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Overcoming the Odds: Revolutionized scalp care with her innovative Braid, Loc & Scalp Refreshening Wipes. Tress Clean. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 2: I'm Rashawn McDonald, the host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass,
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Speaker 2: The interviews and information that this show provides off for everyone.
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Speaker 2: It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and
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Speaker 2: start living your own. My next guest is a graduate
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Speaker 2: of Morgan State University that's in Baltimore, Maryland area. She
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Speaker 2: is revolutionized scap care that's haircare with her innovative braid
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Speaker 2: lock and scap refreshing wipes as WPS wipes. Please welcome
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Speaker 2: to the Money Making Conversations Master Class. Keana Pearson, Canada.
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Speaker 3: Say your name correctly, you did, thank you.
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Speaker 1: And y'all was in the room. Canopias and canopis because
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Speaker 1: I know it's important to get the name. My name
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Speaker 1: is was Sean McDonald, the lawd and Merchant. I mean
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Speaker 1: people have said my name right before, they said it
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Speaker 1: right correctly.
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Speaker 3: Now the friend, I understand and thank you so much
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Speaker 3: for having me great.
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Speaker 1: First of all, Morgan State University. Why Morgan State University,
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Speaker 1: my friend HBCU grad.
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Speaker 3: Well, I come from a family who embodies black culture, okay,
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Speaker 3: and so I have an older sister who was searching
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Speaker 3: for an HBCU herself. So once it was time for
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Speaker 3: me to pick my college, I remember going around to
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Speaker 3: the different HBCUs and I knew that I wanted to
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Speaker 3: stay close to home. I'm a mommy's girl, and so
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Speaker 3: for me it was either Howard Morgan copping State or
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Speaker 3: at the time you had her journal, Douglas. And I
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Speaker 3: knew more than was for me. Once I crossed that bridge,
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Speaker 3: I said, you know what, go there, let's do it.
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Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, go do it. You know, like you know,
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Speaker 1: all ideas happen, you know, sometimes they come to you spontaneously.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you've just been kind of like living the life
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Speaker 1: and you kind of like figure that out, figured out
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Speaker 1: what you're doing. Your product that deals with braids, to
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Speaker 1: deal with locks, that deals with maintenance, that deals with Cleaniness.
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Speaker 1: How did this idea come about? And give everybody the
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Speaker 1: exact name of your product?
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Speaker 3: Okay, so my product is braid Locking scot Refreshening Life.
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Speaker 3: The company itself is trust Clean. And this wasn't actually
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Speaker 3: a quick get rich skin you know. This wasn't like
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Speaker 3: an episode of Martin where I came into some money
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Speaker 3: and I was forced to start a business. It wasn't
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Speaker 3: like real spoons, you know, right. I wasn't forced to
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Speaker 3: start a business. I never sought out to be an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 3: especially in the hair care industry.
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Speaker 1: Why you say, especially in the hair care business, what
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Speaker 1: is such a competitive what is it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? It's oversaturated, right, It's an oversaturated market. It's dominated
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Speaker 3: by non black males targeting black women, which is a
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Speaker 3: problem in itself. So again, it wasn't something that I
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Speaker 3: sought out. This was actually to fulfill a personal hair
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Speaker 3: care need for myself. I remember years ago hugging a
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Speaker 3: coworker and I wouldn't forget that smell. I remember the
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Speaker 3: smell of her hair. There was an odor, and so
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Speaker 3: after that point I was extremely conscious of what my
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Speaker 3: hair smelled like, and so I tried many products that
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Speaker 3: this really wasn't living up to their claims, and so
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Speaker 3: I realized in order to get rid of it.
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Speaker 1: So, how were you taking care of your hair before
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Speaker 1: you had the product? You had that moment, WHOA, don't
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Speaker 1: smell like hers? So what were you doing the first
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Speaker 1: of all, before you became conscious and aware of that
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Speaker 1: that's not the smell you want to put off? What
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Speaker 1: were you doing to take care of your hair? And
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Speaker 1: what hairstyle were you wearing at the time? All were
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Speaker 1: still wearing.
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Speaker 3: Always braids, always braids. So braids is a part of
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Speaker 3: my lifestyle. I also come from a family of block wearing,
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Speaker 3: and so at the time, there weren't a lot of
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Speaker 3: products out there specifically for braids and lops. You know,
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Speaker 3: we had refreshing sprays, and for me, the idea of
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Speaker 3: masking a scent by putting a fragrance on something it
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Speaker 3: was a no go from me.
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Speaker 1: You know, It's like not taking a shower and putting
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Speaker 1: on the right right you know, girl, while you putting
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Speaker 1: the job, wear about it. I put the diorder in,
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Speaker 1: I take a jour later. Okay, really, okay, okay, exactly right.
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Speaker 1: I understand exactly what you're saying now, And so.
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Speaker 3: I realized that in order to you know, get rid
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Speaker 3: of that odor and to make sure that I was
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Speaker 3: in the presentation that I wanted to be, I said,
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Speaker 3: you know, Bud, you've got to cleanse your scalp on
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Speaker 3: a daily basis. And so, once I realized that I
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Speaker 3: needed to cleanse my scalp on a daily basis and
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Speaker 3: needed to find something that was quick, that was actually effective,
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Speaker 3: I created a prototype and I started using natural products
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Speaker 3: and I would put them in different types of whites.
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Speaker 3: That necessarily wasn't what I wanted. So I created what
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Speaker 3: I wanted.
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Speaker 1: Now, did you go to a like sometimes they have
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Speaker 1: these loveliest love chimp scientists or food scientists or people
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Speaker 1: that you can go to and they can help you
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Speaker 1: develop your product. Or you just did all this in
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Speaker 1: your kitchen.
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Speaker 3: I did it all in my kitchen.
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Speaker 1: I go girl, You go girl, Thank.
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Speaker 3: You very much. I'm a pat myself on a back
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Speaker 3: tested the product for two years to make sure that
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Speaker 3: it's safety was up to par, make sure that its
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Speaker 3: shelf life was going to hold up right, and we
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Speaker 3: did it.
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Speaker 1: So when you I'm not trying, not trying to get
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Speaker 1: into your product, but you know, I get a lot
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Speaker 1: of people on the show, and I really admire entrepreneurs,
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Speaker 1: you know, sitting in that kitchen grinding and becoming scientists,
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Speaker 1: you know, and trusting their thoughts and becoming a guinea pig,
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Speaker 1: or family members becoming a giving pig where they're eating
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Speaker 1: proudu or eating their food, or in this case, the hairstyles.
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Speaker 1: So as I'm just gonna talk about I've worn when
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Speaker 1: I had hair, I had you know, my hair braided up.
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Speaker 1: You know, I was trying to look good. And so
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Speaker 1: the whole purpose of getting in a shower and just
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Speaker 1: kind of running water, that's not the way to go
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Speaker 1: about doing it, not just defeating the purpose or trying
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Speaker 1: to So that's where we are running into a problem
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Speaker 1: of maintaining that look but also a refreshing smell. That's
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Speaker 1: what you're talking about here with your product.
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Speaker 3: Correct exactly. So when it comes down to braids and locks,
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Speaker 3: of course, we want to protect our timely, costly investment.
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Speaker 3: You know, it costs so much, it takes so long
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Speaker 3: to actually get the silent cell. We want to make
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Speaker 3: sure our style and our crown is always on points.
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Speaker 3: And so you see people running from rain because they
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Speaker 3: don't want our hair to start frizzing up, and so
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Speaker 3: when it comes to washing, it is also time consuming,
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Speaker 3: you know, not the washing itself, but drying it. You
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Speaker 3: have to make sure that it's properly dried or then
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Speaker 3: there's a new smell on top of it that milduy smell.
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Speaker 3: And so we don't want to submerge our hair as
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Speaker 3: often because we really don't even have the time, right
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Speaker 3: we know, we're parents, we have careers. Sometimes we're working out,
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Speaker 3: or we're just leaving a restaurant that's not properly vented
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Speaker 3: or moving to the next place, and so sometimes we
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Speaker 3: don't have that time to actually wash it. So my
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Speaker 3: product was created for a busy lifestyle when traditional washing
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Speaker 3: wasn't an option.
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Speaker 1: Right now, in your credit it said the first black
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Speaker 1: woman owned hair wipe company specifically designed for braids and locks.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk. Let's go back to that first black one
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Speaker 1: on you know, we know how dominant black women are
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Speaker 1: in the hair care business. How are you the first?
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Speaker 3: So again, and it's still that the concept of wiping
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Speaker 3: your hair to consent is completely deal really, Oh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that in disbelief.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying this, like you know, that means there's
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Speaker 1: a section of this industry that sells us products that
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Speaker 1: push a lifestyle on us but don't care about the
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Speaker 1: end results. That's what comes out of my mind, where
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Speaker 1: you are a person who lived the lifestyle, care about it,
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Speaker 1: and then the light bulb went off that you can
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Speaker 1: design something that works and will benefit the masses, which
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Speaker 1: is the black community. Is am I right in that direction?
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Speaker 3: You're absolutely correct?
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, do you get mad when I do that?
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Speaker 1: Did that make you mad?
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Speaker 3: It didn't make me mad because again, I wouldn't be
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Speaker 3: here if we didn't have that dilemma. So when I
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Speaker 3: actually was looking for some wipes myself for my hair,
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Speaker 3: I found wipes, but more so for women of other
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Speaker 3: cultures that they had Sarrem wipes. So it wasn't necessarily
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Speaker 3: to cleanse the scalp and yushing the hair file holes.
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Speaker 3: Oh oh, big time, big time. You know, we create
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Speaker 3: so many of our own issues when it comes down
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Speaker 3: to the scalp, know, the separag demotitis, the dryness, and
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Speaker 3: the dandrus. We use so many products, so the excessive
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Speaker 3: oil and dirt build up. Uh, we use a lot
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Speaker 3: of edge control. We got a baby hairs down.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know about that, the baby hair Okay.
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Speaker 3: Now those that creates issues.
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Speaker 1: Now, now Trust Clean, that's Trust Clean, t R E
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Speaker 1: S S. Clean. How does the name trust because that's
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Speaker 1: a that's a that's a tongue twister for me, Trust Clean.
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Speaker 1: How did that title of the business product come about?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, trust is usually equated to your hair, yes, okay,
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Speaker 3: and so of course I wanted to make sure that
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Speaker 3: we were focusing on what the product was for cleansing
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Speaker 3: your hair. So I put them all together and it
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Speaker 3: was like, while I that was my.
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Speaker 1: While I you know, well, you're in the room where
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Speaker 1: you did the wile I hope you didn't do that
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Speaker 1: public while I don't.
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Speaker 3: Job listen I do while I in public. I have
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Speaker 3: meetings in my head wherever I am, I'm like, listen,
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Speaker 3: don't you see me in the meeting.
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Speaker 1: Trest Clean stands out in the twenty six point one
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Speaker 1: billion dollar natural hair care industry by focusing on natural,
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Speaker 1: non toxic ingredients. Now, you know, it's really interesting how
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Speaker 1: the none you know, the natural hair industry has exploded,
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Speaker 1: you know, because of you know, recently, you know, Congress's
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Speaker 1: Players laws. Laws have been passed where you know, women can,
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Speaker 1: especially women of color, can wear their hair to work
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Speaker 1: and not be stigmatized or stereotype by the employer or
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Speaker 1: their supervisors, and which is allowed for this industry to
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Speaker 1: really take off. And have you to am I correct
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Speaker 1: in my assessment that that has really benefited and also
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Speaker 1: created a need for trust cleans.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, so we are have that stereotype that braidsen locks
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Speaker 3: are little maintenance, unkeptain, unprofessional. So of course they did
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Speaker 3: create laws, the Crown Act, to allow us to eventually
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Speaker 3: start wearing our braidsen locks and our professional lifestyles. And
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Speaker 3: so I again wanted to make sure that I had
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Speaker 3: a way to have the maintenance enough on a daily basis.
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Speaker 1: No, man, as you can because you said, Rau Sean,
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Speaker 1: I've been a brave person all my life.
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Speaker 2: Correct, correct?
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Speaker 1: Okay, talk to me about your journey and this lifestyle,
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Speaker 1: because I'm sure you know other people have said, assume, uh,
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Speaker 1: stereotyped you. Have you felt that you were placed in
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Speaker 1: uncomfortable situations, whether by employees or employers or your coworkers
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Speaker 1: or because of your hairstyle.
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Speaker 3: Oh of course all the time. Wow, so a few
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Speaker 3: times I would embrace my natural hair and I would
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Speaker 3: wear it straight. Sometimes I would wear weeds prior to
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Speaker 3: only wearing braids, and of course you would have the
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Speaker 3: comments of them, oh, I like your hair better when
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Speaker 3: it was curly. Oh I'm like your and not curly
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Speaker 3: in regards to my natural hair. In regards to me
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Speaker 3: wearing you know, a weed, let me.
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Speaker 1: Just say that, right, right, right.
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Speaker 3: Because they thought it was more polished, okay, But I
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Speaker 3: didn't allow that to overcome me. I embraced who I was,
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Speaker 3: and of course, moving to Miami, I didn't really have
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Speaker 3: any options. It's hot, it's hot.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm from Houston, Texas. I know by humidity. Now,
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Speaker 1: you know Miami is like that's like, that's like a
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Speaker 1: vacation down there. Used to got humidity on lock you
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Speaker 1: got that cool breeze or the Caribbean coming at you
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Speaker 1: across the state. You got that heat coming out of
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Speaker 1: that gulf. But you know, I really I have six
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Speaker 1: sisters and so I'm very familiar with hairstyles. And I
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Speaker 1: have a single daughter, and so she doesn't wear braids.
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Speaker 1: She said, my dad, my head is not shape for braids,
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Speaker 1: which is true, everybody's head not shape for braids. Well,
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Speaker 1: just let y'all know that. She reminded me several times
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Speaker 1: when I told her, Hey, what you try to breaking dad,
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Speaker 1: that's not my head. Okay. So and so she went
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Speaker 1: to Guy and said, see, I am not a braids person.
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Speaker 1: I said, I'm sorry, baby, I won't ever ask you
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Speaker 1: to wear braids again. And so, but there are industry
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Speaker 1: out there of natural hair. When we come back, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about some more quachs by empowering yourself. The
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurship we're going to talk about. We talked about the
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Speaker 1: experience of being an entrepreneur, making the difference in the community,
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Speaker 1: and her future goals and expansion. Don't go nowhere. We're
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Speaker 1: talking to Keanu Pearson's Trust Clean. That's t R E. S.
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Speaker 1: S Clean. It's the name of her product. And we're
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Speaker 1: going to learn more about her being an entrepreneur because
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Speaker 1: I want you to understand that you have a dream,
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Speaker 1: you might be sitting on it. If you listen to
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Speaker 1: how she created her dream, you might be the next
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Speaker 1: I told them, I tell them that it's a journey.
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Speaker 1: It's a conversation with people who are dreamers, people who
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Speaker 1: had an idea and pushed aside, people who told them
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Speaker 1: they couldn't accomplish that tax pushed aside, and they says,
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Speaker 1: pushed aside, people who didn't see them as a person
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Speaker 1: who can create that concept or develop that concept, a
15:52
Speaker 1: push beyond that concept. As me every day in my life,
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Speaker 1: I push past knows so many times. As a kid,
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Speaker 1: I push past know so many As an adult, I've
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Speaker 1: been told so many times, you're not going to accomplish that. Rashon,
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Speaker 1: it's never been done before. Rashon. While you're doing that, rashon.
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Speaker 1: And so when I crack the mic and I talk
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Speaker 1: to you and I interview people on this show, it's
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Speaker 1: just an extension of me telling you that I am
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Speaker 1: a possibility because I made it happen. I'm not an idea.
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Speaker 1: I'm accomplishment. I'm not a goal. I am a substance.
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Speaker 1: And so when you put all those things together, wanted
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Speaker 1: to make a conversation. Masterclass is your show. And if
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Speaker 1: you're sitting around dreaming or that an idea that maybe
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Speaker 1: you think can work, write it down, get with somebody
16:41
Speaker 1: and run it past them that you trust, not somebody
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Speaker 1: who are nacier. There's a lot of people out there
16:47
Speaker 1: tell you what you can't do, a lot of people
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Speaker 1: out there tell you shoot down your ideas, don't believe
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Speaker 1: in you, That'll never work. Who do you think you are?
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Speaker 1: Where you're gonna get the money? Who gonna buy it? Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's easy to come out of somebody mouth. What it's
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Speaker 1: hard to come out of people's mouth is go for it.
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Speaker 1: What you need from me, I'll help you out. I
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Speaker 1: believe in your dreams. My interview I'm having right now
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Speaker 1: is that person HBCU graduate. She just told you she
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Speaker 1: worked for people made her uncomfortable. She wouldn't allow her
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Speaker 1: to be herself, change the hairstyles sometimes to be comfortable,
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Speaker 1: make them comfortable. That means she was comfortable. So that's
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Speaker 1: what she created. She created something called trash clean that
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Speaker 1: not only allows her to feel comfortable in this booming
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Speaker 1: natural hair care industry, but it also makes you feel good.
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Speaker 1: Did did I wrap you up in a nutshall? Right there.
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Speaker 3: In a nutshell?
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Speaker 1: Because you know, you know it's you know, it's it's
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Speaker 1: so many people out there that you know, trash clean.
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Speaker 1: Who gonna buy what you're gonna practice that, who gonna
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Speaker 1: make it? I get so sick of these people who
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Speaker 1: tell you what you ain't gonna do, but don't lift
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Speaker 1: her hand or a dollar to help you get to
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Speaker 1: the end.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's true, and actually I did want it past
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Speaker 3: my family the moment the idea popped in my head,
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Speaker 3: and I did have that moral support from them. Of course,
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Speaker 3: I still had to do it on my own because
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Speaker 3: my family have families of their own, you know, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, and nothing wrong with that, you know. I will
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Speaker 1: tell you when I was I started out my career
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Speaker 1: as a stand up comedian and I used I used
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Speaker 1: to tell the jokes to my nephew and my oldest sister.
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Speaker 1: I told them jokes to them till they told me
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Speaker 1: to stop telling them jokes. And I went on stage
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Speaker 1: and told them The people who didn't know me and
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Speaker 1: they laughed. But I had to get my start somewhere,
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Speaker 1: and I got my start from my oldest sister and
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Speaker 1: her son who is my nephew. And so you got
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Speaker 1: to start somewhere. And so when I hear this product
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Speaker 1: called trust clean, you know, it's a journey. It's not
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Speaker 1: something that you know you started out to do. You
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Speaker 1: don't come from a family or entrepreneurs or designers or
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Speaker 1: engineers or people who got patents. You know, you're just
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Speaker 1: an idea person. And that's why it's important that I
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Speaker 1: do this show for people like you, so you have
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Speaker 1: a voice of reality. Now, how do they get in
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Speaker 1: touch with you? Or go what website? Can they go
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Speaker 1: to see your product? And if it's so, maybe even
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Speaker 1: purchase your product.
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Speaker 3: So we have our own website, it's simple, it's trustclean
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Speaker 3: dot com. You can also search for trust clean on Amazon.
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Speaker 1: Now, when you talk about this product, packaging means something.
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Speaker 1: Did you have any help in the design? Did you
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Speaker 1: have what did you now? You know, I know you
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Speaker 1: said you made it in your kitchen and all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: you know, and got it up. Where did you start
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Speaker 1: bringing in the other people to get it over to Amazon?
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Speaker 1: To get it on website to get the ship in
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Speaker 1: the packaging and all that stuff. Tell me about that
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Speaker 1: whole concept, because we can't make this be a willa.
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Speaker 3: Okay, ironically it was a while. It is trying to
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Speaker 3: do everything on.
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Speaker 1: My own, Okay, you're independent.
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Speaker 3: Literally done everything on my own. I built my own website,
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Speaker 3: I designed my own packaging. Like I said, I was
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Speaker 3: my own chemist, I'm my marketer, my CFO, I'm the founder.
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Speaker 3: I have done everything on my own. I literally just
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Speaker 3: started advertising, which is crazy because my sales went crazy
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Speaker 3: all on word of mouth. Wow, and also of course
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Speaker 3: maybe some SEO on Amazon.
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Speaker 1: But you know, you're a money made conversation masclass. Now
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Speaker 1: you know some more word of mouth. So I'm so
20:40
Speaker 1: Rashan mcdonag gonna put a little push there too, because
20:42
Speaker 1: I got a lot of natural haircare people who are
20:46
Speaker 1: out there, so I'm gonna take a little care. I'm
20:48
Speaker 1: gona take a little credit for that too. But that's
20:50
Speaker 1: also part of the process because so many people they
20:53
Speaker 1: have a product and they think this like people just
20:56
Speaker 1: gonna automatical open the door. They're gonna come in and
20:57
Speaker 1: start buying the food and start buying your product. You
21:00
Speaker 1: have to help putting the word on. How did you
21:02
Speaker 1: start telling people about your product?
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Speaker 3: So I created sample okay, and so I would beat
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Speaker 3: the street. I would go out there with my samples.
21:16
Speaker 3: I would let everyone know, you know, who I was,
21:20
Speaker 3: exactly what the product did, how it could help them.
21:23
Speaker 3: And honestly, I just started on a whim wow. And
21:27
Speaker 3: I would have a lot of people supporting, not necessarily
21:30
Speaker 3: family itself. I did have some family support, but most
21:34
Speaker 3: of my consumers came from all ironically, all over the world.
21:40
Speaker 3: We had Canada pop in, we had the UK pop in. So,
21:47
Speaker 3: like I said, although I want to say, oh, I
21:50
Speaker 3: hired all these people, I did this advertising, I didn't
21:53
Speaker 3: do this. I didn't do that. So right now I'm
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Speaker 3: actually in the process of hiring some people to help me.
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Speaker 3: Help now. I didn't realize my business would actually be
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Speaker 3: as big as it is.
22:05
Speaker 1: Well, I love talking to you because it's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: you're an individual, you know, and uh you you know
22:12
Speaker 1: you're the last person gonna raise your hand for help.
22:13
Speaker 1: I can tell that right now, that's your person out
22:19
Speaker 1: right right right, And so now now you got to
22:22
Speaker 1: put together that how I got to scale the business.
22:24
Speaker 1: That's the next step scaling the business. And then that's
22:28
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna have you on the show in
22:30
Speaker 1: the fall, because by then you're gonna Rashan, let me
22:34
Speaker 1: tell you about my staff, because because you know, you
22:38
Speaker 1: if you know, if you want to grow something, and
22:40
Speaker 1: then you don't want competition to you know, step in
22:43
Speaker 1: front of you because you didn't scale your business, because
22:45
Speaker 1: that's what happens to people steal your ideas or still
22:47
Speaker 1: a version of your idea, and you an original concept creator.
22:51
Speaker 1: That's what this whole business is about. But I just
22:53
Speaker 1: love the fact that that's that's why I just love
22:56
Speaker 1: the fact you said, Rashan, I'm getting calls from all
22:58
Speaker 1: over the world about this product because guess what, this
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Speaker 1: is a product that's needed that nobody ever addressed. That
23:05
Speaker 1: is what's so amazing to me. Yeah, congratulations for being
23:11
Speaker 1: a dreamer. I'm turning to Caut She's the founder of
23:14
Speaker 1: trust Clean, the first black woman owned hair wipes company.
23:18
Speaker 1: She has revolutionized a scap care with her innovative braid
23:21
Speaker 1: lock and scap refreshing wipes. As we close it out,
23:24
Speaker 1: tell everybody how to get in touch with you, Kella,
23:26
Speaker 1: I want to tell you I enjoyed this call. You're
23:28
Speaker 1: the most independent minded entrepreneur person I've ever interviewed on
23:33
Speaker 1: this show. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
23:35
Speaker 1: It just lets me know that, Hey, if you got
23:37
Speaker 1: an idea, don't wait on anybody, go do it yourself.
23:40
Speaker 1: That is my calling from you, and I am blessed
23:43
Speaker 1: to have I had a conversation with you. But as
23:45
Speaker 1: we close out, tell everybody about your website and your
23:48
Speaker 1: future plans for trust Cleans.
23:51
Speaker 3: So my website again is trustclean dot com. You can
23:55
Speaker 3: also check out our reviews on Amazon by fearching for
23:58
Speaker 3: trust Clean. Then check out Braidlock and Scott Professional White
24:02
Speaker 3: and we'll pull up. So again, my consumers, they're always
24:06
Speaker 3: in my inbox, They're always in my DM. Why can't
24:10
Speaker 3: I purchase this right now and get it? Why can't
24:12
Speaker 3: I go to Walmart? Why can't I go to my
24:14
Speaker 3: local beauty supply store. So that's our next steps so
24:19
Speaker 3: that you can actually get it when you need it.
24:22
Speaker 3: Although my customer service is pretty good, I'm out there
24:25
Speaker 3: packaging and doing everything myself, and I get them out
24:29
Speaker 3: extremely quick. So a lot of people are always so
24:32
Speaker 3: surprised that how quickly they get it, so that's exactly
24:36
Speaker 3: how you can find us. And yeah, I am independent.
24:40
Speaker 3: I wasn't afraid to start, stop, start over. My goal
24:44
Speaker 3: is to just keep going as of right now.
24:47
Speaker 1: Cool you awesome, awesome, and good luck on Trust Cleans.
24:52
Speaker 1: And I want to as I close out the show,
24:54
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