WEBVTT - YAHNE COLEMAN - Hot Dogs, Hard Times & Hollywood 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.280 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating Wild Broke. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.640 I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:23.319 special guest actress, model producer John Nate Coleman is in 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:27.600 the building. Hi guys, thank you, thank you so much for. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:28.320 Feeding me today. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:33.200 So this dish I think has been on our show 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.800 to a certain degree, but we're gonna watch how you 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.680 make it. So what are you gonna be cooking for 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:40.120 me today on Eating While Broke? 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.840 Okay, so today we have hot dogs and baked beans. Okay, 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.479 traditional eating whild broken meal. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.240 Okay, yes, and yours is a little different because usually 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.880 when people do hot dogs or baked. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:54.880 Beans, they combine them. 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.040 Okay, but yours is, Yeah, we're cutting We're taking the 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.880 hot dog, we're cutting down the middle and we're frying 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.480 it in the pan. And we're also adding some sugar 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:04.480 to our big beans. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.120 Okay, Okay, so you're going to you're gonna posss it. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.440 And she did have onions, Guys, I don't know where 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.840 the onions were gonna be placed, but we got going 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.360 to be in the pan, like oh, to add like 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:20.000 the flavor for the big beans or for the hot dogs. Okay, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.560 And Jane said that the she's excriminatory of the red onions. 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.160 I'm not like red onions on nothing. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.840 Okay, So it would have been okay if it was 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:29.679 white or yellow. 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:29.959 Yeah. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.040 Shout out to the chupper for messing that up. So 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:34.280 go ahead again in the kitchen. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:36.039 Okay. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.160 By the way, I did switch out your hot dogs. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.840 Surprised she wanted beef hot dogs. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.480 Yes, switched it out to turkey. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:44.840 Fine. Yeah. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.920 I was like, oh, she will be okay with this. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.880 How does it get turned on? You're right? Oh, so 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:55.200 like this? Okay? Yeah, it's electric. It's electric and not 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.040 a lot of people are fans of electric. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.880 But unfortunately, guys, we are trick in the studio. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.560 Oh you know what, hold on, let me cut the 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.720 hot dog first. Yeah, go for it, do that first 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.959 down the I already washed my hands. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.600 By the way, yes, she went in our bathrooms. But 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:14.760 was it an experience? 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:15.920 It's lovely. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.359 I was like, when when we're in the Eating while Broke, 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.160 just remember the name of the show's Eating while Broke. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.840 So as you prepare this classic dish, when was the 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:26.720 last time you had this? 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.400 I would say the last time I had this is 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.240 probably within the last couple of years. Like, even though 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.239 this is a meal that I've aten while broke, to 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.520 like the taste of it. It reminds me of home, 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.040 so sometimes I have a craving for it, so I 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.120 definitely ate it. I love that the last year or so. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.720 Okay, I love that. So you'll be at home and 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:46.919 you'll be like, you know what do I have? 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:48.480 I got to taste the beer. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:51.040 You know what? 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.040 Though, I feel like the baked beans and hot dogs 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.720 is one of those OG classics because I think people 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.200 who've had this on the show like still get down. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.920 Everyone's different though, some people at brown sugar, some people 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:03.680 at white sugar. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.680 Which one do we have to I was thinking it. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.120 I was like, dang, should I have to ax for 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.360 brown or white? But as long as it is sugar, 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.160 I don't think it's so funny because baked beans are 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:15.120 naturally sweet. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.600 But I see guests add sugar to it. I'm like, okay, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.119 I guess you don't ask. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:20.160 You never ask sugar. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.120 I'm not a huge baked beans and hot dog person. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.440 I think the most baked beans and hot dogs I've 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.840 ever had was on eating while broke. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.320 It's like four times. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.160 Okay, So as you get in this Frina of the 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.200 hot dogs. Why don't you take me back to what 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.440 was going on in the original og era of baked 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.160 beans and hot dogs as. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.520 A tool of this is what we do on a 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:45.400 typical day. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:50.600 I would say, just growing up in Philly and living 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.840 at home having eight siblings and. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.160 Eight siblings, yes eight, So you grew up in the 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.960 twin bunk with the bunk bed air. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.120 I have my own room, been a princess. Oh okay, 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.680 you know, no, but I'm my mom's only girl. Oh yeah, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.000 but I have two sisters on my dad's side, one 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.600 of my mom's only girl, and my household. I have 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:14.960 my own. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.040 But that's because well, yes, you're the only Yeah exactly. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.240 That like she was not going to have you share 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.960 with a bunch of rambuncious boys. Them boys was probably hot. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:25.640 Exactly. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.960 How many of your brothers had the share room. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.320 Growing up to my brothers? Yeah, oh, it was just 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.040 too we didn't. We all didn't live together in the 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.599 same house. I have eight siblings, but we all didn't 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.960 live together. At certain points in times we did. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.840 Okay, you're the youngest. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.839 I'm the youngest girl, but I'm not the youngest child brother. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.960 Okay, but your second to the youngest. Yes, he was 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:47.920 definitely the princess. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:48.320 Okay. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.799 I could only imagine having boys, and all of a sudden, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:51.480 you get a girl. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.599 He was in competition on who was the baby? Yeah, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.599 because I'm the baby, because I'm the girl. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.920 Yeah, but I guess this thing on? You know what? 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:02.400 It looks like both of them are on. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.800 Oh I should be on. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:05.960 Do you see it red? 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.360 No, I don't see this one. Read you said it's 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:08.880 this one. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.520 Right, Yeah, I think it is. Yeah, it's red. It's 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.400 turning around. I see I see the red. Matter of fact, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:15.480 let me turn on my camera. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.400 Okay, So on your dad's side there was sisters or 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.039 what on your dad's. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.680 Side, Yes, somebody said I have two sisters. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:23.279 So you said that. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.640 At some points you all lived together. But then at 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:27.960 some point you went, are. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.599 They're they're older than me? At some point like when 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.960 my years that I can remember, they were already starting 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.839 their lives and their family and stuff like that when 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.760 I was still in like middle school and high school 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:40.200 and stuff. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.039 So your parents did the whole I'm going to parent 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:44.839 from my entire life journey. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.240 Yes, and now my mom has a dog and her 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.400 baby her name was Chicago's, which is hilarious. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.240 Antiter I refuse to be ampty nester. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.120 Still being a parent, could you imagine having that many 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.040 kids calling you all the time, like you would have 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.640 a bunch of kids though you do, okay, And my 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.280 suspect is you don't have any right now? 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.280 No, I don't okay, Okay, got to get the right one. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.840 Gotta get through one. Listen. Choosing who you have kids 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.000 with so important. I almost think it's more important than 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.880 who you choose to marry. True at this point, leave 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.159 the marriage because if you do separate, you got a 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.800 cold parent. Before. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.000 I used to be like, I don't understand when like 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:30.160 dudes have they have baby mama before they get married. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.240 That doesn't make sense if you're willing to have a 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.400 kid with them, marry them or whatever. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.680 But I don't know a lot of guys think like that. Man, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.960 I don't know why. It's bizarre. Yeah, because it makes 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:40.400 no sense. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:41.280 It makes no sense. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.800 No, I think we're in a we're in the new 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:48.559 age where marriage isn't really the priority and everyone's finding 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:49.680 a way to avoid it. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.400 Do you feel like that, Yep, they'd rather be a 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:53.240 baby mama. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.880 Yeah, I think it boils down to and people are 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.120 gonna hate me for this, but I don't think they 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:03.560 want the full responsibilit Yeah, and I think women this 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:09.080 is also going to probably fall weird, rarely placed in words, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.880 but I think women at some point thought some women thought, oh, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.000 if you have a baby with someone, like trap them. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:22.360 But like men trapped women, men trap women for sure. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.080 Let me tell you something. Men definitely trap women. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.360 God yeah, men one hundred percent trapped women one hundred percent. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.120 Believe that I've had excess. Tell me, like I knew 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:35.680 I should have had a kid with you, like I 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:36.400 knew I should have. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.640 Yet to I'm going to catch you? How about that? 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.760 Yeah, yeah, I believe that. But no you are, No, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.480 you're not. Women are pulling with so much weight right now. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.600 They don't they smart now exactly. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.760 But I will say this though, for the women that 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.200 did think that that's how you trap someone, it's actually 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.560 backwards because you become the bucket of responsibility. And if 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.160 a guy is trying to avoid responsibility, you go from 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:00.160 fun girls to. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.600 Responsibility and that changes really quickly. 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.960 So just in case you're thinking it, don't do it. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.840 No, it's not gonna help your situation. It just makes 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:12.280 it worse. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.720 But going back to your story, eight kids, princess in 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.960 the house, parents, middle class, upper middle class, poor, I. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.720 Will say, what's middle class? 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.200 The middle class is you're not qualified for food stamps, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.880 but you're getting by. I would say that's class because 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.880 middle class is like, you're getting by, but you don't 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.280 qualify for no breaks. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.320 Yeah, honestly, to tell you the truth, my mom worked 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.480 in school system, okay. And my dad he's retired now, 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.360 but he was a cop. Okay, so I would probably 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:50.920 say middle middle class maybe, yeah, upper middle class, maybe 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.000 upper upper middle class okay, okay. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:54.480 Shout outs to your parents. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.480 And they stayed married, they stay may Yeah, they're still married. Yeah, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:03.520 look at them, little non empty I'm still I need 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.000 all that that I grew up with. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:06.680 And they had a blended family. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:07.360 Yes. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.560 So they came and dad came in with how many. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.000 I think four? And then your mom came in with 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.640 is that four? Because eight? 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:16.160 Yeah? 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.480 Yeah? Four? Four or five and three? 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:20.880 Wait they had some kids together. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.840 Yeah, it's four and four. Okay. My dad came in four. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.800 My mom didn't come in with four, but then chowing four, Oh, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.679 she had four. Yeah, so she. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.440 Basically took on daddy plus four. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:39.040 Yes, but I'm it's a it's crazy to explain it. Okay, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.400 I'm my mom and dad daughter. Then I have two 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.760 other brothers. That's my mom and dad son, and the 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.800 three other brothers mom and son, and then my dad 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.080 came in with his kids. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.160 Yeah. So yeah, so your mom was zero. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:58.400 Yes, she was a free agent, she said one plus 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.840 she added five five a team. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:01.200 Yep. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.720 Okay, Okay, your mom's a trooper. Shout out to your 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.400 mom for that period. Okay, so now you guys growing up, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.079 tell me, are you starting to think about acting, modeling, producing, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:13.000 what's going on. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.920 I've been in dance and acting in theater and all 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.040 that stuff my whole life. So I've been doing that 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.000 since I was three years old. My mom had me 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.959 in every single thing that she could think of. I 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:29.920 played tennis, golf, soccer, violin, piano, everything. But what ultimately 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.640 stuck with me for a while with dance? 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:32.200 Okay. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.520 Yeah, so I've danced all over the world. I danced professionally, 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.720 and then from there I moved into being a creator. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:47.080 Okay, yeah, and what made you want to step away 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.360 from dance to get into being a creator. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.920 I felt like in Philly, I felt like I've reached 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.000 my peak. And I had been living at home until 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.600 I was like twenty four. Okay, so I've really had 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.240 a real sense of responsibilities and bills and all that 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.120 stuff like that. So I will say my eating while 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:13.240 broke really happened for me when I transitioned over to La. Okay, yeah, 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.400 you left Philly to come all the way over here, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.800 my first time moving, my first time paying my own. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:19.760 Why did you go that far? 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.160 I've always wanted to live in LA and I'm like, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:28.160 I'm a risk taker, so I'm like, no, I did not. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.559 I went to one of my cousins like own a 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.120 bar lounge, and I went and I did hosting there. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.000 But I'll say that like two thousand dollars and I 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.199 was like, this is enough to move me to LA. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.000 I didn't last about two weeks listen. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.120 And I booked my flight. I told I was telling 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.080 my mom. I kept telling her like, I'm moving to LA. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.920 I'm moving to LA. And she didn't think that I 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.079 was erious because he had money. Yeah, but I'm like, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.120 I'm moving And I had reached out to friends that 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.240 I knew that lived out there and whatever, so I 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.439 knew I had somewhere, I had all my in order, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.079 so I thought, this is after dance though, yeah, you're 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.079 like that said, I'm packing up, packing up now. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.640 It was the money in dance good. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.520 No, I would say dance dancing doesn't really pay your 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.400 billing and know that until I moved to LA because 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.600 I went out there to pursue, I was like, I'm 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.800 going to be Beyonce's back on dancing. Yeah, that was 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.480 my dream. And then I went to my first audition 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.000 out there and I forgot. I think it might have 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.000 been for Usher or for somebody, and it was like 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.880 so many people, hundreds and hundreds of people, and I 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.599 was like, okay. And then when I start seeing like 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:37.520 the pay and really being it's not going to make 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:37.960 no sense. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.760 And then I've heard different stories. But when you're in dance, 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.000 the treatment of dancers. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.160 Is all the way great. Either, I'm not really I guess. 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.360 It depends on who you're touring with and stuff like that, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.959 but I'm not really. I'm not really sure about that, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.839 but I just know that as far as payment through trushan. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.680 Nope, but just put it somewhere it's eating while broke. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:02.240 Okay, I just know that as far as like living stuff, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.800 that wasn't gonna work for me. But I also used 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.839 to take a lot of pictures and stuff like that. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.400 So one day I was doing my regular thing like 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.920 I normally do, posting pictures of myself on social media, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.520 and then the brand pre little thing reached out to 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.120 me and yeah. They were like a fashion over type yes, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.959 and they're like, oh, we'll send you free clothes for 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.280 you to post, and I'm like clothes. Okay. I had 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.240 moved to La I had been like staying at like 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.839 staying with friends, like extra rooms or on the couch 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.839 or whatever, and in my mind, I was like, I'm 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.480 not going back. I'm gonna make it work. My mom 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.920 didn't know. She knows now, but she didn't know any 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.199 of this. While I was out there. She would call me, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.360 how how are they going. I'm like, it's going great, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.640 going to Pop pause and getting me two wings in 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.040 the biscuits, trying to make it work. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.160 But you didn't want to tell her the truth because 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.959 you know, she would have been like, bring your home. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.240 I'm booking. Oh my mom always had a flight ready 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:52.480 for me. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.079 You're her Princess a flight. You ready to know that? 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.600 Now she doesn't. It's so funny because for a while 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.480 she was like you ready to come back. Now she's 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:01.839 finally girl, You're good. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:03.880 But does she come out to visit you? 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.280 Yeah? Came out couple of times. But yeah. The brand 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.240 reached out to me and they sent me clothes. And 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.599 then from here I was like, oh, okay, I have 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.480 to spend money on clothes. And then I start looking 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.920 this might be done. And then I start looking into 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.280 that world and I was like, oh, you can get 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.960 paid from posting on social media, and then I really 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:27.000 just started diving into that and then came just me 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.880 having brand deals with different fashion companies Savage Fente. From there, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.360 that's how I started my content grating and started with 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:35.240 photos at first. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.920 And then who was negotiating your deals for the brands? 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:40.080 Was it just you direct? 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.000 Oh yeah, it was just me. It was just me. 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.200 Some brands will run off with the money, run off 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:45.760 with the money. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.040 Still to this day that happens. That's why it's good 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:48.800 to have a team with you. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.240 And what do you mean, like you post a pic 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.600 the ghosts ghost gone. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.560 Yeah, So that's why it's good to have a team 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.760 and having people who know leave stuff and having a 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.640 lawyer and stuff like that so you can get your money, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.640 because it still happens to this day, but it's like 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.760 worse when it happens while broke the hell. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:12.080 Yeah, I would imagine too. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.760 The payment isn't right away either too, because for a 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.440 lot of people they have to remember that. Like you 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.240 could post and then that check may I show up 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.720 for what thirty sixty ninety days? 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:19.960 Right? 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:20.480 Yeah? 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.760 I knew that now, but back then I didn't know 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.800 all the stuff. I just thought I get my money, But. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.240 Wasn't enough money to sustain That was quick? 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.120 Yeah, there was quick, little meal. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.680 Wasn't enough money to sustain you? Though? No. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.160 For a long time in LA, I was, like I said, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.680 I was like rooming with people. And then I got 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.480 into when I was still getting like my free clothes 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.320 to posts. I was a teacher's assistant when I was 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.000 working with kids who have autism. So I was doing 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:53.040 that for a while, and then the pandemic happened. Hey 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.960 that's a pay day, listen. And then that check was coming. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.280 When was it that check that was. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.560 Coming every that I didn't sign up for it, but 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:00.600 I know simulus. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.320 Yeah it was stimulus, but people were people are getting 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.480 paid more than they had ever got paid, and they 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:06.720 hold PPP. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.400 I did PPP, by the way, I did that. I 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.520 still own money from PvP. Shout out to p PP. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.200 But at that time there were some people that hadn't 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.080 even made that much. I think they were paying during 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.040 the pandemic. I want to stay between four and six 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:22.800 k a month. People were making. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.080 I think that maybe maybe I'm wrong. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.000 I got the one I got one thousand summer wrong, 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.640 some one thousand a month something like this. It was 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.360 enough for me to pay my bills and for me 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:35.960 to feel like I was on top of the world. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.520 Yeah, shaped in your apartment, can't go nowhere, but I 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.800 gas exactly. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:44.000 There was no traffic. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.800 Do you remember that? No, I was. I was scared 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.160 to get First of all, I court COVID, I court 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:55.000 every strand after the after the lockdown. Ain't that crazy after? 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.760 Not even during? That's because you was safe at home 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.120 the whole time and the door. I was like, I'm no. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.320 I was paranoid at first, and then people were like, 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.000 I God. I would come out masked up, wash my 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.960 hands a million times, like I was that person hands 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.560 hands dry because I used so much hand sanitized and 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.879 I caught every you're hilarious. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.680 I remember the rest of my costs COVID. They said 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:16.520 I looked like death. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.560 Oh. I was like, oh man, oh yeah I was. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.800 I'm not a person that takes me sick. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.360 I'm like, oh yeah. 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.920 COVID sucks because you can't even get attention while you 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.520 say you tracked, because nobody want to. 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.040 You'd be like, good luck, buddy, what you mean you're 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.119 not dropping off? No food? 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.479 Yeah, it's like the loneliest sickness you ever had. You'd 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:38.800 be like, come on, man, it ain't that bad. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:43.359 They'd be like, I'm good exactly exactly. Yeah. So COVID happened, 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.879 and then I was able to at that point I 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.840 had roommates. I have roommates, had got myself together. Whereas 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.720 though I could be able to afford roommate situation, and 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.600 that situation was crazy because I lived with two girls 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.760 whom they were not clean. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.000 And that's the worst. Did you have to share a bathroom? Yes, 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.679 because let me tell you something. To have a roommate, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.760 the key is, don't share a bathroom. Does if you 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.879