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Mahisha Dellinger Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Hi Roshan McDonald, Rushaw McDonald say, my next guest is
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  Speaker 1: the name I gotta get right, because like I always
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  Speaker 1: get mad when people say Russian Rushan? Is this so
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  Speaker 1: hard to say? So? The next yes, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: we've been going back and forth, you know, all fair,
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  Speaker 1: making sure I got her addiction, the diction right on her.
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  Speaker 1: So she I'm ready. If she's ready, I've ready. My
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  Speaker 1: next has survived the tough streets of self Sacramento. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I come fear for Texas and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: compare tough. Okay, turned to the creative idea, to multimillion
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  Speaker 1: dollar hair company and now I don't have any hair,
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  Speaker 1: so she got me on there Curl name that company
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  Speaker 1: just Curl, their family gonna getic hair care products, target
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  Speaker 1: for women embracing their natural textures. She's starting new show
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  Speaker 1: on own as Own that's the open network called Mine
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  Speaker 1: Your Business with Shaw. Hello, How you doing? I just
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  Speaker 1: paused to see if I got it right? Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: got it right? Good on Saturday and Eastern Standard time.
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  Speaker 1: Please work on the money. Main conversation Mohisha dealing. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing? I'm doing well, Thank you, thank you. I
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  Speaker 1: paused to see if you're gonna because I've seen your
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  Speaker 1: show now, because see I want to go. I wanna
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  Speaker 1: be on your good side. I want to because I've
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  Speaker 1: seen the bad side. Well. The thing about it is
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  Speaker 1: that so when I said your name, it was like
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  Speaker 1: a affirmation, you know, is that right? Is the right? Okay? Okay? Cool?
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  Speaker 1: But I got it right. I've gotten through the first
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  Speaker 1: test of our relationship. Because before we move forward into
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  Speaker 1: the TV show that's start, there's air and on Own
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  Speaker 1: at ten p m. On Saturday night. Does it follow
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  Speaker 1: I am another name I can't say correctly, Miss Vans's show.
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  Speaker 1: And so so when you look at that show because
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  Speaker 1: her show is kind of like a tough love show
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  Speaker 1: as well. There's the air on own on Saturday the
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  Speaker 1: night correct that is correct and so but hers is
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  Speaker 1: tough low within the family dynamic. Yours is tough love.
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  Speaker 1: In the business world, Yes, mine is all about helping
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  Speaker 1: This show mind your Business with Mihi Shan owned this
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  Speaker 1: show that's all about helping black female based business owners excel. Um.
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  Speaker 1: There's an increase in the number of black female based businesses.
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  Speaker 1: Were on the rise absolutely three that there's an increase
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  Speaker 1: of three of us, but only four percent have made
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  Speaker 1: it to the mean dollar mark. Now there's a huge
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  Speaker 1: gap there. We have a large growth, but only four
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  Speaker 1: percent of less make it to the million dollar mark.
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  Speaker 1: So the goal of the show's helped to bridge the gap.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna help eight individual business owners, eight individual brands,
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  Speaker 1: eight individual companies should excel and succeed. But throughout the
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  Speaker 1: show in the season, we're also given the tools to
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  Speaker 1: the audience the viewers for watching it to also take
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  Speaker 1: back home to implement in their life. Now that now,
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  Speaker 1: well show this I like a lot that some people
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  Speaker 1: have compared your show to her show. You remind me
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a very popular show that I like
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  Speaker 1: called The Profit. And because you yes, yes, okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta stay on the good. I thought she's about
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  Speaker 1: to come ahead of you. I'm changing. You gotta watch
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  Speaker 1: the show now. You can Keepshaw's Pauls and all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Because we live on radio and you might go to
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  Speaker 1: the left on me. I go, I can't dump button up,
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  Speaker 1: but something save my career. But the thing about like
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  Speaker 1: the prophet, he goes in there and he has to
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  Speaker 1: do tough love too. And because some people should be
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  Speaker 1: in business, but they're getting business. And some people have
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  Speaker 1: a business and guess what, it's just barely getting by
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  Speaker 1: and it should be way more profitable. And so when
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  Speaker 1: I was when I when I did my research and
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  Speaker 1: started examining what this show was all about. Because you
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  Speaker 1: go into the you know, it's very it's a very
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  Speaker 1: personal experience that you're having with these owners of these businesses.
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  Speaker 1: Are people who have these ideas of these concepts that
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  Speaker 1: they try to get afloat. So tell everybody about your
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  Speaker 1: show before I get more detail. Everybody know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: the show does, yes, and you know when I when
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  Speaker 1: you set the Profit, it is exactly that it's a
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  Speaker 1: mixture of the profit meets the shark tank with the
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  Speaker 1: sprinkle of thealypics my life. That is really the premise
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  Speaker 1: of the show. We're fixing people's businesses coming in a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of tough love, a lot of tools, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of information, a lot of resources. There are some
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  Speaker 1: investment piece that comes along with some of the ladies,
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  Speaker 1: like you saw an episode two by this past Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: UM so it UM and the help comes in different forms.
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  Speaker 1: Each business owner is in a different industry, different state
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  Speaker 1: of her business and it has different needs. So every
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  Speaker 1: individual episode will be unique. We can't just do it once,
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  Speaker 1: you know, once ize fits all approached, So we're meeting
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  Speaker 1: them where there are, give them what they need at
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  Speaker 1: that present time, UM to get them to do success.
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  Speaker 1: So the mess you said, you're doing this with eight businesses,
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  Speaker 1: will you well you involved in the process of selecting
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  Speaker 1: the eight businesses, No, I was not. UM. There is
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  Speaker 1: a team of casting UM managers that go after these ladies.
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  Speaker 1: They have approached them. They all had to be obviously
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  Speaker 1: African American black business owner UM that has a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: business of course, and at a problem that we could
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  Speaker 1: actually solve beyond just giving money. We wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: them that we can actually dig our teeth in and
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  Speaker 1: really help with. I don't know if you solved it,
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  Speaker 1: because okay, let's let me just go back and like
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  Speaker 1: the episode I saw the episode with the young lady
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  Speaker 1: who's the reality star. Oh yeah, that that that that
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  Speaker 1: show made her made that. Let's let's let's be real.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got mad at her, did you not? I didn't?
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  Speaker 1: You know why I did? And here's the deal, I
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  Speaker 1: asked the producers when I went into before apology, give
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  Speaker 1: everybody the back story so we can keep everybody in
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  Speaker 1: this journey about what this show was about and then
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  Speaker 1: why you got made. Okay, so that this what is
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  Speaker 1: this episode about? This particular episode with eight hundred West
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  Speaker 1: was all about helping a reality star named Megan James
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  Speaker 1: with her Swimwa swimwear fashion line that she makes for
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  Speaker 1: fashion of a big reteller that's very popular. So she
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  Speaker 1: brought in with her a partner that she actually was
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  Speaker 1: blessed with. This woman who's um connected in the industry,
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  Speaker 1: is cutting and so wasn't a material handlers and production
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  Speaker 1: and she does all this stuff that you need to
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  Speaker 1: contact you. She became her partner, a very minor partner.
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  Speaker 1: But this partner of hers gave her credit she may
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  Speaker 1: get to use because she had eighteen years of credit
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  Speaker 1: established with these people and Ms James did not pay
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  Speaker 1: her bills. And so now this poor lady Tanya is
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  Speaker 1: faced over eleven thousand dollars worth of it build and
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  Speaker 1: potentially we'll be sued. So um, the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: got set with Mrs James is because he did not
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  Speaker 1: take account of the whole accountability for her action. She
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  Speaker 1: did not care that she's what she did to Miss Tanya.
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  Speaker 1: I felt horrible that she has this platform that she
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  Speaker 1: can actually do good with, but instead she's making us
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  Speaker 1: look bad. We as black woman already have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things we have to face and deal with negativity,
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  Speaker 1: negative impressions and impressions of us, and we have to
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  Speaker 1: set up bar higher for ourselves. And when you have
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to do so in a platform, take it seriously.
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  Speaker 1: And I was disappointed with her. Um, So that's where
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  Speaker 1: you see the anger coming from, because I want her
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  Speaker 1: to be better. Well, the thing about it in that scene,
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  Speaker 1: let me just tell you, guys, I was upset because
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  Speaker 1: Megan that's her name, correct, was selfish. They're selfish, this younger.
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  Speaker 1: Her partner was crying. Her was emotionally crying, pleading her
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  Speaker 1: case with receipts, and you know what they're going, what's
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  Speaker 1: the problem. I don't care, she said, I don't. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make me feel bad. I don't know about it
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  Speaker 1: at all. I'm like, oh my goodness, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we need to move her up an hour to y'all
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  Speaker 1: gonna take my life and then come back to this show. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know you fix it, though, I'm gonna tell you
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  Speaker 1: somebody else on this show, because when you watch this
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  Speaker 1: she gotta watch these shows because they grab you. They
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  Speaker 1: get you once you once you realize you're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: a crazy person. You're trying to figure out how miss
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  Speaker 1: Dillinger is gonna fix this problem, because I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: the person who had no She was just she was
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  Speaker 1: just popular because she came from a rally show. She
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  Speaker 1: had no respect for the process, She had no big
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  Speaker 1: this sense, she had no respect for her partner. She
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  Speaker 1: spent the money that was supposed to go pay for
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  Speaker 1: the bills on herself. That was the part that got
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  Speaker 1: everybody mad, is that she had the money, she decided
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  Speaker 1: guess what that's profits, profits go to them. Yes, yeah, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: That was very hard for me to hear. That was
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  Speaker 1: very hard for me to hear. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: hard for me to see was when she was pitching
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  Speaker 1: to investors. That was hard. She she put a little
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  Speaker 1: bikini out there and didn't know the price of the
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  Speaker 1: bikini and uh and talking about this is this is
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  Speaker 1: my product, one product. Now you know you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: pitch to investors, you're just gonna bring in a bikini
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  Speaker 1: and say this is an example of my product. And
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  Speaker 1: it was in a little looked like a sandwich bad,
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  Speaker 1: a little a little sandwich bad because it was it
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  Speaker 1: was just like watching this stuff going okay, how then
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  Speaker 1: and then you know Ms Dill just she's sitting up
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  Speaker 1: there with four three other people black girl on end.
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  Speaker 1: She was done with her from jump okay it was
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  Speaker 1: the other black lady sitting on the end. She was like,
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  Speaker 1: I knew she was done as soon as she walks
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  Speaker 1: in the room and still up and started studying the
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  Speaker 1: black la like really, okay, they took up if these
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  Speaker 1: cameras one on, I tell her to get out of
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  Speaker 1: That's how bad he was And so, but what would
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed me? Would embarrassed me because she because again she's
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  Speaker 1: she's represented. I always tell people, you know, if one
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  Speaker 1: black person to shoot somebody, all black people shot somebody.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you you. You're becoming that pool of ignorance. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's a young lady claims she wants to get in business.
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  Speaker 1: She has a business partner over there. She don't care
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  Speaker 1: nothing about. All she wants to do is make money.
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  Speaker 1: She knows no idea that if you make ten dollars,
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  Speaker 1: probably now that it goes to pay bills, you keep
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  Speaker 1: one dollar. Now on to her lifestyle. Okay, girls sitting
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  Speaker 1: right in front of her, little little girl crying tears,
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  Speaker 1: talking about you ruining Gertha. I just take out the
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  Speaker 1: law and just get dump you, get you out of
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  Speaker 1: my life because obviously you don't care. And then she's
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  Speaker 1: like the mediator in between all this ignorance. Crying girl
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  Speaker 1: on this side, ignorant woman on this side. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: how mad I got watching this show, and so I
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  Speaker 1: because see curse too, That's why I wanted to let
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  Speaker 1: you know, curs right a sacent to beat up. So
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  Speaker 1: that's how I made both of us mad and so
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  Speaker 1: so when you get to that point in the show
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  Speaker 1: and you start realizing that that that that you you said,
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  Speaker 1: you said that these people are brought to you. You
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  Speaker 1: don't hand you don't get involved in the in the process.
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  Speaker 1: How do you get your information on being able to
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  Speaker 1: build the story out? Well? I, you know, I and
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  Speaker 1: could truth be told. I didn't want making on the
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  Speaker 1: show when I saw the cast, the list of everyone
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  Speaker 1: on the wall, and I said, I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: show the be about that, you know, because I already
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  Speaker 1: knew who she was. Um, And they told me, promised
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  Speaker 1: like trust us, we know we're doing I'm like, okay, um,
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  Speaker 1: And then I kept reading more about it. So the script,
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  Speaker 1: what there is in a script? Fy I, There isn't
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  Speaker 1: a script. This is all will no scripts, as you
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  Speaker 1: probably can tell, but some reality shows have have scripts.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a script of reality show. This was
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  Speaker 1: a show where the story was given to me as
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  Speaker 1: to what's going on. They sat down, they spoke to
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  Speaker 1: each and every one of the employees and business owners
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  Speaker 1: and got all the individual stories and bought them to
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  Speaker 1: me to review. And there was a storyline creative of
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. Each and every moment um. So, for example,
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  Speaker 1: in hunder west Um episode with Megan, Um, You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go to her office to me with her and sit
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  Speaker 1: down and talk to her about her her new designs
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  Speaker 1: and so what the objective out of this meeting is
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  Speaker 1: to get X y Z. So there's a scene where
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be and objective and there isn't anything else
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  Speaker 1: beyond that, and I dig and ask the questions I
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  Speaker 1: need to ask to get to what I need to
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  Speaker 1: get cool. Hold that thought right there. We're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: back with more money making conversations, keep winning everybody. Um,
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  Speaker 1: she's a sorrow or showing owners every Saturday night at
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  Speaker 1: temp M is called mind your Own Business, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I'm minding them my mind and my
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  Speaker 1: own business to be back. Hi, just us Sean McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the phone with Mahitha dell Linger. She's the
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  Speaker 1: star of a new TV show on the own network
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  Speaker 1: called Mind Your Own Business with Mahsha And it's really
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  Speaker 1: engaging because it got me emotionally charged. But let's go
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  Speaker 1: back a little bit in this break to talk about
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  Speaker 1: how did you get to this TV show? Now? I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it in your credit to You're from self, Sacramento
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  Speaker 1: and a company called curls. So you said, this show
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  Speaker 1: us about interviewing African American females who are entrepreneurs. You
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  Speaker 1: come from that world, You developed that word. How did
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  Speaker 1: you get started with this company called curl Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: curl bt brands. Um, It's a brand that I created
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  Speaker 1: over fifteen years ago. Very small brand initially because I
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  Speaker 1: came from nothing, so I didn't have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: put into it. But I was in corporate America and
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  Speaker 1: that faced corporate racism for the first time and was
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  Speaker 1: devastated because I was a young single mother and this
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  Speaker 1: this man was looking to get rid of me. And
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  Speaker 1: I was very stressed about the whole possibility of my
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  Speaker 1: financial picture given that you know what his plans were
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  Speaker 1: for me. So after I got through that process, I
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  Speaker 1: realized I wanted to work for myself because it was
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  Speaker 1: something that I had never experienced before. But also it's
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  Speaker 1: very daunting, and I thought, I'm never gonna allow anyone
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  Speaker 1: else to hold my financial destiny and a palm in
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  Speaker 1: their hands, even if it was just for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of months. I didn't like it filling, so I started
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  Speaker 1: to do my duke diligence to see what kind of
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: business I could actually launch that would be profitable, sustainable
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: and something needed. And I was a newly natural mom
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  Speaker 1: and I needed products from my hair. But the ethnic
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  Speaker 1: aisle back then was think about that two thousand two
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  Speaker 1: years that was what Jerry curl products. Perms, relaxing had
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  Speaker 1: be grief not a lot, right, So wave Nubau was
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  Speaker 1: the only option really, So I decided to see if
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  Speaker 1: that was a sustainable business and it was. There were
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  Speaker 1: many other women at the time transitioning back to natural
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  Speaker 1: and that's my Da Curls and they started very small
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  Speaker 1: e commerce space. I was working in my garage and
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  Speaker 1: then we we started getting calls from salons, and then
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  Speaker 1: distributers started calling, and then target called, And that was
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  Speaker 1: really the transition of the hold on dealgy. How did
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  Speaker 1: you get to target calling? You though you do, you
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  Speaker 1: certainly went from you know, don't know what you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do with your life, making stuff in your kitchen to
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  Speaker 1: target calling. Well, that was seven years later. It was
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  Speaker 1: the same thing it was seven years later at y I.
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  Speaker 1: That was seven years of grinding, no social media to
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  Speaker 1: help me. It was all about being very aggressive with
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  Speaker 1: my approach, but creative as well. So the buyer back
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  Speaker 1: then she and her name was Rendas Solo and then
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  Speaker 1: she was a blonde hair, blue eyed buyer for ethnic
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  Speaker 1: hair care. So she wasn't sure why her category was selling.
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  Speaker 1: She had all these relaxes that were no longer settling well.
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  Speaker 1: So she started to do her research and saw that
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  Speaker 1: there are a few brands like mine underground, but had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bugs. And she called me in for
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  Speaker 1: a meeting, and she said, we'll give you a test
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  Speaker 1: a hundred and five stores. We'll put you on this
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  Speaker 1: premium in cap and see how you do. If you
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: guys do well, well, we'll keep growing you. If not,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: will ship you all your stuff back and be on
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: your way. So we all did well. Together, we kept
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: going and going and going. As as she grew us,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: she added more brands, and she creates the very first
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: ethnic category, the newly national category in this industry. Now
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: that everyone has Now you can go to CDs, Walgring,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: to write a Walmart and all the other stores, and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: now you can see that natural brand and said, and
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Curls was one of the pioneers. We were one of
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the first to kick it. Off you know some that
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: is such a cool story. So when your products went
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: into this on the stores, that's like I heard your
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: song on the radio. If you're a singer, you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: So what did did you do anything extra to try
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: to get sales going? I know you don't have social
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: media as it is today's dominant is today. Did you
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: do anything? X sure make any phone calls? Were you
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: there old and upside buy my products samples in the
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Target stores they were near you? What did you do? Well?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: We couldn't do in stores back then, So I did
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, Like we did a lot of
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: sampling for events that had black women. They maybe weren't
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: hair related, but we would give samples out and say
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: go buy that Target um. And then we did a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: lot and then we did social lap Facebook, I know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I think was my Space back then, so we advertised
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: my people know we're at my you know, at Target.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And there's also some back then chat groups, chat rooms
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: like um Naturality, na Naturally Nap, Nappy Hairs, what blend
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: up and the naturally Curl and all these other sites
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: that were checked groups to protect your hair, we advertised there.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: We it was very specific and um we let people
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: know and then they and target off the partner with
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: us and did the in capet the pictures of every
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: brand owner. And we were in pren A prim location.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I mean that's in The in caps are expensive, they
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: usually cost so we were able to get exposure just
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: from the inn caps alone. Just walk by you see
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the product. That's that's right, that's the beautiful of that,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: that opportunity. You just push your little basket down the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: out going Oh yeah, what is this? Oh yeah, let's
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: try that. Okay, that's awesome. So so now you you
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: have that level of success. How did the TV show
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: come about? Well, there was originally um a show that
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: they had interviewed me for that was going to be
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: all about other black haircare brand owners. It was gonna
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: be four or five of us. And when that it
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: pan out on the producers remembered me from my interview
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and you just stood out. You just like that, just
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: walking around, You're just taking tro What did I say?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: What did I say? Hit? So everybody please watch it
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night at ten o'clock on on Mind your
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Own Business? So so you stood out your originally was
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: before now you yourself have to call you so what's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: running into your mind when they bring you back in
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: because you went through this this routine before and it
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: didn't work out. What did it make that this process
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: feel a little bit different? What what what made it go? Well?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: It was definitely I thought it was a better a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: better project because of the need and we the producers
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: that created and sold the show, created an amazing sizzle
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and we we went to bat first and own second
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and bet him Ahad and did jump own Jump, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: umuse OpenH is really into it. OpenH is really really
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: into helping obviously black females and just empowering people to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: be better and so it really fit for her, her
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: her network. Um but yeah, so that's why what it
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: was actually an easy sell with them as well. Um
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: they just they wanted to see me. The producers told
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: me that the network executives are like, I don't know
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: if she's real. I need to meet her in person.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: She really a real person and she can do all that.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Let me see in person. So they brought me in
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: they want They asked me tons of questions. It was
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: twelve people in the room and a lot of questions
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: from my childhood all the way to my my success
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Carl and who I help, what kind of advice I gives?
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Gave me some random, you know, scenarios. It was just
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: very interesting. Yeah, good blow them out the water. So
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I'm on the phone with the founder of Curls. Um
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: It's is a is a naturally organic hair care products. Correct? Yes,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: for more than what natural waves curls and kings. Good, awesome.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Now we got to go back to your show and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: talk about this other episode. I saw the show we're
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: talking about this Mind your Business, Hm. The lady that
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the owner didn't know how to fire people, and she
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: was filled with excuses. Now when that subject can that
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: sounds very familiar with me to me, you know these people,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you know their fans and family or and they don't
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: know don't want nobody to feel bad about I told
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: somebody wants I said, you cannot when you hired people,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you cannot worry about their house notes. You can't worry
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: about whether they're gonna feed. You can only worry about
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: when they come to you or they delivering. Because if
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you were about that other stuff, you never fired people
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: that need to be fired. I always tell people when
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you fire somebody, really you're just helping them along. In
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: their career path because it obviously it's your location. So
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: so so she didn't want to fire this young lady.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: How did that get to the point that she was
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: finally able to let her go? And this character will
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: get drunk on the job and is running the cash
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: here like having a drunk cash here. It's your job.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Oh god, it is a barbecue. Join. Yeah, my father's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Bobby here. Y'all think I'm making this stuff out on
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: TV Saturday to night. Yes, so welcome through the steps.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I watched too much TV, though I watched too much TV.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I watched I'm sorry, well this was this was my
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: father's barbecue, was chef Sara Marlane Um. She had a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: heart of goal where she wanted to continue. She's so
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: bad she want to let anyone go with they She
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: felt responsible for them because they have families. You said,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I understand that part at the time when
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: your business is being jeopardized by someone that can cause
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you a regal issue, like someone fighting someone drunk, but
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: they get they're drunk and they fall over and hurt
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: themselves or someone else. Their legalities around it that she
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: needs to be aware of. That really opened her eyes
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and woke her up, but she didn't have the ball
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to do so she just felt, I'm not sure about
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: how to do it. And I was so surprised that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: she's a strong willed woman, but she just couldn't do it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: And even after after her one of her cooks stole
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: from her, and she knew for months before I started,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: she didn't she didn't fire that person. I forgot about
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: that one. I forgot about the thief, I forgot about
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the thing. Continue, please continue. So we we had, you know,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: so we had these you know, stealing going on. We
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: had a drug addict Cindy. Then we had the a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: few drunks, and and then just fights on in the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: restaurant outside that restaurant, just just crazy, crazy, crazy crazy.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: And I thought, shout, Mark, if you do not stop this,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you're gonna lose your business. No one's going to respect you,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and no one's gonna want to eat here. And I
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: showed her also what she needs to do with her life,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: like she has any baby, but she was used as
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a real excuse why she couldn't be there. I felt, um,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: she was making some excuses for having that baby too.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And you told her I've had I got two kids
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: back to back. Who am on to part? I remember
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: every thing? Yes, And she said, well, I you know
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I have a baby. I had she back to back,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and that's when I went into about getting a good
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: support system. She needs to have a nanny so she
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: could come back and forth. Maybe that you know, So
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: there's some things we can do. I know because I
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: did it. I had to do it too. Um. It's
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a matter of having a matter of will versus excuses. UM.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And I think she got through it though she really
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: feels more power now. Well, I think it's really important
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that you have a show like this. I want to
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: thank you just for being you, first of all, and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm doing enjoy I have enjoyed my time watching this show.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And it also I want to tell people if you're
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: if you're an entrepreneur, first of all, watch the show
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: because you're gonna learn something about how to build your
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: business and also how to handle workers. And I also
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: have to look inside yourself to plan a better opportunity.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: If you want to see a young lady try to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: straighten out the lives and get people on just more
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: than faith, because a lot of people start businesses on faith.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Then this is a show to watch. I've had a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: great time watching them. I'm glad you called my show
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and shared our views and our listeners. Uh, the great
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: opportunity can experience every Saturday night watching you. I appreciate you.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. You keep winning. Okay, thank
• 25:39
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