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Pinky Cole Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: when you're planning your goals. It's food time. Everybody who
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Speaker 1: little extra when I have a guest on when with
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Speaker 1: food because I'm I am a foodie. I'm award winning baker.
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Speaker 1: I like throw that out there. Leat everybody know I
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Speaker 1: got skills. I eat, but I have skills my guests.
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Speaker 1: Bringing vegan options and food awareness to the city of
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Speaker 1: Atlanta has always been a life dream of my guests.
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Speaker 1: Peaky Colt. She's the founder and CEO CEO of Slutty Vegan.
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Speaker 1: She's opening the conversation on vegan food options for people
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Speaker 1: who have never considered them in communities that have such
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Speaker 1: high numbers and hypertension, cholesterol, obesity, and a host of
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Speaker 1: other food arable food born elements and slutty vegan. They
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Speaker 1: have combined su birb taste with plant based ingredients so
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Speaker 1: you can remain vegan and get a little naughty. Please
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Speaker 1: work with the money making conversations. My friend, Pinky Colt,
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Speaker 1: how you doing it? Big? A think doing very well?
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Speaker 1: Because you know that's when people see you. What's that,
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Speaker 1: big guy? You believe how many intros I get? But
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Speaker 1: you know what, as long as they call it my name,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing something. You know. But you know when you're
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Speaker 1: just people say that, big guy. Can you get me
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Speaker 1: into the front of the line. This lasts longer. Can
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Speaker 1: you move me up front? Can you move me up front?
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Speaker 1: Come on? I need it all the time. Well, you
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Speaker 1: know I've known about you. I've lived in Atlanti since
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Speaker 1: two thousand seven. Uh, and I eat all types of food.
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Speaker 1: So for as a person who always look at talent
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Speaker 1: and always looking at trying to reach out to people
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Speaker 1: who are doing something unique in the community when it
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Speaker 1: comes to food, what allowed you to separate yourself when
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Speaker 1: with with other restaurants. I'm not just talking about vegan restaurants,
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Speaker 1: just just other brands. You know, you're such a competitive market,
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Speaker 1: you know, Atlanta has such a strong restaurant market. One
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Speaker 1: has allowed you to separate. That's my first question I
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Speaker 1: want to ask you about Vegan. Well, the first thing
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Speaker 1: is timing, right. I think often times, um we really
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Speaker 1: don't understand how important timing of a thing is. Right. So,
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Speaker 1: if you know anything about Uber and Lyft, there were
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Speaker 1: other companies that started, they did the same exact thing
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Speaker 1: at the same exact time, UM as Uber and left,
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Speaker 1: but those businesses didn't work. But the timing of Uber
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Speaker 1: and Lyft was so on point that it gave them
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to really survive in the market that really
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Speaker 1: didn't even exist at that time. So I say, all
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Speaker 1: had to say that the time ning for sluddy Vegan
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Speaker 1: couldn't be better, right. I started my company during an
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Speaker 1: arrow and one people started to walk into a new
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Speaker 1: level of consciousness to be at least even interested and
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Speaker 1: wanting to eat better. That's number one. Right. Secondly, they said, okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, so vegan is not a same thing, but
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Speaker 1: like we're open to try it because it really doesn't
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Speaker 1: exist on the main stream, but it's here. But like,
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Speaker 1: nobody has ever made it cool. So what I did
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Speaker 1: was I made it cool. But I didn't just focus
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Speaker 1: on the food element. I focused on the experience. So Rashan,
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Speaker 1: you said, um, when when you ask the question, you
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Speaker 1: said the marketing, right, So we put so much emphasis
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Speaker 1: in the marketing, um, from the timing that we got
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Speaker 1: to do this thing that it allowed us to be
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Speaker 1: one of the businesses that everybody knows and love. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: to the to the naked eye, and they just seem
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Speaker 1: like a restaurant, but it's bigger than the restaurant, right,
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Speaker 1: It's bigger than burgers and fries. We're making people excited
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Speaker 1: about a lifestyle. And I don't know that a lot
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Speaker 1: of businesses do that, but I feel like that's the
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Speaker 1: formula to our success. Is that just like Pepsi and
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Speaker 1: Coca Cola, right, like, they're selling a lifestyle experience and
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Speaker 1: then you come get the product based on the experience.
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Speaker 1: And we've been able to do that, and that's such
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Speaker 1: such apart from a lot of the other businesses and
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Speaker 1: began businesses that you see. But we upsay that whole
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Speaker 1: marketing and that experience to get people excited about the brand. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know, let's let's get to the heart of you
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Speaker 1: are a star. Okay, I've worked around stars. You know that.
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Speaker 1: You see my bio. I know when I say you star,
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Speaker 1: so you can give me all that little nice marketing.
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Speaker 1: You know. Steve Harvey, he's sold ticket because he was
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. Okay, Yeah, he worked hard, he marketed, he
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Speaker 1: worked on his jokes, but he separated himself because he
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Speaker 1: believes in himself. Plus he had a unique ability to
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Speaker 1: communicate and unique ability. Same thing with stephen A. Smith.
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Speaker 1: Same thing Timmis anything with it, Jamie Foxx, same thing
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Speaker 1: with Monique, all these people I work with, Gabrielle Union
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Speaker 1: and Nick Cannon, and you fall in that class of
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Speaker 1: people who clearly can be talented at someplace else, but
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Speaker 1: have chose to be talented in the food industry and
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Speaker 1: the food service industry. Why did you choose discourse? Because,
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Speaker 1: like I wanted to say that, because sometimes when I
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Speaker 1: get people on the show, especially uniquely talented people like
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Speaker 1: on this show, you tend to want to give me
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Speaker 1: a glive, a global perspective on your success. Okay, everybody,
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Speaker 1: Vegan just didn't start last week. You know that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, come on, it's interesting because like I can
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Speaker 1: only be real and raw, right, Vegan wrong, just vegan wrong,
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Speaker 1: I can only I can only be vegan raw. But
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Speaker 1: you also said it to listen, people love me. Yes,
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Speaker 1: because people love me, They're going to buy into the
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Speaker 1: experience because they're the person that curates that experience. But
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Speaker 1: it all speaks in the same breath. Right, They're gonna
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Speaker 1: fall in love with the marketing and want to be
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Speaker 1: a part of the experience. But they also know who
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Speaker 1: created that experience. And I loved you before I do
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Speaker 1: what you did. Oh, I appreciate that, I'm saying, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I understand that. Okay, you know people know, people know brands.
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Speaker 1: You know, if people know about Chick fil A and
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Speaker 1: they've never eaten a chicken sandwich from Chick fil A,
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Speaker 1: and so so the same thing. So your marketing has
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Speaker 1: made you a mainstay in conversation. In other words, you
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Speaker 1: could say that you are are the voice of you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you know a lot of people can
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Speaker 1: listen to the show. Go why he's saying that. But
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Speaker 1: you all become a brand, A vegan brand, a voice,
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Speaker 1: and so when you speak, there's so much credibility tied
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Speaker 1: to it because the success is tied to it. You know,
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Speaker 1: social media numbers are tied to it. You know your
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Speaker 1: community uplift is tied to it. So you will beyond
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Speaker 1: just the restaurant and people lining up. People see a
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Speaker 1: soul of spirit and you understand how to connect to two.
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Speaker 1: And so that's why I say is that, yeah, we
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Speaker 1: can talk about the marketing, but let's get to the
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Speaker 1: core of why this is successful. It's you one you
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Speaker 1: willing to put in. I always tell people there are
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours in a day. Learn to use every
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Speaker 1: hour of that. You do that you get at at
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Speaker 1: the same time. All the time you do that, you
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Speaker 1: commit the uplifting people, not only yourself but also the
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Speaker 1: community because you figured, hey, your God has blessed you
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Speaker 1: is even a bigger blessing if you share those opportunities.
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Speaker 1: You do that, and then you know, if you're trying me,
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Speaker 1: if you're tying me talking about how good, now this
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Speaker 1: is good, let's go talk. I shut up and listen
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Speaker 1: to you for me, because see, I can't stand people
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Speaker 1: who are talented won't let nobody talk good about it
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Speaker 1: just just cut me off. The one of one of
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Speaker 1: the one of them, one of them, want them come
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Speaker 1: to the mountain speeches. But you know I'm gonna get
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Speaker 1: do what you gotta do conversations. I'm gonna tell you
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Speaker 1: I'm excited about these conversations because I work extremely hard,
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Speaker 1: but I don't I don't I don't look for the credit, right,
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Speaker 1: So for you to give me my flowers, I want
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Speaker 1: to say that I appreciate you because like it's not
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Speaker 1: my intention to get the flowers. Like I work hard
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Speaker 1: because I love to do this like this when I say,
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Speaker 1: like I wake up in the morning at six o'clock
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Speaker 1: every single morning because my brain is wired like that,
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Speaker 1: because I know that I'm fulfilling my mission every single day,
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Speaker 1: like I love. I'm in love with that. So to
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Speaker 1: hear you speak on me like that, like I like,
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Speaker 1: I value that and I want to say thank you,
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Speaker 1: um because you know, sometimes you can always just be
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Speaker 1: in a weezeezee these weeds, but like just to stop down.
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Speaker 1: So I'm sitting here laughing when you're saying these things
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Speaker 1: about me, and and that feels good in my spirit.
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Speaker 1: Let's let's just google a little miss Pinky cot dot com,
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Speaker 1: Bill A Southern Or dot com, Rolling Out dot com,
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Speaker 1: Facebook dot com, Atlanta Magazine dot com, Big News dot
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Speaker 1: com dot com. See um, get your face and a
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Speaker 1: plate on any of those pictures. Okay, No, don't where
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Speaker 1: to be found. You know you know who image? Every
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Speaker 1: time I col you know what image I see? I
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Speaker 1: see Pinky co the Cream of v Thank you man,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And you know, let me tell you something.
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Speaker 1: I'm listening now. I'm listening to you. I accidentally into
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Speaker 1: this right so like I'm sure you've probably read about
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Speaker 1: it before, but no, I'm new. I don't know nothing
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Speaker 1: about you. Talk to me like I because like I
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Speaker 1: told you, I knew you before you have food. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know. Somebody told me you know what she does
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Speaker 1: that vegan stuff. Yeah, but continue to educate me about
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Speaker 1: you because you wouldn't let me talk about you, so
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Speaker 1: obviously gonna tell me something I don't know. So continue
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Speaker 1: to talks. I'm learning you something. So the day that
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Speaker 1: I was born, while I was getting my freedom, my
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Speaker 1: father was leasing his he was being sending to life
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Speaker 1: in prison. He ended up doing twenty two years. So
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Speaker 1: growing up, my mother was working three and four jobs
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Speaker 1: every single day. Immigrants, you're making a woman making sure
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Speaker 1: that the lights were always on, that we always had
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Speaker 1: food on the table. We weren't we weren't. We weren't
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Speaker 1: eating what the average family was eating. But that's what
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Speaker 1: we made the best out of the big beans and
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Speaker 1: right when we did it. And she just made sure
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Speaker 1: that we had everything that we needed. We may not
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Speaker 1: have had everything that we wanted, but we definitely surely
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Speaker 1: had what we needed. So I remember maneuvering through life,
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Speaker 1: always wanting to figure out ways to put my mother
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Speaker 1: in position so that she didn't have to work that
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Speaker 1: hard because my father was in prison. Meanwhile, my father
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Speaker 1: would call me from prison from federal prison, telling me
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Speaker 1: what books to read, telling me about stocks and bonds,
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Speaker 1: and telling me like how to how to be a
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Speaker 1: boss and a leader. So I took those experiences and
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Speaker 1: I made them my own. I started throwing parties at
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Speaker 1: fourteen years oh. I was making four thousand dollars every
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Speaker 1: single week. I remember counting money with my mother on
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Speaker 1: the couch, making more than my mother. In high school,
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Speaker 1: I'm selling candy, selling food. Just always wanted to create
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Speaker 1: and just to just to get a residual off the
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Speaker 1: things that I put together. Right. Then, when I got
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Speaker 1: to college, I paid my way through college by doing
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Speaker 1: hair right. So beyond that, I've just always found ways
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Speaker 1: to make money, UM and to create things that people
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Speaker 1: would be saidatisfied with. So in I came up with
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Speaker 1: this concept after working at the Mori Show as the
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Speaker 1: television producer called Pinky's Jamaican an American restaurant, and I
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Speaker 1: had this restaurant. It was doing well. I did my research.
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Speaker 1: I didn't literally I just wanted to have a business.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a chef. I just liked to cook as
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Speaker 1: a passion project. I'm Jamaican, I like food. So I
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Speaker 1: came up with this concept and it was doing extremely
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Speaker 1: well for me not to know anything about business. But
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Speaker 1: then I realized that I needed to lose that restaurant
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Speaker 1: in order for it to propel me to to be
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Speaker 1: who you see today, right, So I had a grief
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Speaker 1: by at that restaurant, UM. And then I got an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to work as a casting director on the TV
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Speaker 1: show called Iona Fixed My Life. And while I was
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Speaker 1: on that show, UM, I eventually moved to Atlanta temporarily
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Speaker 1: UM to work, and then I was in the house
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Speaker 1: one day and I came up with letty vegans. But
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Speaker 1: never in a million years if you'd have told me
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Speaker 1: two years ago that that I bedroom idea that I
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Speaker 1: created would be one of the hottest contests in the country,
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Speaker 1: I would have told you you were lying. But I
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Speaker 1: said that to say you know almost you said that
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Speaker 1: to say what pinky? And it almost felt like it
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Speaker 1: was on accident, But it was really divine right. It
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Speaker 1: was ricked. It was supposed to happen, and and and
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Speaker 1: now when I look at things, I realized that, like
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Speaker 1: I was walking in my purpose all along, it just
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Speaker 1: manifested through slutty vecan. And now we're here. Okay, cool?
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Speaker 1: So how did the name slutty vecan come about? Because
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Speaker 1: you said you came up with it? Who did you
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Speaker 1: share with anybody that you joking and came up with?
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Speaker 1: How did they come up? How was it I was?
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Speaker 1: I was sitting in the bed in the band Let
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Speaker 1: me tell you something. You sit up in your head
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Speaker 1: against the head board. How were you were your land?
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Speaker 1: Where were you? How will you sit? Let me tell
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Speaker 1: you I had some medicinal marijuana. See what you gonna do?
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Speaker 1: A couple of money making conversations. I was just sitting
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Speaker 1: in the bed. Nobody just sits. Look, that's the part
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Speaker 1: of the story that I don't really talk about. That's
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Speaker 1: a book bar but I'm gonna give you that pea.
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Speaker 1: But listen, I was this. I was sitting in the bed,
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Speaker 1: and I was gonna somebody cloud and I come up
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Speaker 1: with a million ideas all the time. I just if
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Speaker 1: you I don't something about being able to create ideas.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like when a rapper freestyles, I could do that.
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Speaker 1: What idea? So we're sitting in the same room for
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Speaker 1: at least ten minutes, I didn't came up with about
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Speaker 1: ten ideas, and somebody walking away with a billion dollar ideas.
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Speaker 1: So I was sitting in the house and I had
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Speaker 1: my medicinal marijuana and and and and it came to
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Speaker 1: me like, oh, floody Vegan. Because I knew that if
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Speaker 1: I created pinky Vegan, it wasn't going to have the
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Speaker 1: same traction. And how did I know that. I knew
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Speaker 1: that because working in TV, I know what people pay
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Speaker 1: attention to. I know that sex cells. I know it's
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Speaker 1: gonna make them change the channel. I know what they're
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Speaker 1: gonna be tuned into. So I said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the two most pleasurable experiences in life
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Speaker 1: and that sex and that spooed and I was put
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Speaker 1: it in the pot and I'm a skirt, and I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna create something that's gonna require people to ask questions
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Speaker 1: because guess what, the vegan lifestyle wasn't totally cool, right.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't something that black people, especially was that, oh
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Speaker 1: you know, let me get this cool schools. They're not
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Speaker 1: in that. They're like this, this ain't got no flavor.
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Speaker 1: I ain't in that. So how could I create something
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Speaker 1: that's going to get people who don't normally eat like
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Speaker 1: this to at least be interested in having a conversation.
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Speaker 1: So the name sounded racey and I liked it. So
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Speaker 1: many people was like, oh, that's too racy, that ain't
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Speaker 1: gonna work. But I'm like, guess what if you can't
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Speaker 1: get past the idea that we're not selling sex, we're
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Speaker 1: actually selling a lifestyle, but we're using sex as as
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Speaker 1: the buffer to get people to pay attention to all.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly what I did, and it worked, and there
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Speaker 1: was only I was just having this conversation earlier. I
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Speaker 1: got an opportunity um to participate in the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: in the nineteen and they wanted me to change their name.
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Speaker 1: And at that point I realized, listen, I can never
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Speaker 1: waiver on what I created because I created it was intentional.
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Speaker 1: I created it for a reason. And if people can't
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Speaker 1: get past that intention and that mission, that those are
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Speaker 1: people that I don't want to work with. And it's
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Speaker 1: so kay, you don't have to work with everybody. So
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Speaker 1: here I am. Two years later, I got listen, I
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19:55
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19:57
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20:05
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20:07
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20:11
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20:13
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20:16
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20:19
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20:23
Speaker 1: put I took what people love the most, food and sects,
20:26
Speaker 1: put them in the pot, and I just start stirring.
20:28
Speaker 1: Let's start talking about that menu. Because see, you're right,
20:32
Speaker 1: you know, because of the fact that I feel that
20:34
Speaker 1: your name created such a high level of curiosity that
20:37
Speaker 1: they brought in your age group, which is really key.
20:41
Speaker 1: And that's why I feel you successful, because you know,
20:43
Speaker 1: because because because vegan ism to me, to me was
20:46
Speaker 1: always felt like older generation food. You know, they're trying
20:50
Speaker 1: to eat food. You know, they figured out they need
20:52
Speaker 1: to start eating because they have their blood pressure to
20:54
Speaker 1: how they're trying to get light right. You made this
20:57
Speaker 1: hip for your generation because you are millennial. But you
21:01
Speaker 1: know it's so crazy. Let me tell you something real quick.
21:03
Speaker 1: Sorry to cut you off, but I gotta say that
21:06
Speaker 1: I don't know why. Okay, okay, okay, you know next time,
21:10
Speaker 1: I know we just code, you're gonna we're gonna see
21:13
Speaker 1: each other next time. I'm just let you we want
21:16
Speaker 1: to see each other. Listen, the Aunties, they loved me.
21:20
Speaker 1: My demographic is actually not the millennials. It's the more
21:23
Speaker 1: it's the people that are conservative that make a medium
21:26
Speaker 1: like like, listen, thirty five to fifty five is my
21:30
Speaker 1: core audience that I see those I see the lines
21:35
Speaker 1: I see Listen, these are women who have children, These
21:39
Speaker 1: are women who are conservative. They literally this ain't it
21:43
Speaker 1: ain't even just the millennials. You've got the older people,
21:45
Speaker 1: the people that support me the most. I laughed and
21:48
Speaker 1: joke with my friends. I'm like, listen, I don't get
21:49
Speaker 1: what y'all say. The Aunties love me. And as long
21:51
Speaker 1: as I got the Aunties in my back pocket, I'm good,
21:53
Speaker 1: right right, and you got it? And so three and
21:56
Speaker 1: fifty nine thousand Instagram follows. Now, how how the that
22:00
Speaker 1: to help your business to have that the moue social
22:02
Speaker 1: media force tied to your you know, certified account and
22:06
Speaker 1: it's Instagram m so, so beyond just Instagram followers, right,
22:11
Speaker 1: we have different channels where we have different audiences. On
22:14
Speaker 1: so Facebook you may truly get like the aunties and
22:17
Speaker 1: the families, and then on Instagram you get the younger people.
22:20
Speaker 1: But then we also have a community text group where
22:23
Speaker 1: I can text my consumer, right, I can text them
22:26
Speaker 1: like I'm having a regular conversation with them, and we
22:28
Speaker 1: do that. We do it in the most organic way.
22:31
Speaker 1: I'm texting them like, hey, big head, what you're doing?
22:32
Speaker 1: Come see me? And then I put the restaurant address,
22:34
Speaker 1: so I have about seven thousand people in there, and
22:37
Speaker 1: then I have twenty thousand people on my email blast.
22:39
Speaker 1: So how it helps me is that, however I want
22:42
Speaker 1: to communicate with my people, I can use a different
22:45
Speaker 1: channel to do that and a different tone to do
22:47
Speaker 1: that to get my message across. So say God forbid
22:50
Speaker 1: Instagram chests down today. I know I got different channels
22:53
Speaker 1: to communicate with the people, but it's gonna benefit to
22:56
Speaker 1: me nonetheless, because I can touch the people. And that's
22:59
Speaker 1: why a love sloly vegan because you see here, you
23:02
Speaker 1: see a restaurant concept that is moving into a corporate
23:06
Speaker 1: structure of the business. We're moving at scale, we're open
23:09
Speaker 1: up new locations, but we still have the voice of
23:11
Speaker 1: the people, right. We still insert things that are happening
23:16
Speaker 1: in the culture into the business in an authentic way
23:19
Speaker 1: where that's that's not exploiting people, but making people feel
23:22
Speaker 1: comfortable and safe to say that. Guess what I see
23:25
Speaker 1: myself in this business. I see the journey. I can
23:29
Speaker 1: follow the journey and I can grow with this journey
23:31
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm a part of it, and
23:32
Speaker 1: we make people feel a part of that journey. And
23:34
Speaker 1: that's really why it works. So we're able to use
23:37
Speaker 1: the channels um that we have, and we have multiple channels,
23:39
Speaker 1: and we grow those channels every single day. Great, fantastic,
23:44
Speaker 1: you're are a marketing guru. Now you come on my show.
23:49
Speaker 1: I got ninty three thousand fan club members, my lot
23:53
Speaker 1: blast I got when my Facebook got almost eight hundred
23:57
Speaker 1: thousand Facebook I see all this because I know you
24:00
Speaker 1: opening up a new a third location in Atlanta, Georgia. Correct, Okay,
24:05
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24:10
Speaker 1: Can he help promote your brand? Can you? Can I
24:13
Speaker 1: do that for you? Sure, because you're a marketing machine.
24:19
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I finally I got you in my life, Pinky.
24:22
Speaker 1: I don't want to let you go, So I got
24:27
Speaker 1: I gotta boy down to the queen. Now, you know,
24:28
Speaker 1: when you know, when you when the queen come in
24:30
Speaker 1: the room, you gotta stand out from everybody else. You know,
24:33
Speaker 1: you know I ain't got no six pack. I gotta
24:35
Speaker 1: stand that with marketing. I got the marketing over here.
24:40
Speaker 1: So we definitely could do something to your third location.
24:44
Speaker 1: Tell us about your third location, because I'm all feature
24:46
Speaker 1: that Rushaun Eats. I dropped that every Wednesday on my
24:49
Speaker 1: Facebook page and on my Instagram. I gotta like forty
24:53
Speaker 1: thousand followers on my Instagram account, and of course I
24:56
Speaker 1: got my YouTube account, forty thousand on my YouTube money
24:59
Speaker 1: May conversation dot Com. More importantly, you know, I I
25:03
Speaker 1: feel comfortable and being able to joke around with you
25:06
Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know you're a real
25:09
Speaker 1: person in the community. But before we get into your community,
25:12
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this third location you're opening,
25:14
Speaker 1: telling people why you're opening it. You know we're coming
25:17
Speaker 1: out of the pandemic. Okay, well we're not eat out
25:19
Speaker 1: of the pandemic. You made a decision to open up
25:22
Speaker 1: a third restaurant. Talk about it. Where is it located at? UM?
25:25
Speaker 1: So you know what I learned about Slutty Vegan and
25:28
Speaker 1: Slutty Vegan is weather proof, right, um, and slutty Vegans
25:32
Speaker 1: COVID proof as long as we continue to do what
25:35
Speaker 1: we've been doing and learn how to pivot. And I
25:37
Speaker 1: think that that's the beautiful thing about entrepreneurs knowing how
25:40
Speaker 1: to pivot, right, like being a chameleon, and like facing
25:44
Speaker 1: adversity and understand how to like change that adversity into
25:47
Speaker 1: a benefit to your business. And I think that I've
25:49
Speaker 1: been able to do that very well. And I say
25:51
Speaker 1: all that to say that I just opened up another
25:53
Speaker 1: little second location a month ago. They've got lines down
25:57
Speaker 1: the block. So now I got two locations with the
25:59
Speaker 1: lines down the block. Any day now I'm opening my
26:01
Speaker 1: third location and historic fourth Ward on Edgewood, UM. And
26:04
Speaker 1: I'm doing that also in the middle of a pandemic.
26:07
Speaker 1: But I'm excited about that location because there's so much
26:11
Speaker 1: history there. Martin Luther King grew up, um less than
26:15
Speaker 1: than two minutes away from that location, so there's a
26:17
Speaker 1: lot of historic elements. Um, you got all burned over there.
26:20
Speaker 1: So there's a lot going on in that neighborhood. And
26:22
Speaker 1: I feel like we can continue to revitalize Edgewood when
26:25
Speaker 1: we put a new staple in the community like Floody Deacon.
26:28
Speaker 1: It's not just coming just to make money. We're coming
26:30
Speaker 1: to to really like help the community grow right and
26:33
Speaker 1: be better. And that's what we do in every single community.
26:35
Speaker 1: So Edgewood is opening in the next few days. I'm
26:39
Speaker 1: excited about it. It's three thousand square feet. Um, we
26:42
Speaker 1: got a full on kitchen. It's really just going to
26:45
Speaker 1: be experienced, right. People come and they could feel like
26:47
Speaker 1: they're at home when they come to Edgewood. When they
26:50
Speaker 1: come inside of Floody Deacon, they're gonna see pieces of history.
26:53
Speaker 1: There's gonna remind them why Atlanta it's so necessary, why
26:56
Speaker 1: Edgewood is so necessary, and why business and commerce is
26:59
Speaker 1: so necessary. So you'll you'll get pieces of that. You're
27:02
Speaker 1: gonna get pieces of of the HBCUs that are in
27:05
Speaker 1: the community. You're gonna get elements of people who have
27:08
Speaker 1: taken Atlanta to the next level through politics, through business
27:11
Speaker 1: like you're gonna get a lot of that. And what
27:14
Speaker 1: we've learned how to do in a great way and
27:16
Speaker 1: we continue to do it, is we know how to
27:18
Speaker 1: teach and we know how to hide the education um
27:21
Speaker 1: inside of the experience. And that's what we're gonna be
27:23
Speaker 1: doing the Edgeword. So I'm excited. After Edgeword, We've got
27:25
Speaker 1: two more locations that were opening up in Atlanta, and
27:28
Speaker 1: then I'm on to the next day because we're growing
27:30
Speaker 1: and God is good man. Now I'll start trying to
27:36
Speaker 1: figure out why I met your I'm gonna call you
27:38
Speaker 1: short because you because you because you're talking all this
27:40
Speaker 1: noise to be right now. Now, a couple of things
27:42
Speaker 1: that you're doing in the community. Here this this National
27:45
Speaker 1: Jiggle contest that you had, which I thought was super
27:47
Speaker 1: smart with a bore, big ticker over there V one
27:49
Speaker 1: oh three in Atlanta, Georgia. And then you're doing something
27:52
Speaker 1: with this Georgia Department of Junior Juvenile Justice to d
27:55
Speaker 1: j J with the ten tho dollar scholarship jobs at
27:59
Speaker 1: your just all tied through the Pinky Cold Foundation and
28:03
Speaker 1: you being Pinky Cold that owned the slowly vegan restaurant.
28:06
Speaker 1: These are both empowering formats. One is empowering and for
28:10
Speaker 1: entertainment purposes and let people know that they get the
28:13
Speaker 1: opportunity to work with an establish a national known recording artists.
28:18
Speaker 1: Right there alone means that you got juice. And then
28:21
Speaker 1: you're on the show with my board, big ticker on
28:23
Speaker 1: A on A one on three v one on three.
28:25
Speaker 1: And then now you're doing the d J J with
28:29
Speaker 1: the Georgia Department. So talk of the reason behind both
28:32
Speaker 1: of adventures, I should say, And because I watched my
28:38
Speaker 1: mother being philanthropist. She was she was a hood philanthropist.
28:42
Speaker 1: She didn't even realize what she was doing. But you
28:44
Speaker 1: watch it, though, but you watch, but I watched her right,
28:47
Speaker 1: So like I remember being a kid and we got
28:49
Speaker 1: ten people living in the house, so like the community
28:53
Speaker 1: community was embedded in me. As a kid, I didn't
28:56
Speaker 1: understand what was happening, but I just knew that there
28:58
Speaker 1: were people coming from Jamaica that standing at my mother's house,
29:01
Speaker 1: that that we didn't share the same blood, but they
29:02
Speaker 1: became family. Right, So all through my life I absorbed
29:06
Speaker 1: that watching my mother do that and saw her selfless
29:09
Speaker 1: attitude and behavior and how she moved as a queen,
29:11
Speaker 1: and I really like captured that from my mother, so
29:15
Speaker 1: as an adult, it's full circle. And I laught for
29:17
Speaker 1: my mother about this because, like, philanthropy is at the
29:20
Speaker 1: core of who I am. Right, So I'm a magnet.
29:23
Speaker 1: The money, money is gonna come to me. I'm gonna
29:25
Speaker 1: get it regardless. But to be able to help people
29:27
Speaker 1: and provide resources for people, that is more money than
29:31
Speaker 1: any dollar bill could ever be in my bank account
29:34
Speaker 1: because I know that I get to uplift people, and
29:36
Speaker 1: I know that those blessings are going to come back
29:38
Speaker 1: ten folds. So when I created the foundation, I created
29:41
Speaker 1: it because one being totally transparent my finance God like junk.
29:46
Speaker 1: You're spending a lot of money. How do people were like,
29:48
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do? I said, you know what, let's
29:50
Speaker 1: put some structure. That is because I'm the type of
29:52
Speaker 1: person I'm gonna take the shirt off my back to
29:53
Speaker 1: help somebody else. So I created my foundation to do
29:56
Speaker 1: exactly what I do in my real life. Helped he
30:00
Speaker 1: So I partner with the Department of Juvenile Justice to
30:04
Speaker 1: provide opportunities for thirty X juvenile offenders. Right because I
30:08
Speaker 1: see them as people, and I know what it felt
30:10
Speaker 1: like to be on the receiving end of somebody being
30:13
Speaker 1: caught up in the system. So I wanted to help
30:14
Speaker 1: them and show them a different way of life. That's
30:16
Speaker 1: number one. UM. Number two providing resources for businesses in
30:20
Speaker 1: my area, the businesses in which I served. You know,
30:24
Speaker 1: I've helped them um financially support themselves while going through
30:28
Speaker 1: COVID and making sure that the people around me are
30:30
Speaker 1: doing good, because if I'm doing good and they're not
30:32
Speaker 1: doing good, then I'm not winning, right that's number two. UM.
30:35
Speaker 1: Number three in my foundation, I'm doing something called vote
30:38
Speaker 1: nick Um with Jamaine dupri and Impossible Fools to get
30:42
Speaker 1: people excited about voting. So at the end of the day,
30:45
Speaker 1: I don't care who you vote for. Just vote because
30:48
Speaker 1: guess what, Once upon a time we didn't have the
30:50
Speaker 1: rights and the ability to do that. So now that
30:52
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to do that, exercise that however
30:54
Speaker 1: you do it just exercises so that your voice could
30:56
Speaker 1: be heard. But those are just three of the million
31:00
Speaker 1: things that we've already done in the foundation. But it
31:02
Speaker 1: feels good to know that I can use that platform
31:05
Speaker 1: to help people build generational wealth. Oh and the one
31:08
Speaker 1: thing that I didn't This is the biggest thing that
31:09
Speaker 1: I'm working on, and I'm actually about to forget something, Okay,
31:16
Speaker 1: I am. I'm partnering with um Derrek Kay's he owns
31:20
Speaker 1: a restaurant called Big Days Cheese Steaks. We're doing a
31:23
Speaker 1: life insurance initiative where we're providing life insurance for every
31:26
Speaker 1: single black man in Atlanta who makes thirty tho dollars
31:29
Speaker 1: a less um so that they don't have to pay
31:32
Speaker 1: for So what I do is like real community work. Right.
31:36
Speaker 1: So like I called myself a hood politician, right, I'm
31:39
Speaker 1: not like I'm not super versed in politics that to
31:41
Speaker 1: be honest, that's really not my thing. However, I like
31:44
Speaker 1: to help people, and I know that I can reach
31:46
Speaker 1: the community by helping them and showing them that there's
31:48
Speaker 1: a better way, by providing them resources, giving them access
31:52
Speaker 1: to information because you know, people don't really want to
31:54
Speaker 1: give us access. But now I'm gonna make it my
31:56
Speaker 1: responsibility to provide access resources and to show people about
32:00
Speaker 1: financial literacy. The things that I did learn now I
32:02
Speaker 1: know that I can show you and I do all
32:04
Speaker 1: of that through my foundation. Well, she is the queen
32:08
Speaker 1: I love her. First time we've actually talked, this first
32:10
Speaker 1: time we've actually communicated, and she got to hear what
32:13
Speaker 1: I think about her, and I hope she understands this
32:16
Speaker 1: is on his talk from somebody who recognizes gifted people.
32:19
Speaker 1: And more importantly, her community involvement is really to me
32:24
Speaker 1: more important than her food, and her food is the
32:26
Speaker 1: bonus part of who she is, because she is not
32:29
Speaker 1: forgotten that it takes a whole to be successful, not
32:32
Speaker 1: a half. You have to you have everybody has to
32:36
Speaker 1: be part of the opportunity. And she understands that and
32:38
Speaker 1: she values that. Sluggy Vegan is a is a product.
32:42
Speaker 1: It started, like she said, started in her bedroom. I
32:44
Speaker 1: always tell people on this show, you have to be
32:46
Speaker 1: motivated by an opportunity and you have to put a
32:48
Speaker 1: plan in place, and you have to give effort for
32:50
Speaker 1: that plan to be successful. That's what you've done, Pinky
32:53
Speaker 1: with your brand. You know, it's an idea. We all
32:56
Speaker 1: have ideas, and you decided that you guess what I'm
32:59
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it in place. And then when people
33:01
Speaker 1: try to try to twist it, try to come in
33:04
Speaker 1: with a crazy idea of question you. First of all,
33:07
Speaker 1: you whenever I would tell people, whenever somebody questioned you
33:09
Speaker 1: on your idea, ask them how much have they participate?
33:13
Speaker 1: Are they participated with money? Are they participating with work responsibility?
33:18
Speaker 1: Or they just participating because they're just verbally commenting those
33:21
Speaker 1: people have to ignore it first, and then when you
33:24
Speaker 1: when you get your business rolling, you have to understand
33:27
Speaker 1: if people asking you to compromise, If anybody ever asked
33:30
Speaker 1: you to compromise on your idea for a one time event,
33:33
Speaker 1: that's a bad idea. That's a bad idea because you
33:37
Speaker 1: would never be able to recover because for the you
33:40
Speaker 1: always be walking away going I should not have done that,
33:43
Speaker 1: And why did I do it? Because you compromise your
33:45
Speaker 1: values and you refuse to do that. And guess what
33:49
Speaker 1: you're all over the city are we are? We going
33:51
Speaker 1: out of the state here? What's what's happening here with
33:53
Speaker 1: slooty Vega? You know at first? Why are you not
33:56
Speaker 1: on TV here? You know it's funny, I got t
33:59
Speaker 1: TV off is right now? Okay, Okay, let's go, there's go.
34:05
Speaker 1: Please please be on TV. Okay, If they don't, they
34:07
Speaker 1: don't come happy to come talk to Rishane mcdal. We
34:09
Speaker 1: get it all straight, okay, but you're special and I
34:14
Speaker 1: think that for my my whole take on you being
34:16
Speaker 1: on TV. The food is awesome, but they gotta they
34:19
Speaker 1: gotta capture you. I'm actually working on a TV show,
34:24
Speaker 1: UM where I am helping struggling black and brown businesses
34:28
Speaker 1: UM revitalize their brands. So so we're so that's one
34:34
Speaker 1: of the shows. And the other show is UM A
34:36
Speaker 1: Dinner at Pinky, So two shows that that will potentially
34:39
Speaker 1: be on major network. So we're in the process of
34:42
Speaker 1: that happening right now. So I'm working. You keep me
34:44
Speaker 1: post and I just um, I just got a book
34:48
Speaker 1: deal with Simon Is Shoester, so I'm excited about it
34:50
Speaker 1: that that's my girl over there. You with my girl.
34:53
Speaker 1: Uh Don Davis, No, I'm not with Dohna. She's just
35:00
Speaker 1: my suster. She's the ball. But guess what, you're the
35:02
Speaker 1: ball too. So not saying young person, but again, thank
35:04
Speaker 1: you for coming on my show. I appreciate you giving
35:07
Speaker 1: me thirty two minutes if you're time. Thank you for
35:11
Speaker 1: having me listen, and anytime you name me I'm here.
35:14
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. And again, tell your team to get
35:16
Speaker 1: those uh all that from every time you open a restaurant,
35:19
Speaker 1: please let me know so I can support you. And
35:20
Speaker 1: I'm serious about there. Twice in money I send out
35:23
Speaker 1: my newsletter. It goes out every Wednesday, so let me know.
35:26
Speaker 1: I'll drop it in there. This is free stuff. This
35:29
Speaker 1: is part of my community help, especially with young entrepreneurs
35:32
Speaker 1: and not saying that you're a young entrepreneurs, but we
35:35
Speaker 1: all know the marketing is key and somebody might see
35:37
Speaker 1: you over here, might give you another opportunity to sell
35:39
Speaker 1: something over there. Again, thank you for coming on my show,
35:42
Speaker 1: Pinky co Thank thank you, pell Safe, thank you all right.
35:50
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