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Dawnn Lewis, Mahisha Dellinger, Monique Rose & James Hunt · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: on a short year ago, very very talented person. Uh.
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Speaker 1: She's an entrepreneur, authur and TV host. She is the
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Speaker 1: chief executive officer and founder of Curls Natural haircare brand
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Speaker 1: founded in two thousand two. She's the author of Against
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Speaker 1: All Odds, From the Projects to the Penthouse. She's going
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Speaker 1: to show the day to discuss the new cb D
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Speaker 1: full Spectrum. All Urban Goddess, Please welcome to Money making conversation.
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Speaker 1: Mahsha Dellinger, Hi, thank you for having me so you
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Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas today. That's where that's my home now yea, California.
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Speaker 1: This Dealinger is the CEO of Curls. She's a new
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Speaker 1: brand out. It's called Urban Goddess. It's a c B
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Speaker 1: d are All is made by extractings CBD from the
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Speaker 1: cannabis plant then diluted with a carrier or like a
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Speaker 1: coconut or hemp seed all and it's gay momentum and
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Speaker 1: the health and wellness world with some with a lot
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Speaker 1: of scientists, and there's also gaining momentum with me. I
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Speaker 1: would approached several years ago about using this for aches. Uh.
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Speaker 1: People have asked me to use some of my contacts
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Speaker 1: to bringing athletes on board for a potentially brand ambassadors.
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Speaker 1: And I've always been hesitant, but to hesitate. My hesitation
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Speaker 1: was always based on edgucation. I wasn't educated nothing to
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Speaker 1: really understand exactly what's happening and how does this make
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Speaker 1: you feel good? And you rubbing it on your skin
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Speaker 1: is getting into your you know, there's actually penetrating your
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Speaker 1: your your your your skin base and things like that.
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Speaker 1: And but but because it's becoming much more knowledge, much
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Speaker 1: more I guess to say, normal use, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of the I guess, uh scare tactics are being removed
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Speaker 1: from the whole principle out there. How people could you know?
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Speaker 1: People contended to believe that, you know, you do this
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Speaker 1: drug and to do this for you. And it's not
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Speaker 1: so much about the drug, it's about natural health care.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about how did you get into this business?
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Speaker 1: Right quick? Let's start off right there. Yeah, well, I actually,
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Speaker 1: uh was just discovered and decided to get into this business.
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Speaker 1: I'm from California, of course I know all about the
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Speaker 1: legalities there, and and I had a friend that's actually
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Speaker 1: in the business that we started talking about the annefits
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Speaker 1: of it. And I ain't exported from my mother who
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Speaker 1: has chronic pain. That's where my reports started because it's
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Speaker 1: a natural frame reliever and and I wanted her to
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Speaker 1: try it. So you mentioned that you used the cream
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Speaker 1: that was mixed with like a carrier oil. Well, I
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Speaker 1: have the cure oil that you actually put under your
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Speaker 1: tongue weight sixty seconds and then swallow and it goes
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Speaker 1: directly into the bloodstream. So um, so pain management was
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Speaker 1: my interest from get my due diligence and saw all
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Speaker 1: those other benefits and of how it can be helpful
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Speaker 1: to different people in no matter where you are mine.
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of amazing benefits. So we say
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Speaker 1: pain management information. UM. It definitely helps with diabetic symptom,
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Speaker 1: helps with epiletic seizures and acne. He helps with depression, anxiety,
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Speaker 1: and migraines and headaches, and also metabolism. It helps a
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Speaker 1: lot of remains are issues that we have naturally. UM.
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Speaker 1: The key that people what people get caught up in
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Speaker 1: is the fact that they think it's like it will
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Speaker 1: get you high quality CBD oil should have the zero
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Speaker 1: th hc um and so that it's filtered out so
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Speaker 1: that part T sees what is a part of that
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Speaker 1: gets you high should not be tbot justice. There's little
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Speaker 1: properties that is actually beneficial. Yeah, that was the part
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Speaker 1: that that you know that had me. You know again
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Speaker 1: all this is uh, I gotta claim ignorance, you know,
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Speaker 1: because you you go off of what you heard or
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Speaker 1: what's being promoted, and when you see your c D
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Speaker 1: c b D, you think about getting high or think
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Speaker 1: about weed, you know, anything that's like okay, it's just
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Speaker 1: gonna affect me and I am I gonna be am,
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Speaker 1: I gonna be addicted to you know, all these sort
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Speaker 1: of things I think that you have to deal with.
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Speaker 1: So with that being saying, and I know I'm dealing
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Speaker 1: with a knowledge of entrepreneur, how did you break through
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Speaker 1: all that? How did you put you? I had to
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Speaker 1: I had to see for myself. You know, I have
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Speaker 1: to see studies like ours. If you gotta Urban Goddess
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Speaker 1: dot com. There are hosts of the um studies. And
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Speaker 1: I'm a data person. So if you show me that
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Speaker 1: it's proven to do so, then I believe it. You know.
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Speaker 1: I haven't to see the data though, so you can
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Speaker 1: eat just something build good. So I had to see
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Speaker 1: that there's definitely was some scientific proof behind it. And
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Speaker 1: I used to work in big farm and I went
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Speaker 1: from finding the pharmatypicals, and I know why there was
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Speaker 1: a push against legalizing it because they would cut that
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Speaker 1: those profits that have I personally recently had surgery and
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Speaker 1: I I wasn't as far along as I had hoped
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Speaker 1: in my recovery, and I already booked myself to walk
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Speaker 1: in a fashion show. Someone asked me walk into fashion
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Speaker 1: sholfful of all these Dallas socialized and I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know it sounds fun and by like a few
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Speaker 1: days before and the actually going, I'm like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: it's a horrible They made secial accommodations for me to
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Speaker 1: have a chair and sit down and walking towards the
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Speaker 1: early part of the show with all those things that
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Speaker 1: I decided not to take my prescribe medicine. But I
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Speaker 1: just did my CBD oil and I did a lse
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Speaker 1: in the morning and a dose before I left. I
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Speaker 1: was good the whole night. And I could not believe
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Speaker 1: I was paying free. So that was just the thing.
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Speaker 1: And I was so happy to actually put it on
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Speaker 1: my page. I could have posted on my page about
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Speaker 1: it right, So I'm like, wow, great, might payments that
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Speaker 1: will prestpie for me. I might to be doing it
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Speaker 1: right now, here's do there. I went to the website
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Speaker 1: herb in Goddess. Okay, as soon as you come to
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Speaker 1: play it as an age verification, it says yes, I'm
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Speaker 1: over eighteen, No I'm leaving, or no I'm leaving. Why
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Speaker 1: is that there? Yes, I'm over eighteen. It's just the
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Speaker 1: age verif both regalities are something that hasn't say I'm goody,
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Speaker 1: just taken off the cautions and have to make sure
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Speaker 1: people who insur into because it's still can't you know
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Speaker 1: Canada's plan and you know you see some stage it's
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Speaker 1: not we go so yeah, we have to put that in. Okay, cool,
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Speaker 1: and then it goes down there goes a vegan natural
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Speaker 1: TC free pure. So you know again all your websites
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Speaker 1: are just just a hollypoly, very professional, very engaging, and
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Speaker 1: so it feels to me now because it is urban Goddess.
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Speaker 1: This is appealing to us women because you know, men
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Speaker 1: like myself too well when we have urban God coming,
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Speaker 1: so we're father daughter, you know, athletes, we want to
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Speaker 1: help unleash the inner goddess woman. Urban God coming next
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Speaker 1: right right, okay, So you know when you when you
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Speaker 1: when we started out, you ran through this real quick.
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Speaker 1: You know, I had seven points here, it's comeback, can
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Speaker 1: relieve pain. You talked about that personally, you know about
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Speaker 1: how and I would just share a story my friend
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Speaker 1: I was in in fact, I was in California on
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Speaker 1: Monday and she came by my hotel, and and she
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Speaker 1: was just uh, and we're just having a general conversation,
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Speaker 1: and she was talking about how back was bothering her,
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Speaker 1: and I was going, I said, what you're taking for,
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Speaker 1: you know, because me back bothers me. I go old school,
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Speaker 1: Ben Gay, you know, I see hot That's what I do. Okay,
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Speaker 1: she said, oh no, no, no, she said, I've been
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Speaker 1: taking these CBD ar olds. You know the cream, she said, Rishan,
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Speaker 1: I rubbed the cream on me and the pain was
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Speaker 1: went away immediately. Right. Yeah, that's great. It's a great,
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Speaker 1: amazing natural benefit. I mean products, I really really do
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Speaker 1: love it, and I think you should get You sound
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Speaker 1: like you're not quite sure. How ab I send your bottle?
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Speaker 1: You can try for yourself. Oh she's so good. She's
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Speaker 1: she's amazing. That's why I have on the phone all
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Speaker 1: the time because she's a great salesperson. She she challenges you.
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Speaker 1: She challenges me every time I'm talking to her. And
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Speaker 1: that's a good challenge because she's saying, Okay, I got
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Speaker 1: a product that I believe in. And Richard, your voice
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Speaker 1: if I convert your voice, and you don't have to,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to convince me, because first of all
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Speaker 1: I want you to try it. I will try. I
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Speaker 1: will definitely try because of the fact that I, you know,
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Speaker 1: just let's understand about you know, I have these old values.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't drink, I don't smoke, because my
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Speaker 1: mother had the hardest time until I told her I
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Speaker 1: had to show her. Any time I promise your mother,
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Speaker 1: you won't can hide flying cream on your leg. Okay,
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Speaker 1: right right? Oh see, so you me and mom, we're good.
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Speaker 1: We're good. We're the same page, the same page because
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Speaker 1: because that so I accept your your invitation to have
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Speaker 1: that happened and say, and then it goes to reduce
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Speaker 1: anxiety and depression one of the things that also can
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Speaker 1: alleviate cancer related symptoms um a cancer survivor. So that
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Speaker 1: that that that's amazing. It may reduce atne which is
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Speaker 1: which is which is amazing. My uh from you talked
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Speaker 1: about this epilepsy and multiple growth fetures. Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: So the seizures. We partnered with the National Epilepsy Foundation
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Speaker 1: because they're that that was the number one the first
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Speaker 1: benefit that was discovered. And so kids have been taken
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Speaker 1: to be the oil under the radar way before legal
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Speaker 1: because and and pediatric about the seizures, they found that
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Speaker 1: they had a vast and dramatic reduction, and for that reason,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, that's powerful and I and then I
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Speaker 1: had several friends who UM have had series of depression
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Speaker 1: and that's really runs ramped rampant in the entrepreneur world. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: that's one thing that we don't talk about enough. UM
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Speaker 1: And so one of my cohorts have also not been
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Speaker 1: knowing this beauty space and told me she'd been taking
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Speaker 1: it for a while her anxiety and depression and also
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Speaker 1: helps them in talkia. When I take it at night,
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Speaker 1: it keeps me sleep. I have a hard time staying sleep,
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Speaker 1: so it helps me stay asleep and get a great
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Speaker 1: night rest. So the listens just so goes on and on.
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Speaker 1: There's like listen on my website. But I spoken with
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Speaker 1: different people as I was launching and realized that people
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Speaker 1: were taking it underground for so many years before I
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Speaker 1: really over there. And then other other things that anti
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Speaker 1: two more effects are diabetic preventions, substance abuse treatment. It
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Speaker 1: uh at psychotic effects. It's really disguise the limit. So
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Speaker 1: we're looking at something that first of all, we're starting
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Speaker 1: to investigate from a scientific from the scientific community and
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Speaker 1: starting to evolve so many amazing layers of opportunities where
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Speaker 1: we can naturally cure ourselves. And we've been resisting because
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Speaker 1: of the fact that, oh you're gonna get you might
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Speaker 1: get high, you might get addicted. All these all these
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Speaker 1: falsehoods that I have been that I've been exposed over
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Speaker 1: the years. So before we get off there, give out
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Speaker 1: your website, give out to social media as you, as
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Speaker 1: you your family, you, I will definitely be talking to
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Speaker 1: you in awesome So follow me at Mahitia Underscore, Dellinger
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Speaker 1: of two thousand two. That's where she started. That's where
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Speaker 1: she's she's not going anywhere. That's not going anywhere, and
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Speaker 1: My girl, Don Lewis, how are you doing today? Man?
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Speaker 1: I listened to you say all that. It's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess I did do that. Yeah, I guess that.
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Speaker 1: Grace of God. You know in this business and you
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Speaker 1: know that it is the business. I you know, I've
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Speaker 1: been fortunate. I started as a stand up commodate, and
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Speaker 1: I became a sitcom writer and started producing television, and
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Speaker 1: I started managing talent. It's been able to have multi
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Speaker 1: levels of income, being able to have multi hats. Talk
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Speaker 1: about that whole process a little bit about being able
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Speaker 1: to in other words, you know, you can come in
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Speaker 1: wanting to be an actor. You can come and wanted
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Speaker 1: to be a singer, but you have to be ready
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Speaker 1: for the opportunity. I agree with you. You have to
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Speaker 1: be ready, but you have to be flexible because the
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Speaker 1: business that we're in, the entertainment industry is completely subjective.
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Speaker 1: There is no clear cut, black and white lines on
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Speaker 1: right or wrong, or or left or right. It really
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Speaker 1: is when you walk in the room, how does that
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Speaker 1: producer feel today, How does that casting director feel today?
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Speaker 1: Did you, by chance where the color they hate the most?
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Speaker 1: Does your perfume offend them? I mean, just all kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff before they even get to whether or not
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Speaker 1: you have the talent that it takes to actually pull
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Speaker 1: off this job. Um, your reputation, more often than not,
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Speaker 1: walked into the room before you do. If you are
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Speaker 1: known as a troublemaker adza, that's how people are going
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Speaker 1: to think of you, and no matter how talented you are,
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Speaker 1: you may not get that gig. So I suggested people
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Speaker 1: put your attitudes and your egos in check and go
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Speaker 1: and do the work and let the work speak for itself.
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Speaker 1: When I started out in the industry, I started out
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Speaker 1: as a singer. I've been singing since I was four.
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Speaker 1: I started dancing at seven, started acting at eleven. I'm
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Speaker 1: born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, so that's what
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Speaker 1: I was doing. I was doing theater off and on Broadway.
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Speaker 1: I went to the High School of Music and Art,
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Speaker 1: So I graduated high school at sixteen, immediately left and
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Speaker 1: went to college down at the University of Miami, where
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Speaker 1: I continued studying. They ended up developing a degree program
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Speaker 1: around me. The musical theater degree program at the University
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Speaker 1: of Miami was founded on me. I am its founder
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Speaker 1: and first graduate because I came into the school not
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Speaker 1: wanting to just sing or not wanting to act. I
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Speaker 1: wanted to do it all. I wanted to be a
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Speaker 1: complete package and have skill in it, not to be
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Speaker 1: young and cute and impulsive. And if I knew then that,
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Speaker 1: I was still gonna be young and cute and impulsing
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Speaker 1: at my age. Now I may not have gone to college.
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Speaker 1: But that's a whole other Stop. You're not saying you
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Speaker 1: wasted years. You did not waste years. Done, you did
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Speaker 1: not waste the years. Okay, So I would not let
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Speaker 1: you put that out of public. You're fantastic. Keep going,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. So I wanted to
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Speaker 1: know how to recreate what I needed to recreate, take
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Speaker 1: after take, show after show, and that was what I
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Speaker 1: cultivated there in college. So when I tell people today
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Speaker 1: or what do I do to get ahead? And and
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Speaker 1: what how come can I get my big break? And said,
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Speaker 1: first of all, you have to do your homework. You
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Speaker 1: wouldn't allow someone to perform brain surgery on you who
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Speaker 1: hasn't studied how to do it and do it well.
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Speaker 1: So those of us in the industry who do what
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Speaker 1: what we do and who do it well, we make
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Speaker 1: it look easy. But please know it is hard work.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to be a singer, you got
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Speaker 1: to get to work in and get your vocal chops up.
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Speaker 1: And don't just trust your auntie and uncle when they say,
19:14
Speaker 1: oh girl boy, you can say no, can you really sing?
19:19
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I had a recording contract
19:21
Speaker 1: before I got on television. I thought I was gonna
19:24
Speaker 1: be a recording artist and singing and dancing on Broadway.
19:28
Speaker 1: And uh, that was how I ended up writing the
19:30
Speaker 1: theme song for a Different World because the music contractor
19:34
Speaker 1: knew me as a singer songwriter, so he hired me
19:37
Speaker 1: to work on the theme song. The people who cast
19:40
Speaker 1: me to be in the show knew me as an
19:42
Speaker 1: actor because I was doing a Broadway show for them
19:44
Speaker 1: at at the time, the Cat Dance Kids, So they
19:47
Speaker 1: both hired me and did not know that I was
19:49
Speaker 1: being hired by the two completely different departments until they
19:53
Speaker 1: had hired me to do both jobs. And by the
19:56
Speaker 1: grace of God, I have been able to step by step,
20:00
Speaker 1: you know, what I'm saying. You say, so you say
20:05
Speaker 1: this so normal, you know what I'm saying. You just
20:07
Speaker 1: say this so effortlessly. But but but when you talk
20:10
Speaker 1: about you know, I've been doing this since I was four,
20:13
Speaker 1: graduated high school of sixteen, went down the University of Miami.
20:16
Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to structure of our life. I
20:18
Speaker 1: didn't want to just I wanted to. I wanted a career.
20:20
Speaker 1: I want to do, take to understand what to take ment.
20:22
Speaker 1: And then I was saying, getting these opportunities, let's talk
20:25
Speaker 1: about the opportunity because see, in your own since you
20:29
Speaker 1: knew what you wanted, I always feel blessed when I
20:32
Speaker 1: talked to people who knew what they wanted in their life.
20:34
Speaker 1: You know, like when I was sixteen, look at a girl.
20:37
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out who was Sean McDonald was,
20:39
Speaker 1: and let alone trying to find out if I could
20:41
Speaker 1: date somebody. Okay, law knows, I was two years away
20:46
Speaker 1: from graduating, okay, and then when I graduate, didn't know
20:48
Speaker 1: what It took me seven years again out of college. Okay.
20:50
Speaker 1: So you look that the guy was confused, okay, And
20:54
Speaker 1: so I'm talking to somebody at a very mature age
20:56
Speaker 1: and said this is what I want to do, and
20:59
Speaker 1: then alone away. It doesn't always work out that way,
21:02
Speaker 1: you know, because people like you said, you know, you're
21:05
Speaker 1: going forecasting opportunity. You don't know what they want, you know,
21:08
Speaker 1: be vibrant. And that's that's really the frustrating part of entertainment. Correct, yes,
21:13
Speaker 1: oh it is. It is. And not only do we
21:17
Speaker 1: get that put us put on us from the outside,
21:20
Speaker 1: but unfortunately we do it to ourselves as entertainers. We
21:24
Speaker 1: were perpetually as much as we want to create, as
21:27
Speaker 1: much as we want to develop things that come from
21:30
Speaker 1: the inside out, we're constantly criticizing ourselves. I'm not pretty enough,
21:35
Speaker 1: I'm not spinning up. I'm not tall enough, I'm not
21:38
Speaker 1: old enough, I'm too young. I mean, these all these
21:41
Speaker 1: things that we put on ourselves and make ourselves insecure,
21:45
Speaker 1: to make ourselves. Even as much hard work as we
21:48
Speaker 1: may put into what what we do, unfortunately, because the
21:52
Speaker 1: industry is so subjective, we put a lot on that
21:57
Speaker 1: on ourselves as well. Quite frankly, and I walked in
22:00
Speaker 1: to be a different world audition. I was the only
22:02
Speaker 1: person in the room I didn't know right right. I
22:05
Speaker 1: saw models, I saw as I've seen on television. I
22:09
Speaker 1: saw people who were assized too, with fair skin and
22:13
Speaker 1: green eyes and long hair. And I'm like, I know
22:15
Speaker 1: everybody in here except me, okay, And that's why. And
22:19
Speaker 1: you say that your character was a game changer for
22:22
Speaker 1: television for you know, because you weren't a science too,
22:26
Speaker 1: You weren't light skinned. You was like somebody in the
22:28
Speaker 1: neighborhood that I went to high school with, or somebody
22:30
Speaker 1: that I grew up with, looking like when you look
22:32
Speaker 1: like my sister, and and you are attractive, you as articularly,
22:35
Speaker 1: you have a defined personality, and you are and you are,
22:39
Speaker 1: you are a professional and all those things. I feel
22:42
Speaker 1: that you know, you're a role model, and you're still
22:45
Speaker 1: a role model today and so and I'd say that
22:48
Speaker 1: because I wanted to. I wanted I asked you project interview,
22:50
Speaker 1: because I talk about your New Day Foundation because it
22:54
Speaker 1: kind of it has those traits of being able to
22:57
Speaker 1: talk about empowerment and education for you and under serve communities.
23:00
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that a little bit. Well, to be
23:03
Speaker 1: honest with you, the New Day Foundation, thank you for that. Again.
23:07
Speaker 1: I don't want that to go by without me not
23:09
Speaker 1: acknowledging that. It's really humbling to know that that was
23:12
Speaker 1: the end result of me wanting to do my job
23:15
Speaker 1: and me standing for myself and saying, in spite of
23:19
Speaker 1: what I may think of myself in this room that
23:21
Speaker 1: I think I'm the smallest person here. God was able
23:24
Speaker 1: to use me to take myself to a different level
23:28
Speaker 1: and being example for others who want to take themselves
23:31
Speaker 1: to a different level. So I am really humbled and
23:34
Speaker 1: uh honored to have been a part of a project
23:37
Speaker 1: like that that put me in a position to do
23:40
Speaker 1: that and be that and continue to be that. That's
23:42
Speaker 1: thirty two years now and people are still watching that
23:45
Speaker 1: show and coming up to me saying, I wanted to
23:48
Speaker 1: go school because of you little kids who are ten
23:52
Speaker 1: and eleven, the little kids in the show I'm doing
23:54
Speaker 1: now the seen a turn of musical on Broadfrost. I
23:57
Speaker 1: watch your show all the time, Miss Dawn. I'm now
23:59
Speaker 1: the storm most Jesus, when did that happen? When did
24:02
Speaker 1: I become the older person? But going back to the foundation,
24:08
Speaker 1: the New Day Foundation, I formalized that about three years
24:11
Speaker 1: ago now, basically to put under a formal five or
24:16
Speaker 1: one three seed nonprofit umbrella. The work I've been doing
24:19
Speaker 1: for more than forty years. Um. Ever, since I was
24:23
Speaker 1: in elementary school, I was a person who, like I said,
24:26
Speaker 1: who was inspired, who was supported by my teachers, who
24:31
Speaker 1: from different parts of my family, was completely misunderstood. Growing
24:35
Speaker 1: up in a very traditionally reliligious family. UH, the entertainment
24:40
Speaker 1: industry was Satan's playground, and UH, I was being encouraged
24:44
Speaker 1: by my my mom and my tea teachers to basically
24:48
Speaker 1: live in that playground. So I was getting really mixed
24:51
Speaker 1: mess messages. By one hand, I was being told that
24:54
Speaker 1: the gifts that I had were a gift from God
24:56
Speaker 1: and I couldn't do it without God's blessing. And on
24:58
Speaker 1: the other hand, I was being told that I'm going
25:01
Speaker 1: to be sent straight to Hell if I keep entertaining
25:04
Speaker 1: the singing and dancing. It was. It was very confusing,
25:07
Speaker 1: It was very difficult and emotionally stressful. You know. This
25:12
Speaker 1: was when I was eight. This is when I was
25:15
Speaker 1: eight when all of this first started manifesting itself. So
25:19
Speaker 1: my elementary school teachers, particularly Karen Fogler and Barbara Ames,
25:23
Speaker 1: who actually also happened to be lin Manuel Miranda's chie teachers,
25:27
Speaker 1: and he credits them also with inspiring him and guiding
25:32
Speaker 1: him to be the amazing creative genius that he is today.
25:35
Speaker 1: So I just want to give a shout out to
25:37
Speaker 1: public school teachers. Thank you for investing in your kids.
25:40
Speaker 1: We hear you, we receive you, and you continue to
25:43
Speaker 1: make a difference in our lives because of them. I
25:46
Speaker 1: would go like into junior high school and come back
25:49
Speaker 1: to my elementary school and visit them, and while I
25:52
Speaker 1: was there, talked to the kids in the class and say,
25:54
Speaker 1: this is what junior high school is like. I used
25:56
Speaker 1: to be in this class. You have to listen to
25:58
Speaker 1: your teachers. Don't you afraid of bullies? Tell somebody I
26:02
Speaker 1: used to get bullied as as a kid, just for
26:05
Speaker 1: having good grades, just for wanting to do something with
26:08
Speaker 1: my life. People would just beat you up and jack
26:11
Speaker 1: you for your lunch money, etcetera, all kinds of things.
26:15
Speaker 1: So gratefully I listened to the positive voices more than
26:18
Speaker 1: I listened to the negative voices. So while things may
26:22
Speaker 1: sound like they just roll off my tongue and come
26:24
Speaker 1: easily to me, or have come easily, that is that
26:28
Speaker 1: couldn't be further from the truth. And that's when I
26:31
Speaker 1: went to high school. I'm sorry, and that's the basis
26:33
Speaker 1: of the of the of the foundation. Right to the
26:36
Speaker 1: foundation is to be empowering to those kids and to
26:40
Speaker 1: those communities where you don't see yourself succeeding. I gotta
26:43
Speaker 1: go to the ticket to the show. Okay, Yes, we
26:47
Speaker 1: are at the lunch Fontane Theater in New York City.
26:50
Speaker 1: So go to Broadway dot com. Tina the musical we
26:54
Speaker 1: are running. We are looking forward to seeing you. Please
26:57
Speaker 1: come check us out, please please please, Well, my friend,
27:00
Speaker 1: the cast is amazing. My friend, you're an amazing person.
27:02
Speaker 1: You've got me into your foundation again. Samathea will reach
27:06
Speaker 1: out to you. I will see you in January. Dawn
27:09
Speaker 1: RuSHA mcgonal is a friend of your family. Okay, I
27:12
Speaker 1: know that I am a firm. Thank you for supporting
27:14
Speaker 1: Tina Be a New Day Foundation, my animation work, film work,
27:18
Speaker 1: my company The Morning Morning jewel In. You know you
27:22
Speaker 1: know you're gotta come back on the show. You know
27:24
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27:27
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27:48
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27:59
Speaker 1: an actor, writer, director, and producer. He's a series regular
28:03
Speaker 1: on ABC's hit drama A Million Little Things, starring is
28:07
Speaker 1: the character Rome Howard. He is back on the show
28:11
Speaker 1: to talk about the first season and the upcoming second season,
28:14
Speaker 1: and I want to share some very important advice that
28:16
Speaker 1: he gave me. He's the first born American with Trinidadian descent.
28:20
Speaker 1: He has lived from Baytown, Texas to Puerto Rico. Please
28:24
Speaker 1: welcome back the money Making Conversation Rominy Malcolm. Hey, thank you, Dan.
28:30
Speaker 1: That's a nice interes. Let's talk you the best central.
28:32
Speaker 1: I've a guy right there. Thank you very much. Sean,
28:34
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Good. I'm happy to be here and and
28:37
Speaker 1: I want to know if I could, if I could
28:39
Speaker 1: piggy back on what you were saying about, you know,
28:41
Speaker 1: if you have a plan that you can make it.
28:43
Speaker 1: Am I allowed to do that? Or do me? Now?
28:44
Speaker 1: It just show us about to do your thing. I
28:48
Speaker 1: just want to say something. You know, uh, you know. Look,
28:51
Speaker 1: one of the other things that really inhibits people, I believe,
28:54
Speaker 1: from actually realizing their dreams is simply they have this
28:57
Speaker 1: preconceived notion of what the process should be like. So
29:01
Speaker 1: what that means is they think from what they take
29:04
Speaker 1: things to face value, that they take the success they
29:06
Speaker 1: see your face value, and then so they go into it.
29:08
Speaker 1: And I don't care if you're just selling jewelry, making
29:11
Speaker 1: YouTube videos, or running a fortune five hundred company. The
29:14
Speaker 1: bottom line is is that people are doing a lot
29:17
Speaker 1: of additional work beyond what you're seeing and you know
29:20
Speaker 1: at face value. So in other words, there's so much
29:23
Speaker 1: extra work that goes on behind the scenes. And I
29:26
Speaker 1: don't don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about paying dudes.
29:28
Speaker 1: Yes there's paying dudes, but there's also simple strategies and
29:32
Speaker 1: techniques that we need mentors and we need non provental
29:36
Speaker 1: care in adults to inform usel because we hadn't walked
29:40
Speaker 1: that path. And it's those little bits of insight that
29:42
Speaker 1: saved us so much time. I wish I had known
29:44
Speaker 1: that when I was younger. I cast to be a
29:46
Speaker 1: lot further the head of my own life. That's all.
29:48
Speaker 1: But is that part of the growing process process to
29:51
Speaker 1: you know, cause I always go back and I always
29:53
Speaker 1: tell people what you learn in your twenties, it's really
29:55
Speaker 1: what the structure of what you're going to be successful
29:57
Speaker 1: in your forties and your fifties, because that's when you're
29:59
Speaker 1: fear That's when you had the dreams and if anybody
30:02
Speaker 1: told you a question, you you tended to ignore that.
30:05
Speaker 1: But as you got older, you got into relationships, and
30:08
Speaker 1: you start worried about the position you are in life.
30:11
Speaker 1: You know, that fear of change, that fear of I bet,
30:15
Speaker 1: I bet I've been a hold back on this. So
30:17
Speaker 1: the whole back what you say, no, but no, But
30:20
Speaker 1: there's some value to that though, because you know something
30:23
Speaker 1: real talk. I have to say that there was definitely
30:27
Speaker 1: a fearlessness, uh, you know, in my youth. But also
30:30
Speaker 1: what there was was this uh lack of awareness of self.
30:35
Speaker 1: And because of that lack of awareness of self, I
30:37
Speaker 1: had these unaddressed issues. So by not knowing myself and
30:40
Speaker 1: not knowing what I was capable of, I was kind
30:42
Speaker 1: of afraid that composed myself, if that makes any sense.
30:46
Speaker 1: Very much. A lot of people tell me. Yeah, people say, Yo, well,
30:49
Speaker 1: I'm you're so underrated. I'm not underrated, really, I'm just scared.
30:52
Speaker 1: So I'm the dude to avoid a lot of the
30:54
Speaker 1: avoided a lot of great opportunities simply because I was
30:58
Speaker 1: afraid that I would be exposed as not being you're
31:00
Speaker 1: good enough. So I actually took I I actually took refuge,
31:04
Speaker 1: and I found uh joy in being able to be
31:08
Speaker 1: the side dude, being able to be the supporting actor,
31:11
Speaker 1: you know, And you know, that was really a biproduct
31:14
Speaker 1: of just like deeper insecurity that hadn't been addressed. So
31:17
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, we have a fair defensive
31:19
Speaker 1: with kids, but there's a subconscious thing as well where
31:22
Speaker 1: maybe we've been convinced by you know, by our environment
31:26
Speaker 1: that we're not worthy. Not saying that it's true, we've
31:28
Speaker 1: just been convinced of it. And so I think sometimes
31:31
Speaker 1: there's a lot of value in northern in Northern American countries,
31:34
Speaker 1: we tend to overlook, uh, the need to resolve those
31:38
Speaker 1: issues as we pursue success. You know, it's not just
31:40
Speaker 1: about willpowers. There is a resolve. Most of the wealthy
31:43
Speaker 1: people that helped me make my movies that helped me
31:45
Speaker 1: make my money. They have all had to put themselves
31:47
Speaker 1: in that vulnerable position of getting to know themselves better.
31:50
Speaker 1: Because on the on the movie Prison logic, there was
31:53
Speaker 1: you did when you came on the show last time?
31:55
Speaker 1: That was a crowdfunded movie. Correct, it was a cloud
31:58
Speaker 1: funded movie. Now here was strategy on that. This is
32:01
Speaker 1: the prime example of what I'm saying about getting to
32:03
Speaker 1: know the ins and outs of something. I uh did
32:06
Speaker 1: so much research on cloud funding, had no idea that
32:10
Speaker 1: it wasn't just about you know, starting up and asking
32:12
Speaker 1: your fans and money. There was so much strategy and
32:15
Speaker 1: to be quite frank, like that cloud funding game is
32:18
Speaker 1: shady as hell, and you you would not believe it,
32:20
Speaker 1: all the all the skulls that we could go on
32:22
Speaker 1: behind the scenes and being able to learn and understand that.
32:25
Speaker 1: But what I did was I used the cloud funding
32:27
Speaker 1: campaign to attract investors. So here's the prime example of
32:30
Speaker 1: a strategy you might not know. You never asked for
32:32
Speaker 1: a hundred percent of what you want when you're running
32:34
Speaker 1: a cloud funding campaign, always asked about because statistically, a
32:38
Speaker 1: successful cloud funding campaign will be funded on average between
32:42
Speaker 1: two hundred to a thousand percent of asking. So that
32:45
Speaker 1: means that if you're asking for a hundred thousand and
32:48
Speaker 1: your campaign is successful, your guarantee to make somewhere between
32:51
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand and a million. You get what I'm saying. So,
32:57
Speaker 1: so the my math, my be uf there you saw.
33:00
Speaker 1: I got a little secure when I saw that, calculating
33:03
Speaker 1: the point. You are comedian. You're all comedians, right, um so,
33:09
Speaker 1: so anyway, so what I did was I made the
33:11
Speaker 1: crowd funding campaign successful by asking for half of what
33:14
Speaker 1: I wanted, and then went to investors show the infestive, look,
33:17
Speaker 1: this campaign is hot, and people like to see your
33:19
Speaker 1: train this role. And like my manager told me, sometimes
33:21
Speaker 1: you gotta start your party and then sending out the invitations.
33:24
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I did. I used the
33:26
Speaker 1: campaign to attract infestors by making the campaign look like
33:28
Speaker 1: you had a huge following and a lot of people
33:31
Speaker 1: that were back in it. That inspired and motivated the investors,
33:35
Speaker 1: and so we ended up doing that. Um I made
33:37
Speaker 1: the movie. I saw the winning stuff at all these
33:39
Speaker 1: different festivals, and I didn't even listen. I wasn't in
33:42
Speaker 1: sun Dance and all those festivals. I was actually in
33:44
Speaker 1: the festivals that were hosted in places where people had
33:47
Speaker 1: given me money, and I said, we're gonna submit to
33:50
Speaker 1: them festivals. We went to them festivals. We was winning
33:52
Speaker 1: Best Lead Audience Audience Awards that edited the Death music lesson.
33:56
Speaker 1: Right then James little Pas from Will Packers Company saw
34:00
Speaker 1: that I loved it, took it to Will Packer. They
34:02
Speaker 1: called me, like eleven o'clock at night, you wanted to
34:04
Speaker 1: talk about it. I got on the phone with In fact,
34:06
Speaker 1: that's my Instagram post this morning. I got on the
34:08
Speaker 1: phone with them, and the next thing you know, we
34:10
Speaker 1: were selling it to Smith Global Media, which is Will
34:12
Speaker 1: Will Smith's brother, Hay Smith. First time I got on
34:15
Speaker 1: the phone with him, I thought they was plunking me.
34:17
Speaker 1: I really thought it was Will because they found so
34:19
Speaker 1: much likelih the phone. But anyway, so that movie comes
34:22
Speaker 1: out next year to February. We look for it. Okay,
34:27
Speaker 1: you know, we have so much great things we've talked
34:29
Speaker 1: about so far. I'm gonna wrap up this particular break.
34:31
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the movie that's coming out in November
34:33
Speaker 1: called Holiday Rush that's coming on Netflix. Let's let's wrap
34:36
Speaker 1: this break up talking about that call Holiday Rush. That's
34:39
Speaker 1: coming out of the Netflix in November. Correct, man, let
34:43
Speaker 1: me tell you something that I don't know. If you
34:44
Speaker 1: know who Leslie Small is, he's a that's my man.
34:46
Speaker 1: Come on, come on. He did like three Neighborhood Awards.
34:49
Speaker 1: He directed like three Neighborhood Awards for me. I know
34:51
Speaker 1: Leslie Small. Okay, dude, that that's first of all, ask
34:55
Speaker 1: my brother. This dude is incredible. One of the most
34:58
Speaker 1: inspiring human beings I've ever met. This dude. He's directed
35:01
Speaker 1: Kevin Hard to Stand Up, Cavin Wigans stand up, name
35:04
Speaker 1: a big comedians. He's he's hit him in their prime. Right.
35:08
Speaker 1: So he's like, Yo, I want you to do this movie.
35:10
Speaker 1: I want you to play the lead. And again, like
35:12
Speaker 1: I said, the man, securities kicked there and I was like,
35:14
Speaker 1: you want to need to play the lead. You want
35:16
Speaker 1: to meet like Romany Maunco to play lead, Romany Malco
35:19
Speaker 1: living in Puerto Rico to Funti Texas at Baytown, Texas. Right,
35:26
Speaker 1: I'm like, you want to meet Baker And he was
35:28
Speaker 1: like yes. So let me tell something. I felt insecure
35:30
Speaker 1: making the whole movie where he cast a Niqua Martin Green,
35:33
Speaker 1: he cast the uncle these people showed up so on,
35:37
Speaker 1: so on, another level of prepared and funny, and they
35:41
Speaker 1: forced me to tap into something in myself that I
35:44
Speaker 1: didn't even know I had. And I kept going to
35:46
Speaker 1: him every other scene and being like, are you sure?
35:48
Speaker 1: Because I'm sure? Because you're not sure, He says, You're
35:51
Speaker 1: not supposed to feel comfortable here. You're supposed to be
35:53
Speaker 1: being stretching. That's what happened. So here, what happened. I
35:56
Speaker 1: So we make the movie. I go away, I come back.
36:00
Speaker 1: So I have to do a b R. So I
36:01
Speaker 1: have to do a b R like maybe like four
36:03
Speaker 1: months later. And that's what you kind of put your
36:05
Speaker 1: your match. You have to fix some dialogue that didn't
36:07
Speaker 1: go right in the movie. And I get to see
36:09
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes of this movie. Oh my god, I
36:12
Speaker 1: cannot tell you how much I enjoyed watching this movie.
36:15
Speaker 1: I play a single father, a widowed father of four kids.
36:19
Speaker 1: I have I have said the twins. I have a
36:21
Speaker 1: preteen and a preteen daughter and a teenage son who's
36:24
Speaker 1: about to go to college. And I'm a big time holiday.
36:28
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a big time radio host, just like you
36:31
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, and and and then all
36:35
Speaker 1: of a sudden, my station gets sold to some people
36:38
Speaker 1: that are talking about they going in a different direction.
36:40
Speaker 1: And I have no job, I have nothing, and me
36:43
Speaker 1: and my family, you know, after losing our wife, losing
36:46
Speaker 1: my wife and and then my kid's mother, we kind
36:49
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41:48
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Speaker 1: of my introduction to my next guests. My next guest
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Speaker 1: first introduced Texans to their mouth watering turkey Legs as
42:23
Speaker 1: the Houston Rodeo. In let you know about the Houston
42:26
Speaker 1: Livestock Showing Rodeo. Roughly two million people attend the Houston
42:31
Speaker 1: Livestock Show a rodeo every year. Just let you know.
42:33
Speaker 1: It's not just a regular rodeo. So just to get
42:36
Speaker 1: just to be a Protestant, be a vendor at the
42:38
Speaker 1: Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo is a game change, especially for minorities.
42:42
Speaker 1: In three short years, the Houston couple has taken their
42:46
Speaker 1: widely popular Turkey Legs to new heights, expanding their menu
42:50
Speaker 1: to include seven variety of succulent fall off the home,
42:53
Speaker 1: fall off the bone turkey legs in a full compliment
42:56
Speaker 1: of homemade delicacies. At their first Turkey leg location on
43:01
Speaker 1: al me the Road and the heart of Houston and
43:03
Speaker 1: historic Third War Texas. Third War Texas Texas Southerners, there
43:07
Speaker 1: University of Houston, where I went to school, was there
43:10
Speaker 1: Jack Gates, one of the most powerful football program African
43:13
Speaker 1: American programs in the history of Texas football, is located
43:16
Speaker 1: in Third War, Texas. The restaurant has also become a
43:19
Speaker 1: popular Houston spot hot spot with late night hours and
43:24
Speaker 1: sold for live music every Tuesday. Please welcome to Money
43:27
Speaker 1: Making Conversation. One of the owners of Turkey Leg Hug
43:31
Speaker 1: Turkey Leg, the originators of the world famous stuff turkey legs.
43:35
Speaker 1: Please welcome, Kia Price. I'll tell you what, um you know,
43:43
Speaker 1: just saying your name, Ms. Price makes me home. You
43:46
Speaker 1: know that, you know that, you know I got the
43:49
Speaker 1: I got the website up, I got all this amazing food.
43:52
Speaker 1: You post the video. The rappers love you, your videos
43:56
Speaker 1: going viral. Before we even get into the questions, just
43:58
Speaker 1: let me know or you overwhelmed by all this, or
44:02
Speaker 1: it's just like you prayed about it and you knew
44:04
Speaker 1: this was gonna happen, you know, with hard work and
44:06
Speaker 1: faith and all that good stuff and people surrounded. Let's
44:08
Speaker 1: talk about how you feeling about this, because right now
44:11
Speaker 1: I'm feeling hongry. I think it's definitely something that we
44:17
Speaker 1: prayed about Um, we never in a million years did
44:20
Speaker 1: we imagine that it would be to this extent. But
44:23
Speaker 1: every day of the journey, we take it one day
44:25
Speaker 1: at a time, and one day at the time means
44:28
Speaker 1: what because your business, because you expanding. We're gonna talk
44:31
Speaker 1: about that later. Expanding the business. I'm sure people just
44:34
Speaker 1: dropping all these ideas about franchise and gere y'all could
44:37
Speaker 1: be the next such and such, And you have to
44:40
Speaker 1: take that in stride because the fact that, like I said,
44:43
Speaker 1: what were you when I was at the livestop? What
44:46
Speaker 1: were you have before before I was at the livestop?
44:50
Speaker 1: And so but before that, my husband had a repo company.
44:55
Speaker 1: He was reporing r V trailers and I myself was
44:58
Speaker 1: a junior project manager for a litigation firms. So neither
45:02
Speaker 1: one of us had culinary background or culinary experience. Um,
45:06
Speaker 1: you know, was something that that happened he had, We
45:09
Speaker 1: had the idea. We were just point to you know,
45:12
Speaker 1: with the rodeo. We were shuttling people into the rodeo.
45:16
Speaker 1: So food wasn't even our main focus at that point
45:19
Speaker 1: in time. Um, and our main focus was shuttling people
45:23
Speaker 1: into the rodeo. We just had a barbecue pit on
45:26
Speaker 1: the field, in the field where we were shuttling the people,
45:29
Speaker 1: and we had turkey legs, boot and sausage on a stick.
45:33
Speaker 1: And you know, we came up with the idea that
45:35
Speaker 1: we were just going to feed people while they were
45:37
Speaker 1: waiting to go inside at the rodeo. And my husband, he,
45:41
Speaker 1: you know, his thing was just repost for us social media,
45:44
Speaker 1: social media. Everything is social social media. We post for us,
45:47
Speaker 1: let's see what happens, and it just snowball from there.
45:51
Speaker 1: So the fact that he had the foresight and understand
45:54
Speaker 1: the value of social media and you got the these
45:57
Speaker 1: giant pizzas and you know yourself because will you say
46:01
Speaker 1: your clienteles African American? Yes, okay, cool, I want just
46:06
Speaker 1: before I make the stake because black people like value
46:08
Speaker 1: for their money. Okay, so correct, you see you see
46:12
Speaker 1: this giant I'm telling you so that giant turkey leg
46:14
Speaker 1: And then like any any restaurant you I can say this,
46:17
Speaker 1: and black people they can they can confront me on this.
46:19
Speaker 1: But if you if you take a black pot to
46:20
Speaker 1: the restaurant when they can go home with a doggy bag,
46:23
Speaker 1: you got them as a customer. You do you do
46:26
Speaker 1: and we made That's one of the things that we've
46:28
Speaker 1: always made sure that you know our price points. It
46:31
Speaker 1: may not be for everyone, but people pay for what
46:34
Speaker 1: it is that they want and we make sure that
46:36
Speaker 1: you get the value as well. So you're paying. But
46:39
Speaker 1: you also, I mean, all of our plates are sharable.
46:41
Speaker 1: We give you a lot of foods, a lot of
46:44
Speaker 1: food you sure do so, so you understood that, you know,
46:47
Speaker 1: and I would tell you that. Just let's talk about
46:50
Speaker 1: the basic turkey leg. Okay, I've I've tried to man up.
46:54
Speaker 1: I've been at Disney, I've been an amusement park and
46:56
Speaker 1: I'm trying to man up. Go get my turkey leg
46:59
Speaker 1: and say, I'm a fit this this and lord knows
47:01
Speaker 1: it has beaten me every time. Just the turkey leg, okay,
47:07
Speaker 1: has beating your board back. Okay, I'm looking about trying
47:10
Speaker 1: to hand this off to somebody because you know, when
47:12
Speaker 1: you're walking to our amusement park, you got the turkey la.
47:14
Speaker 1: You gotta do something with it because you're not eating anymore. Okay,
47:18
Speaker 1: So you go in the restaurant and then y'all, I'm
47:20
Speaker 1: gonna saying, call y'all crazy because y'all not all stuffed it. Yeah,
47:25
Speaker 1: it's a crazy people thinking like that. You're crazy. People
47:28
Speaker 1: are geniuses. Okay, it's a genius about this whole thing.
47:31
Speaker 1: That they took a basic piece of meat, that is
47:34
Speaker 1: that it's impossible for a normal person to eat. Then
47:39
Speaker 1: they're gonna go just the crazy part. We're gonna put
47:41
Speaker 1: something else in there, extra stuff, extra stuff, and then
47:46
Speaker 1: so so that's the part. Now, when y'all was I
47:48
Speaker 1: was shuttling people in, you didn't have the stuff part
47:51
Speaker 1: of the campaign yet. Correct. Okay, when did that craziness developed? Kill?
47:57
Speaker 1: When who thought that this? Lan? Or was it you
47:59
Speaker 1: who on that? I have to give credit? What credit
48:03
Speaker 1: is it was? That was his idea to stuff to turulate.
48:06
Speaker 1: See he out there, he took people they think of
48:14
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because he knows
48:19
Speaker 1: he knows the value of extra. Cause see I used
48:22
Speaker 1: to when I when I was when I was living
48:24
Speaker 1: in Houston, I used to onload trucks and the food
48:26
Speaker 1: trucks come by. So everything you look at, you always
48:29
Speaker 1: want some extra and all your your fantasized. But if
48:32
Speaker 1: I got this, I put this over top. See he's
48:34
Speaker 1: one of he's one of the people you should put
48:36
Speaker 1: food on the plate. He don't care if it touches.
48:38
Speaker 1: Some people don't like that. And I'm that person that
48:42
Speaker 1: doesn't like that. I'm saying, but he don't care. It's
48:45
Speaker 1: all going down one one pipe. That's the same thing.
48:50
Speaker 1: He liked me. He like. So what they have done,
48:53
Speaker 1: these crazy this crazy couple. You know what I'm saying
48:56
Speaker 1: that this amazing restaurant called the Turkey Leg Hut Houston,
49:00
Speaker 1: Texas have said, look, we got this big old waste
49:04
Speaker 1: of meat, We're gonna jazz it up. Now, what was
49:07
Speaker 1: the first thing? What was the first jazz that you
49:09
Speaker 1: added to the beat? There? The first jazz that we
49:13
Speaker 1: added was the dirty rice. I was the first, Yes,
49:18
Speaker 1: they knew exactly. And then thereafter we had the shrimp in.
49:24
Speaker 1: Now Alfredo saw see they went jazzy right there had
49:28
Speaker 1: to be a little higher than normal though that you
49:31
Speaker 1: just don't add shrimp on a turkey leg and just
49:33
Speaker 1: keep it normal for you. Now, see dirty rights, you
49:37
Speaker 1: can keep that reasonable right there. But that you gotta
49:41
Speaker 1: have to see the thing about just I love about
49:43
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about it because see when people come
49:46
Speaker 1: in the restaurants like that, you gotta have a price point.
49:49
Speaker 1: I learned that from Thorn Concerts. Everybody. Everybody don't want
49:52
Speaker 1: to buy the twenty dollar ticket. Some people want to.
49:54
Speaker 1: They wanted Pacific one to seventi five dollar ticket because
49:57
Speaker 1: they think it has more value. So certain client teller
50:01
Speaker 1: they have they want that high end. This is very true. Yes,
50:10
Speaker 1: and that's actually our best seller. See I know it's
50:15
Speaker 1: my phone, and that goes back to people pay for
50:18
Speaker 1: what it is that they want. Okay, cool, Now, I
50:22
Speaker 1: don't think I missed this question. What gave you the
50:24
Speaker 1: idea to stuff or turkey leg? Like I said, that
50:29
Speaker 1: was my husband's idea. You know, he we were playing
50:32
Speaker 1: around with everything. You know how we the the original
50:36
Speaker 1: turkey leg, the regular turkey leg. It has stuffing in it,
50:39
Speaker 1: but it's it's stuffed with different seasonings, um, different vegetables,
50:44
Speaker 1: things that we I mean, you know, things that we've
50:46
Speaker 1: incorporated into the turkey leg. So it's not a regular
50:49
Speaker 1: turkey leg. It's not a walk around the fair holding
50:52
Speaker 1: turkey leg. It's there's a process to how we do
50:56
Speaker 1: our turkey legs. And then thereafter, you know, he was
50:59
Speaker 1: like you we you know, we always try to challenge
51:02
Speaker 1: each other slim. If that's what he calls me, slam,
51:05
Speaker 1: I think we should you know, maybe stuffing with dirty rice.
51:08
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what dirty right, Yeah, I'm telling you
51:10
Speaker 1: it's gonna work. It's don't work. And I'm like, okay,
51:13
Speaker 1: I don't see it, but let's do it. And so
51:17
Speaker 1: when we went into the brick and mortar, we stopped
51:19
Speaker 1: the turkey leg. And just like you know, when I
51:22
Speaker 1: was trying to tell him about the season and and
51:24
Speaker 1: he told me we didn't need to do it, the
51:26
Speaker 1: same thing happened. People came from everywhere to try to
51:29
Speaker 1: stop circul legs. Now, that's that's really amazing. So so
51:34
Speaker 1: let's talk about your journey. Okay, before that, you had
51:37
Speaker 1: two jobs that were not not not cool and very related.
51:41
Speaker 1: That's not what you guys, correct. You had to transportation,
51:43
Speaker 1: you transporting people back and forth. You decided to feed
51:46
Speaker 1: the people. Are you transporting them? Make a little extra
51:48
Speaker 1: money on side? That's all. That's just like a little
51:50
Speaker 1: bobby stand. You know, We're didn't come out of the
51:52
Speaker 1: nightclub at three o'clock in the morning. You always had
51:54
Speaker 1: the guy there with the with the hot links, you know,
51:57
Speaker 1: and they some reason they taste real good at three o'clock,
51:59
Speaker 1: and on that same hot link, it during the daylight
52:02
Speaker 1: don't taste to say, but three o'clock in the morning,
52:04
Speaker 1: that hot link was was. And so that's true. The
52:08
Speaker 1: whole part about moving towards the brick and more, which
52:11
Speaker 1: is the which is the really the the fear part
52:14
Speaker 1: of it, the business planning part of it, because you're
52:16
Speaker 1: about to take a rich because you gotta sign a
52:17
Speaker 1: lease and you have to have a certain level of
52:20
Speaker 1: you know, inventory to say this is going to be successful.
52:24
Speaker 1: Walk us through that process, because that's what money making
52:26
Speaker 1: conversation is always about. We have a look about a minute, leyoff.
52:29
Speaker 1: We don't I like to wrap that thought up in
52:31
Speaker 1: the next break, but please start us all about the
52:33
Speaker 1: whole process of the pricket mortar. So you know, our
52:39
Speaker 1: how we started was very unique. It wasn't you know,
52:42
Speaker 1: the typical you know, we're gonna seek brick and mortar
52:45
Speaker 1: and this is what we're gonna do. It was actually
52:49
Speaker 1: got a phone call from someone that he went to
52:51
Speaker 1: school with about a location that um didn't have much
52:55
Speaker 1: business and with the following that we had garnered while
52:58
Speaker 1: we were out there in the fields. It was like, hey,
53:01
Speaker 1: you know you all have a following, would you be
53:03
Speaker 1: interested in coming and you know, just checking out the
53:06
Speaker 1: kitchen seeing if this is the place that you all
53:09
Speaker 1: want to continue to sell turkey legs and um, and
53:13
Speaker 1: that was it. So we you know, we went over there.
53:15
Speaker 1: We didn't know anything about running a restaurant. Everything with
53:19
Speaker 1: us and I think that's why we appreciate it so
53:21
Speaker 1: much more has been trial and error. White people, they
53:24
Speaker 1: were standing a long restaurant life'll do that. That's very true.
53:27
Speaker 1: Black people. They very impatient people, very impatient people. It
53:32
Speaker 1: has to be something behind that dope that they're gonna
53:36
Speaker 1: keep that place. That's why when somebody cuts in front
53:38
Speaker 1: of him, there's a problem all give doing. If it's
53:41
Speaker 1: if it's uh Steve Harvey, Oh Steve, I don't care.
53:47
Speaker 1: I don't care. No, they don't, they don't, They do
53:51
Speaker 1: not care, and they get upset. Get upset. Now, So
53:55
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays, you also do a live music at the
53:57
Speaker 1: at the original turkey let hut Okay, she correct, Yes,
54:02
Speaker 1: we do live band seven thirty every Tuesday. But you
54:07
Speaker 1: can do you'll be jamming, you know your turkey leg jamming,
54:11
Speaker 1: you know your turkey leg to music, grooving to the beat. Yeah,
54:16
Speaker 1: the kid, y'all on fire. You guys are on fire.
54:19
Speaker 1: You no, no, I gotta ask this. You know. I'm
54:23
Speaker 1: all right. Like I said, I graduated from the University
54:25
Speaker 1: of Houston. Have they have they on you yet as
54:29
Speaker 1: a as a as an alumnus of the school. We
54:32
Speaker 1: yet have they honored you? No? Not chet. I mean,
54:36
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the my my, the coaches
54:40
Speaker 1: come in, they bring a lot of the women's women's South.
54:43
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna change that. We're gonna change that. Okay,
54:47
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a little call because we're Sean McDonald
54:50
Speaker 1: telling you you're special. You're one, our one our shining
54:55
Speaker 1: lights of the University of Houston. I have a scholarship,
55:00
Speaker 1: gral got an endownment. I'm about to lay down low
55:02
Speaker 1: with my wife for University Houston next month. And so
55:06
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back after. We're gonna come back a
55:08
Speaker 1: celebrated Turkey lard because I'm bringing out by there. Probably
55:11
Speaker 1: bring everybody over there. Okay. So I want to let
55:14
Speaker 1: you know that I'm proud you took your time to
55:16
Speaker 1: come on my show. I'm proud that you did. You
55:19
Speaker 1: shared your story, and you honestly shared your story. And
55:22
Speaker 1: it's about effort, it's about dreams, it's about being able
55:26
Speaker 1: to accomplish something through hard work and education. But again,
55:29
Speaker 1: you're gonna see me on Friday. I'm gonna be well
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