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I'm your host of Money Making Conversation, 25 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: and I believe in the Money Making Conversation an opportunity 26 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: to share with you individuals who come on my show 27 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: their life, they're visions, their ups, their downs, the opportunities 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: to tell you how they overcame the loads in life. 29 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: I will never call them mistakes because everybody has a 30 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: misstep and sometimes those miss steps are unplanned and how 31 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: you plan to get out of that step. It's what 32 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: we're talking about on Money Making Conversations and it enables 33 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: me to talk to people from so many different walks 34 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: of life. People I know, people I don't know, and 35 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: it's encouraging. Let you understand that I'm here to make 36 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: your life a lot better. I'm gonna let you understand 37 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: that steps that you have in life, I wan't that 38 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: be they are bigger obstacles in life that jacked over, 39 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: will come and that's what you will have on when 40 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: they make conversations. My next guest is a Grammy Award 41 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: winning artist, songwriter, producer, actress and philanthropists. Will started as 42 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: a willpower challenge in the vegan lifestyle has improved her mental, spiritual, emotional, 43 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: and physical state. Over the past four years, she has 44 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: hosted monthly vegan challenges online accompanied by her Vegan Transition Guy, 45 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: a free starter guy for people interested in transitioning to 46 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: a vegan lifestyle. She has celebrated twenty two years as 47 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 1: an international known singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, choreographer, actor, activist 48 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: and philanthropists. She's on the show to me maybe helped 49 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: me curb my bad eating habits because I can tell 50 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: you something. I will start every dinner with a good 51 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: old ice cream, a good old cookie, a good old 52 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: piece of dessert that has you know, milk and eggs 53 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: in it. She has inspired to make people like me 54 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: do better because she may have found the fountain of youth. 55 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: We also will talk about her role in the second 56 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: season of the popular fifth War drama now streaming on 57 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: UMC Dot TV network. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations. Maya, 58 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: Hello there, how are you. I had a lot to 59 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: say about you, Maria, for we got started. That was 60 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: a handful. That's what happens with when you've been out 61 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: there for tweeny two years, my friend. Well, really it 62 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: really is, you know, because you know, we all start out. 63 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 1: I can I can think back because I my I 64 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: started out at IBM. I was my degrees in mathematics, 65 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: and then I wanted to be a stand up comic, 66 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: and I left ib under pursue a career as a 67 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: stand up comic, and you know, there was always it 68 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: was so far away where I wanted to beat it. 69 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: In fact, where I am right now. I didn't even 70 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: see myself being at this point. All I wanted to 71 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: do was just be successful. And at the age of eighteen, 72 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: all you wanted to be successful. Talk about those early 73 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: years of reaching that success, and then we'll talking about, 74 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: you know, finding yourself as to where you are right 75 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: now today. While I started out as a child of 76 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: the arts and something that I just loved to do 77 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: outside of school, of course, but I was also involved 78 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: in gospel choir, the orchestra, and the dance ting at school, 79 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: and those were the highlights of my day because kids 80 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: would come together for a common goal, whether it was 81 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: to compete or perform or put something together ourselves the showcase, 82 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: and it was all of all great synergy, all common 83 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: goal and uh about success. But we had to have discipline. 84 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: And so my early years from four years on four 85 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: years old on was shaped by the arts. But also 86 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: I come from a very musical and artistic family, so 87 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: I was always around it and always uh, I would say, 88 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 1: given examples of what to strive for and to be. 89 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: My father is a musician who inspired me greatly. Um 90 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: ever since I could remember as a little girl, there 91 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: were always musicians in the living room or the garage 92 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: rehearsing for his gigs. He's been in the studio. I 93 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: had some early experiences in my childhood just go into 94 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: the studio to watch him record, watched him put out 95 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,760 Speaker 1: Lionel and present himself on his own label, get his 96 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: songs on the radio regionally or locally, and hustle and grind. 97 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,799 Speaker 1: So I've always looked up to my dad in that aspect. 98 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: But singing is just something in music is something that 99 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: I've always been involved in through the arts, but with 100 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: family ties as well. There was never a day without music. 101 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 1: So I just kind of fell into it, and the 102 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 1: record deal came first because I was initially going to 103 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: pursue Broadway, which was acting, singing, dancing, choreography, etcetera. Um, 104 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: So it just so happened the record deal came first. 105 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: And I still want to do the theater passionately. Um. 106 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: But yes, it is a very competitive business. It does 107 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: take a lot of rehearsing, perfecting their craft and awesome 108 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: business before your art. Often in the field of business, 109 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: you know, it's all fun and games and shows to 110 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: the viewer, but there's so much legality involved just one thing, 111 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: you know. You know here you talk, you're absolutely right. 112 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: The business side pops up into the whole process. But 113 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: I think that my early years and as I went 114 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: through is trying to control my own destiny, you know, 115 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,679 Speaker 1: trying to control my own depp and go to bed time. 116 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: And so that's the most frustrating thing I think when 117 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: you get into entertainment. It's because it's not like a 118 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: regular nine or five job. You know, you you go 119 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: to work at nine, you get off in five, you 120 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: go to sleep, you wake up, you go to work 121 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: at nine, you go up the next day something you 122 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: may have prepared to do may not happen. It might 123 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: not happen for months because somebody changed it, or a 124 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: record labeled closed, or the person you're just gonna do 125 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: it the duet with, or the show with, or the 126 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: with the opted out of it. So do you feel 127 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: at this point in your life, do you have more 128 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: control of your life even though the success you had 129 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: was so immediate and so amazing at the age of eighteen. Well, 130 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: it's something that I've always loved, you know, backtracking regardless 131 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: of the business that has to be done. That's required 132 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: in every field or every profession, obviously, but that's never 133 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: deterred me. And that was my point. I'm still here, 134 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: and I've learned the business as an independent label, as 135 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: an independent artist that signs her her own label, I've 136 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: had learn the business, so now I have more value. 137 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: It's not just an artist, but a complete antibody that 138 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: knows the groups. And I'm still learning, you know, it's 139 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: always a student, but I've learned so much more on 140 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: the business side, and it's actually inspired man and made 141 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: me more passionate about music because now I have this 142 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: freedom to do whatever i'd like creatively. But also protect 143 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: my art and protect my heart. Uh So it's a 144 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: great place to be, especially now in the social media days. 145 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: And nothing is going to stop me because yes, um 146 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: labels have definitely transitioned and they've been through layoffs who 147 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: are emerging with each other as you see the airlines 148 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: and many corporations doing these days, because that's just the 149 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: way of today, mound chizing and obviously technology that's replaced 150 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: the weather or increased to sales um to the old 151 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: way means physical palpy and record stores have closed off. 152 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: Also watched the transition from my first album being on 153 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: cassette tape or recording to tape itself versus digital you know, 154 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 1: from told or anything like that. And here we are 155 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: today doing albums on laptop wherever you are in the 156 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: world and mixing and mesturing on your own and then 157 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: distributing it on your own. There's so many new ways 158 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: and it's very exciting. So have transition with the times 159 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 1: as well on the business front, but there's only something 160 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: around the commodor news and learn a new at you know, 161 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: to be aware of. It is hard to keep up. 162 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: It's great to have you back on my show to 163 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 1: talk about your wonderful career, twenty two years in the 164 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: business you celebrated this year. Now when you talk about that, 165 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,840 Speaker 1: your Planet nine, it's really amazing that a lot of 166 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: times when we see things that we're doing as we 167 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: get older, you really saw it when we were younger. 168 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: Were just taken because your father was an independent guy 169 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: who went out there, dropped his own later did all 170 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: the recording. Was that an inspiration for Planet nine. I 171 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: wasn't even thinking about all of that that I've witnessed 172 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: when I created Planet nine, but it's always been end 173 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: me so subconsciously. I'm sure it had a play when 174 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: I released Well, when I was recording my fourth album, 175 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: the release date that pushed back upon its release, and 176 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: I was signed to Motown within the Universal system at 177 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: that time, and I'm going it got pushed back. It 178 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: accidentally released in the furthest territory of our globe, which 179 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 1: is Japan, which is like a day and head it 180 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: and so there was leaked there and from there the 181 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: album leaked everywhere online on YouTube, etcetera. And from now 182 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: people had it for free, and that was a big 183 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: financial hit to the record label. Salvation of the album, 184 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: and my lawyers started that okay, technically out in the 185 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: marketplace right now, which means you can get your back 186 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: end advance if you take them the court, or you 187 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: can just leave that alone and go independent. So I 188 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,719 Speaker 1: didn't feel like spending a year or a year and 189 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: a half or even funds um to try to get money, 190 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: you know, and I just moved on. And that's how 191 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: Planet nine was worth. Um. I started studying astronomy and 192 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: getting into a spiritual place and creating my own laws, 193 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: my own rules, my own timeline that didn't operate, you know, 194 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: with the timeline that everyone else had enforced upon me 195 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: on us control in your life, your death. So that's 196 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, you know, you rolling my life, 197 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 1: creating my own world. And that own world was on 198 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: the own planet. And that's how Planet nine was born. 199 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: Through the beginning of my independent journey, where I had 200 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: to become everything and I had to dictate everything, but 201 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: also become my own disciplinary and my own finance or 202 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: my own bank manager, lawyer, whatever it took. And here 203 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: I am, you know, in the thirteenth year of my 204 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: independent journey and nine independent projects. Now, you know, to 205 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: go independent, you don't do this by yourself. So I'm 206 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,599 Speaker 1: assuming that you had to have people around you that 207 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: understood your visit vision, that woke up or awake when 208 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: you needed them to be awake and believed in you 209 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: and move forward. Well, did you have to reformulate or 210 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:47,599 Speaker 1: create a new team when you decided to create this 211 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: level of independency for your own career and for you personally? Well, 212 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: I had already had my creative team, meaning my musicians 213 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: and answers as well as engineers, etcetera m own studio. 214 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: In two thousand five, I moved from California back home 215 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: from my roots to take care of family, to start 216 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: my nonprofit organization. And you know, my brother built my 217 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: studio for me. I became a teacher and developed all 218 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: the curriculum in the arts and Tech program the Maya 219 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: Arts and Tech Foundation, And so I did that for 220 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: years at home prior to the break in a split 221 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: with my label Motown in two thousand and seven. So 222 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: I already had a team that I was touring with, 223 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: but they were out of my hometown, so it's not 224 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: like family. And you know, that was a great cushion 225 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: to have because I needed them more than ever, and 226 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: they also relied on me at the same time, so 227 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: we had the road, you know, and that's how I 228 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: grind it for years to find my project. And I 229 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: still still do for all of my projects, but at 230 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: least they were in place. But I was self managed, 231 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: and I had learned a lot, you know, doing independent 232 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: before I became independent to get my vision across. When 233 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,079 Speaker 1: I was, you know, it was a major label. And 234 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: France actually inspired me because in two thousand four I 235 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: saw him live and he inspired me to really focus 236 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: on building a pain with her. I feel, you know, 237 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: they wouldn't be hot skipping and jumping between artists, artists 238 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: with no passion but just the paycheck. And so that's 239 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: why I developed a team in my hometown. And you know, 240 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: we're still rocking to his day and sounding great at it. 241 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: Um Maya when you when you when you look at 242 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 1: because you're you know, when I listen, I listen to artists, songwriter, producer, actress, philanthropists. 243 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: Now let's transition to the role that you've been playing 244 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: for the last two seasons on Fifth War. Greg Carter, 245 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: who I've been knowing since nineteen eighty two. Jay Len, 246 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: I've been knowing her since nineteen eighty two, called Anthony 247 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: uh and so's there's so many people on that show 248 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: that I know, how did you get involved and get 249 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 1: the opportunity because that's that's shoots in Houston, Texas And 250 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: you already said your basis watching the d C. How 251 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: did Maya get an opportunity? Are learned about the casting 252 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: opportunities for this series that shot in Houston called Fear War. Well, 253 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: I have my own management company, He Entertainment, and basically 254 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: it's all over my website social media, and they've reached 255 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: that to my manager and I read the script. I 256 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: read the script and I was blown away. It kept 257 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: my attention. It was a one take read. I didn't 258 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: deter away from the script. They caught my attention and 259 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: it felt like real life, you know that we don't 260 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: necessarily often get to see on television. And I do 261 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: have ties with sit for because that's where I recorded 262 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: one of my second independent projects, Beauty in the Streets Mixtape, 263 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: Volume one, and I met with J Prince and we 264 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: started doing business together in nine. Yeah, and so I 265 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: recorded the whole album out there and we partnered up 266 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: independent and pushed that out between Wrap a Lot, Young 267 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: Empire and Planet nine and so getting to that amount 268 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 1: of time, but also teaming up with artists from Houston, 269 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: Texas all over that mixtape. You know, it felt like 270 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: the second home for a while. So any favorite I'm 271 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: I'm born in Rage. In fact, I was born in 272 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: fifth by the way, Houston, Texas. Any favorite eating spots 273 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: in Houston that you've learned in life? We actually went 274 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: to Popados quite up. I think it was Joe Crab 275 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: or crab Check or something like that way back when 276 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: I was not vegan. Yes, well you hit two up 277 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: right there. But Papa do come on n Papa dope 278 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: from there all the time. Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, 279 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: because you know, I wanted to transition that that food 280 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: conversation that we've been having right in that Papodos is 281 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: not the place that Now, when you went to Papadose, 282 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: what did you eat? Because you're vegan, so and when 283 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: you walk in the restaurant, that's a good starting point. 284 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: And you're vegan, you're going to place a popular restaurant 285 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: like Papadose. What what does maya a vegan eat? Well, 286 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: I don't know because I haven't been that since, but 287 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: when I was not vegan, I was having that You 288 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: know the car and the profess Now I'm sure I 289 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: would have a salad and I would have to take 290 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: the cheese off, you know, not me, of course, and 291 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: veganize it. But you know, I'm sure they have broccoli 292 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: or corn and on the side, and all the side 293 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: dishes you can probably have without the butter. 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That's O T 328 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: T E r dot Ai Right right now, let's let's 329 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: go to this book that that may change my life 330 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: because I'm I'm I'm a sincere person. I'm the worst 331 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 1: eating person that you can come into because of the 332 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: fact that I don't follow the rules. I will eat 333 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 1: ice cream when I feel like it. I will either donut. 334 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: I have Chrispy Cream app on my phone by the way, Maya, 335 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: so just in case, I just want to find out 336 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 1: where if the lights on, so I can just drop 337 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: by day and pick me up a couple of donuts 338 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: and some milk. And so your book here, you know, 339 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: which began as as you say, well, began as one 340 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: of my many willpower challenges in quickly evolved into a 341 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: permanent vegan lifestyle change through education and awareness. Now when 342 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 1: you said willpower challenges, where the willpower challenges? This first 343 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: time I ever heard anybody say that will power challenges. Well, 344 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: I started these will power challenges in two thousand seven 345 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: when I became independent and I knew that I would 346 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: need to be again to trust myself but also master 347 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: myself every part of myself and become my own training, 348 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: nutritionists everything. Because there was no longer the support or 349 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: budget there from a major label to do those things 350 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: for me, and so I had to become those things. 351 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: And in order for me to become those things, I 352 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: had to instill discipline. So I would strip something away 353 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: from my life every year for three d sixty five days, 354 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: or do these crazy things like run a marathon with 355 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,360 Speaker 1: no training twenty six two miles or you know these 356 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: massa clearnersten day straight and no food, not missed in shape. Here. Now, 357 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: you just said you ran a marathon with no training. 358 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: You just just you up and just start running, that's 359 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: what you just said. I mean, you're spout training for 360 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: eight months before you run a twenty six point to 361 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: mile marathon. And I had two months to try to 362 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: get it together because two months paray. Or I just 363 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 1: just that I was going to go ahead and run 364 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: after ankle surgery because my doctor told me not to, 365 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: and I do that. I could do it with my mind, 366 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: and that year I was vegetarian, but I put myself 367 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:50,479 Speaker 1: through pain. I also conditioned myself with these types of 368 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: things because I know I'm going to need it in life. 369 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: But I also do a lot of stripping away of 370 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: the things that I do like because a lot of 371 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: the things that I like are not necessary good for me. 372 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: And so if I can let go of the things 373 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: that I really like, then I won't over react on 374 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: something is stripped away from me. So it's mental conditioning, really, 375 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 1: and that allows me to succeed also take blows a 376 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: lot easier and then start over again, you know, from 377 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: nothing or not knowing something, and become a student and 378 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: remain a student. And these are these are a series 379 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: of will Polo challenge, Well, you just challenge yourself. Well 380 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,479 Speaker 1: you look at here and go, hey, I'm going to 381 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 1: do this because I like that. I like that's a 382 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: that's a particular book for you, you know that. Right, 383 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna talk about this other book that I'm 384 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: reading here that you're giving away for free, that you 385 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 1: need to be charging people for, you know obviously, well 386 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: you know this is I want people to have the information. 387 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: And it's not quite a book yet, but it's even 388 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: start a guide. It's a young lady called J. J. 389 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 1: Smith selling like three million copies of green smoothies and 390 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: it's not even thinking than this. Okay, But that's okay, 391 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: because I am planning on I'm going to be recording 392 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,439 Speaker 1: an audiobook for the start guy. You know, people have 393 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: people like to listen versus read sometimes and both will 394 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: be available. But because I'm so passionate and this information 395 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: is everywhere, but people often ask me questions about how 396 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: to be even why does all vegan? Uh? This is 397 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,719 Speaker 1: two difficult. Can I go vegan on a budget? Can 398 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: I go vegan? If I have family members that don't 399 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 1: want to go vegan? How to like my family go vegan? 400 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: I wanted a place that people could go to answer 401 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: all these questions instead of me typing paragraphs, you know, 402 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: on social media all day and I just give them 403 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 1: a link because I really do want to offer this 404 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:45,479 Speaker 1: information that's free and available everywhere else. And that's because 405 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: I'm just passionate and it's done so much for me 406 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: and no secret really, but there needs to be one 407 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: place with all of this information. So that's how it started, 408 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: and I usually use it as a as a tool 409 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: for the vegan challenges that I do monthly. One. Okay, 410 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: help people further, you know what they like to well, 411 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: you know the name of the show is money Making 412 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: Conversations maya. Okay, I'm just being consistent with you, now, Rushawn. 413 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: This is how I talk. Now if I see an 414 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: opportunity to make money, I will and I will tell 415 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 1: some money. Hey, this is the money making an opportunity here. 416 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: But of course you you've told me this is made 417 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: being a student and becoming a teacher. Okayously, So I'm 418 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: also learning while people are asking me questions, and so 419 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: now it's propelling me into this space. This is they 420 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: doing homework. I see a book like this. First of all, 421 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 1: it's informative. Secondly, we're in the middle of a COVID 422 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic. And when the and when the COVID eighteen 423 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: pandemic head, it obviously stated that people of color, black 424 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 1: and brown are overtly affected by COVID eighteen. I remember 425 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: when the CDC announced in the Atlanta, Georgia, well, I'm 426 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,239 Speaker 1: based it's an eight percent of the hospital cases for 427 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: COVID eighteen the first week that they started making information 428 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 1: public or African Americans. And then they turned around, they said, 429 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: and then I started reading your book, and you're saying 430 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: that being a vegan can help, because you said you 431 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 1: state that you have seen countless suffer from the people 432 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: you know, countless from diabetes, cancer, obesity, cloud arteri's high 433 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: blood pressure, heart disease. This is all what's really basically 434 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: either causing African Americans or people of color to get 435 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: sick or dying from COVID ninteen has Because of COVID 436 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: ninteen has has has been a major push towards you 437 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 1: to get information because you are an expert at this, 438 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: and I brought you really on the show to talk 439 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 1: about fear for but also talk about this whole vegan lifestyle, 440 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: which can because we've always knows that people of color 441 00:24:54,560 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 1: have always been uh dramatically criticized for our eating habits. Well, 442 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 1: that is not our faults, and because of slavery, you know, 443 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: black faults, we have had to basically take what is 444 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,640 Speaker 1: left over, the scraps and it remains, and make two 445 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 1: with that. And that is where we are plagued with 446 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: issues because we've been thinking out our our environment. Excuse me, 447 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: we've been taken out of our environment, away from our 448 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: natural food like vitamin D, away from our natural foods 449 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: which is not accessible here in America unless you were 450 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: already here as a native American. You know, my my 451 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: grandmother was a chocolate American Indian, and so you know, 452 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: there's been a lot of confusion about that too, but 453 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: that's a whole other conversation. Anyhow, we don't have access. 454 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: There are no longer living in nature, but no longer 455 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 1: living near the equator. So we've been given things that 456 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: our bodies are not made for. That's number one graphically 457 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 1: and based on half tech, and so of course our 458 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: bodies are want to react accordingly if we're not in 459 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: the sun as people like they need to be biologically speaking, 460 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: and then we suffer as well. Our immune system is compromised. 461 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: And so going back to nature and when I see vegan, 462 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily mean healthy, but that's the starting point 463 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 1: plant based stuff, because what's happening our food system and 464 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 1: meat and particularly even Spa says, you know, process meat 465 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 1: is ausing cancer and humans and a beets. You know, 466 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 1: I've lost three animals to cancer, and I'm sure that 467 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: your reason. So you have that factor, but then you 468 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: also have everything and I mentioned regarding have an access, 469 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: and then you have economic issues where in the hood 470 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: they put liquor stores, you know, and markets and fast 471 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: food restaurants not whole foods. So we have a lot 472 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: of things that are backward but have been designed that 473 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: way for us. To sail. And then we also have 474 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: habits that we've adopted not too long ago from slavery 475 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,479 Speaker 1: that are hard to break, you know, the white sugar 476 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: and everything. But you have a but you have a 477 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: particular plan here though, Maya and let because you're your 478 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: hot profile, your celebrity, your star and star in the 479 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 1: African American community. All right, how do we know? I'm 480 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: not saying it's not out there? And you know, Rushan 481 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: just coming to the tape, I've always been a fan 482 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: of your brain. Just the first time I've heard the 483 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: vegan side of your brain. How do we help get 484 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: this information out there? What you be in the face 485 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,959 Speaker 1: of it? How can I do that? Can Rushan McDonald 486 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: help you? Well? The starter guide is available at Maya 487 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: Maya dot com, Forward slash Lifestyle, my social media pages 488 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: Maya Planet nine that's with the number nine, and I 489 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: conduct much challenges that everyone globally can participate in. I 490 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: have lots of incentives and send me lots of goods, 491 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: including my free wine of virtual meeting Greek and sometimes 492 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: when the world is open, I do one on one 493 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 1: time cook for the winners. Also, we've gone on retreats 494 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: in the past and I'm planning on another one of course, 495 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: when COVID nineteen, etcetera is over. But that's what you 496 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: can do is just spread the words. The start guard unavailable. Okay, 497 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: I'm not, but I'm not Maya. I got by the 498 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 1: social by the million social media follows. Can I can 499 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: I put your vegan start a kid on my social media? 500 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: You absolutely can? This Wednesday, I have a fan club 501 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: list that goes out to ninety three thousand fan club members. 502 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: Can I drop it in there with sure? So we've 503 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: got two things. I'm two for two so far with Maya. 504 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: Because you know when I when I look at this 505 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: and said, what do vegans eat? Fruit? That's me, fig 506 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: that's me, vegetables, nuts, seeds. Uh, you know that. I'm 507 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: all up in that first part, you know. So then 508 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: they said what vegans don't eat? And they go into 509 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: you know, land mammals. Kyle Lamb goat pigs right there. 510 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: Pig is pork ribs for me. See that right there. 511 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: That's when you start losing rashon McDonald chicken and turkey. 512 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: I had that this weekend. But here's a good move. 513 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: Here's a good move. You don't have to give up 514 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: anything that you already like, okay to go vegan, because 515 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: there's a plant based version now available everywhere. But also 516 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: you can make with the beings, the nuts, the seeds, 517 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: and some nice flur like spelled flower or coconut flower, 518 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: chickie flowers, some alternatives to the white flower. Its wild rice, 519 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: just black rice that's better for you, while super food 520 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: ancient grain that's better for you than the white rice. So, 521 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: like before, vegan doesn't necessarily always mean healthy, because there's 522 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: a lot of jump food that's vegan. You said vegan donuts, 523 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: vegan fried did you say, did you say junk food? 524 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: You've vegan tied in the same things. A whole lot 525 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: of junk foods, vegan chocolate cakes, this, doughnuts. But not 526 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: to have a relationship here now, Mike, you said, we're 527 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: jump food and vegan at the same time. But you 528 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: can have vegan mac and cheese. You can have vegan 529 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: version of Polo Greens, you can have vegan candy bams. 530 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: We're just replacing the animal fat based butter with a 531 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: vegan butter that's made from plants. It tastes exactly the same. Actually, 532 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: because I'm having a good time, I hope you join 533 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: this interview because I'm a good time. We have a 534 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: good question nowaday, But okay, now, do you do you 535 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: have any videos where you cooked stuff? I actually did 536 00:30:52,920 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: my very first virtual cooking session online last Saturday. My goodness, 537 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: it was sold out. It was sold out. First of all, 538 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 1: we'll stop, stop too much? You too much? Now? Okay, Now, okay, 539 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: you said online and you just so did you do 540 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: a zoom registration? What did you do? Yes? Okay. So 541 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: I am a member of a platform called Candy and 542 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: you can find them at meat Candy on Instagram. And 543 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: basically they sent out a letter newsletter of flyers. I 544 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: also posted I invite people to come through the virtual 545 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: cooking session. There's a link Meet candy dot com. Forward 546 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: slash Celebrities, Forward slash cook with Maya. It's how you 547 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: book your space. It's only exclusive and limited to twenty 548 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: people on the letter time. And so I give them 549 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: two weeks to sign up. And what I do is 550 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: craft a whole recipe as well as ingredients and tools 551 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,800 Speaker 1: supply kit lets. I just posted it. It's on my 552 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: Instagram page but as my last post. But I sent 553 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: them all the ingredients that they get an event als 554 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: we make an advertiser, a man course, and a dessert 555 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: live together that they get all the stuff in events 556 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: so that they can go shopping and we can cook 557 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: simultaneously together. The first hour spent cooking and preparing everything, 558 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: and then we eat together for the next thirty minutes 559 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: talking chop it up. And then the last thirty minutes 560 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: I spent with the Q and A. Okay, I gotta 561 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: slow you down, slow you down, see nothing, just see 562 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: you and me. We're gonna get along. I know we're 563 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: gonna get along. We're gonna be our last call. It's 564 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: not gonna be our last call yet, because of the 565 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: fact that what you're doing is a whole game. See 566 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 1: you're looking at the guy now who doing a pandemic. 567 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: I actually plant it, you know, sage and deal and 568 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: halopeenia peppers and tomatoes and in some pop flower pots 569 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: in my backyard. You know. So I'm leaning in that direction. 570 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 1: And I was stunned at the harvest that I get 571 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: every day from my backyard. I'm not ready for next year. 572 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: I'm ready for me some cucumbers. I'm really playing stuff 573 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: for next year. And so so what that mean? So 574 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: I hear you talking about. Now, I gotta ask this 575 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: question not to be embarrassed, not just saying can you cook? Though, 576 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I put my foot in my food. 577 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: You don't even know what's vegan. Okay, you're talking about 578 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: you're talking. I know you are. You know you can 579 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: overly embellish disability and stuff like telling you Okay, I'm 580 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: telling you. All my friends they're like, oh my gosh, 581 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: this is good. My family who eats everything that I 582 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: don't eat anything. Because I just want you to social media. 583 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: I'm just change this. I'm just change this. I'm just 584 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: just right now, Mike. I just want your social media. Okay. 585 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: You have a Twitter and you have an Instagram. That's 586 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: all I found on Twitter and Instagram. I didn't see 587 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: no pictures of food. I didn't see the pictures you 588 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: holding food. I just pictures eating food, none of that that. 589 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,160 Speaker 1: And you and then you're gonna go, Then you're gonna go. 590 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: I put my foot in it, and this is what 591 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,480 Speaker 1: I do. Rashan see, I'll see. That's like you're talking 592 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: smack to me, Maya. I don't talk smack. I'll back 593 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,799 Speaker 1: it up. Okay. I am a walker, not a talker. Okay, okay, 594 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: I'll see a lot of good looking photos of you, 595 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: But I just don't see a lot of good looking 596 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: photos if you're eating or sitting down at the table. 597 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: Because you go to my website, at reshaw website, go 598 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 1: to Rashan if you have time. I'm now you're busy 599 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: to go to at Sean McDonald. You're gonna see pas, 600 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: You're gonna see food. You're gonna get hungry looking at 601 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,400 Speaker 1: my timeline. I'm just gonna people tell that. Go to 602 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: my last post and swipe left to speak what I 603 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 1: mean to see all this goodness and it's healthy. And 604 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 1: it's healthy because because see, I'm going to see like 605 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,800 Speaker 1: in my continer every o Monday, I draw all my 606 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: recordings from my podcast Money Making Conversations, and I bring 607 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: the fruit. I bring nuts, you know, and I'm a 608 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 1: little small jar. I have watermelon, I have grapes. I 609 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 1: have bananas with me and all that good stuff. I 610 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: hate some corn bread and a little red very cupcake already, 611 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: but you know I have to do like that. But 612 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: you say right here, dairy and egg free pancakes and waffles, 613 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:13,840 Speaker 1: fredge toast and doughnuts, dairy and egg free. You've made these. 614 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:19,879 Speaker 1: You made some good tasting dairy free pancakes, Maya. Yes, 615 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 1: you know why because this plant based elk is on 616 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,399 Speaker 1: the coconut cash, shoe hemp, and even oat milk. Oat 617 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 1: milk is my favorite milk, and so I use that 618 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,880 Speaker 1: because the dairy industry is first of all cruel, but 619 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,439 Speaker 1: they also put antibiotics, steroids all in it, and there's 620 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 1: plenty of hormones and it's supposed to grow a baby 621 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 1: chass to five hundred pounds in one year, and that's 622 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: where our kids are getting rested at nine years old, 623 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 1: and all kinds of other stuff, and itto the very 624 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,440 Speaker 1: cool industry when you really understand what really happens behind 625 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 1: closed doors. And so I am spiritually and because of 626 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 1: what I do know, which most people are not taught. 627 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,280 Speaker 1: But also it's that it has on the human body. 628 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 1: And there are plant based alternatives which are much healthier 629 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: for you and won't lead to cancer. And for ex abstitute, 630 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: there's all kinds of except products that are egg free. 631 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: You know, eggs have high cholesterol, and that's an egg 632 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 1: problem in in my family activity, and I want to 633 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: avoid that and break the generational course. But also that 634 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 1: industry is full of quality as well. And that's all 635 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: that I started. God, I'm I'm gonna say too much, 636 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: pot Well is that maya? Okay? I'm a fan now, Okay, 637 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 1: I've always been a fan, but I'm now you got 638 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: me in the you know the side of the table. 639 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: I'm sitting at the table eating with you now here. Now, 640 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: I would you go toe a little backstory of Rashan. 641 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 1: I have a new office in Atlanta, George. It has 642 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: a fully built out kitchen, okay. And the reason I 643 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaker 1: built that fully built out that kitchen was that you know, 644 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 1: I'm I'm an award winning baker. Like I said, you 645 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,239 Speaker 1: go to average, don't You'll see your boy can throw down. 646 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 1: You're talking about putting your foot all in it. I 647 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 1: put my foot all in it too. I can't dance 648 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,359 Speaker 1: like you, but I'll be I'll be turning my foot 649 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,879 Speaker 1: up in there too. Okay. So just to just throw 650 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: a little smack talk back in your direction about what 651 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: I can do from okay, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, okay. 652 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,280 Speaker 1: So so when we when we get this calm down 653 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 1: a little bit, when we feel comfortable with each other, 654 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 1: and you you may be coming into Atlanta acting opportunities, 655 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 1: or you might be visiting. You gotta come by my office, okay, 656 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:29,359 Speaker 1: and so we can talk about this because you are 657 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,759 Speaker 1: a walking, talking TV show. You got the personally, you're 658 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:34,879 Speaker 1: a beautiful person. And we're gonna cook. I'm gonna cook 659 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,920 Speaker 1: with Sean and you might are gonna cook whole way 660 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,360 Speaker 1: and we're gonna see what gonna go down. How about that? 661 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: Is that all right? That's cool? I will hold you along. 662 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,799 Speaker 1: I really, I really appreciate you calling it on my show, 663 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation, Maya. And I'm serious. You're so talented 664 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: and you're so wonderful you and the things that you're 665 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: doing in life, and we so need what you're talking about. 666 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,040 Speaker 1: From a dietary standpoint, we as African Americans, we ask 667 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,520 Speaker 1: people of color have to change our eating habits. The 668 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,880 Speaker 1: pandemic has told us this. We've said this. We've always 669 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,200 Speaker 1: had that running joke in our community that we have 670 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 1: to eat better. We're always had running brodoms that we 671 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 1: got the sugars that you know, we old beest, we 672 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: have clogging arteries, all these things. They're not jokes anymore 673 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,319 Speaker 1: because COVID Nateen is proven to beat the truth. And 674 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: I want to thank you because I will support you 675 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 1: this week. If I'll go out on my mail in 676 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,360 Speaker 1: this this Wednesday, it will go on my social media 677 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,360 Speaker 1: this week because your brand is a very positive brand 678 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,480 Speaker 1: and I want to keep supporting this alright with you, Mayo. 679 00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 1: I appreciate that, yes, and my support as well. How 680 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 1: can I support you further? All right, as long as 681 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,520 Speaker 1: you just stop talking smack, Because until I eat something 682 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,319 Speaker 1: that you eat, I'm gonna just tell you right now, Mike, 683 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 1: you are just only just oh she just she just talked, smack. You. 684 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,319 Speaker 1: I have to eventually eat something or put me in 685 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: that little soldier class that you did. And I can 686 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: watch you do your thing and do me a favor. 687 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: Start putting more food on your social media and all that, 688 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,319 Speaker 1: because we need to know you got the founder you 689 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,359 Speaker 1: you're talking about. This makes you look good. You're not 690 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: mad at nobody anymore. So you've been a vegan. You 691 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,600 Speaker 1: don't have depression because you're a vegan. I need to 692 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 1: see more food on your side, young lady. Okay, all over, 693 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:22,640 Speaker 1: my babe, I'm I'm calling up by big time. We 694 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,920 Speaker 1: talked soon. I appreciate you. All right, all right, thank you. 695 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,000 Speaker 1: If you want to hear more of Money Making Conversation interviews, 696 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,279 Speaker 1: please go to Money Making Conversation dot com. I'm with 697 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,440 Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I'm your host. In this season of giving, 698 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,439 Speaker 1: Coals has gifts for all your loved ones. For those 699 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,920 Speaker 1: who like to keep it cozy, find fleeces, sweaters, loungeware, 700 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,760 Speaker 1: blankets and throws. Or support minority owned or founded brands 701 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,320 Speaker 1: by giving gifts from Human Nation and Shame moisture. 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