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Jacquece Jennings Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: of new Leaf number One, Jacquis Jennings. Hey, guys, how
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Speaker 1: are you doing. How are you doing? Yes, thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for having me on the show. So you're
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Speaker 1: Georgia bred, Georgia Brandon born, right, Georgia Brandon born. I
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Speaker 1: am from Atlanta, Georgia Baptist. Yes, I love it. I
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Speaker 1: love it. Now you serve some time in the army.
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Speaker 1: That's why we had that note about it is a
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Speaker 1: veteran owned premium. My younger my oldest, but I have two.
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Speaker 1: My youngest brother he served in the army, and I
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Speaker 1: have my nephew has very popular barbecue stand called Big
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Speaker 1: six Domino. He served time in the army and so
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Speaker 1: I'm a fan of the military. I had a big
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Speaker 1: Air National Guard contract when I hand all the recruitment
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Speaker 1: and retention for their national guards. So I like to
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Speaker 1: believe that I'm an advocate for the army. Talk about
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Speaker 1: your military experience and how important it was it was
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Speaker 1: to you at that time, and how I use what
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Speaker 1: you learned from it into your everyday life today. Wow.
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Speaker 1: I joined the military short after high school. I tried
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Speaker 1: the college thing, but I'm one of those individuals that
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Speaker 1: think outside the box. So I'm like, I needed to
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Speaker 1: figure out life because I had moments where I was
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Speaker 1: in school and it was teaching things that was not
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Speaker 1: applying to my actual realistic life at that moment. And
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Speaker 1: so I decided that I wanted to take the route,
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Speaker 1: as you know, through the military, just to see the world,
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Speaker 1: just to experience different things. Because when you come from
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Speaker 1: a background where it's not properly set up for you,
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Speaker 1: you have to figure things out. You can't always do
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Speaker 1: the blame game, right, And so I decided to go
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Speaker 1: into the military idea four years active duty and that
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Speaker 1: was a journey. I've seen so many things. Um, what
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Speaker 1: what did you do? What did you train at in
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Speaker 1: the army? What about what part you from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Where did you go to train South Carolina? And you
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Speaker 1: were stationed I was for I was stationed at Fort Louis,
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Speaker 1: which is in Seattle, right right, So you went from
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Speaker 1: the South, trained in South Carolina, and next thing you know,
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Speaker 1: you're in Seattle, Washington, which is really a different part
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Speaker 1: of the country. Range a lot beautiful part of the country,
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Speaker 1: A lot of woods up there, kind of like Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Georgia has a lot of woods down here. Tell us
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Speaker 1: about that that that that experience being in Ah, That's
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Speaker 1: what I love about travel. Travel exposed used to a
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Speaker 1: lot of different things, different different cultures, different eating habits
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Speaker 1: and all that tell us about that journey. You know,
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Speaker 1: going to at that moment, I had never been anywhere,
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Speaker 1: to be honest put yourself. It was a It was
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Speaker 1: a shocker to me because going to Seattle, it's completely
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Speaker 1: different from the South. One percent. Nothing is the same.
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Speaker 1: The restaurants is different, the people there, the culture is different,
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Speaker 1: the walk of life and the mentality is different. So
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Speaker 1: I had to change as I was there because I
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Speaker 1: was so used to my way, I was so used
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Speaker 1: to what was introduced to me that I had to
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Speaker 1: learn new things I had to, you know, have a
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Speaker 1: different taste palette because you know, the food was different. Um,
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Speaker 1: the ways that they do things was quite different. And
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Speaker 1: as I was going through my journey in the military,
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Speaker 1: I was tested so many and so many times because
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Speaker 1: it's different. You go through things that you can't speak on. Um.
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Speaker 1: You experience things is going to change you forever. And
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Speaker 1: the one thing that I truly appreciate from the military
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Speaker 1: was the genuine friendships I was able to build. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't a color, it was just humans that just build
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Speaker 1: a connection and that was considered your family, your batta buddies.
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Speaker 1: And so I went through so many things, but I
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Speaker 1: also lost a lot of friends too, you know, and
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Speaker 1: so it puts you in a different um perspective on life.
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Speaker 1: And it also teaches you how to rise above, grow
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Speaker 1: up and let things go. So you know how uh,
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Speaker 1: normal people hold brudget. Once you go through the military,
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Speaker 1: you learn how to let that stuff go because people
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Speaker 1: lives are not promised. You're not promised to see somebody
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Speaker 1: the next day, so you have to let things go
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Speaker 1: very fast because you want to enjoy those moments that
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Speaker 1: you have in those experiences that you have with people.
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Speaker 1: Because life is not just pretty. You know, I understand
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Speaker 1: that sometimes social media and TV will put on these
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Speaker 1: different perspectives as if this is how life is. That's
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Speaker 1: completely not true. You know, that's entertainment. It's a difference
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Speaker 1: between entertainment and reality. Right. I was going through the journey,
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Speaker 1: and while I was in the military, I went through
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Speaker 1: a really dark moment, you know, the Praca. Yes, it
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Speaker 1: was a lot going on. It was, you know, very controversial.
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Speaker 1: It's the same things that happened instead of the real
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Speaker 1: world happens in the military, whether it's race, whether it's
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Speaker 1: anything that you go through a lot of things inside
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Speaker 1: the military that it's not truly spoken, but it truly
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Speaker 1: will develop you mentally, and it would give you a
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Speaker 1: sense of dedication, hard work, and a sense of respect
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Speaker 1: for a lot of different cultures. Right. But as I
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Speaker 1: was going through the journey, I went through a dark
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Speaker 1: moment of depression because here I am, um, a young female,
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Speaker 1: you know, just turning twenty one. I moved away. I
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Speaker 1: don't have no friends, no family, nothing, and I'm in
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Speaker 1: a whole another on the other side of the world,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going through things by myself. And it got
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Speaker 1: to a point where I couldn't pick up the phone
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Speaker 1: and call my mama, or call my brothers or tell
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Speaker 1: them what was going on, because if I did, I
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Speaker 1: would have stressed them out and they couldn't save me.
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Speaker 1: They couldn't come pick me up, They couldn't remove me
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Speaker 1: from my situation. So I had to go through it.
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Speaker 1: And um, I remember going through those moments of depression.
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Speaker 1: And let me tell you this. I didn't know what
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Speaker 1: depression was. I heard about it, I read about it,
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9:23
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Speaker 1: much to offer. I'm an amazing individual. Look at all
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Speaker 1: these people that are go on you. Look about these
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Speaker 1: people that come to you for advice. You are somebody,
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Speaker 1: inside and start to have that value for yourself. And
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Speaker 1: once I realized that, that's how I got out of it.
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Speaker 1: And so that is how I got to the point
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Speaker 1: of wanting to write a book called Life After depression. Wow,
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Speaker 1: when I when I hear you talk about depression, you know,
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10:57
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Speaker 1: going to military. When I was doing the recruiting and
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Speaker 1: retention for their National car it was you know, I
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Speaker 1: high school to get a scholarship to attend the m
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Speaker 1: to give up your life. Did you understand that when
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Speaker 1: you were and you know, uh, enrolling in registering for
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Speaker 1: the military, or it was just something you just wanted
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Speaker 1: to do. Absolutely not um um. I was told a
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Speaker 1: million dreams from um recruiter um. Because but you gotta
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Speaker 1: understand now that I'm gonna do. I understand they had
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Speaker 1: a it's a reason why they're recruiting, and they have
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Speaker 1: to recruit a certain amount of people to keep that
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Speaker 1: job or stay back to active duty. So I was
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Speaker 1: told so many things. Oh my god, you're gonna get
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Speaker 1: core values go along with what you're trying to do.
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Speaker 1: Because I went in just wanted to escape my life.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to escape the streets, I wanted to escape things.
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Speaker 1: What exactly is a c B D store? What is that? So?
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Speaker 1: CBD is called cannabinoid UM. It is one of the
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Speaker 1: is crazy because why wasn't this always legal to us?
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Speaker 1: Why did it take so long? It's the questions that
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Speaker 1: It is one of the most amazing products that I
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Speaker 1: the business was a unique journey from me. Okay, now
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Speaker 1: you know, you just gonna it's gonna make that statement.
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Speaker 1: It's just gonna stop talking. You know, you know how
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Speaker 1: to talk. It was a new, unique, unique journey for
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Speaker 1: me Perio had had. What happened was when I was
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Speaker 1: starting to get out the military. Been in Seattle, UM,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing but dispensary, so marijuana is legal there. And
16:53
Speaker 1: so you know, I never been a part of a
16:56
Speaker 1: state where people smoke marijuana and still went to work
16:59
Speaker 1: on time. It did not change nothing. Everybody was around it.
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Speaker 1: They had marijuana in hot saws, lotions, um candy. It
17:09
Speaker 1: was everything, and people was function as if and the
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Speaker 1: dispensary was a size and target. You know, it's just
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Speaker 1: like walking in, getting what you need, leaving and going
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Speaker 1: about your day. And so I started to you know,
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Speaker 1: learn it and really find out the mask behind it.
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Speaker 1: And I remember one day my mom was in pain
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Speaker 1: and she had went to the doctor. You know, they'd
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Speaker 1: be giving out all these pain medicines. So I took
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Speaker 1: the label. I gave her some pain cream and I
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Speaker 1: took the label off and I said, oh, Mama, they
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Speaker 1: gave me this, and I told her to try it.
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Speaker 1: And it worked right, It was nothing but CBD, you know,
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Speaker 1: And so I just had to let her know sometimes
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Speaker 1: it takes for us to try something different. Just because
17:49
Speaker 1: a man tell you to take appeal don't mean you
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Speaker 1: gotta take it. You gotta just step outside the box
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Speaker 1: and start doing research on what you're in taking in
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Speaker 1: your digestive system. And so, as I was going through
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Speaker 1: and I was learning the business UM, I started working
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Speaker 1: for this great UM corporate company and I was doing
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Speaker 1: so well, and that corporate company they moved me to
18:09
Speaker 1: another place, which back to the South, which where marijuana
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Speaker 1: CBD was no longer legal. Now, as I was going
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Speaker 1: through my journey UM, one day I went to the doctor, Um,
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Speaker 1: the eye doctor, and I needed some new glasses because
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Speaker 1: I was still using the glasses from the military. And
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Speaker 1: the lady told me that the pressure in my eye
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Speaker 1: was so was so strong that it was still if
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Speaker 1: I'm either on drugs or something is wrong. And I'm like, ma'am,
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Speaker 1: I'll let you know if I did some weed or something.
18:38
Speaker 1: But I don't do drugs. You know, I don't do
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Speaker 1: drug drugs. You know, that's just not what I do.
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Speaker 1: You know, man, I don't do that other right right.
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Speaker 1: I ended up going to go get an m R.
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Speaker 1: I and I later found out. I got a call
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Speaker 1: one day. I was sitting at home. I got a
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Speaker 1: call and the doctor was on the phone and they
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Speaker 1: were sounding so stressed out that they had made me sure.
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Speaker 1: That was like, you know, Mr Jennings, Um, we wanted
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what's up? And it was like, we wanted
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Speaker 1: to let you know that you we found that you
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Speaker 1: had a propteritory gland tumor. The size is large and
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Speaker 1: we might have to do brain surgery. Man, I'm young.
19:23
Speaker 1: My heart dropped, you know. I remember everybody's just in
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Speaker 1: a liberal I'm crying. I'm like, I just the feeling
19:30
Speaker 1: just came back. I was crying. I was like, you know, way,
19:32
Speaker 1: I'm just going to take all my money go to
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Speaker 1: after travel. You know my life is over. First of all,
19:39
Speaker 1: we just go take all your money go to Africa.
19:41
Speaker 1: That's that's what got me laughing. All you got the grippea,
19:45
Speaker 1: you gotta wife, you got a Mexican riviera. I was
19:49
Speaker 1: gonna take all my money go to Africa. Risha. That's
19:51
Speaker 1: what I'm going. That's exactly what I was thinking. And
19:55
Speaker 1: I remember my mom told me. She said, girl, she said,
19:58
Speaker 1: you were stronger than said. First of all, them doctors
20:01
Speaker 1: don't have the last day, so when you need to
20:03
Speaker 1: look more into your situation. And so at that moment,
20:08
Speaker 1: at that moment that they told me that, I started
20:11
Speaker 1: to make myself sick, strength started to build up. My
20:16
Speaker 1: my thoughts started to change, and once again the whole
20:19
Speaker 1: little circle roller coaster was there until I say, you
20:22
Speaker 1: know what, I'm not gonna do this. I'm not gonna
20:24
Speaker 1: do this to myself. So I started to talk to
20:27
Speaker 1: the doctors, do more research, and then to find out
20:30
Speaker 1: that the doctor that called me with the information was
20:33
Speaker 1: a doctor that was in training first of all, So
20:37
Speaker 1: that was the wrong That was the wrong procedure there
20:40
Speaker 1: to have someone in training to call me and deliver
20:42
Speaker 1: some news like that. And so as the journey went,
20:46
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even account how many m r
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Speaker 1: I s. I didn't had, but to find out, by
20:50
Speaker 1: the grace of God, my tumor was benign, so cancer free. Um,
20:54
Speaker 1: as time went by, I started doing my my own
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Speaker 1: holistic ways CBD, different things like that, and I went
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Speaker 1: back the tumor was not growing. There was like, well,
21:03
Speaker 1: miss Jennings that you're fine, We're just gonna keep monitoring.
21:07
Speaker 1: And at that moment I started to notice that you
21:10
Speaker 1: are the creator. You create those thoughts and you create
21:15
Speaker 1: what mindset you're going to be in when the doctor
21:18
Speaker 1: tell you bad news. They do not have the last
21:21
Speaker 1: say though. So at that moment that's when I'm like, wow,
21:25
Speaker 1: CBD came back to me again. Remember, I'm like, okay,
21:29
Speaker 1: I left it. I went to started the whole new
21:32
Speaker 1: thing because I couldn't do that dispensary. I'm in a
21:35
Speaker 1: state where it's not legal. Now the CBDs part comes
21:37
Speaker 1: back to me. And then as time went by, two
21:40
Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen came the Farm Bill Past. Now CBD
21:44
Speaker 1: is legal in Georgia. We can sell up to three
21:46
Speaker 1: T a c. So as I, you know, was doing
21:50
Speaker 1: well and I was transferring, you know, going to different places.
21:54
Speaker 1: My last location where I got transferred from my job
21:58
Speaker 1: was Atlanta, my hometown, and I remember having all these employees.
22:03
Speaker 1: I had did very well for myself, and I had
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Speaker 1: so many people that will come to me for advice.
22:08
Speaker 1: I had my peers. I was helping people come up
22:10
Speaker 1: with their plans being see and I'm like, you, oh,
22:14
Speaker 1: speaking license to everybody else, What are you gonna do
22:16
Speaker 1: for yourself? How is you going to manifest things for yourself?
22:21
Speaker 1: And so that's when I started to create New Leaf.
22:23
Speaker 1: And one day I was sitting in my office, I
22:27
Speaker 1: picked up my purse, I locked the door, and I
22:29
Speaker 1: never returned back to corporate. And after that, I made
22:35
Speaker 1: a decision that I'm going to live for me. And
22:37
Speaker 1: I had so many people telling me, I can't believe
22:40
Speaker 1: you quit that good job. I can't believe what you're
22:42
Speaker 1: gonna do. How you all time, I don't know what
22:48
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means, because to me,
22:51
Speaker 1: I was working so hard. I didn't even have time
22:54
Speaker 1: for to have a life. I mean, I had money,
22:57
Speaker 1: but I didn't have time to enjoy having experiences. So
23:01
Speaker 1: I didn't look at it as a good job to
23:02
Speaker 1: me my mind frame, I worked to enjoy life, not
23:06
Speaker 1: work to pay bills. That's something that's already known that
23:08
Speaker 1: you have to do. So I wasn't enjoying the position
23:12
Speaker 1: that I was in. I was stressed out, and I
23:14
Speaker 1: had to remove that from I had to remove myself
23:17
Speaker 1: from that situation because of everything that I had been through.
23:20
Speaker 1: I had to start creating a life for myself. And
23:23
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, this is my passion. I can
23:26
Speaker 1: help assist people with healing. I can motivate people, I
23:29
Speaker 1: can help heal people. I can talk to people and
23:31
Speaker 1: tell them about my story. And that's how I got
23:34
Speaker 1: to here and look at God, this is it's crazy
23:38
Speaker 1: to see that. It's not crazy, it's it's it's you
23:41
Speaker 1: know what. I what I consistently hear in your brs.
23:43
Speaker 1: First of all, you're you're authentic, and you're down home,
23:46
Speaker 1: which I love. And I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm a
23:48
Speaker 1: Southern boy and uh and it rings true in your
23:52
Speaker 1: tone and and like I'm I'm a cancer survivor, and
23:55
Speaker 1: so I know when I know what you felt like,
23:59
Speaker 1: I would laugh you by the Africa. I know when
24:01
Speaker 1: they when they told me I cancer, I have some
24:03
Speaker 1: places I wanted to go to. Okay and uh And
24:06
Speaker 1: because you just never know, because I don't care what anything.
24:08
Speaker 1: When people tell you that the term or cancer or
24:10
Speaker 1: tumor or anything that's cancerous, it always feels terminal because
24:14
Speaker 1: I don't because you don't think about who survived. All
24:16
Speaker 1: you know is that cancer people die, and so and
24:19
Speaker 1: so and so when that happens, and then it happened
24:23
Speaker 1: to you much younger age than I was when I
24:25
Speaker 1: discovered it. And but when you find out about it
24:28
Speaker 1: does put you everything in perspective. And I like to
24:31
Speaker 1: believe that one of the greater levels of perspective is
24:34
Speaker 1: to say, you know something, I'm gonna do what I
24:36
Speaker 1: want to do with my life because it's the only
24:38
Speaker 1: one I have. I like it as one of the
24:41
Speaker 1: driving forces to your passion right now and why you're
24:44
Speaker 1: successful now and opening up the CBD store. What was
24:47
Speaker 1: some of the obstacles of opening new leaf Number one? Okay,
24:55
Speaker 1: don't don't you do that to me. Let me say,
25:01
Speaker 1: when I decided to do this, I wanted to have
25:03
Speaker 1: a business partner. I did not want to go into
25:06
Speaker 1: this by myself because to run a business with one
25:10
Speaker 1: brain is very challenging. And so I was talking to
25:14
Speaker 1: many people and everybody's like, Oh, that's dope, that's what's up.
25:17
Speaker 1: That da right, But no one wanted to put no
25:20
Speaker 1: money in. People like to reap the benefits. They don't
25:22
Speaker 1: want to, but they don't want to go through the work.
25:25
Speaker 1: And so I got tired of trying to sell my
25:27
Speaker 1: dreams to people who I thought was going to benefit
25:32
Speaker 1: from it. I stopped trying to, you know, wait for
25:35
Speaker 1: somebody to give me confirmation that this was a go.
25:38
Speaker 1: And I said, well, God, I'm gonna need you to
25:39
Speaker 1: be my business partner. I'm gonna need you to assist
25:42
Speaker 1: me with this because this is my first rodeo and
25:45
Speaker 1: I need your assistance all all through it. I need
25:48
Speaker 1: you to cover me and the blood as I continue
25:49
Speaker 1: to move forward because sometimes I don't know what I'm doing.
25:53
Speaker 1: And when he when I had to talk of God,
25:55
Speaker 1: I felt it he told me to go. I literally
25:59
Speaker 1: felt like I heard a voice of that move like,
26:02
Speaker 1: go do what you gotta do, and I'm gonna I'm
26:04
Speaker 1: gonna make sure you're okay. And when I tell you,
26:07
Speaker 1: I decided to make that leap and things started to
26:11
Speaker 1: fall into place. Now, let me tell you, I don't
26:13
Speaker 1: I don't want to make it seem like it was easy,
26:15
Speaker 1: because I remember coming into this building that I chose
26:19
Speaker 1: and having to paint walls due the floors, and I
26:22
Speaker 1: was crying while I was doing it. My back was
26:24
Speaker 1: hurting everything in me. I was everyone who said that
26:27
Speaker 1: it was gonna help. Some people didn't show up, you know,
26:31
Speaker 1: um having to get contract. But you know the thing
26:34
Speaker 1: about it is that it didn't stop you though, that
26:38
Speaker 1: that that here's the beauty. Let me ask you this, Okay,
26:40
Speaker 1: can you buy your product online? Yeah? Okay, cool. So
26:44
Speaker 1: can you do me a favor? Okay? Because I'm a fan.
26:47
Speaker 1: I'm a fan Jack Quis Channing's um, because I've been
26:51
Speaker 1: going through I saw you featured in Essence, I saw
26:54
Speaker 1: you featured in E R Web. You know, you've done
26:58
Speaker 1: a great job of promoting your brain and being on
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Speaker 1: my show is another angle of getting the word out
27:03
Speaker 1: that that I commend you on that because people don't
27:05
Speaker 1: know about your business and guess what, people can't buy
27:07
Speaker 1: your business, Okay, And so I have a newsletter I
27:10
Speaker 1: give out every Friday at nine am. It goes out
27:13
Speaker 1: to eighty thousand followers. I like to put a nice
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Speaker 1: little online ad in there. It's free of charge as
27:18
Speaker 1: part of the whole thing of why I created money
27:20
Speaker 1: making conversations. So if you don't mind, give me a
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27:25
Speaker 1: branding and help you and let you know you got
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Speaker 1: a friend on Rushan McDonald's willing to build your brand
27:31
Speaker 1: for your charge. Is that cool? That means that means
27:33
Speaker 1: so much to me. And blessing your way, that really
27:36
Speaker 1: means a lot to me because I really want people
27:39
Speaker 1: to start healing, and it's not even just about being
27:42
Speaker 1: a black owned business. I want people to start to
27:45
Speaker 1: be able to just think for themselves and pay attention
27:48
Speaker 1: to what they're put in their body. Because when people
27:50
Speaker 1: start to find out how these medications are approved to
27:53
Speaker 1: the FDA, they'll start to actually read the ingredients inside
27:55
Speaker 1: of their body. Right. Because I love that. I love this.
27:58
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a green mean like green brown
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Speaker 1: bottle design. It looks really good, looks professional. Everything looks wonderful.
28:06
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at images on the various ads and
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Speaker 1: things like that. I just I love what you're doing here.
28:12
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you don't have to have
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Speaker 1: a prescription to buy your product. I love the fact
28:16
Speaker 1: that I have some good friends who are doing this
28:19
Speaker 1: as well. But you know, you're one of the few
28:21
Speaker 1: females who have cracked that glass ceiling to go out
28:24
Speaker 1: there and do this on your own. So I'm gonna
28:26
Speaker 1: do my best. I got six sisters, so I gotta
28:29
Speaker 1: help out. Want more Little Cis. Okay, I'm gonna throw
28:31
Speaker 1: you in the Little Cis mand wagon. That cool. That's
28:34
Speaker 1: perfectly fine with me. Perfect I appreciate you, and so again,
28:39
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation, Miss Jennings.
28:42
Speaker 1: And again, you are special. Your motivation is on point,
28:46
Speaker 1: your honesty is off the chart, and your authenticity is
28:50
Speaker 1: a blessing. Okay, I appreciate that, and I'm sending you
28:54
Speaker 1: nothing but love and blessings, and I pray that God
28:57
Speaker 1: keep you covered as well you and your family. I
28:59
Speaker 1: appreciate you. We talked soon, Okay. If you want to
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