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My next guest 34 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: as an actress, comedian and entrepreneur, her the Coca Brown Collection, 35 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: is a high I'll be turned passion turn calls during 36 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: this pandemic. With no acting gigs, comedy, stand up club 37 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: dates or TV film role to play right now, how 38 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: is she making money? Because these times are not working 39 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 1: for me. She's most notably known for her lead role 40 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: in Tyler Paris, The Single Mom's Club and for Better 41 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 1: or Worse, Please work on the money making conversation to 42 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: hilarious comedian actress Coco Brown, Hey, how are you to 43 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: get all that out? I'd set you up? No, I 44 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: come on now, you know, because you got a big 45 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: restI I had to like go through and pick what 46 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: I thought would be noteworthy. Because you got a body 47 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: of work that's fantastic. But let's go to the beginning, 48 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: because you know you hit straight heart with me, but 49 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: the stand up comedy and uh, it's such a male 50 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: dominated field. So how did you get started? And how 51 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: did you start carving out your brand? Coca? You know 52 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: it's study. Um, I never, Emili years, thought I would 53 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: be a comedian. I mean, you know, I wanted growing up. 54 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: I wanted to be Clay Hustable and I don't I know, 55 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: she wasn't a real character, but in my mind she was. 56 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 1: She was. She was achievable. So when I graduated college, Um, 57 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: I had done some internships and gotten the job, and 58 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: a friend of mine, who thought I was I thought 59 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: I was funny all through college introduced me to a 60 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: guy who owned a comedy club in d C. And 61 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: a barbecue, and I guess he had told him about me, 62 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: and he was like, man, she's really funny. So this 63 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: thing I know, He's invited me down the open NC. 64 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: I've never been afraid of the stage. I've been acting 65 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: and doing theater since I was ten. But um, I 66 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: went down to his club. I didn't open mic night. 67 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: It was a very interesting night because I thought you 68 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: had to try to be a comic, and I learned 69 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: quite quickly that trying to be a comic and being 70 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: a comic are two different things. Um. But when I 71 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: realized they weren't laughing at me trying to be a comic, 72 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: and I just started rambling about the fact that I 73 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: really worked at Ringland Brothers and I had a real job, 74 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: and the crowd begin to laugh. That's when I realized 75 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: that people liked what's real, like what's real and relatable 76 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: with what's funny. So um, it kind of beat me. 77 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: I thought it was fun. I thought it was gonna 78 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: be like a hobby, but it turned out to be 79 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: um more so of a career because I ended up 80 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: getting a mentor Darcel. The fact Dr blaichmat who recently 81 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: passed away. God rest his soul. But he mentored a 82 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: lot of DC comics, you know, Martin Lawrence, Tommy Davis 83 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: and Bive Chappelle, Donnelle Roblins. I could go down the 84 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: line and um, he took me under his wing, and 85 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: he taught me the game. He taught me the business. 86 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: And um, after a while, I realized that it took 87 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: it took my boss at Ringling Brothers to see something 88 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 1: in me that I hadn't seen. She actually gave me 89 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: the option of either quitting or her firing me because 90 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: she had come to one of my shows and she said, 91 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: you're wasting your time in this cubicle. You have a 92 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: true talent ring Brothers. I was working for Greenland Brothers 93 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 1: corporate officers. Yes, in Virginia in the average some big 94 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: elephants and you know, I'm just talking that's the office. 95 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: But no, I don't know. I knew you weren't in 96 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: the circus. I'm just saying, but that's the brand that 97 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: you were representing elephants, clowns and trappy artists. And here 98 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: you are, just energetic, funny. Your friend been laughing at 99 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: you all through college. He's been laughing at so much. 100 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: He introduced you to the owner of a club at 101 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: a barbecue, which is funny in itself. Okay, exactly exactly. Hey, 102 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: come on here, he was like, she needs to be 103 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: a comment stoptious. Come over here, girl, put down that streep. 104 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: Come on here, peach color, come on here. There, I 105 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: guess funny here she's funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny. 106 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: Now so, and I know that's how I started to 107 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: stand up. You know, you go on stage. It's not 108 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: about being nervous. It's about a new experience and you 109 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: don't know what to do. You know. I just went 110 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: on stage and I worked up some some things I 111 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: thought were funny, and they did laugh at it. So 112 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: that didn't help out the next step, which is to 113 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: get back on stage again. And so it really it 114 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: really allows for you to grow as a person. But 115 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: like you said, but that wasn't your first love. Being 116 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: on stage as an actress was your first love? Correct? Yeah? Yeah, 117 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: when I was ten years old. Um, my fifth grade 118 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: teacher Ms. Marshall, who so much love for it because 119 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: she didn't even realize what she was doing it. She 120 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: put me the lead in a play in the fifth grade. 121 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: I had so many lines and that was my first time, 122 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: and everybody was like, oh my god, like you should 123 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: be an actress, Like you were so good, you know, 124 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: but in the fifth grade, in the fifth grade, in 125 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: the fifth grade, yeah, just slaying in the fifth grade 126 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: in the fifth grade. Yeah, my grandmother made my costume 127 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: and everything. Um. But you know, coming from such a 128 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: traditional Southern family, that was not an option. I was 129 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: used to go to school, get good grades, getting the 130 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: good college. Mae guy, get married, have some babies, and 131 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 1: come home to my parents of your Sunday for dinner. 132 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: I wouldn't most to be in the Hollywood, but you did. 133 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: You did to go to college. You got your degree? 134 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: Now did you get got two degrees? So you highly educated? 135 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: You high And what are degrees? What are degrees at 136 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: what college? I have a bachelor's and mass communications with 137 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: a focus and advertising, and I have a master's in 138 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: secondary education. And we're college University of Scenic DC GE, 139 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: Commonwealth University with undergrad and University of Phoenix with graduates. 140 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: Now we got all that that good education behind you 141 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: got all how you started? Now did you go on 142 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: the road being a comic first, or did you move 143 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: to be an actress first? What did you do? I 144 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,679 Speaker 1: would have the road to be a comic first. Um, 145 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: that was just an adventure when I look back at 146 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: some of the crazy stuff I did, like work at 147 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: eight hour day and Ringland brothers, get in my car 148 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: at six pm at night, drive to New York to 149 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: do a couple of open mics and drive back to Maryland, 150 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: or back to Maryland where I lived, and being worked 151 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: the next morning by eight I couldn't imagine doing that 152 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: now I would die. But back then I was doing 153 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: it three or four times a week, like it was 154 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: nothing right where you had to I know that I 155 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: worked for the IBM, and I was be on stage 156 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: three or four o'clock in the morning. And sometimes because 157 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: you know, when you're doing an open micaela comic, you 158 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: know it's a line of it could be comments on 159 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: that list, and you know and so and last spreads 160 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: can make their set longer as well. You know, so 161 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: so really so when you talk about effort and you 162 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: talk about dreams, that's why I'd like to talk about 163 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: this on the show, is about you know, there are 164 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 1: no guarantees that there's a plan but what is guaranteed. 165 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: If you want to be successful, you have to put 166 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: forth the effort. You have to make sacrifice. And that's 167 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: what you're talking about. That drive up, you know, and 168 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: we know that drive back was scary, you know, worrying 169 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: about falling to sleep, worrying about what I'm making on town, 170 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: a lot of fraying, put your head out the window 171 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 1: to stay awake, you know, driving with the air condition though, 172 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: all kind of slapping yourself, all that kind of stuff 173 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: you were doing on a regular basis there. Way, I 174 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: know because I did those techniques because I was crazy, 175 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: just trying to get to that dream. Didn't know what 176 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: your dream was, but just trying to get to that dream. 177 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 1: And so exactly so, so now you're going to New York. 178 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: You just starting to get your wheels on the your Now, 179 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:25,479 Speaker 1: when did your first big break come? Coacer Brown? Um, Honestly, 180 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: I think the first big break that got me noticed 181 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: was showtime to the Apollo when they were doing the 182 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: comedy t KO and I went five rounds before I 183 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: got eliminated. Um that got me noticed by a lot 184 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: of people in terms of management, promoters, clubs, things like that. Um, 185 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: So I started working heavily, and then um, I would say. 186 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: The next one after that most was Tyler Perry's for 187 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: Better or Work. M Now, how did you get there? 188 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: Because Tyler's always getting new talent a shot. So did 189 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: you auditioning forward or your hand pick four? How did that? 190 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: Tyler is so influential. I've known it for a lot 191 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: of years, and I will He's never he loves giving 192 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: giving young people a shot. A first time actor to 193 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: tell us about that experience, it's studdy. I auditioned for 194 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: for Better or Worse, not knowing that Tyler had seen 195 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: me at a comedy club in l a like about 196 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: a year before that, and he had said that, you know, 197 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 1: he wanted to you know, he he told me, he goes. 198 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 1: When I saw you, I said, wow, I want to 199 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: work with her. But at the time I didn't have, 200 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: you know, a project, he said. But when I got 201 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: for Better. You know, when I wrote for Better or 202 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: Worse and you came in the audition, I immediately remembered you, 203 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: he said, And basically at that point you had the part. 204 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: It was just because she acts, he goes, and you 205 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: killed that audition so much. I didn't have to see 206 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: anybody else after you. So you you're not knowing you 207 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: got Now that's some pressure. Now that's some unknown pressure. 208 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: Because I went in just auditioning like anybody else. I 209 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: didn't know that he had already seen me, right, so 210 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: and knew of my work. I had no idea he 211 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: knew of my work. 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That's O T T 248 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: E R dot ai. How many episodes did you do 249 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: for Better Work? Hundred and one hundred and sixty seven 250 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: hundred and six seven. Now what did that do for 251 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 1: your brillin as a stand up comic? Now? Now you 252 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: black people know your Now you know Coca Brown, Coca Brown. Now, 253 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: how how did the reaction start? Could you? Were you 254 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: selling that Dayton comedy closed and small venues? How did 255 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: that reaction start for you? And then when did you 256 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: start noticing people knew who you were and was reacting 257 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: to you Coco? And it was probably after like the 258 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: second season for Better or Worse? When you know, when 259 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 1: the first season I was more so, you know, I 260 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: wasn't in every episode. When we came back to the 261 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: second season, Tyler had me in all the episodes and 262 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: that's how it remained, uh, from that day forward that 263 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: my character Jennifer was in all the episodes and people 264 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: begin to recognize me as Jennifer. And so when I 265 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: began to you know, run around that time when I 266 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: started to really get into comedy clubs and the improblems, 267 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: the Funny Bones and stuff started letting me in for 268 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: a weekend, not just Black Knight, you know, and so 269 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: and so I told them to specifically advertise it as 270 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: Jennifer from Pyler Perry for Better or Worse. Well, when 271 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: I say it packed the room, I mean Tyler Perry 272 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: has a shoot. I mean you can't even put a number, 273 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: and then you say that you're a part of one 274 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: of his shows as a character that just opened up. 275 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: I mean people would lined up. And to this day, 276 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: even with me now getting a fan base for mine 277 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: one one on the Fox, which is which is a 278 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: whole different fans drama, which is a drama exactly the 279 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: For Better or Worse fans are so loyal they still 280 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: come out to my shows, pack out the shows. Always 281 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: asked me if the show is gonna come back. So, 282 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 1: I mean it definitely impacted my career, especially my stand 283 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: up career. I mean, to this day, if I put 284 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: from Tyler Perry's single Moms Club and For Better or Worse, 285 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: I can guarantee three quarters, if not more than club 286 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: going to pack with black folks coming in to see 287 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: black Cocole brown, Cocobe brown and excuse me and latinos 288 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: Latinos a huge fans. I'm talking about that on the 289 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: social media and when come back, I'm gonna we're gonna 290 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: get to the entrepreneurship side of Coco Brown. This is 291 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. You're listening to money making conversation. You see 292 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: on that one one that's a little drama. You see 293 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 1: on the single Moms Club, that's a big move. You've 294 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: seen on for Better Work, that's a hundred sixty seven 295 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: sitcom episodes. She's big time and she's on money make 296 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: a conversation. That's Coca Brown. Hi. This Rashan McDonald and 297 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: you're listening to money making conversations. She's still on the line. 298 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: I've kepful for two breaks, Tyler Perry, you know, move back, 299 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: ras Sean McDonald gotta now. We got rashand got Coca Brown. Now, 300 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: you know, we talked about how she started. We talked 301 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: about being a stand up, which is the beauty of 302 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: being a stand up and an actresses because you can 303 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: make money before another opportunity comes to you. And that's 304 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: what that's the beauty of being a stand up. And 305 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: that's what she talks about. She talked about in the 306 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: Entrepreneur she's out there. She a business woman, you know, 307 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: And a lot of people look at stand ups as talent, 308 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: but really we're business people because we got a book 309 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: out days. We gotta hustle out days. We gotta sometimes 310 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: we're out there at the club. We gotta book on 311 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: our travel, hotel room, feed ourselves. If you get big enough, 312 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: you gotta get security and limos and car services and 313 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: all these things. So when you become a stand up, 314 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: the early stages of a stand up, you are a 315 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: small business. You are an entrepreneur, and you are self employed, 316 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: and so you already had that skill set down pad 317 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 1: when you became a working actress. Now now it's like 318 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 1: when you're in this time, now that we all got 319 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: caught off guard by this, by this pandemic, what are 320 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 1: you doing to uh, you know, keep yourself focused, to 321 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: be able to plan because we know it's gonna end. 322 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: We know we're gonna get back out in the streets. 323 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 1: We know we're gonna get back out in the clubs, 324 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: We're gonna get back in the arenas. What are you 325 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: doing right now during this period, Coca? You know, I 326 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 1: am hustling my other businesses. I mean, it has been 327 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 1: crazy that what has started out as hobbies have now 328 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 1: become my main source of income. I have a c 329 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: D D business called the Coca Brown Collection that um 330 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 1: I sell CBD infused body scrubs, body cleans, and hand sanitizers. 331 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: And that is just taken off, especially with the hand 332 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: sanitizers and the time that we're in. Nowack, you got 333 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,360 Speaker 1: hands in time. I mean you ordered a hand sanitizer 334 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: right now, I can get it, yes for me? Yeah? Okay, 335 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: now all right now let's tell everybody put that put 336 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: that website on the line right now, so all the time, 337 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 1: Coco Brown, also Coco Brown. I gotta I got a 338 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 1: mailing list to over ninety thousand fans. You know, I 339 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: got almost a million social media followers. So please give 340 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: me a banner Coco Brown, the Collection, and I would 341 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: put it on my social media because everybody's looking for that. 342 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 1: You know, it's gotten to the point now that they're 343 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 1: even advating. They're running a national commercials for these masks 344 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: that people are making mass so yeah, and and their 345 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: price gouging it on Amazon one bottle across yes, yes, yes, 346 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: so so you have hand sanitizers. This is fantastic because 347 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: you know, because That's one of the things I tell 348 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 1: people in their six steps is that you know, you 349 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: gotta have your hand sanitizer when you leave the house. 350 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: You know, in that way, you can especially were going 351 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 1: into public environments when you when you get back, the 352 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: carts for your hands before you touch your car keys 353 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: and if you touch your string will So there's a 354 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: lot of things that we can deal with on a 355 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: regular basis. This is soundingly fantastic, So so continue along 356 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,959 Speaker 1: this client. You stop it right there, because the business 357 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: side of Roushawn had to come and go, whoa, you 358 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: got hands. I realized there was a need for it 359 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: because you know when when when you know, two months ago, 360 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: I didn't have hand sanitized it. But when I realized 361 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 1: it was a need for it, and I knew that 362 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: I could make it, and then I could give people 363 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: this you know, great sense and they could have it 364 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 1: with it without c B d Um it took off. 365 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: You know. I sold out my first batch in what 366 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: two days, you know? And um then I have creams 367 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: and I also have body scrubs that all CBD infused. 368 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: But then I started making CBD infused goodies. I have 369 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: brownies and cookies. Now what exactly is c b D 370 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 1: B b D is all the benefits of marijuana without 371 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 1: th HC, without the marijuana resist wolf. Okay, so you're 372 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 1: saying that now the marijuana residual is that the part 373 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: that you know get you as they say hi, that's 374 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: the protect to get you that they get you buck Exactly. 375 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: Cb D gives you all the great benefit of cannabis 376 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: implement you know, relief of inflammation, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, you know, 377 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: sleep disorders, insomnia, depression, anxiety. But it doesn't have th 378 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: HC in it, which is what is the residue of 379 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: weed that shows up in your drug tests. Now I 380 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 1: give people the option do you want your edible with 381 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: th HC or without th HC Because some people are 382 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: still work in jobs that they get tested, they can't 383 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: have that from in their tests. But it still provides 384 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: all the benefits for anxiety, depression, in psomnia, pain, inflammation, 385 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: things of that nature. Um. And the good thing is 386 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: it's handmade, it's organic and um. From what I told 387 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: from all my wonderful customer, it's gooder than the mo 388 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: fol It's like people have literally gotten their ordered that morning. 389 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 1: And don't you ever throw another old line like that 390 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: on my radio show. That is like it is like 391 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: a forty year old line. I can't believe you said 392 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: you were old. You said old Coca Coca Brown. I 393 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,479 Speaker 1: can't believe you. You got to understand, these are my 394 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: grandmother's recipes that I'm using. So you got you know, 395 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: a black woman and a creole woman that taught me 396 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 1: how to cook. So you know they know, you know, 397 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 1: they take absolutely absolutely so But before we get too deep, 398 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: because I want to come back to the cravables because 399 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 1: in the beginning during your intro, I stated that the 400 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: Coca Brown Collection is a hobby turned passion turn calls. 401 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: Because I want to talk about the calls part of 402 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 1: this because it's very important because one of my dear 403 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: friends and one of my producers I've been doing over 404 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: twenty years, she has lupus. So when I talk about 405 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: lupas is not something that I'm familiar with, and I 406 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: know the impact and she lives a very uh quality, 407 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: quality quality for your life. She has a beautiful daughter, 408 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: but she also has to take medicine. So let's talk 409 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: about the whole cause part of the the Coca Brown Collection, right, Um, 410 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: I partnered years a year and a half ago with 411 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 1: a group called the Social Butterflies Network Butterfly representing the 412 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: Butterfly Rash that lucas patient skin and it's an organization 413 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 1: that provides all kinds of services for lupus survivors. And 414 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: they near and gear cost to me because my favorite 415 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: aunt had lupas when I was growing up and she 416 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: passed away when I was twenty one, and she was just, 417 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: you know, so resilient. But I watched the transformation of 418 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: this woman because of lupus, and to this day there's 419 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: no cure, and they have such minimal research and really 420 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: don't that they know it's an um an autoimmune to 421 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,719 Speaker 1: that they know what's autoimmune diseins. They know what attacks 422 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: your nervous system and your immune system and all that, 423 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: but they really don't put the effort in the research 424 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: they do all the other cancers and autoimmune of disease causes. 425 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: So I partnered with them a year and a half 426 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: ago to raise money for that. But then when I 427 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: begin when I created menty toes and my CBD infused products, 428 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: a lot of them were ordering it because it was 429 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: aiding in the pain and discomfort they were getting from 430 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: their file on my AUGA things of that nature. So 431 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: I when I created the Coca Brown collection, I decided 432 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 1: that from ten percent of each sale would go towards 433 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: social butterflies and lupus research. Wow, because they're using it 434 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: and they raised about it. I mean I I would 435 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: say a good forty five percent of my customers of 436 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 1: the menty toes uh pain release cream is lucas patients 437 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: and people who suffer from everything from a neuropathy file 438 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: of my AUGA authoritis, I mean, psiatic nerve issues. I 439 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: mean I had everybody from lupas patients to fitness trainers 440 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: to firemen, and I even have a podiatrist who endorses 441 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: my mente toes and actually sells it in her office 442 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: as an alternative to prescription creams. Congratulations, that's awesome. So yeah, 443 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: it is awesome, you know because really when I'm talking 444 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: to you, you know, I'm talking to use that's the 445 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: marketing side of You're coming out of communication and advertising 446 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 1: side of you. Yeah, you know, I did a lot 447 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: of marketing with advertising degree side. I don't like I 448 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: still have all my marketing books, which is hilarious. Well, 449 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,239 Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is, you know for 450 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: yourself is that that's a comic. You're constantly selling yourself, 451 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: you know, you it's a reason you're successful. It's the 452 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: reason that you say, Hey, if you're gonna market me 453 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: at this club, make sure everybody know I'm Jennifer for 454 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: we spell my name right. I mean, they're just such 455 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: minor things. Say your name right. Let's let's get there right, 456 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: Say your name right, Coca, Say it right now, Coca. 457 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: But good, long as the spell right on my chack. 458 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: At this point, I'm not gonna trip. But you know, 459 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 1: the thing about it is that my name is Rushan. 460 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: So you know a lot of people have coming me 461 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: with a lot of a lot of their own versions 462 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,959 Speaker 1: of how Rushan should be said. And then you know, 463 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: and and sometimes you just go, okay, long this is 464 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: but it really is your brand, and you're trying to 465 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: build a brand that respect, a brand of recognition. And 466 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,160 Speaker 1: so when I saw the way you announciated your name 467 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: when it was I was spelled out, I went, that's awesome. 468 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: She she she's controlling her voice. She's controlling her brand 469 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: and dictating it too, because of the fact that yeah, 470 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: it gets it's gets spelled right on the check. But 471 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,199 Speaker 1: bar when just a stranger walk up to you and 472 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: said right, because that's that's what I knew. I was 473 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: kind of making it a little bit there. Coca would 474 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: when I didn't even know people, Hey, y Sean, I 475 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 1: don't even know who you are, because I because I 476 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 1: should be able to tell people who knew me and 477 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: didn't know me by how they said my name. I go, okay, 478 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 1: I never meant to do mother, Hey Russian, Okay, I've 479 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: never met this dude in my life, you know, and 480 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 1: so and so that really helped me to start definding 481 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: that okay by by getting more and more people saying 482 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: my name right really means my marketing and my branding 483 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: is my my my brand awareness is working, and so 484 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 1: a lot of people understand that, like, you know, Apple 485 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: wants to be said correctly. You know, IBM wants their 486 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: name to be spelled correctly, IBM and said correctly. You know, 487 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: Google wants their name to be said correctly, and so 488 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: all these things are very important. We talked about marketing 489 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: and branding because that's all you've dealt with from day one. 490 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: You know, when you say five years old and remember 491 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: all these lines, that means that there was an effort 492 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 1: to way back after fifth grade when it was in 493 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 1: the fifth grade, and all these lines, it was an effort, 494 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: but you still prepared and and achieved and that in 495 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: that work at the people saw you in chief special 496 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: because guess what, if you gave me a lot of 497 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: lines in the fifth grade, I'm pretty sure I would 498 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: never remember or would even care to have done, because 499 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: that wasn't my passion. That wasn't my passion. And so 500 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: you've been able to carry a passion all these years 501 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: and now you're a successful talent and now you're a 502 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: successful business woman. What are the next steps because you're 503 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 1: a single parent? Correct, yes, yes, I am old cocase 504 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: I'll stun you that. Yes, you're you're a single parent. 505 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 1: What do you just say, single par I'm a single mall. 506 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:35,360 Speaker 1: That's right? Yeah, So what married out there? So let's 507 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: talk about the whole balanced life now, because you know, 508 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: you're acting, you're traveling, you know your businesswoman now you're 509 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: now you're talking about this whole product line that you 510 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: have out there, and then you are a mom, single mall, 511 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,400 Speaker 1: talk about how you balance all that, um you know, 512 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,239 Speaker 1: by the grace of God and a great village. You know, 513 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: I have always had a great village around me, especially 514 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 1: you know, after I left you know, my marriage and 515 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 1: became a single mom. I've always had a great village 516 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 1: around me to help me with my son from the 517 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: very beginning. So I'm very adamant about, you know, building 518 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: a great village around you as a single parent, you know, 519 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 1: much as we were like it from for super people, 520 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: you know, super superheroes. You know, we can't do it 521 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,199 Speaker 1: all by ourself, and we do need help and we 522 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: have to always remember that, you know. And I've always 523 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: been grateful and then too, I mean, I'm just gonna 524 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: brag a little bit. I have an amazing kid. I 525 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: have an amazing kid. His resilience, understanding of what bommy does, um, 526 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: and what I have to do for a living. I mean, 527 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: he gets it, you know, even you know, he has 528 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: his moment where he just wants his mommy and you know, 529 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: and I give him that. I mean, this is the 530 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: most time that we have been with each other constantly 531 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: with no distractions. I mean, you know, well, Mommy is 532 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: physically here day in and day out. It has been 533 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: for almost right, So, um, that's interesting. And then that's 534 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: that's the good side of the pandemic because I'm the 535 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: same way with my daughter, you know, uh, you know, 536 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: she's twenty two senior in college, and you know all 537 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: those shares of raising her, I was on the road. 538 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: I was traveling. Plus she was a she was a 539 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: tennis star and so tennis probably, so she was always 540 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: traveling all over the country. So you know, we last night, 541 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: we're playing dance tap dance fever. Every day I'm playing 542 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 1: with her, you know, beating up with calories. You know 543 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: how Dad beat me losing more calories in the dance. 544 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 1: So I know what that that that part of this 545 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: whole thing is. It's real special to me and I 546 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: can hear come out of your bars. But before we 547 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: end this interview, I want to go back to these 548 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 1: cravables and I want you to tell people how to 549 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: where they can go to follow you, as well as 550 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: to buy some of your products. Show time. 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