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Speaker 1: I go up the name Ferry Simmons, past some cello,
Speaker 1: you know, BT special guests in the building, baby and
Speaker 1: Maddie is in the building, strip and she and she
Speaker 1: came to us. I forget what episode, but it was
Speaker 1: very early in the ball Alert Games the seventeen I
Speaker 1: know because I remember I had what did I have to?
Speaker 1: Did you get sled a fact? Step sp what's up?
Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? What's up? You know. I'm just
Speaker 1: happy to be here. You know, we're glad you pulled
Speaker 1: up on this. So much has changed for um, that
Speaker 1: first interview that we had with you, when you had
Speaker 1: one food truck, you had no stores, no locations, yet
Speaker 1: you literally had your first food truck. Now I got restaurants.
Speaker 1: So people still say slutty vegan. But I'm also the
Speaker 1: founding CEO Barbie exactly whole bunch of snaps Co Foundation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping up another concept, right man, we stop, stop,
Speaker 1: stop stop. You're a special guest hosting you're hosting the
Speaker 1: show with us. Okay, alright, alright, okay, I'm gonna's Sue
Speaker 1: taping you in the second. Wait, wait, suits, I want
Speaker 1: to get to the show. Can we get started? Okay,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about making the Stadion and Tory
Speaker 1: Lanes guys that you guys were following the case. I
Speaker 1: can't listen to think he shot her or not he did.
Speaker 1: I don't like getting people business. But because I know
Speaker 1: the background of the story, because I'm always on the blogs,
Speaker 1: what I will say is that you gotta be mindful
Speaker 1: of who you consider your friends. Right, people that you
Speaker 1: call your friends, they have to be an asset to
Speaker 1: you and not a liability. You cannot be around me
Speaker 1: if you're going to drain my battery every time you
Speaker 1: come around. And that's it's not talking about Megan and
Speaker 1: the other girl. I'm talking about people that you allow
Speaker 1: in your atmosphere. If you're gonna be my atmosphere, I
Speaker 1: gotta feel stronger and better after you leave me. If
Speaker 1: I feel depleted and sad and upset, then that means
Speaker 1: I need some new friends. So that's what I'll say
Speaker 1: about that. It's a lot going on. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm watching Court TV on Instagram. Is gonna be a
Speaker 1: Lifetime movie? Or something. I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like this. His career is on the line, right, So yeah,
Speaker 1: but celebrities at this point, it's a reputation game, right,
Speaker 1: because the reputation is gonna bring you money. Who loses that?
Speaker 1: Because y'all got us all on Instagram and we look
Speaker 1: I feel like we're watching TV as well. I do
Speaker 1: believe that all three people or I heard for Kylie
Speaker 1: or Kylie, right, I do believe they all know the story,
Speaker 1: but everyone's saying something different to get this case this
Speaker 1: mass they will throw this case out. Kylie Jenner paid
Speaker 1: to not be I'm drinking out, paid not to be
Speaker 1: in court. I was kind of washed, but you know,
Speaker 1: skin washed by the way I was gonna say. I
Speaker 1: believe all four people know what happened, and they're just
Speaker 1: throwing this whole thing off because it's gonna get a mystery.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a mistrog I don't believe that they
Speaker 1: we all know that. You think that Tory did not
Speaker 1: shoot you? When you say that, wait, I think what
Speaker 1: Licorate is involved. You don't know what the hell happened.
Speaker 1: They're about it did some ship when they drunk it
Speaker 1: don't remember what happened to your team Tory Megan. Megan
Speaker 1: came on I G Live and said, Tory shot me.
Speaker 1: The only thing I almost say was when I was
Speaker 1: watching the case, they said that, uh, they said that
Speaker 1: Tory lanes and not shoot her. So somebody shot. I
Speaker 1: don't know who, because you don't think you don't think
Speaker 1: shot her. I don't know, So I think let me
Speaker 1: tell you all what I think. I think that overall
Speaker 1: this is a takeaway for everybody outside of just a
Speaker 1: friend thing, right, like from I don't even know the
Speaker 1: back story because that ain't my business, but I'm being
Speaker 1: nosy so I know a little bit about it. But
Speaker 1: I really feel like this is a lesson to everybody
Speaker 1: that what you do when you're intoxicated ken and will
Speaker 1: work against you in the court of law. And that's
Speaker 1: the track. Yeah, like, be mindful of what you do.
Speaker 1: You are not exempt just because you're a celebrity. And
Speaker 1: we did find out that Megan and her friends slept
Speaker 1: with Tory, Yeah, and then we found out that Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons did too. But I put in and that safe listen,
Speaker 1: because I'm now on the side of defense, right, and
Speaker 1: a lot of things that I've think about me on
Speaker 1: the internet. Okay, come on, Vegan, that's what the text wasn't.
Speaker 1: What would you do if the burger really wasn't? It's
Speaker 1: still good? Oh, that would be my whole career, you
Speaker 1: know how I'm saying, like so many people that have
Speaker 1: different articles and put stuff out about celebrities, myself included.
Speaker 1: And I don't even consider myself a celebrity, but I'd
Speaker 1: be like, I did not say that your celebrity accepted
Speaker 1: with influence. Okay, but yeah, ship don't always be real
Speaker 1: on the internet, right, So like you gotta take it
Speaker 1: for face value. So just because y'all think that they
Speaker 1: had sex, they probably didn't. Who knows, unless she was
Speaker 1: the condomore, the penis that was there, how you go? Okay?
Speaker 1: But Megan went on Ellen she was that was Oprah's
Speaker 1: frying gil Gil and said, I did not sleep with
Speaker 1: Tory Lanes And then come to find out she sleep
Speaker 1: with Tory Lanes. Well, first of all, we knew she
Speaker 1: was pausing the interview. They actually yeah, we already she
Speaker 1: denied it, but it came out of court. That's the
Speaker 1: thing I love about court because it's all about what
Speaker 1: you can prove, and you have to tell the truth.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Kelsey thought she was doing. Well,
Speaker 1: now you don't don't have you purchase yourself like Kelsey
Speaker 1: is doing, but you will serve time for that toomunity
Speaker 1: still overseas, did you guys see moving right along London
Speaker 1: on the tracks served his baby mama ebony child support
Speaker 1: papers in a Christmas box? Did you guys see that
Speaker 1: damn that he custody of his child with her. This
Speaker 1: is the one that goes back and forth. They're cool
Speaker 1: and then they they're not cool. They're cool and they're
Speaker 1: not cool often. I don't want to talk about man fatherhood,
Speaker 1: but it just don't see shouting out to dad's that
Speaker 1: co parents, to dads that like do the right thing,
Speaker 1: shout out to people that don't got to be together
Speaker 1: but they could be friends and take it in right. Like,
Speaker 1: you don't really see a lot of that now, but
Speaker 1: when you see it, it's rare. But us exist and
Speaker 1: it sucks that, like kids gotta grow up in the
Speaker 1: midst of the battle between parents. Like I see people
Speaker 1: that I know personally that go back and forth. It
Speaker 1: really don't even be about the kids. It's the fact
Speaker 1: that they really want to be with and they're mad.
Speaker 1: So it's an emotional connection that they haven't healed from.
Speaker 1: And as a result of that, the kids get spied, right,
Speaker 1: And that's not fair to the children, because that's what happens.
Speaker 1: They grow up feeling Daddy listen and mommy list and
Speaker 1: then be out and be grown. And they'd be looking like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're too damn grown. That's because they were trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, like who's paying attention to me? That's literally
Speaker 1: what happens. So I haven't seen that, but you know,
Speaker 1: it just sucks it. You know. I hope the rumors
Speaker 1: about him are not true. I hope he is a
Speaker 1: present father. I hope he's not verbally abusive or you know,
Speaker 1: emotionally abusive. But I just don't understand, like why now
Speaker 1: I want to have primary custody of the child? Like
Speaker 1: why now? Is it a fight? Is it you mad
Speaker 1: about something? Like what's the problem? How you gonna take
Speaker 1: everybody London? Where you dontall? You donna be home be
Speaker 1: outside doing everything else? Going to the street. Right back
Speaker 1: with more of The Baller Alert Show. You're listening to
Speaker 1: a special edition of The ball Or Alert Show. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? It's your girl, Pinky, co founder and CEO
Speaker 1: of the world famous Slutty Vegan a t L. And
Speaker 1: you were locked in to the ball Alert show available
Speaker 1: wherever you can get your part. We are bad with
Speaker 1: the ball or show. Pinky is in the builder. How
Speaker 1: it's going now, it's coming very good. I told my
Speaker 1: route and my friends um that I'm considering being the
Speaker 1: vegan what you got, I've just been. I've been feeling
Speaker 1: real bad every time I eat red meat and bothering
Speaker 1: me really bad. Okay, I'll be a coach. Really, how
Speaker 1: do you coach someone it's a vegan vegan is, so
Speaker 1: I don't coach vegan is and my coach mindset right,
Speaker 1: So it really starts with your mindset, like you want
Speaker 1: to get up and work out and do something different
Speaker 1: with yourself. It starts right here. That's what you told me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can get this all day long. You can say
Speaker 1: you should have, could have, would have, But who cares
Speaker 1: about that? If your mind nate made up, It's like
Speaker 1: being in a bad relationship. When you're ready to go,
Speaker 1: your mind gotta be made up. Otherwise you're just gonna
Speaker 1: sit there and wallowing it. So when it comes to
Speaker 1: veganism and change your lifestyle. You start small, make up
Speaker 1: your mind that you want to feel better, you want
Speaker 1: to look better, So then start removing pork. If you
Speaker 1: eat pork, then go to beef, then go to turkey,
Speaker 1: then go to chicken, then go to fish. Then take
Speaker 1: our cheese and then allow you look up in your cheese.
Speaker 1: You can do cheese because it's vegan regular cheese. Like
Speaker 1: vegetarianism more better, you know, just pestutarian. You could be
Speaker 1: pestutarian and pestarian still eat fish. Even if you don't
Speaker 1: want to go vegan. People feel like you gotta go
Speaker 1: vegan just to like be right. Just that's not true.
Speaker 1: Like vegan is like level ten, you know. To me,
Speaker 1: it's level five. I feel like the ultimate form of
Speaker 1: like dietary living is being raw vegan, and I haven't met. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: raw vegan. You don't raw vegetables, raw and vegetables. That's
Speaker 1: nothing cooked everything living fruits and vegetables. That's it. And
Speaker 1: that is the highest level. They lived before all of this,
Speaker 1: before that, before they had materials to do that, they
Speaker 1: were eating fruits and vegetables. It was probably eating anyway.
Speaker 1: How long have you been beating almost ten years. I
Speaker 1: haven't eaten chicken since two thousand seven, so I was
Speaker 1: doing it before it was cool. My mom is a Rosterfarian,
Speaker 1: so I grew up mostly vegetarian. Yeah, so like I've
Speaker 1: been a part of his lifestyle since I was a kid.
Speaker 1: We're just making so I ate rising peace every guy, Okay,
Speaker 1: rice and peas and beans, and I tell food and
Speaker 1: she's Rastafarian and so like we ate very very clean.
Speaker 1: Like people laughing at me. I didn't grow up eating candy.
Speaker 1: I ain't never had a cavity in my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up eating candy, didn't grow up going
Speaker 1: to McDonald's, didn't grow up eating burgers. So the fact
Speaker 1: that I got a burger joint, like my family laughed, like,
Speaker 1: how do you got a burger join? You didn't even Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's vegan comfort food, right, which is cool because
Speaker 1: it gives an opportunity to meet people where they are.
Speaker 1: So we put a pen in it. Earlier when we
Speaker 1: first started the show, you said that you have you
Speaker 1: know about Sluddy Vegan. We know about our Vegan, we
Speaker 1: know about eat Plants Bitch the book, we know about
Speaker 1: the tour. We know about the session. What is this
Speaker 1: new project? You kind of hinted at it earlier, so
Speaker 1: it's very new. Okay, let's talk about it. And this
Speaker 1: is my first interview as breaking with us. This is
Speaker 1: like breaking, like breaking breaking. I'm not gonna say it.
Speaker 1: I'm just geting hint. Okay. But it rounds with breakfast
Speaker 1: to breakfast, breakfast, I said breakfast. Oh okay, got it,
Speaker 1: got it, got it. We are ready for that. Okay.
Speaker 1: Is this a food truck situation? Is this a location
Speaker 1: given Vegan waffle house energy. I'm down with that. I'm
Speaker 1: down with extra. It's a cool kind said when you started,
Speaker 1: you have to come back. Will come back because you
Speaker 1: know they are confirming on camera now, and I might
Speaker 1: just bring the breakfast excited. You know what the most
Speaker 1: exciting piece of it is is like now you know
Speaker 1: how you got an idea and then you need all
Speaker 1: of these things to execute the idea, like I can
Speaker 1: execute I think of something today and tomorrow. It really
Speaker 1: is manifesting itself. Like literally every single day I come
Speaker 1: up with an idea, I make a phone call, this
Speaker 1: what I want to do, put it together, and it's together.
Speaker 1: That's the best. That's success. To me, that's the best
Speaker 1: feeling in the world about that must be up. And
Speaker 1: you know why because I work my ass off this
Speaker 1: here right saw it when I had fucking sauce on
Speaker 1: my ship busted and dusted. Now I can afford to
Speaker 1: do all the things that I want to do because
Speaker 1: I put in the work right, and I wasn't lazy
Speaker 1: and putting in the work and I never I'm still
Speaker 1: not comfortable. That's why I went. Y'all said I was
Speaker 1: a celebrity. I'm like, no, I'm not nowhere near where
Speaker 1: I want to be. I feel like I'm not doing enough.
Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. Yeah, like I'm still I'm like,
Speaker 1: I still got work to do. But you got here.
Speaker 1: Before you got here. We were talking about all of
Speaker 1: these accomplishments, right, like I mean, awards, just all types
Speaker 1: of recognition. We were like, her team has to be
Speaker 1: absolutely immaculate, like we see the social media post they
Speaker 1: want for example that that literally is stuck in my brain.
Speaker 1: When Rihanna put out her Super Bowl announcement with her
Speaker 1: hand holding football, it was like two minutes later the
Speaker 1: Slutty Vegan page had Rihanna's hand holding a Burger and
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, her team is too quick. How
Speaker 1: big is your team? So so far? Now on a
Speaker 1: slutty began side, I got three fifty employees and Barbiegan
Speaker 1: I got sixty five employees. Shout out my board, Jason Craig,
Speaker 1: who you just made the president? I just promoted Jason
Speaker 1: to press to that. And it's funny because Jason and
Speaker 1: I have been friends for a long time. So when
Speaker 1: I first went vegan, and he was around me and
Speaker 1: he was like, that's stupid. Why are you going vegan?
Speaker 1: So mad? And look full circle moment now he's but yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you know it has just been who's the question? Okay.
Speaker 1: So so my team, my core team has been with
Speaker 1: me for since the very beginning, so they know me.
Speaker 1: They think like pinky, move like pinky talk like I
Speaker 1: don't have to tell them what to do because they
Speaker 1: get it right. So like we'll get in a session
Speaker 1: and just build like we're just vibing, talking ship, acting
Speaker 1: crazy and coming up with ideas and it's always raw
Speaker 1: and original and authentic. And I always said, if it
Speaker 1: don't feel authentic, don't do it. It can't feel like
Speaker 1: it gotta feel like real tangible, like you're talking to
Speaker 1: your friend when you're talking to the business. I like
Speaker 1: to say the slutty Vegan is the girl that went
Speaker 1: to school in to auc they got a j D.
Speaker 1: But still like the club on the weekend, she smoke
Speaker 1: we a little bit. Nobody knows, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: But like she goes to branch On on Sundays, like
Speaker 1: that is what slutty Vegan is. But go to church
Speaker 1: sometimes it depends on who want to go right, Like
Speaker 1: that is who she gets. And in order to build
Speaker 1: that persona, you gotta have people that are dedicated to
Speaker 1: the brand. I don't look at the people on my
Speaker 1: team as employees. I look at them as people who
Speaker 1: are helping me build this empire. And that's how you
Speaker 1: get people to really want to go hard for you
Speaker 1: and they believe in me. That's what I was gonna
Speaker 1: say to I feel like whenever you step into a
Speaker 1: Slutty Vegan location, even even bar Vina, but for me,
Speaker 1: Slutty Vigan I probably frequent the most, especially as the
Speaker 1: location that's my vibe. For these people to maintain such
Speaker 1: a high level of energy, I feel like it's because
Speaker 1: they do believe in you. I feel like they want
Speaker 1: to support you. Yes, it's a job, Yes I'm clocking in,
Speaker 1: Yes I need to check. I'm here to work for money.
Speaker 1: But their energy is like on ten every time. And
Speaker 1: I really think it's because they believe in you. People
Speaker 1: are happy to be there. Yeah, and it's and it's
Speaker 1: my energy to now we have had a couple of
Speaker 1: bad amples, okay, but what I also realized is they
Speaker 1: atch my energy because when when I communicate in exchange
Speaker 1: with them, they understand. I'm like, if you're not happy,
Speaker 1: go home. I don't want you on the floor. Like,
Speaker 1: if you're not gonna give me big energy, you can't
Speaker 1: be here. You're saying, pull up to your locations. Do
Speaker 1: you randomly do that? How do you? So? We have
Speaker 1: something called club culture, right, and that's our monthly staff meetings.
Speaker 1: And then the monthly staff meets you can bring a
Speaker 1: friend and what that is is a party, like we
Speaker 1: have a whole party where like we han' torque contests,
Speaker 1: like it's just slutty began vibe. But then the staff
Speaker 1: meeting and we highlight people, we show them love. I
Speaker 1: do surprise promotion, so like you don't get a letter
Speaker 1: and say hey, you got promoted, Like we room full
Speaker 1: of people like, hey, I need someone so to come up.
Speaker 1: You just got promoted. Like That's the kind of energy
Speaker 1: and the vibe that most companies don't have. So it
Speaker 1: keeps them on the on the edge of the seat,
Speaker 1: like my moment that is coming. And because people feel
Speaker 1: like their moment is coming, they're always gonna work hard always.
Speaker 1: And not only that, you blessed them with equity. Some
Speaker 1: of their employees like that, so they feel like they're
Speaker 1: actually a part of the business that you're growing. And
Speaker 1: um the equity And on Slutty Vegan page, if you
Speaker 1: know how the same dance rap act your artist, you
Speaker 1: get highlighted on the page. We got almost a million followers, right,
Speaker 1: so imagine to get highlighted if you got real, true talent.
Speaker 1: That's a level of exposure for you to be able
Speaker 1: to follow your dreams and still be a Slutty Vegan.
Speaker 1: So this is also a vessel to get to where
Speaker 1: you want to be. And when I first started this company,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not making Slutty Vegan for money. I've
Speaker 1: always made money. I've always been a hustler, right, Like
Speaker 1: I always I'm a magnetode. I'm gonna get it by
Speaker 1: any means necessary. I do not sit down and like
Speaker 1: wait for money to like just you gotta go no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I get it. I go out and get it. But
Speaker 1: what I realized and this company is I was very
Speaker 1: intentional about it and passionate about building something that people
Speaker 1: will be like, damn, like this lady from East Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Build something so special that the world is talking about.
Speaker 1: And as a result of that, now the money is coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's looking like a huney million dollars. So you're
Speaker 1: actually have a hundred million dollars. But let me tell you,
Speaker 1: let me tell you that's the question. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you a hundred million having a company value that a
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars means today or tomorrow. If I decided
Speaker 1: to say, you know, I don't feel like doing this
Speaker 1: no more, I can find a private equity firm and
Speaker 1: negotiate with them against that amount. Because we've already done
Speaker 1: the man, We've already known the paperwork. Legally, my company
Speaker 1: is valued at a hundred million dollars. Right, So if
Speaker 1: I go to a private equity company and said, listen,
Speaker 1: I want to sell my company for a hundred hundred
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. They can either say no or they
Speaker 1: can say, well, yeah, we believe so based on where
Speaker 1: we are yesterday, where we are today, and when we
Speaker 1: would be tomorrow. But my company is gonna be valued
Speaker 1: that a billion dollars A mind a million at enough
Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying. And it's not just about
Speaker 1: the money. It's the fact that I'm really going to
Speaker 1: exceed the metric that you haven't really seen a lot
Speaker 1: of black people do a lot of black women anyway
Speaker 1: do so today it's at a hundred million. Asked me
Speaker 1: again in like two years, So a question, how do
Speaker 1: you pay your locations? Like, I know you got Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and Harlem and you know who said this guy said
Speaker 1: that there's no black people in Birmingham. That's okay, girl,
Speaker 1: he said, people are everywhere in Burmham station. I passed
Speaker 1: through the gas station. She was not at the right place.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of black um, So that's a good question.
Speaker 1: So it's not just black people that East Slutty vegan to.
Speaker 1: Just so you know, I know, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: white people. East Slutty Vegan. I've been there before so
Speaker 1: Slutty Vegan. So I'm very intentional about the locations right.
Speaker 1: So like the Burmenham location, I boot that building for
Speaker 1: seventy two buildings for seventy six thousand dollars cash, and
Speaker 1: it was an area that nobody really goes to, like
Speaker 1: real quiet, but I knew that if I brought slutty
Speaker 1: Vegan over there, I could raise the value of the
Speaker 1: community and I can help the business owners that are
Speaker 1: there make money because if I got a line, then
Speaker 1: they've benefit off the And I realized when we do
Speaker 1: more locations like that, that's what we are able to
Speaker 1: capitalize and golf a bid something ever happened to Sludy
Speaker 1: Vegan on the dirt, I want to build it. So
Speaker 1: I'm intentional about where it is that I put slightly
Speaker 1: vegan and in real time, y'all, it sounds crazy, but
Speaker 1: I go to the location that we're scouting and I
Speaker 1: stand in and I gotta feel it, and it gotta
Speaker 1: feel right in my spirit because I'm an impath and
Speaker 1: if it don't feel right, then I can't do it.
Speaker 1: And when I say feel right, I'm like, I can't
Speaker 1: feel anxious. There can't be no anxiety. Around me, like
Speaker 1: it gotta feel clear and it gotta feel pure, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of how I choose. Are you getting any
Speaker 1: pushback in some of these locations, Like are some of
Speaker 1: the local business owners like, hold on, this line is
Speaker 1: out of control? Yeah? My first location and already was
Speaker 1: like that, um, but it has since evolved, like people
Speaker 1: want to be around sluty Vegan because they know that
Speaker 1: they can also capitalize off the business. Okay, okay, time out,
Speaker 1: time out, time out it you're in love? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make a smile real quickly. You are
Speaker 1: in love with this man? Yeah, a fellow. You can't tell?
Speaker 1: We got two kids? That's love. How did this? How
Speaker 1: did this start? What happened? Because this guy does not
Speaker 1: do anything well? And from what I have seen, that
Speaker 1: was Vegan? No correct, No, well actually how let you
Speaker 1: through the d M? So he did the menu and
Speaker 1: bar vegan. So so I actually slaid at his DMS.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait wait wait, I slaid at his d
Speaker 1: m s as a support system. Got it? Okay, So
Speaker 1: y'all remember when the George Floyd riots? What happened? So
Speaker 1: I sent him let me rewind? So my friends was like,
Speaker 1: it's this boy and Atlanta. He from Philly and he
Speaker 1: got the same kind of lines you've got, and everybody
Speaker 1: talking about him, like, how do you talking about Slidy Vegan?
Speaker 1: You need to find out who he is. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't care about me something beat like us.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would never date a guy that
Speaker 1: that made me. That's just not who I yeah, like right.
Speaker 1: So so when the George Rights happened, somebody broke the
Speaker 1: glass in his window. So I sent him a message
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, I'm sorry about what happened. Is
Speaker 1: there anything that I could do, you know, business to business.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that you're cool. And he
Speaker 1: was like, he was like, you know, I'm good, thank you.
Speaker 1: I've already gotten a lot of help, so I'm good. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, I love what you're doing in the community.
Speaker 1: So we had that little moment and he was like,
Speaker 1: you know, let's Bill, let's go to lunch or something.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, cool. So we went to lunch
Speaker 1: and some flower camfacta vegan and then he had vegan.
Speaker 1: That was his first time eating vegan, and he did
Speaker 1: not like it, but he tried to like it because
Speaker 1: I was there, so it was him and his cousin
Speaker 1: gon ar Rest his soul Um. And when we went inside,
Speaker 1: we were talking and we just connected. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: like on like I love you. It was just like,
Speaker 1: this is somebody that I know it's going to be
Speaker 1: in my life, professional like. It was just somebody like
Speaker 1: a good local business owner, right, and then we just
Speaker 1: really started having a genuine friendship and then it evolved
Speaker 1: into something else. And then I look up and I
Speaker 1: got pregnant three what I don't know that I not bad.
Speaker 1: They can figure it out, but yeah, we are pregnant
Speaker 1: three months after we mat I'm like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: a thing. And it's interesting because I didn't even think
Speaker 1: that I could have kids. And I got pregnant the
Speaker 1: first time, and then six weeks after I had that baby,
Speaker 1: I got pregnant again. So now we got a five
Speaker 1: month old and a seventeen month old. Will you have
Speaker 1: any more? Or is that I'm not having any more kids?
Speaker 1: And I'm happy with He already has two, so I
Speaker 1: got four total, my bonus babies. Um, but you know
Speaker 1: what I'm happy about. I've been pregnant for the last
Speaker 1: two years and I've done a lot, right, I've opened
Speaker 1: up a lot of businesses. I've bought a lot of
Speaker 1: real estate. I've done a whole lot while being pregnant.
Speaker 1: And I salute need mother who one is a single
Speaker 1: mother in a relationship and pregnant and getting up and
Speaker 1: going to get it every single day. It is not easy.
Speaker 1: And the fact that I was able to do it
Speaker 1: with a support system is like such a blessing. But
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it again. You're such a cheerful giver,
Speaker 1: and it just seems like you know everything in your
Speaker 1: life aligns with you giving, even with your fiance. You know,
Speaker 1: you call to give something. With your businesses, you call
Speaker 1: to give something. And I feel like that's why you
Speaker 1: you will hit that billion dollar marks, because it's gonna
Speaker 1: be there from my mom. Um. Yeah, I love my mom.
Speaker 1: She's actually here helping us raise the kids. But my
Speaker 1: mother when I was a kid. You understand, right, because
Speaker 1: your family is all right, So yeah, so my mom
Speaker 1: will help everybody. Like if you got to ask and
Speaker 1: she helping you, you need someone to sleep, she can
Speaker 1: help me. I'm like, hello, you don't even know, that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's just it's just so when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I didn't understand it. So Christmas came around
Speaker 1: for us and we would be getting hand me down
Speaker 1: to like Walmart stuff, and like why she was helping
Speaker 1: everybody else And I'm like, well, what about us? But
Speaker 1: what I realized is my mother was so selfless and
Speaker 1: I was learning along the way and I didn't even
Speaker 1: know it until I became an adult. So me helping people,
Speaker 1: that's bigger than money for me, right, I do, well,
Speaker 1: I make money, right, but the fact that I can
Speaker 1: help somebody situation and make them better people that are grateful,
Speaker 1: not lazy people, right, Like I'm not just helping people
Speaker 1: they just don't want to get off the butt, right,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about people that deserve a chance, they just
Speaker 1: never got that chance. Like that feels good to me
Speaker 1: to be a resource to somebody who really really needs it,
Speaker 1: and it brings me a different level of joy. I'm
Speaker 1: saying money can't buy that, And that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Our house off, the house that I grew up and
Speaker 1: I paid it off, and at that moment, like did
Speaker 1: she see it coming? She didn't. It's funny because I
Speaker 1: called him like hi, and it was like yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: the morget I act like my mother at her and
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, it's gonna whatever, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm no, I just want to pay the bill. They
Speaker 1: like the whole bill. I wanna pay the whole thing off,
Speaker 1: a whole house off. That's that's some Boston. She was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sech a fan. I'm like, girl, pay this bill paying.
Speaker 1: But you know, she was excited. My mother came here
Speaker 1: as an immigrant. She got her citizenship when I was
Speaker 1: thirteen years old, so like she's never even imagined to
Speaker 1: see something like this to somebody that came out of
Speaker 1: her womb. A man's this level of success. Sometimes they're
Speaker 1: just like, listen, get a good job two weeks. I
Speaker 1: didn't way more than that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I had student loans two hundreds something else and student loans,
Speaker 1: picked up the phone and called and paid it on
Speaker 1: one check, and she was the co signer on them.
Speaker 1: So like all the things that I've been able to
Speaker 1: do is really because I wanted to show my mom that,
Speaker 1: like I don't you don't have to work, you ain't
Speaker 1: gotta do nothing else. You could just sit and look
Speaker 1: pretty and help me take baby. That's it. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make sure that you're good. So she's like speaking
Speaker 1: of your mom. She was a musician once upon a time,
Speaker 1: still live, Oh she still does. Okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 1: And she's a singer okay, and you got the bars though,
Speaker 1: you know, right, Funny. I grew up in a musical household,
Speaker 1: so my two brothers were producers, music producers. So like
Speaker 1: I got an air, you know how some people just
Speaker 1: got I know, a good hit. I can listen to
Speaker 1: a whole album of songs and tell you what the
Speaker 1: single was gonna be. And I'm always right. I've always
Speaker 1: had that ear, but I just never pursued it totally.
Speaker 1: I could sing a little bit, like I could do
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything, and um, it's funny. When
Speaker 1: I got the opportunity to do BT site, guess right.
Speaker 1: I think he blew everybody on the water with that,
Speaker 1: like nobody saw what's up and it was thank you.
Speaker 1: It was so fun to do that. And then I
Speaker 1: got like over a million impressions. You were saying like
Speaker 1: it was the total package. Yeah, man. And then then
Speaker 1: I got the opportunity of going with Swaye and do
Speaker 1: the same thing. Oh my gosh, that was so you
Speaker 1: know how many rappers in the world dream of going
Speaker 1: on swear was like that my wildest dreaming. This wasn't
Speaker 1: even your dreaming together. Now yeah, right now, mark my words,
Speaker 1: I said it today, I'm going to get signed to
Speaker 1: a label and I'm not a rapper, I'm a poet
Speaker 1: or you can starts already have mine. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a joint partnership with whoever, because collaboration is the key.
Speaker 1: My my motto for two was collaboration is king um
Speaker 1: and I did a lot of really good collaborations this
Speaker 1: year in partnerships, so I'm crossing that over thee. But
Speaker 1: like something big gonna have that it just needed. This
Speaker 1: might just do a motivational EPI going to work from
Speaker 1: the time you again, from two thousand seventeen to today,
Speaker 1: right now, are you sitting in this chair just to
Speaker 1: see because we had we had a front row seat.
Speaker 1: We had a front row seat of seeing you accomplish
Speaker 1: all these spectacular things. And probably I appreciate that her
Speaker 1: right there. I wanted to know nothing about you, for
Speaker 1: was one of the first people that I stared absolutely yeah,
Speaker 1: the first I was like slutty Vegan. We gotta y'all
Speaker 1: gotta try to whatever. You kept saying whatever like a
Speaker 1: bigger I was like, I promise you is wire, Like
Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all we gotta get on the show. Like
Speaker 1: and I'm just so proud, man, I'm telling you, like,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud. Similar energy. Yeah, you've been consistent the
Speaker 1: very first time that I mettioned. You know, I'm very energy,
Speaker 1: and you are just so pure like, um no, I
Speaker 1: really resonate with you, like when you say you have
Speaker 1: to go to the location and feel it, Like I
Speaker 1: am one hundred percent that person. So I'm just it's
Speaker 1: exciting to see you collaborate the hell out of some collaboration. Yes, Scott, okay,
Speaker 1: it's hard to motivate me. You motivated that funk out
Speaker 1: of me today. Try to see how you do it.
Speaker 1: I ain't even got no kids, and I'm like, lord,
Speaker 1: I'm tired. Here you go. You know why, because giving
Speaker 1: up throwing in the tower is not an option. Right
Speaker 1: when I think about my success, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that's rooting for me. But I'm sure there's some
Speaker 1: people in the wings it is waiting for me to fail,
Speaker 1: so they But I didn't think about them, and that
Speaker 1: win is making sure that I'm building financial freedom and
Speaker 1: wealth for my children. Let me interrupt you politely because
Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question. I know we're
Speaker 1: running close on time. We talked about all the success, right,
Speaker 1: but I know it had to be some discouragement sometimes
Speaker 1: in there, and we talk about that because you know,
Speaker 1: we were big on mental health. We're big on overcoming
Speaker 1: objections and transgressions. Do you care to talk about Absolutely? So,
Speaker 1: I've been faced with a lot of demons, people in
Speaker 1: the flesh who have tried to destroy my brand because
Speaker 1: they couldn't set sit next to me. That comes in
Speaker 1: the form of trying to sue me, trying to extort me.
Speaker 1: I got there's so much stuff that that has happened
Speaker 1: and happening in the real time where people are trying
Speaker 1: to literally eject my joy for their benefit, right. And
Speaker 1: I had to really get to a mental place of
Speaker 1: peace because I understand why people who are in alarme
Speaker 1: like just fall off from the world, because you can
Speaker 1: have your very best friend next to you and become
Speaker 1: your enemy just that quick. So I'm making sure that
Speaker 1: I'm protected, and what protection looks looks like for me
Speaker 1: is making sure I got India's, making sure I got
Speaker 1: confidentiality agreements, making sure that I'm really lawyer it up
Speaker 1: because something hit the fan. I got people that are
Speaker 1: going to protect me and protect the business. It's unfair
Speaker 1: sometimes because I'm such a good person, Like, ain't nobody
Speaker 1: gotta tell me that, Like, like I do right by people,
Speaker 1: I don't wrong nobody. I'm fair, I'm honest. So I
Speaker 1: laid my head down on that white every single night
Speaker 1: and I sleep clean because I do the right thing.
Speaker 1: Everybody is not that way. Um, And people will take
Speaker 1: advantage of your goodness. And I've been taking advantage of
Speaker 1: plenty of times, but God, I always got me. Um.
Speaker 1: And as an entrepreneur that's building a multimillion dollar company
Speaker 1: for the first time, because this is my first time
Speaker 1: I've been doing this, I'm still trying to figure life out.
Speaker 1: So I'm being faced with people wanting to claim parts
Speaker 1: of my business. People who are wanting to take ownership
Speaker 1: just because they were employed by me and felt like
Speaker 1: they went above and beyond and that like they have
Speaker 1: earned something that I didn't give them. Right, I have
Speaker 1: people say that like part of that business is mine.
Speaker 1: I was in the room when you created it. Like
Speaker 1: I've had people say I got this. If you don't
Speaker 1: give me this, I'm gonna put this on the internet.
Speaker 1: Like that is happening in real time, and it's very
Speaker 1: unfair because I'm a very open book and I'm such
Speaker 1: a good person. But it happens to the best of us,
Speaker 1: and it's just a battery on my back. I feel
Speaker 1: like Popeye, like every every time something happens, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen often, but it's like a ricochet when it
Speaker 1: does has happened. So I keep my circle very tight.
Speaker 1: I'm with my best friends, I'm with my boyfriend, my husband,
Speaker 1: talk about baby Daddy, my husband. But I want to
Speaker 1: specifically talk to the entrepreneurs in the room and people
Speaker 1: who are listening to this. Success is a very beautiful,
Speaker 1: scary roller coaster ride, and you have to be mentally
Speaker 1: prepared to take all that comes with it, the good
Speaker 1: the bad. I don't went through like twenty thousand assistance
Speaker 1: at this point because everybody in a grizzly bear like me, right,
Speaker 1: So you gotta understand that as long as you've got
Speaker 1: mental piece, you're gonna be all right. And everything that
Speaker 1: you do in the business that you dream about and
Speaker 1: think about. As long as you're consistent with that thing,
Speaker 1: you're going to start to see the fruits of the labor.
Speaker 1: And I'm finally now in starting to see the fruits
Speaker 1: of my labor. I feel that wholeheartedly. You you deserve it.
Speaker 1: You work so hard, and that's a giving. What does
Speaker 1: the vacation look like when the last time you took
Speaker 1: a vacation crazy? So I came back turks and cakeos
Speaker 1: three days ago. The whole time I was on vacation,
Speaker 1: I came up with the idea of the sas on vacation,
Speaker 1: clearly because you were posted about it just a few days.
Speaker 1: And what I say that this is I really love
Speaker 1: slutty Veacan. Like this is not a job for me,
Speaker 1: So like business is what I do in my past time.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite pastime. Like I love to research, I
Speaker 1: love to create. I'm a creator, Like I'm a thinker.
Speaker 1: Like if we sit here like for hour, we don't
Speaker 1: came up with like thirty ideas, Like that's who I am.
Speaker 1: So a vacation for me is when I could do
Speaker 1: what I just did, step away and like come up
Speaker 1: with a really good multimillion dollar business, which I know
Speaker 1: this next one is going to be um and that's
Speaker 1: kind of like where I get my juice from. Oh no,
Speaker 1: you like that, but I just feel yourself. I'm just
Speaker 1: so proud. You know, you got good energy than you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank your light to this community. I mean
Speaker 1: I think you inspired people from one in the other
Speaker 1: world to the other end. You're inspiring people who probably
Speaker 1: feel like they couldn't get a job because of their records.
Speaker 1: You're actually helping them out. You're a mentor to so
Speaker 1: many that you probably don't even know. People are claiming
Speaker 1: you as their mentor. I take it right, like, congratulations,
Speaker 1: thank you. We'll be right back. Stay tuned with more
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Speaker 1: is my nugget for today. You gotta get about that seat.
Speaker 1: When I say you gotta get upbout that seat, you
Speaker 1: gotta move like there's fire underneath of you. I started
Speaker 1: this concept in eighteen as an idea to help me
Speaker 1: fulfill something for myself. What I didn't realize is I
Speaker 1: was building a multimillion dollar company that was helping people
Speaker 1: to reimagine food. But in order to get to where
Speaker 1: I wanted to be, I had to get up out
Speaker 1: my seat. I had to not get comfortable at what
Speaker 1: was happening around me just because I had a popular business.
Speaker 1: I had to keep going, even in the moments when
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like it, or even in the moments
Speaker 1: when people say just take a break, to stop going.
Speaker 1: I had to make sacrifices and eliminate the wrong people
Speaker 1: out of my life. That's relationships, that's friendships, that's professional relationships.
Speaker 1: I had to get clear and get focused and get
Speaker 1: up out that seat. Oftentimes a lot of us get comfortable.
Speaker 1: I want to sit down and relax and say I'll
Speaker 1: do it tomorrow, I'll do it the next day. I
Speaker 1: feel like a goddamn Everest commercial. You need to get
Speaker 1: up and do it right now. That seat is not
Speaker 1: for you to sit in. You sit in that seat
Speaker 1: when your story is written, when your story is told,
Speaker 1: when you've helped communities, when you have money in your
Speaker 1: bank account, that's when you take the seat. But right
Speaker 1: now there's fire under the seat. You gotta like that
Speaker 1: match so that you can get up and keep going,
Speaker 1: even in the moments when you don't want to. I've
Speaker 1: gotten out of my seat and now I have a
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