WEBVTT - Episode 203 "Pinky Cole" 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:13.440 Hold up, hold up, ladies, and this show. Hey, welcome 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.680 to the Followers Show. Podcasts available everywhere you get your podcast. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.720 I go up the name Ferry Simmons, past some cello, 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:26.439 you know, BT special guests in the building, baby and 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:37.080 Maddie is in the building, strip and she and she 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.120 came to us. I forget what episode, but it was 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.720 very early in the ball Alert Games the seventeen I 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.559 know because I remember I had what did I have to? 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:54.000 Did you get sled a fact? Step sp what's up? 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.880 What's up? What's up? What's up? You know. I'm just 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.840 happy to be here. You know, we're glad you pulled 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.560 up on this. So much has changed for um, that 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:02.560 first interview that we had with you, when you had 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.360 one food truck, you had no stores, no locations, yet 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:12.560 you literally had your first food truck. Now I got restaurants. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.840 So people still say slutty vegan. But I'm also the 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:23.280 founding CEO Barbie exactly whole bunch of snaps Co Foundation. Yeah, 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.040 I'm hoping up another concept, right man, we stop, stop, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.720 stop stop. You're a special guest hosting you're hosting the 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.680 show with us. Okay, alright, alright, okay, I'm gonna's Sue 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.319 taping you in the second. Wait, wait, suits, I want 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.280 to get to the show. Can we get started? Okay, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.160 we got to talk about making the Stadion and Tory 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.680 Lanes guys that you guys were following the case. I 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.280 can't listen to think he shot her or not he did. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.800 I don't like getting people business. But because I know 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:04.400 the background of the story, because I'm always on the blogs, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.800 what I will say is that you gotta be mindful 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.520 of who you consider your friends. Right, people that you 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.120 call your friends, they have to be an asset to 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.040 you and not a liability. You cannot be around me 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.200 if you're going to drain my battery every time you 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.920 come around. And that's it's not talking about Megan and 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.320 the other girl. I'm talking about people that you allow 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.880 in your atmosphere. If you're gonna be my atmosphere, I 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.760 gotta feel stronger and better after you leave me. If 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.359 I feel depleted and sad and upset, then that means 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.720 I need some new friends. So that's what I'll say 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.040 about that. It's a lot going on. I feel like 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.240 I'm watching Court TV on Instagram. Is gonna be a 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.600 Lifetime movie? Or something. I don't think it's gonna be 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:50.359 like this. His career is on the line, right, So yeah, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.760 but celebrities at this point, it's a reputation game, right, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:03:00.480 because the reputation is gonna bring you money. Who loses that? 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.440 Because y'all got us all on Instagram and we look 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.400 I feel like we're watching TV as well. I do 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.720 believe that all three people or I heard for Kylie 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.520 or Kylie, right, I do believe they all know the story, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.360 but everyone's saying something different to get this case this 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.000 mass they will throw this case out. Kylie Jenner paid 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:27.440 to not be I'm drinking out, paid not to be 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:32.000 in court. I was kind of washed, but you know, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.960 skin washed by the way I was gonna say. I 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.240 believe all four people know what happened, and they're just 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.680 throwing this whole thing off because it's gonna get a mystery. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.440 It's gonna be a mistrog I don't believe that they 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.600 we all know that. You think that Tory did not 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.120 shoot you? When you say that, wait, I think what 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.640 Licorate is involved. You don't know what the hell happened. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.160 They're about it did some ship when they drunk it 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:59.720 don't remember what happened to your team Tory Megan. Megan 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.480 came on I G Live and said, Tory shot me. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.200 The only thing I almost say was when I was 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.880 watching the case, they said that, uh, they said that 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.640 Tory lanes and not shoot her. So somebody shot. I 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.400 don't know who, because you don't think you don't think 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:20.159 shot her. I don't know, So I think let me 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.440 tell you all what I think. I think that overall 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.919 this is a takeaway for everybody outside of just a 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.080 friend thing, right, like from I don't even know the 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.040 back story because that ain't my business, but I'm being 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.920 nosy so I know a little bit about it. But 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.919 I really feel like this is a lesson to everybody 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.560 that what you do when you're intoxicated ken and will 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.480 work against you in the court of law. And that's 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.640 the track. Yeah, like, be mindful of what you do. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.160 You are not exempt just because you're a celebrity. And 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.880 we did find out that Megan and her friends slept 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.440 with Tory, Yeah, and then we found out that Ben 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.520 Simmons did too. But I put in and that safe listen, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.599 because I'm now on the side of defense, right, and 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.960 a lot of things that I've think about me on 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:08.719 the internet. Okay, come on, Vegan, that's what the text wasn't. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.600 What would you do if the burger really wasn't? It's 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.960 still good? Oh, that would be my whole career, you 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.599 know how I'm saying, like so many people that have 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.760 different articles and put stuff out about celebrities, myself included. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.720 And I don't even consider myself a celebrity, but I'd 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.040 be like, I did not say that your celebrity accepted 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.880 with influence. Okay, but yeah, ship don't always be real 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.120 on the internet, right, So like you gotta take it 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.600 for face value. So just because y'all think that they 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.280 had sex, they probably didn't. Who knows, unless she was 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.359 the condomore, the penis that was there, how you go? Okay? 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:48.520 But Megan went on Ellen she was that was Oprah's 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.480 frying gil Gil and said, I did not sleep with 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.640 Tory Lanes And then come to find out she sleep 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.440 with Tory Lanes. Well, first of all, we knew she 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:02.839 was pausing the interview. They actually yeah, we already she 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.600 denied it, but it came out of court. That's the 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.400 thing I love about court because it's all about what 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.919 you can prove, and you have to tell the truth. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:10.920 I don't know what Kelsey thought she was doing. Well, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:15.080 now you don't don't have you purchase yourself like Kelsey 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:20.480 is doing, but you will serve time for that toomunity 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.239 still overseas, did you guys see moving right along London 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.719 on the tracks served his baby mama ebony child support 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.080 papers in a Christmas box? Did you guys see that 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:37.120 damn that he custody of his child with her. This 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.840 is the one that goes back and forth. They're cool 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.039 and then they they're not cool. They're cool and they're 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.960 not cool often. I don't want to talk about man fatherhood, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.200 but it just don't see shouting out to dad's that 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:51.719 co parents, to dads that like do the right thing, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.919 shout out to people that don't got to be together 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.599 but they could be friends and take it in right. Like, 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.120 you don't really see a lot of that now, but 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.039 when you see it, it's rare. But us exist and 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.720 it sucks that, like kids gotta grow up in the 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.640 midst of the battle between parents. Like I see people 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.719 that I know personally that go back and forth. It 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.560 really don't even be about the kids. It's the fact 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.240 that they really want to be with and they're mad. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.200 So it's an emotional connection that they haven't healed from. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.400 And as a result of that, the kids get spied, right, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.560 And that's not fair to the children, because that's what happens. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.440 They grow up feeling Daddy listen and mommy list and 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.560 then be out and be grown. And they'd be looking like, oh, 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.720 they're too damn grown. That's because they were trying to 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.480 figure out, like who's paying attention to me? That's literally 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.920 what happens. So I haven't seen that, but you know, 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.840 it just sucks it. You know. I hope the rumors 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.320 about him are not true. I hope he is a 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.080 present father. I hope he's not verbally abusive or you know, 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.600 emotionally abusive. But I just don't understand, like why now 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.640 I want to have primary custody of the child? Like 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.680 why now? Is it a fight? Is it you mad 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.240 about something? Like what's the problem? How you gonna take 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.960 everybody London? Where you dontall? You donna be home be 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.920 outside doing everything else? Going to the street. Right back 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:04.480 with more of The Baller Alert Show. You're listening to 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.960 a special edition of The ball Or Alert Show. Hey, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.320 what's up? It's your girl, Pinky, co founder and CEO 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.200 of the world famous Slutty Vegan a t L. And 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.120 you were locked in to the ball Alert show available 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.240 wherever you can get your part. We are bad with 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.480 the ball or show. Pinky is in the builder. How 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.280 it's going now, it's coming very good. I told my 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.120 route and my friends um that I'm considering being the 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.240 vegan what you got, I've just been. I've been feeling 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.640 real bad every time I eat red meat and bothering 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.959 me really bad. Okay, I'll be a coach. Really, how 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.280 do you coach someone it's a vegan vegan is, so 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.720 I don't coach vegan is and my coach mindset right, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.120 So it really starts with your mindset, like you want 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.079 to get up and work out and do something different 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.880 with yourself. It starts right here. That's what you told me. Yeah, 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.400 you can get this all day long. You can say 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:52.800 you should have, could have, would have, But who cares 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.120 about that? If your mind nate made up, It's like 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.440 being in a bad relationship. When you're ready to go, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.000 your mind gotta be made up. Otherwise you're just gonna 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.719 sit there and wallowing it. So when it comes to 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.320 veganism and change your lifestyle. You start small, make up 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.160 your mind that you want to feel better, you want 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.319 to look better, So then start removing pork. If you 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.959 eat pork, then go to beef, then go to turkey, 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.800 then go to chicken, then go to fish. Then take 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.200 our cheese and then allow you look up in your cheese. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:25.440 You can do cheese because it's vegan regular cheese. Like 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.040 vegetarianism more better, you know, just pestutarian. You could be 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.920 pestutarian and pestarian still eat fish. Even if you don't 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.520 want to go vegan. People feel like you gotta go 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.760 vegan just to like be right. Just that's not true. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.520 Like vegan is like level ten, you know. To me, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:42.920 it's level five. I feel like the ultimate form of 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.800 like dietary living is being raw vegan, and I haven't met. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:53.200 raw vegan. You don't raw vegetables, raw and vegetables. That's 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:58.000 nothing cooked everything living fruits and vegetables. That's it. And 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:04.040 that is the highest level. They lived before all of this, 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.199 before that, before they had materials to do that, they 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:19.480 were eating fruits and vegetables. It was probably eating anyway. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:23.000 How long have you been beating almost ten years. I 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:27.600 haven't eaten chicken since two thousand seven, so I was 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.920 doing it before it was cool. My mom is a Rosterfarian, 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.920 so I grew up mostly vegetarian. Yeah, so like I've 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.920 been a part of his lifestyle since I was a kid. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:40.240 We're just making so I ate rising peace every guy, Okay, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.000 rice and peas and beans, and I tell food and 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.000 she's Rastafarian and so like we ate very very clean. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.400 Like people laughing at me. I didn't grow up eating candy. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.720 I ain't never had a cavity in my life. Yeah, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.720 I didn't grow up eating candy, didn't grow up going 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.200 to McDonald's, didn't grow up eating burgers. So the fact 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.800 that I got a burger joint, like my family laughed, like, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.120 how do you got a burger join? You didn't even Yeah, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.600 it's it's vegan comfort food, right, which is cool because 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.559 it gives an opportunity to meet people where they are. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.120 So we put a pen in it. Earlier when we 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.480 first started the show, you said that you have you 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.560 know about Sluddy Vegan. We know about our Vegan, we 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.680 know about eat Plants Bitch the book, we know about 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.160 the tour. We know about the session. What is this 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.640 new project? You kind of hinted at it earlier, so 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.360 it's very new. Okay, let's talk about it. And this 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.080 is my first interview as breaking with us. This is 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.839 like breaking, like breaking breaking. I'm not gonna say it. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.679 I'm just geting hint. Okay. But it rounds with breakfast 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:43.240 to breakfast, breakfast, I said breakfast. Oh okay, got it, 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.440 got it, got it. We are ready for that. Okay. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.920 Is this a food truck situation? Is this a location 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:55.719 given Vegan waffle house energy. I'm down with that. I'm 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:01.120 down with extra. It's a cool kind said when you started, 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.079 you have to come back. Will come back because you 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.320 know they are confirming on camera now, and I might 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:15.719 just bring the breakfast excited. You know what the most 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.599 exciting piece of it is is like now you know 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.319 how you got an idea and then you need all 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.560 of these things to execute the idea, like I can 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.199 execute I think of something today and tomorrow. It really 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.760 is manifesting itself. Like literally every single day I come 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.160 up with an idea, I make a phone call, this 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:32.960 what I want to do, put it together, and it's together. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.719 That's the best. That's success. To me, that's the best 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:45.640 feeling in the world about that must be up. And 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.280 you know why because I work my ass off this 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:53.719 here right saw it when I had fucking sauce on 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:59.199 my ship busted and dusted. Now I can afford to 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:00.680 do all the things that I want to do because 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.840 I put in the work right, and I wasn't lazy 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.480 and putting in the work and I never I'm still 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.079 not comfortable. That's why I went. Y'all said I was 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.520 a celebrity. I'm like, no, I'm not nowhere near where 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.840 I want to be. I feel like I'm not doing enough. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.839 You understand what I'm saying. Yeah, like I'm still I'm like, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.120 I still got work to do. But you got here. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.439 Before you got here. We were talking about all of 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.360 these accomplishments, right, like I mean, awards, just all types 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.520 of recognition. We were like, her team has to be 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.640 absolutely immaculate, like we see the social media post they 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.959 want for example that that literally is stuck in my brain. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.560 When Rihanna put out her Super Bowl announcement with her 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.199 hand holding football, it was like two minutes later the 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.240 Slutty Vegan page had Rihanna's hand holding a Burger and 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.920 I was like, yo, her team is too quick. How 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.199 big is your team? So so far? Now on a 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:53.160 slutty began side, I got three fifty employees and Barbiegan 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.920 I got sixty five employees. Shout out my board, Jason Craig, 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.560 who you just made the president? I just promoted Jason 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.640 to press to that. And it's funny because Jason and 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.480 I have been friends for a long time. So when 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.559 I first went vegan, and he was around me and 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.439 he was like, that's stupid. Why are you going vegan? 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:15.760 So mad? And look full circle moment now he's but yeah, man, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:22.680 you know it has just been who's the question? Okay. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.040 So so my team, my core team has been with 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.200 me for since the very beginning, so they know me. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.880 They think like pinky, move like pinky talk like I 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.200 don't have to tell them what to do because they 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.360 get it right. So like we'll get in a session 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.800 and just build like we're just vibing, talking ship, acting 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.160 crazy and coming up with ideas and it's always raw 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.640 and original and authentic. And I always said, if it 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.680 don't feel authentic, don't do it. It can't feel like 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.200 it gotta feel like real tangible, like you're talking to 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.000 your friend when you're talking to the business. I like 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.160 to say the slutty Vegan is the girl that went 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.320 to school in to auc they got a j D. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.400 But still like the club on the weekend, she smoke 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.720 we a little bit. Nobody knows, you know what I'm saying, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.760 But like she goes to branch On on Sundays, like 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.280 that is what slutty Vegan is. But go to church 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.320 sometimes it depends on who want to go right, Like 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.520 that is who she gets. And in order to build 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.600 that persona, you gotta have people that are dedicated to 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.280 the brand. I don't look at the people on my 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.760 team as employees. I look at them as people who 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.400 are helping me build this empire. And that's how you 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.080 get people to really want to go hard for you 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:23.880 and they believe in me. That's what I was gonna 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.200 say to I feel like whenever you step into a 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.480 Slutty Vegan location, even even bar Vina, but for me, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.560 Slutty Vigan I probably frequent the most, especially as the 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.120 location that's my vibe. For these people to maintain such 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.520 a high level of energy, I feel like it's because 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.600 they do believe in you. I feel like they want 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.680 to support you. Yes, it's a job, Yes I'm clocking in, 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.160 Yes I need to check. I'm here to work for money. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:49.520 But their energy is like on ten every time. And 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.280 I really think it's because they believe in you. People 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.000 are happy to be there. Yeah, and it's and it's 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:54.640 my energy to now we have had a couple of 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:59.840 bad amples, okay, but what I also realized is they 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.240 atch my energy because when when I communicate in exchange 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.360 with them, they understand. I'm like, if you're not happy, 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.040 go home. I don't want you on the floor. Like, 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:08.840 if you're not gonna give me big energy, you can't 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.920 be here. You're saying, pull up to your locations. Do 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.080 you randomly do that? How do you? So? We have 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.600 something called club culture, right, and that's our monthly staff meetings. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.680 And then the monthly staff meets you can bring a 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.400 friend and what that is is a party, like we 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.520 have a whole party where like we han' torque contests, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.800 like it's just slutty began vibe. But then the staff 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.960 meeting and we highlight people, we show them love. I 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.280 do surprise promotion, so like you don't get a letter 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.040 and say hey, you got promoted, Like we room full 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.320 of people like, hey, I need someone so to come up. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.800 You just got promoted. Like That's the kind of energy 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.080 and the vibe that most companies don't have. So it 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.280 keeps them on the on the edge of the seat, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.160 like my moment that is coming. And because people feel 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.560 like their moment is coming, they're always gonna work hard always. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.080 And not only that, you blessed them with equity. Some 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.400 of their employees like that, so they feel like they're 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.320 actually a part of the business that you're growing. And 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.120 um the equity And on Slutty Vegan page, if you 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.600 know how the same dance rap act your artist, you 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:08.080 get highlighted on the page. We got almost a million followers, right, 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.280 so imagine to get highlighted if you got real, true talent. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.480 That's a level of exposure for you to be able 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.760 to follow your dreams and still be a Slutty Vegan. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.880 So this is also a vessel to get to where 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.960 you want to be. And when I first started this company, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.240 I'm like, I'm not making Slutty Vegan for money. I've 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.800 always made money. I've always been a hustler, right, Like 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:28.959 I always I'm a magnetode. I'm gonna get it by 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.200 any means necessary. I do not sit down and like 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.280 wait for money to like just you gotta go no, no, no, no, 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.200 I get it. I go out and get it. But 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.399 what I realized and this company is I was very 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.560 intentional about it and passionate about building something that people 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.240 will be like, damn, like this lady from East Baltimore. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.720 Build something so special that the world is talking about. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.680 And as a result of that, now the money is coming. Yeah, 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:59.920 and it's looking like a huney million dollars. So you're 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.320 actually have a hundred million dollars. But let me tell you, 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.320 let me tell you that's the question. Let me tell 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.359 you a hundred million having a company value that a 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.000 hundred million dollars means today or tomorrow. If I decided 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:15.280 to say, you know, I don't feel like doing this 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.080 no more, I can find a private equity firm and 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.760 negotiate with them against that amount. Because we've already done 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.439 the man, We've already known the paperwork. Legally, my company 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.679 is valued at a hundred million dollars. Right, So if 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.520 I go to a private equity company and said, listen, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.879 I want to sell my company for a hundred hundred 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.600 fifty million dollars. They can either say no or they 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.720 can say, well, yeah, we believe so based on where 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:38.600 we are yesterday, where we are today, and when we 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.400 would be tomorrow. But my company is gonna be valued 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.520 that a billion dollars A mind a million at enough 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.680 you understand what I'm saying. And it's not just about 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.879 the money. It's the fact that I'm really going to 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.359 exceed the metric that you haven't really seen a lot 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.880 of black people do a lot of black women anyway 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.600 do so today it's at a hundred million. Asked me 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.560 again in like two years, So a question, how do 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.840 you pay your locations? Like, I know you got Brooklyn 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.000 and Harlem and you know who said this guy said 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.359 that there's no black people in Birmingham. That's okay, girl, 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:15.320 he said, people are everywhere in Burmham station. I passed 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.600 through the gas station. She was not at the right place. 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.000 There's a lot of black um, So that's a good question. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.080 So it's not just black people that East Slutty vegan to. 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.879 Just so you know, I know, it's a lot of 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:34.080 white people. East Slutty Vegan. I've been there before so 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.639 Slutty Vegan. So I'm very intentional about the locations right. 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.159 So like the Burmenham location, I boot that building for 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:48.200 seventy two buildings for seventy six thousand dollars cash, and 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.399 it was an area that nobody really goes to, like 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.480 real quiet, but I knew that if I brought slutty 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.200 Vegan over there, I could raise the value of the 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.760 community and I can help the business owners that are 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.000 there make money because if I got a line, then 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.879 they've benefit off the And I realized when we do 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.480 more locations like that, that's what we are able to 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.840 capitalize and golf a bid something ever happened to Sludy 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.680 Vegan on the dirt, I want to build it. So 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.680 I'm intentional about where it is that I put slightly 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.600 vegan and in real time, y'all, it sounds crazy, but 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:17.840 I go to the location that we're scouting and I 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:19.760 stand in and I gotta feel it, and it gotta 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.280 feel right in my spirit because I'm an impath and 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.159 if it don't feel right, then I can't do it. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.480 And when I say feel right, I'm like, I can't 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.280 feel anxious. There can't be no anxiety. Around me, like 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.800 it gotta feel clear and it gotta feel pure, and 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.960 that's kind of how I choose. Are you getting any 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.240 pushback in some of these locations, Like are some of 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.399 the local business owners like, hold on, this line is 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:45.480 out of control? Yeah? My first location and already was 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.520 like that, um, but it has since evolved, like people 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:50.359 want to be around sluty Vegan because they know that 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.440 they can also capitalize off the business. Okay, okay, time out, 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:58.400 time out, time out it you're in love? Yeah, yeah, 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.679 I'm trying to make a smile real quickly. You are 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:10.000 in love with this man? Yeah, a fellow. You can't tell? 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:14.879 We got two kids? That's love. How did this? How 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.520 did this start? What happened? Because this guy does not 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.920