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Tamika Catchings, Kimrie Lewis, Ceasar Gaiters & Kristy Fields · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Kimry Lewis, Hey, I'm so happy to be here than
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  Speaker 1: You've got some things going on, girl, But okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about this, you know, because and I want you
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  Speaker 1: to be like me, and the people say that, you
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  Speaker 1: know that. I always tell people my goal is starting
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  Speaker 1: this show, Kimery, and I want you to be a
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine. And because I've always been a mentor
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  Speaker 1: all my life and didn't really know it. And then
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  Speaker 1: as I got older, I realized when I look back
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  Speaker 1: and when people come on my show, they tell me
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  Speaker 1: what I've done for their career and with them along
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  Speaker 1: the way. And I just did it unconsciously because that's
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  Speaker 1: my personality. When I look at a young talent like you,
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  Speaker 1: and I see that you you you, You've developing multiple
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  Speaker 1: strings of income, and I want to know how did
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  Speaker 1: that come about? In the whole process of saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can do stand up, I want to act, I
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  Speaker 1: want to write. How did that? How did that process developed?
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  Speaker 1: Because a lot of people need to understand your technique
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  Speaker 1: in doing that and developing that, yeah, you know you can't. Nowadays,
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  Speaker 1: there's just no no excuse for not, uh, like you say,
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  Speaker 1: having multiple streams of income and and getting the training
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  Speaker 1: in all the different crafts that surround your passion. So
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  Speaker 1: for years I said, okay, all I want to do
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  Speaker 1: is be an actor, right, that's all I want to do.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you would go out on these auditions,
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  Speaker 1: which were few and far between to begin with, and
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  Speaker 1: then when you get to the audition, you say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: like the script is kind of kind of funny, but
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  Speaker 1: like I can insert my own jokes here, and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's let me make a little bit a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more funny, you know, funny to me. And so
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, hey, I can, I can.
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  Speaker 1: I can write a little bit. You know, I do
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  Speaker 1: stand up, So why not make myself you know, a
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  Speaker 1: machine that can go not just when people are calling
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  Speaker 1: you in for for auditions, but you know, a business
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  Speaker 1: that's running even when they're not. You know, create your
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  Speaker 1: own work. I'm writing my own scripts, you know, doing
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  Speaker 1: stand up whenever, whenever I feel like it. Right, Um,
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  Speaker 1: so it's you just get tired of waiting. And that's
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  Speaker 1: very true, that's very truly for folks to call on
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  Speaker 1: you and I don't push you to do something. And
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  Speaker 1: it did me. I remember when I right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: bills will make you like do some ugliness. Ugliness girl,
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  Speaker 1: you go on stage and for the four people. I
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  Speaker 1: did that one time and Corpus Christie. I went on
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  Speaker 1: stage for the two people. That was the first show.
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  Speaker 1: It gets what they stayed for the second show. I
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  Speaker 1: went up to the owner. I went up to you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? Yeah, when they paid a gift, Sean hey Man,
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  Speaker 1: I only got one act, only got one act. You
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  Speaker 1: are the same show, so I know what you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted to I wanted to let everybody know
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  Speaker 1: what she's saying. Here is that like enough? IBM had
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  Speaker 1: a math degree. Mathematic is my degree, and I was
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  Speaker 1: was successful at BM and when I left to do
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  Speaker 1: stand up comedy comedy, I felt that was I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to ask anybody to go on stage. I figured
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  Speaker 1: I can go out there and showcase my talents and
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  Speaker 1: get paid for. Whereas an actor and actress, you really
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  Speaker 1: are are a prisoner to the moment of if somebody
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  Speaker 1: calls on you. Whereas a stand up you know, you
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  Speaker 1: go out to a clip, you underscript, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying because because you know, you know
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  Speaker 1: in l l A and you're a rarity. When when
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  Speaker 1: she's an l A Native, you don't really run across
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  Speaker 1: people like her. You know, everybody comes to l a
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  Speaker 1: to be a star, and a lot of people think
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  Speaker 1: that l A. You born in l A, You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a talent. How did that? How did that work
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  Speaker 1: for you? Because you're l A native, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and you and you and you, and you broke through
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  Speaker 1: because you you're get You're you're in a copy competitive
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  Speaker 1: field where you have so many people traveling to Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles to do what you do. How did you pull
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  Speaker 1: it off? Yeah? I'm lucky. I think it's a combo
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  Speaker 1: is being a little bit crazy but also having just
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  Speaker 1: you know, a great support system. Um I have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my family and my friends are here, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's important too. Yeah, you gotta make your money and
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  Speaker 1: be in this industry. But for me, it's always nice,
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  Speaker 1: uh to hang out with my family and friends who
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  Speaker 1: aren't in the industry, you know, just to have some
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  Speaker 1: time off and recharge. Um so yeah, but I love
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  Speaker 1: talk about some eating places in a minute, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the phone. She's on the phone. Kimry Lewis. She
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  Speaker 1: plays Poppy in the new family comedy Single Parents. It's
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  Speaker 1: a comedian. You know, he is a compliment. When I
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  Speaker 1: of my first acting teachers here in l A. I
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  Speaker 1: love Wendy. Shout out to Wendying Grace Conservatory. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen scholarships every year. My wife and I sixteen scholarships
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  Speaker 1: every year to the amazing Grace Conservatory that's founded by
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  Speaker 1: all those years, and many many other roles and One
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  Speaker 1: me last year is one of their outstanding um leaders
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  Speaker 1: that you're part of that, our girl, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: your career, Okay, that when you're doing stand up and
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  Speaker 1: I've been fortunately the uh, I've been a stand up.
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  Speaker 1: You know I always to be. You ever go back
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  Speaker 1: doing stand up? That's a stand up as hard. A
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  Speaker 1: to strangers now, telling jokes to your family cool because
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  Speaker 1: you know the nuances of what will make them laugh.
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  Speaker 1: When you walk in the room and you don't know
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  Speaker 1: these people and they paid money, that's a difficult task.
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  Speaker 1: What as a stand up. There's there's some assets to
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  Speaker 1: being a stand up. It has bade me, you know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I guess a courageous I can, I can speak to anybody.
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  Speaker 1: What are the what are the advantages of being a
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  Speaker 1: stand up? Has helped you in your career? Me a writer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm I don't I write my own stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So it's made me, you know, feel confident enough to
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  Speaker 1: become a television writer. Um, you know, you know you
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  Speaker 1: know this. But for those who are listening, comedies all
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  Speaker 1: about timing and you know, if you mess up one word,
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  Speaker 1: the joke is done. You know. So being able to
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  Speaker 1: have that ear and developed that ear as a stand
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  Speaker 1: up has made me more able to, um, find jokes
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  Speaker 1: in scripts and I'm acting in and if there's if
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  Speaker 1: the jokes aren't there, then it's also helped me to
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  Speaker 1: infuse some jokes you know. Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's really you know when because you know I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to you and when I don't always like to
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  Speaker 1: talk like it's an inside conversation that I try to
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  Speaker 1: open it up so everybody can understand and relate what
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  Speaker 1: stage as a stand up. I've had some nights on
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  Speaker 1: That's how funny I am. You know, if you do
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  Speaker 1: tell me some great places that Rashan McDonald, I lived
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  Speaker 1: in l A for fifteen years, but you're native, so
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You're looking like I'm big
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  Speaker 1: started feeding the homeless and I started doing We had
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  Speaker 1: a young lady who wanted to go to the inauguration,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: so we started trying to get funds together. And just
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: how it all started, It's just the salon was the birth.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: And then Jebai came about. Okay, so so okay, so
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: none you know, people come and ask me for stuff.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I kind of like looked the other way. So obviously
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: you guys didn't have blinders on. No, I would give
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: you the shirt off my back. My grandmother always told
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: me if you can give somebody to something where to eat,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: get something to eat, and give him somewhere to stay.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: And I've been doing it. Tell me your story now,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the same story. It's basically the same, except one thing.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I had the blinders on it, you know. And and
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and what happened is that we had people that would
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: come to the salon and always want to help. And
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, we can't help everybody, but
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: we started taking money out of the teal and started
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: helping people. And our counting told us, what, you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you just can't take money out of the tail because
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you know, the government not gonna get your right off
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: of that just taking money out of the teal. So
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Chris came up with the idea of starting a foundation,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and I said, okay, let's start a foundation. I said,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: what's gonna be the name, And she said, well, she
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: got to think about it, and she got to pray
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: about it. And my son's middle name is Jibias and
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: it came from the prayer of Jabaas and that's what
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: she got your back from, which stands for just about
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: blessing you. And we just started going out in the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: community blessing people, trying to get back to the community
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: that was supporting us. Okay, just talk about the salon. Okay,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: let's talk about that's my shows about entrepreneurship, money making
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: conversations based on advice about small businesses. How you started.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So let's talk about how the salon got started before
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: we start talking about the giving back, because that's because
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: we have two people. That means that decisions aren't always equal.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Somebody has a way they want that wall to look,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: or that chair just said, or how are we gonna
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: do reservations. Let's talk about putting that business format together. Well,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: my ultimate goal was to have a salon where you
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: can come and get your hair done. Everybody can't afford
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to pay sixty five dollars fifty five dollars get their
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: hair shampoo and said, so I want to have a
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: so long, but you can come and get your hair
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: shampooed and condition for ten dollars. We didn't let me
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: let me enderun what you're listening. She about to shock
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the industry because they did this in North Carolina. But
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: when she brought it to Georgia, we had a bunch
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of haters and I'm gon let her tell you why. Okay,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: so we went from sixty five dollars because you saying
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: ten dollars dollars every day. No pointman needed seven days
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: a week. All you had to do was just walking
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: in and get your hair done. So we was like
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: there was like ten dollars. I was like, everybody can't
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: afford to get their hair dow. I'm not trying to
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: take your clients, but you have people who cannot afford
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to pay to get their dawn period. I'm trying to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: help them. So it wasn't even a business decision. It
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: was more of a community decision. Okay, but you changed
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the game though. I changed the game, Lord knows because
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I can charge six five dollars because I love what
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I do, but everybody cannot. It wasn't a step on.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Nobody toes as I do this because you have senior
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: cities on fixed income ten dollars, you have mothers who
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: have four or five kids. You can't pay six ft
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: allars favorite job. It's not it's not possible. So you've
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: got to have somewhere they can come and get at
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: least get something done. They feel good about themselves. Okay, cool, okay, seizure, Okay,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: sixty five to ten that's fifty five dollars. Now, that's
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: fifty five dollars. Okay, where are you at this conversation? Okay,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: in the beginning, it took me a while to become
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: a believer. And the reason because I looked at the economics.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And then once I broke the economics down, and and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: all my hair stylus and bobbers out there, and they're
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: really gonna hate this part. But when you go by
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: a bottle of shampoo, you can buy bottle shampoo for
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. Out of that bottle of shampoo, you
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: can shampoo a hundred and ten people. That's where I started. Yeah,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I started breaking down the numbers. So a hundred and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: ten people for bottle of shampoo. If we're doing shampoo
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and sets, which is what she called the roller set
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: and charging ten dollars, and it's only costing US twenty
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: five dollars plus some water and the stylars time, it
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: made sense. So we got about two dollars invested. Because
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it takes about seven to ten minutes if you're a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: really good roller setter, to roll the head, so we
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: got about two dollars invested in that. Ten dollars so
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it made sense to me. So here's you know, we
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: know when people hear things that are unusual, you know,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: they go really okay, Now you had to deal with
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that part of the what kind of what kind of
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: hair washed am I gonna get? If the water gonna
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: be cold? Are you using some Generica detergent? We use
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: our professional products requests since day one designed it central.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter because that's what we did. And then
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: people call like we had died the shampoo my own
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: hair to come shampooing the condition already. We're like, no,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: we're gonna shop in condition and roll you up, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: it's like you shoot, like yes, we had to bring
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: on rollers like they were sitting their grandmother in first
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: to test us to see and then they would come in.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like for real. But that first week we opened,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: we did about forty people. That second week after that
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: we did six seven hundred women a week every week, yes, sir,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: every day, Okay, okay, okay, see I love that because
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm a big ice cream guy and Brewisters
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: like over there, if you if you take a banana
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the Brewsters on Thursday, you gotta have park. But now
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to split so that's what they were thinking. You know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: they gotta come in with hair wet? How are wey
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: gotta be w you dive in and get it done.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: You're gonna do it for ten dollars. So so let's
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: talk about this. How big is first of all the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: name of your salon? Then when we first started with
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: sweets oneing salon, there is the color of our salon? Okay, cool,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to that. How big was it? And
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: how many? How many chairs did you have in there?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: With five thousand s good feet? And we here some
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: stylus now okay, and the stylus rent out the boots?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Is that how it works there? How does that work? Commission?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: It was commissioned? Okay? So so because a lot of salons,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: just trying to break down how salon's work. Like my
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: brother he has like, uh, three barbershops and two salons
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: in d C. And so he rents out that chair
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and so that's how he generates his revenue. So your
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: your format, how was it there? Commission you come in
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and whatever service you render, that's how you get paid upon.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You have a certain percentage of which you make, Okay. Cool.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So when you went to this ten dollars, not six
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: or five dollars, not season. Okay, now everybody try to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: get to that comm Okay, now they're working super hard
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: because they gotta work six times to get back up
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to sixty five. No, they don't, because let me tell
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you why. Ever saw she came up with a brilliant
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: plane commission plan was set up like this. When you
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: did over a thousand dollars worth for a revenue, right,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you got six of the money. So we gave you
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: more money for doing more revenue. But here's the thing
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: you gotta remember. She said, we was doing seven hundred
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: clients a week. When you're paying boot rent at sixty
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: five dollars, you don't have seven hundred people coming through
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: your door. Starts making over thousand dollars a week every week. Okay.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So so when did they start biting off your your idea?
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Oh maybe a year later? Head and leave, try to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: go start the concept somewhere else and come back, then
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: leave again. But I always work from open doors because
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not that person. Because because people think it's easy,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: I think it's easy. I always tell people, you know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: they can work in a bakery, they can work real event.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: They think that but you know the thing I want
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you to expound on that Caeesar about the relationships um
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: a belief or certain you like I said, a lot
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of prayer involved in this, and a lot of you
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: understand that prayer is really to me focused. It's also
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: under a plan. You know, a lot of things are
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: determined when you pray, because I always tell people when
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: they talk about that situation that, so some people understand
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that you always need to slow down to understand where
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you're going, and prayer will sometimes do that for you
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: if you're praying the right way. You know, so crazy
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: about it, and you said prayer. We play goss music
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: all day and we pray in the morning before we open.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Because you have to have God in your life and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you have to have faith, and you don't believe it,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. And it makes a real different
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that they change the atmosphere because you don't know what
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: people got going on. They come in with issues, so
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you wanted to feel comfortable and it's a place of relief.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Never saw I'm gonna take credit for that one because
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: it was a struggle in the beginning. Um, I wanted
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to change the atmosphere of the salon, because you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: normal when you have a normous line. They're playing all
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: types of music on TV, got the soap operas on TV.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: And I told Chris, I said, you know, we need
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to play gospel music to get into the person's spirit
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and and and that way. They fought with me for
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a while, but after a while they understood and once
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: we started playing the gospel, we got better clients and
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: it was a better atmosphere for us. What was the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a what's the age group that comes into Europe? Because
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: when you say gospel, people think older. You know, it's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: what's the what's what's the the demo? That's that's the pain,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that's the pipe, the pain rate right there. They're bringing
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: their kids, they're bringing their friends. And so so with
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: that being said, you know, you get your hair done,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: you get your spirit done, and you walk out there
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: with money in your pocket like that. But the team,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I gotta gotta wrap us up here. I would tell
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you this season, she picked up the energy and in
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: man I sparked something that so that means I can
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: bring it back and come back. I want to thank
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you guys. You owe me some stuff. So okay, uh,
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• 27:13
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  Speaker 1: talk about that, talk about those humble beginnings, and we
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  Speaker 1: had a lot to talk about the magazine. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about the book which I read this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: my staff always going should you God bless me with
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  Speaker 1: the ability to read? Uh, and I take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: I have a really good memory, so I um, I
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  Speaker 1: usually try to read a book like the day before
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  Speaker 1: or the day of because I get up at I
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  Speaker 1: So I decided just to get up. And so one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that my agenda was to read your book.
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  Speaker 1: And uh so that's the storyline is fresh in my memory.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about those humble beginnings in Louisiana. Yes, so,
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  Speaker 1: I am originally from St. Martinville, Louisiana, UM, a very
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  Speaker 1: small historical town UM in Louisiana, which is about twenty
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  Speaker 1: five minutes outside of Lataette, Louisiana. And I was born
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  Speaker 1: out of wed locks to two parents that did not
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  Speaker 1: receive a high school diploma. UM. I grew up in
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  Speaker 1: a single parent home and over the course of the years,
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  Speaker 1: my mom began to date and one of her boyfriends,
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  Speaker 1: when I was about eight or nine years old, he
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: texted me inappropriately and that kind of shaped my early
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: years into UM, leading me to become UM looking for
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: love and all the wrong places and even just not
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: having UM my own father and the home led me
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  Speaker 1: to looking for love and all the wrong places and UM.
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  Speaker 1: I began to date older guys, talk to older guys,
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  Speaker 1: and at the age of fourteen, I became pregnant with
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  Speaker 1: my first child. Okay, and I was only a freshman
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  Speaker 1: in high school, gave birth to my first child at
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the age of fifteen. Okay, you usually at that point
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  Speaker 1: it goes wrong, Everything goes wrong. You know for some
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  Speaker 1: of your young He already said you your your mom
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  Speaker 1: and your single parent mom, your your What was your
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: father in your life at the time? He was in
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: my life? Um, he just did not live with us,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: but he was in my life. Okay when that happened.
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  Speaker 1: What was his conversation with you? What was your parents
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: in general conversation to you when you announced to them
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: that you were pregnant. You were just fifteen years old?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Very disappointed, very disappointed. Um, basically, you know, basically, you
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: have ruined your chances to do anything in life. You
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: have ruined your chances to become successful. That's what I
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: was told by everyone around me that, Um, you definitely
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: are not going to finish high school. You can forget
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: about college. You're never going to become anything. You're just
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: gonna stay in this small town and not exhale. Is
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: what I was told, um, by other family members, people
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: in the same town that I live in. That's how
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that conversation. That's a blast of motivation right there, right
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  Speaker 1: and you're telling you, okay, you know, uh, close up tent,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: You're done. You're done. You don't wear fair, Okay, have
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: a couple more whatever, You're not gonna make it. Get
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: your g e d Okay, stop going to high school.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: You gotta stay home and uh take care of this kid.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Get your job at some small department store and live
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: the check to check. That was that was the That
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: was the speech. That was the motivating speeches you heard.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: That's what I heard. But what I got from it
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I use that as a few to my fire to
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: become successful. I used that to say, hey, this is
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: what you think it's going to happen, but no, this
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: is not the final destination for my life. I'm going
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to turn it around. And with that, I was just
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: able to graduate from high school with honors on time.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I walked with the class. I had a three year
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: old by the time I graduated from high school, but
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I graduated went on to college. That a little bit. Okay,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: how did you balance that? Okay, you said, I'm a
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: graduated with honors because I don't like for people who
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: just fly past their story. Because like you know, I
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: gave fifty and had a kid. I graduated with honors
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and with the college. Again, I had a three year
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: old on my hip when I went across stage. Okay,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: how did you do that? How did you you had
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: this wave of negativity? You no one teaches you how
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to be a parent, nobody teaches you how to balance life.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: And you're young. Okay, And I'm assuming that the child's
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: father was Was he in your life? Was in the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: child's life? Yes? Cool? So with that being said, how
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: did you accomplish it? How did you grow yourself? Oh?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: My god? Yeah, it definitely was not easy by any means. Yet,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: like you said, you hear the success, but the in
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: between story is what really matters. It was not easy. Um,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: after having my daughter, I fell into a depression because
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: with her father, he was also abusive. And this is
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  Speaker 1: also domestic violence Awareness month, so I do want to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: touch on that as well. He was abusive verbally and physically,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: so that kind of put me in a depression. So
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  Speaker 1: there are plenty times where I even contemplated suicide. So
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: it took me to really dig into my relationship with God.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: That's what kept me going. I knew that if I prayed,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: God would get me through the situation. So while I'm
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: still going to high school, balancing being a mother, dealing
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: with this abusive relationship, the only thing I could turn
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to was God. So at the same time, I'm smiling,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to school, I'm making your grades, and then
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: when I'm alone, I'm you know, battling these demons. So
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I had no choice but to, you know, dig in
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and pull. My relationship for God is the only thing
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: to get me through these times. OKAYO, you got through
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the times. You got a degree in sociology, which I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: am a fan of because my minor is sociology and
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: my degree is in mathematics and sociology. You changed my life.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: In your book, you can be a success to you
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: talk about how sociology changed your whole perspective on life.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that a little bit from your perspective. Yes, absolutely,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: it caused me to examine some things about myself, UM,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: my interactions with others, How and why I interact in
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a certain way with others? How and why others interact
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: in a certain way with myself? And UM. I had
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: a work study while in college with Big Brothers six
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Sisters of the Kadiana, which mentors we get volunteers to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: mentor or at risk youth And that was the first
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  Speaker 1: job I got out of college with that degree. UM,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I was able to to just connect with other UM
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  Speaker 1: kids that were at youth, at risk youth and you know,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: help them find their ways through mentoring with other mentors.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: And I think sociology, psychology, just anything in social services
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  Speaker 1: is very needed. You may not make the most money,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: but it's the difference that you make in the lives
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: of others that's most important. Before we go to we
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: got a minute leftlness break, tell us all, why did
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: you write the book? Or you can be a success too,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: absolutely UM. As I mentioned earlier, you know, I was
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: told that, hey, these things happened to you, you cannot
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: go on to achieve anything great. You cannot go on
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: to be successful. So I wrote this book as an
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: inspiration to others and especially other young women that may
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: be going through some and as there's a young mother, UM,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: somebody that may be addicted to drug, somebody that may
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: be depressed. This is not your final destination. You can
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: still go on to overcome these things and become successful. Yes,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: you can become a success to regardless or despite of
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: your current situation. That's amazing. Um, I met this young
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: lady at the Neighborhood Awards you on a on an
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Instagram post. She wanted to find out how she could
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: be on the media on on the red carpet at
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the time was fod was responsible to the Blue Carpet.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: So we'll be right back to talk with more with
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Robin Charles living. Uh, she's defunding, the executive in charge
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: of Unraveled magazine one and the author of the hot
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: new book You Can Be as Success Too. We'll be
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: right back with me from mar Sean McDonald and money
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: making conversations. Don't touch that down. Yeah, different years of
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: really identifiable titles in your book, Overcoming adversities, identifying your purpose,
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  Speaker 1: finding ways to stay motivated, fundamentals of goal setting, making sacrifices,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Be fearless, be relentless, Knowledge is power, the important of persistence.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: That's when I come into the book and then ask
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: for help. Show up and show up. Let's talk about
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: that right there. Show up and show out that just
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: to be like your kids will show out. You have
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: to spank U. But you said, in this situation in
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: the business world, you should show up and show out.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Talk to us about that. Yes, I end the book
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: with that chapter, and it's basically just saying, Okay, now
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: that you have learned how to achieve goals, how to
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: set and achieve goals, you've learned to how to figure
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: out your purpose and all that good stuff, but what
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: are you going to do with it? Okay? You have
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: to get out there and network. You have to get
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: out there and meet people. There are plenty times when
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be tired, you're not going to be motivated,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: but you have to show up. There were times when
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to go to certain events. I'm like, oh,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I'm tired, I don't feel like going, and I would
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: always be glad that I did because I would end
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: up meeting great people, making new contacts. And the show
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  Speaker 1: and out part is just walking into the room owning it,
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  Speaker 1: being that that person that's unforgettable, you know, having the
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: right attire, the business attire, the small the voice, just
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: just being rememberable. Well, I'll be remiss if I don't
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: talk about your magazine that you found it and you
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: started Unrivaled magazine. One. Tell us about that magazine? Why
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: was it important because it's five years old? Correct? Yes,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Why was it important to launch the magazine and what
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: is the future of that magazine? Yes? So it was
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: important because I wanted to motivate others by sharing entertaining,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: uplifting news. There's a lot of media outlets that share gossip,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the latest, this mess and everything, and that's fine, but
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: that's not something that I wanted to do. I wanted
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: to be the one to share. Okay, this person started
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: a business, or this person is now a Grammy Award
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: winning singer, how did they become that? Um share shas
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: you know someone that's looking up to you, what advice
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: do you have for them that are looking to be
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: in your shoes? And the future of the magazine, I
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: want to continue to grow it on a larger platform
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: so that I can reach more people and just share
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: these amazing stories. It's in a short note because I'm
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: wrapping up the wrap up the interview. Staying true to
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: your purpose, I thought that was important in a short capsule.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Tell us exactly what that is. Stay true to your purpose. Yes, absolutely,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Just know what it is that you are supposed to
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: be doing. Identify your purpose and stay true to it.
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  Speaker 1: Means you live and breathe everything around it. You you
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  Speaker 1: are aware of everything you are doing, everything you take
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: part in, it aligns with your purpose. Do not listen
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: to what anyone else thanks you're supposed to be doing
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: or says that you're supposed to be doing. It's all
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: about you and your purpose. You have to walk in
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: that you know would not have anyone interfere with that.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Robin Charles Living, I want thank you for taking the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: time to come on my show, or to take a
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: time for motivating me, motivating my listeners. Her book You
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Can Be a Success to please pick it up. Uh,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: it's all my own. It's in my book club. Rushan McDonald,
• 42:36
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  Speaker 1: Bar and Cafe in Indianapolis to make a catchings Demka,
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  Speaker 1: I'd love that Tess TC owned the premiere tea bar
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  Speaker 1: and cafe in Indianapolis, and it's awesome. It's all now.
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  Speaker 1: I would tell you my wife, I don't drink coffee
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: or tea. My wife I think she's I think I
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: wanted someone say she's addicted to tea because if she
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't have it, she has bad days. You know what
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. She's like, she's I gotta get my tea.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I gotta get my tea. I gotta get my tea.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: So I want to So this interview is for my wife,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: but also because it's because she's a tea fan and
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: she she she loves it. She has all these different flavors.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Tell us about your We're gonna talk about a lot
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: of things, but I want to start off talking about
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: your your place in Indianapolis, the premier tea uh bar
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: and cafe in Indianapolis. Talk to me about that, and
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: how did you get involved with it? Well, uh, it's
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: called tease me t a apostrophe, asked me cafe. And honestly,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: I got to Indiana. I got drafted from the to
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: the Indiana Fever and got to Indiana for a few years.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: You know, I always would drink tea like that what
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: grew up My family would grew up to drinking tea
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: and we had like little tea parties and all of that.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: And so when I got here, really a couple of
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: years in, somebody was like oh, have you been in
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: this amazing place? You called tease me and you should
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: go and check it out. And so literally it became
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: my favorite place to go. And I think the biggest
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: reason was because nobody in there really paid attention to basketball,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: and it was just a place where I could go
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: in and chill. The vibe beyond Beyonce. Everything was super fly.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: And then played in the w n B in for
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: sixteen seasons. So you see you went there like the
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  Speaker 1: second season that you like the I think I started
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  Speaker 1: going to the shop probably in two thousands and four,
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  Speaker 1: so my last year was Yeah. So so when did
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  Speaker 1: you take over ownership of it? I took over in seventeen,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: the year after I retired. Okay, cool. So so this
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: is a new enterprise for you. It's a brand that
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: you've lived and been a fan of and so, which
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: is what's really cool, Which means that you know what
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: you're walking into because a lot of athletes they are
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: recommended this is good, this will make you a lot
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: of money. But you knew this brand. You're you're roughly
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: fourteen years in on this brand and bought it. Yeah,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: and you know, honestly, the interesting thing about it is
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: he was only open from eleven am to two thirty pm.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Tuesdays through Saturday, he was open from eleven eleven am
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: to two thirty and so when I took over, one
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: of the first things was, we need to expand the hours,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: like how do you make money from eleven am to
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: two thirty? And then for probably the first couple of months,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: we literally would have nobody coming in the morning. Everybody
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: would come from eleven am to two thirty because they
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: it was like a mad like rush. But now, I mean,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: obviously I've had it for a little over what twenty months,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: exactly twenty months, I've had it, and it's awesome. I
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: love it. I love it. Now, what's all You're going there?
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: What what is the experience? What makes it premier? You know?
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: You know, like I go to places, say we got
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the greatest hamburger of all time here, the best hot
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: dog in this city, the best barbecue on the rack. Okay,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: you got the premier tea bar in cafe in Indianapolis?
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Why should I go there? Little Miss was only open
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: for like three and a half hours a day till
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: you came along. I think the biggest thing is that
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: I'm Beyonce Um. You know you walk in. Their whole
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: experience of shin is just great. You walk through the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: doors started when you come in. Our staff is amazing.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: This is what y'all walking in with his wife who's
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: who loves tea. Okay, so walk us through the whole scenario. Welcome, Hello,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: good morning, Welcome to Tease Me Cafe. Is this your
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: first time? Yes, yes, we've been. We've come from Houston, Texas,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: and I've heard about this place and my wife, she's
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: a tea junkie. Well, thank you guys for coming so much.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: And we have. As you can see, we have a
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: huge menu to you have over forty six flavors. Don't
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: be intimidated. We will help you figure out which you like.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: But come on in, make yourself at home, order at
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: the counter. Any food in here, any food. You have,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: lots of food. So we serve breakfast and we serve lunch.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: We're open from seven am to five pm. Okay there,
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  Speaker 1: Monday to Saturday. There, while she's drinking tea, I'll help
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: me some food. Do you have dessert? Do you have dessert?
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: We have, We do have dessert. Thank you for asking
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: what what? What type of dessert. We have women cake,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: we have carrot cake, we have cake. I'm there, I
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: love me some carrot cake. Give me a nice little
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: slice of carrot cake while she drinks her tea. Now,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: how's this how the options brought to the table? Or
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: do you have to go to the bar to make
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: your selection? Because why I'm over to eat my carrot cake?
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Is she gonna leave me to go to the bar?
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Are they going to bring the options to the table.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: We're gonna bring the tea to you once you order
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: at the counter, and you go sit down and just
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: pick your own spot in the whole place. Sit down
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: and enjoy the ambiance. Enjoy the music. We always play
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: nice smooth jazz. You will be right at home, okay, son,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Can I pick my songs? Or it's just just just
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: on a loop in the loop loop loop music just
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: being playing over and I'm just enjoying the ambiance of
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: my wife, you know, because you know she she always
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: like she chose. Oh body changes when she drinking tea
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: like she drinking wine. You know, they're like, I'll be
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: telling it ain't that good, it ain't that good, But
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: he's really is that good. So so with that being said,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: so I'm in there, so you have them in you
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: let's let's let's backtrack. You know. So I wanted to
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: go through the experience because when people hear things called
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: T or T bar, they think that's always there. You
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But you're telling me, look what Sean,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: you can get breakfast and there, launch dinner and there,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: your full service menu, desserts is in there. So one
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: when they go to the website, if they if they're
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: hungry coming there, correct, yeah, coming, they're hungry coming. They're
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: not hungry coming just for tea, coming for dessert, come
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: to hang out, come to study. We get a lot
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: of entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs that are just starting businesses. So
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: they're sitting in there. We got students, we got professional young,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got everything. So that means that means
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: you got free WiFi in there. Then we got gotta
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I gotta work with your girl. I gotta, I gotta,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: I gotta get all your bonus points out. I mean,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get together here, and you gotta you gotta
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: come out front and say, hey, well we're serving food here,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: free WiFi. You come in here, hang out. See all
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: those terms. See all this because once people here to
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: worry free WiFi. They there because Stockbucks wins on free WiFi.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: I'll just let you know they win on everybody like
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: pretty stuff. We get free samples here. And then you
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: say you're not a tea drinker, but I will say
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: when you come, you will have to not have to,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: but I think you will be convinced to get a
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: tea because you will find something on our menu that
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: you will like. Let's talk about to make a catch.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: It's okay, let's go back a little bit here, because
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I'm a w NBA fan. Let me just talk about
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: let you guys know who I'm talking to on the phone.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: From an athletic standpoint. Catching his legacy. It is cemitted
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  Speaker 1: is one of the greatest basketball players ever. She retired
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: and from w w NBA. It's the number two score
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: of all time rebounder, all time rebounder already is career
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: leader and free throws me. She got filed. A lot
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: of people happened on this young later been slapped around
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I'll just tell you, like, when you've
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: been fired, we have over two thousand free throws. You've
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: been slapped, You've been hit. You've been knocked down, you
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: got up mad. Did you ever get into the fight
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: to maker? Did you know, you know, fighting aloud? You never?
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: You never, nobody ever hit you so hard. You just
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: got up and got in their faces, ran up on
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: their chest. You never did that. No, you just you
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: know you figure out throughout the game. Wait to come back.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: See see I'll tell you so, I'll tell you. I
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: remember there was a couple of players and we used
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: to play for the l A Sparks. They were there.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: They were just with basketball. You know what I'm talking about.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: It with thugs. They were put out there to hurt people.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: You know, I know, you know what I'm telling the truth.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: You know, ain't got no talent out there just to
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: find just to find talent, you don't make it to
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: the Okay now all right, I'm telling they got a
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: talent now. But you know what I'm saying. There are
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: some people out there, just like in the NBA, there's
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: something what they call players out there, just like in hockey,
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: their job is just to you know, disrupt the talented player.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: So Tamika catch It is one of those talented players.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: And so sometimes out there they go, you know something
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: We're just gonna file her and get her mad. And
• 53:34
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