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Speaker 1: you are. We got Andrea Hope right now. Okay, mid
Speaker 1: West and the house. Yes, she is the owner, the founder,
Speaker 1: the creator, the developer, the amazing woman that's behind Mind
Speaker 1: the Mirror, Mirror Beauty Center. Correct, we gotta hear y, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm like correct, correct, let out She's here. I am here. Um,
Speaker 1: so what's happening? A lot, A lot is happening. I
Speaker 1: am definitely in a new role for me that I
Speaker 1: am learning day by day. But it's exciting and I
Speaker 1: am glad to be where I am. Gratitude is everything, right,
Speaker 1: So glad to be wearing I mean, just think about it.
Speaker 1: You're from Chicago, Yes, south Side High Park to the
Speaker 1: exact south Side High Park. Is that that's the Bob
Speaker 1: Bob High Park? Like high Park? That's where I was born?
Speaker 1: What what's what's what's high Park about? Um? It is
Speaker 1: off the Lakeshore Drive? Is it nice the neighborhood? Is
Speaker 1: it a good nice area? Okay, it's no, it's changed
Speaker 1: over the years. I went back maybe like two years
Speaker 1: ago to just actually like stay there for I was
Speaker 1: there for like two weeks and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's changed so much from when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: But I was raised here in la oh Son in Chicago. Here,
Speaker 1: spent my summers in Chicago. So I would at the
Speaker 1: end of the school year, I would leave and then
Speaker 1: I would be gone, like awesome, this is for high
Speaker 1: school college. She would leave. Wait starting in elementary school,
Speaker 1: So elementary school middle school, it kind of stopped maybe
Speaker 1: like tenth grade of high school, I would stay here.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I got friends family over Chicago, you would
Speaker 1: stay with or something. Yeah, my grandmother, Oh yeah, my
Speaker 1: grandmother have aunt's uncles all throughout different parts of the city,
Speaker 1: so we definitely would, you know, bounce around from the
Speaker 1: house to house with my cousins when I'm in town.
Speaker 1: And then my mother is from New York, so sometimes
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, She's from Queens. So sometimes I would
Speaker 1: leave and go to New York for like a week
Speaker 1: or two and then go back to Chicago and then
Speaker 1: come back like a day before school started here in La,
Speaker 1: I would be gone awesommer and then you went to
Speaker 1: So you did elementary through college in cal Cally. Well,
Speaker 1: I did some of elementary in Atlanta. Oh you had
Speaker 1: a little more, Andrea, Yeah, I've a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit in Atlanta, and then I got here second grade, okay,
Speaker 1: And so from second grade on I was here, raised
Speaker 1: in La, went to school out here into it's time
Speaker 1: for me to go out of state for college. Okay, wow, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Well that was good. What did your study? So I
Speaker 1: did broadcast journalism and Communication, Walter Crown Kite School of
Speaker 1: Broadcast Journalism. So what's it called at the Walter Crown
Speaker 1: Kite School a broadcast journalism. I heard the heck out
Speaker 1: of that. How that was a good spirit, that was
Speaker 1: a good experience. College was funky, out of state. Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: part of sorority, very active, Okay, sorority. What is your
Speaker 1: your organization? I'm Alpha Kappa Alpha. Okay, the Ladies of
Speaker 1: Alpha Tappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Okay. If you didn't know,
Speaker 1: you better ask somebody. Hello, Kamala Harris. Yes absolutely, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw the flowers where they left. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. Okay. So you went to college and then
Speaker 1: you said broadcast journalism, I want to go into beauty.
Speaker 1: What I said, broadcast journalism, I'm want to go into entertainment,
Speaker 1: all right. So I was like, oh, okay, I want
Speaker 1: to do something that entertainment. Dabbled around, figure out where
Speaker 1: I wanted to fall, and that is currently my day job.
Speaker 1: Are you like on camera, behind the micro anything, behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, okay, on the entertainment and sports side okay.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, but I'm a product junkie,
Speaker 1: so like I would go do entertainment, but anything beauty,
Speaker 1: anything like fashion, I'm like sucked in. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I wish I worked in the Oh I wish I word.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, I can't keep wishing that I
Speaker 1: worked in VD. So how do I put myself into
Speaker 1: that industry? And it's like we kind of met in
Speaker 1: the beauty rail, but not really because we were modeling modeling. Yes,
Speaker 1: I tell them what we were modeling. We were modeling
Speaker 1: for our good sis. She is vb IP, Yes, she
Speaker 1: is v Y and we getting fitting form IP. Okay, yes, right,
Speaker 1: and so we met at that true. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: we're doing a hike and we're doing our thing and
Speaker 1: run your lord. I was trying to make shot in
Speaker 1: sweat and nothing makeup off. But you begin to tell
Speaker 1: me this abstoration is You're liked, I'm gonna start this business,
Speaker 1: and you were like, I want you to do like
Speaker 1: a voicemail or something. I'm like, okay, yes, it was
Speaker 1: your voice for me. I was, oh, I'm I was
Speaker 1: working on I was brainstorming, putting it out in the universe.
Speaker 1: Come on, because we speak things into existence. Yes, I
Speaker 1: was already talking about it. You know with people that
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, this good energy. If I felt
Speaker 1: the good energy, I'm like, okay, I can share when
Speaker 1: we're talking about our dreams and goals and aspirations a
Speaker 1: lot of times and then you pick up energy and
Speaker 1: I don't always feel that, so I don't always share
Speaker 1: as much. But I definitely received that from you. How
Speaker 1: did you learn to trust that? Just my my intuition
Speaker 1: what it feels like, right, they say, you know the
Speaker 1: truth yea, by the way it feels. And I'm working
Speaker 1: on that because half the time I'm not listening. I
Speaker 1: am like I feel it, but then my ego gets
Speaker 1: in the way. I'm gonna do it anywhere. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna bypass it. And I look back, like, damn, don't
Speaker 1: you should have just listen? Yeah? Listen? Okay, sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: Now listening is so important or observing in silence, silence
Speaker 1: you don't so I'm loud and repocious, so it's like
Speaker 1: I'm always turned up, but I still slow down, Jim
Speaker 1: show listen and observed. You said doing you got a voice? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you told me what you did. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's amazing, and I was like, okay, I personally sometimes
Speaker 1: listen to my voice back and I'd be like, oh, right,
Speaker 1: that's a great right. But I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I want to use Don's voice for something. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, when I opened my business, it's like
Speaker 1: she's gonna a voice behind it. The same I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll just use don voice instead of mind because I
Speaker 1: love the way it sounds. It's so soothing to the ear.
Speaker 1: So um that's kind of where we are. And then
Speaker 1: I was like, once it got going and mirror mirror
Speaker 1: was actually opened, I was like, and I saw you
Speaker 1: doing your thing. I'm you know, watching you and hearing you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, yes, yes, And I was like, hey, no,
Speaker 1: what I said I was going to reach out to
Speaker 1: do I need to do that? Okay, So way through
Speaker 1: and now we did because listen, I hadn't seen Andrew
Speaker 1: and probably like gears with the pandemic and everything. And
Speaker 1: then we ran into each other at the Staples Center
Speaker 1: or is it this? Wait? What is it now? Crypto
Speaker 1: crypto dot com? Whose concert was it? Uh? Summer Walker
Speaker 1: was there? Jazzm Sullivan, Ali and Santana Yes, yes and
Speaker 1: say let me ran each other. So we had to
Speaker 1: bring it back. But let's go back. You said, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use things a voice to open up this
Speaker 1: beauty center. I wanted to say, beauty supply store, what
Speaker 1: is the beauty center? And then we got to talk
Speaker 1: about what was the process like of getting that together.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a whole storefront. It is. It is
Speaker 1: a whole storefront, the center versus supply. For me, I
Speaker 1: feel like black women in particular, when we shop sometimes
Speaker 1: in our neighborhood mom and pop beauty supply, it's kind
Speaker 1: of just to me, thrown together. There's no organization and
Speaker 1: it's just you know, a bunch of stuff on the
Speaker 1: shelves and like clutter. And so for me, I don't know,
Speaker 1: center just hand a little more, you know, elegant and
Speaker 1: lux And I believe we deserve that when we shop.
Speaker 1: We spend a lot of money in the beauty industry.
Speaker 1: So when we come in, we want to feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: like I want to spend my money here and have
Speaker 1: an experience, have a true with someone that looks like me,
Speaker 1: can understand me that all that good stuff representation. When
Speaker 1: you walk in, you know, feeling right and like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is nice. I want to be here like this
Speaker 1: is like home when I walk in safe, it's comfortable,
Speaker 1: and more importantly, I can trust what's in there absolutely. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I switched the words up and went went center
Speaker 1: over supply. I even like the mirror mirror. I just
Speaker 1: thought of this now. It's like, you can see yourself
Speaker 1: mirror mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them?
Speaker 1: You are beauty, You are beauty. It's a valid reflection.
Speaker 1: So when you look in the mirror, you've ever done
Speaker 1: the mirror tests, you know what that is? No, what
Speaker 1: is the mirror? The mirror test is when you stand
Speaker 1: in front of the mirror and you write everything that
Speaker 1: you love about your body, and then you accept all
Speaker 1: your flaws that you see in the mirror about your
Speaker 1: body or yourself, your face, whatever it might be, and
Speaker 1: then learning to accept those. And so it's a lot
Speaker 1: deeper than just what's on the outside. It starts with
Speaker 1: an inside. So that's kind of where the mirror mirror
Speaker 1: comes from. Nothing to do with snow white. Nothing to
Speaker 1: do with snow white, okay, because you know the story
Speaker 1: is snow white isn't always that great. So you got
Speaker 1: to take it and spent it and made it something
Speaker 1: more positive. Come on, piece of cold and turned into
Speaker 1: a diamond, and come on rain to turn into a
Speaker 1: rain walkerud No, there's like lots of meanings behind it.
Speaker 1: So it's like reflection, acceptance, your flaws, loving what you
Speaker 1: maybe don't always love so much, but loving that and
Speaker 1: that every reflection is different. So what we grew up
Speaker 1: seeing in the media is what we were taught as beautiful,
Speaker 1: but that's not true at all. And so when you
Speaker 1: look in the mirror, you see that. Come yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's all behind mirror and mirror, that's all that is
Speaker 1: absolutely starting And you said, see yourself and loving yourself
Speaker 1: and then even appreciating your flaws because I think half
Speaker 1: the time when we look at things that we don't like,
Speaker 1: we want to change because we don't like it. Right,
Speaker 1: rather than positivity, begets positivity. If I'm loving on it, right,
Speaker 1: whichever part of the body, whichever individual, whichever thing that is,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take care of it and I'm going
Speaker 1: to nurture and a goal and for it to grow
Speaker 1: to be as refined and it's best presentation of this
Speaker 1: to be possible. So rather than negating or pushing back
Speaker 1: what it is that we are loving and cultivating a
Speaker 1: way that reflects truly who we are on the ends
Speaker 1: on the outside. That said, it's out, yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: hard to do that. Did you always love yourself like it?
Speaker 1: Because you're very beautiful? Like, did you ever struggle or
Speaker 1: issue with your confidence? Absolutely? I can't speak for everyone,
Speaker 1: but I feel like everyone goes through I'm talking about you.
Speaker 1: Where was your thing? Like, my thing has always been
Speaker 1: my weight. I probably I didn't realize that and whatever
Speaker 1: that meant to be attractive for pretty, not because I
Speaker 1: based it on my way. I think I hid everything
Speaker 1: behind my way, so I didn't even get myself wrong
Speaker 1: to even say hey, Dawn, your face and whatever, Like
Speaker 1: I know I hold a face card yea, but it
Speaker 1: took a lot that I feel like I was hiding
Speaker 1: under my weight for whatever reason. So what was your thing?
Speaker 1: Because to have a beauty center, it would be interesting
Speaker 1: to know if you did have a struggle with your
Speaker 1: own beauty or perhaps your thing was to always stay
Speaker 1: confident in yourself. No. Absolutely, I definitely had my moments
Speaker 1: where I would either my complexion I've been you know,
Speaker 1: someone would say something to me and I'd be like, dang, like,
Speaker 1: it didn't make me feel a way to make me
Speaker 1: a little institute? What would they saying? You know, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize there was a whole light skin thing until
Speaker 1: I went to Howard. Yeah, I mean, I guess in
Speaker 1: the Midwest, or let me Dawn's experience going to Detroit.
Speaker 1: Let me not speak for everybody. You know, if you
Speaker 1: were light skinned, your browns, you were just that thing. Now,
Speaker 1: probably because I was part of the group and when
Speaker 1: the whole light skin was cute or fine thing, that
Speaker 1: I didn't really experience a disparity. But it wasn't until
Speaker 1: I went to Howard that it was forced that, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, your light skin. It's like, I know I'm
Speaker 1: light scanned, okay, And you know, just you just saying
Speaker 1: that you're a member of Alpha Kalpa Alpha. This is
Speaker 1: just based historical context, based on at Howard's campus. Of
Speaker 1: the whole paperback test, that was something that you actually
Speaker 1: felt that you experience, not with your organization, but just
Speaker 1: in general in general. Absolutely, what was I'd like, what
Speaker 1: do people like, don't play with me, Andrew, you're too
Speaker 1: dark or you're too light. It would be more like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you're dark or you know, you just hear
Speaker 1: complete like complexion comments or you're pretty for a black girl,
Speaker 1: or you're pretty for a dark skinned girl, or you're pretty,
Speaker 1: and I feel like, oh, I'm not just pretty. So
Speaker 1: it's like a backhanded complict man, And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: guess that's a compliment, but it's not a compliment because
Speaker 1: there's some type of condition that you didn't be that standard,
Speaker 1: but because let me add that, Yeah, so I definitely would.
Speaker 1: Or there's different comments about complexion. Did you ever try
Speaker 1: to make yourself lighter? No, okay, I would feel myself.
Speaker 1: But my mother always taught me that sunscreen is not
Speaker 1: just in the summertime. It's year round. So I was
Speaker 1: always that girl putting on sunscreen. But it wasn't because
Speaker 1: of the complexion things. Because that's what my mother talked.
Speaker 1: Part of my skincare, how long somebody as she's blowing
Speaker 1: you see it. I'm like, the skincare routine started like
Speaker 1: back when young, but that was the thing, and sometimes
Speaker 1: like super skinny, like you know, that was the insecurity.
Speaker 1: So like straight up and down, you know, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was just tall and lean and I was an athlete,
Speaker 1: but I didn't really get any like muscle or tone
Speaker 1: until high school. So growing up as a kid, I
Speaker 1: was just straight up and down, you know, brown skin girl,
Speaker 1: find her confidence. And now you're you have a business
Speaker 1: focused on beauty. Isn't it amazing that our dreams and
Speaker 1: aspirations they feed a source to ourselves. Yeah. Absolutely. I
Speaker 1: think that's why it's so important that whatever you're going
Speaker 1: after is to understand that I should be feeding you
Speaker 1: in a way. Yeah. And I sat up with Darren
Speaker 1: I said that with anybody that I'm working with, is
Speaker 1: that I want to show it I'm my pursuit of
Speaker 1: my dream, that you're getting something out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that you also set your boundaries because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we're only as good as what we
Speaker 1: can put into it. And if you aren't able to
Speaker 1: put in a good seed, what is the fruit of it?
Speaker 1: And why not transfer that seed into a beautiful mirror,
Speaker 1: mirror beauty center. Correct. But it's also for like when
Speaker 1: I think about it and I was like developing the business,
Speaker 1: it's like little girls like me growing up that you
Speaker 1: can see, like regardless of what the industry might show
Speaker 1: you or what you see MTV and the magazines in
Speaker 1: the movie as pretty or you know, gorgeous, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, and like that's not true. So you know,
Speaker 1: doing that mirror test. Accepting and being confident in yourself
Speaker 1: and loving yourself and being safe within the beauty space
Speaker 1: and knowing that there is a space for you is important.
Speaker 1: It's part of what the center is there for as
Speaker 1: well to give back to the community for women to
Speaker 1: come together from all different backgrounds, shape, sizes, shades, long hair,
Speaker 1: short hair, see four hair, every where everything and come
Speaker 1: together and experience and talk about like, you know, some
Speaker 1: products might work for you that might not work for me,
Speaker 1: but I won't know that. You know, we share our
Speaker 1: experiences through beauty, through products, through through communication. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you talked about this community space and also understand that
Speaker 1: one of the great things that you offer is that
Speaker 1: you have different products from whether it be up and
Speaker 1: coming small business owners as well as you have a
Speaker 1: space on the back because Jeremiah had a chance to
Speaker 1: visit location, Yeah, where you possibly may or if you
Speaker 1: haven't already started holding classes and so forth, can you
Speaker 1: share a little bit about that. Sure, So within this space,
Speaker 1: we do highlight brands that are black and brown founded
Speaker 1: as well as independent brands and give them the space
Speaker 1: to you know, be in a store in the community
Speaker 1: and people come in and actually inquire and like what,
Speaker 1: you know, what is this brand? And now you are
Speaker 1: getting the exposure from someone who might not ever see
Speaker 1: you on Instagram or might not know your website because
Speaker 1: it's not right in their face because you're just growing
Speaker 1: your brand as well in the world. Does somebody get
Speaker 1: that opportunity, So if they contact us coming to the
Speaker 1: sword of their content, So they're contacting us either on
Speaker 1: Instagram which is at or Mirror Beauty Center, they can
Speaker 1: call us. It is eight one eight nine six four
Speaker 1: four one eight one, so they can call us. They
Speaker 1: can Instagram as they can email us. All the information
Speaker 1: is on our Instagram and we can email us at
Speaker 1: me or Mirror Beauty Center at gmail dot We're currently
Speaker 1: working on our website which will be up as soon
Speaker 1: as well. But they can reach out to us and
Speaker 1: we can have that conversation about getting shelf space, getting
Speaker 1: your brand into the space and which allows people to
Speaker 1: learn about your brand and try your products and fall
Speaker 1: in love with them, just like Eve any other brand,
Speaker 1: something that has a big name behind it. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it's all about the opportunity. But we have to understand
Speaker 1: that with opportunity, there needs to be space for the
Speaker 1: opportunity to grow into flourish. And you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: I feel like African American women like we lead when
Speaker 1: it comes down to trends, when it comes everything everything
Speaker 1: culture wise, at the standard and when we look at
Speaker 1: beauty even down to the point and it's no shame
Speaker 1: or is a shame. People want to replicate, they want
Speaker 1: to mirror us. Yet you sometimes have to search high
Speaker 1: and low for a black owned beauty supply store slash center.
Speaker 1: What's up with that? Is it like a firewall that says, hey,
Speaker 1: you're a minority, black, a brown, you can't own the center.
Speaker 1: We are the people that are using the products, We
Speaker 1: are influencing the products. Why is it so hard for
Speaker 1: us to take up space. Yeah, it's um it's always
Speaker 1: been that way from some research said, I like, I
Speaker 1: obviously have been here forever. But over the time and
Speaker 1: over the years, of course we could barely vote or
Speaker 1: you know, own property, and so as time goes on,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, we are the number one consumers within
Speaker 1: the beauty product, especially when it comes to here. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna stop. We're gonna stop because when it
Speaker 1: comes they here, you know where it said. Okay, so listen,
Speaker 1: you know we have Antre in here. She's talking about
Speaker 1: her mirror Mirror Beauty Supply Center. We're talking about all
Speaker 1: the amazing products that she offers, the opportunities to their offer,
Speaker 1: and now we're gonna talk about where the space is
Speaker 1: for a lot of African American should I say women
Speaker 1: are just business owners, business owners, women all that, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out how to get aunt chill.
Speaker 1: Andrea is right here. We're gonna give it to you all.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be right back. Okay, all right, and
Speaker 1: behind the current, what's happening? Beautiful people? And you're tone
Speaker 1: intoviting the date with Dawn Day. That was another flaw
Speaker 1: my voice, which falls within the DD. Were like, you're
Speaker 1: asking some flaws, her voice is one of them. I
Speaker 1: would you say your voice is a flaw? I know
Speaker 1: people always be like, you know, you sound like you're five,
Speaker 1: or you know it's kind of squeaky, or you know,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. So that was always a flaw.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and I hear my voice back, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh sometimes and sometimes I'm like, oh, I sound decent today,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what it is. I feel like
Speaker 1: it pro for sure definitely a common and say, I
Speaker 1: can't necessarily say, how do I say this in a
Speaker 1: way I can't understand what you're saying. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: cannot necessarily relate, Okay, because that was my mother's thing.
Speaker 1: Speaking was my mother's thing. We would be in a car,
Speaker 1: she'd be having us listen to the phonetic alphabet. I
Speaker 1: didn't even realize it. And then, because I'm so enamored
Speaker 1: with speaking in general, she reaches and I'd be all
Speaker 1: up in her groom just looking at the inflection of
Speaker 1: her voice. So I understand the importance of it, but
Speaker 1: I never really considered what that looks like when it
Speaker 1: is a hindrance, because it's not like I don't hear
Speaker 1: your speech impediment from you. Yeah, but you said your voice,
Speaker 1: your voice was a hindrance. Yeah, it was. And so
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I could still study, you know,
Speaker 1: because I enjoy that. World goes like, okay, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: go behind the cameras and behind the scenes. So, but
Speaker 1: you got so much to say, I do have a
Speaker 1: lot to say, and so that's why for me when
Speaker 1: I am behind the scenes, and that includes being in
Speaker 1: the rooms though, where the decisions are made. Wow, and
Speaker 1: I speak for us when I'm in these rooms instead
Speaker 1: of being in front of the camera, where a lot
Speaker 1: of the time you're in front of the camera, you're
Speaker 1: kind of told, right, here's your script or this is
Speaker 1: what you're doing. But there's a prep and a development
Speaker 1: that happens behind the scenes that ask the talent sometimes
Speaker 1: you are not in So I decided I can go
Speaker 1: the background and be behind the scenes and being technically
Speaker 1: a television executive and still have some say you know,
Speaker 1: and speaking you don't have to say something. So I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm saying because a say some say because
Speaker 1: I'm being real, I'll say something and my ideal will
Speaker 1: move over someone's head. They won't. I'll be like, but
Speaker 1: then I said that and nothing was done about it,
Speaker 1: or nothing was said on it or acted on it,
Speaker 1: or you know, we're deciding on pilot. Season comes around
Speaker 1: and we're picking up scripts and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, okay, well I think you know, and
Speaker 1: sometimes I have to stand up. We're in the big
Speaker 1: conference rooms with these long tables and a lot of
Speaker 1: men in the room, so they will speak over me.
Speaker 1: Everyone's speaking, and then the women are in there trying
Speaker 1: to raise their hands and I'm none of the men
Speaker 1: are raising their hand, So yeah, I try to make
Speaker 1: sure that we are heard as women, as Black women,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I am the only woman in the room
Speaker 1: where the only black women in the room, and I'm
Speaker 1: not at a level yet where like I'm leading the
Speaker 1: meetings or making that final decision because a lot of
Speaker 1: time it's a company effort or what the priority is
Speaker 1: for the company. But just to make sure that I'm
Speaker 1: in these conversations and can kind of guide them a
Speaker 1: little bit and feel like I'm doing my part for sure.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a lot about what knowing ourselves.
Speaker 1: You know your strengths, and you know how to cater
Speaker 1: toward your strengths, because after time, we're trying to play
Speaker 1: a position or try to act in a way that
Speaker 1: isn't suitable to are necessarily our skill set and can
Speaker 1: be as enforceful as it can be. Kind of like
Speaker 1: if you're trying to do everything, have a knowledge of everything,
Speaker 1: but put the correct people in place so they can
Speaker 1: go the distance to delegate. Come on, somebody to delegate.
Speaker 1: That was something I had to tell Jeremiah with. You know,
Speaker 1: I say development to be an executive, but you know
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna fran just happen today. I'm telling him
Speaker 1: that I can't manage your time. Yeah, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do that. But what I'm going to have an
Speaker 1: issue with is that there are things that need to
Speaker 1: be handled here. And if things are slimming through the
Speaker 1: cracks and you're not communicating with you what you can
Speaker 1: handle what you can't, I'm still gonna look at you
Speaker 1: no matter how hard it work that you're doing, because
Speaker 1: things aren't happening properly. But if you set your mound
Speaker 1: and say when you're gonna do something, and you do
Speaker 1: it correctly and on time, I have nothing to say.
Speaker 1: But you have to delegate yourself because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you're only as good as your last mistake. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So here you are. You said, okay, let me figure
Speaker 1: out a way to find my voice that can be
Speaker 1: heard as a speak amongst a lot of African American women.
Speaker 1: And when we came back. Before we left, we talked
Speaker 1: about as far as where's the presence when it comes
Speaker 1: to our brown and black people in the beauty space,
Speaker 1: when it comes down to owning centers and supplying stores
Speaker 1: and what did you have to say? The challenge was?
Speaker 1: I feel like we own a very small percentage. It's
Speaker 1: like five percent of beauty supply stores, and that's on
Speaker 1: a more like mom and pop level. So when I
Speaker 1: do research and you look at some of the bigger companies,
Speaker 1: one the people running them seals are mostly men. So
Speaker 1: that means like sapphoor An Alta or Sallies. Sallies is
Speaker 1: not a Sallies is not a woman. It was founded
Speaker 1: by a man. So there are the CEO of sappho
Speaker 1: is also a man. And so there's a lot of
Speaker 1: companies out there that on a larger scale or ran
Speaker 1: and operated by men who barely use the products that
Speaker 1: they're selling. But they're selling to the women dictating our
Speaker 1: beauty rather than us allowing ourselves to define it. Right.
Speaker 1: So for me, I see a lot of women owned
Speaker 1: brands out there. Of course, like Rihanna, there's Pat McGrath
Speaker 1: and Rihanna having fenty really change the game, right, And
Speaker 1: I feel like Pat was out before Rihanna. But Rihanna
Speaker 1: has a bigger presence in names. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are do you say Pat Two's Pat McGrath ra. Yeah,
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know see McGrath. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know who she is. And she's
Speaker 1: been around since the nineties. She's a makeup artist and
Speaker 1: back starting with doing Naomi Campbell's makeup. Thanks. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: a woman of color. She's a woman of color. Come on,
Speaker 1: he's a woman of color. Before there was a Rihanna,
Speaker 1: there was Pat. And you know the reason why I
Speaker 1: think it's so important to have these conversations because just
Speaker 1: like New York Fashion weekap and this year a model
Speaker 1: had put on the put on Instagram how whatever they
Speaker 1: were trying to do to their hair. But you find
Speaker 1: oftentimes people are saying they can't find the right makeup
Speaker 1: and we have talented makeup artists turned to beauty what
Speaker 1: do we call these brand developers? Brand developers with the
Speaker 1: products that we need. But guess why, there's no space
Speaker 1: for them to resign, right, So, but now there's Mirror
Speaker 1: Mirror Center, Yeah there is. And so like Pat is
Speaker 1: also into forore with Rihanna, but Rihanna has her name right,
Speaker 1: so a lot of people are like, really, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know she's black because I'm like,
Speaker 1: Pat is black. She's the OG. Like I said, she's
Speaker 1: from the nineties, start out as a makeup artist and
Speaker 1: then she developed a line and um, then there's Rihanna.
Speaker 1: But outside of us creating all these brands, there's no
Speaker 1: ownership in space. So like a goal for Mirror Mirror
Speaker 1: is to get Rihanna fenty makeup and skin o her
Speaker 1: reem and Pat mcgraft like OG and Mirror Mirror to
Speaker 1: get patterned by Tracy Ellis Ross also an honorary SORE
Speaker 1: member as well. I've Alpha Kappa Alpha storlready incorporated. So
Speaker 1: there's women out there that they have all these brands
Speaker 1: in their in companies, though, are under a roof of
Speaker 1: someone who's operating nuts whites or a man. Why you
Speaker 1: got your voice down? That's whites or not, you know,
Speaker 1: anyone of color. There's a lot of boardrooms and I
Speaker 1: look and I read in a research and sometimes I
Speaker 1: look at these names and I'm like, is that a
Speaker 1: man or is that a woman? For the CEO of
Speaker 1: Sepphor in particular, I had a Google and figure it out.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, that's a man. People don't talk
Speaker 1: about that. No, And so you know, sofor is such
Speaker 1: a big name and also such a big name even Sally's,
Speaker 1: like I said, the founder of Sally's is not a
Speaker 1: Sally Like, her name is not Sally. It's a man.
Speaker 1: And we as women and the African American, black and
Speaker 1: brown founders, we create these brands. I go in stores
Speaker 1: that are operated, you know, not by us. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to create a space that's a store operated and
Speaker 1: you know, eventually mirror, mirror grow. I want to have
Speaker 1: you know, execs and boards, delegates growing, growing, but to
Speaker 1: delegates and have a team, you know, and bringing in
Speaker 1: brands such as you know, like I said, Antee and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And then smaller brands. I shout out
Speaker 1: to my girl Jessica Chambers with Nova Sage. Oh why
Speaker 1: not right? Why not? Yeah? Smaller brands. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of brands out there that I do not know,
Speaker 1: but I want to get a chance to know them all. Wow.
Speaker 1: Now I can only imagine you're standing when you're naming
Speaker 1: some of these major beauty companies that are owned by men,
Speaker 1: I'm imagining white man. Correct, What are the some of
Speaker 1: the challenges that you faced having a supply center? So
Speaker 1: for myself, being a woman, one was challenging just to
Speaker 1: set up some of my distribution accounts to even carry
Speaker 1: these brands. Would you want to act when you were
Speaker 1: a man or something, Well, it wasn't that. It would
Speaker 1: be oh, we're not accepting right now, or oh you know,
Speaker 1: we're right there, we're not accepting any new clients right now.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, that doesn't even make sense. You want
Speaker 1: to make money, right and I have money here to purchase.
Speaker 1: Were asking for a disc right, I'm just setting up
Speaker 1: accounts to purchase or finding the information or you know,
Speaker 1: reaching out and some of the google get back to you,
Speaker 1: and the companies don't get back to you. So then
Speaker 1: I have to keep calling, keep emailing, keep calling it,
Speaker 1: and they're probably like, gosh, but I'm not getting what
Speaker 1: I need. And you guys are a business. You guys
Speaker 1: are operating, so I don't understand why the communication is
Speaker 1: such a delay twenty four or forty eight hours, But
Speaker 1: after that, it's like what's happening? And so I would yeah,
Speaker 1: have to have sometimes other people stepping meaning I have.
Speaker 1: I went to one, for example, distribution center here in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and I walked in and they got to
Speaker 1: see who I was. So no one spoke English. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, manager is not there there. You know,
Speaker 1: there might have been like Korean or Philip Vintemones or
Speaker 1: something like that. So this might sound bad, but I
Speaker 1: needed someone to who spoke their language. So I reached
Speaker 1: out to my nail tech and I'm like, can if
Speaker 1: you assist me? Because every time I go there, no
Speaker 1: one speaks English all of a sudden, So she was like, well,
Speaker 1: let's call them on the phone. So I call them
Speaker 1: on the phone. They speaks to me a little more.
Speaker 1: But then I passed the phone. I'm like to my
Speaker 1: partner and she opened doors. What yeah, open doors. Oh
Speaker 1: we're seeing the application, here's the email, here's you know,
Speaker 1: you're a minimum of order that you need to complete
Speaker 1: and get. All of a sudden, we have all the information.
Speaker 1: She's speaking with them in English or they're in their length. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so me speaking English and like when I walked in,
Speaker 1: it was like no one. I was like, Hi, I'm here,
Speaker 1: is there anyone that can help me? And then you
Speaker 1: know they're speaking their language, and so it's like I'm um,
Speaker 1: manager is not here. Wow, I'm like okay, well is
Speaker 1: there someone here on the floor that can assist me
Speaker 1: or help me off? You leave your They're like, pass
Speaker 1: me pen and paper, be leave your information, someone will
Speaker 1: get back to you. Didn't hear back, so I drove
Speaker 1: back same thing. So I was like, well, maybe it's
Speaker 1: every time they see me. I'm a woman, I'm a
Speaker 1: woman of color. Yes, So it was just like okay,
Speaker 1: so I needed to find another way in. So if
Speaker 1: that was the back door and reaching out to someone
Speaker 1: who spoke their language to get what I needed, that's
Speaker 1: what I did. So there's been a lot of that. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's I think I just said it where I stand
Speaker 1: in my head, how that's like a form of gate
Speaker 1: keeping and keep those out keeping us out? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was definitely Why would you turn down someone? Why are
Speaker 1: you talking down money? Your business and the goal is
Speaker 1: to get more business, get more business, get my product
Speaker 1: out to make more money, and you're gatekeeping, yeah, keeping
Speaker 1: us out. Well, why isn't that what's stopping home people
Speaker 1: of color from being the distribution centers? Like what's up
Speaker 1: with that? Like, how do we get to that part right.
Speaker 1: So that is so crazy that that is something that
Speaker 1: I'm kind of working on. It's like I was picking
Speaker 1: up for order yesterday and I asked him did he
Speaker 1: have of a certain brand in there? And he was like, no,
Speaker 1: not yet, but she's coming here for the taste of
Speaker 1: soul whatever that is. I was, I don't need to
Speaker 1: look that up because she's coming. No I didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so she's like the owner of the brand will be
Speaker 1: here for the taste of soul and we have a meeting.
Speaker 1: She's a black woman, so I'm like, and she's not
Speaker 1: in this distribution center. So I'm like, I wonder is
Speaker 1: that purpose? Is she not a part of the distributions?
Speaker 1: In it for a reason? But there are some other
Speaker 1: ones actually is a part of. But all the ones
Speaker 1: that I'm dealing with, they're mostly Korean owned, just like
Speaker 1: our beauty supply stores in our communities. So I am
Speaker 1: interested in what is that process? Like why don't we
Speaker 1: have any ownership there? But we have such a small
Speaker 1: ownership in the beauty supply stores. And I'm like, one
Speaker 1: step at a time, But I'm also like slow and steady,
Speaker 1: get the information you need to change the narrative once
Speaker 1: again when it comes to distribution, right, because we should
Speaker 1: have access to these things that we need, especially if
Speaker 1: we're leading the forefront. Yeah, and it's just it's so
Speaker 1: interesting how just being a person of color, especially a
Speaker 1: woman of color, how many roll blocks that you get
Speaker 1: slapped into your face left and right, up and down
Speaker 1: and all the way around. But you said something that's
Speaker 1: so interesting, and I feel that every person should know this,
Speaker 1: especially when pursuing their dream. You can't fail if you
Speaker 1: don't quit. You can't allow somebody's no to dictate the
Speaker 1: yes on your life. So yes, they may have said no,
Speaker 1: a manager's not here, No, someone's unavailable to speak with you.
Speaker 1: But because you're in the you understand that you are creator,
Speaker 1: a creator that can create opportunity and possibility. You went
Speaker 1: to the next best name. You found your homegirl or
Speaker 1: your partner to help you get this conversation going right,
Speaker 1: And now this is spiritheading for you to create more
Speaker 1: opportunities like this black what's her name? Do we know
Speaker 1: her name? This black business that's coming Yeah, Um, she
Speaker 1: owns me out. Yeah, I don't know what tells somebody?
Speaker 1: How do you spell it? Elle? It's in target. It's
Speaker 1: a big, huge brand. Okay, Mia, and I believe I'm
Speaker 1: pronouncing it right as Mel. She's black, the owner, and
Speaker 1: she's black woman of color, and she's not in this
Speaker 1: in particular distribution center. So he did say that they're
Speaker 1: going to have a meeting, and I'm like, why are
Speaker 1: you having a meeting with her? I want to have
Speaker 1: a meeting with her. Yeah. So so now that she knows,
Speaker 1: hopefully Mal she gets one of this, yeah, the owner
Speaker 1: of this. Yeah. But there's a lot of that, and
Speaker 1: you just figure it out. And there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of brands that I'm still figuring out how to get
Speaker 1: them into the space. So okay, as you were figuring
Speaker 1: out how to create space an opportunity, is there some
Speaker 1: advice that you want to give somebody a heads up
Speaker 1: who's like, oh, I'm a smaller Andrewa with those aspirations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say, work really hard on what you want
Speaker 1: to do when it comes to this space. The space
Speaker 1: is huge. The beauty world and industry is huge, and
Speaker 1: it's a industry that's not going anywhere. So work and
Speaker 1: determine what that is. And then once you determine that,
Speaker 1: do the work to make sure that you get there
Speaker 1: and don't quit. Don't quit, don't There'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of people who are going to say that's a dumb idea,
Speaker 1: or why why do that? Or are you gonna hit
Speaker 1: some roadblocks people stopping you. It's just don't quit, keep going,
Speaker 1: and as long as you believe in what you're doing,
Speaker 1: everyone else will follow suit and believe to Hey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why it's called your vision, your dream for a reason.
Speaker 1: It's yours. So remember that while you're working. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of times so I'm like, why do I get
Speaker 1: myself into Why did I do this to myself? But
Speaker 1: it's it's in me, because if it wasn't in me,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even being able to put the all together.
Speaker 1: So when you do stuff like that, you know you're
Speaker 1: on the right track, you're in a flow, you're honoring yourself,
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of the most beautiful gifts
Speaker 1: that you can give to yourself. Yes, so you may
Speaker 1: mention about you having give nine to five. Do you
Speaker 1: plan to keep balancing both or ultimately one day do
Speaker 1: you want to fully transition to beating and bed supply
Speaker 1: owner slash distributor. Yes, eventually, I want to transition out
Speaker 1: of my Corporate America position and job and focus solely
Speaker 1: on Mirror and Mirror and growing the brand, growing the space,
Speaker 1: growing into distribution. Your voice is getting low when you're
Speaker 1: saying it. Does it make you nervous? It does? It
Speaker 1: scares me? I what is the worst thing that can happen?
Speaker 1: You think you'd be great? Yeah? Like nothing, And I said,
Speaker 1: you know it just yeah, it's just like why that's
Speaker 1: such like big because you don't even want to stay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I'm just like okay, and I'm like
Speaker 1: still like baby stepping crawling before our water. May do
Speaker 1: you think that you are? Maybe you're actually taking leaps? Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you're doing trucks. I mean you just talked about
Speaker 1: how not a lot of people of color, let alone
Speaker 1: African American women, own centers dedicated to beauty, and you're
Speaker 1: one of them. Yes, that says a lot. Says a lot.
Speaker 1: Same from the same young woman that was just here
Speaker 1: of you wants podcast a bit talking about finding her voice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hello somebody Hello, Yeah, booty who hello, Hello, hallo hallo.
Speaker 1: Exactly very true. Yeah, I am. It's scary every day
Speaker 1: when I wake up, I'm like, Okay, let's get to
Speaker 1: day started, and I never know what's gonna come with it.
Speaker 1: And then when I'm away from this space because it's
Speaker 1: my baby and I'm still working, it's like I can't
Speaker 1: be as hands on at that very moment that I
Speaker 1: would like to be. And there's a lot of trust
Speaker 1: going after your dreams, right, Yeah, So I'm trusting other
Speaker 1: people when I'm gone to run the business and operate
Speaker 1: it as I would. So that matters to me who's
Speaker 1: in the space, who's behind the counter, who's greeting you
Speaker 1: when you walk in and answering your questions, that there's
Speaker 1: representation and knowledge behind the team that is the face
Speaker 1: of the center when I'm there or not there, and
Speaker 1: that's important to find the right team. Yes, it just
Speaker 1: makes me think, like, you know, what does it mean
Speaker 1: and what does your support system look like? And who
Speaker 1: told you that you were possible? My village, which starts
Speaker 1: with my mother. Yeah, my mom always tells me, babe,
Speaker 1: you could do anything you want to do, go for it,
Speaker 1: do it, don't talk about it, do it. Just don't talk.
Speaker 1: Like even when I was like I want to do
Speaker 1: this center of this space, I talked about it bro.
Speaker 1: She was like, so what are you doing to make
Speaker 1: that happen? And just talking about it and just telling
Speaker 1: me every time you see a center or you go
Speaker 1: buy something, I would come back and be like, man,
Speaker 1: they didn't have what I needed, or I gotta drive
Speaker 1: over here and then drive over here and drive over here.
Speaker 1: Because the brands, they're such a separation and divide on
Speaker 1: the brands that are used by women of color versus
Speaker 1: used by you know, someone who is not. But there's
Speaker 1: a divide there. So you walk into certain stories and
Speaker 1: you're not going to see your edge control that you
Speaker 1: come more edge control right to delay the baby here, Right,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna see certain brands that we use in
Speaker 1: certain spaces. Like I was saying, like Mel's not She's
Speaker 1: not and to four she just gone to Altar, but
Speaker 1: she started in a targeting a Walmart, right, which are
Speaker 1: major brands we talk about, you know, really zoning and
Speaker 1: the beauty space because Target and Walmart are not beauty spaces, right.
Speaker 1: They carry they are large convenience stores that carry everything
Speaker 1: you need from clothes to toys, to home good to
Speaker 1: your you know products and kitchen. Right, you can go
Speaker 1: into Target and literally buy something from you can buy
Speaker 1: it in pajamas, you can buy it vacuums, you can
Speaker 1: get groceries, but then you can also get hair care products. Right,
Speaker 1: So in just the beauty space, that's not where some
Speaker 1: of our brands start unless you have a big name
Speaker 1: behind you, someone backing you. And there are some brands
Speaker 1: out there, don't get me wrong, that are women owned
Speaker 1: and minority own that do go straight to that level.
Speaker 1: But then they're more of those that don't than do.
Speaker 1: And that's why we have spaces like Merror and Merror
Speaker 1: Beauty Supply Center that are creating these opportunities for these
Speaker 1: black and brown founders to exist. Correct. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: can you tell me what is it about the black
Speaker 1: and brown founder or what that means to you? So
Speaker 1: for me, that is it's so important. So start off
Speaker 1: the black and brown what is it? I don't even
Speaker 1: know what it is. So if a brand that is
Speaker 1: founded by someone who is black around, if that's a
Speaker 1: man or a woman, we want to give you a
Speaker 1: space because there are a lot of brands out there
Speaker 1: that are still looking for space and to have a
Speaker 1: spotlight shine on them, yes on what they're doing, what
Speaker 1: they're creating. And you are just as important as someone
Speaker 1: who has maybe a big brand or a name backing,
Speaker 1: and we want to give you a space. And that's
Speaker 1: what it's about for me. And it's always fun to
Speaker 1: find those brands. Yeah, yeah, what do you how do
Speaker 1: you usually find though? Like where are they existing? Because
Speaker 1: I mean for somebody that may not you know, gearing
Speaker 1: up to the possibly give you a call on an email.
Speaker 1: How do you make yourself accessible for such a supply
Speaker 1: center or perhaps being represented or a distributor? Like what
Speaker 1: do you should you be doing? Should be posting on
Speaker 1: social media? Like absolutely, you should be posting on social media.
Speaker 1: You should be a part of any you know, like
Speaker 1: pop ups or community events to shine light on your brand,
Speaker 1: to shine light on what you create. It so just
Speaker 1: being active, putting yourself out there any opportunity to be
Speaker 1: a part of the event. I feel like you should.
Speaker 1: But posting on social media A lot of times I'm
Speaker 1: scrolling or word of mouth, word they always word of mouth.
Speaker 1: I might see somebody with something on or like oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, your hell looks great. I'm like, what what
Speaker 1: kind of hair do you have? Then? Or you know,
Speaker 1: like for a braid. Sometimes I see braiding here that
Speaker 1: I can tell is not what I'm using. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what a brand braiding? And they're like, oh, it's it's
Speaker 1: human here. It's oh, that's the difference because they're so
Speaker 1: there's so much out there, or like, your skin looks amazing,
Speaker 1: what is your skincare routine? Now? What products are you using?
Speaker 1: And sometimes people will put me on brand side, you've
Speaker 1: never heard of this brand. I'm like, no, like, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: you should try it and be the junkie and me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I will try it. I need a head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I will try it. You're you're right, And
Speaker 1: sometimes I love it and sometimes I don't, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: But now I know about this brand, and sometimes people
Speaker 1: ask me and I pass it along, right, because that's
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do, right, lift And while we
Speaker 1: climb as we can information, we want to make sure
Speaker 1: that we shut it to somebody else. Sharing, yeah, sharing yeah,
Speaker 1: which for women sometimes I feel like we struggle there,
Speaker 1: like we think we're each other's competition. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: but we're not. Because it's enough from from you doing
Speaker 1: meeting or to win the next one behind us. I've
Speaker 1: experienced it a couple of times, and I think the
Speaker 1: grace and understanding. I don't feel as though that people
Speaker 1: are coming from oh I gotta stop you. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's coming from survival of when you've been restricted
Speaker 1: from food. So you don't even realize that it's taking
Speaker 1: more energy for you to pull me down versus if
Speaker 1: we work together, because that's what everybody's trying to get out.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about just simply going to a distribution.
Speaker 1: They're saying, the manager isn't here, we can't have a conversation.
Speaker 1: There's so many people in so many different arenas that
Speaker 1: are talking about, oh, they're not here. Oh, we can't
Speaker 1: have the conversation. Somebody to get a peek of light off.
Speaker 1: Somebody open them out, We move out the way. But
Speaker 1: I was listening to Joe old Stain, and it's something
Speaker 1: that we think we all have to be reminded of,
Speaker 1: is that when something has your name on it, it's
Speaker 1: not going to any other address than you. Right. So
Speaker 1: this whole trying to divert the route and try to
Speaker 1: delay it you can't stop, was meant for you, right
Speaker 1: because it's coming now. One thing we talked about or
Speaker 1: I had Jeremie ask you about is some of your
Speaker 1: top five products? Yeah? You got? What are your about
Speaker 1: your products? What products you like? Okay, so I can
Speaker 1: grab I'm like, she brought something and so this is
Speaker 1: where your into. Oh okay, so I got she said, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: So wait or which one go? First year? You can
Speaker 1: because two of my products are in there, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to share them with you just in case you
Speaker 1: did not know about these brands. Oh my god, Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: I have gifts. I love to eat and I love
Speaker 1: to be affirmed. Oh my god. So okay, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so and we could talk about okay, we could talk
Speaker 1: about together. Bam bam. So first one up that I
Speaker 1: love that I use is Black Girl sun string Woman
Speaker 1: on Black Owned, hold it to the camera, black Girl Sunscreen.
Speaker 1: Like I said, from a very young age, I was
Speaker 1: always taught that sunscreen should be year round, just not
Speaker 1: in the summer. So this definitely is one of my
Speaker 1: go toos. There's no like white cast for the nilanin
Speaker 1: in our skin that we love, so yeah, no white
Speaker 1: residue that's right and has some good ingredients in it,
Speaker 1: So definitely one of my go tos. Or so what
Speaker 1: a church to who's the phone? Okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: They're black women. Yeah, they're black women. Um, they've been
Speaker 1: around for a few years, and I know I just
Speaker 1: love them. Well, I don't love I love skincare. Ok yeah,
Speaker 1: so big on skincare. So okay, she's like doing, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so we have so I love skincare. This is K
Speaker 1: and C Beauty, which is also a woman owned brand,
Speaker 1: and their eye patches, We're our patch is so good.
Speaker 1: I've had just help with puffiness and if you look
Speaker 1: tired and find lines sometimes depending on the ones you use,
Speaker 1: but there's so many different ones out there, but I
Speaker 1: do like these. I do use them morning in nights sometimes,
Speaker 1: especially working the hours I'm working lately. I still got
Speaker 1: a look, you know, to hold it and tell it together.
Speaker 1: So and these are refuses with retinal which is really good.
Speaker 1: That's what got me excited. Yeah, I just had a
Speaker 1: peal Andrew. My face has been when I say lit up,
Speaker 1: like there's some footage that we haven't been able to
Speaker 1: use in the studio because my face has been lit
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was like a hormonal thing,
Speaker 1: if I had taken something. But I just got my
Speaker 1: glocolic pills, so I'm excited about it. Yes, but yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: so and retinal is good. If you don't have retinal
Speaker 1: in your skincare regiment, it should be you know me
Speaker 1: later work because they're peeling off layers and that's important
Speaker 1: because we have to remove in order to absorb, absorb
Speaker 1: the moisturization, all that kind of good stuff. Get with
Speaker 1: fine lines. And if somebody isn't okay, you just give
Speaker 1: a quick little glance or explanation of what retinal is.
Speaker 1: Retinal is, I want to share the number three the
Speaker 1: Paddocks is a retinhall serum that it is. You can
Speaker 1: get it prescription, but there's our institutions sometimes low amounts
Speaker 1: in the right lower amounts, but um, you can also
Speaker 1: go to your German college and get a prescription which
Speaker 1: is a little stronger. But if you want to start
Speaker 1: off with something a little more mild, you can definitely. Um.
Speaker 1: So this is a retinal sir, what's your name on there?
Speaker 1: So this is please forgive me because I don't even
Speaker 1: want to mess up her name Shaney or Shani Darden exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I don't even mess it up. But
Speaker 1: she's also woman in black Gong as well. She isn't
Speaker 1: so for it. But this is a retinal reform serm
Speaker 1: that then you use at night. Retino is good at night,
Speaker 1: but because it is a stronger serm that is refreshing
Speaker 1: that first first layer of skim. That's why I say
Speaker 1: sunscreen is so important. The next day. You want to
Speaker 1: make sure you put on the sunscreen on the face,
Speaker 1: and you always want to pat in by the way,
Speaker 1: pat and lift up, pat and lift up? How it
Speaker 1: lift up? Do you do? You do the face exercise?
Speaker 1: Moment you say, I do sometimes jaw line and that's
Speaker 1: just good to just before coming in here. I wasn't
Speaker 1: doing that in the car when you get ready to
Speaker 1: speak a whole lot. Yeah, it's good, but this is
Speaker 1: definitely any retinal really, but this is what I'm currently
Speaker 1: using um And then when I need little extra I'll
Speaker 1: get something from my dermatologist which is obviously a bit stronger,
Speaker 1: you know, prescription. So so far we have black Girl Sunscreen,
Speaker 1: Woman known Cancy Beauty, which is also woman known. I
Speaker 1: want to say she's I don't know exactly she's like,
Speaker 1: but I feel like she's like somethwhere up in the flavor. Yes,
Speaker 1: and she is the same thing. And that's so those
Speaker 1: are all skincare na. Switch it over to some hair.
Speaker 1: So this is a goat less hair oil by Obral
Speaker 1: Oh well here, okay, here oil. Look at fury rets.
Speaker 1: I love the packaging of that great love. I'm listening.
Speaker 1: I love oils. I feel like our hair needs all
Speaker 1: different types of oils. And sometimes I don't always oil,
Speaker 1: I feel like as much as I should. But you
Speaker 1: know you need certain oils on your scalt. It smells
Speaker 1: good on your scout versus on your strands. Don't feel greasy. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's it is amazing. I would say that it smells great,
Speaker 1: it's light, it has nutrients in it for the hair.
Speaker 1: I take it all the way down to my ends
Speaker 1: and on to the room, all the way down to
Speaker 1: the roots, down to the ends. Yeah. And it's definitely
Speaker 1: a good goal too. But I feel like oils are important.
Speaker 1: So that's my goal because if you think about it,
Speaker 1: when we get oh, we just get oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's something more bad. We get dry and decrepit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got dry, stay hydrated and more so, and then
Speaker 1: we do here so for the for the edges and
Speaker 1: the slick slick a ponytail do your baby hairs. Um,
Speaker 1: I use ken Ra, which is a wax like Matt finished. Hold.
Speaker 1: I don't really like all that shine. It's like, why
Speaker 1: not what you put on your head? All right? I
Speaker 1: felt like, get to come from the oils, not because
Speaker 1: the product is oily or greasy, right right, So it
Speaker 1: slicks the way I needed to, and it sounds amazing too.
Speaker 1: I love things that smell good because, like you know,
Speaker 1: people like come in for a hood you smell me
Speaker 1: right then you're smelling me from my hand to my
Speaker 1: skin to my oils, you know. So this is definitely something.
Speaker 1: And all these also are available in mirror mirror besides
Speaker 1: this one which I'm trying to get her in here
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, um yeah that's five. Have one more,
Speaker 1: go ahead. Um it's for the body so body oil
Speaker 1: oil because like you said, we get dry. Yeah so
Speaker 1: in winter months, summer months, right, we're going into fall,
Speaker 1: right into fall. So I always mix, you know, you
Speaker 1: can mix your oils and emotions, but I do love
Speaker 1: the keels um dry body oil smells amazing. You mna
Speaker 1: smell is you sprayed out and oh wow, fresh out
Speaker 1: the shower and it definitely yes, Rob is definitely go to.
Speaker 1: So those are my skating care, body hair care products
Speaker 1: that I definitely used all them this morning. And no matter,
Speaker 1: no wonder why you're lowing like this. Listen, if you
Speaker 1: didn't know, you better check out Mirror Mirror Beauty Center,
Speaker 1: I was saying. Supply, I added that word in here.
Speaker 1: Beauty center opened seven days a week. Yeah, Monday through Friday,
Speaker 1: ten day a Saturday ten to seven in Sunday twitty
Speaker 1: five yea even brought in. I got a personal product
Speaker 1: that she sells in the store. Ye black Girl sun screw.
Speaker 1: You gotta check it out. I love this. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, of course, thank you. Um now, thank you.
Speaker 1: You've been giving us so much information. I have this
Speaker 1: segment and it's called shed light on this. Okay, you're ready.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take some thinking, not too much, all right,
Speaker 1: So let me tell you she had light on. This
Speaker 1: is a segment where you are going to be given
Speaker 1: a scenario. It's going to be with a character who's
Speaker 1: dealing with a situation that they don't necessarily know how
Speaker 1: to handle. Now, your task is to come up with
Speaker 1: a solution that you believe would work best for the situation.
Speaker 1: There's no right or wrong answer. Just give your advice
Speaker 1: from your knowledge and your experience, your life experience. Okay, Andrea,
Speaker 1: are you ready? I'm ready? Okay, here we go Okay.
Speaker 1: Veronica has just launched her first card game company. Her
Speaker 1: first product is a questionnaire game based on dating topics.
Speaker 1: Believing that her card game would succeed immediately, she ordered
Speaker 1: over six hundred decks of cards for her inventory. It
Speaker 1: has been six months and she has only sold ten orders.
Speaker 1: She has a social media page for her business, but
Speaker 1: it has not gotten much traction. She is now stuck
Speaker 1: with nearly a full inventory, and her confidence in geting
Speaker 1: her and her confidence in continuing her company has plummeted.
Speaker 1: She spends so much time and money into this idea,
Speaker 1: and she fears that it was all for nothing. She
Speaker 1: has the baby whether to cut her losses and give
Speaker 1: up on her business, or to figure a new way
Speaker 1: to increase her sales. Andrea, can you shut some light
Speaker 1: on this? Absolutely one. It's Vanessa right, Veronica, and knew
Speaker 1: it was in the vs. Veronica, don't quit. You don't
Speaker 1: want to give up on your dream. You're gonna pivot, right,
Speaker 1: So your social media page isn't getting their attraction that
Speaker 1: you feel like it needs. So what are what are
Speaker 1: other options we can do? That means, you know, reaching
Speaker 1: out to a company where you could put your cards
Speaker 1: in a space that people already know and love, because
Speaker 1: when they're in there, they're coming across a new brand,
Speaker 1: such like a mirror and mirror where they're like, oh
Speaker 1: what's this? Oh this is school and they want to
Speaker 1: give it a try. But when you're talking to these
Speaker 1: stores or companies, you come with a way to maybe
Speaker 1: there's a wholesale program where it's like, hey, upfront, you
Speaker 1: buy you know, a dozen, So therefore you have just
Speaker 1: got rid of some of your inventory and I've already
Speaker 1: gotten your profit. Now what they want to do with
Speaker 1: it once they buy it from it's up to them.
Speaker 1: So you might be selling your cards on your site
Speaker 1: for fifteen, but they might get in and storeconomy can
Speaker 1: do whatever they want unless you have them under a
Speaker 1: contract and they might sell them for thirty. But no
Speaker 1: matter what, you still got rid of them and you
Speaker 1: still got your profit from So there's other ways to
Speaker 1: pivot and move when things are not going your way.
Speaker 1: So I would just don't quit and pivot and start
Speaker 1: to think outside the box on your cards. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: an event happening, pop up, a farmer's market, a you know,
Speaker 1: a dating what is it when they do like the
Speaker 1: speed dating, you know, and they have little gideons you
Speaker 1: can buy and give or and then sometimes it is
Speaker 1: being a sponsor or something just so people can Sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to give to get come on, and you
Speaker 1: gotta think about it. So you can't just hold everything
Speaker 1: because what are you gonna have to contake in your hands? Exactly?
Speaker 1: So you give a little in kid a lot sometimes too.
Speaker 1: So I would learn to put yourself out there, be
Speaker 1: involved in something small, pop up a farmer's market or
Speaker 1: a block party, a dating and you know they're like
Speaker 1: dating cards, so put yourself in position when it comes
Speaker 1: to something dating one. That would be my advice. M
Speaker 1: love that, Yeah, yeah, give it pivot, think outside the box.
Speaker 1: I love that you guys, just dad, you're surviving indeed
Speaker 1: with dawn day and get excited about your life. So
Speaker 1: now we got this segment. Thank you for shedding light
Speaker 1: on this. Absolutely now we have something. I love how
Speaker 1: you use the term pivot because what's happening with the
Speaker 1: vite chest is exactly how you use the word pivot. Now,
Speaker 1: and here are some terms that relate to you your business.
Speaker 1: Who Andrea Hope is? I love your Hope? How could
Speaker 1: you not go through your jury? It's the name? I
Speaker 1: love it? No, yeah, it grew on me. Thank you though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this next thing survit a chest and in it,
Speaker 1: like I said, has terms relating to you. I want
Speaker 1: you to pick a term out right, okay, say what
Speaker 1: it is and what it means. Okay, but then what's
Speaker 1: the Andrea twist on it? What makes it inspirational? Like
Speaker 1: in basketball, there's literally a pivot position like move to
Speaker 1: the next But just like you explain, you pivot in life,
Speaker 1: whether it's pivot and finding another way to put your
Speaker 1: cards in the store, or how you pivoted when you
Speaker 1: were going to the distributor and they said, hey, our
Speaker 1: managers not here in language. Are you ready to dig
Speaker 1: in the vited chest? I'm ready. I mean we might
Speaker 1: have to do a deep dive. The treasure is down
Speaker 1: under you'll see, Okay, so shout it's a little mermaid.
Speaker 1: Shout out all right, seem are you ready? I'm ready?
Speaker 1: I thank you. Okay, let me dig them deep down there.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Edge control felt a word on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: edge control product that can use for our edge right
Speaker 1: to hold him there, hold them down, to slip them,
Speaker 1: to put them into place, to be creative because edge
Speaker 1: controls allows you to swoop, twil twists, wind up your
Speaker 1: edges the way you would like. Some people don't like
Speaker 1: all that. Some people like I'm simple and slip right,
Speaker 1: but then some people do like a little twist and
Speaker 1: a little turn, and that's okay. That's where you get
Speaker 1: creative with it, right. And each time you use the
Speaker 1: edge control and create your slickness, your ponytail, your edges,
Speaker 1: it's always different, and then the way you would do
Speaker 1: it would be different. Right, So how would we relate
Speaker 1: that to life? How can we add a little edge
Speaker 1: to our lives? I feel like sometimes you need something
Speaker 1: that is going to either have you steal right so
Speaker 1: that you can maybe get a control of what's happening
Speaker 1: and observe what's happening so that you can pivot into
Speaker 1: life or what the situation is. So having to be
Speaker 1: still and hold still right so that you can delegate
Speaker 1: or grow or listen or make those decisions that you
Speaker 1: need that sometimes have us on edge, right, they have
Speaker 1: us on edge, and so it it's just them holding
Speaker 1: in the mold that we need at that moment to
Speaker 1: get us where we're going or where we're trying to
Speaker 1: get to. Well, well, did you get a world? So
Speaker 1: hope I want to because we all could use a
Speaker 1: little edge control, because sometimes please get a little out
Speaker 1: of hand. Yes, but god shit, being so be steep still,
Speaker 1: I got some ways I want to move over under
Speaker 1: upside and down underone. No for real though, that was right,
Speaker 1: Like have you ever thought about like let us start
Speaker 1: on something? But I just feel like people ask me
Speaker 1: things sometimes and I try not you know, and that's
Speaker 1: just how I feel. I try not to work. I
Speaker 1: just tried not to um. I tried not to make
Speaker 1: it all about you, right, even though you might come
Speaker 1: to me with something and I might think of it.
Speaker 1: It's bigger than just you, right, So yeah, life comes,
Speaker 1: things happen, and I'm really big on pivoting, like holding still,
Speaker 1: so the edge control it spoke to me, I was like,
Speaker 1: we I'm lately on edge and so with a new
Speaker 1: business work in corporate life, right, it has its on
Speaker 1: edge but sometimes we got to learn to control it
Speaker 1: and not get too excited. You get too excited sometimes, right,
Speaker 1: and you you spas sometimes you treat people not so kind.
Speaker 1: And so it's like when you have more control over
Speaker 1: your emotions or your thoughts and you can just hold still,
Speaker 1: that way you can operate and get things done or
Speaker 1: figure out what that is or what that looks like
Speaker 1: for you. But you gotta be still and be calm
Speaker 1: and do things with purpose, hey, and not chaos because
Speaker 1: you either excited or you're nervous or you don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. And sometimes that shows like, well she
Speaker 1: don't know what to do because she has crazy yelling
Speaker 1: at people. Right, So you want to be be a
Speaker 1: boss of your own. We're all our own boss, right,
Speaker 1: be a ball boss up, you know, have some control role.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. Because sometimes we be on the air, that's right,
Speaker 1: Because sometimes be on the air and that's okay, that
Speaker 1: was yo. Usually I pull out like a couple more
Speaker 1: butt like I like where you put those? I like it?
Speaker 1: What else isn't there? Was? Okay? Lets it was so big? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let's say. Now I'm like nervous, I'm like damn, oh
Speaker 1: wait I got, oh, just put one down. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: perfect hot comb, hot comb, baby hot coomb. Wait before
Speaker 1: you even go, right, what the hot comb is? And
Speaker 1: then you gotta tell me one of your earliest or
Speaker 1: one of your fondest memories without hotcomb. Okay. So for
Speaker 1: those who do not know what a hot comb is,
Speaker 1: it is a metal yes, and like a metal comb,
Speaker 1: right that Normally it's put on a stove, sometimes your
Speaker 1: kitchen stove. Put on my golwn eye, right, and it
Speaker 1: will straighten your hair out. You can use it to
Speaker 1: straighten it. Before there was a flatirn, there was a
Speaker 1: hot come on, right, So let's take it back. Before
Speaker 1: there was a flat iron, there was a hot comb
Speaker 1: to get the hair straight and it was created by
Speaker 1: a black one. So we've been leading in this industry
Speaker 1: for a long time, right, So it started and it
Speaker 1: starts here. So a hot comb one of my childhood
Speaker 1: memories is. But it's either protect your ears, right, because
Speaker 1: so you're trusting someone to straighten most of the time
Speaker 1: you're hair with this hot comb and you are at
Speaker 1: there will you're sitting in the chair, so you gotta
Speaker 1: protect your ears, protecting it. They're trying to grip the
Speaker 1: front of the head to get it, and you squinting
Speaker 1: before the comb even touches comes near your head or
Speaker 1: your hair. You're another what' you're squinching for? I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm skaring ready because that heat from that metal, because
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not even the combat from the metal, like
Speaker 1: you're picking up before the comb even gets close to you.
Speaker 1: So which I don't think people want to say, hello, right,
Speaker 1: you better testing on that tissue. And then I told
Speaker 1: the Pam, don't act like y'all know paper towel and
Speaker 1: if it's getting low, if it's a little brown, slow down,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, it's a little too hot. Don't want
Speaker 1: to lose your edges. Don't lose your kitchen or your ears.
Speaker 1: Like it was, it was a thing. I would be
Speaker 1: holding my ears and I would literally squitch down everybody.
Speaker 1: You don't know, I'll be sweating a lot, especially look
Speaker 1: got juicy. Especially I was a child, my mom the
Speaker 1: call away hid could you would imagine the sizzle? That
Speaker 1: was traumatizing, and it say, do you know what? Somebody
Speaker 1: need to do a documentary on the hot comb? The
Speaker 1: hot comb. Everyone would can't relate that, So how would
Speaker 1: you relate that even to life or some inspiration from
Speaker 1: the hot comb. The hot comb. Life will bring you heat.
Speaker 1: Oh and when it does, don't tense U just go
Speaker 1: with it. Flow with it. Flow, wouldn't it blow with it?
Speaker 1: Pivot huh. It's just to do process this process. So yeah,
Speaker 1: life brings you heat. Situations bring you heat. He put
Speaker 1: in the hot chair, ain't and you go with it?
Speaker 1: And I loved that the transformation process, right, Yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta have a little heat to stretch out the kings. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we need a good story and they has to
Speaker 1: start from the root all the way down to the end. Yes,
Speaker 1: because we don't halfway do something. We complete. That's that's
Speaker 1: what the hot comb came falls. Well, the perseverance right there.
Speaker 1: I love that through come on and the way that
Speaker 1: we are seeing things through with mirror mirror beauty center.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, yeah, now we missed it. You got a
Speaker 1: space on the back. Are you doing hairback there? So
Speaker 1: that space is an esthetician space. Skincare is it starts
Speaker 1: with a great foundation. Come on, and the foundation is
Speaker 1: our skin. Hello, right, so when you're putting all these
Speaker 1: products on top of it, if it's the foundation is
Speaker 1: rocky or shaky, right, products can't work the way they needs. Wow,
Speaker 1: we're gonna pretend like she pulled out the word foundation.
Speaker 1: What is your foundation looking like? But more and morally,
Speaker 1: what are you putting on top of the foundation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how it's gonna work for you. Hey, and I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking of just just reflected on this conversation. I
Speaker 1: see how things are working for you, Andrea. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for staying committed to your dream. It is
Speaker 1: so inspiring. You know when I ran into you at
Speaker 1: the concert and then we stayed in content and you
Speaker 1: were like, yo, I want you to voiceover and I
Speaker 1: see online how you got mirror Mirror, And then I'm
Speaker 1: rewinding back years ago we're on running and you mentioned
Speaker 1: and it's like, were you out here doing it? I
Speaker 1: think you already a success story. I wish I knew
Speaker 1: the percentage of black owned beauty supply centers or beauty centers,
Speaker 1: but you're one of them. Yes, thank you for showing up.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate that
Speaker 1: people say theyn't want to be seen, but they don't
Speaker 1: want to show up, and you showed up. No, absolutely catching.
Speaker 1: Thank you so how can people find you Andrea if
Speaker 1: they wants to get involved with Mirror Mirror just whatever,
Speaker 1: what did they do? So we have our Instagram like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, which is meror Mirror at Mirror Mirror
Speaker 1: Beauty Center there. We are located at two zero six
Speaker 1: four two Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California, in the
Speaker 1: San Fernando Valley, which is where I grew up. And
Speaker 1: our email is mereor Miror Beauty Center at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Our website which is in the works and hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: be launching within the next month. It will be mere
Speaker 1: or miyor beauty center dot com as well, and all
Speaker 1: our information will be on the site. Contact us, come
Speaker 1: see us, come shot with us. The team is there,
Speaker 1: myself is there. You're interested in getting in the store,
Speaker 1: We would love to have the conversation. Love to hear
Speaker 1: about your brand or your products, and y'all look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing more of the community come out two. I
Speaker 1: love that. And it's a braiden bar and studio services available. Yes,
Speaker 1: in the back when it's esthetician. We also have a
Speaker 1: braid bar on the other side, both in the back
Speaker 1: of the store. But yeah, our braider so it's great
Speaker 1: just a space where you can come do a little skincare,
Speaker 1: get your hair done, learn about some products or cool brands,
Speaker 1: get your everyday essential needs. And the brands are curated
Speaker 1: by by me personally, where I feel like those are
Speaker 1: you know, from the good for you. I do look
Speaker 1: your ingredient lists. I am big on that, just like
Speaker 1: with my food, because you don't know what you're putting
Speaker 1: inside the topic on on in so I look at
Speaker 1: labels a lot. It's important to know what you're using.
Speaker 1: You might eat something or use something that doesn't work
Speaker 1: and you know doesn't work well with you, then you
Speaker 1: want to learn to stay away from that. One mirror
Speaker 1: does one size mirror doesn't at all, absolutely doesn't catch it.
Speaker 1: That's why there's so many brands out there catch it.
Speaker 1: So so many cookies come on breads and cereals. When
Speaker 1: you walk down. There's another thing when people like, oh,
Speaker 1: don't follow your dreams. There's too many of this because
Speaker 1: he used tell me it's saturated, and I'm like, because
Speaker 1: there's like Beatie store here, the beat store, there's beauty
Speaker 1: store here that's from there. It's a sapphore. There's an
Speaker 1: old so why would anyone want to come to mirror
Speaker 1: mirror just like you might like frosted flakes and I
Speaker 1: like honeycomb. Catch why catch you? Options? Right? God, options,
Speaker 1: Because there's a different kind of girl that wants a
Speaker 1: steak that you may get from Mastros, that you may
Speaker 1: get from Friday, just depending on what you want. What
Speaker 1: girl are you? What kind of guy are you with?
Speaker 1: They are you? I'm just asking get anything else? Thank
Speaker 1: you for having me, Thank you for being here. It's
Speaker 1: so good to see it and thinking about another woman.
Speaker 1: Business owner Black brought us together. Come on, as I said,
Speaker 1: it's all about working together, coming together, bringing great women together.
Speaker 1: And look what it is tenning into I know who
Speaker 1: you know. It takes a village. It takes a village.
Speaker 1: Thank you. V shout out to Vanaga called in mine
Speaker 1: she is v V I oh shot yeah, Well this
Speaker 1: has been a delight. If you like to be a
Speaker 1: guest and perhaps sit in this very tear that Andrea
Speaker 1: is sitting in, or you have a topic idea, I
Speaker 1: want to encourage you to shoot us an email Vitamin
Speaker 1: D at dawn day Speaks dot com. I would love
Speaker 1: to have you. And also, you know we're doing advice letters.
Speaker 1: So if you need some advice on your relationship, on
Speaker 1: your career, anything, email me. Now I say this all
Speaker 1: the time, and I just want to serve as another minder.
Speaker 1: What do I say? If you want to be better
Speaker 1: and you want to do better, you have to be
Speaker 1: able to see better and that means taking the good
Speaker 1: with the bad. So when I'm giving you my advice
Speaker 1: on whatever situation, problems, circumstances, or circumstance that you're coming with,
Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna keep it real with you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shed light on things that may have you feeling
Speaker 1: a little uncomfortable. Huh. But you can't be what you
Speaker 1: cannot see, especially if you've seeing something that isn't real.
Speaker 1: So I want to provide that for you. Email me
Speaker 1: Vitamin D at dawn day speaks dot com. And furthermore,
Speaker 1: can you tell somebody to tell somebody else to tell
Speaker 1: somebody else that Dawn Day got a podcast, Gosh darn it,
Speaker 1: and it's entitled Vitamin D with Dawn Day and it's
Speaker 1: available wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And while you're
Speaker 1: at it, go ahead to make a rating. You see
Speaker 1: those stars up there, and yeah, just press five and
Speaker 1: leave a comment. You know, I'm working on my dreams
Speaker 1: and I plan to be here for a long time.
Speaker 1: So make sure you're telling people so they can jump
Speaker 1: on the ride early, so they are already know me
Speaker 1: and what I'm about. So when we understood on the
Speaker 1: screen on a TV show, you look, I know Dawn.
Speaker 1: I know Dawn way way way back when, y'all. Also,
Speaker 1: if you want to see beautiful uh Andrea and studio
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Speaker 1: you gotta make sure you check us out on social media.
Speaker 1: We're everywhere. Vitamin D Dawn Day. That's on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,
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Speaker 1: products you name on the Pinterest account. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do that and feature that, okay, and let
Speaker 1: you know all the good stuff that Andrew's talking about. Furthermore,
Speaker 1: if you want to get down to the source the
Speaker 1: Vitamin D, it's so how it's me. You can follow
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Speaker 1: I love to hear from you, And did I tell
Speaker 1: you I'm grateful for you. I appreciate you so much.
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