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Food Time with Chef Tregaye Fraser, Winner of "Food Network Star," & Host of "Tregaye's Way" on OWN · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is Chef Triggay Fraser. She grew up
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  Speaker 1: eating her grandmother's farm fresh cooking. She's a seasoned chef
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  Speaker 1: who likes to twist old fashioned recipes with her own
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  Speaker 1: unique flair. She learned the basis at the cardon Blue,
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  Speaker 1: but she soon re lies that her own love for
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  Speaker 1: cooking came from her youthful soul and love for fusion cuisine.
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  Speaker 1: Chef Tregay is a successful, self employed mother who relates
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  Speaker 1: best to a younger generation. She's the first African American
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  Speaker 1: woman to win Food Network Star, two time competitor of
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  Speaker 1: Cutthroat Kitchen, and three time Competitive Guys Grocery Games. She
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  Speaker 1: has her own show on the Old Network called triggage
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  Speaker 1: Way that airs every Saturday afternoon at twelve thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: Please work with the money making Conversation. She got a
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  Speaker 1: lot to say now, Chef Triggy, whoa boy, A lot
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  Speaker 1: to say now about you? Now, let's talk about it
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  Speaker 1: because I you know, I can bake a little bit, well,
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  Speaker 1: I can really banke. I could really bake now now.
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  Speaker 1: But these competitions are a different world because see, I've
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  Speaker 1: been asked to come on some of these shows as
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  Speaker 1: a contestant, okay, and I told now not, rather be
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  Speaker 1: a judge. But then I realized that they don't prep
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  Speaker 1: you on the recipes. Okay, let's let's go. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: with the Food Network start where you became the African,
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  Speaker 1: first African American woman to win the Food Network. Start.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that competition. Oh man, that competition was
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  Speaker 1: really stiff. It was really tight. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer in UM just the power of manifestation,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe anything that I want to do, I
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  Speaker 1: can't do UM. And it was so funny because before
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  Speaker 1: I got on that show, I was want to show
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  Speaker 1: called Cutthroat Kitchen and God's Grocery Games. I have been
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  Speaker 1: doing a lot of competing and I remember sitting in
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  Speaker 1: my bed seeing UM Food Network Star season eleven, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, I see a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: from like Cutthroaw Kitchen and God's Grocer Games. Why didn't
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  Speaker 1: they call me? I was like, it's okay, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna feel like that long application. They're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: call me and they're just gonna put me on the
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  Speaker 1: show with two weeks later Food Network Start, Cuto Kitchen
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  Speaker 1: be Bobby's play, I'll call me at the same time
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  Speaker 1: to be on the show. So of course I chose
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  Speaker 1: Food Network Start because that's a job. Um. And then
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  Speaker 1: I remember because this was like, let's start, explain what
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  Speaker 1: you just said? You said, okay, you had uh, Bobby
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  Speaker 1: Flay called you, right, and then you and then that
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  Speaker 1: what was those show that called you? Because the Kitchen
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  Speaker 1: called me to come back to do like a reunion show,
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  Speaker 1: and then um, food Network Star called me all in
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  Speaker 1: the same time the same day. What was the difference
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  Speaker 1: and what made that decision to go with the Food
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  Speaker 1: Network Start? How could you get a job like Food
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  Speaker 1: Network Star? You become a Food Network Star? Like what
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  Speaker 1: do I want to do? Go play a competition for
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  Speaker 1: a few seconds, or get a job and become the
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  Speaker 1: next Food Network Start? Right, I think I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: with Food Network Star. And you know at the time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have a lot of money. So
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  Speaker 1: I remember buying this dress and my bills was doing
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  Speaker 1: everything chat but I was like, listen if the dress
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  Speaker 1: was like five hundred ills, but I was like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: this is dress I'm aware when I win, so I
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  Speaker 1: need to get this dress. So I remember getting the dress,
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  Speaker 1: calling the lady and saying, look this address. Put this
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  Speaker 1: in wardrobe because we have to sit in our wardrobe.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, this dress, I'm aware when I win,
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  Speaker 1: and she laughed at me. But that is the dress
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  Speaker 1: that I wore when I wont Now, it was a
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  Speaker 1: challenge because there are not a lot of people like
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  Speaker 1: me on Food Network. I'm very different. I'm very loud,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very fun um, and I just like to have
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  Speaker 1: a good time, you know, as well as cooking as well.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I talked a little different. I got
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  Speaker 1: a country swine. I'm from Philly, but Atlanta is all
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  Speaker 1: up inside of me, so um. You know. I knew
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  Speaker 1: that it would be a challenge and I knew that
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  Speaker 1: it would be different. It was so funny because the
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  Speaker 1: first episode set the tone for the whole season for
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  Speaker 1: me to really just shut it down, like I just
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  Speaker 1: locked in because I came into it almost like changing myself.
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  Speaker 1: Like well, I came on and they were like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we want you to do a cold open, So I
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  Speaker 1: did the cold open my way Tree gay Way originally right, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Tree gay, It's gonna be killed da, Yes, this
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  Speaker 1: is this is this And I remember Gialla saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: I like you, but um, I don't know, I've never
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  Speaker 1: met anyone like you before. Um you seemed like a caricature,
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  Speaker 1: That's what she said. So for me, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I took that as like not taking me serious. So
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  Speaker 1: I changed. So when we got to redo it, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Hi, I'm chere gay, you know, And I
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  Speaker 1: was real like mainstream. But we had to watch the
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  Speaker 1: episode in the movie theater. That was the challenge. Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Florence was the judge, the guest judge, Bobby Flay and
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  Speaker 1: Jia and so we're in this big screen. So I
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  Speaker 1: was able to see myself outside of myself on this
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  Speaker 1: big screen with all these people in here, and I
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  Speaker 1: was able to see that that is not the move.
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  Speaker 1: Like I was completely different. I didn't even know who
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  Speaker 1: I was. I cried, and I remember Giada saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: who was that? Like? You completely changed, Like I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you said I look like a caricature. And
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to take this serious because this is a job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I need this for my children, myself, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So for me, you know, I want to be taken serious.
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  Speaker 1: And she was like, well, I didn't say I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like it. I just said I've never seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, and you just showed us today that
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  Speaker 1: you can't even pretend to be someone else besides yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and we love who you are, So just stay yourself.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I needed. That was the green light. I
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  Speaker 1: was gone. I started winning competition at the competition, and
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  Speaker 1: then I took home the prize. That's all I needed
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  Speaker 1: to hear was that it was okay to be myself. Know,
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  Speaker 1: that's important to say. That's why I want you to
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  Speaker 1: share that story because of the fact that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people always typically you know, when you fall down,
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  Speaker 1: only you can get yourself up. If you can pretend
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  Speaker 1: to be somebody else when you fall down, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: stay down. And so you should never be who you
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  Speaker 1: think for taking advice. If somebody tells you I want
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  Speaker 1: you to be this person, if it's not you, it's
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  Speaker 1: not your natural way of life, then when you fall
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  Speaker 1: a worth that person to get you back up. And
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  Speaker 1: so that was a good point to tell everybody when
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  Speaker 1: I talking about when people are worried by leaving jobs,
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  Speaker 1: or people worried about career changes. They're worried about what
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  Speaker 1: other people may think. What do you think? What do
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  Speaker 1: you feel? Do you feel you're gonna be successful at this?
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  Speaker 1: And that's all you're saying, right there, ri Sean, I
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  Speaker 1: love somebody to question who I was for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in my life. And then she looked at me
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  Speaker 1: and went, I just said change. I just had no
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  Speaker 1: opinion about who I thought you were, and I realized
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  Speaker 1: now that that's the only person you can be, So
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  Speaker 1: go back and bid. And that changed your life? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it really did. Um, I mean, it really just gave
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  Speaker 1: me confidence. Like I'm already a pretty confident person, I
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  Speaker 1: would like to say, but I think my confidence was
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  Speaker 1: a little down at that time because, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a room full of people who, you know, experienced
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  Speaker 1: things that I haven't experienced. They they speak a different
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  Speaker 1: way than I do. You know, they move a different way,
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  Speaker 1: They're from a different place than I am, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but they're also older. You start thinking, like, I'm limited myself,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, it doesn't really matter
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  Speaker 1: where I'm from. It doesn't matter how I talk, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter how I look. As long as I come
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  Speaker 1: and bring my a game and I do the best
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  Speaker 1: that I can do, and I come up and show
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  Speaker 1: up and show out. It really don't matter what these
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  Speaker 1: people have done and where they come from. And I
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  Speaker 1: had to take a step back in and really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: tap myself on the end, like, no, girl, Like you
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  Speaker 1: have to admit that you were dealing with an age
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  Speaker 1: different as well. You wanted the younger chef that have
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  Speaker 1: gotten into those type of competitions, Okay, and let's say
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  Speaker 1: a little hip hop in your life. Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a little Dirty South in your life, and
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  Speaker 1: so the little flavor in your life, and so that
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  Speaker 1: is good for your brand. So when you want, when
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  Speaker 1: you want, what would the immedia changes that you felt
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  Speaker 1: in your career when you won Food Network Stop? Um
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  Speaker 1: my immedia changes where you know, I started to become
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  Speaker 1: a part of like this different crowd. You know, all
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  Speaker 1: of the people that I would look at on TV
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  Speaker 1: as a kid, like they're my coworkers. Um, Like we're
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  Speaker 1: getting paid the same amount, one of the same things,
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  Speaker 1: like one shows like they are so so real. Um.
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  Speaker 1: Once I got past like the starstruck moment and just realized,
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  Speaker 1: like we're all on the same playing field. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: just kept going with whatever they were bringing to me. However,
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  Speaker 1: I did learn that, um, there may have been like
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  Speaker 1: a niche or y'allt reader that I should be in.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like it was, it didn't go.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I tell people all the time, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when you get on TV, you just have these expectations,
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  Speaker 1: um to just skyrocket like you're the net star now,
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  Speaker 1: like you know you're gonna get it in me. But
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  Speaker 1: I had to learn very quickly that that's not how
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  Speaker 1: it goes. This is a business, um, and that's just
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  Speaker 1: a major show business. And when you're up, you up,
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  Speaker 1: and when you're down, you down. But when you're down,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I learned was to look at it
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  Speaker 1: as you know, this thing that we call TV is
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  Speaker 1: really to market and promote me and my business. So
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  Speaker 1: I got smart and I decided because you know it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's addictive, you know, to be on a TV
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  Speaker 1: show and to be doing these large commercials. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I've done Johnsonville commercials, national brands, laughing cow cheese. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there were put me a part of all these
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  Speaker 1: big things. So who become became addictive. You know, That's
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  Speaker 1: all I wanted to do. I kind of forgot about
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  Speaker 1: everything else that I did, and I remember I was
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  Speaker 1: super sad because you know, again, I'm different. So they
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  Speaker 1: had to find a place to put me. Um and listen,
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  Speaker 1: when I want Food Network Starry, it wasn't our roses
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  Speaker 1: and peaches, you know, was kind of like what who
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  Speaker 1: you know? Um? So I had to kind of get
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  Speaker 1: past that. But then I remember talking to Duff, and
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  Speaker 1: Duff is a I don't know if you know Duff,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a cake I on Food Network super big,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember saying, man, what do you do when
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  Speaker 1: you get in these positions? Because at the time, like
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't a lot of TV coming in. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: was not even focusing on my business. I was more
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  Speaker 1: so like why am I not getting more stuffy? You know?
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  Speaker 1: It was like a fast ride than one day. It
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  Speaker 1: was just like, sir, it slowed all the way down.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, you know what I did when that
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  Speaker 1: happened to meetri Gae, I said what he said, I
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  Speaker 1: just started doing what I did to get me them
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  Speaker 1: the first place, started making cakes. So I said, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, You're right, I went and I started back
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  Speaker 1: doing my catering, started back doing my meal prep. I
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  Speaker 1: started the line of products, my chef knife, my season ends,
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  Speaker 1: my plant based butter. I just really put everything that
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  Speaker 1: I was putting into television into myself. I got my
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  Speaker 1: own production company and I started doing like YouTube and stuff. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I started doing this thing called your Gate Eats Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: and I would use I basically utilized my resources. You
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  Speaker 1: know I didn't I got. I gained so much from
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  Speaker 1: becoming a food network start because I gained relationships, which
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  Speaker 1: are more important than even being on TV. Right, So
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay, well, shoot, let me call some of
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  Speaker 1: these producers. Let me call this, let me call that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, the show I'm thinking about doing. Let
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  Speaker 1: me call these restaurants. I've done twenty five episodes, the
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  Speaker 1: best thing I ever ate, So I know they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: let me come and review that restaurant. This is a
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  Speaker 1: good show for me. So I started doing that on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: I just kept going, and then one day I started
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  Speaker 1: getting callbacks. They started wanting me back on TV. I
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  Speaker 1: guess they were watching the sea. Then you weren't waiting, Chef,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't waiting. That was the key. You weren't waiting
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  Speaker 1: for them, and so the time that you were waiting
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  Speaker 1: that was really making your answer you. Now we're filling
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  Speaker 1: up with quality time. You work, building your resume at
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  Speaker 1: your bio and I tell people all that time. So
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  Speaker 1: should sit around and wait for the next opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: make your next opportunity. So the show comes on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: It's well third every Saturday on the own network, Tree
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  Speaker 1: Gauge Way, I know what that shows about. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing to build momentum beyond that show? As that
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  Speaker 1: show is airing? Um you know right now, since we're
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  Speaker 1: aeron winning the first season, I'm just kind of getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of feedback. I'm I'm I'm educating myself more
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  Speaker 1: and more recipes and more ideas than like what do
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  Speaker 1: people want to know? I'm so proud of Tree Gay's way,
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  Speaker 1: like because it ain't been my way for so long,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And they have a show
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  Speaker 1: named Sure Gays Wide, and then it's like, now I
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  Speaker 1: maybe to like really seed knowledge into people because I'm
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  Speaker 1: really big into education, like educating people. Um So I'm
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  Speaker 1: just kind of taking what I have now the shows
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  Speaker 1: are airring, and I'm just pushing what I have. I'm
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  Speaker 1: pushing my products, I'm pushing more classes. I'm doing stuff
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  Speaker 1: with um my junior chefs. I'm trying to create more
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  Speaker 1: things and more ideas around that UM. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: in between times, I'm working on my book because I
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  Speaker 1: definitely have a story to tell, So I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: process of working on that UM. And then I'm also
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to open a a prep kitchen because and
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  Speaker 1: a specialty store because I have so many products and
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  Speaker 1: you know, especially right now with pandemic going on, one
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  Speaker 1: of the things I realized in the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: pandemic was that there are so many chefs that need
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  Speaker 1: a place to cook. They are like, they just need
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  Speaker 1: a kitchen in these places they've charged so much. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna provide a safe haven for chefs to come
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  Speaker 1: and rent out my kitchen space and also sell their
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  Speaker 1: products in my specialty store so we could just keep
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  Speaker 1: building on what we already have, which will also be
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  Speaker 1: a great hub for the catering company. And I've been
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: doing a lot of catering lately. I've been doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of cooking classes lately, UM working on some seminars.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just building off the things that are already
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  Speaker 1: have and just making them better. I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 1: reinvent the wheel and trying to do something different in
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  Speaker 1: the midst like because this is the moment where I
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  Speaker 1: need to capitalize off of all the things that I've
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  Speaker 1: been doing and better. So that's what I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you are an entrepreneur because
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  Speaker 1: first of all, you you went in you want Food
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  Speaker 1: Network start a blessing, but then you got caught up
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  Speaker 1: expecting their phone, wait on their phone to ring. But
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  Speaker 1: then advice came your way. Do the things that got
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  Speaker 1: you there. Yes, And that's what I tell people all
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  Speaker 1: the time. You know, you know a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: that are signed with big agents in l A. And
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I'm with william Rs. And then just stopped. We know
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  Speaker 1: that call to put you in a movie, that call
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  Speaker 1: to put you in the sitcom? But why didn't william
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  Speaker 1: Are sign you? Like I said, why did the Food
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  Speaker 1: Network start sign you? Because you were busy? Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you were on the cooking Kitchen and you went, I
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  Speaker 1: should be on that because I've done the grocery games.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen these people with guess what, they were being busy.
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  Speaker 1: That's where they got picked. The blessing in this whole
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  Speaker 1: conversation is you got picked, but you on and now
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: from a business standpoint, you understanding what you have to do,
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  Speaker 1: keep the wheels moving in a pro direction that you control.
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  Speaker 1: And that's wonderful. What advice we should get people with
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: hearing all this, all the things you've come through. You
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  Speaker 1: have a popular show, like I said, it's on own
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  Speaker 1: on the show. It's your gay. That's her name. She's
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  Speaker 1: out of Philly now, she lives in the land. Got
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: a great personality, got this great smile, got to have
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: big hair. Doesn't look like the classic chef that you
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: will see OTV. But you. But but food is the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: number one view in social media, is the number one
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: viewed on YouTube. And I've just been waiting for the
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: black stars like you just start percolating to the top
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: because black people love food and I'm tired of our
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: food being just so food. You know what I'm saying.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: We are a very diverse eating community and that's what
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you're showing today. Gage Way. Tell us about your show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, your gaze Way. It's so amazing. I literally
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  Speaker 1: just take food and recipes that I do with my
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  Speaker 1: family and my friends, and then I'm giving it to
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  Speaker 1: the people at home. You know. Um, we're in the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: fifth episode now. I literally everybody who you see on
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  Speaker 1: my show, it's not a game. They're really my children,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: they are really my family, they are really my friends. Um.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: The beautiful thing about this show is like when Oprah
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: gave me the opportunity, she was literally like, do whatever
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  Speaker 1: you want. And to have that opportunity is like so amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, if I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: do that to the fullest. So one of my episodes
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: are like brunch with my boys. So my you know,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I do list to my son. He loves hot cheetos.
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  Speaker 1: So I did it before, you know, So I did.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all. So I did a hot cheetoh crusted
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  Speaker 1: again with cheddar chid waffles, and you know another one
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  Speaker 1: don't crusted chicken with cheddar chid waffles and roasted red
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  Speaker 1: pepper sarah. Um. Then I did one with my best
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  Speaker 1: friend and you know, he was one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: um waste training line, Like he does the male waste
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  Speaker 1: trainers and he's a super big in the gay community.
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  Speaker 1: And it was beautiful to be able to bring him
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  Speaker 1: on the show. One to show how versattle I am
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  Speaker 1: to where I also do healthy food too, because I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: could do classes for cancer patients here in the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: area and so that was good. And then to also
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: be able to talk about my friend. You know, he
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: came out to me and you know, I wanted him
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  Speaker 1: to be the best that he could be, and so
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  Speaker 1: I felt that that would touch so many other people
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  Speaker 1: who are going through that point in their life and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and seeing that you know, once you just be yourself.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm always about being yourself, and that was also an
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: extension of be yourself from the moment, from the food
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that we're starting to even that you know from and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: then I encourage that from other people. Another one with
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: friends giving, when we did Jerk Turkey Wings and naked
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  Speaker 1: apple Pie and I go to the apple orchard with
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: my best friend and we have so much fun, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: my son's birthday party. So it's like these are all
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: little things that you probably recognize in your own life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, everybody has friends, friends giving, everybody has a
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  Speaker 1: little brunch. You know, everybody wants to get snatched. And
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that's another thing I name the show snatched because one thing,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: um the episode was snatched because one thing I noticed
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  Speaker 1: is that you know, our lingo a lot of people.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Once you get in this industry, you realize they don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: even understand what we're talking about. Now, that's tin So
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I created a show around that because I'm not just
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: doing it for me. I'm doing it for the culture.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to I want to shine and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I want to be relatable and let other chefs like
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  Speaker 1: me know that you could do this too. You know
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: you could. You can have a little slang in you
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: know you can have you have. You know you can
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  Speaker 1: do your thing and still be successful. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be somebody else. You just have to own who
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  Speaker 1: you are. Your friends, I love you, I love you,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I love your brand, I love your personality that I
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  Speaker 1: love your openness. I love the fact that if you fall,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get up because you know why you're doing
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  Speaker 1: this in life. You're not doing it because somebody told
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you to do it. And that's like you said that
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: first episode. Food Network really allowed you to say, I
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: could be myself and I can win, And you're winning
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: being yourself and I gotta eat that. That that with
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a hot Cheeto girl and I think made like I
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: did a braised curry chicken with like a lemon rug
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  Speaker 1: kill and coalman and keimwa and a butternut squashing there.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And then we did a man Go dragon food smoothie.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Like it's so versatile. We do so many things. One
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: of the episodes, I think I'm gonna do some colar
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: greens and smother cork chops, like we do everything on
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that show because I want to touch everybody. Well, so
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I'm based. I'm based in Atlanta that my office has
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a full kitchen in it because I love to cook
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: another baby, but my staff, and like I'm making them
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: red beans and rice this week with corn bread this week.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You know they're gonna have that. And I'm making a
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: like you I twitched up, and then I'm gonna I'm
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: gonna make a taco salad problem for them on Friday.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You know, an individual dishes gotta try to beat COVID
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  Speaker 1: safe and everything. But and so so I want I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: want you to come by my place. You know, we
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: schurted down and video tape ourselves having fun making something
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: together and things like that. I I gotta made them
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: a spice cake the other day we did a barbecue
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: spread for lunch and my because I wanted a place
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: where I can enjoy my life, you know where if
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I if I got to work early, because you know
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: what happened when I used to work when I didn't
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: own my building, was I make it at home and
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: then I bring it to work. So now they're coming
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I work. They started, they they're coming there. And the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: other day they came in. I was in the middle
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of making raising pudding. Okay when the caral mail, I said,
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  Speaker 1: ID mediums that are you gonna be ready? As a
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  Speaker 1: don't word, put it in the oven. Forty five minutes
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  Speaker 1: later me was open, pulled it out of the oven,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: let it cool for about ten minutes, having them some
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: some some vanilla bean ice cream, and we was having
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a good time. So that's my life and just hearing
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you you enjoying your life, and I don't want you
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to stop enjoying your life. But I wanted to extend
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the invitation that I want to I want to promote
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  Speaker 1: your brand. I want to be able to tell everybody
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: how great you are it uh, just living your life,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: but more important you being you though. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Well I got the invite, so you can't take it back. No, no, no,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: no you I can't take back no, no doubt. I've
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: learned that in this call. I know you. You put
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: some on social media about me. You have every sean
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be on Instagram story. We're gonna, we're gonna,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: we're gonna come over here. And you didn't say the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: kitchen around Absolutely shift coming to come to kittch you
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: know it's a big, roomy kitchen, you know, and uh,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and just let you talk about your career, your stuff
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: like that. And it's about relationships. And I'm big on relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Anything I can help you do or point you in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. I've been blessed to be able to
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: work with a lot of famous people. I've been blessed
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to be able to build a lot of big careers,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: whether it's corporate or individual. So when I see somebody
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  Speaker 1: like you, who who is a unique talent. You are
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a unique talent, and you're still very young. That means
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  Speaker 1: that your future is going to be bright. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: you are a hard workers and that's what I love
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  Speaker 1: about you. You do not run from the dirty kitchen,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: especially if you're the one that made it dirty. You're
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: gonna clean that, you know. I'm just coming from an event,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: taking out the earring, limp stick on and everything, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I'm getting in there with my team. My team no
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I don't like, is gonna figure out another way. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, if I can leave
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: you with anything, it's just never give up. And don't
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: spend so much time worrying about the bad. Takes away
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: from time figuring out the process to get to the good.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a journey, and you know we just
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: gotta keep going through it. And it ain't always gonna
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  Speaker 1: be great. But when it's good, it's good, you know.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: So I just spend less time focusing on negative more
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: time focusing on positive. I do appreciate the negative. Actually
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I embrace it, yes, um, because without it, who could learn?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: How would I know if it's wrong, if it's never
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  Speaker 1: She's one of my favorite people. In fact, she has
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