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Chef Jamika Pessoa (2nd Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest is one of my favorites. This is
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Speaker 1: what it's called the long term relationships because we've known
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Speaker 1: each other the way back when she came back and
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Speaker 1: used to do samples thankful meals on the Steve Harvard
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Speaker 1: Mourning Show when I was executive produced and co created
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvard Morning Show, which Steve Harvey say the words
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Speaker 1: chef and traditionally it conjures up images of a big
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Speaker 1: white hat, a top, a restaurant chef. However, the recipe
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Speaker 1: for this dynamic chef goes against all traditions. Chef Jamica
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Speaker 1: is known for her bowl flavors and sassy personality to
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Speaker 1: say the least, my next guest. You love watching her
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Speaker 1: on the Food Network, the Cooking Channel and every win
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Speaker 1: she posts amazing recipes on my at Rashwan McDonald facebook page.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome my friend to Money Making Conversation, Chef Jamica.
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Speaker 1: I love listening to you, can listen to you forever.
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Speaker 1: Thank you and thank you. I appreciate that. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm starting to get those emails, you know, the text said,
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Speaker 1: hey Rischan, you know what you're saying, and people starting
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Speaker 1: to find the show, and uh, I'm so excited because
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Speaker 1: I just want to be consistent, and not only with
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Speaker 1: people come on the show, but people who I'll invite
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Speaker 1: back to the show. They really you know, you come
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Speaker 1: on the show, you kind of come on. Let sure
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Speaker 1: you hear about Richelle that I have a relationship. Maybe
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Speaker 1: do when you do the show? Go wow, this show
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Speaker 1: is kind of different. He has no agenda. He just
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Speaker 1: wants to promote and be happy and and tell people's
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Speaker 1: success stories and share those that information. And you have
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Speaker 1: a great story to share. That's why I always bring
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Speaker 1: you back on my show. Thank you, Jeff. Yeah, And
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Speaker 1: I mean just listen to you. I'm like, he's telling
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Speaker 1: the truth. You can do it all. And people think, oh,
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Speaker 1: you can't have it all. Yes you can. You just
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Speaker 1: have to figure out your purpose. And a lot of
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Speaker 1: people like, oh, what's my purpose? It is whatever you
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Speaker 1: do to make somebody else smile. And for me, that's
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Speaker 1: through my food. I was pulling this to make people
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Speaker 1: smile with my food. And thank god, I can get
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Speaker 1: paid for it. I can get TV in doing it.
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Speaker 1: But everybody has put on this earth for a reason
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Speaker 1: and you just got to figure out what that is.
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Speaker 1: And yes, you can get paid very nicely for it,
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Speaker 1: but you can also be happy with what you do.
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Speaker 1: So I appreciate that you do this show that people
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Speaker 1: can hear stories and from so many different walks of
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Speaker 1: life and actually put themselves in those shoes and say
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Speaker 1: I can do this. Why am I not doing this?
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Speaker 1: Because they can do it, I can do it. So
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Speaker 1: that's why I just appreciate what you stand for what
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Speaker 1: you do. And I appreciate you having me on because
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Speaker 1: I get to tell my story and inspire other people
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Speaker 1: to do it, because I don't want to be the
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Speaker 1: only one to kitchen. Absolutely, absolutely, And the great thing
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Speaker 1: about it is that our relationship is over ten years
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Speaker 1: old and but we don't look at that's the good thing.
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Speaker 1: Guess what life is good for both of us. But
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Speaker 1: I think they they think that's health because we're happy
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Speaker 1: people and we don't allow we don't stay in stressful
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Speaker 1: situations and a lot of people do that. They're just
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Speaker 1: hanging there was bothering them, and they let they bother
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Speaker 1: bothering situations. Just take control of their lives and their
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Speaker 1: decision makings. And guess what they distressed. Grumpy people are
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Speaker 1: good people don't want to hang around them. Yeah, And it.
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Speaker 1: Worry will affect you mentally, physically, emotionally. You can you
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Speaker 1: can look at people and tell when they're wearing their worry.
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Speaker 1: So we don't have time for that. Can't make time
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Speaker 1: or space that it was so funny. It was off air,
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Speaker 1: and I said, let's bring this story on air every Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: If you can't catch it on the Food Channel, you
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Speaker 1: can't catch your on the Cooking channel, can't catch your
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Speaker 1: on some national TV show. Well, every Wednesday she posts
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Speaker 1: amazing photos, a video, a recipe of something that she's
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Speaker 1: recommending that easy to cook, easy to prepare, easy to bake,
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Speaker 1: and one affordable too and affordable. And one time, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know what time is it going through my Facebook
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Speaker 1: for you posted what it was like People Magazine? Right, Yes,
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Speaker 1: that was my debut in People Magazine for the fourth
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Speaker 1: of July, and they called me out of blue, which
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Speaker 1: is so crazy, but I mean, people see you out there,
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Speaker 1: put your stuff out there, people will find you. And
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Speaker 1: they asked me to do a dessert recipe for the
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Speaker 1: fourth of July. So I did my ice cream sandwich
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Speaker 1: canpies and it's the simplest recipe but everybody loved it.
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Speaker 1: I think because it's so similar and it's ingredient you
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Speaker 1: having your pantry and your viewers. I mean, they just
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Speaker 1: loved it. I mean it was just basic pyro pie
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Speaker 1: dough and that you can buy in the store and
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Speaker 1: whatever jam or juggy you want, and I made it red,
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Speaker 1: white and blue, and it was just such an honor
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Speaker 1: to do that, and so many people responded so well.
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Speaker 1: So I hope everybody made it, and you can still
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Speaker 1: find it on there, and you can make it for
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Speaker 1: a Labor Day coming up or any time you want to,
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Speaker 1: any holiday coming up. And it's just so easy. That's
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Speaker 1: patted my recipes after being so simple, so easy, so affordable,
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Speaker 1: Like who has time to waste in the kitchen? I
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Speaker 1: don't have all day for that. I'm a chef, but
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Speaker 1: I make food for real people and real recipes. So
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Speaker 1: it was just such an honesty. So many people loved its.
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Speaker 1: Nine people, nine thousand people. I went, Okay, you know, Rain,
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Speaker 1: that's a testament to your brand because people have to
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Speaker 1: believe that's that's a layer of credibility that comes with
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Speaker 1: those lights. You know, they've seen your brand, You've been consistent,
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Speaker 1: and that's what I love about when we talk about
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Speaker 1: coming on the show, I asked you to do me
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Speaker 1: your favorite. So what you love? I said, I love
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Speaker 1: the sponsor or promote a post about food. I said,
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Speaker 1: every Wednesday, I'm giving you a slot. You give me
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Speaker 1: what recipe you want. And I posted, So every Wednesday
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Speaker 1: she post. And that's just a byproduct of that consistency. Bam,
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Speaker 1: you go. Wow, it's worth. It was worth, And I
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Speaker 1: love the comments to people have such great comments and
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Speaker 1: they tag other people like you need to make this
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Speaker 1: for me or I'm making this for you this weekend.
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Speaker 1: So it really does build a whole family of everybody
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Speaker 1: enjoying good food. I still love that. You know, it
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Speaker 1: was interesting about summertime. It's always uh tied to barbecue,
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Speaker 1: and it's a it's a kind of annoying because I
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Speaker 1: eat barbecue yere in. So I'm trying to figure out,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, because people all got the great
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Speaker 1: barbecue recipe or something great. Okay, but I can eat
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Speaker 1: barbecue anytime, anywhere, and when bob a warm and you
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Speaker 1: don't know what the weather's gonna be, that girl any time, right,
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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to figure out, how does a food
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Speaker 1: that you eat year round only gets celebrated in the summer.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like it's just an easy way to sell it.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, growing up the South, I mean we
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Speaker 1: barbered you year round. It doesn't matter if it is
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Speaker 1: in the winter. You can still put that girl. But
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Speaker 1: you know what the way things are now, I mean
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Speaker 1: you can have indoor grills. You can find I have
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Speaker 1: a lot of recipes that are for the grill, but
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Speaker 1: you can also put them in the oven. I mean,
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Speaker 1: some people feel it's a sin to put some barbecue
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Speaker 1: ribs in the oven. It's as long as they taste
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Speaker 1: good and they're tender, does it really matter. I don't
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Speaker 1: think so. But I mean it's it's just something about
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Speaker 1: the summer and grilling. But I mean, the grill just
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Speaker 1: brings people together. You smell that grill down the street
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Speaker 1: and you know I'm going to their house because they're
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Speaker 1: cooking something good. And I love to do. I have
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Speaker 1: so many barbecue recipes, and I will say that I
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Speaker 1: I do have some real skills on the grill. I've
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Speaker 1: developers over time, and I do not give up my sekrets.
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Speaker 1: I love the way she was talking this years to
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Speaker 1: step back and okay, check yourself. Ah this is what
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Speaker 1: I do. Don't let the don't let the chelf and
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Speaker 1: the TV station fool you. I got skills when I
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Speaker 1: agree with now absolutely, And ladies, we can be cute
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Speaker 1: on the grill. Don't believe that that only the guys
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Speaker 1: can grill. We can do our things too, So I
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Speaker 1: encourage all the ladies, pretty ladies out on the grill
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Speaker 1: any time of year. Do your thing. There you go.
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Speaker 1: Now let's talk about some projects, because we're gonna go
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Speaker 1: back and forth, because this is a friend talking to
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Speaker 1: a friend, relationship talking to a relationship on money making conversations.
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Speaker 1: Um every Wednesday coming up in the fall. Now you're
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Speaker 1: gonna make a regular appearance on Doctor Oz. Yes. Now,
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Speaker 1: we did it all last season and Dr Oz is
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Speaker 1: so gracious and everybody loves Dr oz Um he's asked
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Speaker 1: me to come back every Wednesday. We take over the
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Speaker 1: last thirty minutes of his show. And it's called the
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Speaker 1: Dish on Oz and it's myself, it's her, his daughter, Daphne,
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Speaker 1: she's a part of as well, and we just have
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Speaker 1: fun in the kitchen. We give you great recipes and
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Speaker 1: they're not all just healthy. And don't think that Dr
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Speaker 1: Oz is like, oh, it's got to be some killing
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Speaker 1: and it's got to be healthy. He just enjoys good
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Speaker 1: food and so I give him all of that. We
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Speaker 1: have cocktails, we laugh, we talk. It's so much, so
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Speaker 1: much fun and you just kind of let your hair
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Speaker 1: down and you just come to the table. So I
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Speaker 1: encourage everybody this fall. You have to check it out
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Speaker 1: d v RT. If you're at work, watch it on
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Speaker 1: your phone, do whatever you have to do with Every Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: You can see me there just dancing, having a good time.
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Speaker 1: I love that audience. I just love being out there.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting by doctor Oz because you know, you're the
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Speaker 1: word doctor. He's built a career on being a medical expert.
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Speaker 1: And you've seen this show evolved the last few year.
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Speaker 1: Is evolved to a lifestyle show. A lifestyle show. So
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Speaker 1: when you get the call to appear old Doctors, what
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Speaker 1: were the first thought? Was that healthy concept running through
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Speaker 1: your mind? Or when when you got the call to
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Speaker 1: do doctors before you realize you know something, I can
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Speaker 1: just be me and you know what, that's exactly what
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Speaker 1: it is. Because I'm a classically trained chef. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm traveled all over the world and I've cooked all
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Speaker 1: over the world. So when I got the call, I
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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, now the world can just see what
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Speaker 1: a different type of chef looks like. I don't dress
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Speaker 1: like what I don't. I don't feel like when people
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Speaker 1: seem they're like, you're a chef, you don't look like
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Speaker 1: a chef. What does that look like? I just look
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Speaker 1: like a woman that love to have fun in the
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Speaker 1: kitchen and give people good food. So when they said
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Speaker 1: we want you to bring your perspective to the kitchen
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Speaker 1: and bring your your career beyond slaver and your southern
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Speaker 1: dishes and just bring the party, I'm like, that is
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Speaker 1: exactly what I want to do. And the party doesn't
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Speaker 1: always have to be deep fried and smother than eathing.
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Speaker 1: You can have a party and keep it light and
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Speaker 1: cute and fun, and then we can go for the
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Speaker 1: comfort food. So I love to give people just a
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Speaker 1: wide range and always pair something with a fun cocktail
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Speaker 1: on mocktail, because you know, it's always a party when
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Speaker 1: you have a good drink in your hand. So I
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Speaker 1: just love to just I'm the party. I am the
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Speaker 1: life of the party, and I'm My motto is life
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Speaker 1: is a party. So you have to live it like one.
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Speaker 1: So that's just what I bring every Wednesday. We know.
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Speaker 1: The fun part about hearing you that's a that's a
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Speaker 1: brand as a talent. You know, I can hear your
10:03
Speaker 1: boss is so much stronger, so much more detail. And
10:06
Speaker 1: because you know, opportunities to keep coming anyway, because we
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Speaker 1: all know we're just trying to get in the lane.
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Speaker 1: We're just trying to get out there. Yes, and then
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Speaker 1: when you start getting a Doctors, you get a People magazine,
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Speaker 1: it starts giving you the confidence. Okay, I am. People
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Speaker 1: are recognizing that what I do is a reality because
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Speaker 1: we all have dreams. And that's the thing. People they
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Speaker 1: only see me with the Doctors and the People magazine
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Speaker 1: and like, oh, I want to do that too, But
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Speaker 1: they didn't see me starting out as an intern at
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Speaker 1: hotels in Atlanta and want to culinary school and in
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Speaker 1: the trenches, stand up late and catering parties as a
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Speaker 1: one woman caterer for parties of people of a hundred
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Speaker 1: and two people because I couldn't afford the staff. So
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Speaker 1: you gotta everybody starts at one place and then you
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Speaker 1: just continue to go and grow, and that's how you
10:52
Speaker 1: know you're doing the right thing because the money and
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Speaker 1: the fame and the accolades that comes last. So if
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Speaker 1: you're trying to do it for that, you're you're already
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Speaker 1: losing the race. But I started and I continued to
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Speaker 1: it because I just love feeding people and I just
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Speaker 1: love seeing people smile when my food shows up, when
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Speaker 1: I show up or anything, or they say I major
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Speaker 1: when your recipes, and my family love it, like I
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Speaker 1: just love feeding people. So that's why I do it
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Speaker 1: every day. So you have to connect yourself to whatever
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Speaker 1: your purposes or something that you will do it every
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Speaker 1: single day just because you love doing it. And all
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Speaker 1: the other rewards everything comes after the fact that you
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Speaker 1: you once you put it out there. But we do
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Speaker 1: it everybody. We're talking to the Chef Jamiko. You're listening
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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation. Will be back. I need to
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Speaker 1: know about some juicy sliders. I need to nobody grilling
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Speaker 1: in the food. And we've got some TV shows that
11:42
Speaker 1: we've got to promote that's happening in the fall. More
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Speaker 1: with Chef Jamika. You're listening to the Money Making Conversation.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host with Sean McDonald. Hi, this is Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to money making conversation, your show, and I said,
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Speaker 1: one more time, your show a show that I created.
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Speaker 1: I got great producers. I don't do this show by myself,
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Speaker 1: like people who will help me book to show how
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Speaker 1: people who helped me produce the show. I have people
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Speaker 1: who correct me when I make a mistake, because guess what,
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Speaker 1: I make mistakes on this show. And they said, with Sean,
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't have said that you should You should start
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Speaker 1: your show like this, And all those notes, all those
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Speaker 1: moments helped me become a better host, a better provider
12:24
Speaker 1: of information to people who listen to money making conversation.
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Speaker 1: And basically, I'm letting you know no one is too
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Speaker 1: old or too big to not be criticized or take
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Speaker 1: a note to make you better. That's an ego. Slide
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Speaker 1: your ego to the right, slide to the left. Accept
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Speaker 1: the responsibility that you can learn more if you accept more.
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Speaker 1: That's why I am who I am today. That's why
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Speaker 1: people come to my show because they're letting you know
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Speaker 1: the leap from the start to the end, or the
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Speaker 1: start to the middle of the start, and you're still
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Speaker 1: at the beginning. It's gonna be a journey and those
12:56
Speaker 1: journeys have to be told, and you have to hear
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Speaker 1: them to know that. Guess what one year later, two
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Speaker 1: years later, you might think that the ship has passed
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Speaker 1: you by. That is not the case. The ship will
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Speaker 1: never pass you by if you don't give up on
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Speaker 1: the ship or the dream or put a plant in place.
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Speaker 1: That's when key you have to put a plan in place.
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Speaker 1: I guess she's on the phone again. She's back. Her
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Speaker 1: voice is silky smooth to day. Like I said earlier.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know she's not the chef with the
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Speaker 1: big hat in the restaurant. Come out there, look like
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Speaker 1: they're conducting surgery back there on meat. That's not her.
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Speaker 1: She got she got swag as they say, she has
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Speaker 1: stopped like they say she has a lettle jam like.
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Speaker 1: They say, please, welcome to the show again, Chef Jamika. Yes,
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Speaker 1: And and everybody's like, oh, well, you know it's so funny.
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Speaker 1: People say, oh, well you're chef. What restaurants you work at?
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Speaker 1: What restaurant? I'm like, you don't have to own a
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Speaker 1: restaurant to be a show because I'm like Drake, I
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Speaker 1: did it without one. I became a TV person, oelit
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Speaker 1: and TV host. I didn't have the big restaurant or
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Speaker 1: or the James Beards Awards. You don't have to have
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Speaker 1: any of that. And don't let about telling you have
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Speaker 1: to start with that in order to get to a
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Speaker 1: certain place. We are doing it with all just who
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Speaker 1: we are and what I have to offer, and that's it.
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Speaker 1: So I just I just thought how your show just
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Speaker 1: puts things in perspective for people. You take what you
14:12
Speaker 1: got and you run with whatever it is you got.
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Speaker 1: You don't need all those other things, and I personally
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Speaker 1: have done that, and and it just allows me to
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Speaker 1: uh it. Really, I would just tell you this, chef
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Speaker 1: to because this show has been an lightning show for
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Speaker 1: me about what I've accomplished and the people that I
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Speaker 1: have affected over the years that I didn't realize because
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Speaker 1: I was just racing and people ask before advice. I
14:32
Speaker 1: give me advice and they go, wow, thank you. And
14:35
Speaker 1: then because I'm I'm gonna pretty straight for a guy,
14:37
Speaker 1: if you come to me, I'm gonna say don't do that.
14:39
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say why are you doing that? I'll say
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Speaker 1: stop that. I will not because I'm not trying to
14:43
Speaker 1: make money off of you. So my decisions that all
14:45
Speaker 1: opinions I give to you are never driven by income
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Speaker 1: and driven by fact and driven by experience, and that's
14:53
Speaker 1: really important. So when I look at what you're accomplished
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Speaker 1: in your career and the journey we've had together, as
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Speaker 1: as as people allowing me to produce, you allowing you
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Speaker 1: to come on the show and give advice. But it
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Speaker 1: all comes back to food now. Food now, the thing
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Speaker 1: has really started to pop off really strong that I've
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Speaker 1: started eating is grilled fruits. And then I missed a
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Speaker 1: boat on the grill food, real food. What do you know?
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Speaker 1: What you have? You never com miss a boat because
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Speaker 1: is what you started whenever you want to. But I
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Speaker 1: kind of look at grilled fruit as it's people been
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Speaker 1: sleeping on it for way too long, and then like
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Speaker 1: grill fruit, what I want to cook for fruit for?
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Speaker 1: You are missing your life if you do not know
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Speaker 1: what the taste of a fresh like ripe pineapple or
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Speaker 1: a mango or watermelon with some charred grilled marks on it,
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Speaker 1: so it's smoky. When you put some heat to fruit,
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Speaker 1: it brings out the natural sweetness in it, so it's
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Speaker 1: even sweeter than what you you purchased it from. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it just takes everything you do to another level. So
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Speaker 1: when I'm sitting on my buffet and anything like that,
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Speaker 1: I feel like grill fruit to me is the new tomato.
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Speaker 1: I don't garnish my burgers sandwiches with a regular tomato
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Speaker 1: or pickle. I use grill peaches and grill pears and
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Speaker 1: grilled pineapples like it just brings this salty and and sweet,
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Speaker 1: kind of savory and sweet kind of world to it
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Speaker 1: that is just out of this world. You better get
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Speaker 1: on board. If you don't know what you're what you're missing, Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm missing. I had to bring that up because I
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Speaker 1: guess because you know, I got the grill pineapple. I've
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Speaker 1: had that, you know, but I'd like to strawberries, grow watermelon,
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Speaker 1: grill peaches, um, grill pears Like I mean, that is
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Speaker 1: it takes things to new heights when you start just
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Speaker 1: grilling things you didn't even think you could grill. Okay,
16:34
Speaker 1: I got I got to time left because I gotta.
16:36
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I definitely want to give you
16:38
Speaker 1: time to talk about two projects that I always have
16:41
Speaker 1: a good time as Guy's Grocery Games. Don't you just
16:43
Speaker 1: glove that show? Just yelling at the TV, like how
16:46
Speaker 1: you haven't pay it up? I love judging that show.
16:49
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so much fun you watch on TV,
16:51
Speaker 1: but it's so much more fun and just being in
16:53
Speaker 1: the actual grocery store. And it's such an honor to
16:56
Speaker 1: be asked to be a judge. So September eighteens, I'll
16:59
Speaker 1: be on as a judge for Guys Grocery Games and
17:02
Speaker 1: the episode is actually honoring the Califier California Firefighters, really
17:07
Speaker 1: given honor to first responders. It was just such a
17:09
Speaker 1: pleasure being in the midst of all of them. And
17:12
Speaker 1: then also on Food Network and everybody Halloween is coming
17:16
Speaker 1: to Halloween. Let's talk about grocery and it's the Gingerbread
17:20
Speaker 1: Showdown and this is the second season and I had
17:23
Speaker 1: so much fun during the last season as a judge.
17:25
Speaker 1: And if you didn't see it last year, you better
17:27
Speaker 1: catch on one because it takes everything that you love
17:30
Speaker 1: about Halloween, the gore, the just the fun and it's
17:34
Speaker 1: the excitement of it. And they artists translate everything through Gingerbread,
17:39
Speaker 1: so they just bring these themes to light. And every
17:42
Speaker 1: episode is centered around a classic eighties horror movie. So
17:45
Speaker 1: if you are eighties. Baby, this is your season because
17:48
Speaker 1: it's so much fun to see some of your favorite movies,
17:50
Speaker 1: like Wow, I can't believe they did that, and it's
17:52
Speaker 1: all with gingerbread. And then at the end I get
17:55
Speaker 1: to give away as one of the the judges, giveaway twin dollars.
17:59
Speaker 1: Give it away now see you. I was I wanted
18:03
Speaker 1: to bring back you. You just hear me say Jeff
18:05
Speaker 1: Dimico when you're talking about God's grocery games, because that
18:08
Speaker 1: game is such a natural to me because I do
18:10
Speaker 1: it every time I go in the grocery store. And
18:12
Speaker 1: you kind of do it, racing around and you're like, wait, woman, cook,
18:15
Speaker 1: what don't we do? The clock is racing and then
18:17
Speaker 1: you look you like, wait minute, I don't have the
18:19
Speaker 1: money for all of this. You gotta put stuff back.
18:20
Speaker 1: And it's just so crazy, like you know you're going
18:23
Speaker 1: And that's why that's why it's such a popular show,
18:25
Speaker 1: because we all do it. We're going the grocery store going, okay,
18:27
Speaker 1: I want to make Lazagno, I don't want to make
18:29
Speaker 1: I want to bake a cake. And you go down
18:30
Speaker 1: these aisles and and go off the bid that you
18:34
Speaker 1: forget something that you thought your head at the house.
18:37
Speaker 1: You get to the house and it's not there. Suddenly
18:39
Speaker 1: you gotta well just say kind of like, uh, mix
18:43
Speaker 1: up or make it work? You make it work? To
18:46
Speaker 1: make it work? Will grocery deliver to pick up? They
18:50
Speaker 1: don't know what it's like to push a cart through
18:52
Speaker 1: the grocery store like that. People are missing that arn't
18:55
Speaker 1: form now. So just to go through the store and
18:58
Speaker 1: see these contestants, they got so much heart and think
19:01
Speaker 1: about it because everybody says on the account saying, or
19:02
Speaker 1: I could do that, I can make a burger, but
19:04
Speaker 1: you have the clock racing against You have to whatever
19:07
Speaker 1: the game is that guy throws at you, and he
19:09
Speaker 1: comes up with the wackiest game. The tension of the
19:11
Speaker 1: cameras in the lighting and the judges yelling hurry up
19:14
Speaker 1: and get this, Like what would you do in that moment?
19:17
Speaker 1: Would you actually even produce anything on the plate. So
19:19
Speaker 1: I tell everybody, if you want to talk trash, submit
19:21
Speaker 1: yourself for the show because they're always looking for new people.
19:24
Speaker 1: But it's just an adrenaline rush like no other new people.
19:29
Speaker 1: And I get to taste and tell people what the
19:31
Speaker 1: great things about everything they did. So I love my job.
19:34
Speaker 1: New people who can cook, new people who can make.
19:37
Speaker 1: Just don't go there just to just be shopping, going
19:39
Speaker 1: in there trying to make some sloppy Joes. This is
19:41
Speaker 1: not the TV show the best sloppy Joe anyone who's
19:46
Speaker 1: ever tasted in that light and also hope that that's
19:48
Speaker 1: what they ask for, Like, you know what, I ran
19:52
Speaker 1: out of time, So I just made a shoppy show.
19:54
Speaker 1: Like what do you think? What do you think? What
19:56
Speaker 1: do you think? Judges? Get him off the show. We
20:01
Speaker 1: need to find the tale. I will find it. Let
20:03
Speaker 1: me say, I will find a nice way to tell
20:05
Speaker 1: you about your sloppy Joe and then tell you the
20:07
Speaker 1: exit left. But as a judge, I have to tell
20:09
Speaker 1: you the good and the bad. But I'll tell you
20:12
Speaker 1: how much I appreciate you coming through to do that. Now,
20:15
Speaker 1: you're also doing something based in Atlanta. You're doing something
20:18
Speaker 1: as a celebrity with some type of catering service that
20:21
Speaker 1: you're catering that you're building that out more in the
20:24
Speaker 1: city of Atlanta. Well, you know, I started catering in Atlanta,
20:28
Speaker 1: and I was catering for like different celebrities and athletes
20:31
Speaker 1: and doing events. But the thing is now that TV
20:34
Speaker 1: has taken off and I'm traveling so much, I really
20:37
Speaker 1: don't even have the chance to do the catering like
20:39
Speaker 1: I used to. So when people email me like, oh,
20:42
Speaker 1: can you do my wet and I'm like, well, that
20:44
Speaker 1: day I got to do good more in America, I
20:45
Speaker 1: can't do you wed, but I'd love it. I mean,
20:48
Speaker 1: it's just such a blessing to start in one place
20:51
Speaker 1: with my business that I built out from the bottom up.
20:54
Speaker 1: I mean, it was literally a one woman show and
20:56
Speaker 1: to have so many people call and want me to
20:59
Speaker 1: cook for their But now it's just it's television just
21:02
Speaker 1: taken on a world of its own that I don't
21:05
Speaker 1: even have the time to do it. So I don't
21:08
Speaker 1: email me and ask any Katie a cousin win because
21:10
Speaker 1: I can't do it no more. But I mean, it's
21:12
Speaker 1: just such an honor to still know that people are
21:15
Speaker 1: looking for that and that's where I started. I never
21:17
Speaker 1: forget where I started. Also, that would have been closing.
21:20
Speaker 1: I just want to talk about you know, I don't
21:22
Speaker 1: even consider it a leap of faith because of the
21:24
Speaker 1: fact that you had talent. A lot of people have
21:26
Speaker 1: to understand that when you make a decision like I
21:28
Speaker 1: quit I be because I was very I was a
21:30
Speaker 1: very talented comedian, you know, so I knew that if
21:34
Speaker 1: I just stayed the course and just work hard, I
21:36
Speaker 1: can make money. And what I did. But you have
21:39
Speaker 1: a corporate job to pursue your passion of cooking and
21:42
Speaker 1: leaped into it and that left result and you're becoming
21:44
Speaker 1: a TV personality. Just talk about that experience a little
21:47
Speaker 1: bit and share that journey a little bit with my
21:49
Speaker 1: audience so they can know there are steps to it.
21:52
Speaker 1: There is it is a leap of faith. But you
21:54
Speaker 1: were talented. Well, I think it's it's a combination of
21:57
Speaker 1: a lot of things because I start it out cooking
22:01
Speaker 1: with my grandmother and I just love just just what's
22:04
Speaker 1: the the energy and the life that she brought to
22:07
Speaker 1: the table with her food. And I saw that. But
22:10
Speaker 1: I know at that time, I never considered it as
22:12
Speaker 1: a career. It was like, Okay, you gotta be in
22:14
Speaker 1: an office. She got told a suit you gotta be professional,
22:16
Speaker 1: like you gotta follow all these rules that somebody else said,
22:18
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, I guess this is what I'm
22:20
Speaker 1: supposed to do after I graduate from college. But in
22:23
Speaker 1: all actuality. Cooking was the only thing that I was
22:27
Speaker 1: good at no matter what. And I encourage people to
22:30
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what to do. Get a sheet
22:31
Speaker 1: of paper and you write down the things that you're
22:34
Speaker 1: you you like, the things that you're good at, and
22:37
Speaker 1: then the things that you're great at. And cooking was like,
22:40
Speaker 1: even if I tried to fail, it was like, but
22:42
Speaker 1: it still kind of tastes pretty good like I was.
22:44
Speaker 1: That was I was just great. And that is your gift,
22:46
Speaker 1: that is your talent, that's your thing good stuff. That's
22:49
Speaker 1: kind of like your side or your hustle or I
22:52
Speaker 1: can do that just because I like to do what
22:54
Speaker 1: I can do it for free. But what's you're great at?
22:56
Speaker 1: Like that is the path that you run on. And
22:59
Speaker 1: it was just all signs lead to food for me
23:02
Speaker 1: and then getting into entertainment. It was just as I
23:05
Speaker 1: got my confidence in the kitchen, I realized I don't
23:08
Speaker 1: want to be so serious in the kitchen. I want
23:10
Speaker 1: to have some fun and I just let my personality
23:13
Speaker 1: shine and people just just took to it. So, I mean,
23:15
Speaker 1: you'll develop how you your your niche over time, but
23:20
Speaker 1: it's really just sitting out what am I really great
23:23
Speaker 1: at what do I love doing more than anything? And
23:26
Speaker 1: you the arrows will lead to that sign. It will
23:29
Speaker 1: just be like why didn't I think that? It will
23:30
Speaker 1: come to you and you'll see that. And that's how
23:32
Speaker 1: I decided to become a chef, just the one thing
23:36
Speaker 1: I just didn't. Even if I failed, it was still
23:39
Speaker 1: pretty darned good chef as usual. You're wonderful. Thank you,
23:44
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