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Speaker 3: All right, gosh, yeah, yeah, ocome back from Atlanta, New

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Speaker 3: Diggs for sure. Man, you know, can you tell me

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Speaker 3: in Atlanta we're going Magical moments happened for sure, you know, investments,

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Speaker 3: the city and we would in the land of Native.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, born and raised for sure.

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Speaker 3: That's a age additud, Yes, somebody that we connected with.

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Speaker 3: When did we first meet revolt it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like four years right, yeah, two?

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Speaker 4: Nah, No, twenty twenty one. I was like, all stage already.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was before investment us because we already had

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Speaker 1: Well either way, Yeah, we known each other for some years.

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Speaker 4: I love them.

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Speaker 1: Was it? It's been some years.

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Speaker 3: It's in a minute. So entrepreneur, host, personality, Reality TV star.

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Speaker 2: It's not first the first ones, right, so you do

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Speaker 3: Do a little bit of everything. Yeah, first and foremost,

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Speaker 3: thank you for joining us. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys for having me like this was

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Speaker 4: I know, we're He was like, okay, Page, we'll put

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Speaker 4: it in the contract. We'll get you you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything earned, everything earned.

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Speaker 4: I really appreciate it though, And you guys have really

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So so let's start, like how does it start

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Speaker 4: Truthfully, it starts when I'm in high school, Like you know,

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Speaker 3: What part of Atlanta you're from.

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Speaker 4: So I'm from like ellen Wood area west of Chapel That's.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, an entrepreneurial, back back background with family members that

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Speaker 4: I got into hosting by seeing my so my dad

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Speaker 2: It's like, yes, you have this passion and this gift

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Speaker 3: Off there, So how do you all right, so how

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So I started off in college and you know, in Miami.

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Speaker 4: that's like, Okay, I don't want to be on South Beach.

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Speaker 4: no more. Relationships are so important. I don't play about it.

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00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 4: I don't play about the people that rock with me.

432
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 4: So you know, why why treat it like it's just nothing?

433
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,120
Speaker 4: You know, treat it like it's something that's a baby.

434
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,560
Speaker 4: Everything you do is a baby. It's got to be fostered.

435
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 2: To talk talk about the growth, right, because obviously you've

436
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 2: been a vital part of investments and we appreciate everything

437
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 2: you've done.

438
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,879
Speaker 1: But as you've come back every year, we've seen the

439
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:36,800
Speaker 1: growth in you. Right.

440
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 2: We've seen that that you know, understanding your worth, and

441
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,959
Speaker 2: we've also seen building a team around you. Right, So

442
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 2: talk about that because you come from a viewpoint of

443
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 2: yes you can. You've managed people, but now you yourself,

444
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,919
Speaker 2: right with now establishing new gigs and new opportunities, you

445
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 2: have somebody in place to say, all right, I need help,

446
00:21:58,880 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 2: I need to be managed.

447
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think I remember the day that that

448
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 4: happened because I was actually managing an artist and Nila

449
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 4: at the time, and my mentor told me I could,

450
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 4: Like she was like, yeah, you can. Excuse me, she

451
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 4: was like you can, you can do this, And I

452
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 4: was like, wait, no, no, Like I'm just fresh out

453
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 4: of college. I don't know what to do, you know,

454
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 4: I just did you know Revolt Summit, Well that was

455
00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,679
Speaker 4: Revolt Conference at the time, and they had me on

456
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 4: board as like a travel coordinator with help underneath somebody

457
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 4: that was like in the ranks, and I remember Andre

458
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 4: Herrell coming to me, but I like, yo, listen, I

459
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 4: have to use this person for something else. I need

460
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 4: you to genuinely take over and just handle this. And

461
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, there's five hundred talent here, there's

462
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 4: CARDI B wants a car to go to the mall. Uh,

463
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,640
Speaker 4: these drivers were supposed to be only for this time

464
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 4: and this night. How do I make sure? How do

465
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,199
Speaker 4: I manage this? And I'm like, you got to You

466
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 4: got to make sure that people know that you know

467
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 4: what you're doing. And so you just have to trial

468
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,479
Speaker 4: and error, right, So I trialed an errored half of

469
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 4: my career because I'm like, Okay, no one's going to

470
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 4: be able to say like she didn't try, you know,

471
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,480
Speaker 4: if I failed, And like I mean, it was most

472
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 4: likely just a lesson. And for the most part, it

473
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 4: came so quick. When it would be something I needed

474
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 4: to learn, it'd be like, Okay, cool, don't do that.

475
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 4: Got you no hard feelings, no no if fans, But

476
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 4: about it. You know, you could have done this, but

477
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 4: you didn't. What did you take away from it? Move on?

478
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 4: And so after I realized, you know, managing an artist

479
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 4: and me hosting and me leveraging my personality to be

480
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 4: on the stages and being like, oh, you know, I

481
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 4: want to put my artist on here, but you guys

482
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 4: can give me cheaper. You guys can pay me like

483
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 4: less if I can put my artists on here. And

484
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 4: they were like, okay, cool, So what's your artists do?

485
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:52,919
Speaker 4: Like what were supposed to be doing with this? And

486
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, this might be I might be

487
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 4: getting ahead of myself. You know what I'm saying, Like,

488
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,440
Speaker 4: how am I taking care of myself first? And then

489
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 4: bringing the people up that deserve to come up with me?

490
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 4: And so that's when I kind of realized. I was like,

491
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 4: I need more, I need more advice help. It just

492
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 4: started off going to mentors, going to people that were

493
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 4: like and I would go to people and they'd be like,

494
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 4: you don't need a manager. You got this, You've got this,

495
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 4: And I'm like, no, I'm literally I need help. I

496
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 4: don't know what to write back in the emails. But

497
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,159
Speaker 4: I would use my knowledge for my mom and in

498
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,640
Speaker 4: my dad's dentistry, you know, and like being like, okay,

499
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 4: you know you know how to type an email structure?

500
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 4: You know, you know how to say hello, Hi, what's

501
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 4: his name? Calma? You know you know what to say,

502
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 4: but how do you keep the conversation going to where

503
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 4: it grows into something else? And I think basically I

504
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 4: would just go to people every year just asking, Hey,

505
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 4: some little piece of advice that I can get from you.

506
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 4: I would interview people on my platform. I would you know,

507
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 4: ask I would call them up and just be like, okay, quick,

508
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 4: this person's asking me if I can do this for

509
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 4: this what would you say? That would be it? And

510
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 4: then it was like, okay, I need someone behind me.

511
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 4: Who is that person? Going to be trial and error?

512
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 4: Some people I would do ninety day trials with. Some

513
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,239
Speaker 4: people I would do thirty day trials with. Currently I'm

514
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 4: not managed by anyone. I did a ninety day trial.

515
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 4: I realize, Okay, there are more things I need to

516
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 4: be asking for and I need to know what to ask.

517
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 4: And I think that's where I'm at, in that space

518
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 4: of like wanting representation and knowing what representation looks like

519
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 4: to me and knowing that, like when you walk in

520
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 4: a room and I walk in a room, okay, we

521
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 4: might not be walking hands out side by side or

522
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 4: anything but we're like on a mission in here. We are.

523
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 4: We understand, we eat what we kill, we understand. You know,

524
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 4: whatever comes back to us is something that we really

525
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 4: went forward and like built a relationship and said okay,

526
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 4: we'll follow up, and actually followed up, you know. So yeah,

527
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 4: I think that's It's been a tough It's been a

528
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,360
Speaker 4: tough journey with managers and just representation because I think

529
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 4: I I've done a good I made it look easy.

530
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 4: I've done it a little too easy with making it

531
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 4: look easy that Okay, I got this gig over here,

532
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 4: How did you get that? Who set that up for you?

533
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 4: They text me, they DM me, MTV. Yeah, I mean

534
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 4: they reached out to my friend through D Like, you know,

535
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 4: there are certain things that just I can't explain it.

536
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 4: It's favor ain't fair to everybody. But I do know

537
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 4: that there are certain things that I'm like, I'm waiting

538
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 4: for that person to walk into a room and be

539
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 4: like Okay, yeah, page, like I got this for you.

540
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 4: I'm like, what I sealed the deal?

541
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 3: So talk about PSA, Like, what's how did that come about?

542
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:43,360
Speaker 1: And what does that entail?

543
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 4: Well, my initials are paid Sri Addison and when I

544
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 4: was a kid and I realized what initials I had.

545
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 4: I was like, I should be a rapper with this.

546
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 4: It was like PSA, it's a PSA coming to you

547
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 4: always no, And then I realized I was like, okay, no,

548
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 4: so public servicenouncement. I was doing PR. I you know,

549
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 4: my name is my page threeatist and how do you

550
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 4: make it feel like everything you do as a public

551
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 4: service announcement? And so I foster. I just like I

552
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 4: really got down on my knees and prayed about it.

553
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie, you know. I was like, what

554
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 4: do I need to uh show up? As with PSA one?

555
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 4: People have been getting over on me for years of

556
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 4: connections and I would always be like, you're not getting

557
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 4: over my stuff. Don't come back like my blesseds always

558
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 4: come back. But then it was like nah, like you

559
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 4: need to have a consulting fee, you need to have

560
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 4: a you know, a business. And so I started that

561
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 4: in twenty seventeen right out of college. Was just like, okay,

562
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 4: what does this look like? You know, you offer PR services,

563
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 4: you offer a PR press list, you know, for your

564
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 4: for the people's companies, you offer you know, services for

565
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 4: I mean and in lack of better words, you know,

566
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 4: brand management. You know, I did brand management for good

567
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 4: Dope right out of college. I mean college. Shoot, they

568
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 4: like there were so many things that I was just

569
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 4: growing in and trying to do that that would add

570
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,239
Speaker 4: onto the list of what I'm able to do, right

571
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 4: because as an entrepreneur you kind of have to be

572
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 4: a jack of all trades. So when I realized I

573
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 4: can monetize it, I was like, Okay, let me at

574
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 4: least monetize it with a proper name. So PSA Management

575
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 4: and Consulting. You know, we've been doing what we can

576
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 4: for different companies that a lot of people just don't know.

577
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 4: Like a lot of people were like, oh, she just

578
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 4: do hosting, Oh she just do you know she does

579
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 4: pr from time to time. It's like, no, I actually

580
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 4: have a fee in a website and accoulendly for you

581
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 4: to set up a meeting with me.

582
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: You know, like it's a real business.

583
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 4: It's real business around here. And I had a godmom

584
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 4: that was you know, she family. My family's always been

585
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 4: a full of like boss women right that like implemented things.

586
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 4: I mean literally, my godmom she implemented the first into

587
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 4: into Ebenezer Baptist Church. Right. She was the first one

588
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 4: to implement a system to be able to have the

589
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 4: stream live stream, like the sermons live stream, even set

590
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 4: help set out their website, like you know things like

591
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 4: that where it's just like there's someone behind the scenes

592
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 4: that's helping these people.

593
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 3: So from a consultant standpoint, what have you done for

594
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 3: businesses or what do you see businesses make mistakes in

595
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 3: like as far as like.

596
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 4: How do you not going trying to find I was

597
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 4: talking to somebody yesterday. I've seen I've helped their businesses

598
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 4: grow by brand management usually, So I'm like, okay, well

599
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 4: that just doesn't make sense. Why would you have somebody

600
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 4: in the building that you feel, can you know, it's

601
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 4: really good at this thing, but right now you don't

602
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 4: need them in that area right now, so you just

603
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 4: decide to put them on something else. No, you need

604
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 4: to have somebody that is actually like literally a genius

605
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 4: at what they do, a wiz at what they do,

606
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 4: and then bring them on board and then have them

607
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 4: on that thing so that that thing can be exactly

608
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 4: what helps y'all scale. I think people just the common

609
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 4: mistakes of being like oh yeah, like oh yeah, so

610
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 4: you can go out. You know, everybody needs to do everything.

611
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 4: Everybody needs to like, you know, how to shoot, right, Okay,

612
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 4: well let's let's do that. And that can be a

613
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,959
Speaker 4: thing for until a certain point, Like you know, Kendrick

614
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 4: just dropped his album today. He says, day Free was

615
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 4: doing his DJ and his managing. You know, he was

616
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 4: helping shoot like the video, like all these things. But like,

617
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 4: what do you until you get to a certain point

618
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 4: that's cool, and then you need to go find the

619
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 4: people that really do that at the best of their

620
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 4: ability and make that their life's work and bring them

621
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 4: on board. And then that's how you continue to grow,

622
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 4: you know. So that's that was my logic. I would

623
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 4: come in with, I think a logic that was kind

624
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 4: of like why would you do that? Now? When it

625
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 4: came to other people's stuff, it's always like, yeah, it's easy,

626
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 4: you know, And then when it comes to your stuff,

627
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 4: you're like, oh my god, it's so much scatter brained

628
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 4: and you know, it can't. It doesn't feel so easy then,

629
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 4: And so I try not to be a hypocrite about it.

630
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 4: I try to be very like understanding and graceful when

631
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 4: I have clients or people that come to me for

632
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 4: genuine advice. But at the same time, I'm like, okay,

633
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 4: like make sure you understand that this advice that I'm

634
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 4: going to give you, if you don't take it, it's

635
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 4: not something I'm going to take it for, you know,

636
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 4: for granted, but I do still need my check, I.

637
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: Mean my check.

638
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: So I mean you talked about running your check, you

639
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: talked about getting monetized pop up pop ups pop I mean,

640
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 2: I wonder because there's a conversation we've never even had,

641
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 2: even as some of our dentists.

642
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, how are you at managing the money? Right?

643
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 2: Because it's one thing to get the money, Yes, it's

644
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 2: another thing people tell you to invest, and obviously we'll

645
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 2: get into some of the businesses that you started, but like,

646
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: manage your money is not the easiest thing, and that

647
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: people get lost in that, right They think I got

648
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 2: to make it.

649
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: I gotta make it. But it can go as quickly

650
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: as it came.

651
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 2: So how are you when you started getting that money

652
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: like that at and T ten thousand dollars check coming

653
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: out of high school? I already know how I'm thinking

654
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 2: about it right at that age, And obviously as you

655
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 2: grow and mature, the checks start getting a little bit bigger.

656
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: How are you dealing with that?

657
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 4: Honestly, I go to all of the women in my

658
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 4: family and usually and the women are the ones that

659
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 4: truly I mean and the men, but like the women

660
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 4: I see always know how to save. My mom was

661
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 4: always a person that was a stickler like of like saving, right,

662
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 4: Like you want to save, but you also want to invest.

663
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 4: That was my aunt. Right. So my sister she like

664
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 4: has a I don't know if you guys have read

665
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 4: her book and have the children's book on financial literacy,

666
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 4: but we always knew that investing was something that was

667
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 4: the most important when we had our money, right, And

668
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 4: so you know, saving it is one thing. But go

669
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 4: into my mom and my sister and them saying, hey,

670
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 4: we're about to get this property or this land and

671
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 4: blah blah blah, what are where are we gonna what

672
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 4: are we going to do with it? Well, we'll have

673
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 4: it just for when we're ready to cultivate, you know,

674
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 4: and build it up. And it's like, okay, cool, all right.

675
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 4: I might not know why, but I know it'll be

676
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 4: something that comes in handy at one point, right, And

677
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 4: I think trusting the mentors and the wisdom of people

678
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 4: that have come before you and why and how their

679
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 4: lives have been able to be And you watch the people, right,

680
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 4: you watch what they do with their money. You watch

681
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 4: how certain people, you know, I'm like, for lack of

682
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 4: better words, f it off. You know, you like see

683
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 4: how like they treat you know, they're like, oh, okay,

684
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 4: that's fun. You know car got wrecked, We'll get another one.

685
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 4: It's like what, No, Like, why didn't you just drive

686
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 4: around in the whip with the house, you know, but

687
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 4: you chose to go get the necklace or this. You know,

688
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 4: it just wasn't I watched how people manage their money first,

689
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 4: and then I will go to there for them advice,

690
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 4: you know. And so when we started our financial group

691
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 4: of our family, and like twenty twenty, my sister was

692
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 4: kind of just like, okay, like she was mad about

693
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 4: the Apple split. She was like it. She was just pissed,

694
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 4: and she was like, we need to start a family

695
00:33:54,600 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 4: investment group. And so, you know, I wasn't always involved

696
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 4: in it because I always was like, I trust what

697
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 4: y'all tell me what to do with my money, So

698
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna save it. And then whenever y'all tell

699
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 4: me for the next move, I'm gonna just move it.

700
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 4: And so we started a group called the PF I

701
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 4: S and it was the investment club that we started

702
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,760
Speaker 4: for our family. And we've grown our portfolio like thirty

703
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 4: two percent since we started. Would you start twenty twenty?

704
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 3: So what do you invest in?

705
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 4: You know, I'll say yes since, but I will say

706
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 4: the video has been one that we've been hearing about since.

707
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 4: You know, I guess what was that twenty twenty one,

708
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 4: and I've been you know, I've just been like, all right, cool,

709
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 4: send one hundred dollars every month. We you know, we

710
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 4: have our annual meetings. We have people in place where

711
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 4: we have you know, uh, somebody's a treasury someone try

712
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 4: a treasurer, someone's the secretary, my mom might be the

713
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 4: president of it, my aunt, you know, and it's it's

714
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 4: just so beautiful to watch because we actually had a

715
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:12,479
Speaker 4: video go viral where my cousin Whitney posted it. Well,

716
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 4: you know, we had our annual meeting this this past September,

717
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 4: and I was just I wasn't even there, but I

718
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 4: was like I had been on zoom because we do

719
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 4: a call in and next thing, you know, it's it's

720
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 4: on like all these black love pages on this going

721
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 4: viral and they're like, oh, I wish I want to

722
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 4: be a part of that family, or how do I

723
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 4: get how do I get started? And everything, and I'm

724
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 4: just like, literally, it's all about organization, you know, like

725
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 4: honestly trusting the people that you and you know, everybody's

726
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 4: blood you know, doesn't make them closer, but trusting the

727
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 4: people that you put around you, trusting that their knowledge

728
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 4: and their wisdom that they went to school for or

729
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 4: learned was truly something that could help you.

730
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 3: So break break this whole thing down. How many people's involved,

731
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 3: what's the procedure, how.

732
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: Do you decide to see?

733
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 4: And then honestly, I'm not even gonna capu it. I

734
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 4: only know that that we started with probably like ten, no,

735
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 4: maybe like fifteen of twenty of us, and it's just.

736
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: Grown all family members.

737
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, on my mom's side and everybody.

738
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: You have to put money in, Yeah.

739
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 4: You definitely have to put money in every month.

740
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 3: Every the same amount of different people put you could.

741
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 4: Put one hundred dollars every month. That's the threshold. And yeah,

742
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 4: I mean it's definitely I don't want to get into

743
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 4: into it because I'm not the most you know, knowledgeable

744
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 4: on it. I just know I trust my family. I

745
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 4: know I've seen what we're doing with the money. I

746
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 4: see what is going on. I'm like, all right, cool,

747
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 4: I gotta you know. And then I have my own

748
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 4: portfolio and you know, and I think, you know, it's

749
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 4: so funny because I had just set up my wrath

750
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 4: LRA with Fidelity the day the day before I investments,

751
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my god. I was like, ah,

752
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 4: my mom, she helped me. She had some she had

753
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 4: some money set away from like my parents had helped

754
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 4: set up a trust that had been you know, there

755
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 4: for a long time. And she had been telling me,

756
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 4: because my mom is the mom that's like, I'm a

757
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 4: repeat that you need to do this, and you'll hear it.

758
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 4: And even to my boyfriend, like to my family boyfriend,

759
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 4: anybody that knows me knows that, Like she's the lovable person.

760
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 4: But once she gives you that advice, she's not going

761
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 4: to come up off it. She's telling you it for

762
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 4: a reason. And when people start listening to the people

763
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 4: around them that truly love and support and pour into

764
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 4: them and know and have actual knowledge like my mom was.

765
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 4: She was like one of the first black people like

766
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 4: in the corporate world and Bank of America when I

767
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 4: was like before I was even born. And you know,

768
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 4: I mean the women, like I said, the women around

769
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 4: me have lots of knowledge. The men around me have

770
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 4: lots of knowledge and wisdom. So why don't you use

771
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 4: utilize that. Find those mentors in your family, Find those

772
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 4: mentors within you know, their their family or their connections,

773
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 4: you know, network, you know, and just because networking looks

774
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 4: like outside of your family incredible, you would never know

775
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 4: the knowledge that somebody has in your family if you

776
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 4: don't ask them.

777
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: It's important. What you're speaking of is very rare.

778
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 2: We don't We don't see enough of it, and perhaps

779
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 2: we should see more of it of a families doing

780
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 2: something like you just.

781
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 4: I'm very proud of them.

782
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: It's very rare, but it's it's definitely a commendable.

783
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 2: I want to transit to something that you actually have

784
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 2: put some money into U And every time we go

785
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 2: to events, uh, we see you pop up.

786
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: We would just say was it a BT weekend?

787
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 2: And we came outside and so the business let's talk

788
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 2: about our soulful bowls where the idea came from, the

789
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 2: money that it took to start it, and why this

790
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 2: avenue became your new passion.

791
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I definitely saw, especially being in the music

792
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 4: industry and on the go personality, a lack of healthier

793
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 4: options that were on the go for people like us. Right,

794
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 4: We're just always moving, We're always you know, like the

795
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 4: quicker option is always better, but instead of the quicker

796
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 4: option being healthy, it would always be something that's like, man,

797
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 4: I don't need to be eating this. How did I

798
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 4: end up here knee deep in a chocolate milkshake from

799
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 4: chiefil A? And I'm gonna say yes to it every

800
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 4: time until it was like, Okay, we're in the quarantine.

801
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 4: We can't go outside. You know, what is an option

802
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 4: that I can do so that can make for myself

803
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 4: while I'm in the house, while I'm doing my yoga,

804
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 4: while I'm starting my day off on a relaxing you know, vibe, Like,

805
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 4: how do I keep the vibrations high? Okay, cool, I'm

806
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 4: gonna make an asia E bowl. I learned ii E

807
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 4: from actually going to college in Miami. I would have

808
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 4: never been exposed to other cultures, fruits, anything. If I

809
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 4: hadn't left Atlanta, right, So I got into Spelman, I

810
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 4: got into you know, Campton, I got into all these

811
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 4: places that, you know, they were great options, but I

812
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 4: hadn't left the nest. In a way of I knew

813
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 4: I was going to be exposed to something that was

814
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 4: beyond me. And so I'm going to class with people

815
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 4: who are bringing plantons in for lunch. I'm going to

816
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 4: class with people who are bringing mangoes, and I'm like,

817
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 4: I eat apples and oranges and stuff, and you feel

818
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 4: like you kind of feel like you're ignorant, damn near

819
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 4: because you're just like, damn like I've been doing for

820
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 4: my whole life. But if you haven't been exposed to it,

821
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 4: you just haven't been exposed to it. So I had

822
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 4: a friend of Jamaican descent. She's like, Okay, we're gonna

823
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 4: get some icight e bowls or she made some I

824
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 4: think at home from scratches, but banana some you know,

825
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 4: almond milk or milk or whatever. And you know, you

826
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 4: have the packet and then you put the fruit in

827
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 4: and you blend it, and I'm just like, Okay, put

828
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 4: some granola on top. This is nice. You can put

829
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 4: whatever fruit you want put it on there. So I

830
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 4: was like, okay, cool. So I took that with me

831
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 4: all the way to you know, getting older, and then

832
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 4: realized like this was something that was a healthier stack,

833
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 4: but it wasn't something that would make me feel groggy

834
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 4: or like I had too much, like I could I

835
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 4: could have more, but it also gave me energy, like

836
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 4: it felt healthy, but it wasn't. It tasted still like

837
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 4: a smoothie and a bowl. And so when I realized

838
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 4: I would go on live, I would call it soul

839
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 4: fo balls because I would play music. I would sing

840
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 4: so like mind you music has always been before, like

841
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 4: it's always gonna be behind anything out of it.

842
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: We had a classic karaoke we did, and I wanted.

843
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,280
Speaker 4: And I wanted to happen again because I'm not gonna

844
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 4: lie ad lib karaoke. I'm onto something. Beauty is her name,

845
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 4: Drew Hill. If you don't do the ad libs, you're

846
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 4: not singing the song. But so I think when you're

847
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 4: showing people on live that you're genuinely enjoying yourself and

848
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 4: you're making a snack for yourself while you're in the house,

849
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 4: not moping, not going off on the Internet wasting time.

850
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 4: I think people truly liked this. I was like, okay,

851
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 4: make the soul ball today. So I would get off

852
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 4: live and I'll probably get back on like later on,

853
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 4: and people would be like, Paige, where are you gonna

854
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 4: Where are you gonna make me a soul ball? Like

855
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 4: when we you know, when you're gonna start making these everybody,

856
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 4: I'm like, let me go ahead and buddies domain real quick.

857
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 4: While we're in this thing. You don't never know what's

858
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 4: gonna happen. Now. I didn't know if we were going

859
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 4: to get out of quarantine, and you know, events were

860
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 4: even going to come back. So I was like, first

861
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 4: of all, why would you even not ever have a trade?

862
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 4: Like you know, you need to be moving right, You

863
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 4: need to have a trade. You need to have something

864
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 4: that you're doing other than hosting. And so I just

865
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 4: started the business and grew and to learn my god,

866
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 4: mom rest, God rest her soul. She had cancers. I

867
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 4: would sit with her every so often. I would talk

868
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 4: about it and she'd be like, Okay, so what does

869
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 4: it look like like? What does the brand story look like?

870
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 4: What is the what are the cartons look like? You know,

871
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 4: what is how are you. What are you telling people

872
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 4: the benefits of it are? Like, did you decide that

873
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 4: you want to just make it a regular bowl or

874
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:45,919
Speaker 4: brick and mortar, or do you want to do direct

875
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 4: to consumer? Like there was all these different options, and

876
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 4: so we were watching have you do you guys watch

877
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 4: Ozark's Yeah, incredible show, watching it, and she's like, man,

878
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 4: Mardy Bird, got it set up. She's like you. She

879
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 4: was like, got set it up for us. I was like,

880
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 4: go on Google, looks for like distributor for like us.

881
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 4: I find it like the first one, and I'm like,

882
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 4: my gosh, I think I just might have got it.

883
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do something, do I promise you? And just

884
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 4: kept going like every so often I would come back

885
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 4: to something else to add to it, and that would

886
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 4: be my favorite thing about it. And so when I

887
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 4: would add, you know, an element of minstead of making

888
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 4: the bulls from scratch, I would get them. I would

889
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 4: pre make them and prepackage them, and then I would

890
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 4: have a recipe getting with a chef shout out to

891
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 4: chef day. She literally would sit with me and we

892
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 4: would go over different with recipes. Now, mind you, obviously

893
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 4: soulful Balls has to have some type of music element.

894
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 4: So the Peaches Bowl was supposed to be the Patti Bowl,

895
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 4: The Ladies Ball was the Aretha Bawl, the Roses Ball

896
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 4: was the Outcast Ball, and it was it was benefits

897
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 4: that had like health benefits in them, right, so they

898
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 4: they're high in antioxidants there. The Ladies Bowl has health

899
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 4: benefits for women's reproductive system. The Peaches Bowl it tastes

900
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 4: like peach collar, but we make our own you know,

901
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 4: crumble that's like a granola. Like the Roses Bowl. It

902
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 4: literally has rose water in it. It's so but it's

903
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 4: great for men's reproductive system, you know, the berries. So

904
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 4: there's just so many benefits to having a healthier option

905
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 4: and also healthier for yourself. And I think that was

906
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 4: something that I wanted to have, especially being a black woman,

907
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 4: especially having you know, food, like food, deserts are real.

908
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 4: Like you you'll be in a space where you're like, bro,

909
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 4: I just want a smoothie right now. Like two years ago,

910
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 4: we got a smoothie a planet, like a tropical smoothie

911
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 4: over there by the East Side, and I was like,

912
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 4: oh my god. I was like what is this And

913
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 4: I knew the guy I found out you know, I

914
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 4: knew the guy that that owned it or was a

915
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 4: part owner, and I was like, I'm so I was

916
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 4: like one of the first people because I was like,

917
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 4: I'm so proud of you guys. And I knew IIU

918
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 4: was going to get hit from scratch, like from jump.

919
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 4: I knew asai E was going to be something that

920
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 4: was gonna move because if you look into the aside,

921
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 4: you know the history of it. First of all, it

922
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 4: was from Brazil, but it's something that people have eaten

923
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 4: for breakfast, lunch, dinner, anything they want for years. And

924
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 4: I knew it was a growing market. And so I

925
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 4: was like, all right, well this was before Smoothieking got it,

926
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 4: Tropical Smoothie got it all the like people did not

927
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 4: have osa ebowls in their companies before I started my business.

928
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 4: And I knew that I had to like start it

929
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 4: when I started it so that I knew that when

930
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 4: they started doing in their own thing that mine would

931
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 4: still stay niche. Mine has prepackaged it. You can you

932
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 4: can freeze it up to like four months and it

933
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 4: could still be good.

934
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: So how do you sell it? Like where do you.

935
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,879
Speaker 4: Sell it direct to consumer? I do it at pop ups.

936
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 4: You know I'm at invest best right now. I actually

937
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 4: have a setup so at VT Experience, I was told

938
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 4: that there was gonna be like thousands of people. You know.

939
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 4: I made my first oopsie and kind of came with

940
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 4: too much product and I spent a lot of like

941
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 4: it took. It was my first hit, real hit. And

942
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 4: I was like, bruh this like it damn there makes

943
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 4: you feel like you want to like throw like you sick.

944
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 4: You sick when you use use money investments. And I

945
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 4: was like, what is what do I do to come

946
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 4: back from this? And I was like, Okay, I need

947
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 4: to leave a palette out here in Retherlands, California, and

948
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 4: I just need to move it, like I need to

949
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 4: move it in any ways. Like I call myself the

950
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 4: Barry Dealer because I say it like I'm a dealer. Like, Okay,

951
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 4: we need the movies. We need the movies outside evos,

952
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Okay, we have a setup

953
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 4: in uh at somebody's movie set. You know, I've done

954
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 4: movie sets with Amazon. I We've done video sets. We've

955
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 4: done literal Uh. I did AD Week not not too

956
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 4: long ago, you know, and I showed up as a

957
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 4: host shout out to Desia, you know, and and Charles

958
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 4: and I showed up as a host. But the next

959
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 4: day Barry's Scott Dale partnered with us and you know

960
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 4: we were able to give out balls to everyone that

961
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 4: was there for the class for a workout class. So

962
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 4: you know, you just kind of utilize as much like

963
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 4: leverage as you can with whatever you're doing. Whatever space

964
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 4: I'm going to be in, I need my balls there.

965
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 4: There's no reason that there shouldn't they shouldn't be there.

966
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 4: And so you know, with you guys, I think I

967
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 4: really appreciated having that platform to be able to give

968
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 4: them out, to be able to sell them. Whenever you

969
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 4: all are doing anything, it's always been something. So I

970
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 4: just love the balls down. I've even had you know,

971
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 4: certain celebrities drop like name drop it, and you know,

972
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 4: it's been in Forbes. May been name dropped before in

973
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 4: Forbes for shout out to Revolts. I mean they literally

974
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 4: had it there before. I mean it's been in places

975
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 4: it needs to be me and as Thatt Fergy loves

976
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 4: the boles so much that he was like, I want

977
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 4: to do a clap like it just it's there. So

978
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 4: I know that people love the bulls. It's more so

979
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 4: how do I scale it? Obviously, grocery stores, obviously, you know,

980
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 4: there's airport options, There's so many options and ways you

981
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,919
Speaker 4: can take it. And that's kind of something why that's

982
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 4: like what I'm looking for, Like my next goal is

983
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 4: to kind of find a person that wants to partner

984
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 4: and like an actual VC or you know, an angel investor,

985
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 4: someone that can really truly help and like help me

986
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 4: scale it, because I mean, I'll go from days where

987
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm about to sell this company. I don't

988
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 4: do what I need to do. Let me get my

989
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,439
Speaker 4: money and let me get go. Instead of that, I'm

990
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 4: like no, and then I'll have my little Jimni moment.

991
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay, he was tripping, Like, you know you

992
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 4: need leg you know, legacy, Legacy is important to you,

993
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 4: and you know that you need to have something for

994
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 4: the people that come after you. And I think fruit asai,

995
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 4: like anything that you know is going to be a

996
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 4: health healthier benefit to the world. Keep you keep.

997
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 2: What would be that first a few items with action items. Right,

998
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 2: I'm sure somebody's probably listened to this right now and

999
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 2: they're saying, oh, I need to get in contact with her.

1000
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 2: Let's say that it is an angel investor. What the

1001
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 2: extra capital do for the business immediately?

1002
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Well, for starters, I would be able to

1003
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 4: get a distributor that can make help me get them

1004
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 4: in grocery stores that would be able to make thirty

1005
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,240
Speaker 4: thousand units in like a week span or a couple

1006
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 4: of weeks, you know, a month span, so we can

1007
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 4: get it out. We can get that money back immediately,

1008
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 4: like we know what it needs to do. Meet with

1009
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 4: a chemist to be able to find out what, you know,

1010
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 4: the actual how long they can last. Like when it's

1011
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 4: like okay, page this is this product is no more

1012
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 4: good because I'll have people that eat it, I'm like,

1013
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 4: so how are you feeling after that? You okay? And

1014
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, they're like yeah, they're it and the

1015
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 4: nutritional facts are on there. You know, everything's on there

1016
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 4: for them. But it's like there are things that are

1017
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 4: small details that I want to grow it in even

1018
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 4: figuring out I need people to come with things that

1019
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 4: I don't have. And I think that's the thing because

1020
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 4: I'm a person that's a go get her in a

1021
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 4: way where I'm going to figure it out, Like I

1022
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 4: know that I can get offered a kiosk in an airport.

1023
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 4: Why would that make sense for us to do instead

1024
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 4: of going into the air into the grocery stores. Help

1025
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 4: me help myself and then help us like, you know,

1026
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 4: or do we want to get more e SKUs or

1027
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 4: do we want to get rid of all of these?

1028
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 4: You know that those questions are things that I want

1029
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 4: to talk with someone with. And maybe you know, I

1030
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 4: have a business manager, Jessica Kouch. She's been able to

1031
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,320
Speaker 4: help me, you know, organize, but to be the charismatic

1032
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 4: person I am and try to set up stuff and

1033
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,280
Speaker 4: then also do the things on the backside. I can't

1034
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,439
Speaker 4: do it both. So it has to be someone that's

1035
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 4: like more knowledgeable on it than I am, and that

1036
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 4: has actually proven that they've they've had a product that

1037
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 4: they've done it with. I get closer every every week,

1038
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 4: you know, I get I go to afrotech and then

1039
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 4: there's a target product, you know, manager and she's like,

1040
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 4: send me, send me the store, let's get it.

1041
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: You know.

1042
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 4: Have you tried out have you done any accelerator programs?

1043
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 4: Have you done any grants? I'm like, have I you know,

1044
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 4: I've submitted plenty of times, but it's like it gives

1045
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 4: who do you know, It's like, you know, it's like

1046
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 4: what what do you do? So I think, how do

1047
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 4: I add that person to my team? How do I

1048
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,439
Speaker 4: find that person? So that is definitely the goal.

1049
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 1: So what's your position with Great Goose?

1050
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 4: Ah? I'm a business manager for Rio? Y'all? Okay? So,

1051
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 4: like honestly, being an entrepreneur going into a title or

1052
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 4: corporate setting is like crazy because you're just like they're

1053
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 4: doing background checks, they're doing all the things like you

1054
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 4: got training. But it's been beautiful. So I actually shout

1055
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 4: out to Jordan Gibbs and he and I met through

1056
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 4: his brother and family and friends and another guy named Yusaf.

1057
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 4: He was working with an incredible a three C festival

1058
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 4: that we used to have here in Atlanta. And he

1059
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 4: was just like, yo, I mean, we're hiring for this

1060
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 4: new positions position that I am now taking giving you

1061
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 4: over the role over to. And I was like, all right, well,

1062
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,959
Speaker 4: like I'm not really like you know, I mean, I'm

1063
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 4: I never really had into resume, but I had it,

1064
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 4: but like around college, and I would send that resume

1065
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 4: out and I would have a meeting. I would take

1066
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 4: a meeting with the label like Innerscope or people would

1067
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 4: actually set these things up with me, and then they'd

1068
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 4: be like, we can't, Like you deserve something bigger than

1069
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 4: this role, Like you're bigger than this. So it was like,

1070
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 4: how do I find a role that made sense for

1071
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 4: paigd schari Addison, Like what does it look like? And

1072
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 4: so I just got the role of the multicultural lifestyle

1073
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 4: Curator of Atlanta and that is, you know, encompassing not

1074
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 4: only representing the brand in all of my life and

1075
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 4: the lifestyle I have, but how that brand elevates, you know,

1076
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 4: and how I can continue bringing the elevation to the

1077
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:57,240
Speaker 4: brand through Atlanta's eyes right and in the right eyes.

1078
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 4: Like we don't have just hookah bars and lounges, like

1079
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 4: we have elevated experiences. We have we literally have screenings

1080
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 4: of movies that are doing numbers on you know, in

1081
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 4: different types of film, you know, the film world, you know,

1082
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 4: and I think that's just like beautiful to see. We

1083
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 4: have art, we have the Giants exhibit right now at

1084
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,359
Speaker 4: the Art you know the High Museum, like things that

1085
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 4: truly show the elevation of Atlanta. And so I'm ready

1086
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 4: and excited to be able to curate those experiences on

1087
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 4: alongside the other team members that I have. We have

1088
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 4: a team member Lester in Chicago. I'm the only female

1089
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,280
Speaker 4: on the team, so like I'm like a first lady.

1090
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 4: But Olmo and DC and then Jordan gives he's like

1091
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 4: now over he oversees all of it, and he's in

1092
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 4: Atlanta with me. So yeah, it's it's kind of it's

1093
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 4: kind of dope because it's like you kind of you're

1094
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 4: being you're showing up as yourself, you're showing up to learn,

1095
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 4: but you're also seeing how from a corporate standpoint, you know,

1096
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 4: how the in sides of things work, and how many

1097
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 4: teams there are to be able to just like grow,

1098
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 4: like they make it scared, they do it, and then

1099
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 4: there's this, and then they have that, and then there's that.

1100
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 4: Like it's incredible to watch.

1101
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, so congratulations first and foremost.

1102
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:21,959
Speaker 2: Some people might be sitting here watching this and saying,

1103
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 2: like she looks super familiar, like this, I know it

1104
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 2: from somewhere that they just can't.

1105
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 1: Figure it out.

1106
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 2: Maybe it wasn't best Fast, maybe some other summit, or

1107
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 2: maybe it was reality TV. So let's let's let's let's

1108
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 2: let's talk about the reality t TV situation. Uh, what

1109
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 2: you learned from it, how it might have helped or

1110
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 2: entered your brand.

1111
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's get into it.

1112
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 4: You know, I did a TV show. It was a

1113
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 4: dating show, and when I shot it, it was actually

1114
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 4: supposed to be on another it was gonna think it'supposed

1115
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 4: to be on the gage one. I don't remember. I

1116
00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 4: just remember that my friend Tam she's from Atlanta, one

1117
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 4: of my good homegirls from college, and we from Atlanta

1118
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 4: for real, Like you know, when you know each other,

1119
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 4: when you know you don't really have to go to

1120
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 4: the same high school to know people right in Atlanta,

1121
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 4: you like, you know, you kind of like have some

1122
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 4: of the the same friends and then you just kind

1123
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 4: of intertwine and she calls me up and the two questions,

1124
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 4: mind you, this was right around when I was hosting

1125
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 4: virvol So she's like, two questions, are you dating? And

1126
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 4: are you vaccinated? And I'm like, girl, like who asked

1127
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 4: questions like this, Like two important questions, two important questions

1128
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 4: that are just so like it's giving invasive. And so

1129
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm I'm vaccinated and I wasn't dating

1130
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 4: at the time, and so I think I was people

1131
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 4: were choosing to take, you know, to be in that

1132
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 4: role of yeah, we're seeing each other, but they weren't

1133
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 4: like understanding the value of having Paige Shari standing beside you.

1134
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 4: And I think there was something that was in me

1135
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 4: that was just like, yeah, I do it to show

1136
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 4: them all like you should have, you should have, could have,

1137
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 4: would have and now all those things wrong, wrong way

1138
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 4: to go into it. However, I also thought about my

1139
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 4: businesses and the things that of me as a personality,

1140
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 4: what I would want to do, So I think we

1141
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 4: should It was a twenty twenty one because I think

1142
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 4: you guys were like around when I was like, okay,

1143
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 4: you guys are just.

1144
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: Right before you said you were about to do it.

1145
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like I'm about to sign and y'all

1146
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,360
Speaker 4: were like, so you so you're doing it and I

1147
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 4: was like no, I'm literally about to sign the paperwork,

1148
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 4: like my lawyer is in here right now while I'm

1149
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 4: going on and off of stage for Revolt, and I

1150
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 4: was just like, you know, I got advice from all

1151
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,760
Speaker 4: different managers and friends and they were like, it can't

1152
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 4: really hurt, and I just did it and it was

1153
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:50,320
Speaker 4: a great experience, you know, two months, three months in Vancouver,

1154
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 4: you know, being with the girls, we just get we

1155
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 4: go on a hall. I found out, we just go

1156
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 4: on a hall. I didn't have any clue what reality

1157
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,280
Speaker 4: TV was, y'all. I really didn't. I watched I barely

1158
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 4: watched TV, like especially reality TV growing up, and so

1159
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 4: I didn't know what to expect. And all I'm thinking

1160
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 4: about is I'm gonna go in here. I'm going to

1161
00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 4: make sure I do what I need to do. I'm

1162
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 4: going in here as myself, and whatever happens happens. And

1163
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,919
Speaker 4: I had a good time. I did. I was very

1164
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 4: present and I focused a lot, didn't you know. Obviously

1165
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 4: you walk in a room full of men and you're like, okay,

1166
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 4: what's what's t Like, what's going on here? Like what

1167
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 4: are we doing? And then like they're like, literally, we're

1168
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 4: gonna set updates and you guys are just gonna go

1169
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 4: on them and you're gonna be seen in a light

1170
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 4: where you're supposed to be and so yeah, I uh, genuinely,

1171
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:49,320
Speaker 4: I just like walked in and there was this guy

1172
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 4: there and I was like, okay, he was pretty Yeah,

1173
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 4: it was crazy. I have to get that and I

1174
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 4: walked in and this guy was just like looking at me,

1175
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 4: and I was like, all right, I choose him, and

1176
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 4: like it wasn't like I had already. I didn't go

1177
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 4: into the experience the way I would have with knowing

1178
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 4: what I know now. But I definitely never regret anything

1179
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 4: I do because I'm like, that was what it was

1180
00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 4: supposed to be. It was I supposed to learn something,

1181
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to grow and it MTV ended up being

1182
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 4: the one that put it out. I was literally in

1183
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 4: a visa in Abita with Janelle at the time, my friend,

1184
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 4: and I'm like, they're like, three years later, we're about

1185
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 4: to put the show out and I'm like what. I'm like,

1186
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 4: I forgot all about that show. But I will say this,

1187
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 4: I I know now that if I were to do

1188
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 4: anything with reality TV or TV or film or anything

1189
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 4: ever again, it would need to be produced by me

1190
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 4: or at least on the production team. And I would

1191
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 4: want to truthfully have a hand in what people get

1192
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 4: to see, because I think the real is the most

1193
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 4: important part of reality and people don't. It's not as

1194
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 4: much you know, I think there are So.

1195
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: You don't think you were fairly portrayed?

1196
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 4: Oh I mean, I'm a crier, so I think I

1197
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,919
Speaker 4: think you know, they showed me crying. I'm gonna cry

1198
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 4: if anybody knows me out there, they know, hey, excuse me,

1199
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 4: Paige is gonna cry every time. And then I'm gonna

1200
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 4: get i'mna get to the business. I'mnna get down to

1201
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 4: everything I need to do. And that's how it went.

1202
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 4: It was like, okay, y'all, I did a TV show.

1203
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 4: Everybody relaxed, like yeah, I know, y'all are like, what when.

1204
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: Did you do this?

1205
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 4: When did you have time? And it's like, yeah, I

1206
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 4: did it. And then now we're here and let's continue,

1207
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 4: let's carry on.

1208
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: So do you think that helped you?

1209
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 4: I don't think it hindered. I think it was a

1210
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 4: moment in time that, like in your twenties, what you're

1211
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 4: you can do, you can do things that you're like, ah,

1212
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 4: I'm thirty now, I probably wouldn't do that, but like

1213
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 4: I did it. I don't regret it.

1214
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 3: I'm just asking.

1215
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:58,240
Speaker 4: No, I'm saying I don't. I don't think it helped

1216
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 4: nor hindered. I don't think it really. It was the experience,

1217
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 4: and I think that's what I do things for. I

1218
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 4: experienced life. I'm not choosing to do things for another

1219
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 4: person's like opinion on it. I'm just being And then

1220
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 4: you know, if I make a if I make a

1221
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 4: decision that I'm like, I wouldn't do anymore cool. The

1222
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 4: Gemini and Me is like, okay, moving on, Like there's

1223
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 4: five more people in me. We're continuing. The next person

1224
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 4: that you never met is here, and she's here like

1225
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 4: she's gotta roll at Gray Goose, you know, like she's

1226
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 4: she's I'm genuinely proud of the connection that I saw

1227
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 4: from black women when we it was three of us,

1228
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 4: but from the connection that a black women that we

1229
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 4: were able to get because we didn't get a ringion

1230
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 4: show and I produced one, and I felt like, you know,

1231
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 4: a lot of people had mixed emotions on why we

1232
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 4: did it, and I was like, look, I was like,

1233
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 4: it's okay, I'll give you guys an update on my life.

1234
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 4: I don't care, but I do want you guys to

1235
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 4: know that, like focus on understanding that, like, even if

1236
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,439
Speaker 4: my love story didn't work out like in the way

1237
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 4: you had hoped it to be or how I had

1238
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 4: hoped it to be, from this, like, don't ever think

1239
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 4: that it's not happening for you, or don't think it's

1240
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 4: not coming. I wanted it to be a hopeful thing.

1241
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,920
Speaker 4: I wanted it to be a joyous occasion, like I

1242
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 4: wanted it to be something of people understanding, like, first

1243
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 4: of all, black women deserve to be seen on all

1244
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 4: platforms like that in that light right, not where it's like, oh,

1245
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 4: we're going to be pulling each other hair out, we

1246
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 4: about to be arguing, We about to be doing some

1247
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 4: stuff that ain't got none to do with nothing, like

1248
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 4: we're genuinely trying. We genuinely all want the same things. Love, prosperity, abundance,

1249
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 4: enjoyment in life, money, and and to just settle down

1250
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 4: in the ways we want you know. So yeah, I really,

1251
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 4: like I said, it didn't hinder it. You definitely need

1252
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 4: to always have a plan when it comes out, And

1253
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 4: I wasn't able to have a plan, Like I wasn't

1254
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 4: able to be like, all right, let me set the

1255
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 4: pr up, let me make sure I got my product

1256
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 4: drop in on this or having my you know, like,

1257
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 4: I wanted to focus on that. And I think because

1258
01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 4: of the fact that the relationship didn't work out, I

1259
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 4: think people were kind of like well, I don't like,

1260
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 4: we want to know the story, like what happened. It's

1261
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 4: just like girl like y'all. Y'all never knew my like

1262
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 4: my insides of my life before. And I gave y'all

1263
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 4: this because it was something that was like an experience

1264
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 4: that I wanted to experience, not because I was like, oh,

1265
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 4: y'all gonna see it. No, I'm like I got different brands,

1266
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 4: I got different things that I want other than this

1267
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 4: to be the forefront of it.

1268
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 3: So you have it, well, I did it well, appreciate you.

1269
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 3: How can they how can they follow you?

1270
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: What?

1271
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 3: How can they get information on the company?

1272
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: Like what's all of it?

1273
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 4: Well for starters, I definitely want to make sure I

1274
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 4: shut out. My sister's children's book on investment in children's

1275
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 4: literacy even in India is coming out, and that one's

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Speaker 4: like the newer one, and that it is like so much.

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Speaker 4: She's got so many great things. But she really started

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Speaker 4: that because she was a school teacher. She was on

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Speaker 4: the school board, just seeing in the classroom in real time,

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Speaker 4: like how these kids genuinely didn't have any knowledge of

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Speaker 4: what to do with their like how what savings would

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Speaker 4: even look like? And I think she had a student

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Speaker 4: wants tell her, like, you know, her her sibling was

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Speaker 4: have like younger, you know, like a teenager was needing

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Speaker 4: to like go to school and had to drop out

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Speaker 4: of like high school to go pay for their parents' bills.

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Speaker 4: And so she was like, okay, Well the student said

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Speaker 4: that sec as a second grader, like I want to

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Speaker 4: learn about money. And so she just created that even

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Speaker 4: if she wasn't, she was learning as she was going

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Speaker 4: through her financial career, you know, you know status, she

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Speaker 4: just understood that that's something that they needed to learn

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Speaker 4: and have. So she had Savannash Savings Jar and now

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Speaker 4: she's on Ivan in India. She got the forward done

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Speaker 4: by Andrew Young and so that history of Atlanta and

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Speaker 4: the importance of kids seeing, you know, how what savings

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Speaker 4: look like at a young age is very important to

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Speaker 4: me and my family. So I definitely want to shout

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Speaker 4: that out. So Chelsea Addison, I'm in India, Savannah Saving

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Speaker 4: You know, if y'all got the if y'all got y'all

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Speaker 4: got the money, BC, let's let's talk it. Let's talk

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Speaker 4: about it. Let's talk it, talk about that's the shot

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Speaker 4: of Greg Goose for hiring a real one. And I

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Speaker 4: hope you guys come to the blocks giving tonight. I

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Speaker 4: really want you, I really want.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you have some conversations with them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh hey, let's talk because I'm the one

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Speaker 4: usual talk to.

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Speaker 1: That's how p s A.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that ps A coming to y'all live. I appreciate

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Speaker 4: y'all though.

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Speaker 3: All right, God, thank you for you.

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Speaker 1: Next week.

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