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Shantel Jackson Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: on the phone. Want to thank her for calling in
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Speaker 1: the show today. She's an entrepreneur, inventor, influencer social media
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Speaker 1: wise as well, and former American TV personality. It is
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Speaker 1: her passion for style. You need for comfort. You hear me, ladies,
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Speaker 1: You hear Matt. Need for comfort that inspires shoe Gummy,
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Speaker 1: the world's first outer soul pad and the owner out
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Speaker 1: of soul proven to prevent foot discomfort called by high heels,
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Speaker 1: please work for the money making conversation. The CEO and
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Speaker 1: founder of shoe Gummy, Chantel Jackson, Good morning. Did I
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Speaker 1: let you out there? I put you at that pedalstor
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be at for this interview? Well, I'm
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Speaker 1: you're doing a lot of women right out there with
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Speaker 1: these high heels because that is a fashion trend that
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Speaker 1: has been around, uh for ages, for years forever. It's
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Speaker 1: not going anywhere, and so you are a person that
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Speaker 1: that that possessed that style. Where are you based at?
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Speaker 1: I am based in California right now? Okay? So you
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Speaker 1: say right now where were you previously based? Um? Las
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Speaker 1: Vegas and I am from Miami. Okay, okay, Okay, so
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Speaker 1: you're saying Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, So you were
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Speaker 1: just making your way to the West coast. Yeah, okay, cool.
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Speaker 1: Now let's talk about They sent me a series of
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Speaker 1: questions that I'm gonna ask and and some questions I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna add too, because I'm just a naturally curious person
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Speaker 1: when I talk about people who are being success. One
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Speaker 1: of the first questions they sent to me was when
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Speaker 1: did the entrepreneurship bug bite you? Um? You know what,
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Speaker 1: I was, honestly at a point in my life where, um,
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Speaker 1: certain things wasn't working out for me. I acting, I
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Speaker 1: was going to act in class acting school, and I
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Speaker 1: was just at a certain point and I was like,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna put my all into this
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Speaker 1: product and i want this to be my a plan
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go with this and I want to
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Speaker 1: give it a hundred percent. And that's what I did. Now,
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Speaker 1: where were you at because we mentioned three cities. We
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Speaker 1: mentioned Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. When you were
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Speaker 1: becoming frustrated and you had this idea, what city were
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Speaker 1: you in? Uh l A, Los Angeles. I'm being a
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Speaker 1: guy who pursued an acting career. I know the frustrations.
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Speaker 1: You go to acting classes, you go to auditions, they
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Speaker 1: tell you know, you don't know why they Why are
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Speaker 1: they telling you know? You don't know if you deliver
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Speaker 1: the line right? Did you do the commercial auditions as
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Speaker 1: well as the theatrical auditions as well? Um? Yes, I
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Speaker 1: was doing both. But then I was also at a
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Speaker 1: stage in my life where honestly just got a got
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Speaker 1: out of a breakup. I was going through a lot
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Speaker 1: right and just acting it. I wasn't fit with that
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Speaker 1: bug anymore. And I had this product and I knew
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Speaker 1: how it worked for myself, So it was just that
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Speaker 1: a ha moment, like you know what, this is what
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Speaker 1: I need to go with right now. Now, this is
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Speaker 1: really interesting because of the fact that you have this
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Speaker 1: all hard moment, you have this product. This is what's
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Speaker 1: really interesting about our conversation is that how did the
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Speaker 1: product come about and how did you realize that it
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Speaker 1: was its Aha moment can be functional and everybody else
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Speaker 1: would want to participate in this a hard moment idea. So,
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Speaker 1: just to be really honest, being obsessed with high heels,
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Speaker 1: that is that was my inspiration behind Shoes at Me
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Speaker 1: wearing and being in shoes for over eight nine ten
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Speaker 1: hours in a day. Um, honestly, I didn't know what
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Speaker 1: a pair of sneakers were or pair of flasks into
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Speaker 1: the world unless I was working out. So high heels
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Speaker 1: was my thing is my thing, and I just had
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Speaker 1: to come up with a way for it to be
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Speaker 1: more comfortable. And shoot, let me with it now. So
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Speaker 1: it was a lifestyle invention, a lifestyle invention to make
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Speaker 1: your life more comfortable. Now, I'm a guy, so please
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Speaker 1: explain help me. You'll know the women already know. We
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Speaker 1: got these high heels. The ladies look fantastic in these
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Speaker 1: high heels. What are they? What is the what is
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Speaker 1: the pain that comes with wearing high heels? So, just
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Speaker 1: with being in high heels, your foot is in an
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Speaker 1: unnatural position. Um, two, three, four or five If that's
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Speaker 1: that's not a position for your foot. And then the
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Speaker 1: weight bearing down in that position is what really kills
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Speaker 1: you on the balls of your feet. Okay, So I'm
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Speaker 1: in my studio. You know, I'm on my little tippy toes.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm trying to feel your pain here,
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Speaker 1: Sean Tel. Okay, so I'm on my tippy toes and
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Speaker 1: you're saying, imagine standing like this for eight hours a day,
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Speaker 1: that's what you're saying, right exactly. Or some women can't
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Speaker 1: even stand up being the pair of hills an hour
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Speaker 1: or two hours. And just imagine you're in that position
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Speaker 1: and over standing stand right over, seventy of your body
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Speaker 1: weight is on the balls of your feet for hours
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Speaker 1: right now. Din't imagine this what stops your foot from
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Speaker 1: just sliding right on out um of the high yell one.
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Speaker 1: If you have a closed toe shoe, then your foot's
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Speaker 1: not going to slide out, but it can slide and
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Speaker 1: be crunched in the front, right, that's what we're talking about. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you have an open toes too, you have that
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Speaker 1: little piece of that little strip in the front that helps.
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Speaker 1: But a lot of women's feet because of the arch
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Speaker 1: or the steepness and the shoe do still fly forward.
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Speaker 1: And shoe got me helps with that as well, right,
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Speaker 1: so it stops their toes from going over to the
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Speaker 1: edge on the edge of the shoe, right that you're
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Speaker 1: talking about. Okay, to have six sisters, so I've watched
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Speaker 1: them do this high heel walking um dance for many years. Well,
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Speaker 1: but I gotta play like I don't know to get
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Speaker 1: more information. Okay, I can sit on this phone act
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Speaker 1: like I know everything because you won't tell many things
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Speaker 1: because but aartists are walking away and go, well, I
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Speaker 1: didn't learn anything from the interview because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that this you you invented something that was on my toes.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just to be honest with you. Rochean McDonald
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Speaker 1: would not have stood there long. I would have been
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Speaker 1: out of those shoes a long time ago because that
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Speaker 1: just wasn't so so you have let me just help
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Speaker 1: help me out here. Because I've heard words like high heels.
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Speaker 1: I've heard words like pumps. Now pumps are lower version
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Speaker 1: of high heels. Correct, um No, not necessarily like um
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Speaker 1: open toe shoe a pump. Those can be in the
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Speaker 1: range of a two inch three inchield four inch five pump.
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Speaker 1: A pump is a closed to shoe, whether it's round
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Speaker 1: at the front or appointed. Wow. So now we we
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Speaker 1: we we got the experience. So you're saying that, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this acting thing is not really doing
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Speaker 1: it for me. I have this idea, I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: all in. This is gonna be my plan A. How
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Speaker 1: do you go to plan a with this idea, because
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Speaker 1: it's still just an idea. Did you do samples? Did
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Speaker 1: you go to somebody, did you start telling them at
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Speaker 1: flea markets or pop up boots? How did you get started? So? Um,
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Speaker 1: before I figure this is gonna be my plan a,
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Speaker 1: I have been wearing my product for years already. Um.
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Speaker 1: One day I was sitting and I thought, looking at
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Speaker 1: my shoes, honestly, how can I make this more comfortable?
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Speaker 1: I went to my shoe repair guy um at the time,
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Speaker 1: and I asked him, what is an amount of rubber
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Speaker 1: that I can put on the bottom of my shoe? Um,
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Speaker 1: and I can still walk in it safely and comfortable.
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Speaker 1: So uh, we came up with in size or an
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Speaker 1: amount of rubber. I picked up the shoe about a
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Speaker 1: week later, and I wore that shoe, and I kid
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Speaker 1: you not, I was taking my shoes twenty and thirty
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Speaker 1: pair at a time for him to put this extra
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Speaker 1: rubber on the bottom of my shoe. Mm hmm. So
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Speaker 1: it was just like an idea. It's really it's really
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Speaker 1: amazing that you were able to not saying that you care,
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Speaker 1: not incapable of so many women out there probably feeling
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Speaker 1: the same pain and then you decided to just to
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Speaker 1: take action on it. And when you took action on it,
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Speaker 1: it enabled you to create a business. Now, how do
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Speaker 1: you get into the business aspect of what you're doing?
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Speaker 1: That's the that's the that's the key. Now you know
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Speaker 1: you you went from a person who are wanted to
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Speaker 1: be an actress. You got this idea, Now you're putting
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Speaker 1: it in action. How do we get into a business
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Speaker 1: mode with it? So before anything, I thought, you know what,
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Speaker 1: let me see if this is even a thing anywhere
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Speaker 1: else or whatnot? What went to your girlfriends or you
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Speaker 1: just want to your family members? Who did you go to? Um? No,
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Speaker 1: I immediately went to a patent lawyers. If I'm sorry, Richana,
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Speaker 1: I was a little bit of pro I've been. I'm
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Speaker 1: past that. I went to patent lawyer. Okay, Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: I went to a patent lawyer and we had to
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Speaker 1: do what is called a patent research, which searches the
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Speaker 1: database first to see if there's anything else in the
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Speaker 1: US patent database. That is what shogun me is and
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Speaker 1: we've seen that it was not, and that's where we
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Speaker 1: moved forward. Had to get all the terminology the lane
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Speaker 1: going together to start to create my patent application. Wow,
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Speaker 1: Now on your website said it took two and a
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Speaker 1: half years for your patent to go through. Yes, okay, Now,
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Speaker 1: were you're afraid that somebody will steal your idea? What
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Speaker 1: was going what was running through your mind in a
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Speaker 1: two and a half of your period? Let me ask you.
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Speaker 1: Let me back up. Were you selling your product at
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Speaker 1: all at that time you had to shut it down
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Speaker 1: and just wait for your patent to come through? No? No, honestly,
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Speaker 1: at that point, I wasn't selling products. I was still
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Speaker 1: in research development phase, like the start start. So as
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Speaker 1: soon as I went and got a patent attorney, I
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Speaker 1: went and found a company that did cat designing and
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Speaker 1: products development to help me start to get my shoe
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Speaker 1: gummy uh designed together to make it a consumer product. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and so so now two and a half years that period,
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Speaker 1: you just just preparing because you feel very confident that
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get through. You just don't know when that
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Speaker 1: date's going to happen. You're still in Los Angeles right now,
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Speaker 1: are you gathering Are you gathering momentum work working on designs?
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Speaker 1: Because I'm on your website and your shoes are amazing.
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Speaker 1: By the way, are those your shoes? Are These are
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Speaker 1: shoes you can just put the inserts in on your website.
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Speaker 1: Um uh, those are my shoes. Wow. When I say
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Speaker 1: I'm a shoe sell the shoes are fantastic. Oh tell you.
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Speaker 1: So these shoes off the chain right here. I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at the shoot on your home page. These the red,
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Speaker 1: the yellow, that black. Oh my god. Yeah, you know
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Speaker 1: what I call it. That's my good bad habit. Well,
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Speaker 1: we'll keep it up, keep this good habit going because
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Speaker 1: of the fact that I'm just saying. You know, the
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Speaker 1: thing about it is we all know that as you
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Speaker 1: look through life, as you deal with different situations, you
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Speaker 1: have to be a believer in yourself. You have to
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Speaker 1: have the right people around you. The fact that you
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Speaker 1: came up with an idea basically to find comfort for
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Speaker 1: your personal lifestyle, and then now you're able to use
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Speaker 1: it to for financial benefit, it's pretty amazing. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to Sean tell Jackson. She's the founder and CEO of
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Speaker 1: A shoe Got Me. When we come back, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about some other ventures that she's involved in. All
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Speaker 1: I'm enjoined his interview. I always like talking to entrepreneurs,
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Speaker 1: to money making conversation. I got to talking off air
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Speaker 1: the interview. So I had to get up back on
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Speaker 1: the air so we can confinish because we can finish
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Speaker 1: this interview and grand style. Chantel Jackson, You the CEO,
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Speaker 1: the founder of Shoe gut Me, Shoe gumm Me. Now
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Speaker 1: let's let's I gotta at least find out where the
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Speaker 1: title came from the name of the brand gum meat.
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Speaker 1: You know what I I I can't honestly tell you
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Speaker 1: where it came from. It was just like I was
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Speaker 1: writing down Maine and that one just came across my
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Speaker 1: mind and it's out better than anything else, and so
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Speaker 1: I kept it. And honestly, I've been told to change
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Speaker 1: it is not right. Um, it sounds like something to eat.
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Speaker 1: But I was like, this is what I want to
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Speaker 1: go with, and that's what I'm gonna do. What crazy
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Speaker 1: person told you to change it? What crazy person told
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Speaker 1: you to change that, we won't say no. Just soon
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Speaker 1: listen to them because the fact that you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what Google means. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what Google means. Apple that's a computer company.
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Speaker 1: Apple is fruit. So when people you have to go
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Speaker 1: with it. What inspires you? That's a story behind everything
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Speaker 1: that you do. You know. And when I heard the
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Speaker 1: word names shook got me. I'm gonna tell you how
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Speaker 1: I found you. You know, I'm on Instagram. I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: rolling through and now I see I come to you.
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Speaker 1: You know, you got over a million followers, your social
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Speaker 1: media influence. I just got my little, my little thirty
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Speaker 1: seven thousand follows on Instagram. I'm big on Facebook now,
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Speaker 1: don't don't know shopping down. Yeah, I'm big on Facebook,
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Speaker 1: but on instagral to build my Facebook. I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: build my Facebook up. Well, you know, it's really hard
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Speaker 1: because your Twitter is like ridiculous. Twitter is ridiculous. Now,
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Speaker 1: so you you're you are a queen baller on Instagram
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Speaker 1: and so and so. I bring this up because you're
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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur and you're an attractive entrepreneur. Does that help
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Speaker 1: you or hurt you when you're trying to get your
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Speaker 1: brand out? Because as a brand, your great model for
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Speaker 1: your brand. Just talk about that for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: because you know, we're in me two generations where where
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Speaker 1: people could look at an attractive woman and just have
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Speaker 1: miss misdeed ideas in their heads versus the business aspect
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Speaker 1: of what you're trying to create. Talk about that balance
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Speaker 1: that you have to create being an attractive woman in
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Speaker 1: a male dominated business. Well, you know, honestly with shoegunning
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Speaker 1: in general is dominated by women. So and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: hurt for me to be a tractive and be my
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Speaker 1: own spokeswoman. I am on the box of my product.
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Speaker 1: You know. Um, this is something I do day in
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Speaker 1: and day out. I wear heels. I'm sexy. I want
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Speaker 1: to be in my heels. I want to be comfortable.
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Speaker 1: I don't want my my my I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be at an event and I'm thinking, um, oh, I
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Speaker 1: gotta leave because my feet hurt. Like this is what
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Speaker 1: I did, right, right, right, right right, So it comes
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Speaker 1: naturally and just with this, it's generated towards women. So
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Speaker 1: it's it is easy or easier? Now, tell me do
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Speaker 1: you go to conventions? Do you go to do you
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Speaker 1: pop up? How is your brand sol is majority online
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Speaker 1: that your product is sold? Or do you do conventions
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Speaker 1: and conferences? And women are like essence or you know,
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Speaker 1: the celebration of UH Sisters and UH circular Sisters in
21:06
Speaker 1: New York City large scale female conventions. How do you
21:09
Speaker 1: promote your brand because you have such a tremendous following.
21:12
Speaker 1: So as of right now, it's my own online based
21:16
Speaker 1: sales which have been doing tremendously honestly because of what's
21:24
Speaker 1: going on right now in the world, things have slow
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Speaker 1: down a lot. But I am blessed with still getting
21:31
Speaker 1: customers here and there. Um, but it's not stopping um
21:36
Speaker 1: my show, and I still have to continue on. You know,
21:39
Speaker 1: I have other things too to produce and work on. Still, well,
21:45
Speaker 1: let's talk about those other things, you know. Uh they
21:47
Speaker 1: said you have other products, uh that you want to
21:50
Speaker 1: talk about. Let's talk about some of your future ideas
21:52
Speaker 1: fancy goods. Uh so fancy goods. Honestly, let me kind
21:58
Speaker 1: of take it back a little bit. Okay, Shoe gut
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Speaker 1: Me has been primarily my thing for like five and
22:05
Speaker 1: a half years now. Congratulations, year and a half, Thank you,
22:10
Speaker 1: thank you. It's been a long time coming. And when
22:12
Speaker 1: I say a long time, just with so much uh
22:19
Speaker 1: wanting to quit heartache with why can't this just be
22:25
Speaker 1: something easy. Like pe who have no idea but with
22:33
Speaker 1: shoes got me about a year ago. Um, I was like, uh,
22:38
Speaker 1: this is just stagnant right now, I have to do something.
22:42
Speaker 1: So I came up with fancy goods and I just
22:44
Speaker 1: went out on a whim and produced an eyelash company. Um,
22:50
Speaker 1: that's something something else that I'm obsessed with. I'm gonna
22:55
Speaker 1: go to the website. See if I see some apply light,
22:57
Speaker 1: I see the eye lashes, I definitely see that. Okay, cool,
22:59
Speaker 1: continue you Um so which I love you know I
23:03
Speaker 1: love about you Sean tell you are your brand? Yes, yes,
23:08
Speaker 1: very true. You know if you got about the shoes,
23:12
Speaker 1: you got them. Now you saying, you know some eyelashes,
23:14
Speaker 1: that's me and so it's nothing phony about what you're
23:17
Speaker 1: saying in this interview. You you sell the lifestyle that
23:21
Speaker 1: you live, which means that you're authentic. That's awesome, yes,
23:26
Speaker 1: which honestly it makes it easy like and just to
23:30
Speaker 1: create content for myself, Like you know what, if I'm
23:33
Speaker 1: getting up getting dressed, I'm gonna put on my own lashes.
23:37
Speaker 1: I get free content videos all that to continue to
23:41
Speaker 1: post and all that good stuff. It just comes easy
23:45
Speaker 1: but with starting Fancy Goods, I was like, you know what,
23:49
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this amount of money and I'm gonna
23:52
Speaker 1: see I can flip it. We all know, like, well
23:57
Speaker 1: some people know eyelashes is a real saturated market. But
24:01
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm gonna take this.
24:03
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see what it does. And in about three
24:06
Speaker 1: months I had this company up and running from getting
24:09
Speaker 1: samples from vendors, taking pictures, building the website on my own,
24:15
Speaker 1: and honestly, it's almost coming up on a year of
24:19
Speaker 1: launching Fancy Goods and it's doing pretty well. So it
24:26
Speaker 1: so you like a little you've becoming a little, a
24:29
Speaker 1: little mogul over there in the beauty beauty brand business. Correct,
24:33
Speaker 1: because now you got the shoes, You got the shoe,
24:35
Speaker 1: got me things happening and shoes, and now you have
24:38
Speaker 1: the lush lashes. Yes, okay, cool, Now you didn't you
24:44
Speaker 1: didn't have to deal with any patent issues with the
24:46
Speaker 1: lush lashes. Correct, No, no, cool, no patent issues. Okay cool.
24:54
Speaker 1: Now we're going to the skin care products. Now you
24:56
Speaker 1: have naturally beautiful skin, and just talk about which beauty
25:05
Speaker 1: beauty beauty Okay, uh so a former agent of mind.
25:13
Speaker 1: She came to me with an idea about a sponge,
25:19
Speaker 1: and she knows how I pride myself in skincare and
25:24
Speaker 1: all of that good stuff. Uh, so she brought this
25:29
Speaker 1: idea to me. She asked about certain types of phones
25:33
Speaker 1: and things like that, so I pointed her in the
25:36
Speaker 1: right direction. Uh. She's also a steamstress, so she had
25:43
Speaker 1: all these industrial machines too, So together the sponges and
25:50
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. So we got the We got
25:53
Speaker 1: the right home. We put it together for a year,
25:58
Speaker 1: a year and a half, tested it out ourselves, and
26:02
Speaker 1: I just thought it was time to go with it.
26:06
Speaker 1: And so maybe not even a month ago, we launched that.
26:12
Speaker 1: I built the website for us, and we are active. Honestly.
26:23
Speaker 1: It's come at a time where things are so slow
26:27
Speaker 1: right now. But if you don't put that, if you
26:33
Speaker 1: don't put that foot forward out there, then you don't
26:36
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. We know the thing about
26:39
Speaker 1: I just we all know why it's slow. We all
26:42
Speaker 1: understand that people people don't you know, people right down
26:46
Speaker 1: struggling to find out how to put their they foot
26:49
Speaker 1: forward in anything right now. The thing I like about
26:52
Speaker 1: you is that you're not letting conditions stop you from
26:56
Speaker 1: moving forward. Because I tell people, I tell people all
26:58
Speaker 1: the time, this is a good time to chop, it's
27:00
Speaker 1: a good time to plan. See right now, I'm planning
27:03
Speaker 1: for the third and the fourth quarter right now because
27:06
Speaker 1: I know right now this country, this country is gonna
27:09
Speaker 1: get back on his feet. And when he gets back
27:11
Speaker 1: on his feet, it's not going gonna be walking fat,
27:13
Speaker 1: It's gonna start running. And what you don't want to
27:15
Speaker 1: do is sit on your rear, end on your behind,
27:19
Speaker 1: or mope around and talking about, oh man, what I'm
27:22
Speaker 1: gonna do. No, you're planning, you're thinking, and throughout this
27:25
Speaker 1: whole interview, Chantelle, that's all out. That's my biggest takeaway
27:28
Speaker 1: from you is that you're not a person that sits
27:31
Speaker 1: around and mopes. You're not a person to go if
27:33
Speaker 1: it's not happening over here. Oh always me, I just
27:36
Speaker 1: is not gonna happen for me, you go. What's planning
27:39
Speaker 1: a over here that I can build on? Is that?
27:41
Speaker 1: Is that something that came from your parents? It's something
27:43
Speaker 1: that just a natural quality in you. Um. I would
27:48
Speaker 1: definitely say my parents have helped with that, especially my dad.
27:53
Speaker 1: My dad on the pest control service in Florida. So, um,
28:00
Speaker 1: he's an entrepreneur himself, so I have taken those good
28:09
Speaker 1: qualities from him. Well, also my mom like he's a
28:13
Speaker 1: very hard worker, still go to school and she's uh
28:20
Speaker 1: three years old. I believe I love it, love it,
28:23
Speaker 1: love it. I would tell people, don't let age determine
28:27
Speaker 1: your dream. Don't let age tell you can stop being
28:30
Speaker 1: something that everybody else tells you you shouldn't be. I
28:32
Speaker 1: would look at people at my age. I go you
28:34
Speaker 1: to my same age. I'm really shocked because I know
28:37
Speaker 1: I don't look like you. It is when people will
28:39
Speaker 1: decide that they need to retire in life, is when
28:42
Speaker 1: age jumps on their back. Chantell, I don't think age
28:46
Speaker 1: is ever gonna jump on your high heel. When Lush
28:49
Speaker 1: wind skin tone product self at all, You're gonna be
28:55
Speaker 1: in front of the curve. You're gonna like it's it's
28:57
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people. By the time you're making
28:59
Speaker 1: the A r P. You're gonna have a whole lot
29:01
Speaker 1: of shoes and gummies and our last yes for that
29:06
Speaker 1: group of people. See, that's what I love about you.
29:09
Speaker 1: You are You're not gonna stop. So doty, could your
29:11
Speaker 1: tone kind of dropped down a little bit? We said, well,
29:13
Speaker 1: it's kind of slow right now. Don't worry about that.
29:17
Speaker 1: Oh no, for sure. Honestly, like I still have so,
29:20
Speaker 1: like you said, work to catch up on names that
29:23
Speaker 1: I was cooping off that now I have more time
29:26
Speaker 1: to do. Um. Um, it's definitely a blessing that my
29:31
Speaker 1: my manufacturers in Maine and they're still open. So I'm
29:36
Speaker 1: working on color samples, um getting different coloring in place. Um.
29:43
Speaker 1: I have a larger and a smaller size for me
29:46
Speaker 1: that I'm working to get cooling cut for. So it's
29:49
Speaker 1: still a problem for me. Are you still popping your
29:52
Speaker 1: well again? I wanted. I got six sisters. I love
29:55
Speaker 1: them to death. We're talking later. I would I got
29:58
Speaker 1: a twenty two year daughter. I would love for to
30:01
Speaker 1: get her right, get her right, because she's not wearing
30:04
Speaker 1: nothing you have on your website and she's five ft
30:07
Speaker 1: nine inches all beautiful, young lady, beautiful, young, very smart
30:10
Speaker 1: on a student studying to be game designed at the
30:13
Speaker 1: University of Houston right now their online But you know
30:16
Speaker 1: she's been an honor student for the last four semesters
30:19
Speaker 1: in a row. Dean's List so to put her in
30:21
Speaker 1: a pair of your shoegummies and your stylish high heels
30:24
Speaker 1: and your lush lashes. I think will be a great
30:28
Speaker 1: birthday president because her birthday President, her birthday is in June,
30:30
Speaker 1: so I might surprise that was with your with your
30:33
Speaker 1: with a whole lineout from you, with a picture of
30:35
Speaker 1: you in the box. I go, I know her, you know,
30:43
Speaker 1: you know, I know like to tell people. I know
30:44
Speaker 1: famous people see shot tells famous and so I said,
30:47
Speaker 1: she said, she said, she said, daddy, you know her
30:49
Speaker 1: absolute lest mcgirl. I lost Angeles by way of Vegas
30:52
Speaker 1: and Miami. Her daddy, you know, made pesticide business. That's
30:56
Speaker 1: where he came from. Mama's still in school, she's doing nothing.
31:00
Speaker 1: Want to thank you for coming on the show. I
31:01
Speaker 1: really want to appreciate you, and I want to tell
31:03
Speaker 1: you an inspiration. I want to tell you that they'll change.
31:07
Speaker 1: I wanta tell you that you're an entrepreneur and you're
31:10
Speaker 1: you're changing the game for a lot of young women
31:12
Speaker 1: out there. My daughter, she's just twenty two, and I
31:15
Speaker 1: want her to know that you are an inspiration to her.
31:18
Speaker 1: And I appreciate you taking the time to coming on
31:20
Speaker 1: Money on Money Making Conversations. Thank you chantel oh, no,
31:24
Speaker 1: thank you. I appreciate the opportunity and we'll talk soon. Okay.
31:27
Speaker 1: Her birthday is in June now, so you know we're
31:29
Speaker 1: gonna talk June four, that's her birthday. If you want
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