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Dr. Tabitha Carr talks Vegan lifestyle & the reason for starting vegan-based Good Girl Chocolate · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: she's the leading authority in the field of women's health
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  Speaker 1: and wellness. She's the founder of the vegan based Good
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  Speaker 1: Girl Chocolate, a bestselling author. After high school, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about all this and continue to battle high blood pressure
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  Speaker 1: and blood were all nobody in the black community or
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  Speaker 1: the minority community. High blood pressures always out there, and
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  Speaker 1: sugar and balances. Dr Tapatha decided not only to focus
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  Speaker 1: on her diet and desire to contribute positive energy to
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  Speaker 1: the community, but through studies with the focus on women's
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  Speaker 1: health and wellness she created. She created Good Girl Chocolate
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  Speaker 1: to thrive at the intersection of science, simplicity, and flavor.
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  Speaker 1: Good Girl Chocolate has been featured in the Grammys Gift
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  Speaker 1: was a grand recipient of Beyonce's Big Good Foundation. Our
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  Speaker 1: healthy lifestyle and becoming a leading authority in the field
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  Speaker 1: For the very first time. I feel like I've known
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  Speaker 1: that because we've had some technical glitches. Dr Tabatha car Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing good morning, Good morning, I am fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing well? I'm doing good. You know,
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  Speaker 1: eating some of your chocolate. So I was kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one thing I've learned now, when you eat
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  Speaker 1: something that good, you shouldn't like immediately going to introducing someone.
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  Speaker 1: So in between between certain sentences, I was just getting
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  Speaker 1: that that that nice taste was just rushing through my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: And so I want to apologize to anybody going. Richard
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound like he normally sounds when he introduces people. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I was enjoying Good Girl chocolate. That was all in
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. It was all in my system, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: having a good I apologize. I apologize to everybody who's
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  Speaker 1: watching and everybody who's listening. I have some come to
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  Speaker 1: Good Girl chocolate, and that's a good thing. By the way.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're not the first one, and you are not the
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  Speaker 1: first one to taste good Girl chocolate and absolutely loved it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thrilled that you like it, well, I have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for sending me something. This is another packaging
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  Speaker 1: that she sent me. But I was dyning on this
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  Speaker 1: because the whole brownie batter. And this is this is
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  Speaker 1: the sweetest item that you make right here? Correct it is?
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  Speaker 1: It is. I started out making seventy percent dark chocolate,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not your average grocery store dark chocolate because
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  Speaker 1: folks can claim dark chocolate and have sixty percent sugar
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  Speaker 1: in it. So I have real seventy percent dark chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: And what I found is some people like a semi sweet,
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  Speaker 1: some people like a really sweet. So I go from
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent all the way down to thirty four percent
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  Speaker 1: co out so I can bless everyone's palate absolutely. You
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  Speaker 1: know the whole thing about it. When you put the
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  Speaker 1: word vegan in front of anything, people tend to run
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  Speaker 1: off or tend to think it doesn't taste the same,
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  Speaker 1: or it doesn't it's not going to taste as good.
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  Speaker 1: And right now this is like, this is a vegan, vased,
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  Speaker 1: able to deliver something I'm eating right now that tastes
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  Speaker 1: so very good, but also overcoming the stigma that if
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  Speaker 1: you go vegan, it will not taste as good. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. I have been on a different diet like
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  Speaker 1: every single day of my life. I was sixteen when
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  Speaker 1: I was put on my very first blood pressure pill,
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  Speaker 1: and I was a woman's size. So I've been on
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  Speaker 1: the keto diet, the cabbage suit diet, raw plant based,
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  Speaker 1: pest caterian, everything you can think of. So I actually
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  Speaker 1: wanted to create a chocolate that would basically fit into
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  Speaker 1: everyone healthy lifestyle. So what it actually is is a
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  Speaker 1: plant based chocolate that supports all healthy lifestyles. You can
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  Speaker 1: be vegan, you can be paleo, you can be whole thirty.
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  Speaker 1: It's soy free, it's gluten free for those who can't
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  Speaker 1: tolerate gluten or or um Ciliacs is soy free, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's non GMO, it's uh made with organic ingredients, it's
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  Speaker 1: single origin, fair trade, and it's being too bar So
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  Speaker 1: this is about really spreading this to everyone, not just vegans. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the thing about it is that I'm gonna be honest
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  Speaker 1: and I and I first want to start out by
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  Speaker 1: saying I identify with being plant based. So a vegan
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  Speaker 1: is truly a person who supports animals. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a movement. So they don't eat anything as it
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  Speaker 1: relates to animal products. They don't wear anything as it
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  Speaker 1: too relates to animal products. They are true animal activists. Um.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even consume honey um because it's produced from bees,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't use honey in my product as well
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  Speaker 1: because I want to make sure it's still supports that
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  Speaker 1: vegan lifestyle. A vegetarian is a non meat eater. However,
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  Speaker 1: they do consume things like cheese, they do consume things
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  Speaker 1: um like eggs, but vegans will not consume dairy. They
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  Speaker 1: about Good Girl Chocolate is whichever one you fall in,
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  Speaker 1: nearly an age of forty uh and not and you
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  Speaker 1: also wanted to have a normal life. Talk about that,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and then into good Girl chocolate. And I think the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: journey of our conversation would have a certain motivational tone
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to it and as well as a product that we
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: all should buy. Are all considered buying m absolutely so. So,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I have been on a diet every
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: single day of my life, a different diet every year
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: of my life. And one year, over ten years ago,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I decided to go raw. And of course, when you're
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: on a raw diet, you know you don't eat meat
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: unless you're gonna eat it raw. Uh. You know, you
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: don't eat cheese and dairy and things like that. So
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it was a truly raw diet. And I said, okay,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you know I need something sweet to eat, you know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to really wash down all the raw food. I'm telling you,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you those raw diets they are good in theory,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: but you gotta have something to get rid of that taste,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: thank you, Yes you do. So I started making raw chocolate.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I mean seriously, I would melt down cocoa butter at
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a hundred and twelve degrees because when you dehydrate your
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: food on a raw diet, you have to keep it
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: at that one hundred twelve degree temperature, so it's still
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: um is a raw food. But I would melt down
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: my cocoa butter, you know, mixing my cocoal powders and
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and coconut oils, and I would use organic raw agavey
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and all of this to mix up this chocolate. I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: brought bought equipment to mold the chocolate and it just
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: started from there. And I kept this chocolate to myself
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: for years. My mom loved it, and she was like,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you know what, you need to spread this chocolate to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the world. Let her okay. So back in two seventeen,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I went to the Texas Women's Conference and applied to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: present in front of QBC, and the food buyer loved
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the chocolate and she said, was actually like the best
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: chocolate um or plant based chocolate that shit ever tasted.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And that was my confirmation that I'm onto something. I
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: ended up quitting my my technology job and started my
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: own business, and by the time ten rolled around, I
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: was online. I had my own packaging, and I was
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: selling good Girl chocolate. But it's called good Girl chocolate
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: because you can eat it every single day and still
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: say you've been good. So it's about clean eating. It
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the hydrogenated oils in it. The sugar that
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I use is coconut sugar. It doesn't have table sugar
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in it. It's free from gluten, it's free from soy.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: It's single origin, it's fair trade, so the workers are
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: treated equally, and we make it ourselves. So it takes
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: four days. That brownie batter bar that you're eating, it
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: takes four days to make that chocolate because we actually
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: roast the beans ourselves and we put it into our
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: grinders and we grind the beans. We grind the coke chocolate.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Keep talking, Good Girl Flying George chocolate. Come on, now,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: that's right, and it is the best chocolate ever. And
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: let me tell you, if that one is too sweet
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: for you, then I'll put you in the semi sweet.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I love being able to figure out what people like,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: from the seventy percent dart to the dark to the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: thirty four percent dark, and just really enjoying chocolate. You know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: we have one life to live, and I believe in
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the room anyway. Um, you know you eat clean eighty
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: percent of your your your life. But that because we
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: have first days, we have Christmas Is, we have Thanksgiving,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and let me tell you, I get down during those days.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: But clean, Dr Vin, I just had gallbladder servery surgery.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You know, my gallbladder removement. What forty of course that's
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: when you usually the symptoms of having a gallbladder issue.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Now me, even good girl chocolate should be a good thing, right,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: So let me tell you this. Everything in moderation. And
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: as a natural apathic doctor, I do have to tell you, Um,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: when you do not have a gall bladder, it's harder
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: for you to digest bats. And that's why for all
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: of my clients I recommend a food enzyme that has
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: life paste in it because life paste actually helps you
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: digest bats. But everything, no matter what you're eating, whether
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it's the beyond sausager meat that we're talking about, you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: eat everything in moderation. Just because it's plant base doesn't
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: mean that you should be eating a whole wagon full
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: of it. A potato chip is plant based, but you
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: shouldn't eat the whole. However, a big bag of them
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: right right, And that's me. And as I tell one
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of those people, I eat out of control. Like when
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you said, Roche, you can eat this every day? I went, okay,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: But you need to get the whole story before you
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: start just jumping into the wagon and having a party
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and destroying all the good things that can happen in
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: your life by misinterpreting what you're trying to say in
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: this interview or want anybody's ever trying to say. It's
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: about moderation. Weight loss is bout moderation. Uh, living a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: comfortable life is moderation. They always tell you, don't overdrink,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: don't overparted, don't ever overdo it, don't over exercise, can
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: lease the knee injuries, pulled muscles. You know people out
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: there they want to become young in a day by
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: going into the gym and trying to run a mile
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: when they only should be walking a mile instead of
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: running the mile. And so the whole the whole purpose
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of when I look at the whole platform of what
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you've done with Good Girl Chocolate is tied to good
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: health and good healthy lifestyle, with moderation and a product
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that allows you to eat I'll never used the word
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: healthy and and mislead people. But this is a naturally Sweden.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: It is vegan based, and it's free of gluten, dairy
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and story and it's made with our GMOs. That's pretty
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: good to me, doctor, Thank you, And I want to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: pay you back on what you just said. Don't you
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: is the term healthy and and and I don't. I
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: don't say, oh, I have a healthy chocolate. What I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: do is I say I have a chocolate that supports
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: this lifestyle that's free of the gluten, the soy, you know,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the dairy is supporting the vegan, the paleo and the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: whole thirty lifestyle. And it's sweetened with coconut sugar which
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: is a lower life steamake sugar. And while we're at it,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: we also have sugar free. Um. One of the things
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that my my diabetics are my keto's told me. They said, hey, um,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: you know, Dr T we really want something free of sugar.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I understand you have the coconut sugar in it, but
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: we want something sugar free. So we also have a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: sugar free chocolate that has zyla tool from Birch which
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: is the best of the best when it comes to
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: alternative sweeteners for UM, the diabetic community, and for the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: keto community Oklahoma, and the Good Girl Chocolate it's based
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. You just opened to a rick and mortar
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: in the Pin Square Mall in Oklahoma, and now Dr
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: T let's talk about some good things that had happened
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that made you smile. Uh. You know Beyonce once said
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: she came to your rescue, but bore her brand really
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: came in and put some love on you, isn't it Really,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: It's not really about the amount of money she gave you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: It's the brand association. Don't you agree? Absolutely, it's it's
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it's just and first of all that that it just
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: felt so good. I didn't receive an email or anything.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: It was posted on social media who the grant recipients were,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and I saw my chocolate and let me tell you
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: that I think I cried. I'm serious, I was crying
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: because it was just so I felt so much overwhelming
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: joy from seeing that and knowing that I'm on to something,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I'm doing something right. You know, when I was invited
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to UM the Grammys Gifting Suite, you know, they tasted
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: it first and said, hey, I, we really don't like
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: healthy chocolate. But your chocolate is awesome, your energy is great.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: We definitely want you here. It's just been confirmation after
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: confirmation and being the first permanently black owned business in
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: my local mall. Oh man, you I'm just I'm just
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: full of joy. I'm very very very grateful, and I'm
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: just excited. I just celebrated a birthday to this past weekend.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: We've been over open a week so it was like
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the perfect birthday gift to me. Well, let's let's let's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: go and talk about you know, being the first of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: anything is tied to pressure because you can't be the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: first to close, you know, the first, So that means
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: that you have to endure uh, you know, internal mental um,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: sometimes depression. You have to deal with being in an
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: environment that people can surround you positive people and also
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: surround yourself with people who understand your dream. Talk about
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: your network of people who support you and also who
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: have enabled you to get to where you are today
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: with good Girl chocolate. You know, I tell you I
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I would be remissed if I didn't say my parents first.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: When it comes to support, they are my number one supporters.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, right now, it's so hard
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to find people to work right now, and my parents
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: who are retired, have stepped up and have been helping
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: me in the store you know this past week. Keep
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: things together. But I believe your network is very important.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: You know, there's that saying your your network is your
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: net worth, but it really really is about building relationships. Um.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I am an out like half alpha woman, and you know,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I have a network from my sorority sisters, you know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: who came together and supported me my first you know
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: week open, you already know my my good friend Kim
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Cole's you know, she has definitely opened up some amazing,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: amazing doors for me. But it's really about relationships. You know.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I think your character and who you are is very
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: important and people are going to see that. People are
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: going to see that uniqueness about you. And I'm I'm
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: a believer. I believe in God. Um. God is first
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: in my life. And I've just been so blessed with
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: people who love me, people who have embraced me, people
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: who have helped me get to where I am today.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I am truly grateful. I went through the Oklahoma City
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Thunder Accelerator program here in Oklahoma City, and I came
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: out with my first investor. And it was that investor
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: who helped me because I had to totally redo this
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: store in Penn Square Mall, from drop ceilings to electrical
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to equipment. That's that's fifteen tho dollars a piece. Um,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: So all of that costs money. And I'm just excited.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about the growth. I'm excited about the wholesale
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: opportunities that are out there that have approached me. Um.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: It's just an exciting time. UM. I'm thinking about opening
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: up for another investor fund fund here in the fall.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And it's just it's truly about relationships. And I'm excited
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: about sitting here with you, uh, talking to you and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: on your show. And I appreciate the opportunity and thank
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you so much from the bottom of my heart. Well,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: thank you for this good girl chocolate. First of all,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be real. It's a it's a selfish motivation. Here.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: You give me something good, I gotta talk to you
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: about how good it is. And it's really I can't
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: wait to get in this little this little bag of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: true right here, the little couple with those pecan nuts.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be my favorite. Let me tell you
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that Pecan fudge. I don't know if we can even
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: let you dig if you can't dig in on it
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: on the show, But that Pecan fudge truffle that's in
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: that box, that's probably gonna be your favorite because I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: know you. But you know a rich over with Sean,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you know in morsels and in moderation. So I'm working
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: on this. I k't immediately bust open this little package here,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: especially just just wrapping up surgery. But more importantly, I
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: just wanted to tell your story. I just you know,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: it's there's always a great story. That's always that the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: product is fantastic. Let's let's move past that. But what
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: made that product a reality? And the reality is through
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: personal triumph. A reality is trying to change not only
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: your lives but other people alive through your empowerment. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: it started with your with your book. It's started with
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: sixteen years old. It started with you not accepting the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: fact that this is going to be your life and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you didn't want it to be your life life. It
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: started through your education. It started through you realizing that
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the way you look was limited your dreams and you
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: have to change that. But more importantly, Dr Car, Your
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: your product is amazing. Don't let the word vegan run
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: you away from this product. It is what it is,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: but it's uh, it's it's for you. It tastes good.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Everybody knows I'm a dessert nut. I am a foodie.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: When I say something that's good, and you should stamp
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that as a reality. I do not allow people to
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: come on my show and then, you know, eat their
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: food and then go around the corner and spread it out.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: That's not how it works on money Making Conversation. This
• 32:32
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• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for coming to the show. Dr Car,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thank you so much for the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: opportunity I have enjoyed this time. I love talking about
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: health and wellness. I love talking about good girl chocolate,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and I love to inspire and empower women. Well you
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: did it all in this interview. I would like to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: believe we hit all those touch We had all those
• 32:56
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