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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have Mignon.

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Speaker 1: I like to say special guests. You know that gotta

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Speaker 1: start over. Welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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

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Speaker 1: a very special guest. We have Mignon. Frandsois in the building.

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Speaker 1: Entrepreneur author. I'm sorry, I'm having fun. Entrepreneur author, cupcake

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Speaker 1: extraordinaire slash millionaire in the building. I'm really excited about

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Speaker 1: this episode. So I feel like all you aspiring entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs toughing it out right now, pull over, get your

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Speaker 1: pen and papers ready, because we're about to take notes.

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Speaker 1: And today she's making my favorite dish that I didn't

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Speaker 1: even know you could make, which sounds really reach now

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Speaker 1: that I think about it. But I'm excited because I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go home and pretend like, you know, I came

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Speaker 1: up with this myself. But for all your listeners, for

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Speaker 1: the dish she's about to announce. You guys can catch

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Speaker 1: this in the cookbook, but take it over. What are

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Speaker 2: Onion rings.

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Speaker 3: So my family when we were when we were really struggling,

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Speaker 3: we couldn't have extra things like potato chips and crackers

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Speaker 3: and things like that. I had to learn how to

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Speaker 3: make those things. And really it's an inexpen an inexpensive

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Speaker 3: way to have something fun. And you know that hits

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Speaker 3: a craving. And so in my household, it was always

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Speaker 3: on your rings. And so I love that you said

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Speaker 3: this is one of your favorite things, because you're probably

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Speaker 3: never really looking on your rings the same like, you'll

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Speaker 3: know that you can do this really quick and easy

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Speaker 3: at home, and you probably never eat them out again.

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Speaker 1: And I have a saying on this show, the broker

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Speaker 1: the dish, the better the story. In this case, my

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Speaker 1: favorite dish just happens to be a very affordable dish.

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Speaker 1: So why don't you walk us through the ingredients of

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Speaker 1: these spectacular onion rings.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've got some oil heating up on the

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Speaker 3: stove because it needs to be super hot in order

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Speaker 3: to drop the onion rings. And then I've got eggs, milk,

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Speaker 3: some flour. We're gonna season this flour. And for me,

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Speaker 3: it's a red or a white onion. They're sweeter, and

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Speaker 3: I think it gives your on your ring a little

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Speaker 3: bit of a kick, you know.

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Speaker 1: I do the shopping for the show, and I said, oh,

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Speaker 1: these red onions. She must know something about them. I

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Speaker 1: I mean, take me to school. Let's whip this dish up.

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Speaker 1: And then you do have seasonings too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So my favorite go to seasoning is Tony's.

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Speaker 3: I'm from New Orleans and so this is a season

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Speaker 2: And then I've got salt and pepper.

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Speaker 3: And then my favorite garlic to use is California style,

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Speaker 3: and so it's got a little bit of parsley and

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Speaker 1: Garlic powder, Yeah, got it, garlic powder and onion powder.

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Speaker 1: And almost every dish not mate. And when I run low,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, I don't know what to do,

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Speaker 1: but go ahead, start us off, tell us, tell us

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I've already cut up the onions, and you

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Speaker 3: can cut them however you like. I like my onions

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Speaker 3: then one of the keys is we've got to I'm

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Speaker 2: We've got to season the flour.

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Speaker 3: If you don't season the flour, then it's not gonna

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Speaker 1: By the way, and I didn't measure that flower.

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Speaker 3: And guess what, it's okay because all we're doing is

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Speaker 2: It doesn't even matter how much you really have.

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Speaker 1: When I got the original recipe, my immediate like, doesn't

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Speaker 1: You season the flour so it has a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm going to crack the eggs. Crack these

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Speaker 2: They're like, oh they broke. Okay, I got a cough

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Speaker 2: because I'm so good COVID's over. Yeah, well is it.

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Speaker 1: I've had COVID so many times I'm practically immune.

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Speaker 3: I think this is the season has gotten into my system.

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Speaker 3: And so one of the things that I'm also gonna

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Speaker 3: This is an egg wash that I'm making, and so

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Speaker 3: if we season every single part of this, these onion

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Speaker 2: I'm so exciting.

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Speaker 3: I'm Everything you learn when you are cooking while you're

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Speaker 3: That it's my way of testing oil to see. Now,

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Speaker 1: Before we started taking she took her you know, she

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Speaker 2: You thought I was gonna burn the place.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like I'm just gonna go ahead

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Speaker 3: But I'm going to double batter these, so I'm going

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I belong in the family.

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Speaker 2: Well, welcome to my family.

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Speaker 1: So, speaking of family, take us back to what was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were losing everything that we had. We were

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Speaker 3: Problem is, I didn't know how to bake that, even

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Speaker 3: We were living in Nashville tonight. So we moved to Nashville.

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Speaker 2: So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: We had gone to Nashville for a better life. My

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Speaker 2: Well, I can't have a garage sale because I've sold

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Speaker 1: And then how did rumors get out that you were

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Speaker 3: I would just I would give them cupcakes right there

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Speaker 3: on the spot. They would taste them and offer me money.

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00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: And you didn't bring any cupcakes. Okay, that story right.

447
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: I heard there were cupcakes coming. I got a little

448
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 1: cupcake tray. Okay, she shows up here. I picked game.

449
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,199
Speaker 1: I'm like, the cupcakes must be in a book bag somewhere.

450
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,439
Speaker 1: This is the truth. Okay, this is what about thinking

451
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: I saw m gonna easily slide into the cupcake and dischule,

452
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 1: is this a good cupcake thing?

453
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 2: And you said.

454
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: Sorry, I didn't bring any.

455
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 2: I sold out.

456
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 3: I had so I had gone into the bakery to

457
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 3: get something for you, and everything they had was sold out.

458
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:50,000
Speaker 3: We also ship our cupcakes nationwide, and even the shipping

459
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 3: freezer work empty.

460
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 1: Now doesn't it make all of you wonder what is

461
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: in these cup so?

462
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 3: Okay, lots of love and we don't count calories either.

463
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 2: Oh that's the.

464
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: Type Okay we need to eat.

465
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 3: We believe that, we believe that if love conquers all,

466
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 3: that's got to include calories.

467
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 1: Okay, we got to get our hands on these.

468
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 2: Yes, so I'll send you something.

469
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be that annoying person.

470
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,439
Speaker 2: They'll be, they'll be here before you know it. As

471
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 2: a matter of fact.

472
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,360
Speaker 1: I'll do a Instagram review.

473
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:24,199
Speaker 2: But is it?

474
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 3: Yes, and I'll send you sweet potato cupcakes. Sweet potato

475
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,679
Speaker 3: cupcakes have become my claim to fame over time, just

476
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 3: because no one's ever had that. Now the lemon one

477
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 3: I'm talking about that Jonie knocked on my door for

478
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 3: I don't make them anymore, like you can't even you

479
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 3: can't even get that I would have, You'd be you'd

480
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 3: be a fanatic and I would have to put you

481
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 3: in rehab.

482
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: You make me a fanatic. I'm okay with that. I

483
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: don't have addictive personality. I may just hints everyone in

484
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: a while and you'll be You'll be going to the

485
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: bathroom at six in the morning.

486
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 2: You'll get a text like, hmmm, do you want me

487
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 2: to do them without?

488
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 3: You want me to do them the other way? You

489
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 3: like them better with less? Yes?

490
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: Less, I have a little less.

491
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

492
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: I thought you were saying you were gonna make it.

493
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: We're gonna say, uh yeah, if you want, I could

494
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,959
Speaker 1: make you a special lemon manage. But no, no, no,

495
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: the onion rings.

496
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 2: So my neighborhood began to work.

497
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 3: Got out in the neighborhood that Mignon had turned the

498
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 3: crack house that I had purchased into a lemon.

499
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: Crack and and you were your original plan was to

500
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: do this bakery out of your house. No oh, because

501
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: you said there was a sign.

502
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that wasn't the original plan though. The

503
00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 3: original plan was I wanted to make enough money sell

504
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 3: and cupcakes to go get a commercial spot somewhere else.

505
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 3: And we we didn't have any credit, We didn't have

506
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 3: any money.

507
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: It was your husband saying all the time.

508
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 3: He didn't he believed that I was kind of displaying around, you.

509
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,439
Speaker 1: Know, even though he saw the money and the knocks

510
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: at the doors.

511
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I always was the person that started

512
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 3: a business and then I would quit. And I think

513
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 3: that's what happens to a lot of people who give up.

514
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 2: On things too fast.

515
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 3: I always had these really great ideas for businesses, and

516
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 3: I would never.

517
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 2: Stick to them.

518
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: What made you stick to this.

519
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 2: Desperation?

520
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 1: We were despition slash success. Yeah, well, there's a point

521
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: where you get successful, right, Yeah, but we were hungry

522
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: at the time. I would have quit this a long

523
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: time ago.

524
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 3: But I was waking up every morning at three seventeen

525
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 3: like clockwork, in order to check on the kids, make

526
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 3: sure that the doors were locked, make sure.

527
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 2: That the stove was off. Have you ever done that? No? Well,

528
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 2: I would wake up every in the middle of night.

529
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 2: Every night.

530
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: It was almost as if an alarm clock was going off.

531
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 3: Sometimes I would literally hear an alarm clock that was

532
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 3: not set, and you would check everything, and I would

533
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 3: check everything. And one day I couldn't go back to sleep,

534
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,880
Speaker 3: and so I got up and I went and sat

535
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 3: down and started watching TV. One of my favorite pastimes

536
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 3: is to well, my a former favorite pastime, because I

537
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 3: don't even watch TV anymore. Because I realized that I

538
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 3: was watching TV watching other people live their lives while

539
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: I wasn't living.

540
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds like Instagram now.

541
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 3: And I didn't want to be watching other people's reality

542
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 3: when I wanted something to happen for myself. But at

543
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 3: the time, watching TV was a big pastime for me.

544
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 3: And so I get up and I go and I

545
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 3: start watching TV. And there was a man on the

546
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 3: TV who was saying, do.

547
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 2: You ever wake up in the middle of the night

548
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 2: and you think this is what you're doing it for?

549
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, you're reading my mind.

550
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:03,880
Speaker 1: This sounds like the radio. You you ever thought advertising

551
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: didn't work? It works, okay? And so what did what

552
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:08,479
Speaker 1: did the ad say?

553
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 2: Well, it was it was.

554
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 3: It wasn't an ad, It was an actual PBS program

555
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 3: And to me, best time to watch TV is PBS

556
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 3: during fundraising. And the man on the on, the man

557
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 3: on the show that I turned on, said, the Morning

558
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 3: Breeze has something to tell you, do not go back

559
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 3: to sleep. And that sounded crazy to me, like the

560
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 3: morning Breeze, Like what's the Morning Breeze got to do

561
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 3: with me? And I'm not listening to this. Turn this

562
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 3: man off my TV, right, And so he says it

563
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 3: again and by the third time, he says it.

564
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: Now I'm looking for the remote to get him off

565
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 2: my TV.

566
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 3: And he said, this is the only time that you

567
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 3: will listen and God is trying to tell you something.

568
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 3: And so I was like okay, and I decided to

569
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 3: sit down and pay attention. And while I was listening,

570
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 3: he said, and you think you're getting up to check

571
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 3: your stove and check your children, like all the things

572
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 3: that I'm literally getting.

573
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 2: Up to do. He said, God is actually.

574
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 3: Trying to get your attention right now. And now that

575
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 3: you know that this is what he's trying to do,

576
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 3: it's gonna be hard for you to actually get up

577
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 3: and come to meet with him.

578
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: And so he gave instructions.

579
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 3: He said, gonna take you about a week, or put

580
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 3: your feet on the floor and just show up to

581
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 3: a silent place where God is calling you to, you know,

582
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 3: spend time with him. And so he was right. Took

583
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 3: me about a week put my feet on the floor.

584
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 3: And I remember the first day that I went there

585
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 3: to show up to hear from God, and I was like, okay, God,

586
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 3: I'm here. I know you want to talk to me,

587
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 3: but please don't talk because if you do, I'm running

588
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 3: straight out the other door because I don't want to

589
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 3: hear your voice. And I noticed there was a there

590
00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 3: was a there was a bye on the bottom of

591
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 3: the coffee table. And so I grew up in a

592
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: very religious household. I knew how to hear God speak,

593
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 3: not really, but I knew that God spoke, you know,

594
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: to people, and so I just picked up I picked

595
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 3: up the Bible that was underneath the coffee table, and.

596
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: I opened it up, and the first place that it

597
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 2: fell was a verse that said, I'm about to show

598
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:35,239
Speaker 2: you that I love you more than anybody else. And

599
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 2: I took that to mean that God loves me more

600
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: than he loves anybody else. That's not what he was saying.

601
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: What he was saying is I love you more than

602
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: anybody else loves you, and I'm going to show you

603
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 2: that in what I'm about to teach you. And so

604
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: he began to wake me up every day at three seventeen.

605
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 2: I would bring the sun up every day and take

606
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 2: my kids to school, whatever we needed to do.

607
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 3: I would wake up and do those things after having

608
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 3: been with God for three hours. And I would write

609
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 3: down everything that he would say, everything that he would

610
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 3: say through reading Bible verses, and I began to get

611
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 3: instructions for what this business, the cupcake collection, was gonna be.

612
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 3: I didn't know that at the time, because it was,

613
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 3: you know, I was just writing down what I thought.

614
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 2: I was writing my thoughts down. That's what I thought

615
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 2: that I was doing.

616
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 3: But when I got finished being awakened, it was all

617
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,479
Speaker 3: the plans to open up this bakery business. And I

618
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 3: had been collecting recipes along the way.

619
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 2: I didn't even realize that I.

620
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 3: Had been writing stuff down and taking notes on things.

621
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 3: And so when God stopped waking me up, I had

622
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 3: filled up an entire spiral bound journal book, and it

623
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 3: was all the instructions to open up a bakery business.

624
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 3: And I didn't know why. You know, I didn't know

625
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 3: nothing about you know, cooking. Really, I had caught my

626
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 3: grandmother on the phone. I had been a college student

627
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 3: seventeen years earlier. I went to Zava University on scholarship

628
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 3: to become a doctor. And yeah, okay, and so I

629
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 3: couldn't apply the science to the human body.

630
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 2: So I was plunking out of my plunking out of

631
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: my science classes.

632
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 3: So your flower might get like how mine is right

633
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 3: now where it's kind of like chunky oop.

634
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 2: Sorry, see how that is. It's kind of becoming messy.

635
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 2: That's your queue where you need to refresh it with

636
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 2: you know, some more dry flower. But we're gonna just

637
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 2: make this work because I'm almost done with that whole

638
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: entire onion.

639
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you could after that could sit down with me.

640
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: So okay, So you do the spiral notebook and then

641
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: you realize this is God's instruction.

642
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,239
Speaker 2: Then that's so I start practicing it.

643
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 3: I start practicing it and letting people taste what I

644
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 3: was making. And that's when my neighbor comes and asked

645
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 3: me if I she's so in love with what I'm doing.

646
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 3: She feels like people want to buy this what you have,

647
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 3: and she's like, I want to be So she loved

648
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 3: putting people on you know what I mean, Like, she

649
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 3: loved sharing things that she found that she loved that

650
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 3: she thought was great, and she wanted to tell people

651
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 3: about what I was, what I was creating. And so

652
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 3: she was like, look, she knocks on the door. I'm

653
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 3: sitting in the back of my house. I have no

654
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 3: electricity and I'm running the house on a generator.

655
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 2: At this time, because we we were resourceful and I

656
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 2: would sit in the house in total darkness during the

657
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 2: day so that my children could have normalcy when they

658
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 2: came home. So I would have i'd be in the dark,

659
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 2: or I would in the day, I would sit in any

660
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: dark all day, or I would go away from the

661
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 2: house while my children were at school so that when

662
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 2: they came home they could have the electricity, or I

663
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 2: could you know, I could have enough gas for them

664
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: to have electricity.

665
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 3: They never complained in this season. They never told anybody.

666
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 3: They just went to school and ate because they knew

667
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 3: that's what they had to do.

668
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, they never told.

669
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 3: Nobody about oh we don't have this or that. They

670
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 3: didn't say, you know, poor me, woe is me or

671
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 3: anything like that.

672
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 2: They just they just did. So, you know, so now

673
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: you see what I'm using this water be my handwalk

674
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 2: because I need to get some of the excess off

675
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: of my hands right now.

676
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: Okay, So your kids are troopers, your husband's trooping, and

677
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: you're being the most.

678
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's going to bake sales fairs all that

679
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 2: kind of stuff at their schools and things like that.

680
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 2: So when my neighbor knocks on the door, she asks

681
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 2: me to make cupcakes for all of her clients for

682
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 2: this season. I'm sitting in the house of no electricity

683
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 2: because we don't have any we can't afford it. Yeah,

684
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 2: and so I'm doing this Dave Ramsey Baby Step plan

685
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 2: where I'm stuffing cash into envelopes. Whatever my husband's gonna

686
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 2: bring home, I'm putting in envelopes, and I'm saving a

687
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 2: little bit to take care of what he calls covering

688
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 2: your four walls.

689
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 3: That is your food, your utilities, your shelter, your transportation.

690
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 2: Like the basics and planets up. This is Dave Ramsey's plan.

691
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 2: Oh okay, this is called the baby Steps plan. This

692
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 2: is just how you just tackle the beginning of trying

693
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 2: to get out of debt. Okay.

694
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 3: And so it's your food, your utilities, your shelter, and

695
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 3: your transportation.

696
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 2: Got it.

697
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 3: So you do them in order, Like if all you

698
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 3: got enough for is food, then that's what you're doing

699
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 3: food and nothing else.

700
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 2: If all you've.

701
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 3: Got enough for is food and utilities, and you know,

702
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 3: it's about prioritizing, you know what's important.

703
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 2: And so.

704
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 3: I was putting money in envelopes and I didn't have

705
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 3: enough to do anything. I didn't have enough to make

706
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 3: the ends meet. I didn't have enough for the electricity bill.

707
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 3: I didn't have enough money for anything, and I realized

708
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 3: that I only had five dollars left to my name,

709
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 3: and I hadn't fed our.

710
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 2: Children for the week.

711
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 3: When she knocked on the door, I hadn't bought anything,

712
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 3: and so she asked me to make cupcakes, which is

713
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 3: gonna be six hundred cupcakes. And I'm thinking, how am

714
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 3: I supposed to do this? I'm sitting in this house

715
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 3: with no electricity. She asked me why I was sitting

716
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 3: in the dark even and I said because because I'm meditating,

717
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 3: and she took it.

718
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: She believed that I was like, oh, so then she

719
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: places this order for six hundred.

720
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 3: Then, and she said, as you make some, I'll pay you.

721
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 3: You make you give me a little, I'll pay.

722
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: You a little.

723
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: Why would you order six hundred?

724
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 3: Because she wanted to give them to everybody. Remember I

725
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 3: told you she was known for putting.

726
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: This is a really good neighbor.

727
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 2: Yes, she is an amazing need to this day, she's

728
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 2: an amazing name.

729
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: Oh you guys are still neighbors.

730
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, well she's she's moved out of the neighborhood now.

731
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 3: But she's still very much like she's my grand baby's godmother.

732
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 3: My children very much are you know? She was a

733
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 3: part of their lives.

734
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: So the six hundred cupcakes? How do you manage this order?

735
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 3: So what I did was she said she would pay

736
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 3: me when I gave her some.

737
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 2: Give me something, I'll pay you some. And so I said, okay,

738
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 2: I took the five, closed the door and say, all right, God,

739
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 2: what you want me do with this? Because like, you

740
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 2: give me this opportunity when I have no money to

741
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 2: take it? And I heard God say, but I the

742
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 2: eve birds and they don't toil a store up in barns.

743
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:10,479
Speaker 1: Okay God.

744
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 3: And so I was like, okay, I'm gonna put my

745
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 3: shoes on. I'm gonna test you and see if what

746
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 3: you say is real? Okay, And I take the five

747
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 3: dollars and I go to the grocery store that's just

748
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,919
Speaker 3: a couple of blocks from my house. Because by now

749
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 3: our cars are even you repossess?

750
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: Yes, why you had onion rings?

751
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, our cars are Our cars are repossessed.

752
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 3: And how much is an onion ring? An onion is

753
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: a dollar most people, I mean it depending on what

754
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 3: side you get. And this is something my baby likes.

755
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 3: So he's gonna come home and have joy because I've

756
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 3: made him something that he loves. And so when you're

757
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 3: when you're in a situation like this, you need to

758
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 3: have little little bits of joy wherever you can get there.

759
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 3: And so I go and I buy everything I can

760
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 3: buy with that five dollars, and I turned it in to.

761
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 2: Sixty that day because she, like she said she was,

762
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: she paid me.

763
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: Wow.

764
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 2: And so then I.

765
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: To look at that just just for you guys, listen,

766
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: she took five dollars and turned it into sixty. In

767
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: the world of business, that's like astronomics.

768
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, because how what kind of percentage rate is that?

769
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

770
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: I'm not good at math, but it's pretty amazing.

771
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

772
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 3: So then, and I didn't even have I didn't even

773
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 3: have enough money to start really, And a lot of

774
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 3: people say, well, how in the world did you buy

775
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 3: you know, enough ingredients? Because I used what I had

776
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 3: to get what I wanted. Right, So in my house

777
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 3: we always had flour, so that's not something I had

778
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 3: to purchase. In my house, we always had rising.

779
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 2: Ingredients, bac and soda, bacon. You know, these are things

780
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 2: that most houses have yetting them already, so all I

781
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 2: had to get was the bear necessities. And all I.

782
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 3: Needed to get was a place that I could produce

783
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 3: so she could pay me. Yeah, once I had profit

784
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 3: mixed in there, I could go buy whatever I need it.

785
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: So then you make this sixty dollars, then you go,

786
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: how long does it take you to turn around the rest?

787
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: Because I'm sure you Oh, okay.

788
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 2: So I take this. I put the five back that

789
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 2: I started with just in case.

790
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 3: I burn everything, and then I turned that into six hundred.

791
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: Okay.

792
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 2: Then I've been flipping that same money in the last

793
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 2: seventeen years.

794
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: Say that one more time for the people in the bag.

795
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: She took that six hundred and she been flipping it

796
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: for the next seventeen years. And you became a millionaire

797
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 1: doing this.

798
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: With no debt. I did it with no knowledge of

799
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 2: the business. I did it with no experience.

800
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 3: I did it losing the house that the bakery is

801
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 3: in today because I believed that if God is who

802
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 3: he says he is, he can do what he says

803
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 3: he can do.

804
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: You did it losing the house.

805
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 3: Losing the house on the day that I opened the bakery,

806
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 3: I opened the cupcake Collection on November nine, two thousand

807
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 3: and eight. The house was up for foreclosure sale on

808
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 3: that day, so we knew that we would lose the

809
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 3: house in December.

810
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 2: On the courthouse steps.

811
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: Were you thinking, like, worst case, you're gonna move into

812
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: the bakery.

813
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're no. We the bakery was our house. Oh

814
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 3: oh oh geez. So the cupcake collection was housed in

815
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:25,879
Speaker 3: our and what was my husband's former man cave, so

816
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 3: he had given me where his pool table was and

817
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 3: all that.

818
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: It had its own separate entrance.

819
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: So you're doing all this your husband was your actual husband. Yeah,

820
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: so you're running a company, and I mean, I suck

821
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: at heartbreak. I'll tell you right now. I get heartbreak.

822
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: I almost can't even function. So you need too, Okay,

823
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: you too. But you're kind of gang yeah, I mean,

824
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: so you know, gangster to me is a word of

825
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: like endearment and strength. So I don't know.

826
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 2: If well, when you when you have babies that are

827
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 2: looking to you, like think about mother birds.

828
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,320
Speaker 3: Other birds go out they put food in their baby's

829
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 3: mouths and they're sitting there with open mouths looking for

830
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 3: that bird to give them something.

831
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the situation.

832
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 3: I was in and ain't no way I wasn't gonna

833
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 3: come through for my kids.

834
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 2: They were my cheerleaders.

835
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 3: I was talking to my son just the other day,

836
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 3: we were driving home from a road trip, and he's like,

837
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 3: it's crazy, Mom.

838
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 2: Now when you walk into rooms, you change them.

839
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, you already changed our entire studio.

840
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: He's like, I don't even remember that. Lady. Wow, I

841
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 2: don't even the girl who started this.

842
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 3: You know who we introduced in the first chapter, who's

843
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 3: hiding from her neighbor because she doesn't want her to

844
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 3: ask questions. I don't even know her no more.

845
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 2: Wow.

846
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 3: Because it's like, there's nothing I don't believe that I

847
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 3: couldn't do. But I wasn't always like this. And that's

848
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 3: what I want your adience to hear. If you see

849
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 3: me doing it, it's an indication that you can do

850
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 3: it too. It's not only available to me, it's also

851
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 3: available to you. You can have whatever you say. The

852
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 3: key is you have to believe that you can. And

853
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 3: for me, this was about believing that I could do

854
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 3: the impossible, and that was to take my family from

855
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 3: struggling and losing everything and drowning in debt to a

856
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: place of legacy building and wealth creating not only for us,

857
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 3: but for the people who were connected to us, for

858
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 3: my sisters who live in New Orleans, who I wanted

859
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 3: to see not struggle anymore after years of being in

860
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 3: a business. I took the brand now to New Orleans

861
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 3: and went to one of my sisters and said, if

862
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 3: I taught you how to fish, would you fish?

863
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 2: He said, every day.

864
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 3: And I taught her everything that I could about how

865
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 3: to make this recipe. And she's doing it and it's hard.

866
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying that this is easy. And I

867
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 3: think that's the thing. People see something successful and they

868
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 3: think it's easy. It doesn't get easier just because it

869
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 3: gets bigger.

870
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: Your problems just change.

871
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: From the beginning. Well, okay, we're gonna throw the commercials

872
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: so we can adjust cameras everybody, and she can come

873
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: sit closer to me, So throw the commercials. Shout out

874
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: to Katie, come out in the room. All right, we're

875
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: back and so inspired, so excited about you. I definitely

876
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 1: love you right back. And oh my gosh. All right,

877
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: so now that we know that you can turn five

878
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 1: dollars to six hundred and six hundred to a million, Okay,

879
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: over over, I mean taking us to school. So let's

880
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 1: talk about the business side. Okay, well, you can try

881
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,720
Speaker 1: your own onion rings. I'll tell y'all all the ratings

882
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: of these onion rings. They're simply amazing. I'm gonna take

883
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: one more on your ring. Then I'm gonna start asking questions.

884
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: But I have to enjoy it.

885
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 3: It's such a simple, inexpensive thing, especially when you just

886
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 3: need something salty and crunchy, has a little bit of

887
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 3: sweetness to the undertone, and you can you can salt

888
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 3: it however you want. I believe that it's not smart

889
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 3: to salt something you haven't tasted yet.

890
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 2: You know, you salted these again, Yeah I did.

891
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: They were perfect. Okay, guys, they were perfect.

892
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: And then I salted them.

893
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: Then you salted them. But okay, now I know that

894
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:43,280
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna.

895
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 2: Take your recipe as is.

896
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, just a couple more bites and then I'm

897
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: gonna go okay. Oh, the thin ones are smacking.

898
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 3: No, And that's what what I love about them is

899
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 3: when you cut them, as you pull the inner rings out,

900
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 3: you get different you know, you get different experien So

901
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 3: you get a really tiny one from the center. You

902
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 3: get a mouthful of that onion flavor, and then we

903
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 3: get to the outer rings. They're sort of like thinner.

904
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's delicious, just as delicious as this story.

905
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: So I just so you know, if you see me

906
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: like a little flush, just because our crew is like

907
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: timing me by the minute right now, it was up

908
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: to me, we'd have a whole another hour. Yeah, but okay,

909
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 1: so let's talk about the business now that the business

910
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: is operational. I want to know from the well, I

911
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: can only imagine from six dollars to six hundred and

912
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: six hundred to growing. Yeah, what were some of those

913
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: points where you felt like giving up?

914
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:44,760
Speaker 2: Yeah?

915
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 3: So there was one day in particular that you know,

916
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 3: the baker's open. Now, we had had a sign all

917
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 3: of our friends that were coming all the time, and

918
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 3: they didn't come. And I think a lot of times

919
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 3: we're expecting so much out of our friend and our

920
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 3: family and it's not fair to put that kind of

921
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 3: burden on them. And so I was sitting in my

922
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 3: chair and I had only made seventeen dollars on this

923
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 3: day when my husband calls to check on me and said, how's.

924
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: Your day going?

925
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 3: And I got ready to open my mouth and complain.

926
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 3: I got ready to say only made seventeen dollars, and

927
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 3: I stopped myself mid sentence. I said, you know what,

928
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 3: whatever it was, it wasn't a surprise to God. He's

929
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 3: the one that gave me this recipe and this idea,

930
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 3: because this wasn't just a good idea, this was a

931
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 3: God idea, and there's a difference, and so whatever it is,

932
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 3: he sent it, and I'm just gonna.

933
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 2: Be grateful for it.

934
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 3: When I got that in my spirit, Colin, I can't

935
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 3: tell you how much it changed everything.

936
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: But then that day when you knew it was seventeen,

937
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: it brought a little bit of frustration.

938
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 3: Y Oh yeah, because it was like, I'm sitting there,

939
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for people.

940
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 2: This has been days.

941
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: Oh they waited right after your store opened.

942
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's probably a month in. Oh yeah.

943
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: I would have been freaking out.

944
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I thought, you know, we had an amazing

945
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 3: first day, and I thought people were just gonna come.

946
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 2: I thought, because I put a little three by three.

947
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 3: Sign out in front of my house, that the world

948
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 3: knew that a bakery was opening, and they did not

949
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 3: know that.

950
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: So then what was your next move after experiencing that.

951
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 3: I just so, I changed my mind in the moment,

952
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 3: and so I said, just as I was getting ready

953
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 3: to complain, I said, you know what, anything that it is,

954
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 3: God sent it. It wasn't a surprise to him. And

955
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 3: my days turned around almost immediately. I began to have

956
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 3: fifty dollar days and one hundred dollar days. I remember

957
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 3: my first five hundred dollar day, my first thousand dollars day.

958
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 3: And I didn't change the way I handled the money.

959
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 3: I still would take the money in, I would put

960
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 3: it in envelopes.

961
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 2: I would pay Uncle Sam.

962
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 3: First, I would put the money for the ingredients back first,

963
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 3: and anything that was left was mine to keep for

964
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 3: electric bills, fulfilled money for whatever it was that my

965
00:47:59,120 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 3: children needed.

966
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 2: And I began I began.

967
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 3: Realizing that I couldn't reveal everything that I was learning,

968
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 3: even in my own household, because, like I told you before,

969
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,959
Speaker 3: as a stay at home mom my, my husband only

970
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 3: brought to me whatever he was done with. Yeah, it

971
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 3: wasn't like, here's the money, you manage it together and

972
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 3: then go from there.

973
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: So you were getting the leftovers. You weren't getting a

974
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: whole check to like manage it.

975
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 2: I was getting the leftovers, and so I knew.

976
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 3: I began to learn that I had to manage what

977
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 3: I was making, and I started stuffing envelopes and hiding money.

978
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: I love that you keep talking about stuffing envelopes. I

979
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: always tell people people always, like my husband, He'll say

980
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: to me, well, if I had a million dollars, I'm like, dude,

981
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: planet Earth right now, Okay, if we can't manage five

982
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, yeah, don't think it's gonna be different when

983
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: we get a million. If you can't manage that little bit.

984
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 1: And I tell everybody all my mentees a hundred times, guys,

985
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: if you can't manage fifty, well you won't be able

986
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 1: to match. It doesn't matter how much money you make,

987
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: you still got to be able to manage it. And

988
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: to hear you talk about envelopes, because that's something I

989
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: go to with my cousin all the time. Always tell

990
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: him like, look, if you're struggling with budget management, I

991
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 1: have him on a budget right now. I'm like, go

992
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: old school withdraw the cash and use envelopes and mark envelopes.

993
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 3: And living because when you're in a situation like I

994
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 3: was in, if you're even.

995
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 2: One penny off a literal cent off. They will bounce

996
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 2: your check.

997
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 3: And then you will be looking for how you're You know,

998
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 3: now you're thirty five dollars off instead of being a

999
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 3: penny off. And I couldn't afford to have those kinds

1000
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 3: of mistakes, so I stopped even putting money in the bank.

1001
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: So the behind the scenes of your life is your accountant,

1002
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: your baker, your manager.

1003
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 2: Your mom.

1004
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 3: I'm the cashier, I'm marketing. I had gone to school

1005
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 3: at that time. I graduated at that point with a

1006
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 3: degree in mass meeting and communications.

1007
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 2: So all that.

1008
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, superhero, So no tears of frustration or a

1009
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: bunch of walls or nothing. Oh yeah, absolutely.

1010
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 2: And in the midst of this, we're trying.

1011
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 3: To rebuild our marriage, which all of this is in

1012
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 3: the book. We moved to Nashville to start our lives over,

1013
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 3: Remember I.

1014
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 2: Said that in a manny.

1015
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 3: So in the midst of all that, we're trying to

1016
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 3: rebuild a marriage that doesn't end up working out and

1017
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 3: we end up deciding to go our separate ways. So

1018
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 3: all of these things are happening all at once.

1019
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: Ye you're a true champion, because I tell you what

1020
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: I do with my child and my husband is I

1021
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: run away And my girlfriends think it's hilarious, but I'll

1022
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: send them a text. I'll be like, look, girls, I

1023
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: left the house in my slides and were going to

1024
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: stay in hotels or wherever, but I'm not going home.

1025
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: And then we'd be like, well why not. I'm like,

1026
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 1: it's just so much responsibility, especially when you're building something,

1027
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: it's like it requires like all of you. And then

1028
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: if you have a child, she requires all of you,

1029
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: or your children require all of you.

1030
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 3: And then I applaud you that you know to go retreat,

1031
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,720
Speaker 3: self care and come back.

1032
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: Well I would call. I tell my friends it's like

1033
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: survival mode and that is fight or flight. I'm like, yo,

1034
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: I could have an argument with you leaving the house

1035
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: for whatever generic stupid reason and like put up road flairs.

1036
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: As a mom, I feel like you put a broth

1037
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: for heyes, honey, I need help, Hey honey, And you

1038
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: know what I'm like, Look, I don't I don't spoke it.

1039
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 2: You can't hear me.

1040
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: Then, and I tell all my girlfriends every mom should

1041
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: just run away at some point and be like, you

1042
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: know what, I'm a pull you on you.

1043
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 3: My mom used to do that to us. My mother

1044
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 3: would disappear on us. And that was before cell phones

1045
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 3: were a thing and she was a she was a

1046
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 3: single mom. She would hide from us sometimes because it

1047
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 3: was all she just needed her own time to recoup

1048
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 3: or recover.

1049
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: And I think it reduces the like I come from

1050
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 1: child abuse and I look back at my mom and

1051
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: I think my mom was such a good mom in

1052
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, but I think that there was

1053
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 1: just way too much pressure on her. And what happened

1054
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: is the kids get hurt. Yeah, So in my mind,

1055
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, look before I snap on a two year

1056
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:13,319
Speaker 1: old who I absolutely adore, trust me, I wish there

1057
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,479
Speaker 1: was a parenting died with this poor baby. I'll run.

1058
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: I'll run, and even if it takes me forty eight

1059
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 1: hours or four days, I'll come back and it will

1060
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,799
Speaker 1: be like nothing, but I run. But for you to

1061
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: survive all that, I don't know if you ran away,

1062
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: But if you didn't gangs, I.

1063
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 3: Didn't have the opportunity, but I would say that, I

1064
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 3: would say that here's what. Here is the recipe that

1065
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 3: I want people to hear. If you want to dig

1066
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 3: yourself out of debt, you want to have a different scenario.

1067
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 2: First, you have to speak it. You have to know

1068
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 2: what out looks like for you.

1069
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 3: If you don't know what out looks like for you,

1070
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 3: then any road will take you there and you will

1071
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 3: not know when you are.

1072
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: Now give me an example of what an out looks like.

1073
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, So for me, getting out meant electric electricity is

1074
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 3: being paid. I wish trying to help make the ends meet.

1075
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: I mean, but you surpassed them.

1076
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's the thing that I'm trying to say.

1077
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 3: When you decide what it looks like for you, you

1078
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 3: will know when you've gotten there. And you need to

1079
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 3: be able to have small winds. If you can get

1080
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 3: small winds, you can create bigger winds. For me, it

1081
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 3: was I needed to be able to make the electricity

1082
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 3: stay on.

1083
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: I mean, this electricity sound like a really serious issue.

1084
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

1085
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 3: And then because if our house was dark. We live

1086
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:34,879
Speaker 3: in Nashville, it snows, it gets cold. Your children are

1087
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 3: looking at you like, how am I supposed to do

1088
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 3: my homework? We don't have any lights. This was a

1089
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 3: regular occurrence in our house. Not only did we not

1090
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 3: sometimes have lights, we didn't have water either, So I

1091
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 3: would be walking to the store lugging home jugs of

1092
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 3: water which is heavy. Sometimes my little baby walking behind me.

1093
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 2: You don't want your children to see this, No, and

1094
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 2: I decided that I wanted more for my children.

1095
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 3: I did not sign up for this. But for me,

1096
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 3: this my idea was better or worse looked like I

1097
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 3: couldn't decide. Now, this is the level of worse I want,

1098
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 3: and this is the let more better I want, because

1099
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 3: for better or worse means for better or in the marriage.

1100
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah for me, I agree. Like for me,

1101
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: it's extremely important from my family's stand to one room.

1102
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 2: So I sacrificed a lot.

1103
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, Grace and Jesus Christ himself if you like, Oh

1104
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 4: he said forgive seven time, seventy seven seven seven time. Okay, Lord,

1105
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,479
Speaker 4: but yeah, no, I I can relate to that because

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00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 4: there are times where I oh that husband. Yeah, but

1107
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 4: but but that's that's kudos to you for sticking out

1108
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 4: twenty one years.

1109
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 2: Well really it wasn't.

1110
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 3: Really, it was really not kudos to me as much.

1111
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 3: It was I was afraid of God. And let me

1112
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 3: tell you. When I was being awakened at three seventeen

1113
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 3: in the morning, one of the last Bible verses that

1114
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 3: I got was I set before you.

1115
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,240
Speaker 2: It was dude to to me thirty nineteen and Joshua

1116
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 2: one nine.

1117
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 3: I said, before you life and death, blessings and curses.

1118
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 3: Choose life so your family can live. And if you

1119
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 3: will do everything that I have set before you, then

1120
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,320
Speaker 3: I will make you prosperous wherever you go, and everything

1121
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,800
Speaker 3: that you do will be prosperous.

1122
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 2: That was what God told me, and then he stopped

1123
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 2: waking me up.

1124
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 3: I understood that everything that had been given to me

1125
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 3: at three o'clock in the morning was a collaboration with God.

1126
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 3: It was a dropping in the atmosphere. I have something

1127
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 3: for you, man. I'm tired of you starting businesses. I'm

1128
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 3: tired of you quitting them. There's people who would love

1129
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 3: to have even one idea that I've given you that

1130
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 3: you started and just let go. So this is the

1131
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 3: last thing I'm giving you, And if you don't do this,

1132
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 3: I'm not giving you anything else.

1133
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 2: And it was a choice to live or to die,

1134
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 2: and I believed it.

1135
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 3: I believe that if I didn't do this, I wasn't

1136
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,879
Speaker 3: getting anything else. And a lot of times we think

1137
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 3: we're afraid to fail. I thought I was afraid to

1138
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 3: fail at business. It wasn't that I was afraid to fail.

1139
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 3: I was afraid to succeed. Many of us are afraid.

1140
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 2: Of success, not failure, because if we failed, if we

1141
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 2: thought we were.

1142
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 3: Gonna fail, we wouldn't come to the thing anyway. We

1143
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,959
Speaker 3: wouldn't tell anybody about it. We wouldn't tell anybody about

1144
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 3: our idea, we wouldn't ask them.

1145
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 2: To be a part of it if we really believed

1146
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 2: that we would fail. But we're afraid to succeed because

1147
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 2: if we're successful, that means I have to show up

1148
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 2: when I don't feel like coming. It means I have

1149
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 2: to show up and do this when I'm tired. When

1150
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 2: all my girlfriends went out last night, I got to

1151
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 2: stay home because I need to be in my kitchen

1152
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 2: at two thirty in the morning making mix. And I'm

1153
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 2: going to be in.

1154
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 3: Here by myself while everybody gets to go on the vacation.

1155
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 3: On the trip, I gotta stay back and I've got

1156
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 3: to open up the store because I have nobody to

1157
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 3: help me. And it took me seventeen years to get

1158
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 3: to a place where I could have a real vacation.

1159
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 3: I haven't worked seventeen since the cup cayears, since the

1160
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 3: cupcake collection.

1161
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 1: And what was that vacation?

1162
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:05,720
Speaker 2: Just curious.

1163
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 3: I can't even remember. I can't really remember, you know

1164
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 3: what it was. But I remember sitting back and saying, Wow,

1165
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 3: I really just went on vacation. And the bakery is

1166
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 3: literally the Cupcake Collection is still operating right now.

1167
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: And then.

1168
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 3: Because we would all have to break as a family,

1169
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 3: we would have to close down, not make any money,

1170
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 3: and we'd have to go away as a family and

1171
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 3: then come back to it. My goal at that point

1172
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 3: was to be able to have it operating.

1173
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 2: So your goals can move. You can move the needle

1174
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:37,280
Speaker 2: on your goals.

1175
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 3: And it is prudent to move your needle on your

1176
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 3: goals because a lot of times people think that I've

1177
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 3: got to have this big, gigantic grand plan in order

1178
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 3: for it to be successful. And what I'm saying is,

1179
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 3: as long as it's in your head, it's an idea.

1180
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 3: When you write it down on paper, it becomes a plant.

1181
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 3: That's a business plan. You write it down on a

1182
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,919
Speaker 3: small three by five index card, that is.

1183
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: Called a business plan.

1184
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 3: It's a vision, it's an arrested thought, a thought that

1185
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 3: you you know, because we think of a million thoughts

1186
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 3: a day, thirty thousand thoughts a day we're thinking, and

1187
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 3: you just arrest one of them. You cause one of

1188
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 3: those thoughts to come in submission. You write on a

1189
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 3: piece of paper and say, this is what I'm gonna do.

1190
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna forget about it. I'm gonna keep

1191
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 3: my focus on this thing, and even though I'm scared,

1192
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it anyway, and I'm not gonna stop

1193
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 3: showing up to it, even when it's hard. I'm gonna

1194
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 3: keep on doing it because what I want is more

1195
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 3: important than what I don't want, like sleep, you know,

1196
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 3: like maybe I'm gonna miss out on a little bit

1197
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 3: of sleep right now, or maybe I'm gonna miss out

1198
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,439
Speaker 3: on my child, you know, recital, I missed a lot

1199
00:58:57,440 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 3: of things that my children had going on, but it

1200
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 3: was more important to me to show up for them

1201
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 3: fully in the future then what we had going on

1202
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 3: right now. Because when you're in the story, you don't

1203
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 3: know what story you're writing. I didn't know this was

1204
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 3: the story that I was writing with my life, this

1205
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 3: made from scratch story. I didn't know that this was

1206
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 3: a story I was writing because when I.

1207
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 2: Was in it.

1208
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 3: You know how they say you can't see the picture

1209
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 3: for the frame. If you're the frame holding the picture,

1210
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 3: you're too busy holding the picture to see what the

1211
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 3: picture is that you're holding. And the same thing is

1212
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 3: with the story. When you're in it. You don't know

1213
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 3: what story you're writing. But if you keep in your

1214
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 3: mind what story do I want to be told? When

1215
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 3: this is just a story that's gonna be told, it

1216
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 3: will keep you marching forward to the thing that you

1217
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 3: have placed in your mind.

1218
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: So last question, what is a day in the life

1219
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: of it? Right now?

1220
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 2: Right now?

1221
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: Right now?

1222
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 3: So my children made it their goal to retire me

1223
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 3: by my birthday, which is on July fourth, and so

1224
00:59:56,520 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 3: I haven't worked in the daily operation of the business

1225
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 3: in all of twenty twenty three.

1226
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: Wait do your children still work for me?

1227
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 2: My children run the company now legacy. Wow.

1228
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 3: And I love that you use that word, because for me,

1229
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 3: this is so much bigger than cupcakes.

1230
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 2: We are.

1231
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 3: I am the daughter of a man that was born

1232
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 3: on a sugar cane plantation. My father was born on

1233
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 3: a sugar cane plantation in nineteen forty.

1234
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: I mean, this story of yours is riddled with God

1235
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 1: it's I think, and it's no coincidence because lately I've

1236
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: been getting up at like six in the morning, and

1237
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: I've been like, man, I thought it was because my

1238
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: child wakes up early, but I'm starting to notice I'm

1239
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: waking up before her or there'll be so nice where

1240
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: I can't sleep. So I don't think it's a coincidence

1241
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: that I get to experience this story because.

1242
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 2: I feel like God is talking to.

1243
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: Me through you and this book that you had made

1244
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: from scratch. But let's go back to the answer and

1245
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: the answer to the question of what is a day

1246
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: in the life for you right now? Like from wake

1247
01:00:59,360 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: up to.

1248
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 2: So right now, I'm tithing my time back to God.

1249
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 3: And so you know how people who are Christians who

1250
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 3: go to church, they tie their money to a church.

1251
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 3: And so God told me that he wanted me to

1252
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 3: tithe not only my money but also my time. So

1253
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 3: I'm tithing my time to God. And first I was like, God, Okay, cool,

1254
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 3: I'll give you twenty four minutes out of the twenty

1255
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 3: four hours. He said, no, majon, I want two hours

1256
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 3: and forty minutes every single day.

1257
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: So what does that look like to do that? But

1258
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: what do you do.

1259
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 3: At four o'clock in the morning, I'm up and I'm

1260
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 3: doing the same thing I was doing at three seventeen.

1261
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 3: I am spending time getting to hear the voice of

1262
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 3: my creator and what it is that he wants me

1263
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,479
Speaker 3: to do, what it is he wants me to learn.

1264
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 3: So I'm reading through this Bible. It could be that.

1265
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 3: It could be worship music. It could be you know,

1266
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 3: some sermon or a podcast or whatever, something that I'm

1267
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 3: learning or something that I feel led or drawn to do.

1268
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 2: And that's my first my first two hours and forty

1269
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: minutes a day. Always get that right.

1270
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 3: It doesn't always come exactly like that, but that is

1271
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:08,640
Speaker 3: my current goal. That's what I'm currently striving for every

1272
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 3: single day. And then then I'm going around and I'm

1273
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 3: speaking and I'm telling others about what they can also

1274
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:16,200
Speaker 3: do gospel.

1275
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:16,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're sharing.

1276
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 2: I'm a kingdom preneur, and the thing for me is.

1277
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: That kingdom preneur. I like that.

1278
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 3: I'm trying to grow the Kingdom of God so that

1279
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 3: other people know that as Christians were not supposed to

1280
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 3: be living in lack. God doesn't want us to have want,

1281
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,920
Speaker 3: but he'll help our want to he'll help our lack

1282
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 3: of and so I'm just I told God, if you

1283
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 3: will make me successful, God, if you will do this

1284
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 3: thing that you're telling me at three seventeen, if you'll

1285
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 3: do this thing that you're telling me, I will tell

1286
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 3: anybody who will listen about what they can do if

1287
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 3: they believe. And He has been faithful to bring I'm

1288
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 3: sitting here in La with you from Nashville.

1289
01:02:56,280 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 1: Taking eating while broke onion ring and Guys, I'm a

1290
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:05,480
Speaker 1: part of me sad because brin a tight time crunch

1291
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 1: and I would love to spend more time with you.

1292
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling that this book made from

1293
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 1: scratch finding success without a recipe. You guys can get

1294
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: this on Amazon, I'm sure, or wherever you buy your books.

1295
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: I listen to audio books, even though I prefer reading.

1296
01:03:22,720 --> 01:03:24,440
Speaker 1: I'm old school. I love touching books.

1297
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 2: I just audio books, so that's coming soon.

1298
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: And then, oh, okay, perfect but made from scratch finding

1299
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 1: success without a recipe, you guys can get this book.

1300
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this book is going to cover everything

1301
01:03:37,120 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: I would have asked. So you know what, listen to

1302
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 1: the interview, fall in love with her, and then go

1303
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: get the book. I'm going to be reading this book

1304
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 1: or like a fanatic, and I think you have just

1305
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: single handedly like refreshed my relationship with God, like I

1306
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: really think. Yeah, so if you get a random well

1307
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 1: I don't have your number, but yeah, okay, okay, yeah,

1308
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:05,880
Speaker 1: I'll probably text you like, hey six am. Yeah, you

1309
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: know what I think. I think it's time that I

1310
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 1: get back into the things that the swing of things

1311
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 1: with my relationship with God, because there's a lot of

1312
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 1: stuff that you touched on that I could totally relate to,

1313
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 1: and you know it was I'm so excited that you

1314
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: came through and such a breath of fresh air. And

1315
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing those cupcakes and eating them cupcakes

1316
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 1: and doing reviews. Everybody there are anything like these onion rings.

1317
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,720
Speaker 1: Just know I'm I'm gonna repackage and put them in

1318
01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 1: the cupcake holders and pretend like I made them myself.

1319
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 2: That's what I want you to do. That's exactly what

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Speaker 2: I want you to do.

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Speaker 1: And it's not stealing.

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Speaker 3: It's I said, I said, you can't steal what was

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Speaker 3: given to you exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: But thank you so much for your time. And then

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Speaker 1: how can people keep up with you? And you could

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Speaker 1: just say it directly into that camera. How can people

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Speaker 1: keep up with you on everything you're doing and like

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Speaker 1: even reach out and somewhat communicate with you, I'm sure. Well,

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Speaker 1: now she's on God's time, so she may be able

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Speaker 1: to respond back, but tell.

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Speaker 3: Us so you can follow me on Instagram at Mignon

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Speaker 3: dot Francois. You can order cupcakes twenty four hours a

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Speaker 3: day on the Cupcakecollection dot com. And then we're on

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Speaker 3: all socials, so that's Twitter at Cupcake Tweets, and Facebook

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Speaker 3: is the Cupcake Collection, yes, and Instagram and Instagram is

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Speaker 3: Cupcake Collection and it's Mignon dot Fransois.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you heard it here first. All right, thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you'll be making these onion rings at home and.

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Speaker 3: Listen, you'll never go to a restaurant looking at on

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Speaker 3: your rings the same again.

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Speaker 1: And then I will just say one suggestion is the

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Speaker 1: way she seasoned it with the flower. This is my

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Speaker 1: personal opinion. You don't need to add any extra She

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Speaker 1: did the she did the egg seasoning, she did the

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Speaker 1: flower seasoning, and honestly it's perfect just the way it

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Speaker 1: is now. If you want to go and play with it,

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Speaker 1: you can't, but my suggestion is leave it as is.

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Speaker 1: Peace out guys. For more eating while broke from iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: and The Black Effect, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows,