra lounge and invested 0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:48.919 in that spot. And I've also, you know, had put 0:34:48.920 --> 0:34:52.200 in an application to get a spot on Peter Street. 0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:55.120 So I ended up calling that realtor one day. He 0:34:55.200 --> 0:34:57.640 has no idea I'm calling him from jail, and so 0:34:57.760 --> 0:34:59.279 he didn't even hear the story until I told it 0:34:59.360 --> 0:35:03.480 in an interview two chains as well. And so anyway, 0:35:03.480 --> 0:35:05.040 I called him and I'm like, hey, you know, I'm 0:35:05.080 --> 0:35:06.759 just calling a check on that spot. 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:08.520 You know, and he was just like, you know, well, 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:08.799 you know. 0:35:08.880 --> 0:35:11.560 Unfortunately that when they don't really want another lounge, you know, 0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:14.680 in that location. He was like, you know, but there's 0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:17.200 another location right down the street. He was like, you know, 0:35:17.280 --> 0:35:20.040 it's not really right there, you know, right by that 0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:22.440 other stuff that you wanted to be at. But he 0:35:22.560 --> 0:35:23.920 was like, you know, it's right down the street. It's 0:35:23.920 --> 0:35:25.560 a nice location. He was like, you know, and it's 0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:29.799 actually owned by a popular rapper. You know that's you know, 0:35:30.000 --> 0:35:32.520 from here in Atlanta. And you know, he said that 0:35:32.560 --> 0:35:34.640 he heard about you, he knows about the who the Hideaway, 0:35:35.400 --> 0:35:38.920 and he's interested in going into business and being business. 0:35:38.680 --> 0:35:41.319 Partners with you. And I was just like, I'm like, 0:35:41.440 --> 0:35:43.920 wait a minute, now, you know what I'm saying. I 0:35:44.080 --> 0:35:47.600 know that. And so I was just like, well, who 0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:47.920 is it? 0:35:48.040 --> 0:35:50.480 Cause you know, to me, just because you say it's 0:35:50.520 --> 0:35:52.120 a popular rapper, it doesn't mean I want to do 0:35:52.160 --> 0:35:54.600 business with him, because you know, some people aren't smart, 0:35:54.640 --> 0:35:56.240 they aren't good business people whatever. 0:35:56.840 --> 0:35:58.960 And so I'm like who is it? And he was 0:35:59.000 --> 0:36:02.200 like two chains? And I was like okay. 0:36:02.320 --> 0:36:04.120 You know, because when I had moved here, I really 0:36:04.160 --> 0:36:08.040 liked his music and I felt like he was intelligent, 0:36:08.160 --> 0:36:08.759 you know what I mean. 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:12.480 So I was just like, okay, how much the sounded that. 0:36:12.920 --> 0:36:14.040 This is the phone call from jail. 0:36:14.080 --> 0:36:16.720 I'm in jail, and so that's crazy. 0:36:16.760 --> 0:36:19.279 Shortly thereafter, it's time for me to go back up 0:36:19.280 --> 0:36:21.960 to my little cell, and I remember telling my salemate, 0:36:22.040 --> 0:36:24.480 who I'm cool with to this day, I was just 0:36:24.520 --> 0:36:29.400 like Grandma's to open up a spot with two And 0:36:29.440 --> 0:36:32.120 I know she probably didn't believe me because I'm Marvin's 0:36:32.160 --> 0:36:33.719 doing one of them, that I own a spot card 0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:35.840 the Hook Highway and all this, and you know, people 0:36:35.960 --> 0:36:36.520 be lying in. 0:36:36.560 --> 0:36:38.800 Jail, you know what I'm saying. 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:43.160 So anyways, I ended up being extra dighted. They picked 0:36:43.200 --> 0:36:45.680 me up like a couple of days later, give me 0:36:45.760 --> 0:36:48.319 to Nashville. Once I get to Nashville, all of the 0:36:48.440 --> 0:36:51.640 charges are mysteriously jobed dropped. So I just sat in 0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:54.360 this jail cell for two and a half weeks for nothing, 0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:58.640 after riding a paddy wagon like this, chained up at 0:36:58.840 --> 0:37:05.640 my arms and my to the floorboard and right and 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:07.920 so get up there. They dropped the charges and so 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:13.040 I immediately go back to Atlanta that same day, and 0:37:13.120 --> 0:37:16.719 two days later I met with two chains at so 0:37:16.760 --> 0:37:18.799 they had the bet awards. He flew back and the 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:22.120 following day we met at the Hookah Hideaway, and I 0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:24.720 remember like that whole night I couldn't even really like sleep, 0:37:25.160 --> 0:37:27.560 and I really just meant like starstruck or nothing like that. 0:37:27.640 --> 0:37:29.799 But I knew that like if we ended up doing 0:37:29.840 --> 0:37:32.200 this spot, then it would be like life changing for me, 0:37:32.320 --> 0:37:34.960 you know what I'm saying. And so I was already 0:37:35.000 --> 0:37:36.880 doing like really well for myself, but I knew that 0:37:36.920 --> 0:37:38.759 this would get me to, you know, that next level 0:37:38.800 --> 0:37:41.880 of success. 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Hiring Indeed is 0:40:47.000 --> 0:40:48.520 all you need and is so. 0:40:49.160 --> 0:40:51.759 I'm like, if you think it's too small. If you 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:53.880 think it's not you know, commercial enough, you know that. 0:40:54.280 --> 0:40:56.279 I so I just thought of my hand, well, I'm 0:40:56.280 --> 0:40:57.759 gonna just show them the numbers because we was. 0:40:57.960 --> 0:40:59.160 Moving at the trap. 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:00.879 Jump. 0:41:01.160 --> 0:41:03.160 And so anyway he comes in and we had just 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:06.600 immediately have a connection. A lot of people kind of 0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:08.320 say that like we acted like he actually caused me 0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:10.359 twin but like a lot of people kind of say 0:41:10.360 --> 0:41:11.400 that we acted like and stuff like that. 0:41:11.480 --> 0:41:13.040 We immediately had a connection. 0:41:13.400 --> 0:41:15.600 And it was like he was trying to sell hisself 0:41:15.640 --> 0:41:17.680 to me, like, yeah, so I got these rappers at 0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:22.200 the time, Fresh rest in Peace, he was alive, you know, 0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:24.160 young Dolf, a couple of other people. 0:41:24.239 --> 0:41:25.920 He was just like, yeah, I got this going on, 0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:27.880 that going on. You know, me and you together, you 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:28.840 know we're gonna And. 0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:30.799 So he basically just felt like, yeah, if you can 0:41:30.880 --> 0:41:33.920 do forty some thousand a week at this little. 0:41:33.719 --> 0:41:34.719 Spot, ain't no telling what. 0:41:35.040 --> 0:41:36.440 So you was doing forty thousand a week out the 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:39.040 hookah lounge after hookah, how how was you doing? 0:41:39.080 --> 0:41:39.120 That? 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:43.480 Was liquor or liquor and food and we were staying 0:41:43.520 --> 0:41:44.719 up on the six o'clock in the morning. 0:41:44.800 --> 0:41:46.360 We used to I mean it used to be like 0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:48.440 a street block party every single week. 0:41:49.160 --> 0:41:50.800 But what's I mean? This is the I feel like 0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:53.560 this is the the mecca of black business, right, But 0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:56.440 what is that process like to even get a lounge? Like? 0:41:56.600 --> 0:41:58.600 What are the things that somebody has to do in 0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:01.080 order to even the first thing that you need to do. 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:03.200 Is number one, you want to find a dope location. 0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:05.960 You know what I'm saying that I'm gonna have good 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:08.280 parking that you don't have to put a lot into 0:42:08.440 --> 0:42:09.680 depending upon your budget. 0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:11.360 You know. 0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:16.160 Secondly, you have to get a building permit to even 0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:18.560 do whatever construction or whatever you're gonna need to do. 0:42:18.760 --> 0:42:21.160 You've got to get your liquor license. You've got to 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:24.640 get your food permit. You have to get a business license, 0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:30.640 putting your menu together, staffing funding, you know, all of 0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:32.640 those things. So it's a lot that comes into it. 0:42:33.040 --> 0:42:35.280 And Who Can hide Away is where I really learned 0:42:35.440 --> 0:42:36.880 the tricks of the trade. I would say, who Can 0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:40.000 hide Away? And then that first Escobar because that first 0:42:40.160 --> 0:42:44.160 Escobar was my real first restaurant, and so when we 0:42:44.280 --> 0:42:47.920 first opened, I mean it was super packed and a 0:42:48.000 --> 0:42:50.320 lot of it based off of his name, and you know, 0:42:50.560 --> 0:42:54.440 of course, he doesn't know anything about the restaurant industry 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:56.160 at all, you know, even still to this day, Like 0:42:56.200 --> 0:42:57.759 he asked me the other day, what was a bar back? 0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:02.200 And he says, you know, he gives me my credit. 0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:03.520 That says, you know, I wouldn't have none of this 0:43:03.560 --> 0:43:05.120 shit if it wasn't for you, you know what I'm saying. 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:08.120 He knows I could do this without him, you know 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:11.239 what I mean. You know, his job is to be 0:43:11.360 --> 0:43:13.480 two chains and to promote you know, heavily. 0:43:13.600 --> 0:43:14.800 You know what we have going on. 0:43:16.040 --> 0:43:19.880 But we just came in and just really worked well together. 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:24.000 The trust is there, the respect is there. And I 0:43:24.400 --> 0:43:26.520 had the time to be able to really learn the 0:43:26.600 --> 0:43:29.000 restaurant industry, to learn how to put a good team together, 0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:32.640 to learn how to value people. Just learning so many things, 0:43:32.719 --> 0:43:34.520 you know what I mean, and taking a lot of 0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:36.320 the things that I had learned, a lot of mistakes 0:43:36.360 --> 0:43:39.080 that I had learned in some of those former businesses, 0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:41.120 you know, and put those into what I have today. 0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:44.439 And so fast forward, like you guys said, we've got 0:43:45.239 --> 0:43:48.520 the two Escobar locations. We're about to do Esco Seafood 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:50.799 on Edge with that right around the corner from here, 0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:54.360 I ended up deciding to close who can hideaway voluntarily? 0:43:54.440 --> 0:43:56.279 So I had a five year lease there and I 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:58.320 decided not to renew my lease and just closed that 0:43:58.360 --> 0:43:59.920 spot for several different reasons. 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:01.840 Number One, the area. 0:44:01.719 --> 0:44:03.680 Had a lot of crime. There was a lot of 0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:07.840 crime in that area. It got to the point we 0:44:08.000 --> 0:44:11.239 were just getting such big crowds of people. It kind 0:44:11.239 --> 0:44:15.000 of scared me, you know what I'm saying, especially in 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:16.240 that crime infested area. 0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:17.800 The spot was really small. 0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:21.440 I had already talked him into doing this spot members only, 0:44:21.480 --> 0:44:23.680 which I knew I wanted to be after hours as well, 0:44:23.719 --> 0:44:25.600 and I felt like would replaced that on more of 0:44:25.640 --> 0:44:28.320 an upscale level. And just you know, sometimes you have 0:44:28.400 --> 0:44:29.879 to know when the gig is up and when it's 0:44:29.880 --> 0:44:31.959 time to walk away from something, you know what I'm saying. 0:44:32.080 --> 0:44:35.880 So but yeah, so let me ask you this. 0:44:36.040 --> 0:44:38.440 So we in the day and age of COVID nineteen, 0:44:38.520 --> 0:44:40.960 which you're a serial entrepreneur, but all your business is 0:44:41.000 --> 0:44:43.200 are brick and mortar. Atlanta is different from everywhere else 0:44:43.239 --> 0:44:45.879 in the country because it's still open and nowhere else 0:44:46.000 --> 0:44:48.239 is really open. It's kind of amazing if you think 0:44:48.280 --> 0:44:52.360 about it. But how have you been able to manage 0:44:52.480 --> 0:44:55.000 during COVID like you got any of right, because honestly, 0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:57.720 what I heard from party promoters is that it's actually 0:44:57.880 --> 0:44:59.960 up in like Atlanta, like right, Like the revenue was 0:45:00.120 --> 0:45:02.160 up because everybody's coming from all over the country to 0:45:02.200 --> 0:45:02.720 go party. 0:45:03.360 --> 0:45:06.600 And that is exactly what's happening. We're you know, I 0:45:07.239 --> 0:45:10.080 probably travel every two weeks, you know, so during this 0:45:10.280 --> 0:45:13.040 I've been to Cabo, I've been to Toulone, I've been 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:15.759 to I just got back yesterday from a trip from 0:45:16.000 --> 0:45:20.640 La and Vegas, and there's no city right now like Atlanta. 0:45:20.800 --> 0:45:23.399 You know, you wouldn't even think we was going through 0:45:23.400 --> 0:45:27.120 a pandemic here. Yeah, see nothing, y'all have my mask, 0:45:28.840 --> 0:45:31.120 but yeah, you know it. 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:34.120 It makes Atlanta a hot spot. Like I get a 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:36.520 bunch of friends coming in from Philly tomorrow. So it 0:45:36.680 --> 0:45:39.480 was crazy because when we shut down, you know, I 0:45:39.640 --> 0:45:41.480 was of course very scared and nervous. You know, I 0:45:41.520 --> 0:45:44.480 had never been in a situation where my businesses could 0:45:44.480 --> 0:45:48.160 shut down from anything other than you know, lack of 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:51.080 whatever on my behalf, you know what I'm saying. So 0:45:51.239 --> 0:45:53.840 to just be told that and then you don't know 0:45:53.880 --> 0:45:56.840 when you can open a Union. It just was a 0:45:57.040 --> 0:45:59.080 very very scary time. And so then when the governor 0:45:59.120 --> 0:46:02.880 allowed us to open, it was just crazy because I 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:04.600 felt like it was going to be slow, you know, 0:46:04.640 --> 0:46:07.200 I feel like it would be like a slow start, 0:46:07.280 --> 0:46:10.839 you know what I'm saying. But literally, our cells at 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:15.080 every location are up by about thirty five to that 0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:17.640 Escobar Downtown location I'm talking about. When we closed, we 0:46:17.719 --> 0:46:19.239 were doing eighty thousand a week. We're doing like one 0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:22.320 hundred and forty thousand a week. Now. We've got so 0:46:22.480 --> 0:46:24.200 many out of a lot of it is out of 0:46:24.280 --> 0:46:25.880 town or you got a lot of Philly, a lot 0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:28.760 of Detroit, a lot of people from Miami are starting 0:46:28.760 --> 0:46:29.080 to come up. 0:46:29.120 --> 0:46:31.880 Miami currently has a curfew now they got to go 0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:32.800 to bed at eight pm. 0:46:33.640 --> 0:46:34.720 Really, that's crazy. 0:46:35.320 --> 0:46:40.480 Yeah, So it's people in Atlanta are extremely blessed. You're 0:46:40.480 --> 0:46:44.000 seeing people buying g wagons every other day, you know, 0:46:45.239 --> 0:46:46.759 are jugging, they getting these. 0:46:46.719 --> 0:46:49.879 People, They're getting these fraudulent SBA Long. Yes, the fact 0:46:51.360 --> 0:46:53.120 stimulating this city. 0:46:53.360 --> 0:46:56.359 You know, I think Atlanta is going to be one 0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:58.800 of the only cities that's not gonna, you know, have 0:46:58.960 --> 0:47:02.279 any you know issues, you know, come next year, because 0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:04.400 a lot of these cities are going to be broke, 0:47:04.480 --> 0:47:06.920 you know, next year because a lot of these cities, 0:47:07.000 --> 0:47:09.440 like one of the reasons why Governor Kemp said that 0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:11.920 he opened the state up is because we have so 0:47:12.160 --> 0:47:14.920 many business owners here, and the business owners here pay 0:47:14.960 --> 0:47:17.400 so many so much in taxes, you know, like I 0:47:17.480 --> 0:47:19.760 have to pay back all of the taxes from everything 0:47:19.840 --> 0:47:23.360 that we sell. Then we have three percent alcohol taxes 0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:25.879 that we have to pay, so you know, they taxing. 0:47:25.640 --> 0:47:26.680 Us twice, you know what I mean. 0:47:26.800 --> 0:47:29.560 So for restaurants and lounges not to be open, and 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:31.480 that's where a lot of the money is coming from, 0:47:31.560 --> 0:47:33.840 to pay the roles, to pay the teachers, you know 0:47:33.880 --> 0:47:35.400 what I mean, and things of that nature. You know, 0:47:35.520 --> 0:47:37.880 that's really going to hurt a lot of these other cities. 0:47:37.960 --> 0:47:40.239 So it is, really, it is. 0:47:40.880 --> 0:47:44.719 It's just amazing that like this one little city in 0:47:44.800 --> 0:47:47.600 the country. Now I think Houston is also similar, but 0:47:47.800 --> 0:47:50.080 not as many people are traveling to Houston, you know 0:47:50.120 --> 0:47:52.800 what I mean, because Atlanta is already a place that 0:47:52.880 --> 0:47:54.600 a lot of people be wanting to come to anyway, 0:47:54.640 --> 0:47:55.920 you know what I mean. And then so just the 0:47:56.000 --> 0:47:57.800 fact that we're open like this, and then you have 0:47:58.000 --> 0:48:01.440 so many choices of rest staurants and lounges and things 0:48:01.520 --> 0:48:04.719 like that to go to. We have definitely felt the 0:48:04.840 --> 0:48:07.160 effect of being one of the only cities in the 0:48:07.239 --> 0:48:08.680 country country that's open. 0:48:08.719 --> 0:48:10.200 I feel like when when people watch the news and 0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:12.239 they see Texas the numbers going up, it kind of like, 0:48:12.600 --> 0:48:14.320 we're not going to go to Houston. I have a 0:48:14.400 --> 0:48:16.160 question about this though, because this is a unique place. 0:48:16.200 --> 0:48:20.480 Members only. It's here, but above us is Remedy Sweet Salon. 0:48:20.920 --> 0:48:22.600 Remedy Salon se Sweets. 0:48:23.040 --> 0:48:25.239 So when you were looking for a property, were you 0:48:25.400 --> 0:48:28.400 looking for a multi level or a mixed use property 0:48:28.480 --> 0:48:29.480 to have this vision come to. 0:48:29.560 --> 0:48:32.200 Similar I was only looking for Remedy Salon Sweets just 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:34.840 to do on my own. I just felt that was 0:48:34.880 --> 0:48:38.279 an easy business model. You're basically like a landlord with that. 0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:41.200 So I have twenty two suites up there, and you know, 0:48:41.280 --> 0:48:46.000 you've got stylists, estheticians, last texts, different things of that nature, 0:48:46.000 --> 0:48:48.480 and they rent out their own suite and they pain rent, 0:48:48.560 --> 0:48:50.640 you know, once a week. And so I was only 0:48:50.680 --> 0:48:52.880 looking for that. And then that same landlord that I 0:48:52.960 --> 0:48:54.960 was on the phone with in jail, he was the 0:48:55.040 --> 0:48:57.200 one that found me that, and then he was like, 0:48:57.480 --> 0:48:59.239 let me show you this spot downstairs. 0:48:59.280 --> 0:49:01.160 You know you may like this. And you know I 0:49:01.280 --> 0:49:02.840 came down here and saw this, and I was just 0:49:03.000 --> 0:49:04.080 like this might be cool. 0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:04.440 You know. 0:49:05.000 --> 0:49:07.240 I hadn't done another lounge in like two years. 0:49:07.040 --> 0:49:10.360 And so that was how I so a couple of questions. 0:49:11.320 --> 0:49:14.920 The nail salon business is a really big business and 0:49:15.320 --> 0:49:18.400 it's been a lot of sweet sweets. 0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:21.000 Yeah, so it's different. So like how it's set up 0:49:21.120 --> 0:49:23.320 is like because I obviously I have a wife and 0:49:23.400 --> 0:49:25.279 a daughter. Is like, there's a bunch of suites that 0:49:25.400 --> 0:49:28.560 have different businesses inside that pay you rent, should have 0:49:28.719 --> 0:49:31.360 their business, the landlord, a bunch of businesses. 0:49:31.440 --> 0:49:34.000 But it's sor right, But it's what exactly is is 0:49:34.080 --> 0:49:35.040 nail salon. 0:49:35.200 --> 0:49:40.120 Is a barbers slash texts instetisician just everything. 0:49:42.040 --> 0:49:42.920 Have a barber shopping there. 0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:47.200 The last how big? How big is the space as. 0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:49.759 Big as this spot is the exact same spot this spot, 0:49:49.880 --> 0:49:51.800 so about thirty four hundred square. 0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:57.520 Feet Okay, So like just like there's a bunch of yeah, okay, 0:49:57.960 --> 0:49:59.640 so that's an interesting model. 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:01.400 Thinking they have that in New York. 0:50:01.520 --> 0:50:04.200 Yeah, yeah they do, they do. Yeah, I was gonna 0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:05.760 say the last check thing is something that's. 0:50:05.640 --> 0:50:08.600 Well, the last chech thing is is is a pandemic 0:50:08.640 --> 0:50:12.600 within itself. Theyre going too far with that, then theyre 0:50:12.600 --> 0:50:16.880 going to business thought mank on their eyes and all that. 0:50:17.160 --> 0:50:19.520 But even with okay, all of that stuff is still 0:50:19.560 --> 0:50:22.439 service based businesses where it's like people, especially black people, 0:50:22.840 --> 0:50:24.680 they get their nails done, they get their eyelashes done, 0:50:24.719 --> 0:50:26.800 they get their haircuts, stuff like that. And for a 0:50:26.880 --> 0:50:30.719 long time, especially the nail industry is run by people 0:50:30.800 --> 0:50:33.279 that's not black, and that's been a big thing. So 0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:35.719 was that part of your decision making, Like you knew 0:50:35.800 --> 0:50:37.719 that you know there was a need for it, and 0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:40.520 did you think being a black business owner did that 0:50:40.600 --> 0:50:42.200 come into play, Like, you know, I might as well 0:50:42.239 --> 0:50:45.200 do it. They might support me more than the alternative. 0:50:46.520 --> 0:50:49.520 The beauty industry is very popular here, so it was 0:50:49.640 --> 0:50:51.200 kind of like a no brainer to me. I was 0:50:51.239 --> 0:50:54.400 really just looking for like some good daytime money that 0:50:54.440 --> 0:50:57.000 would be headache for it, because doing the restaurants is 0:50:57.120 --> 0:51:00.160 very stressful. It's a lot of details. You know, it's 0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:03.040 one of the hardest industries to be in. There's a 0:51:03.080 --> 0:51:04.800 lot of people. You know, your money goes through so 0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:08.279 many hands before it gets to yours. So you've got 0:51:08.320 --> 0:51:11.200 a lot of room for theft there. And there's just 0:51:11.280 --> 0:51:13.239 so many different things you know, that you have to 0:51:13.440 --> 0:51:15.840 you know, like with these restaurants, I literally I probably 0:51:15.840 --> 0:51:18.719 get about two hundred emails a day. We got group me, 0:51:20.920 --> 0:51:22.719 like in this group me right now. I've only been 0:51:22.800 --> 0:51:25.800 sitting here with you guys for this little short period 0:51:25.840 --> 0:51:29.080 of time and I probably have a million messages. 0:51:29.239 --> 0:51:31.480 As you see, that's for the restaurant. 0:51:31.560 --> 0:51:33.680 These are all for the restaurants. Only one. It's this 0:51:33.800 --> 0:51:36.279 one little Remedy Saligne, you know what I'm saying. 0:51:36.440 --> 0:51:41.040 So I wanted something that would be some good headache 0:51:41.160 --> 0:51:44.200 free and that girl that manages Remedy Salion Suite, she 0:51:44.400 --> 0:51:48.200 rarely ever caused me, but some good little headache free money. 0:51:48.239 --> 0:51:50.319 I knew that it would be successful because like also, 0:51:50.480 --> 0:51:52.200 like I said, I do those business consultations, So I 0:51:52.280 --> 0:51:55.360 got a lot of people that I've helped do businesses 0:51:55.400 --> 0:51:56.840 and things of that nature. And so a lot of 0:51:56.880 --> 0:51:58.480 the girls that came there, they said they wanted to 0:51:58.560 --> 0:52:00.520 be there so they can kind of be around me. 0:52:00.640 --> 0:52:04.640 I do free business consultations for the sweet owners to help. 0:52:04.480 --> 0:52:05.719 Them improve their businesses. 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.440 But you know, we live in a city where in 0:52:09.520 --> 0:52:12.280 this city, you know, people are really interested in their appearance. 0:52:12.400 --> 0:52:14.680 You know, I'm wanting to things of that next. 0:52:16.160 --> 0:52:18.760 And salon suites have become more and more popular because 0:52:18.760 --> 0:52:21.279 people wanted to get around the salon away from the 0:52:21.320 --> 0:52:24.360 salon model. Like me, Like when I get my hair braided, 0:52:24.400 --> 0:52:26.560 the girl actually comes to my to my house. But 0:52:26.719 --> 0:52:29.320 before I was able to find somebody that would do that. 0:52:29.840 --> 0:52:31.640 I love going to a salon suite because I don't 0:52:31.680 --> 0:52:32.960 like talking to a lot of people when I go 0:52:33.040 --> 0:52:35.680 to the salon, you know, and especially now that I'm 0:52:35.719 --> 0:52:37.319 more well known, you know, people are gonna be asking me. 0:52:37.280 --> 0:52:39.600 A bunch of questions and all of this stuff. 0:52:39.680 --> 0:52:42.600 And then like during these times of COVID, people would 0:52:42.680 --> 0:52:45.200 rather get those services. Then in a salon swite, it's 0:52:45.280 --> 0:52:47.600 just you and that one person versus being around a 0:52:47.640 --> 0:52:49.320 bunch of people in a busy salon. 0:52:49.400 --> 0:52:50.759 Now I'm thinking about it, like you go to one, 0:52:50.840 --> 0:52:53.080 you actually go to a salon suitek regular because Buzz 0:52:53.160 --> 0:52:54.000 has a barbershop, but. 0:52:55.800 --> 0:52:57.680 Because you go to the barbershop on a Saturday and 0:52:57.760 --> 0:52:59.920 it's like a bunch of random people talking about non 0:53:00.000 --> 0:53:03.440 since they're lying and stuff. So me, it's just like 0:53:03.480 --> 0:53:05.120 I don't got time to be waiting, Like you know 0:53:05.160 --> 0:53:07.479 what I'm saying. Me and my barbera shout out the bubs. 0:53:07.480 --> 0:53:09.960 We got a special relationship. I go to every Thursday, 0:53:10.640 --> 0:53:13.040 nine o'clock in the morning, Give me done, and I'm out, 0:53:13.120 --> 0:53:14.480 like you know what I'm saying. So that's actually but 0:53:14.520 --> 0:53:17.160 it's COVID is actually interesting too because it's like, now 0:53:17.960 --> 0:53:21.320 from a safety standpoint, it's a lot safer to just 0:53:21.400 --> 0:53:23.439 be you and the person that you're dealing with, whether 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:27.359 it's nails, whatever, as opposed to like five hundred people 0:53:27.560 --> 0:53:29.200 just like just waiting. Well, let me ask you this 0:53:29.239 --> 0:53:31.760 as far as the clubs and the lounges, because Atlanta 0:53:31.800 --> 0:53:33.440 has a bunch of clubs and lounges, and I always 0:53:33.480 --> 0:53:37.279 wonder what makes one club popular over the other club right, 0:53:37.400 --> 0:53:40.319 because it's like so many clubs open and close all 0:53:40.360 --> 0:53:44.239 the time. Obviously, you know it's marketing and you have 0:53:44.320 --> 0:53:46.840 a big name attached to it with change, But in 0:53:46.920 --> 0:53:49.680 your opinion as a club owner, as a lounge owner, 0:53:50.200 --> 0:53:55.399 what separates the elite clubs lounges from the ones that's 0:53:55.440 --> 0:53:56.000 just struggling. 0:53:57.440 --> 0:53:59.319 I think it is number one. 0:53:59.480 --> 0:54:03.960 Like so, like mine are a little bit different, even 0:54:03.960 --> 0:54:05.480 though we have the association with chains. 0:54:05.800 --> 0:54:08.400 Probably that the only one that that really makes a 0:54:08.440 --> 0:54:10.560 difference is that Escobar Downtown location. 0:54:11.520 --> 0:54:13.719 But like I don't base mine off of celebrities and 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:15.440 different things of that nature. So, like you know, you 0:54:15.560 --> 0:54:18.319 have a lot of these clubs that their main thing 0:54:18.480 --> 0:54:21.080 is they have to book artists, you know what I'm saying. 0:54:21.239 --> 0:54:22.960 I never get into that type of stuff. 0:54:23.400 --> 0:54:23.560 You know. 0:54:23.680 --> 0:54:26.160 I like to provide a good vibe, a good atmosphere, 0:54:26.360 --> 0:54:28.400 in good food, you know, at my establishment. 0:54:28.520 --> 0:54:31.719 So mine are more lounge based versus club based. 0:54:31.760 --> 0:54:31.920 You know. 0:54:32.000 --> 0:54:34.560 With the clubs, a lot of times they only open 0:54:34.640 --> 0:54:36.279 two three days a week, you know, and you can't 0:54:36.320 --> 0:54:38.239 afford to have no off night, you know what I'm saying. 0:54:38.280 --> 0:54:39.759 But when you up at seven days a week, you 0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:41.920 can afford for one or two nights to be slower, 0:54:42.000 --> 0:54:46.000 you know what I'm saying. So from my spots, people 0:54:46.120 --> 0:54:48.440 primarily come for the food and they come for the vibe. 0:54:48.920 --> 0:54:51.200 Yeah, I got it. I mean, speaking of the Basketball lounge, 0:54:51.200 --> 0:54:53.600 it's like one of the craziest stories part of your 0:54:53.640 --> 0:54:57.120 stories that I thought was like, Uh, the Basketball family 0:54:57.320 --> 0:55:00.840 is trying to fight you for the name. Huh, Like 0:55:00.880 --> 0:55:01.759 what is that even about? 0:55:01.840 --> 0:55:02.200 Crazy? 0:55:03.640 --> 0:55:06.239 And I think that happened during the pandemic. We were 0:55:06.560 --> 0:55:08.839 on TMZ a lot. We were in the Shaved Room 0:55:08.880 --> 0:55:11.680 a lot. The moment that we decided to open up 0:55:11.680 --> 0:55:14.360 our lounge to open Escobar back up. 0:55:14.480 --> 0:55:15.520 It was a really big deal. 0:55:16.480 --> 0:55:18.799 Two Chains got drugged for it, you know what I mean, 0:55:19.440 --> 0:55:22.200 just like because you know, a lot of black people 0:55:22.239 --> 0:55:23.080 were kind of like, you know. 0:55:23.640 --> 0:55:25.839 Oh, you know, they shouldn't be letting y'all open so soon, 0:55:25.920 --> 0:55:27.879 you know what I'm saying, like they trying to kill 0:55:27.920 --> 0:55:31.359 the black people. He only kimp only doing it because 0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:32.560 he wanted to kill the black people. 0:55:32.800 --> 0:55:35.839 And then you know, we had our mayor shout out 0:55:35.880 --> 0:55:38.040 to our mayor, Keisha Lance Slots. 0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:41.040 Who was very opposed, you know, to the businesses opening. 0:55:41.160 --> 0:55:43.680 She actually contacted us and asked us not to open. 0:55:43.840 --> 0:55:46.080 And you know, so we had already made a decision 0:55:46.120 --> 0:55:48.239 to open, and that was on the Shaved Room. Two 0:55:48.320 --> 0:55:50.800 Chains got a lot of shade for that, and so 0:55:50.880 --> 0:55:52.960 then we decided not to open. We ended up feeding 0:55:52.960 --> 0:55:55.520 the homeless, using the restaurant to feed the homeless for 0:55:55.560 --> 0:55:57.440 a couple of weeks and then we opened back up, 0:55:57.520 --> 0:56:01.160 and so all of this stuff was just detailed, you know, 0:56:01.480 --> 0:56:04.880 on Shade Room and on TMZ, and I think that 0:56:05.000 --> 0:56:07.560 that's what got the attention of the Escobar family. 0:56:07.880 --> 0:56:10.240 And I just think they kind of fishing for something. 0:56:10.680 --> 0:56:13.120 Yeah, I read it. I'm like his brother, like what 0:56:13.520 --> 0:56:14.200 this is crazy? 0:56:15.800 --> 0:56:20.520 Apparently, I ain't care. I just went to old Mansion. 0:56:21.440 --> 0:56:24.880 The irony of it, that. 0:56:26.320 --> 0:56:28.759 Article had came out that Friday. I was into loan 0:56:28.880 --> 0:56:31.040 that Monday at this man mansion, kicking it. 0:56:32.360 --> 0:56:33.680 This is a general right here. 0:56:35.440 --> 0:56:37.600 So as far as your business model, like you got 0:56:38.000 --> 0:56:41.000 a bunch of different businesses, do you look to say, Okay, 0:56:41.160 --> 0:56:43.520 I'm just I'm good at this, so let's just open 0:56:43.640 --> 0:56:46.319 more lounges, more restaurants, or like, what's your what's your 0:56:46.360 --> 0:56:49.040 strategy to like when you keep opening new businesses? 0:56:49.120 --> 0:56:50.440 Is it kind of like just piggyback off. 0:56:51.200 --> 0:56:53.160 I feel like I have the blueprint down and I 0:56:53.239 --> 0:56:55.120 can continue to do this, you know, as long as 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:58.319 I pick the right locations. I just feel like it's 0:56:58.400 --> 0:57:02.400 like no stopping me, you know what I mean. Like 0:57:02.440 --> 0:57:04.960 because so like, for example, I had originally wanted to 0:57:06.560 --> 0:57:09.000 expand into like the South Florida area, and I'm glad 0:57:09.000 --> 0:57:10.960 that I didn't because now like this is a good 0:57:11.000 --> 0:57:12.960 time to like kind of like look at this pandemic 0:57:13.040 --> 0:57:15.160 and see how various cities you know, are operating. So 0:57:15.280 --> 0:57:17.240 now for me, I would expand to like a Houston 0:57:17.360 --> 0:57:18.760 or something like that. So like if something like this 0:57:18.920 --> 0:57:21.320 ever happened again, you know, I know. 0:57:21.840 --> 0:57:26.080 Like how to move. So I mean, prior you said 0:57:26.200 --> 0:57:29.360 or previously you said that the restaurant businesses a headache 0:57:29.360 --> 0:57:32.200 in itself, So then why over more restaurants? 0:57:32.240 --> 0:57:32.840 Because I love it. 0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:38.439 I make great money, really really good money, more money 0:57:38.480 --> 0:57:40.040 than I ever thought I would make in life. I 0:57:40.240 --> 0:57:42.919 make with most people make in a year in one week, 0:57:43.080 --> 0:57:45.040 you know what I'm saying. So when you're doing something 0:57:45.160 --> 0:57:48.160 like that, you can't help but to continue doing it. 0:57:49.120 --> 0:57:51.640 I continue to find good people and good help. I've 0:57:51.720 --> 0:57:56.000 turned my businesses into a full fledged company, Dealert Hospitality Group. 0:57:56.840 --> 0:57:59.160 I continue to learn how to do things properly in 0:57:59.240 --> 0:58:03.640 the right way, to avoid lawsuits and different things of 0:58:03.720 --> 0:58:06.320 that nature. And I just feel like as long as 0:58:06.360 --> 0:58:08.440 that I have help and I have different people in 0:58:08.480 --> 0:58:11.640 different positions, like I said, I go out of town 0:58:11.720 --> 0:58:14.200 every two weeks, you know what I mean. So, and 0:58:14.320 --> 0:58:15.920 I'm opening three businesses. 0:58:15.520 --> 0:58:17.640 At the same So what's the deal of hospitality group? 0:58:17.760 --> 0:58:18.760 I saw the T shirt. 0:58:18.840 --> 0:58:21.440 Yeah, so that's my hospitality group that pretty much houses 0:58:21.640 --> 0:58:25.920 all of the restaurants. So I have a corporate office. Well, 0:58:26.040 --> 0:58:30.240 shout out to my videographer. She's one of the individuals. 0:58:30.280 --> 0:58:34.120 They are my director of operations who's basically right up 0:58:34.200 --> 0:58:38.120 under me, so he manages the he so the gms, 0:58:38.280 --> 0:58:39.160 they manage. 0:58:38.880 --> 0:58:40.800 The actual restaurant. They manage all of the. 0:58:40.800 --> 0:58:45.600 Employees in the restaurant. My director of operations, he manages 0:58:45.680 --> 0:58:48.720 the GMS, and I managed the director of operations. Some 0:58:48.840 --> 0:58:50.480 of the gms don't even have my telephone number. 0:58:50.520 --> 0:58:52.920 It's interesting because I feel like you're a very interesting 0:58:53.000 --> 0:58:55.640 person because you have a street side, but you also 0:58:55.760 --> 0:58:57.320 have a corporate side as well. Like you went to 0:58:57.360 --> 0:58:59.920 one of the best colleges in America and you actually 0:59:00.160 --> 0:59:04.200 were financial advisor, so obviously you have business like not 0:59:04.320 --> 0:59:07.280 only just street business, but like general business. But then 0:59:07.400 --> 0:59:09.880 you know, you obviously were in the street as well 0:59:09.960 --> 0:59:12.040 for a certain period of time. So be like your 0:59:12.080 --> 0:59:14.000 business minde as you just broke down. I don't really 0:59:14.080 --> 0:59:17.840 think that there's probably too many restaurant tours or club 0:59:17.880 --> 0:59:20.080 owners or promoters or whatever that actually have like a 0:59:20.400 --> 0:59:24.080 board of directors, like like a set corporate instructure like this. 0:59:24.600 --> 0:59:25.280 The white ones. 0:59:25.400 --> 0:59:27.400 But that's what I'm saying. As far as like I mean, 0:59:27.960 --> 0:59:29.320 and a lot of you know, the black ones. 0:59:29.120 --> 0:59:30.920 They really don't want to pay the money, you know 0:59:30.960 --> 0:59:33.439 what I'm saying. Like I make about eighty thousand dollars 0:59:33.480 --> 0:59:35.600 a week. I could make one hundred dollars thousand dollars 0:59:35.640 --> 0:59:37.439 a week, but guess what, I rather take that eighty 0:59:37.520 --> 0:59:39.160 and have me a life to go live. 0:59:39.040 --> 0:59:42.760 You know what I'm saying. And I enjoy providing opportunities 0:59:42.800 --> 0:59:43.440 for other people. 0:59:44.120 --> 0:59:46.000 So was that something that you came in the game 0:59:46.080 --> 0:59:48.560 right away with that business mindset like, Okay, I'm gonna 0:59:48.560 --> 0:59:49.360 have this structure. 0:59:49.680 --> 0:59:49.919 Yeah. 0:59:50.280 --> 0:59:52.360 I always knew that I wanted to once stand who 0:59:52.400 --> 0:59:54.200 could have the way one was successful. I knew that 0:59:54.200 --> 0:59:56.080 I wanted to do more, and I knew that I 0:59:56.080 --> 0:59:59.040 would need more people to help me, and so I 0:59:59.240 --> 1:00:02.200 researched that and found out what positions I would need. 1:00:02.760 --> 1:00:05.320 What's the name of them with their job description is 1:00:06.000 --> 1:00:08.400 and just as I started making more and more money, 1:00:08.920 --> 1:00:11.920 I started replacing myself in different areas because guess what, 1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:13.960 Once upon a time, I was doing all of this 1:00:14.040 --> 1:00:15.760 stuff on my own my phone. 1:00:15.840 --> 1:00:16.840 You see, my phone ain't run. 1:00:16.920 --> 1:00:18.919 I want since open here because that's what don't Nobody 1:00:18.960 --> 1:00:21.600 had my telephone number, so that's the only way they 1:00:21.600 --> 1:00:23.920 can reach me is that group me or email. But 1:00:24.480 --> 1:00:26.680 I was just having this conversation with my girlfriend because 1:00:27.600 --> 1:00:29.400 I had seen y'all standing outside and I was like, 1:00:29.520 --> 1:00:29.840 is that them? 1:00:29.880 --> 1:00:31.160 I was like, why are they standing outside? 1:00:31.160 --> 1:00:31.320 Way? 1:00:31.320 --> 1:00:33.680 Ain't nobody helped them? And so I'm just like, it's 1:00:33.760 --> 1:00:35.360 more there, And so I was just like I was 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:36.920 on her. I was like, I was like, dang, I 1:00:37.000 --> 1:00:38.640 wish I had more numbers. She was like, baby, you 1:00:38.680 --> 1:00:42.320 ain't getting mom got my telephone numbers. 1:00:43.040 --> 1:00:46.240 But yeah, but if that wasn't the case, I wouldn't 1:00:46.240 --> 1:00:48.000 be able to do things like do these interviews. I 1:00:48.000 --> 1:00:50.200 wouldn't be able to do things like do business consultations. 1:00:50.200 --> 1:00:51.520 I wouldn't be able to be a mother. 1:00:51.440 --> 1:00:52.040 To my daughter. 1:00:52.160 --> 1:00:54.880 You know, I wouldn't be able to be in relationships 1:00:54.920 --> 1:00:58.439 and not be stressed free. But because my phone would 1:00:58.440 --> 1:01:01.120 be ringing off the hook with every issue and problem. 1:01:01.360 --> 1:01:04.240 I think it's important to highlight, especially for black businesses, 1:01:04.240 --> 1:01:07.880 because they said, like COVID nineteen has wiped out fifty 1:01:07.920 --> 1:01:11.640 percent of black businesses across America. It's like a economic 1:01:11.760 --> 1:01:13.600 crisis and a lot of them with brick and mortars. 1:01:13.640 --> 1:01:15.720 But a reason why I think a lot of businesses fail. 1:01:15.760 --> 1:01:17.920 It's a variet of different reasons, but a lot of 1:01:17.960 --> 1:01:19.920 times there's a difference between having a hustle and having 1:01:19.960 --> 1:01:22.080 a business. And it's like you're hustling, you don't really 1:01:22.120 --> 1:01:25.360 have systems in place, and I feel like, you know, 1:01:25.960 --> 1:01:28.520 you like kind of breaking that down explaining that can 1:01:28.760 --> 1:01:31.000 kind of give people some idea that you can't just 1:01:31.080 --> 1:01:33.240 do everything yourself, like you can't be the rest of 1:01:33.280 --> 1:01:35.760 our owner and then wipe the tables and then fry 1:01:35.840 --> 1:01:37.440 the fish, like you know, at first, you gotta do 1:01:37.480 --> 1:01:40.000 what you gotta do. But it's important to reinvest in 1:01:40.080 --> 1:01:42.320 your business. And I'm pretty sure that's one of the 1:01:42.360 --> 1:01:46.200 reasons why your businesses have been successful. It's not just 1:01:46.360 --> 1:01:48.160 because like you said, you know, it's popping and you 1:01:48.240 --> 1:01:50.600 got you know, two chains and you've got the buzz, 1:01:50.680 --> 1:01:54.200 but you got the business structure. Business structure down. So 1:01:54.280 --> 1:01:56.920 can you just kind of just tell people how important 1:01:56.960 --> 1:01:58.160 that is, because, like I said, there's a lot of 1:01:58.240 --> 1:01:59.200 entrepreneurs that listen to. 1:02:00.120 --> 1:02:02.080 You know, you have to have your systems in place. 1:02:03.200 --> 1:02:05.960 And one of the things, you know, my director operations 1:02:06.000 --> 1:02:07.520 one of the things that he brought to the table. 1:02:07.600 --> 1:02:09.400 And it was funny because he was just my publicist 1:02:09.440 --> 1:02:11.040 when I first met him. There was another guy that 1:02:11.160 --> 1:02:13.280 was supposed to be my director operations that kind of 1:02:13.840 --> 1:02:15.439 stabbed me in the back and ran off and opened 1:02:15.520 --> 1:02:18.000 up his own restaurants and stuff. But he came in 1:02:18.200 --> 1:02:20.000 and kind of listened to everything I was saying and 1:02:20.080 --> 1:02:21.680 put it on paper, you know what I mean. So 1:02:21.800 --> 1:02:24.640 now we have job titles and job descriptions all on paper. 1:02:24.680 --> 1:02:27.000 We've got a company manual. So it's just like it's 1:02:27.040 --> 1:02:28.760 so much easier to bring people on, it's so much 1:02:28.760 --> 1:02:31.800 easier to replace people. We know what everybody is supposed 1:02:31.840 --> 1:02:34.320 to be doing with their hours need to be, with 1:02:34.440 --> 1:02:35.760 their pay needs to be you. 1:02:35.800 --> 1:02:36.240 Know what I mean. 1:02:36.360 --> 1:02:39.280 And so that's another reason why I'm able to open 1:02:39.360 --> 1:02:41.240 up so many businesses at one time. 1:02:41.760 --> 1:02:43.720 You know, even these I did three in one year. 1:02:43.840 --> 1:02:44.320 You know what I mean. 1:02:44.400 --> 1:02:48.480 I did, I did Crave, I did this spot in 1:02:48.720 --> 1:02:50.520 Esco South all in the same year, you know what 1:02:50.520 --> 1:02:52.440 I mean. And then this year during a pandemic, I'm 1:02:52.440 --> 1:02:56.320 doing two remedies and Esco Seafood. And it's because not 1:02:56.480 --> 1:02:58.080 only do I have all these people on the team, 1:02:58.200 --> 1:02:59.640 but we got these systems in place. 1:02:59.680 --> 1:03:02.439 So it's like everybody know like they already was doing stuff. 1:03:02.480 --> 1:03:03.360 I ain't even told. 1:03:03.240 --> 1:03:04.880 Them the manual. 1:03:08.520 --> 1:03:12.680 So you have a manual like McDonald's, like absolutely, because 1:03:12.680 --> 1:03:14.360 the people don't know that, Like you open a McDonald 1:03:14.480 --> 1:03:16.360 you just can't wing it like they got even how 1:03:16.400 --> 1:03:19.040 you fold the follow the franchise rules. 1:03:19.440 --> 1:03:21.800 That's interesting. How many employees do you have? 1:03:23.640 --> 1:03:25.560 I just did an interview before y'all, and I was 1:03:25.560 --> 1:03:29.280 trying to think about this. I would say, uh, maybe 1:03:29.320 --> 1:03:30.440 about three hundred. 1:03:30.560 --> 1:03:31.160 Three hundred. 1:03:31.640 --> 1:03:36.439 Really it's franchising something you're thinking about in the future. Yeah, good, 1:03:36.520 --> 1:03:39.240 that's all right. So I know that creating the night 1:03:39.320 --> 1:03:43.480 life or the after hours lounge was an old goal 1:03:43.520 --> 1:03:45.439 of yours. What's the new goals? 1:03:47.000 --> 1:03:48.960 My new goals are more like personal goals. 1:03:49.040 --> 1:03:49.160 Man. 1:03:49.160 --> 1:03:51.240 I want to get married, I want to have more kids. 1:03:52.120 --> 1:03:55.760 I'm looking about my dream house between now and the 1:03:55.880 --> 1:03:58.720 end of this year. That's actually a really big mind 1:03:59.400 --> 1:04:00.800 of talking about that. The day he was like, you know, 1:04:00.880 --> 1:04:02.600 that's the only thing you miss and you know it's like, 1:04:03.360 --> 1:04:04.720 you know, your dream house or whatever. 1:04:04.920 --> 1:04:06.920 So I want to do that and. 1:04:08.840 --> 1:04:11.880 Just you know, be able to continue to like have 1:04:12.120 --> 1:04:14.120 opportunities for other people and give back, you know what 1:04:14.160 --> 1:04:16.000 I mean. I'm in a place to really be able 1:04:16.040 --> 1:04:17.919 to give back to people and not have to worry 1:04:17.960 --> 1:04:20.120 about how this is going to be paid, how this 1:04:20.240 --> 1:04:21.800 is going to be paid. And for so many years 1:04:21.920 --> 1:04:23.240 that was my life, you know what I mean, a 1:04:23.280 --> 1:04:25.920 lot of us years I couldn't really travel, you know, 1:04:26.000 --> 1:04:27.640 the way that I wanted to because I didn't have 1:04:27.760 --> 1:04:30.720 these systems in place. So a lot of mine is 1:04:30.800 --> 1:04:34.400 more so, you know now focusing on my own personal 1:04:34.440 --> 1:04:36.920 goals because I gave so much of my life to 1:04:37.360 --> 1:04:39.320 you know, opening and running these businesses. 1:04:39.680 --> 1:04:42.320 So I mean, speaking of giving back, I know, I 1:04:42.360 --> 1:04:44.240 don't know if it has it started your own nonprofit. 1:04:44.480 --> 1:04:46.760 Yeah, it's called Her Impact Foundation, and so we do. 1:04:47.120 --> 1:04:50.520 Like right now, we're doing a backpack drive that's going 1:04:50.560 --> 1:04:51.080 on into. 1:04:50.960 --> 1:04:53.920 The end of the month. We've collected over one hundred. 1:04:53.720 --> 1:04:57.040 Backpacks field with school supplies and different things that nature. 1:04:57.840 --> 1:05:01.200 I'm going to donate some laptops to some schools as well, 1:05:01.440 --> 1:05:03.080 you know, because I know that you know, now they're 1:05:03.120 --> 1:05:07.240 switching to the you know on and you know a 1:05:07.320 --> 1:05:09.040 lot of these kids, you know, they don't have their 1:05:09.080 --> 1:05:11.120 own laptop, you know what I mean, And so some 1:05:11.240 --> 1:05:12.720 of the schools are trying to provide them, and some 1:05:12.800 --> 1:05:14.960 schools have the budget for him, and some don't, especially 1:05:15.040 --> 1:05:17.440 with you know, what they've experienced, you know, with COVID. 1:05:17.560 --> 1:05:19.040 So we do that. 1:05:19.360 --> 1:05:21.400 We feed the homeless all the time. 1:05:22.640 --> 1:05:27.840 We do uh Friendsgiving during Thanksgiving, we do a charity 1:05:27.920 --> 1:05:28.800 during Christmas. 1:05:30.320 --> 1:05:31.080 For my birthday. 1:05:31.120 --> 1:05:33.120 I actually we had to cancel it because my birthday 1:05:33.160 --> 1:05:34.600 is April third, so it was right in the midst 1:05:34.640 --> 1:05:37.280 of this. But I turned thirty five this year, so 1:05:37.360 --> 1:05:43.560 I was going to take thirty five young women upstairs 1:05:43.640 --> 1:05:45.760 and you know, pay for them to be pampered, you know, 1:05:45.960 --> 1:05:48.600 up there. And so I'm always just kind of like 1:05:48.720 --> 1:05:50.560 trying to think a little different things that I can 1:05:50.680 --> 1:05:53.760 do to give back and you know, make my impact. 1:05:54.200 --> 1:05:58.720 That's that's like just being in Atlanta, since we're in Atlanta. 1:05:58.760 --> 1:06:00.720 I want to just speak about this afleet. It's like 1:06:00.840 --> 1:06:03.360 it's different city, like compared to anywhere else, Like we're 1:06:03.360 --> 1:06:06.240 from New York or anybody else anywhere in the country. 1:06:06.360 --> 1:06:07.960 Can you just speak about like how like to me, 1:06:08.040 --> 1:06:11.240 it's encouraging, Like I come to Atlanta and it's like, oh, 1:06:11.360 --> 1:06:14.320 this is the largest dump truck company owned by a 1:06:14.400 --> 1:06:17.640 black guy, or this every every business is black owned business, 1:06:17.840 --> 1:06:20.560 like you know, for what's your thoughts on the city 1:06:20.640 --> 1:06:25.000 of Atlanta? And yeah, maybe you know, like we were saying, you. 1:06:25.000 --> 1:06:27.040 Know, I'm not originally from here, so I've been living 1:06:27.080 --> 1:06:29.000 here it'll be eleven years, you know, the end of 1:06:29.040 --> 1:06:31.480 this year, and I was I was just you know, 1:06:31.960 --> 1:06:35.240 extremely inspired. You know, like I never had a business 1:06:35.320 --> 1:06:38.040 that made millions of dollars, you know before I moved here, 1:06:38.200 --> 1:06:40.520 and the ones that I had at other than that 1:06:40.640 --> 1:06:43.880 newspaper company, I couldn't even get form legally because of 1:06:44.480 --> 1:06:46.720 you know, some of the racism and things of that nature, 1:06:46.760 --> 1:06:49.000 you know that I was experiencing in the city hall 1:06:49.160 --> 1:06:52.480 and different things of that nature. So to come to 1:06:52.560 --> 1:06:55.840 a city like Atlanta, number one, I had never experienced it. 1:06:56.000 --> 1:06:58.240 Just a city where you know, you're seeing so many 1:06:58.320 --> 1:07:02.440 black people driving luxury vehicles. I wasn't even used to 1:07:02.600 --> 1:07:08.680 even happening to vallet all the time trying to be cheaper. 1:07:10.320 --> 1:07:13.439 Another thing about it is that you know other black people, 1:07:13.520 --> 1:07:16.400 instead of hating on these people are actually inspired, you know, 1:07:17.920 --> 1:07:19.840 like given on my I G I get tons of 1:07:19.880 --> 1:07:22.280 messages daily of just you know, people telling me how 1:07:22.360 --> 1:07:24.360 inspired they are a boy me and different things of 1:07:24.440 --> 1:07:26.520 that nature. And you know, I'm kind of a loud, 1:07:26.560 --> 1:07:29.120 flashy person, so of course every now and again somebody 1:07:29.240 --> 1:07:31.400 is hating or something like that, but you know, you 1:07:31.520 --> 1:07:33.160 really don't give much of that. And a lot of 1:07:33.280 --> 1:07:35.960 the people here that are successful, they really support each other. 1:07:36.160 --> 1:07:39.080 You know, most of us know each other. 1:07:40.560 --> 1:07:42.480 I got one of them group meets right now is 1:07:42.640 --> 1:07:45.200 all of the club owners and restaurant owners. You know, 1:07:45.320 --> 1:07:47.439 we came together at the beginning of this pandemic because 1:07:47.440 --> 1:07:48.720 we didn't really know how we was gonna make it. 1:07:48.760 --> 1:07:49.960 We didn't know it was gonna turn out like this. 1:07:50.400 --> 1:07:52.360 We didn't know they was gonna start giving out money 1:07:52.520 --> 1:07:54.600 like it was applicis. 1:07:54.080 --> 1:07:54.840 You know what I'm saying. 1:07:57.400 --> 1:07:59.000 I didn't know that, you know the city was going 1:07:59.040 --> 1:08:01.120 to open back up and that we were gonna be okay. 1:08:01.320 --> 1:08:02.880 You know, we still had this group me and help 1:08:02.960 --> 1:08:06.360 each other out, you know what I'm saying. So I 1:08:06.440 --> 1:08:07.920 think that's a big thing. You know, it's a lot 1:08:07.960 --> 1:08:12.240 of inspiration here. There's a lot of events and seminars 1:08:12.320 --> 1:08:15.920 and you know, people that are successful they put together 1:08:17.360 --> 1:08:20.280 you know, like a little different things for people other 1:08:20.320 --> 1:08:22.439 people to be able to come out and learn how 1:08:22.520 --> 1:08:25.479 they can be successful as well. So I never had 1:08:25.520 --> 1:08:28.120 stuff like that in Nashville, never even known of things 1:08:28.200 --> 1:08:29.080 like that in Nashville. 1:08:29.160 --> 1:08:31.320 But here you got stuff like that going on all 1:08:31.400 --> 1:08:31.720 the time. 1:08:32.040 --> 1:08:32.799 Yeah, and it's crazy. 1:08:33.040 --> 1:08:36.120 Like our mutual friend Alex good Energy, so you know, 1:08:36.400 --> 1:08:39.000 him and his whole crew missed two weeks out him 1:08:39.040 --> 1:08:41.320 five hundred shots to all of those guys, and I 1:08:41.400 --> 1:08:43.960 think every week they like Neo Davis, they meet like 1:08:44.040 --> 1:08:46.080 once a weekend. They just shared different ideas And I 1:08:46.200 --> 1:08:47.920 was just telling my friendship more, I'm like, Yo, this 1:08:48.040 --> 1:08:49.479 is dope, like because like. 1:08:49.439 --> 1:08:51.640 A lot of I just paiged five thousand dollars to 1:08:51.800 --> 1:08:53.759 do him five hundreds class next. 1:08:53.720 --> 1:08:56.160 Month, Okay, And I'm like, I don't know, I'm still learning, 1:08:56.360 --> 1:08:57.400 still learn Yeah, but. 1:08:57.479 --> 1:08:59.680 I got money, but he ain't spending he is he 1:09:00.040 --> 1:09:03.519 and it's coret, but. 1:09:03.560 --> 1:09:05.320 It's no man's power. It is power in that. 1:09:05.600 --> 1:09:07.839 And it's like, you know a lot of times, especially 1:09:08.000 --> 1:09:10.160 coming from New York, were like real cynical people where 1:09:10.160 --> 1:09:10.439 it's like. 1:09:11.000 --> 1:09:12.679 No trust herself. 1:09:12.800 --> 1:09:13.080 Trust. 1:09:14.080 --> 1:09:15.519 We really got a New York state of money. 1:09:15.680 --> 1:09:17.559 That's a fact. And even with the music, I could see, 1:09:17.600 --> 1:09:19.680 like I think that's really helped Atlanta. It's like they 1:09:19.760 --> 1:09:22.680 work together, and it's the power in that instead of 1:09:22.760 --> 1:09:25.160 just trying to be cliquish, like trying to find fault 1:09:25.200 --> 1:09:27.120 in what this person is doing, Like, we go a 1:09:27.160 --> 1:09:29.200 lot further if we move as a unit. 1:09:29.479 --> 1:09:31.600 I feel like your legacy is being cemented like this. 1:09:31.760 --> 1:09:34.880 Your story is incredible. Tell me how it feels now 1:09:35.040 --> 1:09:38.719 that your daughter's coming of age and is she interested 1:09:38.720 --> 1:09:41.200 in running these businesses? And how proud of you to 1:09:41.280 --> 1:09:42.080 hand it down to her. 1:09:42.280 --> 1:09:44.800 She's going to do it. I'm extremely proud of that. 1:09:45.520 --> 1:09:46.680 I'm extremely proud of her. 1:09:46.720 --> 1:09:48.560 I'm almost about to like she had a couple of 1:09:48.760 --> 1:09:51.920 two years now, but yeah, because you know, she originally 1:09:52.000 --> 1:09:56.400 kind of wanted to do her own thing, and I 1:09:56.840 --> 1:09:59.040 didn't talk her out of it or anything like that. 1:09:59.240 --> 1:10:02.040 But she started off just having a job doing the 1:10:02.120 --> 1:10:06.040 social media and so just being around and you know, 1:10:06.160 --> 1:10:08.439 of course, like when I come home, my business had 1:10:08.560 --> 1:10:11.840 comes off. So you know, I'm not telling her about nothing. 1:10:11.880 --> 1:10:14.400 And so she didn't even realize like how people looked 1:10:14.400 --> 1:10:17.240 at me or viewed me until she started working for 1:10:17.439 --> 1:10:18.920 me and being in the businesses. 1:10:19.040 --> 1:10:21.920 And now she just even admires me more. 1:10:22.000 --> 1:10:23.680 Of course, you know, she knows that I'm her mother, 1:10:23.800 --> 1:10:26.600 but you know, she realizes like who I am and 1:10:26.720 --> 1:10:29.200 what I've done in the platform that I'm one, And 1:10:29.640 --> 1:10:31.840 you know, she's proud, you know, to wear a Dealer 1:10:31.920 --> 1:10:34.880 Hospitality Group shirt that's her last name, you know what 1:10:34.960 --> 1:10:38.160 I'm saying, and to have a company that you know 1:10:38.320 --> 1:10:41.559 can be passed down to her you know. So that's 1:10:41.720 --> 1:10:43.600 really that's the best thing about it, you know what 1:10:43.640 --> 1:10:45.120 I mean, that's what you do it for, so that 1:10:45.760 --> 1:10:48.519 this is something that can feed generations to come, you 1:10:48.600 --> 1:10:52.400 know what I'm saying. So definitely like extremely proud of that, 1:10:52.520 --> 1:10:54.280 and she's really good you. 1:10:54.320 --> 1:10:55.360 Know at it already. 1:10:55.439 --> 1:10:56.479 She's social media. 1:10:56.840 --> 1:10:58.920 Yeah, she runs all of the social media. It doesn't 1:10:59.000 --> 1:11:00.320 run my personal I'm like. 1:11:00.760 --> 1:11:02.360 I'm like I was on yours. 1:11:03.880 --> 1:11:05.920 The businesses, the business businesses. 1:11:05.680 --> 1:11:06.760 All of the business ones. 1:11:06.880 --> 1:11:09.280 And then she's also started so she just turned twenty, 1:11:09.920 --> 1:11:13.200 but she started doing like learning, you know, some shift 1:11:13.280 --> 1:11:18.120 lead managerial things, close and open the restaurants and different 1:11:18.160 --> 1:11:18.880 things of that nature. 1:11:19.400 --> 1:11:22.519 That's a feeling that I really wish everybody could feel 1:11:22.520 --> 1:11:24.120 at least one time, Like you know, it's just a 1:11:24.200 --> 1:11:25.840 it's a proud feeling as a parent. Like I have 1:11:25.920 --> 1:11:28.360 a son, he's nine, and you know, he played basketball, 1:11:28.600 --> 1:11:30.920 and so we rented a house in La, the whole 1:11:31.080 --> 1:11:34.080 the whole podcast crew, and we had we was in 1:11:34.520 --> 1:11:36.800 our families in La. So I'm trying to work out 1:11:36.840 --> 1:11:39.320 with him, like on his game while we're in La. 1:11:40.000 --> 1:11:42.400 He's like giving me push back, like I don't want 1:11:42.400 --> 1:11:44.160 to work out, dada. So I'm telling I'm like having 1:11:44.160 --> 1:11:45.439 a conversation like you if you want to go to 1:11:45.560 --> 1:11:47.160 the NBA, because they always tell you want to go 1:11:47.200 --> 1:11:48.400 to the NBA. I'm like, you want to go to 1:11:48.400 --> 1:11:50.000 the NBA, you gotta practice every day, like you're not 1:11:50.000 --> 1:11:51.960 just going to get there by accident. So he's like, 1:11:52.040 --> 1:11:53.560 I don't want to go to the NBA anymore. So 1:11:53.600 --> 1:11:55.080 I'm like, all, you don't have to. I'm like, so 1:11:55.200 --> 1:11:56.479 I might, So what do you want to do? He's 1:11:56.479 --> 1:11:58.240 like I want to do what you do. So you 1:11:58.320 --> 1:12:00.000 know what I'm saying, It's like it's a dope feeling 1:12:00.040 --> 1:12:02.840 and so exactly, I'm like, all right, you get to 1:12:02.840 --> 1:12:07.920 play video games about entrepreneurship and you know, it's dope 1:12:07.960 --> 1:12:10.240 to make money and it's dope. But it's like the 1:12:10.360 --> 1:12:13.720 family legacy is extremely and it's something that you know, 1:12:13.800 --> 1:12:16.720 it's it's one thing like you can't pass a job 1:12:16.880 --> 1:12:19.320 down to your family like you can, but you know, 1:12:19.439 --> 1:12:22.720 it's it's always politics involved. You know, you got a boss, 1:12:22.920 --> 1:12:25.679 so it's like if you are the boss, the sense 1:12:25.680 --> 1:12:28.960 of pride that your children have and you it's a 1:12:29.000 --> 1:12:31.720 little different, you know. So that's something for people to 1:12:31.760 --> 1:12:32.160 think about. 1:12:32.200 --> 1:12:34.040 And our kids, I mean, they're always around each other, 1:12:34.160 --> 1:12:36.880 so like they hear that conversations like my dad is 1:12:36.960 --> 1:12:40.040 on YouTube. It's like a big deal of them. It's 1:12:40.080 --> 1:12:41.880 it's like it makes it really proud because they look 1:12:41.880 --> 1:12:44.160 at Aaron a Lisia like is this and it is 1:12:44.320 --> 1:12:45.800 like we're not working for us when. 1:12:45.720 --> 1:12:49.160 They ask, you know, when people ask them are. 1:12:50.680 --> 1:12:57.040 Exactly yeah, nah, Snoop. That's it's been a pleasure. Anything 1:12:57.120 --> 1:12:59.720 that you would like to make the people aware of 1:13:00.160 --> 1:13:02.400 or let them know what do you have anything going on, 1:13:02.720 --> 1:13:04.160 new business ventures, anything like that. 1:13:05.160 --> 1:13:06.800 Like that talked about the new business ventures. 1:13:06.840 --> 1:13:08.639 But you know, if anybody wants to find me, I'm 1:13:08.680 --> 1:13:12.560 on Instagram and who is Snoop? Like I've mentioned, I 1:13:12.680 --> 1:13:16.919 also during the pandemic, I filmed uh six different courses, 1:13:17.080 --> 1:13:19.679 three of which are free courses. I would highly recommend 1:13:19.760 --> 1:13:22.280 I literally beg people during the pandemic to invest in 1:13:22.360 --> 1:13:24.880 the stock market because a lot of the stocks were down. 1:13:25.840 --> 1:13:28.160 I knew that this was a man made recession and 1:13:28.280 --> 1:13:30.720 that as soon as the economy started to bounce back, 1:13:30.760 --> 1:13:32.479 as it's starting to do that, there would be a 1:13:32.520 --> 1:13:36.640 lot of earnings and so definitely encourage people to, you know, 1:13:36.800 --> 1:13:38.960 invest and just get that knowledge. There's so much knowledge 1:13:39.000 --> 1:13:41.559 out there, and YouTube is definitely one of those places 1:13:41.600 --> 1:13:44.800 to go to. But my course site is courses dot 1:13:44.880 --> 1:13:48.880 Who is snoop dot com My website just to kind 1:13:48.880 --> 1:13:51.040 of hear more about my story, my businesses and the 1:13:51.120 --> 1:13:53.360 things that I have going on is who is snoop 1:13:53.439 --> 1:13:53.800 dot com? 1:13:53.960 --> 1:13:56.240 As well as Dialer Hospitalitygroup dot com. 1:13:56.400 --> 1:13:57.800 What's your what's your We didn't get a chance to 1:13:57.800 --> 1:14:01.200 talk about that is what's your st for stock investing? 1:14:01.560 --> 1:14:03.479 You have a such strategy or so, I'm a long 1:14:03.600 --> 1:14:05.360 term long term by a hole. 1:14:05.680 --> 1:14:07.360 Yeah, I don't do a lot of the. 1:14:07.680 --> 1:14:11.480 I'll reinvest my dividend. I also have a financial advisor. 1:14:11.680 --> 1:14:13.720 Okay, okay, So I have quite a bit of. 1:14:13.720 --> 1:14:15.679 Money, almost a million dollars in the stock market. 1:14:15.840 --> 1:14:18.960 So any particular sector like tech, tech or. 1:14:19.320 --> 1:14:21.160 One thing that I will encourage people to do, Yes, 1:14:21.280 --> 1:14:27.080 tech tech is definitely. Tech is big right now, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Test, Tesler, 1:14:27.680 --> 1:14:28.519 of course, Tesla. 1:14:28.560 --> 1:14:29.640 Those are some of the main ones. But it's a 1:14:29.680 --> 1:14:31.720 lot of other little ones like Gap stock is good 1:14:31.880 --> 1:14:32.200 right now? 1:14:34.760 --> 1:14:35.040 What else? 1:14:35.320 --> 1:14:36.960 There's a there's a lot of different ones. 1:14:37.000 --> 1:14:39.360 I've done good with a few of the airline stocks, 1:14:39.400 --> 1:14:41.680 you know what I mean. Especially for somebody like me 1:14:41.800 --> 1:14:45.679 that's going to buy and hole, not day trading, day traders. 1:14:45.720 --> 1:14:47.920 You have people to do options. You got one of 1:14:47.960 --> 1:14:48.439 my boys. 1:14:48.439 --> 1:14:50.680 I don't know if you guys know, Black Robin Nashville, 1:14:51.160 --> 1:14:54.479 who owns Minerva in the weekend, but. 1:14:54.600 --> 1:14:56.840 He hit me like snoop, you do options. I made 1:14:56.880 --> 1:14:58.200 seventeen grand a day off. 1:15:01.160 --> 1:15:02.479 Options is the way, and. 1:15:02.600 --> 1:15:06.000 So I'm always looking for new things as well, you 1:15:06.080 --> 1:15:08.559 know what I mean. But for somebody like me that's 1:15:08.600 --> 1:15:10.439 as busy as I am, I don't have time to 1:15:10.520 --> 1:15:14.080 sit and do four rex time to sit and do 1:15:14.240 --> 1:15:18.240 day trading. I you know, sometimes have time to look 1:15:18.280 --> 1:15:20.600 up a little different stocks and stuff like that. But 1:15:20.680 --> 1:15:24.679 I utilize my financial financial advisor. But two things tips 1:15:24.720 --> 1:15:26.240 that I do want to get people before I get 1:15:26.240 --> 1:15:30.599 out of here of ways that you can save and invest. 1:15:30.680 --> 1:15:33.080 One of the ways to save that I did is 1:15:33.160 --> 1:15:36.120 number one, cut your debit card up. So a lot 1:15:36.200 --> 1:15:38.519 of times, like when people go out or they go places, 1:15:38.960 --> 1:15:40.600 you know, you get their debit card and you just 1:15:40.680 --> 1:15:42.360 get to swiping, you know what I'm saying. But like 1:15:42.439 --> 1:15:45.439 you go out, you know, go to the ATM, take you, 1:15:45.840 --> 1:15:47.880 you know, one hundred two hundred dollars out the bank. 1:15:48.200 --> 1:15:49.720 I don't know much fun you're trying to have for 1:15:49.800 --> 1:15:51.640 the night. And then once that's over, you ain't got 1:15:51.680 --> 1:15:54.160 your debit card. You have no way to even be 1:15:54.240 --> 1:15:56.920 able to spend more money, you know. So that's that's 1:15:56.960 --> 1:15:59.720 a really big thing, you know, it's the hardest part 1:15:59.800 --> 1:16:01.840 is saving your first one hundred thousand dollars. 1:16:01.920 --> 1:16:04.519 But once you do that, it's so much easier. 1:16:04.720 --> 1:16:07.439 You know, you'll see your money continue to accumulate and 1:16:07.880 --> 1:16:09.840 kind of almost get to the point where you're kind 1:16:09.840 --> 1:16:11.400 of obsessed with it, you know what I'm saying. 1:16:12.320 --> 1:16:15.080 So you know that's that's definitely one thing too. 1:16:15.240 --> 1:16:18.280 On the investment side, one of the ways that I've 1:16:18.439 --> 1:16:21.120 been able to accumulate my portfolio to get as big 1:16:21.160 --> 1:16:24.280 as it has been is that I automatically invest each month, 1:16:24.360 --> 1:16:26.920 and so that's what I call paying myself first. So 1:16:27.840 --> 1:16:30.479 I make sure that it comes immediately out of my 1:16:30.680 --> 1:16:34.080 checking or savings account and goes into my investment account, 1:16:34.120 --> 1:16:35.920 and you know, you get to the point that you know, 1:16:36.000 --> 1:16:37.519 you don't even miss it, you don't even see it. 1:16:37.560 --> 1:16:38.960 Of course, you know you want to do your budget 1:16:39.000 --> 1:16:40.839 first and see what it is that you can afford 1:16:41.360 --> 1:16:44.200 to actually invest. But those are just two things that 1:16:44.280 --> 1:16:47.080 I want to leave y'all with, as well as the other, 1:16:47.360 --> 1:16:50.200 you know, knowledge we just talked about. But thanks for 1:16:50.280 --> 1:16:55.960 having me, guys. I appreciate meeting y'all. I watched a 1:16:56.000 --> 1:16:59.000 couple of the episodes and so it was like earn 1:16:59.040 --> 1:17:01.160 your leader. I normally don't do things on Friday, and 1:17:01.280 --> 1:17:03.679 especially not this late, so I was just like, Man. 1:17:03.720 --> 1:17:04.320 I gotta do that. 1:17:05.240 --> 1:17:07.240 I appreciate it. Thank you for having appreciate you. 1:17:07.439 --> 1:17:08.519 Man, choice some housekeeping night. 1:17:08.640 --> 1:17:11.160 Yeah. Shot everybody on patreon dot com that is proud 1:17:11.200 --> 1:17:13.719 to pay program. Obviously. You know tear four and five members. 1:17:13.760 --> 1:17:16.280 You have access to e y l University, the number 1:17:16.280 --> 1:17:19.320 one online school in the world. We have our book 1:17:19.320 --> 1:17:21.639 club there that's hosted by myself. We have breaking breat 1:17:21.680 --> 1:17:24.280 sessions with our brother MG, the mortgage guy, and the 1:17:24.320 --> 1:17:25.000 group has just grown. 1:17:25.040 --> 1:17:25.160 Man. 1:17:25.160 --> 1:17:27.719 A lot of investment tips in there. 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