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Kristy Fields & Ceasar Gaiters Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: coming to the the studio with a card. Now, this righting
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of the car for Lanthropus founders and
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  Speaker 1: uh Jake, it was a Jobby Juby Jobie Incorporated and
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  Speaker 1: creators of the International Trailblazers Awards or event that I attended,
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  Speaker 1: that event that I discovered. These are beautiful people sitting
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  Speaker 1: next to me. They believe in giving back to the
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  Speaker 1: community and helping young ladies and gentlemen that's trying to
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  Speaker 1: better themselves, Helping people that's ready to step in their destiny.
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  Speaker 1: Please working with money making conversations Caesar Gators, Gators and
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  Speaker 1: Christie Fields welcome, good morning. Well you can see he
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  Speaker 1: got the radio varts already, but he just already making
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  Speaker 1: me look bad. See I can't I can't stand him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I brought him on this show.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's gonna put his best foot forward, and
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  Speaker 1: he did. We've got that for so we come one
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  Speaker 1: time season. I'm just waiting for you. We'll tell everybody
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  Speaker 1: about you by both you guys in the studio. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I went to the event. Let me just
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about where I met you too. It was
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  Speaker 1: at the International Trailblazers Award, and that event is kind
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  Speaker 1: of similar to what I was doing several years with
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  Speaker 1: the Neighborhood Awards. It's honoring the on and shining light
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  Speaker 1: on individuals who should who are special in the community,
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  Speaker 1: and it's also a fundraiser. So I start with you.
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  Speaker 1: Christie told us about it. Jefva I came about, um
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight when we first opened the salon.
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  Speaker 1: I opened the salon and we just kept people just
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  Speaker 1: kept coming to us and like needed help and had
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  Speaker 1: situations and it just started growing out. Was like for real.
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  Speaker 1: So I started feeding the homeless, and I started doing
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  Speaker 1: We had a young lady who wanted to go to
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  Speaker 1: the inauguration, so we started trying to get funds together.
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  Speaker 1: And just how it all started, It's just the salon
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  Speaker 1: was the birth. And then Jeffai came about. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: so okay, so now you know people come and ask
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  Speaker 1: me for stuff. I kind of like looked all the way.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously you guys didn't have blinders on. No, I
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  Speaker 1: would give you the shirt off my back. My grandmother
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  Speaker 1: always told me, if you can't give somebody to something
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  Speaker 1: to where to eat, get something to eat, and give
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  Speaker 1: him somewhere to stay. And I've been doing. Okay, tell
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  Speaker 1: me your story now, the same story. It's basically the same,
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  Speaker 1: except one thing. I had the blinders on it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and what happened is that we had people
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  Speaker 1: that would come to the salon and always want to help,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, well, you know, we can't help everybody,
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  Speaker 1: but we started taking money out of the teal and
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  Speaker 1: started helping people, and our counting told us, what, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just can't take money out of the teal because
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  Speaker 1: you know, the government not gonna get your right off
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  Speaker 1: of that just taking money out of the teal. So
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  Speaker 1: Chris came up with the idea of starting a foundation,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, okay, let's start the foundation. I said,
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  Speaker 1: what's gonna be the name? And she said, well, she
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  Speaker 1: got to think about it, and she got to pray
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  Speaker 1: about it. And my son's middle name is Jibias and
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  Speaker 1: it came from the prayer of Jabaas and that's what
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  Speaker 1: she got your back from, which stands for just about
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  Speaker 1: blessing you. And we just started going out in the
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  Speaker 1: community blessing people, trying to get back to the community
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  Speaker 1: that was supporting us. Okay, just talk about the salon. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about that's my shows about entrepreneurship, money making
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  Speaker 1: conversations based on our advice about small businesses. How you started.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about how the salon got started. Before
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  Speaker 1: we start talking about the giving back, because that's because
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  Speaker 1: we have two people. That means that decisions aren't always equal.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody has a way they want that wall to look,
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  Speaker 1: or that chair just said, or how are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: do reservations. Let's talk about putting that business format together. Well,
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  Speaker 1: my ultimate goal was to have a salon where you
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  Speaker 1: can come and get your hair done. Everybody can't afford
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  Speaker 1: to pay sixty five dollars fifty five dollars get their
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  Speaker 1: hair shampooed and said, so I want to have a salnge,
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  Speaker 1: but you can come and get your hair shampooed and
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  Speaker 1: condition for ten dollars. We did everything. Let me let
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  Speaker 1: me enter minute. What you're listening. She about the shock
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  Speaker 1: the industry because they did this in North Carolina, but
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  Speaker 1: when she brought it to Georgia, we had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of haters and I'm gonnat her tell you why. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So we went from sixty five dollars because you saying
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars dollars every day, no pointman needed seven days
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  Speaker 1: a week. Are you gonna doud just walk in and
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  Speaker 1: get your hair done? So we was like there was
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  Speaker 1: like ten dollars. I was like everybody can't afford to
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  Speaker 1: get their hair down. Not trying to take your clients,
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  Speaker 1: but you have people who cannot afford to pay to
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  Speaker 1: get their damn period. I'm trying to help them. So
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't even a business decision. It was more of
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  Speaker 1: a community decision. Okay, but you changed the game though.
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  Speaker 1: I changed the game, Lord knows, because I can charge
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  Speaker 1: six five dollars because I love what I do, but
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  Speaker 1: everybody cannot. It wasn't a step on nobody's toes as
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  Speaker 1: I do this. Because you have seen cities on fixed
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  Speaker 1: income ten dollars. You have mothers who have four or
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  Speaker 1: five kids. You can't pay six ft alls favorite job.
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  Speaker 1: It's not it's not possible. So you've got to have
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  Speaker 1: somewhere they can come and get at least get something
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  Speaker 1: done they feel good about themselves. Okay, cool, Okay, seizure. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: sixty five to ten, that's fifty five dollars. Now, that's
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  Speaker 1: fifty five dollars. Okay, where are you ating this conversation? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning, it took me a while to become
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  Speaker 1: a believer. And the reason because I looked at the
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  Speaker 1: economics right and then once I broke the economics down,
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  Speaker 1: and and all my hair stylus and barbers out there,
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  Speaker 1: they're really gonna this part. But when you go by
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  Speaker 1: a bottle of shampoo, you can buy a bottle of
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  Speaker 1: shampoo for twenty five dollars. Out of that bottle of shampoo,
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  Speaker 1: you can shampoo a hundred and ten people. That's where
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  Speaker 1: I started. Yeah, I started breaking down the numbers. So
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  Speaker 1: a hundred and ten people for twenty bottle of shampoo.
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  Speaker 1: If we're doing shampoo and sets, which is what she
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  Speaker 1: called the roller set and charging ten dollars, and it's
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  Speaker 1: only costing US twenty five dollars plus some water, and
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  Speaker 1: the style is time, it made sense. So we got
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  Speaker 1: about two dollars invested because it takes about seven to
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes if you're a really good roller setter to
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  Speaker 1: roll the head. So we got about two dollars invested
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  Speaker 1: in that ten dollars, so it makes sense to me. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: So here's you know, we know when people hear things
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  Speaker 1: that are unusual, you know, they go really okay, Now
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  Speaker 1: you had to deal with that part of what kind
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  Speaker 1: of what kind of hair wash that are gonna get?
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  Speaker 1: If the water gonna be cold. Are you using some
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  Speaker 1: generic or detergent? We use our professional products requests since
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  Speaker 1: day one designed it central. It didn't matter because that's
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  Speaker 1: what we did. And then people call like we had
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  Speaker 1: died the shampoo my own hair to come shampoo and
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  Speaker 1: condition I already. We're like, no, we're gonna shop in
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  Speaker 1: condition and roll you up. And it's like you shoot,
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  Speaker 1: like yes, we had to bring on rollers like they
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  Speaker 1: were sitting their grandmother in first to test us, to
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  Speaker 1: see and then they would come in. I'm like for real.
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  Speaker 1: But that first week we opened, we did about forty people.
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  Speaker 1: That second week after that we did six seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: women a week every week, yes, sir, every day. Okay, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: see I love that because you know, I'm a big
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  Speaker 1: ice cream guy. And Brewisters like over there if you
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  Speaker 1: if you take a banana the Brewsters on Thursday, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta have parks. But now to split. So that's what
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  Speaker 1: they were thinking. You know, they gotta come in with
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  Speaker 1: the hair wet. How are we gotta be wet? You're
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  Speaker 1: diving and get it done. You're gonna do it for
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars. We're gonna do it from the beginning, so
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  Speaker 1: so let's talk about this. How big is First of
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  Speaker 1: all the name of your salon? Then when we first
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  Speaker 1: started with sweetsweing colon, there is the color of our salon. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: let's go back to that. How big was it? And
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  Speaker 1: how many? How many chairs did you have in there?
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  Speaker 1: With five thousands good feet? And we here some stylus
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  Speaker 1: now okay, and the stylus rent out the boots? Is
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  Speaker 1: that how it works there? How does that work? Commission?
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  Speaker 1: It was commissioned? Okay? So so because a lot of salons,
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  Speaker 1: just trying to break down how salons work. Like my
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  Speaker 1: brother he has like, uh, three barbershops and two salons
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  Speaker 1: in d C. And so he rents out that chair
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  Speaker 1: and so that's how he generates his revenue. So your
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  Speaker 1: your format, how was it there? Commission you come in
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  Speaker 1: and whatever service you render, that's how you get paid
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  Speaker 1: upon you have a certain percentage of which you make. Okay. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: So when you went to this ten dollars not sixty
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  Speaker 1: five dollars, not season Okay. Now everybody tried to get
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  Speaker 1: to that commission. Okay. Now they're working super hard because
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  Speaker 1: they got to work six times to get back up
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  Speaker 1: to sixty five no, they don't because let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you why. Ever saw she came up with a brilliant
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  Speaker 1: plu in commission playing was set up like this. When
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  Speaker 1: you did over a thousand dollars worth for a revenue, right,
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  Speaker 1: you got six percent of the money. So we gave
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  Speaker 1: you more money for doing more revenue. But here's the
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  Speaker 1: thing you gotta remember. She said, we was doing seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred clients a week. When you're paying boot rent at
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  Speaker 1: sixty five dollars, you don't have seven hundred people coming
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  Speaker 1: through your door. We have status making over thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: a week every week. Okay, So so when did they
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  Speaker 1: start biting off your your idea? Oh maybe a year later?
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  Speaker 1: Head and leave trying to go start the concept somewhere
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  Speaker 1: else and come back, then leave again. But I always
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  Speaker 1: we from open doors because I'm not that person because
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  Speaker 1: because people think it's easy, I think it's easy. I
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  Speaker 1: always tell people, you know, they can work in a bakery,
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  Speaker 1: they can work in whatever event they think that. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, the thing I want you to expound on
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  Speaker 1: this Seesar about the relationships um a belief certain you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, a lot of prayer involved in this
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people understand that prayer is really
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  Speaker 1: to me focused, it's also just a plan. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things are determined when you pray, because
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  Speaker 1: I always tell people when they talk about that situation.
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  Speaker 1: So some people understand that you always need to slow
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  Speaker 1: down to understand where you're going, and prayer will sometimes
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  Speaker 1: do that for you if you're praying the right way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so crazy about it, and you said prayer.
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  Speaker 1: We play gospl music all day and we pray in
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  Speaker 1: the morning before we open. Because you have to have
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  Speaker 1: God in your life and you have to have faith,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't believe it, it's not gonna happen. And
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  Speaker 1: it makes the world different that they change the atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: because you don't know what people got going on. They
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  Speaker 1: come in with issues, so you wanted to feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and it's a place of relief. Never saw I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take credit for that one because it was a struggle
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning. Um, I wanted to change the atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: of the salon because you know, normal, when you have
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  Speaker 1: a normal salon, they're playing all types of music. TV.
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  Speaker 1: You got the soap operas on TV. And I told Chris,
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, we need to play gospel music
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  Speaker 1: to get into the person's and and and that way.
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  Speaker 1: They fought with me for a while, but after a
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  Speaker 1: while they understood and once we started playing the gospel,
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  Speaker 1: we got better clients and it was a better atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: for us. What was the age what's the age group
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  Speaker 1: that comes into Europe? Because when you say gospel, people
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  Speaker 1: think older. You know, it's what's the what's what's the
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  Speaker 1: the demo, that's that's the pain, that's the pipe, the
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  Speaker 1: pain rate right there. They bringing their kids, they bringing
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  Speaker 1: their friends, and so so with that being said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you get your hair done, you get your spirit done,
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  Speaker 1: and you walk out there with money in your pocket
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  Speaker 1: like that. I like that. That's the slogan. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. Man, We're gonna be right back with more.
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  Speaker 1: I got my friends, the trail Blazers, the couple I
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  Speaker 1: met just on the slide, I just met y'all. Y'all,
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  Speaker 1: y'all made that depression on me especially. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be I want to have a relationship, and I'm all
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  Speaker 1: heads can't do them for me. Right back with more age.
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  Speaker 1: Rahan McDonald laughing at my I think this is my
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  Speaker 1: favorite people in Atlanta. We're gonna talk about We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go eat somewhere. You know, we're gonna talk about a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. But let me tell you that philanthropist founders
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  Speaker 1: and uh International Trailblads Awards where I saw them and
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  Speaker 1: uh and he was hosting. He's a very good host.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you want to book out a
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  Speaker 1: host and somebody who can talk, he's available. He's able.
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  Speaker 1: Please back and welcome back to Caesar and Christie. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know you've gotten people in thralled. All right,
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  Speaker 1: all right, now my wife is gonna text me I
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  Speaker 1: love her because of the fact that your business people
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  Speaker 1: who made a decision, but you made a decision based
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  Speaker 1: on faith, and so that faith has Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the International trail Blazer Awards. Now why the word international, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the reason we tell chose International tripl As Awards because
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  Speaker 1: we recognize people globally, not just in Atlanta, not just
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, but globally. One of our honorees
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  Speaker 1: was the first female Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Cynthia Prett.
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  Speaker 1: She was one of our honorees a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and again we wanted to make sure people knew that
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  Speaker 1: we recognize people all over the world globally and not
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  Speaker 1: just in Atlanta. Okay, how do you how do you
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  Speaker 1: promote your event? I'm glad you act uh uh on
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  Speaker 1: November nominations will do so. No nominations opened up on
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  Speaker 1: August the one right after the event and run all
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  Speaker 1: the way through November. So from August the first to
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  Speaker 1: November the fifteen, people can go to our website which
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  Speaker 1: is www dot Jebai, Inc. Which is j A B
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  Speaker 1: Y I n C dot com and they can pull
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  Speaker 1: down the information and they can nominate people and you
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  Speaker 1: can send in a nomination anybody all over the world
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  Speaker 1: and into the nomination of who they want to they
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  Speaker 1: want to be recognized him in the fifth team. We
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  Speaker 1: get all the emails and then our board comes together
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  Speaker 1: and we vote on who we're gonna recognize for the
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  Speaker 1: next year. Okay, cool, So so you need me to
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  Speaker 1: help promote that, yes, okay, cool uh? Samanthea, that's the
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  Speaker 1: executive producers show Samanthe. We gotta get a business card
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  Speaker 1: here so we can get on social media, so we
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  Speaker 1: could also do I have a fan club to two
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  Speaker 1: people understanding worldwide. That's why I want to you're not domestic.
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  Speaker 1: So let's let's let's talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: trail Blates Awards International. What are the categories that you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for individuals in that? How does that break down?
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  Speaker 1: Because I was there because Chef jnrd Wales was being
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  Speaker 1: honored and he asked me to come there and present him.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that a category or how was that word?
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  Speaker 1: It was? He was in an entertainment category. He got
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  Speaker 1: nominated in an entertainment category. We have an instant racial category,
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  Speaker 1: we have a justice category, we have a legend category. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we have a Chairman category which is picked by us.
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  Speaker 1: So just just realized that one one year might not
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  Speaker 1: be next year because we can't do you that quick.
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  Speaker 1: Because they were like, we was already on the show.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna call you up. We gonna call you up
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  Speaker 1: there and and make sure that you receive one of
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  Speaker 1: our International Trailblazer Awards, because the Chairman's Award is picked
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  Speaker 1: by us specifically for people that have helped us promote
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  Speaker 1: and understand our brand and International Trailblazes Award. Okay, and
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  Speaker 1: you in your brand is what our brand is actually
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  Speaker 1: helping the community and recognizing people that's helping the community
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: that don't necessarily and ordinarily get the publicity that that
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: they need, they just do it because we know. The
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: interesting thing about YouTube is that when you're giving back
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and you trying to live a normal life, it's very
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: fatiguing because and it's actually emotionally draining because you just
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: only can do so much, but people ask for so much,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: and so how do how do you balance that? How
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  Speaker 1: do you balance that without feeling that you failed? You know,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: because I know that, Uh, I know, I had to.
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  Speaker 1: I had to. I had to create a certain lane
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: for myself where I said, where I would tell people
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I only donate here. You know, I only donate for
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: these scholarships that shut down a lot of it. But
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you guys have such a giving personality. Plus you're available
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: in the general public. Yeah I'm not available. We can't
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: fire a show McDonald, I'm gonna hop in the car,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gone, and so but they can find you. So
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: how does that balance work? Well. One of the things
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that we do, um as I stated at the event,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: ninety eight cents of every dollar that we raised that
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: people donate, we get back to the community. So what
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I do is to make sure I want to spend
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: that ninety cents because people call us all the time
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and you can't help everybody. But I'm constantly calling Chris
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: on the phone telling her about somebody else that needed
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: something else. I'm constantly calling her on the phone about
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: people that need help um and and trying to reach
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: out and give to the community because we don't do
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: it for the money. So since we don't do it
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: for the money, as long as it's sitting in the account,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to spend it. I'm trying to make sure
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I help somebody else because I'm a firm believer that
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: if you give, you're gonna receive. And she can tell
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you over the years, our profitable business, the salon has
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: expanded and did well because on the other side, we're
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: giving blessings to other people. Talk about that, Christie, like
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you said, you know you're not financially able to give, give, give, give,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: But due to the fact, I said, the salon, I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: have so many clients to come in and give donnate
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: stuff for me to give back toiletry, blankets, clothes, so
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it's just like it just falls in our lap. And
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I was like, it just happened. So it's like, God,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: what are you telling me? Like, so keep doing what
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I'm doing and make it do what it do. It's
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: just like you said, it's I can only say it's faith.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know where it's coming from. I just believe
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: it's that guy. You're gonna make it happen. They say,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: you know it happens, right, But there's the plan to
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: that because you're consistent about it, and so I always
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: tell people because you know faith is important. But because
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you you're are consistent and you are you know, you're
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: charitable at heart, and there's no agenda tie to it.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Like you said, when you went from sixty five to ten,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: there was charity that drove that, but you still have
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: a business model. Because he wasn't gonna season, not gonna
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: do anything unless he understand how you can make money.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Charity stopped at the park with him. Okay, so once
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: he figured out that you weren't crazy, he was just
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: gonna fall with this. But but believe it, when you
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: went from six to five to ten, that was a
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: crazy talk going around. Y'all lost your mind. I'm like,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it works. I like saying this work. And I didn't
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: have the label like one or two dollars. At first,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: it was like, you're you crazy. Ain't nobody gonna do
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: not half of no ten dollars. I'm saying, yes, if
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you open it door, they will come. And indeed, so
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: that started at the original location. Tell us about your
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: new salon. The original was five thousand, talk about the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: new place. Right now, we're downsize because you know, as
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you know, you get burnt out, things happen, you go
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: through the struggles. We don't been through the flood, we
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: don't been through the fire. We don't head a salon
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: actually burned down had started over. So now we're starting over.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: We're called the color Bar Salon and we're located count
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of Road in the Cataum. The cab counted is at foundation.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: They take care of us and we take care of them.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: So we do ten dollar rolla sets on Sundays and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Wednesdays now but still even though the other days are
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: twenty dollars. So and right now we're just starting to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: rebuilding a lot of clients of finders that we're back
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: open and that we got new clients coming in. So
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: we're just starting back over. About starting back over like
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: a like a bring up my wife. She was an
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: optometrist and she hasn't still license though she's gonna kill
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: for since she wolves. And so the flood shut her
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: office down. I mean it was it was in Houston,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Texas flood. If you saw a picture, you didn't even
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: see her shop. It was that flooded. So it was
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a little top of a little eighteen wheel of Trump.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And when she when she reopened, she was so concerned
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: about staying when she previously was that and and now
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that now she realized she that was a mistake because
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: she should have just she so talented, she should have
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: let the customers find her for as her trying to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: stay there so the customers could find her. So when
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you in this whole rebuilding process, what ran through your mind?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: The selection process, where you're gonna be and how you're
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: gonna reopen. Yeah, I know you're biting at the bed.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I come, okay, let me take something shots. It's it's
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: really funny because we went through a flood the cab
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: can and flooded out our salon out, so then we
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: moved to a Memorial Drive. We were open for one month.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Fire burnt down every building but house, every sweet but
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: out Sweet burnt down. We had smoking water damnage. So
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: we were closed for nine months, nine months that our
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: clients couldn't come to us and went to other people.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: We reopened nine months later. Um and Chris said, you
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: know what, I need to go back home. And she
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: kept saying she need to go back home, which was
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Candle Role. That's where we started, right And I said, well, no,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: we need to stay right here. So I fought for
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a while for to stay right here. She went to
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Camele Role as people coming in the Walmart, people at
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the gut Busters are where somebody ow them girls is
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: back all over the place. I mean, it's just amazing.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: You go up in down Candle Road. Now they the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: girl I'm ten dollar. Girls are back right busting the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: doors down. So now I gotta give her credit. She
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: wanted to go back to came Rod. She went back
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to Camel Road. That's why it's called a color ball
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: over there there. And then the women are busting through
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: doors now right because you went to what what what
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: was your rational behind that? Because that's where I started at,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and I knew what God gave me. Then I know
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: you always give you better, but I knew I needed
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: to be on count Road because that's that's why I started.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: And it was it was good. It was it was great.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It was good. I said, So if I gotta start over,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and I had the opportunity to start over, then why
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: not he alreay shood you a couple of messages, right,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: because I was just I burn you down, or you
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: need to come on back. I gonna burn you down.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna burn around you, right, I'm gonna give you
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a sign. You're gonna get us flag. And it just
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: so happens the week up before school and I'm just
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: round down count of Road and I see a building
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: with a police sign in it. So the man was like, um,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I called. He was like, it's it's a salon. You
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: know it used to be a salon now, I said,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: well is it? Availably say, yeah, you wanna come see it?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I said, I can't come right now, but I got
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in here. Some made me call this man bad. I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: can come, but let me pick my child up. I'm
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: gonna go back and see it. I went back. He
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: walked me through. I've seen it. I said, I want it.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: This is Tuesday on where day he called me and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: said seend me your LSC I said, okay, I saw
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: on Thursday, he said, let occupancy. I saw. Okay, Lord, team,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I gotta gotta wrap us up here. I will tell
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: you this season. She picked up the energy and in
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: man I sparked something that means I can bring it back.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys. You owe me some stuff. Season. Okay. Uh.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: In fact, uh, let's let's get season to call in
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: on that deadline date. So he said, he wants to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: call in to promote the wrap up. We're gonna we're
• 24:27
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• 24:30
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