WEBVTT - Mirror Mirror Beauty Center (w/ Andrea Hope) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.520 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:06.880 the Vitamin D with Dawn Day Podcasts, and I am 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.480 your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.479 your life so that you can live life on purpose 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:13.560 and for a purpose. And this is your first time 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.480 tuning in and welcome a Vitamin D. It's upon of 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.800 my name. My name is Dawn and you get Vitamin 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.560 D from the sun. So I'm here to share light 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.720 into your life. And I do this with inspirational insights 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.960 and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you and me, 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.280 Because if you want to be better and you want 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.560 to do better, then you're going to have to be 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.519 able to see better. So join me on this journey 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.360 of living our best lives and understanding and realizing how 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.440 you are your greatest ass act, get your Vitamin D 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:48.920 right with me and get excited about your life. Here 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:53.320 you are. We got Andrea Hope right now. Okay, mid 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.840 West and the house. Yes, she is the owner, the founder, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.280 the creator, the developer, the amazing woman that's behind Mind 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:05.440 the Mirror, Mirror Beauty Center. Correct, we gotta hear y, Yes, 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:13.560 I'm like correct, correct, let out She's here. I am here. Um, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:18.360 so what's happening? A lot, A lot is happening. I 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:23.759 am definitely in a new role for me that I 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:28.840 am learning day by day. But it's exciting and I 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.400 am glad to be where I am. Gratitude is everything, right, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.080 So glad to be wearing I mean, just think about it. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.920 You're from Chicago, Yes, south Side High Park to the 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.759 exact south Side High Park. Is that that's the Bob 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:48.160 Bob High Park? Like high Park? That's where I was born? 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.920 What what's what's what's high Park about? Um? It is 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.040 off the Lakeshore Drive? Is it nice the neighborhood? Is 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.480 it a good nice area? Okay, it's no, it's changed 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.480 over the years. I went back maybe like two years 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.200 ago to just actually like stay there for I was 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.480 there for like two weeks and I was like, oh, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.720 it's changed so much from when I was a kid. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:16.839 But I was raised here in la oh Son in Chicago. Here, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.440 spent my summers in Chicago. So I would at the 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.600 end of the school year, I would leave and then 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.560 I would be gone, like awesome, this is for high 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.040 school college. She would leave. Wait starting in elementary school, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.919 So elementary school middle school, it kind of stopped maybe 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.520 like tenth grade of high school, I would stay here. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.359 I'm like, I got friends family over Chicago, you would 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.480 stay with or something. Yeah, my grandmother, Oh yeah, my 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.840 grandmother have aunt's uncles all throughout different parts of the city, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:53.320 so we definitely would, you know, bounce around from the 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.600 house to house with my cousins when I'm in town. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.040 And then my mother is from New York, so sometimes 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.560 New York. Yeah, She's from Queens. So sometimes I would 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.639 leave and go to New York for like a week 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.560 or two and then go back to Chicago and then 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.720 come back like a day before school started here in La, 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.160 I would be gone awesommer and then you went to 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.560 So you did elementary through college in cal Cally. Well, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:22.960 I did some of elementary in Atlanta. Oh you had 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.520 a little more, Andrea, Yeah, I've a little bit, a 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:32.240 little bit in Atlanta, and then I got here second grade, okay, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.320 And so from second grade on I was here, raised 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.040 in La, went to school out here into it's time 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.960 for me to go out of state for college. Okay, wow, okay, okay, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.840 Well that was good. What did your study? So I 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.960 did broadcast journalism and Communication, Walter Crown Kite School of 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.680 Broadcast Journalism. So what's it called at the Walter Crown 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.640 Kite School a broadcast journalism. I heard the heck out 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.640 of that. How that was a good spirit, that was 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:05.080 a good experience. College was funky, out of state. Okay. Yeah, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.120 part of sorority, very active, Okay, sorority. What is your 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.920 your organization? I'm Alpha Kappa Alpha. Okay, the Ladies of 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:18.279 Alpha Tappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Okay. If you didn't know, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:23.960 you better ask somebody. Hello, Kamala Harris. Yes absolutely, but 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.200 I'm gonna throw the flowers where they left. Yes, okay, 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.400 thank you. Okay. So you went to college and then 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.800 you said broadcast journalism, I want to go into beauty. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.400 What I said, broadcast journalism, I'm want to go into entertainment, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.560 all right. So I was like, oh, okay, I want 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.880 to do something that entertainment. Dabbled around, figure out where 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:46.080 I wanted to fall, and that is currently my day job. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.400 Are you like on camera, behind the micro anything, behind 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:55.560 the scenes, okay, on the entertainment and sports side okay. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.440 And then I was like, but I'm a product junkie, 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.160 so like I would go do entertainment, but anything beauty, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.160 anything like fashion, I'm like sucked in. I'm like, oh, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.880 I wish I worked in the Oh I wish I word. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.040 So I'm like, okay, I can't keep wishing that I 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.400 worked in VD. So how do I put myself into 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.400 that industry? And it's like we kind of met in 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.520 the beauty rail, but not really because we were modeling modeling. Yes, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.240 I tell them what we were modeling. We were modeling 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.479 for our good sis. She is vb IP, Yes, she 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:41.880 is v Y and we getting fitting form IP. Okay, yes, right, 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.159 and so we met at that true. Yeah, I remember 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.120 we're doing a hike and we're doing our thing and 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.280 run your lord. I was trying to make shot in 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.600 sweat and nothing makeup off. But you begin to tell 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.080 me this abstoration is You're liked, I'm gonna start this business, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:55.359 and you were like, I want you to do like 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.200 a voicemail or something. I'm like, okay, yes, it was 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.040 your voice for me. I was, oh, I'm I was 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.000 working on I was brainstorming, putting it out in the universe. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.120 Come on, because we speak things into existence. Yes, I 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.960 was already talking about it. You know with people that 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.680 I'm like, oh, okay, this good energy. If I felt 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.600 the good energy, I'm like, okay, I can share when 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.560 we're talking about our dreams and goals and aspirations a 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.000 lot of times and then you pick up energy and 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.440 I don't always feel that, so I don't always share 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.000 as much. But I definitely received that from you. How 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:30.120 did you learn to trust that? Just my my intuition 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.200 what it feels like, right, they say, you know the 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.679 truth yea, by the way it feels. And I'm working 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.320 on that because half the time I'm not listening. I 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.200 am like I feel it, but then my ego gets 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:41.840 in the way. I'm gonna do it anywhere. I'm just 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.560 gonna bypass it. And I look back, like, damn, don't 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:49.400 you should have just listen? Yeah? Listen? Okay, sorry, yeah, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:59.520 Now listening is so important or observing in silence, silence 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.320 you don't so I'm loud and repocious, so it's like 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:07.599 I'm always turned up, but I still slow down, Jim 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:14.880 show listen and observed. You said doing you got a voice? Yeah, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.920 and you told me what you did. I was like, oh, 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:21.240 that's amazing, and I was like, okay, I personally sometimes 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.960 listen to my voice back and I'd be like, oh, right, 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.360 that's a great right. But I was like, oh, okay, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.000 I want to use Don's voice for something. And I 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.600 was like, oh, when I opened my business, it's like 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:38.440 she's gonna a voice behind it. The same I was like, oh, 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.240 I'll just use don voice instead of mind because I 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.920 love the way it sounds. It's so soothing to the ear. 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.920 So um that's kind of where we are. And then 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.320 I was like, once it got going and mirror mirror 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.520 was actually opened, I was like, and I saw you 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.640 doing your thing. I'm you know, watching you and hearing you. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.640 I'm like, yes, yes, yes, And I was like, hey, no, 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.200 what I said I was going to reach out to 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.200 do I need to do that? Okay, So way through 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.679 and now we did because listen, I hadn't seen Andrew 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.200 and probably like gears with the pandemic and everything. And 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.800 then we ran into each other at the Staples Center 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.080 or is it this? Wait? What is it now? Crypto 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:20.360 crypto dot com? Whose concert was it? Uh? Summer Walker 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:28.000 was there? Jazzm Sullivan, Ali and Santana Yes, yes and 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.840 say let me ran each other. So we had to 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.800 bring it back. But let's go back. You said, okay, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.720 I'm gonna use things a voice to open up this 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.079 beauty center. I wanted to say, beauty supply store, what 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.360 is the beauty center? And then we got to talk 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.480 about what was the process like of getting that together. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.040 I mean, it's a whole storefront. It is. It is 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.280 a whole storefront, the center versus supply. For me, I 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:55.439 feel like black women in particular, when we shop sometimes 0:08:55.520 --> 0:09:01.560 in our neighborhood mom and pop beauty supply, it's kind 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:06.600 of just to me, thrown together. There's no organization and 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.440 it's just you know, a bunch of stuff on the 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.559 shelves and like clutter. And so for me, I don't know, 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.240 center just hand a little more, you know, elegant and 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.440 lux And I believe we deserve that when we shop. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.880 We spend a lot of money in the beauty industry. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.160 So when we come in, we want to feel like, oh, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.920 like I want to spend my money here and have 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.440 an experience, have a true with someone that looks like me, 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.760 can understand me that all that good stuff representation. When 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.840 you walk in, you know, feeling right and like, okay, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.360 this is nice. I want to be here like this 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.040 is like home when I walk in safe, it's comfortable, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.559 and more importantly, I can trust what's in there absolutely. Okay, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.600 So I switched the words up and went went center 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.360 over supply. I even like the mirror mirror. I just 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.280 thought of this now. It's like, you can see yourself 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.640 mirror mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them? 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.679 You are beauty, You are beauty. It's a valid reflection. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.400 So when you look in the mirror, you've ever done 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.040 the mirror tests, you know what that is? No, what 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.080 is the mirror? The mirror test is when you stand 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.679 in front of the mirror and you write everything that 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:18.000 you love about your body, and then you accept all 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.160 your flaws that you see in the mirror about your 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.679 body or yourself, your face, whatever it might be, and 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:29.079 then learning to accept those. And so it's a lot 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.440 deeper than just what's on the outside. It starts with 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:39.040 an inside. So that's kind of where the mirror mirror 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.160 comes from. Nothing to do with snow white. Nothing to 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.520 do with snow white, okay, because you know the story 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.800 is snow white isn't always that great. So you got 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.000 to take it and spent it and made it something 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.760 more positive. Come on, piece of cold and turned into 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.599 a diamond, and come on rain to turn into a 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.440 rain walkerud No, there's like lots of meanings behind it. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:04.120 So it's like reflection, acceptance, your flaws, loving what you 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.520 maybe don't always love so much, but loving that and 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.000 that every reflection is different. So what we grew up 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.800 seeing in the media is what we were taught as beautiful, 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.560 but that's not true at all. And so when you 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:24.640 look in the mirror, you see that. Come yeah, that's 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.480 that's all behind mirror and mirror, that's all that is 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.200 absolutely starting And you said, see yourself and loving yourself 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.760 and then even appreciating your flaws because I think half 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.679 the time when we look at things that we don't like, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.120 we want to change because we don't like it. Right, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:49.160 rather than positivity, begets positivity. If I'm loving on it, right, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.959 whichever part of the body, whichever individual, whichever thing that is, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.880 I'm going to take care of it and I'm going 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.640 to nurture and a goal and for it to grow 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.839 to be as refined and it's best presentation of this 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.080 to be possible. So rather than negating or pushing back 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.079 what it is that we are loving and cultivating a 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.559 way that reflects truly who we are on the ends 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:16.839 on the outside. That said, it's out, yeah, and it's 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.520 hard to do that. Did you always love yourself like it? 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.319 Because you're very beautiful? Like, did you ever struggle or 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.040 issue with your confidence? Absolutely? I can't speak for everyone, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.360 but I feel like everyone goes through I'm talking about you. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.320 Where was your thing? Like, my thing has always been 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:35.000 my weight. I probably I didn't realize that and whatever 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.839 that meant to be attractive for pretty, not because I 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.959 based it on my way. I think I hid everything 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.800 behind my way, so I didn't even get myself wrong 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.480 to even say hey, Dawn, your face and whatever, Like 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.480 I know I hold a face card yea, but it 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.320 took a lot that I feel like I was hiding 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.200 under my weight for whatever reason. So what was your thing? 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.680 Because to have a beauty center, it would be interesting 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.560 to know if you did have a struggle with your 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.199 own beauty or perhaps your thing was to always stay 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.960 confident in yourself. No. Absolutely, I definitely had my moments 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:10.199 where I would either my complexion I've been you know, 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.079 someone would say something to me and I'd be like, dang, like, 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:14.760 it didn't make me feel a way to make me 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.360 a little institute? What would they saying? You know, I 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.640 didn't realize there was a whole light skin thing until 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.679 I went to Howard. Yeah, I mean, I guess in 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.160 the Midwest, or let me Dawn's experience going to Detroit. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.160 Let me not speak for everybody. You know, if you 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.520 were light skinned, your browns, you were just that thing. Now, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.760 probably because I was part of the group and when 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.360 the whole light skin was cute or fine thing, that 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.880 I didn't really experience a disparity. But it wasn't until 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.200 I went to Howard that it was forced that, oh 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.199 my gosh, your light skin. It's like, I know I'm 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.440 light scanned, okay, And you know, just you just saying 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.719 that you're a member of Alpha Kalpa Alpha. This is 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.040 just based historical context, based on at Howard's campus. Of 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.560 the whole paperback test, that was something that you actually 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.280 felt that you experience, not with your organization, but just 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.360 in general in general. Absolutely, what was I'd like, what 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:01.920 do people like, don't play with me, Andrew, you're too 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.839 dark or you're too light. It would be more like, oh, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.840 you know, you're dark or you know, you just hear 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:14.199 complete like complexion comments or you're pretty for a black girl, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.679 or you're pretty for a dark skinned girl, or you're pretty, 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.160 and I feel like, oh, I'm not just pretty. So 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.760 it's like a backhanded complict man, And I'm like, I 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.160 guess that's a compliment, but it's not a compliment because 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.240 there's some type of condition that you didn't be that standard, 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.120 but because let me add that, Yeah, so I definitely would. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.120 Or there's different comments about complexion. Did you ever try 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.960 to make yourself lighter? No, okay, I would feel myself. 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.480 But my mother always taught me that sunscreen is not 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.560 just in the summertime. It's year round. So I was 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.160 always that girl putting on sunscreen. But it wasn't because 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.920 of the complexion things. Because that's what my mother talked. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.920 Part of my skincare, how long somebody as she's blowing 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.920 you see it. I'm like, the skincare routine started like 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.440 back when young, but that was the thing, and sometimes 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.640 like super skinny, like you know, that was the insecurity. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:16.240 So like straight up and down, you know, Yeah, I 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:21.200 was just tall and lean and I was an athlete, 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.440 but I didn't really get any like muscle or tone 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.360 until high school. So growing up as a kid, I 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:34.920 was just straight up and down, you know, brown skin girl, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.200 find her confidence. And now you're you have a business 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.800 focused on beauty. Isn't it amazing that our dreams and 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.480 aspirations they feed a source to ourselves. Yeah. Absolutely. I 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.600 think that's why it's so important that whatever you're going 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.240 after is to understand that I should be feeding you 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.640 in a way. Yeah. And I sat up with Darren 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.800 I said that with anybody that I'm working with, is 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.920 that I want to show it I'm my pursuit of 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.080 my dream, that you're getting something out of it. Yeah, 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.120 that you also set your boundaries because at the end 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:04.920 of the day, we're only as good as what we 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.520 can put into it. And if you aren't able to 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.720 put in a good seed, what is the fruit of it? 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.400 And why not transfer that seed into a beautiful mirror, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.120 mirror beauty center. Correct. But it's also for like when 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.440 I think about it and I was like developing the business, 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.240 it's like little girls like me growing up that you 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.760 can see, like regardless of what the industry might show 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.760 you or what you see MTV and the magazines in 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.120 the movie as pretty or you know, gorgeous, whatever the 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.560 case may be, and like that's not true. So you know, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.000 doing that mirror test. Accepting and being confident in yourself 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:44.360 and loving yourself and being safe within the beauty space 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.520 and knowing that there is a space for you is important. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.480 It's part of what the center is there for as 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.280 well to give back to the community for women to 0:16:55.400 --> 0:17:00.680 come together from all different backgrounds, shape, sizes, shades, long hair, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:06.080 short hair, see four hair, every where everything and come 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.840 together and experience and talk about like, you know, some 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:11.800 products might work for you that might not work for me, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.679 but I won't know that. You know, we share our 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:19.520 experiences through beauty, through products, through through communication. Yeah, and 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:25.480 you talked about this community space and also understand that 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.200 one of the great things that you offer is that 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.960 you have different products from whether it be up and 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.280 coming small business owners as well as you have a 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.119 space on the back because Jeremiah had a chance to 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.879 visit location, Yeah, where you possibly may or if you 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.840 haven't already started holding classes and so forth, can you 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.359 share a little bit about that. Sure, So within this space, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.280 we do highlight brands that are black and brown founded 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.639 as well as independent brands and give them the space 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.399 to you know, be in a store in the community 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.520 and people come in and actually inquire and like what, 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.080 you know, what is this brand? And now you are 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.760 getting the exposure from someone who might not ever see 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.800 you on Instagram or might not know your website because 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.840 it's not right in their face because you're just growing 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.720 your brand as well in the world. Does somebody get 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.200 that opportunity, So if they contact us coming to the 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.720 sword of their content, So they're contacting us either on 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.080 Instagram which is at or Mirror Beauty Center, they can 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.760 call us. It is eight one eight nine six four 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.919 four one eight one, so they can call us. They 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.200 can Instagram as they can email us. All the information 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.640 is on our Instagram and we can email us at 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.840 me or Mirror Beauty Center at gmail dot We're currently 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.560 working on our website which will be up as soon 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.920 as well. But they can reach out to us and 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.240 we can have that conversation about getting shelf space, getting 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.399 your brand into the space and which allows people to 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.320 learn about your brand and try your products and fall 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.040 in love with them, just like Eve any other brand, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.720 something that has a big name behind it. Yeah, because 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.320 it's all about the opportunity. But we have to understand 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.359 that with opportunity, there needs to be space for the 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:17.120 opportunity to grow into flourish. And you know, like you said, 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.800 I feel like African American women like we lead when 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.520 it comes down to trends, when it comes everything everything 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.960 culture wise, at the standard and when we look at 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.920 beauty even down to the point and it's no shame 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.040 or is a shame. People want to replicate, they want 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.640 to mirror us. Yet you sometimes have to search high 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:44.840 and low for a black owned beauty supply store slash center. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:50.000 What's up with that? Is it like a firewall that says, hey, 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.000 you're a minority, black, a brown, you can't own the center. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.000 We are the people that are using the products, We 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.560 are influencing the products. Why is it so hard for 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.600 us to take up space. Yeah, it's um it's always 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.359 been that way from some research said, I like, I 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.000 obviously have been here forever. But over the time and 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.240 over the years, of course we could barely vote or 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.440 you know, own property, and so as time goes on, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.280 it's like, okay, we are the number one consumers within 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.919 the beauty product, especially when it comes to here. Okay, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.240 so we're gonna stop. We're gonna stop because when it 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.119 comes they here, you know where it said. Okay, so listen, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.879 you know we have Antre in here. She's talking about 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.879 her mirror Mirror Beauty Supply Center. We're talking about all 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.760 the amazing products that she offers, the opportunities to their offer, 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.320 and now we're gonna talk about where the space is 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.160 for a lot of African American should I say women 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:47.119 are just business owners, business owners, women all that, and 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:49.760 we're trying to figure out how to get aunt chill. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.360 Andrea is right here. We're gonna give it to you all. 0:20:52.760 --> 0:21:00.080 So we're gonna be right back. Okay, all right, and 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:04.800 behind the current, what's happening? Beautiful people? And you're tone 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:10.480 intoviting the date with Dawn Day. That was another flaw 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:15.080 my voice, which falls within the DD. Were like, you're 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.159 asking some flaws, her voice is one of them. I 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.359 would you say your voice is a flaw? I know 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.280 people always be like, you know, you sound like you're five, 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:27.080 or you know it's kind of squeaky, or you know, 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.639 whatever the case may be. So that was always a flaw. 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:32.080 But yeah, and I hear my voice back, I'd be like, 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:36.040 oh sometimes and sometimes I'm like, oh, I sound decent today, 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.320 and I don't know what it is. I feel like 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:41.399 it pro for sure definitely a common and say, I 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.639 can't necessarily say, how do I say this in a 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.359 way I can't understand what you're saying. Yeah, but I 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:51.800 cannot necessarily relate, Okay, because that was my mother's thing. 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.560 Speaking was my mother's thing. We would be in a car, 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:58.760 she'd be having us listen to the phonetic alphabet. I 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:01.440 didn't even realize it. And then, because I'm so enamored 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:04.280 with speaking in general, she reaches and I'd be all 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.320 up in her groom just looking at the inflection of 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.440 her voice. So I understand the importance of it, but 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.040 I never really considered what that looks like when it 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.159 is a hindrance, because it's not like I don't hear 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:21.520 your speech impediment from you. Yeah, but you said your voice, 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.639 your voice was a hindrance. Yeah, it was. And so 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:28.280 I was like, well, I could still study, you know, 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:32.880 because I enjoy that. World goes like, okay, maybe I'll 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:37.639 go behind the cameras and behind the scenes. So, but 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.040 you got so much to say, I do have a 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.800 lot to say, and so that's why for me when 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:46.639 I am behind the scenes, and that includes being in 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:50.200 the rooms though, where the decisions are made. Wow, and 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.560 I speak for us when I'm in these rooms instead 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:56.719 of being in front of the camera, where a lot 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:58.640