1 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome in, Welcome back to this week's episode 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: of Cheeky's and Chill. Today, I'm going to take you 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: down memory lane all the way back to two thousand 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: and nine, I was twenty three years old. But we'll 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: get all into the nitty gritty right now. But this 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: story might sound familiar to those of you who have 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: read my books, but I want to expand on the 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: story even more. Today. We're going to talk about the 9 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: time my mom had me develop her first perfume. We're 10 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: also going to get into the argument we got into 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: before I left, and some things I learned while I 12 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: was in China. So buckle up, here we go. You 13 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: know what's crazy? For the past I want to say 14 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: two months three months, I have felt so close to 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: my mom. I feel like we've entered this new like 16 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: era or new season of our relationship. I know it 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: sounds weird because she's been gone physically for twelve years, 18 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: but I've been connecting with her on a different level lately. 19 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: So I also wanted to do this episode to kind 20 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,320 Speaker 1: of just remind myself of everything we went through and 21 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: what a beautiful relationship we had, no matter how ugly 22 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: it was at the end right before she passed, and 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: how close we were in age, which caused a lot 24 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: of friction. We were so alike in so many different 25 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: ways and so different as well that it also caused bickering. 26 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: But the love was real and we accomplished so much together, guys, 27 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: and I should be proud of that. And I think 28 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: because for so long I was focused on my career 29 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: and focused on wanting to be seen as Cheeky's as 30 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: my own person, I kind of put her to the 31 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: side a little bit because I felt I needed to, 32 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: and it got me through everything that I was doing. 33 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: And again, I feel like I had been in her 34 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: shadow a lot, and I kind of wanted to just 35 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: show the world, Hey, I can do this, you know, 36 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna lie. I've told you guys a 37 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: lot here on the podcast. For a long time, I 38 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: was upset with my mom because of how things ended 39 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: between her and I, and I was disappointed in a 40 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: lot of things. And every year it's a different feeling, 41 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: and the more and more that I do things like 42 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: this like this episode, it makes me just fall in 43 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: love with her all over again. And I don't know, 44 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: I feel like this is going to heal my heart 45 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: and hopefully inspire you, guys. Because when I went to China, guys, 46 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: I was twenty three years old and I had never 47 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: gone to another country besides Mexico, right. I hadn't traveled 48 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: a lot. And I was very busy back then with 49 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: my mom, with the kids, with the house, with our businesses, 50 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: and by then I had already helped my mom develop 51 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: her skincare and her makeup line. We were like the Fionettas, 52 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: the pioneers when it came to this whole influence and 53 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,839 Speaker 1: having your own business and everything. My mom and I 54 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: we were a freaking a power team. Guys. My mom 55 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: would tell me I want this, and I would execute it. 56 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: I don't even know how I would do it half 57 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: of the time because I was so young. I didn't 58 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: go to college. I always figured things out because that's 59 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: the way she taught me. And I'm so grateful that 60 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: she kind of would just throw me in like kind 61 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: of like a child that doesn't know how to swim, 62 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 1: and she just kind of just throws you in the 63 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: pool and then you have no other choice but to swim. 64 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: It was like that, literally anyway, I had never been 65 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,839 Speaker 1: to another country besides Mexico, and I had only gone 66 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: to Mexico a handful of times then, So going all 67 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: the way to China, guys across the freaking globe, it 68 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: was insane. Sometimes I think about it, I'm like, how 69 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: did I do that? And I went by myself. I 70 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: went alone, and her and I were in a huge argument. 71 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: I don't even remember exactly what it was, but I 72 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: know that it was a pretty big argument and she 73 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: was pissed at me. So this trip was already planned, 74 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure, like a few weeks before, or maybe even 75 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: a month, but we had gotten an argument and I 76 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: don't remember again, I don't remember why, but it was 77 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: pretty bad and we weren't talking, and I remember getting 78 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: on that plane crying. I was crying because I was nervous, 79 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: obviously that I was going to a different country where 80 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: I don't know the language, I don't know anyone. I 81 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: found someone online and I didn't even know what this 82 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: person looked like. I just knew their name and they 83 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: were going to have a little paper with my name 84 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: on it. But dude, so mavine. I've always been a 85 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: risk taker. I said, Okay, I'm going to figure this out. 86 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: My mom wants to perfume. She gave me a budget. 87 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: I can't get it done for that budget sixty thousand 88 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: dollars in the States, I had looked and everything was 89 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: crazy expensive. So I said, I have no other choice 90 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: but to go to China. And again I did all 91 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: my research, I figured it out. I met this lady. 92 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: How we figured things out, I have no idea because 93 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: she was barely learning English and I didn't know a 94 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: lick of Chinese, of course. So it was an amazing experience. 95 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: Three weeks in China by myself and I sit at 96 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: a hotel alone. I visited so many different karaoke bars 97 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: because Asians, especially in China, they love karaoke. So I 98 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: did visit a lot of karaoke bars. I ate a 99 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: lot of food, but the food in China, guys. I 100 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: was in Guangzhou, so I was in the south of China, 101 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: and it's more like the industrial side of China. So 102 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: I was where all you know, imagine La downtown, La 103 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: times ten, huge, a lot of people everywhere. It was 104 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: very congested, but very beautiful. And of course I get 105 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: there and I'm like, okay, well, where's the beef, broccoli 106 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: and the orange chicken, and that does not exist over there. 107 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: The Chinese food that we have here nothing like the 108 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:05,679 Speaker 1: Chinese food in China, like at all. It tastes very different. 109 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 1: I had no idea what I was eating. I would 110 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: just order or let the people that I had met 111 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: there because we were doing business together. I would just 112 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: let them order and I ate everything, and it was delicious, 113 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: so I have to this day, I don't even know 114 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: what I ate. I don't know if it was chicken 115 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: or beef for pig or I don't know. It was 116 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: just good. But they did not have any of the 117 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: Chinese food that I was accustomed to. Also, another thing 118 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: that I learned there was they don't really eat any 119 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: ice cream, nothing cold, no ice water, no salads. Everything 120 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: is warm. There is hot tea before, during, and after eating. 121 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: Everything was warm. That's when I lost I feel like 122 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: I lost so much weight out while I was out there, 123 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 1: because I mean, I had no other choice but to 124 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: eat the way that the people that I was eating ate. 125 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: And I learned a lot, especially about the digestive system. 126 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: And of course throughout the years I started forgetting everything. 127 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: Because when I came back, I was very inspired and 128 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: I'm like Okay, all I'm going to do is drink 129 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: tea and no more cold stuff and all this. But 130 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 1: life goes on and life happens, and I was young, 131 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: and of course I forgot all about that until like now, 132 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: where I'm like, oh my gosh. You know, there's like 133 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: this crazy connection that I have with China because of 134 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: that trip, but also because I always say I feel 135 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: like I was Asian in a past life. I just 136 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: love the culture. I love everything about the Asian culture. 137 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: So AnyWho, my whole thing was develop this perfume. My 138 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: mom and I weren't talking, but it also gave me 139 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: that fire within me to show her. I am going 140 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: to make her so proud. I'm going to kill this project. 141 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to freaking show her, and I did. I 142 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: told her I needed to stay out there a little 143 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: longer because I that's another thing. I didn't even know 144 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: how long I was going to be out there. I 145 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: just got a one way ticket because I wanted to 146 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: come home with the finished product. So even before I 147 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: get into the nitty gritty of how I developed the 148 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: fragrance and the whole process, I was wondering because my 149 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: mom and I think for like a week while I 150 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: was out there, didn't really talk. It was just very business. 151 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: She was still kind of upset with me for whatever reason. 152 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: I wish I remembered, but AnyWho, I would handle everything. 153 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: So the fact that I was gone for three weeks 154 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: was a pretty big deal in my household, especially with Johnny. 155 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: Johnny was eight years old, and I'm pretty sure he 156 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: told me when I got back home. I mean, because 157 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: him and I have always been so so close, he 158 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: was probably freaking out without me. But of course, my mother, 159 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: being a woman that's you know, in control, was never 160 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: going to tell me that she needed me. But I'm 161 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: pretty sure everything was kind of falling apart while I 162 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: was gone. But I was so determined to show her 163 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: that I could do this, and I was so proud 164 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: of myself, so proud of myself, So getting into the 165 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: whole production thing, I went to a chemist first. I 166 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: wanted to get the sent down because I was super important. 167 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: My mom was a huge fan of Trousaur, so that 168 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: was the perfume that she wore every single day, and 169 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: she wanted something very different from that because that's very 170 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: The perfume that she wore was very warm, and you know, vanilla, 171 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: so she wanted a little bit something, a little more daytime. 172 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: So I just had that. I just knew what she wanted. 173 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 1: She wanted a daytime perfume. She wanted a little citrusy, 174 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: a little sweet, but more citrusy. Mind you had. There 175 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: was no way that I was going to show her 176 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: the set. I just needed to follow my intuition and 177 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: her instructions and what she wanted and go with it. 178 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: Because even sending it, like through airshipping or whatever you 179 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 1: call it, it was going to take days. There was 180 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: We had no time for that. So I developed it. 181 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: That was the first thing. I went to a manufacturer 182 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: and we got the oils, and I spilled so many 183 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: different oils I think I went to three different factories 184 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: and manufacturers for the actual fragrance until I found it. 185 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 1: I mixed things together with the chemists and I said, 186 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: this is what we want. We let it sit for 187 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: a few days, and then we had the fragrance, which 188 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: was the most important part. Then I went to a 189 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: different manufacturer to find the bottle and the cap. And 190 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: because again the budget wasn't a lot, I couldn't get 191 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: like a specific mold made because at first she wanted 192 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: like a whole, like her body and her silhouette. I 193 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: was like, Mom, you got to chill a little bit 194 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: because that's expensive. Just the mold. To make a mold, 195 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 1: it's ten thousand dollars, okay. So I kind of got 196 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: her off that and I went with a generic bottle 197 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: and a generic cap. I was like, okay, I gotta 198 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: make this look nice. The most important thing is making 199 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: sure that the scent was top tier, and it absolutely was. 200 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: Till this day. It is still the number one fragrance 201 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: that is sold. It was the very first one, and 202 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 1: that's the one people love the most. Of course, the 203 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: other ones are great, but there's something special about that one, obviously, 204 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: but it does sell very well still to this day. 205 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: So that was that I got a generic bottle, something 206 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: that they already had in stock because there was no time, 207 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: and I wanted something very simple, and the name was 208 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: just going to be her logo, and that's what it 209 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,079 Speaker 1: is to this day as well. It's just the logo 210 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: that her and I developed together, which are her initials JR. 211 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: And her little butterfly that I have tattooed on my foot, 212 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: and that was it. It was very simple, and I 213 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: wanted it to be not just a fragrance, but I 214 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: put like a little gift set together. So it was 215 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: the perfume and a lip gloss that had like little 216 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: sparkles in it, and also a hand lotion because my 217 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: mom loved the hand lotion and putting it in her purse. 218 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: So I did the whole thing and it was the 219 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: same scent the hand lotion. And I only made one 220 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: thousand units and that was it because that's all we 221 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: could afford. She gave me a sixty thousand dollars budget 222 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: to make everything. You know, it adds up. So we 223 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: did a thousand, remember a thousand units, and everything took time, 224 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: so I had to wait for everything to be filled. 225 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: I had to wait for the logos to be screen 226 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: printed on the actual components. It was just a mission, 227 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 1: which is why it took me three weeks, because I wanted. 228 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: I said, I need to leave China with the finished 229 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: product to show my mother exactly what it looks like, 230 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: the sizes, how much it's going to weigh, so that 231 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: we know how much we're going to spend on shipping. 232 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: How I knew this at twenty three, I have no idea. 233 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel like maybe because I had a little 234 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: bit more space. Mentally, things just stuck and now I 235 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: forget all these things. I'm like, oh my gosh, I 236 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: did so much, and how honestly it was the grace 237 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: of God. So what did I do? Because I think 238 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: it's important you guys didn't know what I did while 239 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: I was waiting. Once I got all the hard work 240 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: and all like the footwork done with the fragrance, with 241 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: the bottles, the components of packaging, all that stuff. While 242 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: they were doing their thing putting it together, I had 243 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: a lot of free time. So I was going again 244 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: to the karaoke bars with my new Chinese friends that 245 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 1: I met at the manufacturers, because they all knew I 246 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: was there by myself. I stated, a very nice hotel. 247 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,719 Speaker 1: That's one thing. I was like, Mom, if I'm going 248 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: over there by myself and you're sending me coach, because 249 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: I was coach on the way there in the middle 250 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 1: seat and I was sad, crying. I left La crying 251 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: and I got to China crying. Fourteen hour flight. Guys, 252 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: in the middle seat, it was insane. I will tell 253 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: you this. I love garlic, but oh my gosh, smelling 254 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: garlic the entire way there was crazy. I mean, it 255 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: was insane, very tough. But I'm like, okay. So I 256 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: told my mom. I said, one thing, fine, you're sending 257 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: me coach, totally fine, mother, But I'm going to have 258 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: a nice hotel room. And it was very inexpensive, but 259 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: very nice. It was a beautiful hotel. And on television, 260 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: everything was in Chinese. So what I did was I 261 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: took all six seasons of Sex and the City with 262 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: me on DVDs, and that's what I watched the entire 263 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: time I was there. I watched all six seasons guys 264 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: of Sex in the City. That's when I fell in 265 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: love with Carrie and Samantha and just I was so 266 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: into like Sex and the City. Oh. Also, I would 267 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 1: go to the mall and I'm like, okay, well, I'm 268 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: just going to walk around and go to the mall. 269 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: And I remember this one time the lady she was 270 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: trying to sell me something, some type of diet pill, 271 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: and I remember her telling me that I needed to 272 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: be smaller. She's like, you need a smaller smaller. She 273 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: just kept telling me. And they would tell me you 274 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: have such a pretty face, but you need to be thinner, 275 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: like they would like, you know, you need to lose weight. 276 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: So they were always trying to sell me something to 277 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: lose weight, either a tea, a pill. It was just 278 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: insane the amount of times that I got hit up to, 279 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: like for me to lose weight, because I mean, I 280 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: was a thick ass girl in China. Everyone's very small 281 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: and here I am, you know, this thick girl walking 282 00:14:55,440 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: around by myself. And that time I was at the 283 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: and someone came up to me and they just said, 284 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: you know, oh my god, we love your face, you know, 285 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: and we want to take pictures. So I don't even 286 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: know how and why I trusted these people because they 287 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: could have taken me anywhere and I wouldn't be here. 288 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: But everyone was so nice and I trusted and I 289 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: went with this person. It was a guy and a girl, 290 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: and I went to their studio and I took pictures. 291 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: I have those pictures till this day. I was just 292 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: looking at the album the other day and they put 293 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: me in like one, two, three, like four different outfits. 294 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: Didn't pay me anything. They fed me and I took 295 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: the pictures because I didn't have anything else to do. 296 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, well just give me an album. 297 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: They gave me this whole album to bring home. But 298 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: they used those pictures guys in China. One was for 299 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: like a skincare company, and of course I didn't know 300 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: what I mean, I didn't know they were going to 301 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: use them. I didn't know until like after like okay, 302 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: you know I signed something. Of course, it was like, hey, 303 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: we're going to use it for you know, a skincare 304 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: and then they were going to sell the pictures. I know, 305 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: it sounds crazy now, that would never happen to me 306 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: now I know that side of the business. But it 307 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: was fun. And I remember showing my mom the pictures 308 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: when we got back and she's like, this is what 309 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: you were doing, what you were out there? Like she 310 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: kind of wanted to be mad at me, but I'm like, dude, 311 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: I was waiting for like a week and a half 312 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: to get the finished product. I needed to do something. 313 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: So I learned a song out there too, the shingle 314 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: Ing a ling song, that's what I call it. It 315 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: was like the biggest hit in China. I heard it 316 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: everywhere at the grocery store, I heard it at the mall, 317 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: I heard it people were singing at the karaoke bar, 318 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: like all the time. Anyway, so I learned the song 319 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: out there. I do want to sing you, guys, a 320 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: little piece of the song that I learned. And people 321 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: have said now with TikTok and stuff, that it's not 322 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: true that this song does not exist. But I promise you, guys, 323 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: I was at the new shop one day and the 324 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: song came on. And then I was at a full 325 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: place and the song came on. Guys, like I'm not 326 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: I swear to you, I'm not lying. The song exists, 327 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: and I learned it because I was there for three 328 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: weeks and it was the most popin song. So anyway, 329 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: the song goes a little like this. It's a shingle 330 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: ling gulling. It's a shing young young young. And again 331 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: I don't even know if I'm saying anything, if I'm 332 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 1: even singing Chinese, And it's in no way to disrespect anybody, 333 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: because again I love the Asian culture so much, but 334 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 1: I swear to you, I remember the chorus. That was 335 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: the chorus, and again I'm probably not even singing anything 336 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: in Chinese, but I remember it going like that. Everyone 337 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: was on this song, guys. Everyone in the karaoke bar. 338 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 1: Everyone wanted to sing the damn song, and I had 339 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: to sing it a couple times, so I remember, next 340 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 1: time I hear it somewhere, I promise you, I'm going 341 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,159 Speaker 1: to record it. I'm going to show you, guys, because 342 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: I would not lie about something like that, and that's 343 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: what I did. I just hung out. I went to 344 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: the spot, I got massages, I ate a lot of 345 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: cool food, and then I would just come home and 346 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: get in the bathtub and watch Sex in the City 347 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: for three weeks. Now moving forward to when I got 348 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: back home and I had a finished product. I was 349 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: so proud of myself when I got the finished product 350 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: that I told my mom. I said, Mother, just FYI, 351 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: I'm using the business card and I'm buying myself a 352 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,199 Speaker 1: first class ticket back. I feel I deserve it and 353 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: I'm just going to do it. I just told her. 354 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: I didn't even ask her permission. That was the first 355 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: time I experienced first class, and I haven't been the 356 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: same since they give me slippers. It was a laid 357 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: down bed, Oh my god, night and day experience, guys, 358 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: from going coach in the middle seat. It was a lot. 359 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: I spent like an extra I don't know how much, 360 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: over one thousand dollars on top of what I had 361 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: already paid. Well, not me and my mom. So that's 362 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: that I get home. My mom, by this time was 363 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: a little happier with me. It took her like two 364 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: weeks while I was out there to just warm up, 365 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: and you know, I was kind of getting her excited 366 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: with everything that I was doing. She was really happy. 367 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: I remember walking into her office and she was sitting 368 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: on her chair and I said, Mom, I'm back. Hi. 369 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: She was very happy to see me. I was very 370 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: happy to see her, and she's said, well, show me, 371 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 1: show me what you brought. And I remember pulling it 372 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 1: out and her face. Guys, the look on her face priceless. 373 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: I lived lived to make my mom proud. Anytime I 374 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 1: saw that face and then just that sparkle in her eye, 375 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: it was just everything to me. And I'm getting emotional 376 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: because I remember. I remember the day and she was 377 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,919 Speaker 1: so happy and so excited that she had her finished product. 378 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: And it worked beautifully because it was going to take 379 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: months before we got the shipment, you know, because everything 380 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: was going to come by sea. So the fact that 381 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: I stayed there to get a few made, because they 382 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: didn't just make me one, they made me like ten. 383 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: So we could take pictures and we can also show 384 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: it to different stores, and WSS actually picked it up 385 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: and we sold all the units to them, and we 386 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: were selling it online. So it did very very well 387 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: and that made me so happy. That was great. We 388 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: were fine. But then a few weeks later comes the 389 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: phone bill, and this is where it gets a little sticky, 390 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: because I didn't turn off my data or data or 391 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: whatever the roaming. Okay, guys, the phone bill that came 392 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: was insane, six thousand dollars phone bill. My mom wanted 393 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: to kill me. It was such an expensive trip. And 394 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I didn't know. I didn't 395 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: I never turned off the roaming. I'm like, Mom, I'm sorry. 396 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: We were on different time zones, like I needed to 397 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: send a lot of emails, I mean, back and forth 398 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: with the manufacturers with just everyone with her, and I 399 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: was on a lot of phone calls, you know, and 400 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: then I was talking to someone back then. So of 401 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: course at night I was bored, I'm gonna get on 402 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 1: the phone. Never did I think it was gonna be 403 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: six thousand dollars. My mom was livid. Then she got 404 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 1: over it because I was like Mom, It's okay. You know. Now, 405 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,400 Speaker 1: I'm like, damn it, my mother. I put her through 406 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: some things. Anyway, she was upset, but then we got 407 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: over it and I gave her a thousand dollars and 408 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: that's when she told me. She's like, what do you 409 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: want me to do with these thousand dollars? Roll them 410 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: up and use them as a tampon. She told me that. 411 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: I'm like what, I'm like, Mom, a thousand dollars is 412 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: a thousand dollars. She's like, yeah, and you owe another 413 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: five thousand. But anyway, it was nice. It was a 414 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: beautiful experience. And I've grown out of this because I 415 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: think for a long time I wanted her approval on everything. 416 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: And it's also not healthy, you know, to live for 417 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: someone's approval all the time. But I just I wanted 418 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: to make her proud, you know. And I'm happy and 419 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: I don't regret anything. But I'm glad that I also 420 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: grew out of that and matured. I'm definitely grateful that 421 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: I was able to experience everything that I did, and 422 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: my mom trusted me as much as she did to 423 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 1: get things done. And again, we did a lot together. 424 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: I mean, we started the skincare and the makeup line 425 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: we did, the perfume, we did a tequila business together, 426 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: her genes as well. Like I learned everything really because 427 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,239 Speaker 1: of her, because she threw me into everything and I 428 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: had no other choice but to figure it out and 429 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: look into everything and do my research and learn the 430 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: hard way. But it's helped me out a lot with 431 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: everything that I do now, So I wouldn't change a thing. 432 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: It was a very tough trip, but also everything that 433 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: I learned and what I was able to accomplish was priceless, 434 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: and I would do it all over again, even if 435 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: that meant her and I fighting on the way there. 436 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: It just because again it gave me that like motivation 437 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: to like, I'm going to show her and I'm glad 438 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 1: because I did, and I'll never forget her face. I 439 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: would go again to Gwanho. I want to go to Shanghai. 440 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: I've never heard beautiful things about Shanghai. That's in the 441 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 1: north of China. But my fragrance is made here, guys, 442 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: in the US. Not that there's anything wrong with manufacturing 443 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,679 Speaker 1: anything in China, but I did want my perfume, my 444 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: personal perfume to be developed here in the US. It 445 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: is Raina and it was definitely inspired by that experience 446 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: in China and everything that I learned there. So I'm 447 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: very grateful and I love wearing perfume. I wear my 448 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: perfume every single day. It's the only perfume I wear. 449 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: And I wanted to make something very because I have 450 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: expensive taste. I do. Even the chemist that made my 451 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: perfume told me that, she said, you have very expensive taste. 452 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: And that's why I'm like, Okay, this is exactly why 453 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: I want to create my own fragrance. Because the fragrance 454 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: that I used to use was a three hundred dollar bottle, okay, 455 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: And when people would ask me at my meet and 456 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: greet's like, Chikie, you smell so good. What perfume is it? 457 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: I almost felt embarrassed because I was like, what am 458 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: I doing spending three hundred, five hundred dollars on a 459 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: freaking fragrance? Anyway, Like if you can do that, more 460 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: power to you. But it was I started kind of like, 461 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: I'm like, I know how much it costs to make 462 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: these things, Like I know, and that's why I wanted 463 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: to make my perfume. And that's why Reina is in 464 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: such a generic bottle, because again, I'm all about not 465 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: being worried so much about what it looks like on 466 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: the outside. Of course I want it to look nice, 467 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 1: but when you're first starting out, like you need to 468 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: get components or you know, things that are already in stock, 469 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 1: so you don't spend so much on that. When things 470 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: start being custom made, that's where it gets really expensive. 471 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 1: And I wanted to focus more on what's inside the bottles. 472 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 1: Like with my skincare, when we first started, the bottles 473 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: were very inexpensive because that's what they had in stock. 474 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: But I really wanted my product, what's inside, what you 475 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: use on your face, on your body, for that to 476 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,959 Speaker 1: be the most expensive thing and what I invested in. 477 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: So that's what I did with my perfume as well. 478 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: I got a generic bottle, a generic cap. I wanted 479 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: to be very simple, very straight to the point, because 480 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: of course I would like to just go all out. 481 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: Now I can do that. Now something's coming like a 482 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: different bottle with like a custom made cap that cost 483 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: a lot. But again because you have to be smart, 484 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: and I saved some money and I said, okay, I'm 485 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 1: going to save X amount to make a more custom bottle. 486 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: But when I first started again, I didn't want to 487 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: spend that much on the bottle. So when people ask 488 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: me that, like okay, where are your bottles this? And 489 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,959 Speaker 1: your bottles that? Because I got a lot of like 490 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: criticism at first with my skincare because of it, and 491 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: I had to explain this to people. I'm like, you guys, 492 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: it's expensive to make a freaking product, you know, and 493 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: I'd rather you guys pay for what's inside. And then 494 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: people when I told them that and they fell in 495 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: love with the actual product, then they understood. But anyway, 496 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: that's a whole you know, that's here nor there. I 497 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: just wanted to explain that. And there is another perfume 498 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: that's coming. It's a unisex perfume and it's going to 499 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: be called Michentthe So that'll be coming out around my birthday. 500 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: It is unisex, and I'm excited because soon I have 501 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: to find a date to make a whole video to 502 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 1: present it. So this will be my second perfume. I mean, 503 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: I've had Raina for years now, I want to say 504 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 1: at least five years, six years now, and people love 505 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: it and they come back for more, so that makes 506 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 1: me really excited. But now this one's gonna be very different. 507 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: It's gonna smell different. It's more citrusy, a little musky, 508 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: but completely different from Raina. So look forward to that. 509 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,479 Speaker 1: And yeah, I just that's it, I think. I mean, 510 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: that's all I really wanted to share and kind of 511 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: just take you guys down memory lane and take myself 512 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: there and appreciate more everything that I went through with 513 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 1: my mom and all the beautiful moments that we live together, 514 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,360 Speaker 1: because there were a lot, you know, So that's basically 515 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: what I'm doing. So you'll hear a lot more stories, 516 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 1: I think here on this season because I'm in that 517 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: mode in that like I want to connect with my 518 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: mom in a different way. Now. I will catch you 519 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,160 Speaker 1: here on the next episode of Cheeks and Chill. Let's 520 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: getro mucho e. Yeah, make sure you share the podcast 521 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 1: with the people that you love, Okay, all right bye. 522 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 1: This is a production of iHeartRadio and the My Podcast Network. 523 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: Follow us on Instagram at Michaeldura Podcasts and follow me 524 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 1: Cheeky's That's c h i q U i s. 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