WEBVTT - MANDII B -Over Easy Eggs Run that Rice 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.000 Okay, now hold on, now, I don't even know. I 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.160 ain't gonna have y'all edited that out. I'm just not answering. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.360 Now you're asking a lot. Now you're digging into something. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:14.360 People going to jail. Welcome to another episode of Eating 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.880 While Broke. I'm your host, Colleen Wit and today we 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.200 have special guests Mandy b who was a podcaster and 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:26.720 content creator focusing on women's empowerment, sexual liberation, and body positivity. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.160 She recently launched a subscription box for women called Official 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.960 Box Owner, focused on feminine hygiene, sexual health, and normalizing 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:38.880 conversations about womanhood. And I can definitely speak from personal experience. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.160 I definitely appreciate everything that you do for women and 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.400 and the movement of conversating because I still get nervous, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.000 you know, buying tampons, and like I literally will go 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.160 to the register that has maybe a woman or try 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.480 and pile on a bunch of stuff. It's for a tampons. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.840 It's crazy that I have this now because I'm also 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.920 someone that hid my pure from my mom for the 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:05.319 first year. So I am now learning the conversations and 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.560 how important it is, especially like you know, I went 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.720 through my little home phase with with my partners, and 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:12.640 I thought I thought it was just also very important 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:17.160 to know the smells. Um, what tracking your own ovulation. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:18.880 I mean, there's a lot of women now, of course 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.759 I'm in my thirties, so planning on on being a mother, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:23.880 what that looks like, what's the best time of the 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.560 month should be? Um? And then also just normalizing the 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.120 conversations with the partners you have about what pleasures you, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.679 what doesn't pleasure you. Those are all conversations I think 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.959 we should be having now. So um, that's kind of 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:39.160 how my box came about. So what I like about 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.360 you is that you have the podcast, you have your box, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:47.240 and not only are you a personality, but you're an entrepreneur. 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.760 Oh god yeah. And I came from corporate, so I'll 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.720 be honest with you too as this entrepreneur thing. Um, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.200 first off, I used to work like seventy eight hours 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.040 as a tax accountant, and I was like, I just 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.920 want my own business, so I don't have to work 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:05.800 as much. Now, you work more, No one told entrepreneurs, 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.560 and no, you're just not gonna sleep Like I've literally 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.920 gone through therapy and had to set my boundaries to 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.680 let my team. Know, hey, nine to nine after nine pm, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.079 can you please like, that's still a twelve hour day. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:18.960 It's still a swem our day. I love how you 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.280 admit that to people are always fool Like, I can't 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.160 wait to work for myself because then I'll be my 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.520 own boss. And like, there's no such thing as your 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.040 own boss, either your customers or your boss, your vendors 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.240 or your boss, some und your boss. So I had 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.680 a baby in my fourteen pound baby is my boss? 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.919 Now I was like, how did that happen? For sure? 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.560 And I mean that's the thing too. I still wake 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.560 up at like seven, so I really have like fourteen 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.680 hour days to be real. Um and then, unfortunately, to 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.720 so many if you're an entrepreneur, social media is a 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.160 large part of that. We're on our phones all day long. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.639 So if you really want to include social media, you 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:59.360 probably realistically are working. I agree. So what did do 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.919 you have us eating today? All right? So the dish 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.639 um that I brought for you today is one that 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.520 got me through many, many, many times. So it's just 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:13.280 white rice, um, an egg over easy and then catch up. Okay, Okay, 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.560 you could also do hot sauce if you want salt 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.799 pepper for some season as well. Um, and that's the dish. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.359 This looks like a definite broke dish. I never had this. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.200 I'm really excited because I like seeing the different broke dishes, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.520 and I've been lucky and fortunate enough to not have 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.440 had the same dish twice. I get to get find 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.960 out where the root of this dish came from. So 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.600 what was the last time you ate this? Okay, first, 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.400 I guess I'll start by at least putting. Um. Now 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.800 we can say and put the rice down. Thank thankfully 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.920 you cook that for me already. Um. So the rice 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.680 is already cooked. Rice is just something you always have around. Yeah, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.560 you put it with every meal, and you have to. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.400 It's a good filler. It's a good filler. Um. And 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.640 then eggs. Everyone also always has eggs. Um. So the 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.640 last time I have this dish, I would say, can 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.320 I go to get this is going in? You don't 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.280 if you don't feel okay, I'm staying up. I'm probably 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.640 gonna be the same height standing up, so you want 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.320 have to change any cameras. Um. The last time I 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:16.480 had this dish, I would say was probably why right, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.200 I was still in college. I was still in college 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.000 because I thought I made it big once I made 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.080 it to corporate. Once I made it to corporate, I 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.000 was like, oh, I'm making sixty one dollars. I'm so 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.159 rich now, you know. You know I don't have kids. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.960 So I was, but I wasn't living off of Sally 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.480 May anymore. Um so, I would say this was probably 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.599 the last time with two thousand eighteen non traditional college students. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:45.880 So I graduated college in Um. Yes, so I graduated. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:47.760 I was supposed to be a tax accountant. I'm gonna 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.040 let this get a little hot before I put the 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:54.040 butter on it. Um numbers, Yes, I love numbers. So 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.400 I was in school. You couldn't tell me I wasn't 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.520 gonna be a c p A. So I did a 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:03.719 hundred of fifty one credits in four years and got 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.640 my b s and accounting and a another bachelor's in 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.080 Business administration. Want to focus on marketing because in New 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:12.760 York to get you to sit for the CPO, you 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.320 have to have a hundred and fifty credits. I wasn't 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.599 gonna pay for a master's. That's coming out of pocket. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.160 That's too expensive. Um so yeah, So I ended up 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.400 leaving my first job at Goldman Sachs and going to 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.720 earn Sina, and then I left that ship after one 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:32.920 year to the podcast. So that's that's amazing. Uh So 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.680 when you were in school, were you working? When I 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:41.680 was in school, I did some internships, um, and then 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.719 I bartended maybe the first two years. I also studied abroad. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.599 I was living off scholarships and can I say these 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:55.080 uh how I'm just saying? Oh? No, I had quite 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.920 a few men on the docket helping me pay because, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:04.760 like my initially covered regular tuition, but in order to 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.240 graduate fast, I had to take winter and summer courses. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.760 So I had one guy paid for those. Another guy 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:15.000 had me as a fake employee on his business. Yeah 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.719 I'm not gonna say who that was. I don't know, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.400 but yeah, I was getting a check every two weeks 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.000 from him. Um. So that's how I was able to really, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.080 like you know, get through school without having to work. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.000 Are you still cool with these people that? Oh yeah, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.640 they're still friends friends today? You guys ever group chat? Like, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:39.680 can you believe this group group chat with my lovers? No? Girl? UM, 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.160 I mean to be fair, they all knew about each 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.479 other because I'm a very honest person. Um but yeah, no, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.720 so what was the last question? Look now now I'm 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.480 trying to focus here. Yeah, I don't want to get 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.039 too off, but how do you how do you go 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:58.200 from c p A to all about women empowerment? Um? Well, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.520 I mean I'm a girl's girl on my and like 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.920 I like girl trips. I love being around my friends. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.840 That was probably one of the reasons for my recent 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.159 breakup too, is my friends come before everybody. Really, my 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:15.520 friends come before you tell guys that. Yeah, yeah, yeah? 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.239 And what slocks too is my friends also come before 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.760 my family, which is very different for most people. My family, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.280 I feel like I grew up with Osbourne's so it's 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.200 just like we needed a television show because it was 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.480 so toxic. So once I moved out, I moved out 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.120 of eighteen, I was like, my friends have always wrote 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.280 for me if I ever needed anything, my friends always 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:42.080 had me. So yeah, I tell them that, And um, 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.960 is that gonna okay? They know it's a cooking show, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.280 all of you. Listener, she's cracking an egg. I'm cracking 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.640 an egg and I haven't worked on an electric top 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.400 in a while. I probably should have let it get 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.200 more hotter. More hotter is not a word, by the way, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:03.160 I will make up boards, this entire fun this fine? Okay? Um, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.360 so where where are we with with with the journey? 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.560 How did I get to podcasting? What's crazy is my 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.080 co host Squeezy came to me. This was my last 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:15.040 year of college, um, and I was like, girl, I'm 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.760 I'm about to be studying for the c p A. 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.640 It's about to be busy. And she was like, I 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.960 just went on this other podcast and I did so 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.040 great and they said I should have a podcast. It 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.680 was so cool and we were talking about dating and 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.880 sex and you know, I was thinking, who else would 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.640 talk dating and sex? And it's just as big as 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.120 oh as I am like many, let me see if 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.720 Many wants to. And we had actually just rekindled a 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:42.160 friendship we hadn't spoken for maybe five years, um, and 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:47.560 we literally got into the podcasting for what girl, I 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.560 had a Twitter. There was nothing worse than I could 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.720 have said on a podcast that I didn't tweet about, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.440 which min you I just had to go through and 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:59.400 delete a hole. Have you went back to your Twitter? Girl? 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.880 Do you know they look at your tweets and background 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.439 checks now just letting you know. Oh yes, ma'am. I 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:10.400 think personality you're you're more nervous right because because they 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.960 it's cancel culture right now. I looked at them tweets, 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.760 I said, what personalities? That That ain't me? I was. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:21.920 I was like, I was imparrased. Oh my god, no 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.480 one was. Let me see. One was really bad. One 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.920 was like, I don't sell drugs or pimpos? What is 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.800 rap music? Girl? I love rap music. I was like, 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.200 I tweet, um, but yeah, So she came to me. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.120 It was like, we should do a podcast. By episode three, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.959 UM shout out to a King A King from Law 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.960 Speaker Network. UM reached out and at the time Charlemagne 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.640 was a part of that as well. UM and a 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.200 year later they brought us on board and we just 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.480 like full sale went and and we like we went 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.280 on Brilliant Idiots again. Shout out to to Charlemagne and 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.640 Andrew Chultz for that opportunity, just that one feature. How 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.600 did you get to Charlotman? Did I miss that? King? 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.760 So A King introduced us to Chris Morrow, who also 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.960 worked with Charlomagne. Who that's where Brilliant Idiots the read 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.280 friend Zone all the Top Black Black podcast. We're a 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.560 part of a lot of speaker network and so we 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.480 got introduced and we're able to kind of be a 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.200 part of it. So we signed on and it was 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.640 like that's all she wrote, That's all she wrote, and 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.600 like again, probably just being in New York too, right, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:34.000 I don't want to say that there's any one way 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.280 to be a successful podcaster. Right. So growing up or 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:43.600 being around New York, we saw Disamaro brilliant idiots. They 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.960 were having live shows the read so we were like 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.320 the next step of the live show, we had to 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.600 do a live show. So we self funded our own 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.840 live show, sold out. Next thing you know, we're looking 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.920 at our analytics on SoundCloud, looked at our major cities, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.240 and we're googling theaters, event spaces, renting them out ourselves 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.040 and putting tickets on event right, and we put ourselves 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.120 on an a city tour wow where we profited every 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.280 show because we sold out every while. And where you 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.200 any part of you guys doubting yourself during the journey, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.480 and then are you making two eggs. I'm gonna make 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.480 two I'm gonna make tours. I'm gonna make it quick. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.480 I didn't. You're just trying not to. Yeah, I didn't 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.199 want to have to. I need space. Normally I do 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.800 a little pile on a micromanager. Listen, Normally I do 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.199 the little fans. This is a big old fan. I'm 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:28.840 trying to make sure I don't work the yoke here 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.120 and if y'all are looking at s where I know 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.600 how to cook. But I wasn't gonna come on here 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:38.960 and say we're gonna look what you did it. So 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.960 were you nervous at all during any of this experience? 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.120 Did you have any like see things of doubt? Because 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.680 I know even me starting this, I always have the 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.160 little devil on one shoulder that's like questioning the ability 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.520 or whether it's going to be successful. Did you have 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.480 any of that? I'll be honest with you and again 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.839 through therapy, Girl, I just got told I live in fear. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.760 So every day I woke up, I said, there's no 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.200 way I'm making this much money. It's gonna end. I'm 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.360 gonna have to go back to work. And so a 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.320 lot of like what I did was just like I 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.000 have to stay working, which is probably why I have 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:21.160 thirty jobs. Now, Um, you do you do? I live 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:25.480 in full fear. That's how I live. And it's not healthy. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.720 It is not it is not healthy, it's it's not 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.440 something to do. And what's crazy is I live in 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.320 in the fear firm like almost where I want to 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.400 disconnect from the past. I'm scared of the present, and 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.560 I looked to the future, and the future scares me. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:45.520 So the fact that there's the future scared you. Um, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.400 the future scares me because that we just had a pandemic. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.920 You would have told me we were about to live 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.280 through and now we're about to live through a world war. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.880 So to me, the future scares me because I'm I 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.920 don't want to call myself with my manager, but my 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.640 team has been letting me know on such Um. I 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.880 hate to not feel like I'm in control of things, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.880 and so doesn't matter what my goals are, it doesn't 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.440 matter how hard I work towards them. There's a lot 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:18.200 of uh variables that are out of my control. And 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.200 so that's what scares me is that all of this 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.959 hard work could end who knows, with a fucking nuclear 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.839 bomb at this point, So you know what I mean. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.960 And so that's what what scares me is, Like what 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.080 am I working towards and so now I'm just like 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.920 trying to live in the moment. That's what I'm working 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.760 on a therapy now is just like enjoying my successes 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.120 as they come and not looking for the next high 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.200 if that makes me Yeah. I When I interview people 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.559 on this show, one thing I've noticed is that every 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.080 time someone hit a goal, the goal capt moving, so 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.400 it was like impossible for you to find your happiness 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:56.240 in hitting that milestone. Yeah, I mean I grew up 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:01.079 in a single parent household, right, so six figures that 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.720 I feel you just six figures seems like oh my god, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:11.080 will I ever obtain? And now it's like all right now. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.199 You also don't realize when you talk to six figures, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.520 there's a huge difference between a hundred thousand and nine 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:22.840 hundred and nine thousand and nine. So now, yeah, like 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.280 I'm working towards seven figures. Do you find yourself ever? 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.560 And speaking from experience, but do you do you ever 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.760 find yourself because you're working so many jobs? Do you 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.440 keep yourself on a strict budget to survive or do 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.600 you do you do you live a little when it 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.560 comes to your finance? Do you put what okay, Okay, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.520 so you budget. I lived on a budget so for 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.880 so many years, like literally this this meal reminds me 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.800 of like back when I had to choose between toilet 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.920 paper or food. Yeah, like I had roommates, I was 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.600 like literally the financial aid office like nah, I need 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.400 that to hit or I was calling not somebody like 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.440 nah I need that now. Um and again back back 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.040 in those days, which also is not too long, but 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.560 having to go to Western Union, not having cash, that, 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.640 not having zail, the way of getting means from people 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.119 like it wasn't wasn't really you know, it was very expensive. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:30.280 I made two good eggs. Y'all can't tell me nothing. Okay, um, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.600 turn that So what at what point did you stop 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.560 living on a budget. Was it like you hit six 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.800 figures and you said screw it? Do you don't live 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.280 paychecks and paycheck? Because I feel like most entrepreneurs don't 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:47.720 do that. They know better, because I mean again, I 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.960 think one of the things that I never had the 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.320 luxury of doing when I was eating meals like this 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.440 was even having a savings was knowing that another check 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.960 was coming in or I mean I had to budget 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.840 when I got to check every two that's all you're seeing, 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.600 you know, the taxes that are being taken out and 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.400 a lot of times, and that's how I was raised. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:11.440 Can I can I hug you up? She's adding up everybody. Okay, 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.440 really good and then you know the little yo gonna 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.760 break and it's gonna be delicious. Um. I now have 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.000 took this out and I do not poison sauce. Um. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:24.920 And I also like sour cream, but I gotta stay 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.160 away from dairy. I'm trying to stay away from dairy. Um. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.480 But this was this was my go to. I'm gonna 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.480 bring my seat back over so we can sit and 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:37.120 eat because the bitch is hungry, and you break the yoke, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.200 let it get into the rise. If you need some more, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.160 like I love everything super saucy and gooey. That's me, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.600 then you might. I definitely will because I love seeing 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.040 all that sauce. A lot of people don't. I'm surprised 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.320 so many people don't like they over easy, but I 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.840 love it. I feel it's okay girl. When they don't know, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.200 they just don't know, like if they're sausage and pancakes, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.200 I let that sauce. You have to you have to. Okay, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.960 here's the thing. And I'm gonna tell you secret. If 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.280 they don't like over easy eggs or runny eggs, they 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.119 order their steaks well done. And you can't trust those people, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.880 you know what. You can't trust themand don't trust them. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.639 You can't trust them. You can't trust you know what? 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.960 He does both. He likes him, so he doesn't eat 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.640 him runny, and he eats his steaks while done. Oh 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.280 not him eating beef turkey. Yeah, tell me what you 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:35.040 think about it. You can do that. Well. I didn't 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.080 cook the rice, but so shout out to whoever made 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.680 the rice. This is jasmine rice. This is a little passage. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.840 I love those jazzin rights is my favorite. Doesn't it 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:50.480 taste great? No? This is great m and literally to like. Um, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.120 my friends make fun of me, and I talked about 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.240 this on the pot. I will put an over easy 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.719 egg on anything, because I never so to me. As 0:17:58.760 --> 0:17:59.960 long as you put an egg on it, it's part 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:06.159 this so so so good. It's good right right, I'm 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:11.199 definitely gonna it's filling. Do you have you you have 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.119 your protein. It is gooey, you have your protect I 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.000 don't know if gooey is a good word to explain 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:22.160 it saucy there, it's very saucy. I love saucy. Just 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:26.280 soak my stuff, a gravy, anything, making a little hotter, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:32.119 that's my thing. You know what. Every once in a 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.920 while we come across the dish that I say I'll 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:39.720 make at home. This I will definitely. It's fast, it 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:45.320 took you. It's five minutes fast, and supporta's affordability. This 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.240 whole meal. If you buy a bag of rice and eggs, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.720 you have um at least five or six meals for 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.720 under four bucks. Five or six meals. Girl, there's a 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:59.840 dozen eggs in a container. If you six meals, isn't 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.719 like you're trying to have a Thanksgiving dinner style with eggs. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:05.959 You have six Now eggs, I don't think if hit 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.880 the inflation button yet, so you could still get them 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.080 for like three nine rice you just always have and 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.720 then catch up. So I mean, if you do the math, 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.520 this dish maybe costs less than the dollars. So anyone 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.720 looking to save money, this beats the beating faster and 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.640 it's much faster. It does, and it's fast. Yeah, so 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.320 I love it. Yeah, Now I don't I don't need 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:39.320 this anymore, so when it came to the official box. Yes, 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.000 you started that business during COVID. So the idea came 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:49.840 in May, Um, I'm not gonna lie. I started a 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:51.760 whole another podcast because I was like, oh, let me 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.960 um journal, what this you know breakdown is like? And 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.400 then by April I said, oh, we're not getting out, 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.240 We're I getting out. I thought it was only gonna 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.240 be two weeks. You know they told everyone just two weeks, 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.560 say in your house, was only gonna be two weeks? Yeah, No, 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.919 it wasn't. Um and I think that that's when the 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:14.399 panic hit because we are our tour got canceled, so 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.840 we missed out on six tour dates for horrible decisions. 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.280 And then it was just like everything went down. Like 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:22.800 I was just like, what else is gonna do? We 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.800 only have ads coming in. This was before we joined 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.399 Black Effect, and I was like, ship, what else can 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:32.320 I do at We were all out speak her at 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.080 the moment. We weren't with pocketfe yet and um so 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.280 my home girl hit me up and she was just like, girl, 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.359 you have this this audience you have, you know, you 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.800 have a fan base. You need to sell something. I 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:49.480 was just like, what you had a good circle. I 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.719 love my circle. I can see why I love my friends. 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.720 I love my circle is vicious. I love my friends. 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:57.760 They're like, no, girl, why are you not selling anything? 0:20:58.000 --> 0:20:59.760 So I was like, I don't want to sell sex toys. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.919 I don't want to do that. And I mean, she 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.280 knew like kind of where my journey was. Um, A 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.600 lot of again, a lot of my friends. We talked 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.679 about pH balances. We did this, and I was just like, 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:16.320 let's look up subscription boxes. Um. And we had the 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.359 idea of a quarterly because it was gonna be too 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.720 much to do it monthly. And we were getting products 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.879 from black owned and women owned businesses. How are you? 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:27.719 They were just reaching out to you guys, saying, check 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:31.800 out our products. They were No. I emailed everyone, so 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.760 I was deeming them. I used that blue checkmark for something. 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.159 I said, listen, um, this is what the value of 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.439 promotion on my Instagram page would normally be. UM. I 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.679 also just released another podcast, period sst to go with 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.879 the subscription box. Um. And this is what I'm offering. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:54.040 This is how many products I need an exchange for promotion. Yeah. 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.240 So I got all those the products for free, got 0:21:56.280 --> 0:22:00.159 my boxes from China. Um so we ended up up 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.160 uh figuring out the profit margins for that, and so 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.920 we released by October. So this was a five thousand 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:11.760 dollar investment total for me for the design the website. Again, 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:16.440