More Than A Boss and Entrepreneur ft. Chariel Dye - Homeisode 38

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all right people welcome to another episode of

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not just music podcast i am your host quincy

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murdoch oh man today we got a special one we

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got a special one uh me and this lady go way

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back like 2015 16 like she was the first one

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i seen really doing it man like hosting events

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putting her own money into it Showing us how

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to be entrepreneurs, you know, also putting that

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black history into everything she was doing,

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letting us be proud of ourselves and happy of

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ourselves. We got the great Monet Smith with

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us. How are you doing? Can I call you that or

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what would you want me to call you? What would

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you want me to call you? You tell me. You can

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call me Monet. That's fine. OK, OK. So. For the

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people that, you know, that's tuning in, where

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were you born? I was born in Orange, New Jersey,

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1976, a great year. Okay, okay. So how did you

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end up in Salisbury? Was you raised in Salisbury?

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When did you move to Salisbury? You know, it

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was crazy. You know, life brings you some crazy

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circumstances sometimes. I ended up in Salisbury

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because I was adopted as a young child and my

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birth mother ended up moving to Salisbury in

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2000. I mean, 1996. She got sick with cancer

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in 2001. She had lung cancer, brain cancer, skin

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cancer. So I ended up moving to Salisbury to

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be with her. OK, OK, well. rest in peace to her

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you know i'm sorry about that sorry to hear that

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um so you being in salisbury because you know

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it's very it's very uh black predominant you

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know it's a lot of history from salisbury uh

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and i know you from putting history in your shows

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and representing blackness uh what what is some

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history in salisbury for somebody that probably

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haven't visited you know what i'm saying what

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is something that would attract them to salisbury

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like some of the black history there Well, they

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do a lot of cultural things here throughout the

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year. The NAACP puts on a big banquet every year.

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You have the Juneteenth Festival that comes out.

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And then you have numerous nonprofit organizations

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within the city that also throw different cultural

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events throughout the year. And it's amazing

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and it's refreshing to sit back and watch as

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they're becoming more and more cultural. So you're

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beginning to see art shows. and musical shows

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that showcase black talent which is beautiful

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to watch okay okay okay so how was it like growing

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up you know um how how was your life was you

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always this entrepreneur did you always have

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this this go -getter mentality what how was it

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you know it's funny my family used to pick at

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me when i was a little girl because i would dress

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in business suits and i would have briefcases

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and i would be going to school with my little

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glasses on i always knew as a young girl that

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i wanted to be an entrepreneur i didn't know

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what time but what i started doing is i just

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started seeing you know little things that i

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felt like i wanted to do and i actually just

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talked about it on my radio show the other night

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because i used to keep this composition book

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and i used to always write down different things

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that i wanted to do notes you know write down

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notes of businesses that I wanted to run. And

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back then, it wasn't really a lot of information

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on becoming an entrepreneur. So I kind of just

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dabbed in a little bit of different things that

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helped me to understand and what it meant to

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be an entrepreneur. And then as I went through

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school, I started catering my classes to business

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and to becoming an entrepreneur. OK, so you yeah,

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you dialed into what I was going to say, because

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I was going to ask you, what were the steps?

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What were the steps like the process of, you

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know, saying how leading up to where you're at

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right now? You know, it might be a young lady

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that's out there that is watching this and want

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to know what how it's like, what she has to do.

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You know, how was how was your way of doing it?

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Well, in 2015, I had got to the point to where

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I had been working jobs and I had got to where

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I didn't want to work for somebody for the rest

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of my life, first of all. And a good friend of

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mine had just wrote a book and I had read her

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book and her book was so inspiring because she

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had become an entrepreneur and she wanted other

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people to understand what it was. And I forget

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the name of the book, but she wanted people to

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become an entrepreneur. So I read her book. And

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I was like, you know what? If she can do this,

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I can do it. And so my first business was a cupcake

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business. And I realized that people love cupcakes.

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They love sweets. And so my my stepsons would

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be here at the house. And so their friends would

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come over. And so I started using their friends

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as a focus group. And they will come in and I'm

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like, they're going to want some some snacks.

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You know, they're teenagers. They don't want

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some snacks. So I started baking. Yes. Yes. Kids

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can't reveal cupcakes. And he was loving his

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cupcakes. And so they did not know that they

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were a part of a focus group. They just knew

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they were eating cupcakes. And so I found out

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that day what kind of cupcakes teenagers like,

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how they like them. And so I took my income tax

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money that year and I bought everything that

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I needed to run on and operate a cupcake business.

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But my marketing skills wasn't really up to par.

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So I had a good friend that knew how to make

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these flyers on her cell phone. And so she started

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making my flyers and everything for me. And then

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she started helping me to understand what types

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of cupcakes people wanted. And because I worked

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in daycare at the time, I was like, these women

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be throwing these little birthday parties for

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these kids all the time. You know, they're going

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to want cupcakes. And that's exactly what happened,

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how I started my first business. It was just

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the mindset of saying, I want to do something

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different. I'll take my own money and do it if

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I have to. And I'm not going to stop till I see

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results. OK, OK. So you made a statement. You

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said you didn't want to work for people your

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whole life. Yeah. What would you what would you

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define true independency as then? If a person

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like a true CEO, like if you're working a nine

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to five, would you consider that being independent

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still or no? Like what is true independency to

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you? I feel like if you work a nine to five,

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like I always tell people working a nine to five

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is not bad, but take some of that of what you're

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putting into other people's dream and put it

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into yours. So that's why you saw me many times

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taking my own money, doing my own events, because

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I felt like if I could take. this much time and

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this much effort and put it into somebody else's

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dream, then I can do it on my own. I can do it

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for me, too. And so I got to a point to where

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I just I wanted to be self -sufficient. I wanted

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to work for me. You know, I didn't mind working

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for other people, but I just wanted to work for

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me. And so I just started doing everything that

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I could, getting around the right people, learning

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the right lingo. And not being afraid to take

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the risk, you know, because a lot of us want

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to be entrepreneurs, but we're afraid to take

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the risk to say, I'm just going to do what God

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gave me. Step into my purpose. Because I was

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noticing I was using daycare as a crutch. You

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know, that was my crutch because it was a steady

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paycheck coming in, but it wasn't what I was

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passionate about. And it wasn't my dream to be

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working for somebody else. You know, so I just

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catered everything that I needed to do to work

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for me. And that was getting educated, getting

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around the right people, taking the risk, financing

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it every chance that I could out of my own pocket.

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Because I had to realize, too, when you first

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started, not anybody going to give you no money.

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They want to see that you are putting something

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into it, you know, first. So I hope that answered

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your question. Yeah, that did. That did. So.

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i met you i met you on the music tilt in the

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fashion show so how did you transition like from

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food to like music to fashion shows like how

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how did that come about well you know crazy i

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had the craziest friends back then and we were

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sitting in my my room one day and i was like

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i want to do a fashion show and and what what

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i wanted to do was get a bunch of kids to do

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it because I was working in daycare and I had

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through this little fashion show in my classroom

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where we had did a clothing drive and we took

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the clothes from the clothing drive and we did

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this little mock fashion show in my classroom.

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And I was like, and I invited the parents to

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come in and the parents, they love watching their

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kids do this. So I was like, if I can do this

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in my classroom, I wonder if I can do it in the

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community, you know? no no my very first fashion

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show was actually a spring into fashion um fashion

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show and it was kids and so me and my friends

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we sat around and we talked about well well what

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is the categories you know do we need judges

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you know do we need tickets so me and my little

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team we just sat around and we talked about it

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and then and we was like let's just make it happen

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and so we just made it happen and i knew a couple

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young ladies in the community and a couple gentlemen

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that like to sing and perform and i said well

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look let's go get some people out the community

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that like to make clothes and do hair and makeup

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and and they like to perform and let's put them

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in a show And I did it the first time. And I

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was blown away that people loved it. People came

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out. They supported it. And it was amazing. It

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was truly amazing. So you diving all in my questions,

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man, because that was like one of the questions

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that I had. So my next one. OK, for the audience

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that never been to a show of yours. I already

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know this answer. I already know this. What would

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you say your events are centered around? What

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is your target to the people when they come?

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What can they expect when they come to a Miss

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Smith show? What can they expect? First of all,

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people like them. I go get people straight out

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the community, people like me. That's how I met

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you, because you were in the community of Statesville

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kind of, you know, performing and doing different

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things. And your name was dropped to me from

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a familiar friend. And so I said, why don't we

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get people out the community that are doing great

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things that nobody is seeing? And let them showcase

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their talents. I'm all about my motto is being

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architects of your future. And so I feel like

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if you provide a space where people can do their

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purpose, do what they love, then it will create

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a space of meaningful types of events for people

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to come to. And so I circled it one around. people

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of the community, second of all around culture.

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Because, you know, when you came to my show,

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we were doing African and Egyptian. Yeah. And

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I didn't even know the importance of it until

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now. You know what I'm saying? Like you was on

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that 2016 and 15. And I really, really got into

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it, you know, later in life. You know what I'm

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saying? So you was ahead of your time on it,

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you know, to a lot of people out here. Yes. go

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ahead i'm sorry a lot of people didn't understand

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my method behind my man they always say shariel

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is a method to your madness but what it was is

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i grew up in the 80s you know and my mother was

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born in 1929 my adopted mother and she was very

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cultural she taught us black history she taught

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us black culture from her era and he grew up

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watching the movie seraphina and i always had

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a love for egyptian culture it's just one thing

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i just loved and so i thought if we combined

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the two And then bring everybody from the community

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in. What a celebration that would be. And you

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got to be there when I actually did that for

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the very first time. And it was a complete celebration

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of community, of love, of fellowship and of culture.

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So we were talking about the the traditions or

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how you do your shows, you know. I'm all about

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culture and I'm all about the people. So whenever

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I do shows, the first thing I want to do is showcase

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the people of the community that average people

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don't get to see. The talents, the wonderful

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things that these people have that they're sitting

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on that nobody knows about. So let's go get those

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people first. And then I always bring the children

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because the children will bring the crowds, especially

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if you got the children performing. If you ever

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notice in any of my shows, I always have the

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children dance and open up the show. And I always

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have them finish the show. And I always have

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them in the middle of the show because. the kids

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bring the parents and they bring the people because

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what's what happens is parents want to come out

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and see their kids perform and so and it provides

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a great great loving community type atmosphere

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so I'm excited for your next one. The way you

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talking to like this, I've been to your shows.

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I've been, you know, an artist performing at

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it and I can tell you it's a great experience.

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You know, you will have the time of your life

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and it's all, you can just feel love and it's

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support and it's fun, you know, at every event

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you have, you know what I'm saying? But I will

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say I do, I do cherish what you do. Like you've

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always instilled that hard work and that business

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part. Like, yeah, we going to have fun. But we

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still going to do this right. We're going to

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do our best. You know, we can't go out there

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just half stepping. Is that one thing that you

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was really big on? Like, yeah, let's have fun,

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but let's take this serious. Yes, because at

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the end of the day, while we were doing events,

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we were actually starting a movement, you know,

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and all of our names was stamped on there. And

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I'm one person that if my name is stamped on

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something, oh, it's got to be right. It's got

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to be right. We don't want to go into nothing

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and look like, you know, we just put this together

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in an hour or so when it's a hot mess. You know,

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I can't operate like that. So I just believe

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that doing it good, having fun, being mindful

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that it is a business that we're doing and that

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we're going to have different people coming in.

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And you never know what this may lead to. Other

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people may see it. And you just never know what

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it might lead to. So I always believe in doing

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things in decency and in order. OK, another question

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about your show. Well, this could be like business

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or whatever, everything that you do. What are

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great things about what you do? Like, what do

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you enjoy mostly about what you do? Is it, for

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example, is it touching the people? Is it touching

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the kids specifically? Is like, is it just. For

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financial gain, like because people got different

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reasons why they do things. So what is your reason

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for your love for doing everything that you do?

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First of all, I don't gain any financial gain

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from a lot of the things that I do and a lot

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of the financial gain that I get, I take it and

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I put it right back into the community. I do

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it because I love the people. I love the community.

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I love to see people stepping into their purpose

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and being their authentic selves of who God ordained

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them to be. You know, I always talk about hobbies,

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trades, passions, you know, things like that,

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because those are things that you can't go to

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school for. Those are things that are just in

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us. And so I thrive off of people that live in

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their passion, that live in their purpose. And

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I always try to draw that out of people you know

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because you meet people and not the first thing

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i ask them what do you like to do and they'll

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say well i don't know and i'm like you you like

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to do something it's something that you're good

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at and see and what they don't know is how this

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can pave way for their purpose for their mission

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for who they supposed to be and so my job is

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to pull out of you who's lying dormant that you

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haven't even realized that you are yet And you're

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good at that. You good at that. You did that

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a lot. You do that a lot. And I'm sure you still

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do. I'm sure you still do. So let's let's get

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a little personal, but not too personal. Do you

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have kids? Because you're big on kids. I would

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think you would have kids. You know, do you have

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kids? No. And that's why I am as big on children

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as I am, because I don't have kids. I will be

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50 years old next year and I don't have any children.

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Oh, my God. OK. You don't plan on having kids

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like you? Well, you know, medical reasons. OK.

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OK. OK. OK. How is it? Yeah. How is it juggling

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your personal life with business? Like, you know,

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that's another question I think that's important

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for anybody getting into a field or business.

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How do you juggle it? How do you handle it? And

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that's a really, really great, great question.

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And I thank you so much for that because a lot

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of people don't understand, especially when you're

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with a significant other and you're trying to

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do your passion because you want everybody to

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go with you and you want everybody to see your

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passion. But the good thing about it is they

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don't have to see it to support you. you know

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and i have a significant other that allows me

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to be me first of all supports everything i do

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believe in the vision i remember when i first

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started doing events and nobody showed up with

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me and him you know but he was always there pushing

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and supporting me when i was going through college

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all those years get in there and do your homework.

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You know, he was pushing and he was supporting

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me. And then he started understanding my business.

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And so he ended up buying me a business. But

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when you're in this type of realm, you have to,

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first of all, show respect to your significant

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other, keep them informed on the things that

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you're doing, allow them to be a part of what

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you're doing. If they choose to, if they don't

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want to be a part of it, that's okay. Because

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little do you realize they're in the shadow supporting

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everything that you do. And so you make time

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because I'm a workaholic and everybody knows

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it. But I also try to make family. I am. I'm

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definitely a workaholic. But if you notice on

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my Facebook page, you'll see me taking time with

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the grandkids. You'll see me taking vacations.

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You will see me, you know, because we need a

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mental break. You know, sometimes we have to

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just some downtime from everything we do and

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come back with a fresh mind. So I would say,

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you know, include them. If they don't want to

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be included, know that they are there to support

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you. They may not show it in every way, but they

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are supporting you. And just understand that

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sometimes that what God has for you is for you.

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And it's not always meant for everybody, you

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know, but just show just make sure that you're

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putting time in with your family and your significant

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other. And that work is not the number one thing

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that you're doing. Wow. That's great. Awesome.

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Because at times, you know, I feel like I don't

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really have the support from certain people that

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you would expect it from. I recently had an event,

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you know, it was a single safe and safe ministry

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that I started. And my mom actually popped up.

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She don't really come to nothing, you know, but

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she's always supported and said that she's been

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looking and watching. So I can relate to what

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you just said. You know, some people are just

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watching in the background, supporting and clapping.

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And they'll pop up eventually. You keep doing

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it. Because they see people turning on to it,

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they're going to turn on to it. And what they

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do is they allow you to be you in that realm

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without them kind of overstepping their bounds,

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if that makes any sense. Yeah. Okay, so we're

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talking about all the good things. Okay, but

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you made a statement where you had shows and

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nobody came. Nobody showed up but you and your

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significant other. um what are some of the bad

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things about being in this like you know like

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am i doing the right thing right now the right

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field like what are some of those worst things

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what i've learned is everybody not gonna like

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what you're doing everybody won't support you

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everybody won't gravitate to you but what you

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do is you keep pushing you keep motivating Because

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there are those that do want what you have that

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will gravitate to you. When we stop doing what

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we're doing, that's when we cease to exist. But

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the more we push and push, no matter, I don't

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care if one person show up, Sharia will be in

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the building just to get me a photo op, if nothing

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else, to say we did this. You know, you have

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to not stop. You have to keep going because everybody's

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not going to be for you. And I had to learn that

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the hard way, cry many tears, you know, because

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people didn't show up. But I had to understand,

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Sherry, you have to keep putting in the work,

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keep letting people be and know who you are.

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Because when you first start now, people really

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don't know who you are. And then a lot of people

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don't know the new you. You know, they get they

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so used to the old you. When you step into that

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new you, it's hard for them to understand how

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to support that. You know, when I went from partying

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and hanging out and drinking with my friends

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to speaking knowledge and being a public speaker.

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Oh, they're like, she knew, she actually knew.

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Right, right. But what they didn't understand

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is I had a passion. I had a drive. I had a mission.

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And nothing was going to stop me from doing it.

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I don't care if nobody showed up and I had to

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be out there with a loudspeaker by myself on

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the videotape. Nothing was stopping me from achieving

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that mission that I set out to do. And that's

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how we are, man. Every show that I did with you.

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And I believe that because I have the same approach

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to anything that I do. You know, it don't matter

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if it's technical issues. I'm a still ride. I'm

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a still, you know, I'm saying whatever it is,

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like the little bit of crowd, because that one

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person can have the experience of their life

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and tell everybody, you know, and then you go.

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That's why you always have to be on your best.

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You know what I'm saying? No matter what. You

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know, that's why I'm sitting here with you today,

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because in spite of everything that I went through,

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we still we trucked it through. We put on great

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shows. We did great things. And you never forgot

00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:59.519
those experiences, you know. And it's so funny

00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:02.160
that you say that is I had a quote on my show

00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:04.079
last week, if you don't mind. And I said, people

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will always remember what you said. They may

00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:09.779
forget what you did, but they will never forget

00:23:09.779 --> 00:23:13.430
how you made them feel. And so if you make a

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person, I don't care if two people come in the

00:23:15.390 --> 00:23:17.470
room, if you make them two people have an experience

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of a lifetime, they're going to go tell everybody.

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Right. And you'll see people coming back next

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time. And that's what happened with me. People

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started talking about the shows. They started

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talking about the culture. They started talking

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about the performers that were there. They started

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talking about Sharia, bringing people out the

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community and other people started telling other

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people and other things started happening. I'm

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ready to start working, though, whenever we whenever

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we're ready, man. I'm here. I miss them shows,

00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:54.279
man. I miss them. Has business ruined some of

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your relationships, personal or business wise?

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Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Because this is the thing

00:24:05.420 --> 00:24:09.700
that I've learned. When you're elevating, not

00:24:09.700 --> 00:24:14.339
everybody is meant to go with you. And so you'll,

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and especially when you start getting spiritual,

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I'm not religious, I'm spiritual. And so when

00:24:19.019 --> 00:24:21.220
you start elevating and you become a spiritual,

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God will reveal things to you of the people that

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need to go with you and the people that don't.

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And so you have to get to a point to where you

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have to decipher, do I want to relish in this

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or do I want what God has for me? And it has

00:24:37.299 --> 00:24:40.730
ruined. So many relationships because I had to

00:24:40.730 --> 00:24:42.890
understand that even though I wanted these people

00:24:42.890 --> 00:24:46.289
to elevate with me, I realized that in that moment

00:24:46.289 --> 00:24:49.269
that they couldn't. It was my elevation process,

00:24:49.569 --> 00:24:55.430
not theirs. And I feel like me personally, you

00:24:55.430 --> 00:24:59.990
know, just me being 33 and like you say, knowing

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how those events made me feel. just the connections

00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:06.559
that I still run across a couple of them on Facebook

00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:10.240
that I had the shows with, you know, and it's

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like, I still feel that love. You know what I'm

00:25:13.059 --> 00:25:15.980
saying? I still remember those times we rehearsed

00:25:15.980 --> 00:25:18.259
and practice and the little things and that's

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so big. And it's like any misunderstanding and

00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:23.859
fallouts at this point, I'm like, we should just

00:25:23.859 --> 00:25:26.400
forgive each other. You know, like somebody be

00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.299
the bigger person. Cause especially as adults,

00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.650
I feel like. This generation needs to see that,

00:25:32.769 --> 00:25:37.269
you know, forgiveness and reworking, reworking

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everything, spending the block, as they say,

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spend the block. You know what I'm saying? Like

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get back with people and put the pride aside

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and, you know, do the best. And it's funny that

00:25:46.470 --> 00:25:48.470
you bring that up because actually on the Clean

00:25:48.470 --> 00:25:49.910
Dimension Radio Show, I'm sorry that I'm going

00:25:49.910 --> 00:25:52.470
to cut you off. But that was the one thing that

00:25:52.470 --> 00:25:54.589
was my topic last week was how are we treating

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people? You know, how are we treating people?

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Just because I'm becoming more successful than

00:25:59.940 --> 00:26:01.900
you doesn't make me any better than it makes

00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:04.700
you. I'm still charring out at the end of the

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day. I remember when I won my first crown and

00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:10.960
I became the first vice chair of the Rowan County

00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:13.799
Democratic Party. And one of my cousins came

00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:15.180
to me and was like, I don't know what it's about

00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:18.240
to you, you know, or what. And I told him, I

00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:20.380
said, when I take this crown off and it's sashed

00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:23.900
off at night. At the end of the day, I am still

00:26:23.900 --> 00:26:27.900
Chari L. No matter what, I'm still the same person

00:26:27.900 --> 00:26:30.740
that you met years ago before the crown and all

00:26:30.740 --> 00:26:36.480
this came into play. Right, right, right. So

00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.200
what are some words of advice that you would

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give to a young lady out there that's listening,

00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:45.400
you know, that inspires to be like you or be

00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:47.740
in the realm of doing something, any kind of

00:26:47.740 --> 00:26:51.279
dream? What advice would you give them? some

00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:54.099
key pointers that they should know that they

00:26:54.099 --> 00:26:59.140
should do and instill? Well, first of all, I

00:26:59.140 --> 00:27:02.740
am a national queen. I am the 2021 North Carolina

00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:05.400
Regal Elegance Queen of Queens. I am the 2022

00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:08.779
National Classic Miss Regal Elegance, and I am

00:27:08.779 --> 00:27:12.700
the 225 Regal Elegance Essence Queen. And I say

00:27:12.700 --> 00:27:14.900
that for this, first of all, we are queens by

00:27:14.900 --> 00:27:17.000
nature. We are kings by nature. That's what we

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:19.960
was born into, royalty. So I want... Everyone

00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:22.440
to always think of themselves as a king or queen.

00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:25.220
We are royalty. That's what we come from. Okay.

00:27:25.380 --> 00:27:28.119
So we are not less than that. Second of all,

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I want you to understand to be authentic with

00:27:30.099 --> 00:27:35.019
you. Never let nobody dummy down you. Never let

00:27:35.019 --> 00:27:36.960
nobody tell you who you should and you should

00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:39.519
not be. If you feel comfortable in your own skin,

00:27:39.779 --> 00:27:44.660
remain that way. Don't follow the crowd because

00:27:44.660 --> 00:27:48.000
some of us are made to stand out for a reason.

00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:50.980
We are not to follow the crowd. I'm one of those

00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:53.759
people. Quincy, you're one of those people. We

00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:56.180
are not to follow the crowd. We have our own

00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:58.799
way of doing things and we have our own way of

00:27:58.799 --> 00:28:02.400
bringing to the world what we have. Never sleep

00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:04.660
in your gifts and your talents because God give

00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:06.900
us each something that we're good and we're great

00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:10.140
at. And we should do everything that we can to

00:28:10.140 --> 00:28:12.839
tap into those gifts, to tap into those talents

00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:15.480
and to never let nobody tell you what you can

00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.220
and cannot do because we can do anything. That

00:28:18.220 --> 00:28:22.180
we put our mind to and always get around good

00:28:22.180 --> 00:28:24.460
people that are doing the things that you're

00:28:24.460 --> 00:28:28.079
doing, because negative people get negative attitudes

00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:30.099
when you're trying to do something positive.

00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:33.220
So you have to get around positive thinking people

00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:35.359
that are doing the same things that you're doing

00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:38.140
so that you can be around those people that understand

00:28:38.140 --> 00:28:43.400
what you're trying to do. Right. I agree with

00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:47.660
every word. Yes. Every word. Yes. Because you

00:28:47.660 --> 00:28:51.880
got to believe in yourself. You know, I'll add

00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:54.940
to invest in yourself, too. Like how you you

00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:57.240
basically was talking about it early in the interview.

00:28:57.339 --> 00:28:59.339
You invest in it to yourself. You didn't wait

00:28:59.339 --> 00:29:02.559
around and waiting on people to put money into

00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:05.859
you. You put money into yourself, you know. So,

00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:08.619
you know, investing yourself is the best investment

00:29:08.619 --> 00:29:10.890
ever. You know, you can make. And, you know,

00:29:10.910 --> 00:29:12.650
I just want to throw that out there. Stop being

00:29:12.650 --> 00:29:16.650
stingy on you. You go out here, buy the new Jordans,

00:29:16.650 --> 00:29:19.950
you know, put money in another man's pocket,

00:29:20.109 --> 00:29:22.329
you know, put some money in your brand, your

00:29:22.329 --> 00:29:26.369
business. We got the condemnation apparel, you

00:29:26.369 --> 00:29:28.150
know, start your own line. I got the fashion.

00:29:28.269 --> 00:29:31.170
See, I'm about to get into that. So what's some

00:29:31.170 --> 00:29:33.430
things you got going on? What's some things you

00:29:33.430 --> 00:29:35.869
got going on and some things you got coming up

00:29:35.869 --> 00:29:38.789
that you want the people to know about? Sure.

00:29:38.809 --> 00:29:40.589
Well, first of all, as you see, I'm wearing my

00:29:40.589 --> 00:29:44.369
sash today because I am representing the Regal

00:29:44.369 --> 00:29:47.250
Elegance pageant today. We do have our nationals

00:29:47.250 --> 00:29:49.650
coming up and we are looking for some phenomenal

00:29:49.650 --> 00:29:52.549
women that want to be a part of this great faith

00:29:52.549 --> 00:29:56.289
-based pageant system. We will be doing our nationals

00:29:56.289 --> 00:29:58.509
in Greensboro, North Carolina next year, July,

00:29:58.750 --> 00:30:02.039
I believe it's the 13th through the 16th. of

00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:05.940
2026 we do have nationals open right now applications

00:30:05.940 --> 00:30:10.599
are open you can go to www .regalelegancepageant

00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:14.799
.com and sign up we need more queens to come

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.519
out in this pageant system. So that's one thing

00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:19.980
that we're working on. I'm also an executive

00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:22.359
partner with a company called Investing Incorporated,

00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.440
which is a financial investment firm where we're

00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.660
teaching about generational wealth. We're teaching

00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:30.660
you about how to sustain wealth, how to invest

00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:33.059
your money wisely into the things that you do

00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:35.500
to ensure you have a successful financial future.

00:30:35.700 --> 00:30:38.539
We conduct our Monday night wealth building session

00:30:38.539 --> 00:30:42.130
every Monday via Zoom. If you would like to join,

00:30:42.269 --> 00:30:45.930
you can email me, wealthbuilding session at sherryld40

00:30:45.930 --> 00:30:50.069
at gmail .com. That is every Monday. I'm also

00:30:50.069 --> 00:30:51.930
getting ready to start working this fall to get

00:30:51.930 --> 00:30:54.289
back with my young queens, start working with

00:30:54.289 --> 00:30:56.250
them. And I'm into a program, a life coaching

00:30:56.250 --> 00:30:59.430
program. And those are just a few of the things

00:30:59.430 --> 00:31:03.009
that we got right now going on. Okay. What about

00:31:03.009 --> 00:31:05.269
the podcast? You know, you shout that out, your

00:31:05.269 --> 00:31:08.099
podcast. That too. I have my radio show. We air

00:31:08.099 --> 00:31:10.759
every Wednesday at 6 .30, the Queendom Nation

00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:12.980
radio show, where all things are royal and loyal

00:31:12.980 --> 00:31:15.819
on the worldwide radio. And you will find that

00:31:15.819 --> 00:31:18.599
link on my Facebook page. I also have the Queendom

00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:20.619
Nation radio show page that is on my Facebook.

00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:23.579
I have the Queendom Nation blog. I have my website,

00:31:23.779 --> 00:31:27.180
which is the queendomchronicles47 .wordpress

00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:29.940
.com. Please go on there and read my blogs, because

00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:31.599
let me tell you, the Queen ain't playing in this

00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:34.490
season. You know, I'm speaking truth. I'm speaking

00:31:34.490 --> 00:31:37.369
authenticity and I'm speaking culture and every

00:31:37.369 --> 00:31:39.490
blog. So please check out the Clinton Nation

00:31:39.490 --> 00:31:42.390
blog. You would definitely love it. So we do

00:31:42.390 --> 00:31:45.009
have the podcast that we air that twice a month

00:31:45.009 --> 00:31:47.829
where we feature local people that are doing

00:31:47.829 --> 00:31:50.410
great things in their communities. Because I

00:31:50.410 --> 00:31:51.869
believe in community and I believe in people

00:31:51.869 --> 00:31:54.730
pulling people out the community that are doing

00:31:54.730 --> 00:31:57.349
good things. So you often see me doing that twice

00:31:57.349 --> 00:31:59.839
a month. Plus the every Monday night session,

00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:02.619
plus the radio show every Wednesday, plus my

00:32:02.619 --> 00:32:04.839
blog. And I'm also working on my second book.

00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:08.779
What's the book about? If you can't get the details,

00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:11.619
what's the book centered around? So I'm an author.

00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.279
My first book is Women in Entrepreneurship. How

00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:17.099
do we beat the odds? So for all my queens, the

00:32:17.099 --> 00:32:20.160
book is on Amazon by Sharia S. Dye. Women in

00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:21.900
Entrepreneurship. How do we beat the odds? Please

00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:24.839
get that book if you can. And it's for men, too,

00:32:24.940 --> 00:32:26.839
because there is a chapter in there that helps

00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:29.480
men to understand how to work with their entrepreneurial

00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:38.079
woman on the same page. Definitely. And then

00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.700
I'm also working on a love story. I'm sorry.

00:32:40.859 --> 00:32:43.660
I'm also working on a love story. You busy, you

00:32:43.660 --> 00:32:46.720
busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. When do you rest?

00:32:47.059 --> 00:32:53.160
When do you rest? but go ahead so you working

00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:56.700
on a love story yeah yeah because i feel like

00:32:56.700 --> 00:32:59.740
in this day and time that we look at love like

00:32:59.740 --> 00:33:04.319
it's a bad thing it's beautiful and and we can

00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:07.660
have it but what i'm also tapping in is so many

00:33:07.660 --> 00:33:10.819
of us fall in love and we let that one person

00:33:10.819 --> 00:33:14.700
that we love get away because we wish that we

00:33:14.700 --> 00:33:18.099
had done things different And so this book is

00:33:18.099 --> 00:33:20.539
called Beneath the Cypress Sky. And it's about

00:33:20.539 --> 00:33:23.680
a couple that that loved each other, but they

00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.059
let each other get away. Now they're trying to

00:33:26.059 --> 00:33:28.059
find a way back to one another. But it is some

00:33:28.059 --> 00:33:29.920
twists and turns, but it's going to be a phenomenal

00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:34.339
story when it's all done. I'm interested already.

00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:39.400
That's deep. That's deep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because

00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:41.220
I feel like I don't let a couple of them go.

00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:44.059
You know, some good ones. They're here at home.

00:33:45.900 --> 00:33:48.299
That hit home. And it'd be the simplest thing

00:33:48.299 --> 00:33:50.519
that, you know, we don't need to think about.

00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:55.059
Yeah. It was supportive and everything. Come

00:33:55.059 --> 00:33:57.900
to the shows and I was just downright wrong.

00:33:58.180 --> 00:34:00.200
You know what I'm saying? I could have fixed

00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.039
that and I did and I let this perfect person

00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:04.839
get away, but I'm going to do everything I can

00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:11.559
to get her back if she's single. Right. We don't

00:34:11.559 --> 00:34:18.599
promote that home wrecking. But did you drop

00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:20.480
all your socials where people can find you? I

00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.940
think you did. I just wanted to make sure that

00:34:22.940 --> 00:34:25.079
people know where to find you, contact you, you

00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:27.360
know, if they want to do business or anything.

00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:31.760
So, yeah, I am Chariot Dye on Facebook and that

00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:35.760
is C -H -A -R -I -E -L -D -Y -E on Facebook.

00:34:35.820 --> 00:34:38.440
I am the Queen Dimension Radio Show on Facebook.

00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:41.219
I also have the Fashion Fusion Boutique, which

00:34:41.219 --> 00:34:45.320
is my clothing line on there as well. at 47 underscore

00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:49.380
on Instagram. That is M -I -N -N -E -T -T -E

00:34:49.380 --> 00:34:52.519
35th underscore on Instagram. You can also find

00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:56.320
me as Chariel Dye on TikTok. I am Chariel Dye

00:34:56.320 --> 00:34:59.639
on Snapchat and I am Chariel Dye on LinkedIn

00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:03.539
as well. So you'll find me everywhere. Just Google

00:35:03.539 --> 00:35:08.489
it. But hey, once again. This has been an honor.

00:35:08.510 --> 00:35:11.849
This is a real special one to me because I want

00:35:11.849 --> 00:35:14.349
to tell you, you've done a lot for me. Like you

00:35:14.349 --> 00:35:17.230
said, you made me feel it was a feeling. And

00:35:17.230 --> 00:35:20.449
I always had a love for you. You know, I thank

00:35:20.449 --> 00:35:23.289
you for every opportunity you gave me. And I

00:35:23.289 --> 00:35:25.250
just wish, you know, more blessings come your

00:35:25.250 --> 00:35:29.969
way, more success, you know. And yeah. Anything

00:35:29.969 --> 00:35:31.389
else you want to leave to the people before we

00:35:31.389 --> 00:35:34.119
close it up? First of all, I want to say thank

00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:36.400
you so much, Quincy, because Quincy, I watched

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:39.920
you at the beginning of your career, just, you

00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:42.900
know, doing your thing. They don't know this

00:35:42.900 --> 00:35:48.019
is personal, man. We're such a young man coming

00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:51.360
into your craft, man. And I'm so blessed to be

00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.780
here on your show to see you still doing phenomenal,

00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:58.590
wonderful things. I'm so proud of you. I thank

00:35:58.590 --> 00:36:01.170
you so much for allowing me to be here with you

00:36:01.170 --> 00:36:04.329
today. And I hope to God to get you on the Queendom

00:36:04.329 --> 00:36:06.349
Nation radio show coming up. You know I'm there.

00:36:06.510 --> 00:36:08.550
I'm there. Just let me know. I'm there. Let me

00:36:08.550 --> 00:36:12.150
know. But yeah. All right, people. Thank y 'all

00:36:12.150 --> 00:36:14.170
for tuning in to another episode of Not Just

00:36:14.170 --> 00:36:16.750
Music Podcast, where we keep it real and honest

00:36:16.750 --> 00:36:20.730
always. All y 'all be blessed. Always show love

00:36:20.730 --> 00:36:24.289
and make a person feel good. They remember it.

00:36:24.530 --> 00:36:24.969
Peace.