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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Waitt, and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guests. Entrepreneur in the building. Yes, and I'm very

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Speaker 1: excited about saying mompreneur because if your mom out there,

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Speaker 1: you know what's already that's already a full time self

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Speaker 1: employed type job. But to add more merit to the motherhood,

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Speaker 1: we added owner of Hype Hair magazine. Yes, Hype Hair Magazine,

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Speaker 1: and that's been around for over thirty years.

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Speaker 2: Thirty we're celebrating our thirty fifth year anniversary. Thirty we're

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Speaker 2: going into our thirty fifth year anniversary right now.

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Speaker 1: And in publishing, that's like monumental because you had to

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Speaker 1: survive the facebooks, the mindspaces, the Twitter age. Print is out.

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Speaker 1: We don't advertise in print now. We only sell. We

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Speaker 1: buy digital, I mean tweets and all my world. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's an I wasn't posting for ten years. Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you something that one wave where digital came

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Speaker 1: in and print was out, you had to change a

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Speaker 1: whole strategy on sales absolutely, and then and distribution. And

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Speaker 1: now to add more to that, you bought the Savoy,

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Speaker 1: which is another which, by the way, if you think

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Speaker 1: owning a magazine is tough, I would imagine a restaurant is.

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Speaker 2: Much restaurant, nightclub. Yeah, it's a whole Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: whole thing.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine that side. And then to add

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Speaker 1: even more to that, you got the Girl cave La.

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Speaker 2: The Girl cave La is my beauty supply store chain.

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Speaker 2: We have franchises here in Los Angeles and in Texas, and.

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Speaker 1: Oh we're in Texas. Let me tell you something. You

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Speaker 1: are a definition. You're just on your own. It could

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Speaker 1: be just entrepreneur. I'll take it, you know. I mean

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Speaker 1: sometimes I hate when people separate it only because it's like, yo,

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Speaker 1: on its own, You're good, you know, because then it's like,

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Speaker 1: are you the top of the morepreneurs? Where do you fall?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Like, no, you you will be. She's a serial entrepreneur, entrepreneur.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm a mother. Yes, I'm a mom, and I'm

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Speaker 2: just making it happen. Yes.

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Speaker 1: So on the regular day we were talking about this.

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Speaker 1: You don't look this stunning.

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Speaker 2: Time never ever I came like this to see you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, because you look great For all y'all listeners,

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Speaker 1: they can't see her. She looks ten out of ten phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: You would never think she was a mom because you

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Speaker 1: know how else mom's look.

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Speaker 2: You should have seen me yesterday at the same time,

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Speaker 2: totally different person.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I love that for you because I

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Speaker 1: have this new face where I gained a lot of weight.

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Speaker 1: So if it's not stretchy or loose, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to wear it.

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Speaker 2: But you look good.

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Speaker 1: I'm wearing jeans for you. This is my this is

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Speaker 1: me trying to look good for you. I put on

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Speaker 1: makeup before you came. But it's an honor to meet you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I was very excited when we got

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Speaker 1: the interview with you.

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Speaker 2: I was excited when I got the invitation. I'm happy

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Speaker 2: to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yes, girl, Yes. And then before we get into all

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Speaker 1: the tea of a day in the life of a

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Speaker 1: real serial entrepreneur that's struggling multiple businesses at the same time,

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Speaker 1: why don't you tell me what you're gonna be cooking

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Speaker 1: for lunch today?

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Speaker 2: So my go to my go to meal is spaghetti.

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Speaker 2: It's meatless spaghetti though, so it's quick. My daughter probably

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Speaker 2: hates this. So a single mom for a long time

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Speaker 2: and my daughter's twenty one now, and she says it

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Speaker 2: because I feel like I ate it four times a week.

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Speaker 2: But this was easy. A bell pepper, onion, some sauce.

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Speaker 2: This is like less than ten.

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Speaker 1: Dollars, yes, yes? And then now the bell pepper and onions.

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Speaker 1: Was that something because you wanted to add extra like

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Speaker 2: Because I mean, I just felt like it was so

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Speaker 2: basic just to have salt, mean, just to have sauce

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Speaker 2: and pasta. So I was like, what can I do that?

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Speaker 2: And when you go to the produce aisle, it's bell

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Speaker 2: pepper and onion. That's something you can spice it up with. Yeh.

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Speaker 2: If I'm feeling really fancy, I'll add mushroom.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, oh mushroom. Now do you saw tea it?

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Speaker 2: I sautea it first. Oh, God, sutea it first. And

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Speaker 2: that's kind of like your replacement for meat. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: I didn't like that. I never really cooked mushrooms, but

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Speaker 1: I one day in my life I will venture off

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Speaker 2: I'm there in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: But go ahead, start our lunch through the pasta in

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Speaker 1: the pad and take me back to what was going on,

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Speaker 1: and you can start. You can start since this is

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Speaker 1: your stable go to you can start as far back

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Speaker 1: want to be really inspired today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm trying to think the first time this became

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Speaker 2: a thing in my life. I think it was when

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Speaker 2: I became a single. I was a teenage single mom.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got pregnant with Kayla, my oldest daughter,

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Speaker 2: when I was eighteen. I had it when I was nineteen.

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Speaker 2: I was in college and I was just trying to

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Speaker 2: to school, get her to school, gets everything together.

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Speaker 1: And you said your parents were strict, super strict. Sorry, guys,

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Speaker 1: I talked before we got on camera.

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Speaker 2: You know what, But I feel like that is the rebellion, right.

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Speaker 2: So I grew up very sheltered, went to private Christian

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Speaker 2: school my whole life, went to church every Sunday, and

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Speaker 2: nothing's wrong with that. But I never got a taste

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Speaker 2: taste of it, oh, I tasted it. I was outside

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Speaker 1: What was that discussion like with your parents? Like, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm in college and surprise, you know what.

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Speaker 2: My mom is deceased now. But she was very intuitive.

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Speaker 2: She knew the guy was dating and she was like,

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Speaker 2: don't get pregnant. And I was like, why would I

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Speaker 2: get pregnant? She was like, don't get pregnant. And I

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Speaker 2: felt like she knew before I told her. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: And because I wasn't I didn't have a wear. I

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Speaker 2: mom knew. She was a registered nurse. So when we

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Speaker 2: would come home from school and the stomach churts, are

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Speaker 2: you pregnant? No, I'm not pregnant, And one day I

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Speaker 2: was just like, I think I'm pregnant. So yeah, it

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Speaker 2: was a eacy. Yeah, she already had the foresight. I

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Speaker 2: think had she been blindsided, it would have been worse.

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Speaker 1: But she kind of had some intuition and was she

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Speaker 2: You know what I will say, they became supportive. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I think they were disappointed. Obviously they were disappointed.

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Speaker 1: And how did that make you feel like knowing that

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Speaker 1: that was because that's that's got also.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, I mean my parents invested a lot

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Speaker 2: went to private Christian school, I had a lot of

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Speaker 2: access to a lot of things. I had a nuclear family,

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Speaker 2: So some of the things that I did in early

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Speaker 2: support me. They could have been upset with me or disappointed,

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Speaker 2: but I never felt like I was on my Yeah.

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Speaker 1: They never like turned their back on you. Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: I was great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was a single parent and things were hard,

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Speaker 2: but I never was like I was down but never

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Speaker 1: Good, Yeah, well that's good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good.

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Speaker 1: So what the father did he poof.

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Speaker 2: Vanished pool Spanish? Poof Spanish? Where is he? Like? No

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Speaker 2: poof Banish?

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Speaker 1: Oh oh you no relationship right now?

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Speaker 2: No relationship?

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Speaker 1: You are a real, real real though you didn't even

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Speaker 1: get to argue with the other parents.

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Speaker 2: Like I think he was involved often on during the pregnancy,

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Speaker 2: but I think when Kayla got here and it was

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Speaker 2: a realization that, like we have this responsibility it was

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Speaker 2: not something he was ready for, not at all all.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't either, Yeah, no one's I went through a

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Speaker 1: phase of being a single parent. Let me just tell

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Speaker 1: you something. And people are like, I wasn't ready, Like

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Speaker 2: Think no one's ever ready to be a parent? You

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Speaker 2: kind of just it's on the job training.

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Speaker 1: It's on the job training and young and you're young.

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Speaker 1: So what are you doing to support yourself during this time?

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Speaker 1: And do you move in with your parents?

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Speaker 2: Yes? So at this point, I'm living in a dorm

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Speaker 2: with my best friend. I'm living my best life. And no,

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Speaker 2: this is when I find out I'm pregnant, and so

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Speaker 2: I have my baby shower. Well, actually I take that back.

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Speaker 2: my parents to come back home. Of course they immediately

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Speaker 2: were like yes. But my mom made me pay rent

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Speaker 2: to get out. She would always tell me there cannot

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Speaker 2: be two queens in this castle. So you're the queen

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Speaker 2: now of your house. So you got to figure this out.

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Speaker 2: And so there was support but there was a very

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Speaker 2: big push to get me out. And when I oversaved

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Speaker 2: my welcome, my mom put me out for sure.

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Speaker 1: Oh damn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're saying that she never turned her back, but

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Speaker 2: It was her, it was her rule.

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Speaker 1: It was did you understand it at the time.

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Speaker 2: I didn't understand it at the time. We fall you know,

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Speaker 2: had a big falling out. I felt like she didn't

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Speaker 2: I made my bed. I had to lie in it.

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Speaker 2: It was my responsibility, it was my daughter, was not

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Speaker 2: her responsibility. And she saw me not doing the things

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Speaker 2: that I needed to do to prepare for my life

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Speaker 2: as a single parent, and she just said, you got

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Speaker 1: But you want to know something, I know for a

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Speaker 1: fact that this is why you are as strong and

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Speaker 2: I say all the time that that those moments are

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Speaker 2: feel like I can't do. You know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: Like if you can be nineteen years old trying to

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Speaker 2: figure out how you're going to pay rent and feed

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Speaker 2: a kid, and you could do anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's when my homeboy told me once, me and

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Speaker 1: my husband severay I became a single mom, and he

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Speaker 1: told me, if I can survive this chapter, absolutely, he

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Speaker 1: was like, you will be invincible. Do you know that?

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Speaker 1: I feel even remember what we're talking about before, part

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Speaker 1: of me feels like I've seen I've seen the worst.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen the worst. I'm just saying, like,

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying. I'm just saying, so I feel that experience.

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Speaker 1: Like, okay, in school? So you graduate school for what.

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Speaker 1: Feel you, though, because I always tell myself, if I

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Speaker 1: Did you go Okay, I'm gonna do it. And then

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Speaker 2: I.

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Speaker 1: Like your hands.

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Speaker 2: There was always a trust fund somewhere somewhere.

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Speaker 2: I think you can do things when you're married community like,

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying because because you know what

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Speaker 2: Exactly, I'll never live in a studio apartment with That's

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Speaker 2: what I'm looking for, Like a look at me. This

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Speaker 1: You scratching the heck out of that pot.

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Speaker 2: I am, I am, I hope it. Oh there we go.

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Speaker 2: That's better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, much better. Okay, so you're in this marriage, you

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Speaker 2: The first play is is I'm into hair. So part

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Speaker 2: of what I did I didn't even bring this up

440
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Speaker 2: when I was a single parent, is I had a

441
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Speaker 2: friend that worked in the industry and she would sometimes

442
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Speaker 2: have like stand in modeling gigs or things like that.

443
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Speaker 2: So I modeled. I'm like almost six feet tall, so.

444
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Speaker 1: You are tall, huh Yeah.

445
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Speaker 2: So there were times that I did, like infomercials, like

446
00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,359
Speaker 2: modeling gigs on the side just to kind of get through.

447
00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,919
Speaker 2: And so I always was obsessed with my hair. That

448
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,080
Speaker 2: was just like a thing. So I said, what could

449
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Speaker 2: I do as a business that I like I love

450
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Speaker 2: and wouldn't feel like work. And the first thing was hair.

451
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Speaker 2: I love beauty supply stores. I love hair. You'll see

452
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Speaker 2: me today with this hair.

453
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Speaker 1: You'll see that I love your hair. But thank you

454
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:05,760
Speaker 1: love it you already know, thank you.

455
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Speaker 2: I love mixing it up. So every week, even when

456
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Speaker 2: I was working for a DCFS, like when I got

457
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Speaker 2: my paycheck, one of the first things I would do

458
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Speaker 2: after I paid my bills was, you know, go get

459
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Speaker 2: a new wig, Go get some new hair, mix it up.

460
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Speaker 2: Like That's how I felt good about myself. So I

461
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Speaker 2: knew that that was something that would never feel like

462
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Speaker 2: work to me if I found a niche in the

463
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Speaker 2: hair business. And so I started a hair company.

464
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Speaker 1: Okay, a hair company. And what did that hair company do?

465
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Speaker 2: So we sold hair extensions, weaves, wigs, and then I

466
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Speaker 2: took the proceeds from that, and then I started a

467
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Speaker 2: beauty supply store. And then that's where the chain the

468
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Speaker 2: girl Kvetlet came from.

469
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Speaker 1: Wow, and you were competing against Now that industry is

470
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Speaker 1: monopoly by I want to I don't want to say,

471
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Speaker 1: is it correct very much? Okay? Okay?

472
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

473
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Speaker 1: And so you're getting into a space where there's not

474
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Speaker 1: that many people that look and feel like you.

475
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Speaker 2: Correct, So I started my stores ten years ago. When

476
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Speaker 2: I started ten years ago, there was no one that

477
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Speaker 2: looked like me and my distributor. I think now it's

478
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Speaker 2: kind of shifted where there's more black ownership and beauty

479
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Speaker 2: supply stores. But when I started, absolutely not. So being

480
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Speaker 2: able to even get my distributors to open up accounts

481
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Speaker 2: for me was like a hard a hard test. Wow.

482
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Speaker 1: And you say distributors, is that the people that sell

483
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Speaker 1: you the middleman?

484
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Speaker 2: Basically wow, yes, because obviously you don't buy from the

485
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Speaker 2: manufacturers because they have these huge minimums fifty sixty seventy

486
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Speaker 2: eighty thousand and oh.

487
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Speaker 1: We don't know that, just so you know, Oh, ok,

488
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Speaker 1: got it educated up right, because everyone has not opened

489
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Speaker 1: up a beauty supply store. I just thought. You go

490
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Speaker 1: to the manufacturers, and they are I mean.

491
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Speaker 2: In some cases, but a lot of the bigger manufacturers

492
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Speaker 2: because they are so large, they have six figure minimums

493
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Speaker 2: fifty sixty seventy eighty thousand dollars, and so you carry

494
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Speaker 2: so many lines, you can't go to every manufacturer, so

495
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 2: you go to essentially a wholesaler. Yeah, so that was

496
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Speaker 2: the struggle.

497
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Speaker 1: You learned all this on the boots on the ground.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I was a stalker and beauty supply stores for

499
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Speaker 2: probably like six months before I even started. I would

500
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Speaker 2: go in and see like if they had boxes on

501
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Speaker 2: the floor, if they were restocking, like where their boxes

502
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 2: were coming from.

503
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Speaker 1: You, Yeah, all right, go ahead, my kind of gang.

504
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 1: So okay.

505
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Speaker 2: So I figured it out. And then when I found

506
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Speaker 2: out where some of the main distributors were in LA,

507
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Speaker 2: I just went in and I, you know, finagled them

508
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Speaker 2: to open up my accounts.

509
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Speaker 1: Okay. And then once you had accounts, did you go

510
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Speaker 1: online or did you go store right away?

511
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Speaker 2: I did a pop up shop first. So I didn't

512
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Speaker 2: sign a long term lease because at this point I'm

513
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Speaker 2: still not like confident. I don't know if this is

514
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Speaker 2: going to work. I took a leave of absence from

515
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Speaker 2: my job. I didn't quit because I was scared that

516
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to figure it out.

517
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Speaker 1: How long is a leave of absence?

518
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Speaker 2: So I took like a three month one. Then I

519
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Speaker 2: renewed it for like another three months. So I took

520
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Speaker 2: like do.

521
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Speaker 1: You get paid on leaves of absence?

522
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Speaker 2: You can use your time, So I saved up like

523
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Speaker 2: my vacation time, my PTO time. So you use that you're.

524
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Speaker 1: Smart smart Yeah, okay, and then that's when you would

525
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Speaker 1: just pour into the business. Okay. I love the way

526
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 1: you're thinking. This is chess, not checking, this.

527
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 2: Is and I need my pay checks st at this point,

528
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Speaker 2: I need something coming.

529
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Speaker 1: And are you still married at this I'm still married? Oh?

530
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Speaker 2: Still married? Okay, still married.

531
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Speaker 1: And he's he's he's he's whispering supportive things in your

532
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Speaker 1: ear to keep.

533
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Speaker 2: For the most part at this point, Yeah, he's like,

534
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 2: you know, figure it out, quit your job. You got it.

535
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: And I'm like, no, I'm not quitting my job. I

536
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 2: need my job. Ye, I need exactly, exactly exactly. We're

537
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Speaker 2: not quitting any jobs that pay us on the first

538
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Speaker 2: and the fifteenth. I need that. So yeah, it was

539
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Speaker 2: really like, once I got the store off the ground

540
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Speaker 2: and I saw that I could get to a point

541
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Speaker 2: to make it profitable, then I felt comfortable quitting my job.

542
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 2: But it wasn't immediate. It wasn't like, oh, I have

543
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Speaker 2: this great business idea, I'm gonnaquit my job tomorrow.

544
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And did you wait for the cash flow to

545
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Speaker 1: build up before you actually pulled that trigger?

546
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I did, and I waited until I

547
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Speaker 2: had like a profitable season, like.

548
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Speaker 1: I didn't just season.

549
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't like I had a profitable week. I

550
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,479
Speaker 2: went like thirty days and I'm like, okay, we're tracking up.

551
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: We're tracking up. Cool because obviously in the beginning you don't. No.

552
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Speaker 1: No, I usually trying to avoid pulling a check from

553
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Speaker 1: any company now until year two, which is hard to do.

554
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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this. I like to build up

555
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Speaker 1: a healthy cash flow before I jump on payroll. That's

556
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Speaker 1: just my thing because it is just I don't know

557
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Speaker 1: if it's the pandemics and all the hurdles we done

558
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Speaker 1: went through. I'm traumatized.

559
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Speaker 2: I get it.

560
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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, after year two, we could start dipping

561
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Speaker 1: into the kiddie fund that everyone else gets paid obviously first,

562
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: but I try and survive lean and not off that

563
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: company for the first two.

564
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Speaker 2: That's that's good. Yeah, that's but I wasn't that disciplined

565
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Speaker 2: I was.

566
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Speaker 1: I was doing that means you were doing that means

567
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,919
Speaker 1: you were doing good though good enough. I feel like

568
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 1: sometimes people underestimate, like and I have this discussion all

569
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Speaker 1: the time. There's a difference between how much money you

570
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Speaker 1: make and cash flow and the cash flow, I believe

571
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Speaker 1: it or not, it does no matter how much money

572
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: you generated as a company. If you can't manage that

573
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Speaker 1: cash flow, it means absolutely not.

574
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Speaker 2: You can make one hundred thousand dollars today, but if

575
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Speaker 2: you've got to spend ninety nine thousand to get there.

576
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Speaker 1: What is it? Yeah? And people, I meet too many

577
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs that don't quite understand cash But no, no, no,

578
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: you have to respect that one little You gotta respect

579
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: that flow you do and that's the only way you

580
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: could really grow. In my opinion, it looks.

581
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Speaker 2: Good though you know, now I know this is this

582
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 2: is a little nostalgic for me. Yeah, I remember like

583
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 2: having to do this after work.

584
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Speaker 1: And so how many beauty supply stores do you own?

585
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Speaker 2: It? We actually so in the height when I the

586
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 2: Girl Cave, we had seven six locations. Now we've scaled

587
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 2: back and we have four. We've closed two of them

588
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 2: that were in areas that just didn't they just weren't working.

589
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 2: So after the pandemic, we decided to close those two locals.

590
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 2: But you close or so close, totally closed, and then

591
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 2: we filtraded the inventory into other stores. So there wasn't

592
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 2: like a total loss, so we kind of just saw

593
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 2: it through at the end of those leases and said

594
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Speaker 2: thank you, Ben, no thanks and yeah, focused on the

595
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Speaker 2: stores that were super profitable.

596
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Speaker 1: And are they all in LA.

597
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 2: Yes, So we have one in Inglewood, I went in

598
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 2: South Los Angeles, one in Anaheim, and then the other

599
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 2: location in Texas.

600
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Speaker 1: Oh Anna, what made you go all the way to Anaheim?

601
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Speaker 2: A franchisee? So some of the.

602
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Speaker 1: Franchises, I mean, you are a franchise.

603
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 2: Sorry, correct? Correct? So when I had a mother and

604
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 2: daughter approach and they wanted to open up a location

605
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 2: and they were comfortable in Orange County and they found

606
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Speaker 2: a location in Anaheim, and so we opened it. Wow.

607
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, And now can you tell us the pros of

608
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: being a franchisee For all those listeners out there that

609
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: are thinking, hey, I want to open a beauty supply

610
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 1: stories seem it's really easy.

611
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 2: You know what. I think that's the irony of it.

612
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 2: People think because it's hair and because it's beauty, it's easy.

613
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 2: It's actually not, like the industry doesn't make it easier.

614
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 2: So I would say, yeah, don't get into a franchise

615
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 2: model and think because the model already exists that it

616
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 2: somehow is like easy. It's not.

617
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought it would be easier if you do

618
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: a franchise.

619
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: You still got to have that instinct to go get it.

620
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. It's not like a blueprint

621
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 2: of success. It's maybe you know some systems in place,

622
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 2: which is helpful. I'm not going to say it's not.

623
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 2: But but you also have the distributors, right, correct, So

624
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 2: those are things that are easier, right, So it's built in.

625
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 2: You don't have to go find your distributors, you don't

626
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: have to go find your product list, but you still

627
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 2: got to be in there and interacting with your staff

628
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 2: and making sure you meet payroll and making sure you're

629
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 2: meeting your sales goals. Like that doesn't yeah, that doesn't

630
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 2: go away. Yeah. Yeah. So and I learned that because

631
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,679
Speaker 2: the juice bar that my ex husband had was in

632
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 2: a franchise model. So I learned the pros and cons

633
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 2: of being a franchisee. Yeah.

634
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: But for any listeners out there, would you advise franchise

635
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: over or starting on your own?

636
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 2: It depends on the industry. I think, Okay, this industry,

637
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: beauty supply industry. I would say yes, because there's so

638
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 2: many pieces that go with it. If it's something that

639
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 2: you're familiar and then a lot of people are not

640
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 2: familiar with the hair industry. Like I just started talking

641
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: about manufacturers and stuff and you're like, hold on this

642
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 2: and go back. Oh no, we don't know, we don't know.

643
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 2: So if that is not instinctual to you, if that

644
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense to you, then yeah, obviously a franchise model.

645
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 2: But if it's an industry that you're familiar with, I

646
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 2: wouldn't go to the franchise out, Okay. I just wouldn't, okay,

647
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 2: because part of being the business owner is you get

648
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: the creativity and you get to build, and the franchise

649
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 2: you don't. It's no creative. The creative is.

650
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: There already controlled. You gotta ask for permission, right because

651
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: that's the queen of the house.

652
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: It's exactly down to the color of your walls, right.

653
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 2: Like I remember being in a franchise model with the

654
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 2: juice bar and they say, you know what, we're changing

655
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: all the stories, concepts and you have to pay for that.

656
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 2: Franchise is not giving you money to pa cheap. Hey,

657
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 2: we don't want to do plastic anymore. We want wood finishing.

658
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 2: Like you're at the discretion of a corporate model. So yes,

659
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 2: great when you're starting, but as you grow as a

660
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 2: business owner and you want that leverage to be able

661
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 2: to be creative, you don't really have that in a

662
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: franchise model. Dang. Yeah.

663
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: Okay, so after the Cave the Girl Cave La. Now

664
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: you have all your stores. It's been in business for

665
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: over ten years now.

666
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 2: Yes, we just celebrated ten years in April this year.

667
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: Okay, so what is your next place? Because you have

668
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: multiple businesses.

669
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: You know what, I Oh, my goodness, I'm becoming less

670
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: fascinated with retail, and I really want to dive into

671
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: more the digital marketing space with our brand, because you know,

672
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 2: we have hype Per now under the Hypeer before though

673
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 2: or I brought hype Peer after hyper has been existence

674
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: for thirty five years, but I purchased it five years ago.

675
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

676
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so I really want to dig into that more.

677
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: Retail is cool, but it's brutal. Yeah, it's like, honestly,

678
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 2: sometimes I think, how did you get into the restaurant

679
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: business and the retail business, Like you pick the most hardest.

680
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, the restaurant business, the club business and the magazine

681
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: business are like the worst. I mean, not the worst,

682
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: and they are.

683
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: They're the worst to make money.

684
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: And I feel like you just have to have a

685
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: real good, strong sales ethic. And I don't know if you,

686
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: as the owner, are that much removed because I feel

687
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: like the owner is always the best sales person.

688
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: I am.

689
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: I am, and I hate that. I know, I hate that.

690
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: Don't you wish you could clone yourself?

691
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 2: I know, I said all the time, if I have

692
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 2: five of me's, i'd be a billionaire.

693
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, it would be well same my number.

694
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you Okay, So okay, tell me about

695
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: Hype hair.

696
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 2: Got it? So everybody knows hype hair, Like it's just

697
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 2: nostalgic for for all women of color. I think I

698
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 2: don't think it's just black women, because I have a

699
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 2: lot of friends from different races, and when I told

700
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 2: them I was purchasing Hype Hair, They're like, oh, I

701
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 2: remember that magazine. So we've had Beyonce on the cover,

702
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: Rihanna Nyah Long like, think of every staple. It's a

703
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 2: staple magazine exactly. So through the process of owning The

704
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 2: Girl k La and I was doing reality TV. I

705
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 2: was doing some press with Hypeer. A friend of mine, Mimi,

706
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 2: who's in Atlanta, has a sister publication, and she said,

707
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 2: you should meet the owner. I think he's going to sell. Yeah,

708
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 2: a guy, a white guy from New Jersey own Hypeer.

709
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? Would Yeah, a white guy from New

710
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: Jersey super He's like I could call him to this day.

711
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 2: He's a really good guy. But he was going to

712
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: sail and he said, you know what, I feel like

713
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 2: the right thing to do is to park hype Haer

714
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 2: in the hands of a woman of color. So yeah,

715
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 2: we got to know each other. We negotiated, We went

716
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: back and forth, we tried to decide what we were

717
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 2: going to do, and then we came to an agreement.

718
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 2: And then we went and he sold me Hypeer.

719
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: Wow, Now what did that body of work look like?

720
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: Come on, we gotta we gotta dive. You see the

721
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: pot is even.

722
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's so much. It's so much like

723
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 2: hype Pair is a legacy publication, so there's so much

724
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 2: responsibility in that. You can't just slap anything on the cover.

725
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: Like our subscribers are savvy, they're loyal, they've been a

726
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 2: part of the magazine for years. So it's just a

727
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 2: lot of I could go on and on. It's just

728
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: a lot of work.

729
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, what hat do you wear? Primarily since taking over.

730
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 2: Everything, really, I'm really focused on visibility and sales right now,

731
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 2: so making sure we have the right partnerships, the right

732
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 2: brand partnerships, to make sure that people don't see us

733
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 2: as just you know, going to grab money, but they

734
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 2: see it as authentic relationships. So a lot of the

735
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 2: brands that we're working with and a lot of brands

736
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 2: want to work with Hype Pair. I'm super grateful for that,

737
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 2: but sometimes we're not able to work with them because

738
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 2: we don't want our subscribers and the people that are

739
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 2: following us to feel like we're just putting something in

740
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: front of their face.

741
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: You're turning down checks.

742
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 2: Sometime, what if it doesn't align what I know? It's no,

743
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 2: I know, if it doesn't align with the vision and

744
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 2: of Hypair, you know it just it doesn't look. That's

745
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: how I feel. Sometimes I'm like, no, we.

746
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: Can't now, Yeah, you're making that executive decision to say no,

747
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: you making.

748
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 2: Because it's a legacy brand.

749
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: I get it.

750
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 2: It comes it's a lot with it. So I can't

751
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 2: just you know, there's so many brands that just want

752
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 2: to get on the backs of that voice, because you

753
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 2: do have a strong voice. And no, we're not turning

754
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 2: down a lot of checks now, but I'm just saying

755
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: just every once in a while, yeah, if it doesn't

756
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 2: align with the mission. To me, all money is not

757
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: good money.

758
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: I only say that when a person haggles me. Whenever

759
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: a person haggles me, I'm like, no, no, no, keep your money.

760
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 2: I already know you, already know what that's going to

761
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 2: turn into exactly.

762
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: But if you're not haggling, I'm I'm up for negotiation.

763
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: That's the only time I label bad money is when

764
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: you haggle. Anytime someone haggles, I'm like, I'm.

765
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 2: Good, you know what that comes.

766
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: I don't mind a discount, but a haggle, A haggle

767
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: is out. It's a non negotiable. We don't even have

768
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: to need We part in peace. But you're turning out checks,

769
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: okay for our legacy on.

770
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 2: A scalt of one to ten, that's like a point five. Yes.

771
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 2: The point I'm making is is that because there's so

772
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 2: much history with the brand, we can't just say yes

773
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 2: to everything. I like that we have to be in

774
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 2: you know, we are inclusive, but we have to be

775
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 2: exclusive also at the same time.

776
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: So what's the day in the life working for Hype Air, Well.

777
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 2: We ask my publisher, I probably get on her nerves.

778
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 2: I love you, Trish, But we are always posting on

779
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 2: socials or making sure our voice is heard. We're talking

780
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 2: to brands about advertising with us. A lot of things

781
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 2: that we've done in the last four years under my

782
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 2: leadership is not traditional advertising. We're doing like activations, So

783
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 2: we've done activations in Miami for brands. Essence Fest is

784
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,240
Speaker 2: another big platform for us where we activate with brands.

785
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 2: Finder Brothers the show have you familiar Runner Brothers. They

786
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 2: do a huge hair show in Atlanta, so we've been

787
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 2: their media partners. So just really cultivating those relationships. I say,

788
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 2: you don't always get on the phone with someone just

789
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 2: when you need money, right, Like a lot of it

790
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 2: is like checking in, like what is the brand need

791
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 2: from us? And sometimes we do things for free because

792
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 2: brands are loyal to us. So it's now do cultivate.

793
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: Ever bring the two companies you have together.

794
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 2: All the time. I'm actually in the process of dissolving

795
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 2: the girl k La and making all of our stories

796
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 2: hype here, so.

797
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: We'll be the beauty umbrella that actually makes absolute perfect sense.

798
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: And that's actually very brilliant, very that's smart.

799
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 2: I'm excited for that transition. It should be done by

800
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:45,959
Speaker 2: the end of this year.

801
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's a big move and it's a big movie.

802
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: That was your genius.

803
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just felt like I was working on two ships.

804
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 2: It's like, no, no, let's put everything together and let's

805
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 2: drive the same boat.

806
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: So now you have a retail section of h and

807
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: now you have the magazine digital where you bring in

808
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: all these other additional partners that are targeting that same demo.

809
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 2: Correct, and then we have a we have licensing deals,

810
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 2: so we like a licensing deal with Connie, the haircare

811
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 2: company of the you did that do so it was

812
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 2: it was existing, but it was dormant. So under my leadership,

813
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 2: I cultivated the relationship where we relaunched our lines. So

814
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 2: we're in I want to say, like eight thousand stores

815
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 2: right now Burlington, North Trump's, Rag Walmart's and Walmart's in Canada,

816
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 2: but I think we're in like eight thousand doors right now.

817
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yep, all right, and then let's move into

818
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: the last well, the last currently that I know about. Yes,

819
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 1: if I'm missing something, the Savoy hah, I just wanted

820
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 1: to make it harder.

821
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you have a magazine and retail stores, like

822
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 2: let's go open a club, right.

823
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: And this all happened around the same time as Hype.

824
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 2: Pair, right, Yes, so high Pair came first. Okay, super

825
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: super successful, like right when I took over it, and

826
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 2: my confidence was like, oh cool, Like I'm like, we're

827
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: doing this, and the opportunity the Savoy I'm from Inglewood,

828
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 2: still live in Inglewood.

829
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: That's like, you like these legacy things I do?

830
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 2: I do. I feel like it. I feel like parts

831
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 2: of our culture should be owned by people that care,

832
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 2: and I feel like I care good. So yeah, the Savoy.

833
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 2: I was literally driving down the Brain and I saw

834
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 2: for sale sign. I called my sister and I say,

835
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: let's the SA Boys for sale, and she immediately says,

836
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: let's buy it. I'm thinking my sister is going to

837
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 2: be like, girl, keep driving. She is.

838
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: She is You guys are terrible to get she is

839
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: my sister. I love that for you.

840
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, she owns They actually are ranked one of the

841
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 2: top wine bars in the country in Inglewood. It's called

842
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 2: ten ten Wines and it's.

843
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, y'all are like a dynamic.

844
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. So when they did see this is

845
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. It's hard for me to be upset

846
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 2: that they put me out because they put they put

847
00:37:59,280 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 2: that in us.

848
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 1: If you were homeless, I'll blame them to You could

849
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: have gone either way to feed us.

850
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, I'm sitting here talking and I'm gonna mix

851
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 2: this in because I don't want to make too much

852
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 2: of a mess. And go ahead, there we go.

853
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: I'm sure people in the back are hungry too. I

854
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: know you're feeding the whole crew today.

855
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 2: Is that okay? Well, I hope.

856
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: I made brenzino for lunch. I make a mean brenzino.

857
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 2: Do you know that that's my favorite fish?

858
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 1: Are you a mean?

859
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 2: I love a good whole branzino with some olives and tomatoes,

860
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 2: and like a.

861
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: Girl, I don't do all that you just made my bandle,

862
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you a really good Brenzino. I make

863
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: really good brinzino. I practice it almost every week. I'm

864
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: prating ways. Yes, I love prinzina. Okay, yes, my favorite fish.

865
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 2: It's my favorite too.

866
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 3: That's crazy, Okay, we have a lot of common, all right,

867
00:38:54,760 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 3: So this is the boy you call, y'all A like,

868
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 3: let's do it.

869
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 2: She says, let's buy it. So I called the real

870
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 2: estate agent and they say, well, come see it. I'm like,

871
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: well when they said, well, we're actually here now.

872
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: Now, when they say for sale, they mean the restaurant

873
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: was for sale or the brand was for.

874
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 2: Sale, so not the business. The building. Oh, the building, Yes,

875
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 2: the building was for sale at this time. I didn't

876
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 2: know what was for sale. I just saw it for sale. Song.

877
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,760
Speaker 2: We later found out that the building was for sale,

878
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 2: and so that's why we we kind of gutted it,

879
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 2: renovated it, and we've made it our own. It's actually

880
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 2: called Free event Space now.

881
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: Free event Space okay, so we're not plugging this boy.

882
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: We're plugging Free events Space.

883
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 2: You know what we get away from the name, though, I.

884
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: Know, I love that she loves her legacy. You can't

885
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,720
Speaker 1: get a Savoy you end up at the same spot.

886
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 2: I was there this morning and a lady called and

887
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 2: she said, where are you guys? And I just said,

888
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: where the old Savoy is. She immediately knew what I

889
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 2: was talking about. So it's like, so, okay, so you

890
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 2: can fight it. Okay, I love that for you. I

891
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 2: love the Savoy. When it was the Savoy, I loved it.

892
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 2: So listen, it's called for event space now, but it's.

893
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: Free form event space, but it's formally the Savoyd correct. Okay,

894
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 1: Well I'll be going there.

895
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We have amazing food, amazing staff. I

896
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 2: love it. Okay, I'm there every Now.

897
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: Are you guys competitively priced like comparison to people who

898
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: host events at the like the hotels.

899
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 2: Oh, we're way more affordable.

900
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: Okay.

901
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: All of our client we do have corporate clients, but

902
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: ninety five percent of our clients are people that are

903
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 2: in the community. We do repass as birthday parties.

904
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: What's the capacity on it?

905
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 2: Oh, I think we're at like five twenty.

906
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 1: Five twenty is it layers?

907
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 2: It's ten thousand square feet.

908
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: I haven't been in there because I know you remodeled it, right.

909
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have like a little small staircase that

910
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 2: leads to outdoor patio, but it's all one level.

911
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: Awesome, ten thousand square and then can you break up

912
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: the room if you're doing less? How what are the

913
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: breaking sets, the event.

914
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 2: Planner and guys, I know, I know you have a

915
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 2: lounge area, okay, that we accommodate seventy five or less, okay,

916
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 2: but the main space is five five twenty twenty awesome.

917
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 1: Who who's events to be hosted? If you don't mind

918
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: me as we let's see.

919
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 2: We've had so many artists. Romaine Virgo, who's my favorite

920
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: Jamaican singers. He's performed there.

921
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: You are going to destroy your clothes. Girl. You are

922
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: not bad and good right now I'm Talking's the other

923
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: tool to feed us?

924
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 2: Please? Like I gotta eat, listen, I don't want to taste.

925
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 2: I gotta taste to be prest servant because I don't

926
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: want you.

927
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: You can't mess some spaghetti, especially if you know how

928
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 1: to make you be able to mess it up, because

929
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: I don't. You was pulling a lot of soap, but

930
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: you know because.

931
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 2: It's slap you guys have to slap your mama. That's

932
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 2: like one of my favorite that's real New Orleans.

933
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: I know it's good. Is it good? Please don't judge it.

934
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: Come on, just feed us, man, feed us.

935
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 2: No, I don't even want to give it to you.

936
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: Why it can't be that bad.

937
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 2: No, it can be.

938
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 1: Look, don't worry that they halfn't wait and me will

939
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: enjoy it regardless. Okay, I don't feel right serving, let's

940
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: see it. We'll be fine. This is just for the show.

941
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: And then I'll tell everybody. We'll tell everybody listens how

942
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: it's terrible your.

943
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's bad. We go it's bad.

944
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: I hope it's good.

945
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's not. I'm not even gonna blame you.

946
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 2: Did I give you an don't mom, No, it's not bad.

947
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: No, okay, maybe and you can give me more smarty. Okay,

948
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: it was not bad at all. Okay, it wasn't bad

949
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: at all. I don't know what she's talking about.

950
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 2: I had higher expectations for it. Maybe that's what.

951
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: Okay, So then we'll blame the half white. We'll blame

952
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: the half white of me for enjoying this regardless. You know,

953
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: look at it. It has the peppers in it, just

954
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: a little bit like the onions. It feels like it's

955
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: a real Plasta dish like you. You know, it's official.

956
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: Don't hate on your food.

957
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 2: Isn't it a little bit more? Slap your mama?

958
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 1: No, it's okay, fine, okay, you want to add more

959
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: salt and poisoning, right, because.

960
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 2: That's a whole nother thing.

961
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: Ms. Fine, was okay, it's delicious. I would love to

962
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: hate on you, but it's fine.

963
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 2: It's perfect on a scale of one to ten. My

964
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 2: feelings won't get hurt.

965
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: I did not eat. For all your listeners, it is

966
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: a certified nine. What I didn't eat though I was starving. Okay,

967
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: I had apples for breakfast.

968
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take my nine. I'm taking my nie take

969
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 2: your name, I'm taking it.

970
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: I think it's perfect. Okay, cool, all right, I don't

971
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 1: know what what do you think is bad about it?

972
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: It's seasoned, it has enough.

973
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 2: Maybe the noodles are a little bit overcooked. Maybe that's

974
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: what I'm feeling. No, no, are.

975
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: You judging yourself hard?

976
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 2: See why am I like that?

977
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: Yeah? Here, move the things before you spill that on yourself.

978
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: And moved that to the side so we get a

979
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: get shot of you.

980
00:43:58,760 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 2: Oh no, I got it?

981
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:06,320
Speaker 1: Yeah you good? Yeah, this is delicious.

982
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 2: What do you think you would change the Pastasa does

983
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 2: not know? Maybe that's what's.

984
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: Not at all?

985
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 2: Okay, So it's just perfect.

986
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: M right, you're over judging it. H You're totally over

987
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: judging it. Matter of fact, I would have messed up

988
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: the pasta because you totally freestyled of with no timer.

989
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: So I did. And you know this is perfect pasta. Congratulations.

990
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: Not only are a great entrepreneur, but you can cook.

991
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 2: Okay, I can throw something together ant.

992
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: And you know what, if I cook pasta from now on,

993
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: I will add peppers and onions to it because I

994
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: think it makes a difference.

995
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: It does, It totally does. Absolutely.

996
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: Now I get why when you was broke, you still

997
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: you still hooked it up much as a bell pepper,

998
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: Like yeah, like this whole meal was less than five bucks.

999
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: See yeah, and we had protein pasta, come on, so

1000
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: you could feel a little less guilty about eating it.

1001
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 2: You know all the time you can make it work

1002
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 2: with less than ten dollars.

1003
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: So okay, So the savoy take me into the day

1004
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: in the life, the ups and downs of what happened

1005
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,720
Speaker 1: with that whole transaction, because I know no transactions ever smooth.

1006
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I could literally does it come with

1007
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: a liquor license? M hm okay, good right, well tell.

1008
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: Me no, it didn't. It came with an opportunity to

1009
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 2: buy a liquor license, but we ended up going through

1010
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 2: a broker. But yes, it was for sale with the

1011
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 2: liquor license. We went on our our own journey to

1012
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 2: get our own but and.

1013
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: Then did you have someone else negotiate your lease?

1014
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 2: So we ended up buying the building.

1015
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: Oh you bought the building. Oh you guys were like,

1016
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to use Donald Trump, but you are Trumpet.

1017
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: I don't know another person to use. But oh, y'all

1018
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: are like that. And you did it as sisters.

1019
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, my sisters and I were call owners. Yes,

1020
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 2: three of us. My sister Leslie and I are like

1021
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 2: super involved though we're the and y'all.

1022
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: Want it together. Oh, this story just got better. And

1023
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: what did the husband say? So the husband that's.

1024
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 2: The ex husband. Now, so that's a whole story. So

1025
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 2: we brought it obviously I'm married, California everything.

1026
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, the unity say, did y'all buy it under a

1027
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: corporation or we did?

1028
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 2: We did, and then it was separate, So no, the

1029
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 2: problem we brought it with the it was my sisters

1030
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 2: and obviously I'm married, so it was the ex husband

1031
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 2: and so part of the struggle after we purchased the

1032
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 2: building is we were going through a divorce. We ended

1033
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: up filing for a divorce shortly after we got the

1034
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 2: building and we ended up litigating the ownership of it

1035
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 2: for about a year and a half.

1036
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know that was tough.

1037
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 2: I'm so connected to that space because I really fought

1038
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 2: for it. It went through a court receivership while the

1039
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 2: judge was trying to decide who was going to get

1040
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 2: it civil law. Yeah.

1041
00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: Ultimately, Now did your sisters give you a little bit

1042
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: hell for that?

1043
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 2: I think I'm still paying for it. That's why I'm

1044
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 2: so dedicated. Yeah, they put their life savings into buying

1045
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 2: this amazing so they were shook.

1046
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: Absolutely, See absolutely, I think there is trauma. I'm gonna

1047
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: take it back to the single momhood because even though

1048
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: I am married. Yeah, this is horrible to admit, and

1049
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: you know, but I always think about if divorce happens,

1050
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: Like I owned the property before I bought I got married.

1051
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: People always ask me, are you're gonna sell itry? Absolutely not,

1052
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: And because once you sell, it becomes communal. And in

1053
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: the back of my mind, I know, as messed up

1054
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: as it is, like, oh I can get we can

1055
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: get gold together on some things. But in the back

1056
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: of my mind, whatever was a communal is safe, you know,

1057
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: or whatever. And if I were to do something with

1058
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: my family, I'd be like, look, man, we're gonna have

1059
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: to have a promisary. Note that thing is going on

1060
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: the yo ning seriously, you know what I'm.

1061
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 2: Saying, seriously. So that was my mistake. My mistake was

1062
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 2: not understanding you know you. I didn't. I never thought

1063
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 2: I would get divorced, but I never thought like divorce

1064
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,720
Speaker 2: was so nasty and messy, and when emotions and money

1065
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 2: and four point five million dollar property is involved, the

1066
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 2: guns come out. So we have to deal with a

1067
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 2: lot to get it.

1068
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: I was having a discussion with my dad and shout

1069
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: out to my dad. He just started a company called

1070
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: La County Politics dot com, all right, and he was

1071
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: gonna let one of his employees create the one of

1072
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: the Facebook pages. I was like, absolutely not, absolutely not,

1073
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: absolutely not. He was like, oh, but she's such a

1074
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: good work. I said, yeah, but you don't know how

1075
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: people battle. When I have a girlfriend who told me

1076
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: that when she dates, she's a public record. She says

1077
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: people that have been divorced are the greatest to date

1078
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: because you need to look at how they handled and

1079
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: treated their spouse in a divorce.

1080
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: That's so true.

1081
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: And I was like, Yo, you need to screen on

1082
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: all my lovers in the future. But the truth of

1083
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,240
Speaker 1: the MATTERSS, you can't predict them. You can't predict anything

1084
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: like that.

1085
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 2: I never imagined in a million years of things that

1086
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 2: I went through my divorce I would go through, right.

1087
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 2: I never, I've never guessed it.

1088
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: But that's where I think for me, the trauma's there.

1089
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: It's a real thing. Yeah, even here in this store,

1090
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: I'd be like, you know what, in future, this business

1091
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: is going under such and such as name you know,

1092
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: because you're right, damn that's crazy.

1093
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 2: Quick claim, quit claim deeds, all of that. If you

1094
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 2: buy a property, like you have to be mindful the

1095
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 2: person you divorced is not the person you married. I

1096
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 2: remember my attorney would tell me that.

1097
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: I would be like, why is he doing this?

1098
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 2: He would never She's like, he's not the guy you married.

1099
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 2: Stop thinking, yeah that he's that guy. He's not that

1100
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 2: guy anymore. And so when I came to terms with that,

1101
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 2: then I just like accepted that I'm in a battle,

1102
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 2: right Like I'm in a fight.

1103
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: Is what it is. And you, guys, at this point

1104
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: you have to break communication like opposing sides, right.

1105
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 2: Tell the attorney we're not even communicating at this point.

1106
00:49:58,280 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 2: We still don't really communicy in this.

1107
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, because that's years, you know, that's a whole relationship.

1108
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 1: That's a I don't I can't imagine how tough it is.

1109
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: But like I said, I think the greatest teacher of

1110
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: all time, it will be the single parent error because

1111
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: after that.

1112
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 2: You And that's how I got through my divorce because

1113
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 2: I reminded myself you've done this by yourself before, so

1114
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 2: don't think you can't do this by yourself.

1115
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,280
Speaker 1: And this person played a pivotal role in also believing

1116
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: in you. So that's got to be a tough one too.

1117
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:24,760
Speaker 2: Exactly.

1118
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: So a day in the life of Savoy now I

1119
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: already know, Hypair. I kind of get a core of

1120
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,399
Speaker 1: your who you are as far as your integrity when

1121
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 1: it comes to legacy and branding and respecting these brands.

1122
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: I see your passion and your love for that, and

1123
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: I love that for you, even though integrity where you

1124
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: turn down to check it's crazy. I love that not

1125
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: too many you've been a business for yourself for over

1126
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: ten years, you haven't worked for someone officially, and over

1127
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: probably of say twenty.

1128
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 2: Let's see, it hasn't been maybe fifteen years.

1129
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,840
Speaker 1: Okay, that's great, Okay, and then you survive the pandemic.

1130
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, because let me tell you something, d the pandemic.

1131
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: I took a little job. I went for a startup.

1132
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: Murdered it. By the way, I love it, but I

1133
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: had to. I had to get on that knee. And

1134
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,240
Speaker 1: COVID was a humbling reminder that all my eggs can't

1135
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 1: be in one basket. I was like, man, my company's

1136
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: killing it, and COVID this seconds all right. So with

1137
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: that being said, now we get into the savoy and

1138
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: a divorce in the middle of savoy.

1139
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm still got to be a mom, right,

1140
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 2: got three kids?

1141
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: You got three You have two kids together, and you

1142
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: guys aren't talking. But now you're remarried. Shout outs to

1143
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: you are a gags.

1144
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 2: The fact that I even got remarried it was crazy

1145
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 2: after everything I went through. But yeah, yeah, I have

1146
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 2: an amazing husband, super dope. He's at the building now

1147
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 2: making sure an event we're doing is going the way.

1148
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: Okay, I love that. So it's like a partnership thing,

1149
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 1: right or died.

1150
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, you signed that paperwork though, like prenup all of

1151
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 2: it whatever. No people tell you to sign sign it

1152
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,479
Speaker 2: m hm, because I can never go through that again.

1153
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's smart, that's smart. I love that for you, Okay,

1154
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,240
Speaker 1: I love that for you. I have so much respect

1155
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: and admiration for you right now. Okay, So okay, tell

1156
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: me a day in the life of running the Savoy.

1157
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 2: Oh okay.

1158
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: So you don't get to actually eat on the show.

1159
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: You get to nibble.

1160
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 2: I know. I'm learning that because I want to like

1161
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 2: dig in. You're right, it's not that bad. And I'm

1162
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,919
Speaker 2: actually hungry too, really good, okayod this is what I needed.

1163
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 2: A day in the life of the Savoy or me

1164
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 2: of no of you in the Savoy Okay, got it.

1165
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 2: So usually starts okay, usually it starts off with walkthroughs.

1166
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 2: That's how we start our day because we're always selling

1167
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 2: the space. So even if we just open the doors

1168
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 2: and just three people walk through that day, that's a success.

1169
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 2: So it's usually getting there early, making sure the cleaning

1170
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 2: who did their job, making sure our walkthroughs are scheduled,

1171
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 2: doing our walkthroughs, making sure we allow up with people,

1172
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 2: have then walk throughs earlier in the week, secure those dates,

1173
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 2: adding dates to our master calendar. And then we have

1174
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 2: a restaurant there. So then there's a whole operation of

1175
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 2: restaurant depot, alcohol distributors, this and that and that's going on.

1176
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 2: So I'm managing that and sometimes I am at restaurant

1177
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 2: depot getting what we need.

1178
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: But smart cool that means you're just riding it out,

1179
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: doing whatever you gotta.

1180
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 2: Do, whatever I gotta do. And then we go into

1181
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 2: lunch service, then we going to dinner service, and I

1182
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 2: say probably four days out the week we have a

1183
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 2: private event. So just making sure the client has four.

1184
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: Days out of a week, that's great. That's really great

1185
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: for you guys.

1186
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 2: Like today we have two events. We have a repass

1187
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 2: during the day and then we have a private birthday

1188
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 2: party tonight. So just doing it nice scheduling.

1189
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: Now, now, with all these businesses you have going on,

1190
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: I just want a small recap of an actual Okay,

1191
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: I wake up at six, What does this routine look

1192
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: like on an average day? Don't give me a lounger.

1193
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 2: Day, got it? Sure doesn't happen you know, my lounger

1194
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,359
Speaker 2: day is Monday, Okay, cool, So when everybody's starting their week,

1195
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 2: I'm like chilling because the Savoy is closed and my

1196
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 2: beauty so apply stores. That's like our slow day. So

1197
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 2: Monday is my day off. Okay. But yeah, on an

1198
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 2: average day, I get up at like five am. I

1199
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 2: don't get out of bed, but I'm up. I'm responding

1200
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 2: to emails for hype Pair because a lot of our

1201
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 2: ad partners are on the East Coast, so I want

1202
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 2: to match their response time. So checking in with my

1203
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 2: team for Hypeaer who are in Atlanta. Usually I'm up

1204
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 2: in out the house around like eight thirty nine o'clock

1205
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 2: and then we go right into Savoy mode, right into

1206
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 2: checking on the store.

1207
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: How do the kids get routed there?

1208
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 2: So the kids are with their dad a lot of times.

1209
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 2: That's a whole nother story. My ex husband is Middle

1210
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 2: Eastern and in their culture, when you divorce, I think

1211
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 2: in the black culture, when you divorce, you like it's

1212
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 2: just known, you go with your mama. It's not that way.

1213
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 2: So I have a lot of what's the word, I

1214
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 2: don't want to say, free time, but I have a

1215
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 2: lot of discretionary time when it comes to my kids.

1216
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:53,280
Speaker 2: And then my oldest is twenty one, she's an adult.

1217
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 2: So the kids, you're not managing like a day to day,

1218
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 2: not all of their schedules at routine like their dad

1219
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 2: does a lot of that. Today I have them, but

1220
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 2: it's not until the afternoon until the evening, so I'm

1221
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 2: able to do my thing and do my work thing and.

1222
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool though it is to be honest,

1223
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: because it's like a balance versus it is.

1224
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 2: But it isn't right. So part of it is like

1225
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 2: when you divorce, you have to create a new normal

1226
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 2: for your children, and I just feel like my ex

1227
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 2: husband and I we haven't gotten to that place and

1228
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 2: so we kind of just have to do what we

1229
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 2: got to do to get through it. But it's not

1230
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 2: ideal for me as a parent, But I accept that

1231
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 2: that's just the place that I'm in and that's who

1232
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 2: I'm married, and.

1233
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: That's yeah, okay, what can you do? Okay, that makes sense.

1234
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: So you go to the Savoy and say you start

1235
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 1: your day at nine thirty nine, you leave the house

1236
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: and then you go to the Savoy.

1237
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 2: Yep, And then I'm there. I'm doing the walkthroughs I'm

1238
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 2: making sure it's clean, I'm getting us ready for lunch service,

1239
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 2: and then usually I'm able to brand shop during the

1240
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 2: day and then go check on the retail stores, going

1241
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 2: to the distributors, making sure we're fully stocked, scheduling, payroll,

1242
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 2: all the things, business, whatever comes up that day, go

1243
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 2: to the city.

1244
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 1: Whatever that is.

1245
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 2: And then I usually take a break during the middle

1246
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,359
Speaker 2: of my day, go home, regroup because usually I start

1247
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 2: off my dance sweatpants and a hoodie. I like to

1248
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 2: go back to this avoid looking like the owner, so

1249
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:16,240
Speaker 2: I'll usually transition arriving correct.

1250
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: Correct, I love that.

1251
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 2: Okay, So my break is during the middle of the day,

1252
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 2: I go home, get ready for my evening, and then

1253
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 2: I'm there all night like there, it was there till

1254
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 2: midnight last night, Jesus. We had a comedy show.

1255
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: Comedy shows, yeah, yeah, And then where can everybody see

1256
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: the schedules of everything you have going on?

1257
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 2: For Instagram, we post when we have events. So it's

1258
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:36,759
Speaker 2: free events space on Instagram and.

1259
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: Free event space on Instagram. Okay, no dots, no dat,

1260
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: free event space, not la, just free events okay, free

1261
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:47,320
Speaker 1: event space.

1262
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 2: So that's that, and then I'm into event mode or

1263
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 2: whatever comedy show mode.

1264
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 1: Or now your sisters were involved in the Savoy, So

1265
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: how does that work? Do they do dai to day operations?

1266
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 2: So they're very focused on their wine bar ten ten,

1267
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 2: which is booming right now. I'm so proud of what

1268
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 2: they've created. So the operations really falls on you.

1269
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 1: Oh got it all right? All right? Yeah?

1270
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 2: Girls, okay, exactly.

1271
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for feeding me today, diving

1272
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 1: extremely deep. I know I was all up in your business. No,

1273
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: it's good though.

1274
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 2: I needed this need. I needed a break, I needed

1275
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 2: a conversation, I needed some nerves moves.

1276
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: And when you look back and reflect on it all,

1277
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: would you do it all over again?

1278
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 2: Yes, but not in the same way. Not in the

1279
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 2: same way, for sure. Not in the same way. I

1280
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 2: would be more trusting of myself. I would be less

1281
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 2: trusting of other people. I would definitely have gotten a

1282
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 2: prenup because it'spent a lot of time fixing things. So yeah,

1283
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 2: I would absolutely do it again, just in a different way.

1284
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 1: Got it? And that would be the advice you give

1285
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:54,520
Speaker 1: to your younger self.

1286
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 2: Absolutely, girl, get an attorney, Get an attorney, get a

1287
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 2: business coach, get all those you're gonna end up paying

1288
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 2: for it anyways, I don't wanna spend that money. You're

1289
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 2: gonna end up paying for it if you don't do

1290
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 2: it the right way the first time. You're gonna pay

1291
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 2: you in some way down the line.

1292
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: But all right, thank you guys for tuning in. Keep

1293
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: up with everything, Leah how I'm on social media.

1294
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 2: I'm super active on social media. I'm on Instagram, Leah

1295
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 2: l I A B d I A s on Instagram

1296
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 2: and Facebook li b liah b ds my name.

1297
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 1: On Instagram Facebook.

1298
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 2: No underscores, no underscore, just L I A B my

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Speaker 2: middle initial d I A S.

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Speaker 1: All Right, you heard it here first, guys, and free

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Speaker 1: to reach out to us or her on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: There, Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: This was a bye all right, Thanks guys for tuning in.

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Speaker 1: Peace out for more eating while broke from iHeartRadio and

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