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Rushion Interviews Slutty Vegan Founder, Pinky Cole, reveals Mad Slutty Shoe Deal with Steve Madden, and talks Clark Atlanta University! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My guest is Pinky Cole. She's a Jamaican American entrepreneur
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Speaker 1: and founder Slutty Vegan, a plant based burger restaurant chain
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Speaker 1: based in Atlanta, Georgia. She first became vegan in fourteen
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Speaker 1: and opened her first Slutty Vegan food truck specializing in
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Speaker 1: vegan burgers, in September of eighteen. I interviewed her in
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Speaker 1: August of twenty when she was just starting to blow
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Speaker 1: up and become that national brand. Now she has opened
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Speaker 1: restaurants and created the Pinky co Foundation, which seeks to
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Speaker 1: empier generations of color to win in life, financially in
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Speaker 1: the pursuit of their entrepreneurial goals. Her new book et
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Speaker 1: Plants B I, T C H. It's her first book,
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Speaker 1: Nati When Vegan Recipes that will blow your meat loving mind,
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Speaker 1: currently available presell order. We're going to be hyping that.
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Speaker 1: Releasing November fift Pikacole recently gifted LLCs to Clark and
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Speaker 1: Land University two graduating class. We will discuss that, but
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Speaker 1: more importantly, please work on the Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
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Speaker 1: The one and only Pinky Cole. I love that, and
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Speaker 1: that was well, you know, I better be right. I
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Speaker 1: better be right. You You you're all over the good place.
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Speaker 1: Some people could be all over the place, but you
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Speaker 1: all over the good place. Pinky, tell me that. What's
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Speaker 1: going on, young lady? Oh my goodness, I got so
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Speaker 1: much good stuff going on. First of all, it's so
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Speaker 1: good to make your acquaintance again, and just to be here.
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Speaker 1: So that means that I've made consistent because here, Um,
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Speaker 1: I got so much great things going on. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: if if you haven't been living under a rock, I
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Speaker 1: just closed on my twenty five million dollar raised to scale.
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Speaker 1: Slutty began. Um. I graced the cover of Essence names
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Speaker 1: you know something, stop me, I should have started with that.
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Speaker 1: Come on now, rushaw and slap yourself. Now. I saw
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Speaker 1: you on the cover. Now see I'm a little bit
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Speaker 1: old than you. Okay, Now, Peky Coach was on cover Essence. Now,
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Speaker 1: that is something you start an interview with now, because
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Speaker 1: I grew up, I grew up in the Jet magazine
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Speaker 1: and the Ebony era. You know when you was on
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Speaker 1: the cover of Ebony Jet, you know you that it
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Speaker 1: would like and she and I would like to believe
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Speaker 1: that Essence is that magazine level that I grew up
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Speaker 1: the Jet magazine and the Eberdey magazine and so so
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Speaker 1: when you got on the cover of Ebondey and Jet
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Speaker 1: Family friend, enemy, uh, girlfriendhood, everybody wanted to be next
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Speaker 1: to you. Now tell me what, tell me how I
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Speaker 1: came about, and tell me the experience and what did
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Speaker 1: it do to your brand? Peaky Cole being on the
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Speaker 1: cover of Essence magazine, the number one African American female
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Speaker 1: magazine in the world. So rigond I manifested it like
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Speaker 1: I always said that I'm gonna be able to cover crazy, Like,
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Speaker 1: how are you gonna do that? You ain't no celebrity.
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Speaker 1: I said, I am going to be on the cover.
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Speaker 1: And I knew it in my spirit because I kept
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Speaker 1: saying it. And you know, oftentimes when you say those things,
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Speaker 1: those things that come real. So every opportunity that I
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Speaker 1: got when I got around the Essence folks, I talked
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Speaker 1: about it. I got on their nerves about it. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on Essence when when it is my day.
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Speaker 1: So I finally got the opportunity to talk to the CEO,
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Speaker 1: Richie Lou Dennis, and I told him the idea that
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do. I said, listen, I said, y'all
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Speaker 1: always have celebrities want to cover. Now is the time
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Speaker 1: to put entrepreneurs on the cover who are disrupting the
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Speaker 1: industries that they're in, so you can show a different
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Speaker 1: light of people who are making it and moving and shaking.
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Speaker 1: I love the idea. Didn't happen when I wanted it
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Speaker 1: to happen, but it happened exactly when it was supposed to.
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Speaker 1: And I'm so excited about that opportunity because Essence really
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Speaker 1: shifted my brand to a new level, right Like it
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Speaker 1: exposed me to people who have never heard of Slutty
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Speaker 1: Began before. And even if you didn't want to know
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Speaker 1: about Slutty Began, we learned about Pinky col you learned
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Speaker 1: about some entrepreneurs in Atlanta that are moving and shaking
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Speaker 1: that are the millionaires next door. And it really raised
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Speaker 1: the stock up. You know what they say, yesterday's prices
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Speaker 1: not the days right, So it raised the stock And
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Speaker 1: I'm just so happy at all of the opportunities and
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Speaker 1: doors that have been open because of Essence. And you know,
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Speaker 1: that was a life changing opportunity and I'm just so
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Speaker 1: grateful to be able to have been a part of
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Speaker 1: that well, first of all, it was life changing, but
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Speaker 1: it also was a fan because I'm a fan and
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Speaker 1: you have a lot of fans, and so because you
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Speaker 1: know you are are like you said, you know, you're
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Speaker 1: kind of like regularly your regular polks, regular polms become successful.
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Speaker 1: As dreamers, we see it as being possible. And I
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Speaker 1: think that that's as has always been your your your guy.
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Speaker 1: That has always been the plan to let regular people,
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Speaker 1: everyday people know that through hard work, faith and proper
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Speaker 1: planning you can win. To talk about that, listen, I've
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Speaker 1: always been a dreamer and I've always been a believer.
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Speaker 1: When people see me, they see hope and just like
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Speaker 1: you said, they see the possibility that all things can
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Speaker 1: happen if you really have confidence in yourself and you
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Speaker 1: really have that level of drive and that drive you
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Speaker 1: can't pay for that, right like that's born in you,
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Speaker 1: within you, like you developed that with experience and with time.
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Speaker 1: So when people see me, I'm not just doing this
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Speaker 1: for myself. I'm doing this for my family. I'm doing
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Speaker 1: this for the people who want to be entrepreneurs like me,
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Speaker 1: who want to have restaurants like me, And I'm showing
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Speaker 1: you that yes, nothing is impossible. You can literally be
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Speaker 1: the girl from around the way. I'm from East Baltimore,
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Speaker 1: got lots in my head. I don't look like the
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Speaker 1: typical person that you see on National TV. But guess what,
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Speaker 1: I'm shifting the atmosphere and showing you that you can
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Speaker 1: look like, be like, talk like whatever you want to
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Speaker 1: be like, and you can still make it as long
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Speaker 1: as you have comfort and knowing that you can do
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Speaker 1: all the things that you put your mind to. And
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Speaker 1: that's just how I have looked. I woke up, I
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Speaker 1: got on a T shirt and sweatpants, and I'm doing
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Speaker 1: an interview with you, and I got big interviews all day,
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Speaker 1: and I'm showing people that you ain't got to fit
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Speaker 1: the status quo. You can do everything that you want
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Speaker 1: to do as long as you be yourself, your true
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Speaker 1: authentic self, and being your true authentic self will get
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Speaker 1: you a long way. Well, this is a great year.
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Speaker 1: Two has been a great year. Like its been clearly
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Speaker 1: two years. Okay, you cover essence, you know you. You
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Speaker 1: did the graduation speech at Clark Atlanta University. I talk
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Speaker 1: about the whole process of gifting those LLC so people
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Speaker 1: from an entrepreneur understand exactly what you did because you know,
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Speaker 1: you just on the outside, you really don't know. But
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Speaker 1: it's like putting young people in a position to understand
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Speaker 1: how to be business owners. Well, you know, first of all,
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Speaker 1: doing Clark and Lanty University's commencement was a dream come true.
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Speaker 1: So many dreams coming truths this year. Right. Um, I
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Speaker 1: went to Clark and Land University. I graduated thirteen years ago.
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Speaker 1: And when I got the opportunity to be the commencement speaker,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I have to do something that's going
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Speaker 1: to resident Okay, See, I gotta stop you something because
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Speaker 1: you just blow past, like like we blew past that
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Speaker 1: assence covering that what is the backstory? See, I gotta
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Speaker 1: get backstory on you because you got so much going on.
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Speaker 1: Your back story is as great as the actually accomplishment.
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Speaker 1: Talk about the backstory of them calling you and then
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Speaker 1: you really realize it's happening, because that's the ultimate to
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Speaker 1: graduate from a school and then come back and do
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Speaker 1: the commencement speed. They get a PhD to get those
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Speaker 1: on er and all that good stuff, and you're not
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're a doctor peoky cold that right, not
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Speaker 1: yet soon come. It's coming oko, Okay, cool. But you
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Speaker 1: know it's interesting because I actually was invited to do
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Speaker 1: Morris Brown's commencement as well. So I was slated to
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Speaker 1: do Morris Brown and Clark atlant University. Fortunately, but unfortunately
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Speaker 1: I was only able to do one. So obviously I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna pick my alma mater. But shout out to Morris Brown,
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Speaker 1: he just got the accreditation. Um, shout out to Dr James.
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Speaker 1: That was just an amazing to be able to have
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Speaker 1: options right, Like not many people can say that they
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Speaker 1: got options they want to do for historic institutions historic
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Speaker 1: and be able to have to make hard choices like that.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm on the right path. So when
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Speaker 1: I got the opportunity to see AU, it was a
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Speaker 1: no brainer. Like, I love my institution. I'm always putting
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Speaker 1: on for my school. I'm always telling people about why
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Speaker 1: you need to go to see AU and why people
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Speaker 1: need to support historically black colleges and university. And as
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Speaker 1: a thirty four year old woman who has a man
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Speaker 1: so much success in a short amount of time, we
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Speaker 1: all believe that I could really speak to the students
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Speaker 1: in a way that seventy five eighty five year old
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Speaker 1: couldn't when it comes to commencement speeches and no, no,
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Speaker 1: no shade or disrespect to to the people who come
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Speaker 1: and have the wisdom. But I feel like I could
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Speaker 1: offer a different level of wisdom for those students. And
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Speaker 1: it was eight hundred two four those students, and I said,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I need to figure out a way
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Speaker 1: to be able to show these children that you can
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Speaker 1: literally take something so small and walking to this journey
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Speaker 1: and do all the things that you want to do.
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Speaker 1: And that was with LLC. So how I came up
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Speaker 1: with the idea. I'm like, I want to put these
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Speaker 1: people on a path to entrepreneurship right when you graduated
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Speaker 1: from college. Oftentimes many of us do not have a plan.
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Speaker 1: I did not have a plan at all. And because
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a plan, I had to go through
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Speaker 1: some hiccups along the way, go through some speed bumps.
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Speaker 1: But I'm so happy that I had to go through
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Speaker 1: those because then I became an expert. And as an expert,
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Speaker 1: I was talking directly to these students and telling them, listen,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna fail, but failing ain't failing at all. It
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Speaker 1: is finding aspiration and the losses and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: help you find success in all the things that you
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Speaker 1: want to do. But I'm gonna set you up on
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Speaker 1: a path to entrepreneurship. Whether you want to be an
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Speaker 1: entrepreneur or not, but this is an opportunity for for
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Speaker 1: you to really jump start your legacy, build generational wealth,
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Speaker 1: even if you want to work at nine and five.
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Speaker 1: And I'm excited about the response that it got because
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Speaker 1: what it showed is there's no I'm not paying all
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Speaker 1: the intuition. But what I'm going to do is I'm
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Speaker 1: going to put you in position that if you have
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Speaker 1: something that you've been thinking about, if you have something
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Speaker 1: that's been making your belly leap, now is the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to move on it. Because I literally gave you the
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Speaker 1: baton and say hey, here you go, go run. I'm
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Speaker 1: paying for it and I'm hoping hopefully they get to
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Speaker 1: pay it forward to So that felt really, really good.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations MA
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Speaker 1: Class with Rashan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making
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Speaker 1: Conversations Master Class with Rashan McDonald. Thirty four years of age,
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Speaker 1: you know thirteen, roughly thirteen years ago, you know you
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Speaker 1: was you was just like them wandering around, you know,
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Speaker 1: about to step out into a world. My daughter just
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Speaker 1: graduated from college in Houston, and she's trying to figure
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Speaker 1: herself out, you know, in that journey of figuring yourself out.
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Speaker 1: Because you became a vegan and teen, what made that
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Speaker 1: transition to say I can become an entrepreneur two based
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Speaker 1: on wherever my lifestyle? Well, you know, I grew up
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Speaker 1: in a vegetarian household, So the transition wasn't as hard
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Speaker 1: as a lot of people think, because I grew up
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Speaker 1: in a world where we and I to food rice
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Speaker 1: some piece every day. Like I didn't grow up eating
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Speaker 1: cheeseburgers and fry. Like I didn't grow up going to mcdonald'
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Speaker 1: that was well you got that pretty skin in their pinky,
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Speaker 1: stay away from the fries, all that stuff. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: didn't grow up and I didn't even grow up eating candy.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I attribute it to my mother because
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Speaker 1: she's arrested arian. So I grew up with a very
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Speaker 1: natural mom who didn't were makeup. She she didn't change.
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Speaker 1: She was very natural, eating like, very holistic. So in
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Speaker 1: two thousands seven, actually I stopped eating meat all together.
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Speaker 1: So I was just eating fish. And then fourteen I
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Speaker 1: decided to go vegan. And I know the difference because
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Speaker 1: my first restaurant was called Pinky's Jamaican, an American restaurant,
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Speaker 1: and I sold your chicken. I sold, I sailed, and
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Speaker 1: I saw all the foods that I did not eat,
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Speaker 1: but I was lying to the people telling them that
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Speaker 1: it tastes good, like, hey, you should try this, this
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Speaker 1: is good. But I didn't eat that. So when I realized,
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Speaker 1: with something that I would never do again, I was
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Speaker 1: not in alignment with my purpose. I wasn't being honest
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Speaker 1: and my business didn't succeed because of that, and I
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Speaker 1: had a grease fire and I lost everything. And when
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Speaker 1: I got it back, I got it back through Slutty
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Speaker 1: Vegan because I was literally walking in my purpose and
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Speaker 1: walking in my assignment. I am fully vegan. I like
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Speaker 1: to give my vegan my friends vegan food. I like
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Speaker 1: to have them try to see if they could see
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Speaker 1: the difference. And now I get to capitalize off my
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Speaker 1: lifestyle by having a business and using my platform and
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Speaker 1: resources to help people for the reimagined food. And that
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Speaker 1: is why my business has been able to be so
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Speaker 1: successful and work because I'm walking in my path. I
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Speaker 1: ain't lying to the people. I'm being my authentic self
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Speaker 1: and it just works. And I'm happy that I get
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Speaker 1: to do what I love and get paid to do
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Speaker 1: what I love. Now Eat plants b I T c
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Speaker 1: h mouth water and photographs and easy to follow instruction.
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Speaker 1: Eat plants b I T eight celebrate coach belief that
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Speaker 1: it's fun and assessible to cooking and jaw irresistible vegan
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Speaker 1: comfort food from offer color egg Roads, which sounds amazing
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Speaker 1: to her Black Peak Coliflower, cauliflower, pool ball, pol Boy.
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Speaker 1: It says nainy one. Why nainny one? Is that they
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Speaker 1: just counted ain'ty want to do? You know, because you
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Speaker 1: always have a method to your madness? Is naty one
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Speaker 1: in particular as a particular number? Why you said, Ninny
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Speaker 1: want to just namey one recipes? Ninety one was just
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Speaker 1: a sweet spot kinds of recipes. But I'm person that
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Speaker 1: I want the best of the best, and it's about
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Speaker 1: quality not quantity, So yeah, we had some more recipes.
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Speaker 1: Ninety one was just hit number. It just really just
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Speaker 1: like it was just a really good sweet spot for
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Speaker 1: like the best recipes. I wanted the best and this
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Speaker 1: cookbook specifically is not just for the vegan. It's for
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Speaker 1: the person who likes to eat meat. This is this
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Speaker 1: is a person that just like really really good food.
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Speaker 1: So I wanted to make sure that all the recipes
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Speaker 1: that were in the book were good recipes, whether you
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Speaker 1: were vegan or not. You know, oftentimes we have a
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Speaker 1: misconception that if it's vegan, it don't taste good, it's bland,
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Speaker 1: the slave ain't good. Like I wanted to eliminate all
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Speaker 1: of that and just make a really good cookbook that
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Speaker 1: serves really good food. And as long as you can
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Speaker 1: read and you can follow directions, you can really make
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Speaker 1: these really really good recipes. So I'm excited about the launch.
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Speaker 1: Um it launches November fifteen. Uh, the book is on
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Speaker 1: pre sale right now. We actually have sold a lot
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Speaker 1: on pre sale, which I'm very excited about. And people
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Speaker 1: are anticipating this book. Where this for the holidays, or
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Speaker 1: somebody who's just trying to make the transition, or somebody
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Speaker 1: don't even want to make the transition, they still want
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Speaker 1: to eat beat. They just want to That's that's that
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Speaker 1: we mean. Now, you know, I'm gonna eat my meat,
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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna open real book because when this book
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Speaker 1: come out, you know, I got me a little TikTok account.
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Speaker 1: You know I'll be I'll be cooking and baking. So
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take some of these recipes and drop on TikTok.
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Speaker 1: Say that's mcgirl. Have a little picture in my love
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Speaker 1: up a little corner that let everybody know this is
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Speaker 1: pick and go this right here, because the thing about
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Speaker 1: it is that so many people champion you, and I
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Speaker 1: think that I just love you as a person. I
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Speaker 1: love using entrepreneur. You're so spirited. Uh where where is
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Speaker 1: that coming from? You mentioned your mom, But it also
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Speaker 1: has to be your surrounding people around you who also
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Speaker 1: believe in you. Correct. Um. I think it's partially that
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Speaker 1: I've always had this and it may sound weird, but
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Speaker 1: I believe in good karma. I believe when you show
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Speaker 1: up in the world as a good person, the world
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Speaker 1: is going to come back and be good to you.
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Speaker 1: You and I lived my life very honest. I don't lie.
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Speaker 1: I'm still I don't cheat. When I laid my head
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Speaker 1: down at night, my conscious is clear because I'm very
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Speaker 1: fair across the board, and I do right by people,
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Speaker 1: and I give back and I pay it forward, and
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Speaker 1: because I do those things, one my blessings just keep
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Speaker 1: unfolding for me. And too, I know that the universe
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Speaker 1: sees me and God is blessing me because of how
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Speaker 1: I live my life and how I'm a model that
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Speaker 1: you can be a good person and you can still
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Speaker 1: get all the things that you want and you ain't
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Speaker 1: gotta be mischievous. You don't have to do any of that.
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Speaker 1: So I realized at a very young age that I
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Speaker 1: had a gift, and I didn't quite know what that
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Speaker 1: gift was, but I knew that I wanted to make
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Speaker 1: an impact in the world as a kid watching Golden
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Speaker 1: Girls with my grandmother and you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: like being really in the trenches with some old folks,
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Speaker 1: and I realized that I knew that there was something
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Speaker 1: special about me that I could give to the world.
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Speaker 1: And I just literally lived my life like that all
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Speaker 1: the time. And my perfect absolutely now. And I ain't
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Speaker 1: gonna say here and say I am I'm not the
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Speaker 1: perfect See oh, sometimes I might not be the perfect spouse. Um,
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Speaker 1: I might not even be the perfect mother sometimes, but
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Speaker 1: I do the very best that I can. And I
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Speaker 1: realized that when you show up as a good, wholehearted person,
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Speaker 1: the universal reward you and you will get all the
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Speaker 1: things that you pray about every single day. I am
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Speaker 1: I looking at the modern day Oprah WinCE. You know
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Speaker 1: what's so funny? A lot of people which is a
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Speaker 1: very big compliment, almost too big for me. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to catch up. But a lot of people say that,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, it's such an honor to
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Speaker 1: even be associated with somebody of that caliber. That to
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Speaker 1: me feels great and it tells me that one that Okay, Pinky,
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Speaker 1: you got a big responsibility here because there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of little girls and little boys looking up to you.
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Speaker 1: So everything that I do, I have to make sure
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Speaker 1: that not only am I responsible for myself, I'm also
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Speaker 1: responsible for how I show up because there's so many
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Speaker 1: people watching me. So I will take that compliment as
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Speaker 1: often as you want to give it, I will take it.
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Speaker 1: Take it because I'm just saying, is that I just
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Speaker 1: see you on television. I just see you in that medium.
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Speaker 1: And because of the fact, the reason I say that
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Speaker 1: Oprah has something to say, that's why she was successful,
17:11
Speaker 1: that's why she still is successful. She's articulous, she was smart. Uh,
17:15
Speaker 1: she also graduated over an HBCU, but also a person
17:19
Speaker 1: who had a background that that that that that that
17:22
Speaker 1: that was constantly moving forward, constantly moving forward. In fact,
17:25
Speaker 1: you you're like to me, you're ahead of Oprah where
17:28
Speaker 1: she was when she broke out. So you you you
17:31
Speaker 1: have a resume of being able to teach. You're teaching people,
17:34
Speaker 1: You're delivering the message. And I just say that, are
17:37
Speaker 1: you the modern day version of Oprah because of the
17:39
Speaker 1: fact that we all have messengers at different levels, and
17:43
Speaker 1: I see you as a messenger. This is this is
17:45
Speaker 1: a lade from two thousand we first met, which I
17:49
Speaker 1: knew you before that, but I see it more polished.
17:51
Speaker 1: I see a much more enlightening lightning and you know
17:54
Speaker 1: you feel happier too, and not saying you're unhappy then,
17:57
Speaker 1: but what what what it's it's a can glow on you.
18:00
Speaker 1: I know you're about to be a mom, but it's
18:02
Speaker 1: another clow, it's another clow, it's another talk to me girl.
18:06
Speaker 1: I am a love I'm happy. I got good people
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Speaker 1: around me. You know, it's a difference when you have
18:12
Speaker 1: a good team, when you got people that genuinely love
18:16
Speaker 1: you and don't want nothing from you, but want you
18:17
Speaker 1: to succeed and want you to win. And I'm very
18:21
Speaker 1: intentional about who I invited into my circle these days. Um,
18:25
Speaker 1: and I'm just living freely. You know. The last time
18:28
Speaker 1: that I interviewed with you, I was still in the kitchen.
18:31
Speaker 1: I was flipping burger, shaking fries. I was being the janitor,
18:35
Speaker 1: I was been hr I was the one of those things.
18:37
Speaker 1: And while I was doing well, I was hustling backwards
18:40
Speaker 1: because I wasn't properly delegating my business in order for
18:43
Speaker 1: it to grow in the way that if we did
18:44
Speaker 1: to grow. And as soon as I stepped outside of
18:46
Speaker 1: my business and started delegating and finding the right talent
18:50
Speaker 1: to help the business grow, I've seen the shift in
18:52
Speaker 1: my attitude and in my energy and also in my business.
18:56
Speaker 1: So I'm at a really, really good place right now.
18:58
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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Speaker 1: with Rashan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations
19:08
Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. So, so before we shift out
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Speaker 1: of the first book, Eat Eat Plants, B I T
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Speaker 1: C H. I can't say the word, but it's right
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Speaker 1: there that's a little astro native when vegan recipes that
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Speaker 1: will blow your meat loving mind. Currently available for pre order.
19:24
Speaker 1: Preorder find this book is Peaky Cole is Simon Schuster
19:29
Speaker 1: and you can go there and the pre order. The
19:31
Speaker 1: book doesn't come out until November, but you can get
19:33
Speaker 1: it now. And I'm just gonna tell you, are fans
19:35
Speaker 1: of hers, that's how you become number one. I've been
19:38
Speaker 1: fortunate in my life to deliver three number one New
19:41
Speaker 1: York Times bestseller. And when you get there, if you
19:44
Speaker 1: want are a fan of Pinky Cold and you want
19:46
Speaker 1: a great book. Like I said, I like dessert, I
19:49
Speaker 1: like meat, But I'm buying this book because I like
19:52
Speaker 1: good food. And the recipes. We can't discuss it now,
19:55
Speaker 1: the recipes because you know, give it the resciree. What
19:57
Speaker 1: a You're gonna buy the book, but but what can't
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Speaker 1: do it? Say? You know all history? You know all honestly,
20:03
Speaker 1: her book is worth buying because I'm gonna buy. And
20:05
Speaker 1: when I buy, I'm gonna be I'm gonna doing a
20:08
Speaker 1: little a little TikTok coup, putting some stuff out there,
20:10
Speaker 1: probably messing up a little bit. She probably gonna slap
20:12
Speaker 1: my hand. Don't be messing my food. If you can't
20:14
Speaker 1: cook it right, We're gonna be all good. But that's
20:16
Speaker 1: the big pre order. Now that we got that out
20:18
Speaker 1: the way, the expansion, let's talk about the Slutty Vegan expansion.
20:23
Speaker 1: New York City at lasta girl, what are you doing?
20:26
Speaker 1: What's city? I'm gonna be able to go into bro
20:30
Speaker 1: And you know, growth is so beautiful. I can remember
20:33
Speaker 1: when I started this concept and a shared kitchen, and
20:36
Speaker 1: if you would have told me four years ago then
20:38
Speaker 1: it would look like this. I probably would have laughed
20:40
Speaker 1: at you, not because I didn't believe you, but because
20:42
Speaker 1: I'm like, hold on, that's that's a big thing that's happening.
20:45
Speaker 1: But I'm excited about the level of growth. I just
20:48
Speaker 1: opened up my Assence location. So currently I have five
20:51
Speaker 1: locations and we are under construction with four additional locations,
20:54
Speaker 1: and that's New York in Brooklyn, and in Harlem, Columbus, Georgia,
21:00
Speaker 1: and a few other locations. And I'm excited about where
21:04
Speaker 1: the business is going. We gotta shoot deal with Steve Madden.
21:07
Speaker 1: Um from Steve Madden see again again, just see I'm
21:12
Speaker 1: so sick of she throw out information don't want to
21:15
Speaker 1: give the back I keep telling y'all her back story
21:17
Speaker 1: better than the announcement. Okay, how did the Steve Madden
21:20
Speaker 1: thing happen? Come on? That? So Steve Mann happened because
21:23
Speaker 1: I was I went to a collaboration event that Steve
21:27
Speaker 1: Mann was hosted with The Fearless Fun and it was
21:29
Speaker 1: with some other entrepreneurs. And one thing about me is nothing.
21:33
Speaker 1: He's trial but to failure. So I'm gonna ask for
21:35
Speaker 1: the things that I want. So Steve Madden was on
21:38
Speaker 1: the zoo and I told him, I said, listen, you
21:41
Speaker 1: might not know who I am now, but I need
21:42
Speaker 1: you to google me because I have one of the
21:44
Speaker 1: most popular concepts of the country and you and I
21:47
Speaker 1: need to collaborate. And when need to do a shoe deal.
21:49
Speaker 1: And you know, this man did his research, and you
21:52
Speaker 1: know he came back and said, let's set up a call,
21:53
Speaker 1: let's do it. And now here we are. A couple
21:56
Speaker 1: of months later, we got a vegan shoe about to
21:58
Speaker 1: launch that is backed by eat Up. It's a slutty
22:01
Speaker 1: vegan shoe. And if you send me address, I'm gonna
22:03
Speaker 1: send you a pair. And I'm excited about it because
22:05
Speaker 1: it's game changing. It ain't just about burgers, fries and pies.
22:08
Speaker 1: Right like, we are showing people that this is a
22:10
Speaker 1: lifestyle brand, and people love the brain so much. I'm excited.
22:14
Speaker 1: I know how, you know, I know how to market there.
22:16
Speaker 1: You know, you say something that we don't put that
22:18
Speaker 1: on in public. She dropped it on Money Conversation. We're
22:21
Speaker 1: gonna circulate this and put it on some feed come
22:23
Speaker 1: on that, go out there and get that shoot all right,
22:26
Speaker 1: because guess what she's good people. She bought a mom,
22:28
Speaker 1: she got she got a child coming on with, she
22:30
Speaker 1: got paid some bills. Okay, um, so yeah, so with
22:34
Speaker 1: with the expansion. Um now we have Richard lu Dennis
22:39
Speaker 1: and Danny Meyers on our town. Okay, that that that
22:43
Speaker 1: help us scale and grow. And I'm confident that Slutty
22:46
Speaker 1: Vegan will be a billion dollar brand. Absolutely absolutely well.
22:50
Speaker 1: Richard Lewis, I love him, you know, over the essence,
22:52
Speaker 1: you know what he's doing over there. Just unfortunate pandemic
22:55
Speaker 1: hit when he took over it, but he still hadn't
22:57
Speaker 1: stopped the wheels from from moving forward. But the beauty
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Speaker 1: of you know, I read the New York City is
23:04
Speaker 1: gonna get a Slurty vegan. Okay, well, you know it's
23:07
Speaker 1: hiring up there. You know there's a lot of people
23:09
Speaker 1: that it's twelve million people coming to New York Manhattan
23:12
Speaker 1: on a giving work day. Why do Yorkly? This is
23:15
Speaker 1: just a statement opening though, while you're going to New
23:17
Speaker 1: York in what area of New York City you going?
23:20
Speaker 1: So New York is like a home coming. You know,
23:22
Speaker 1: I had my first restaurant was in Harlem, So this
23:25
Speaker 1: is my opportunity to really come back. So we're doing
23:28
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and we're doing Harlem again for two reasons. One
23:31
Speaker 1: is a home cooming and to I feel like, if
23:33
Speaker 1: you can make it in the big cities, you can
23:35
Speaker 1: make it anywhere. If you can make it in New York, Chicago,
23:38
Speaker 1: l A, Miami, then you can really do well anywhere.
23:42
Speaker 1: And New York is just one of those, uh places
23:44
Speaker 1: that we just feel comfortable about putting. Slutty began there
23:47
Speaker 1: so we can really continue to make this brand of
23:50
Speaker 1: household name. I can't wait. It's happening this year. Um
23:54
Speaker 1: you we have a big block party. The goal is
23:56
Speaker 1: to be able to open within the next few weeks.
23:58
Speaker 1: So we're pretty much done now. But I'm excited. Well,
24:02
Speaker 1: I know you probably won't be able to travel up there,
24:04
Speaker 1: probably zoom in doing FaceTime up there. You know, you
24:06
Speaker 1: take care of yourself. But again, Pinky, you know two
24:09
Speaker 1: years was too long, but it's been firm, watching the
24:12
Speaker 1: growth and watching the journey. So you old me. I'm
24:15
Speaker 1: gonna drop this announcement about to Steve Mannen shoe deal.
24:18
Speaker 1: Don't drop that. But also more important, Oh you some
24:21
Speaker 1: thousand pathers, I'm saying that on again. I gotta get there.
24:24
Speaker 1: And you sent me those vegan shoes. Okay, I absolutely
24:27
Speaker 1: will and thank you so much again for having it.
24:29
Speaker 1: And I cannot wait till you come to slide slidfy.
24:33
Speaker 1: Hey baby, I'm there. I'm seriously, I really, I I
24:36
Speaker 1: am committed. In fact, I went to the one. I
24:38
Speaker 1: went to the one over off I think the loot
24:47
Speaker 1: great experience. Yeah, I see your boy knew about that
24:50
Speaker 1: location because he ain't been there. See I a't snuck
24:52
Speaker 1: in behind. Yeah excellent, I see. But like I said,
24:56
Speaker 1: when I again, I'm like you, I try to be authentic.
24:59
Speaker 1: I don't trying to just talk to people when I
25:01
Speaker 1: said and just say nice things. I've experienced your brand.
25:05
Speaker 1: I love what you're doing and are and you represent
25:08
Speaker 1: positivity and I kid you not. You are our Oprah
25:12
Speaker 1: of this era. And don't don't walk away from that,
25:15
Speaker 1: don't stumble. You will be on TV, young lady, and
25:18
Speaker 1: you are going to be a billionaire. Okay, I received that. Yes,
25:23
Speaker 1: thank you so much. It's been Peaky Cold the creator,
25:25
Speaker 1: founder of Slutty Vegan and has a new book out.
25:29
Speaker 1: It's coming out. Please get it eat. I'm gonna see it.
25:33
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see you that. I'm gonna see it. I'm
25:36
Speaker 1: gonna see they're they're gonna edit it that they're gonna that.
25:39
Speaker 1: But again, thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation.
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