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You're the food goddess.
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So I'm assuming that there's some kind of food in your purpose
00:05
I just love to feed people, whether it's feed them with love
00:08
feed them with food.
00:09
Did you know anything about opening a business?
00:15
And your dad didn't eat between me and my dad.
00:17
We had officially zero years of restaurant.
00:20
The best advice you could give anybody is spend as much time
00:29
I'm gonna be honest, I don't know how to swim.
00:31
Y'all bitches are leaving me or not, but you really don't know
00:34
I would, I would honestly, I would just say, hey, like, why
00:38
I'm gonna just run in the water.
00:40
Why don't you stay on the shore?
00:42
Why don't you learn?
00:43
Isn't that first of all?
00:44
No, no, I will teach you.
00:46
You move your arms and legs.
00:48
That's actually true.
00:50
It at some point in certain things you just wanna learn in life
00:52
Like learning how to drive.
00:53
I don't know how to drive either.
00:55
Well, you, you know how to write a sense Yes.
00:57
See, I can't ride a bike so I can't judge.
01:00
I do with these life skills.
01:01
I'm from New York City.
01:02
We only need to learn how to survive crime and everything else
01:05
falls to the wayside.
01:07
Can you survive aliens?
01:09
We're going to talk about the news I have before we get too deep
01:13
I do want to welcome Darian Santana to the couch.
01:16
She's going to be joining us in our girl talk.
01:19
And I want to know, do you believe in aliens?
01:22
You think there's the giant universe?
01:24
And we're the only ones that are here?
01:26
No, no, it doesn't make sense.
01:28
I'm not ready to meet the alien but they're not ready to meet
01:32
Which is, I think that's why at this point I have to, I think
01:38
If there's a 6 ft five alien, that trauma, he's coming here
01:43
Which is exactly what I dated for a whole year, two years.
01:49
I just, I had no idea what this being was, but he showed up in
01:54
You guys, I, I don't believe you show us a picture, no pictures
01:58
He doesn't take pictures.
01:58
He doesn't exist anymore.
02:00
It's like, it's like in and out 67, just like very slept, like
02:05
like every night you slept like, and you were next to this
02:08
man every night and he had like earphones on that had like,
02:11
this certain frequency every night and I would be like this
02:15
I, I'm not joking, wake up in the morning.
02:19
Why did you wake up in the morning?
02:21
Because I was so intrigued and he taught me so much about so
02:24
Like what, like what he was a shape about.
02:26
Like he, no, he, he was an A, he was a palad.
02:28
I'm not talking about like, how long did you date him for, for
02:36
Two years and you slept next to a man who sleeps like this all
02:40
First of all, at some point in the relationship, I have to ask
02:43
Did you ever look at his ID?
02:44
My body is shaking because I feel like I'm not supposed to be
02:46
talking like the galactic federation was like, what are you
02:52
I do believe in them.
02:54
Acting has gotten so much better.
02:58
I'm using the podcast as the practice of my act.
03:00
This is, no, I'm serious.
03:03
Ask my family, ask anybody.
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I don't know, I don't know about.
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And your whole family thought like there was like a sketchy
03:07
not sketchy aliens aren't sketchy.
03:10
He better than he was incredible.
03:12
He was an amazing human being.
03:14
We're the worst humans.
03:18
If there was a dating app for aliens?
03:19
I might actually sign up because I'm sick of humans.
03:22
I don't want to look, look, I don't look, you know, I'm going
03:26
through a lot of the podcast but I don't think I'm ready to date
03:28
They probably have different rules.
03:29
They probably don't, different culture, different culture
03:32
They probably don't like, I'm loud.
03:33
They don't make, it's all telepathic.
03:34
They don't wait a minute.
03:36
You guys, wait, they look for me.
03:40
I'm like, how self cer is that the aliens stopped the United
03:43
States out of all the countries.
03:44
They came here first.
03:47
That is a good point.
03:48
Well, with everything going on on the planet, do you feel like
03:52
do you have a purpose here?
03:53
The alien on purpose?
03:54
Do you have a purpose?
03:55
What's your purpose?
03:58
My purpose, my purpose.
04:00
I feel as though I am here to better young lives through sports
04:09
She got my goal but it didn't come out of nowhere.
04:11
It was, it was kind of like an epiphany throughout my career
04:16
I've been able to build and rebuild basketball courts all
04:19
over the world in low income communities.
04:21
And I've had the opportunity to like, see the impact that just
04:24
a small amount of service can do on a community and especially
04:27
I think kids are the ones that need the most love and the most
04:30
guidance and so being able to go to these different countries
04:32
and see how much just painting a court and bringing basketballs
04:35
and uniforms to these 30 kids can enhance their, their lives
04:39
Imagine what you can do when you have support and you know,
04:43
the means to actually make a big impact and like, actually
04:47
enhance communities one at a time, even though, I mean, we
04:50
need all hands on deck.
04:51
You know, like the world is never going to be at peace any time
04:54
in our lifetime anytime soon we were be.
04:57
But before that, I think that you don't know the power of changing
05:03
Like it's not about changing the world.
05:04
It's about changing one person's world and that one person
05:07
can change the next person.
05:08
It's like a ripple effect through life.
05:10
So like don't ever underestimate the power that you have to
05:13
make this world a better place.
05:14
You know what I mean?
05:15
So I think that my purpose is to use my passions, which is sports
05:19
and art education and do what I can with that just in my little
05:23
community and then from there, whoever you can be mad from
05:26
that will lead the way I love that.
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And Dan, you're the food goddess.
05:32
So I'm assuming that there's some kind of food in your purpose
05:35
When I think of my purpose, it comes back to nurturing, it comes
05:39
back to being maternal even though I'm not a mom yet.
05:42
Um Yeah, I love to just cook for people.
05:44
I just love to feed people whether it's like feed them with
05:47
love, feed them with food, you know, so metaphorically feeding
05:50
them and literally feeding them because who taught you to
05:53
cook or how, how long have you been doing that since I was a little
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My mom, my mom worked pretty much every day.
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So when she came home from work, she'd be, she'd also cook every
06:02
Um So she wanted to spend time with my sister and I, so it was
06:05
we were always in the kitchen with her.
06:07
So she'd have us, like, chopping the Sofrito or cutting olives
06:10
Um, so I was always in the kitchen with her and, yeah, I just
06:13
started cooking, I think when I was like 10.
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Um, so what's your go to plate?
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Like, if there was like, if you, if people were like, show us
06:20
you got, what would you cook yesterday?
06:26
Because it's just like home.
06:28
It's the most homey meal and then you make it with Plato Maduros
06:32
and now a and it's just so flavorful and it's also, you make
06:38
So you're ready to get married, by the way I got you.
06:46
Are you, are you, I can help you find, I mean, your partner,
06:54
So then, so then when did this, you started cooking?
06:57
I mean, I know you're a host and you've been in the game for a
07:00
So, when did you kind of like direct your attention to just
07:04
And now if nobody knows she has her own restaurant in New Jersey
07:08
that's been getting a lot of accolades and a lot of like, you
07:12
So when did that shift?
07:13
So I decided when I was 24 I wanted to be a TV host.
07:16
It just, I had this epiphany, right?
07:18
So I started doing, thanks Pumpkin.
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Um And then I started doing it.
07:23
I got an agent short after and she was like, listen, you need
07:25
a niche because nowadays, um there's very few Ryan Seacrest
07:29
They're just like, I'm a host that hosts the show.
07:31
It's like, I'm the HD TV guy or the guy, fiery food guy.
07:35
So I immediately knew it was going to be food.
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Um And then I'm very much like I hit the ground running.
07:41
Ok, what do I gotta do?
07:42
So I did like a food blog and immediately started changing
07:45
my socials to food and food oriented things.
07:48
Six months later, my dad approached me and was like, I want
07:50
to open a Cuban restaurant.
07:52
Um I wanna borrow money from you and I was like, I thought about
07:58
I was like, oh, I'll give you the money.
08:00
I was like, but I wanna be the co-owner.
08:02
Um Well, for many reasons, one, there's a lot of reasons, right
08:06
One, it was like any opportunity to make, to make my parents'
08:12
I had the foresight.
08:13
I was like, this is what's gonna enable me to really be a voice
08:18
It's not just like, I love food.
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It's like now I own a restaurant.
08:21
Um, and getting, getting the recognition and people actually
08:25
You know, that you could say you're an actress but nothing
08:28
People are like, yeah, she's an actress and that's the thing
08:31
too, you know, as a female, as a minority, I've always had to
08:35
kind of go above and beyond to prove myself.
08:38
And I've been vividly aware of that.
08:39
So I knew that I was like, OK, you can't tell me nothing, right
08:42
I own, I opened a restaurant and then, yeah, lastly, I just
08:45
had the foresight and I knew this was gonna propel me to do different
08:50
And yeah, and I also just knew like to have a restaurant with
08:54
It's now two generations that are, you know, two heads are
08:57
better than 12 generations.
08:59
So, I mean, so we have a young entrepreneur in our hands right
09:03
And did you, did you know anything about opening?
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Not, not an entrepreneur means someone who starts a business
09:12
with knowing there's a high risk of loss.
09:16
You had no idea and your dad didn't eat between me and my dad
09:19
we had officially zero of restaurant.
09:24
Where do you think about everything that goes into it?
09:27
Like just down to the location, the vibe, the colors.
09:31
What kind of like logo where you're getting your food from
09:35
I've never obviously opened a restaurant.
09:36
So subjectively insane.
09:39
Where did you start?
09:40
How many years we're about to make?
09:49
So because my dad, somebody came up to him because they had
09:52
a failed restaurant in that location.
09:54
Now, this is why I say it was objectively a bad idea.
09:56
Opening a restaurant is one of the high, most high risk industries
10:00
It's I believe it's 50% open close in the first year.
10:02
Like the numbers are insane.
10:04
That particular location there was always restaurants in
10:08
It just wasn't a good location.
10:10
Um to reiterate my dad and I had zero experience in the restaurant
10:14
I worked one day at one and then I left because I had an anxiety
10:20
No, it's, it's, I'm telling you it's like insane.
10:22
Also, my dad didn't notorious, didn't like notoriously have
10:25
a good track record with businesses.
10:27
Hence why he was trying to borrow money.
10:29
Uh Re um no, I'm kidding.
10:34
He's a zero A Libra, whichever you guys say that he's a, he's
10:41
So anyway, long story short, which is impossible.
10:44
Because you're going to still get the long story.
10:45
He had that location already.
10:48
And I initially, it was only a certain amount of money I gave
10:50
him that and then he just poured everything into that business
10:54
Like I'd never seen the side of my dad that was amazing at decorating
10:58
Like if you go to my restaurant, he killed it.
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Can I ask a transparent?
11:04
You can ask what can you give us a range of what that amount was
11:08
So I I don't give a shit.
11:10
I initially gave him, I want to say it was just like $15,000
11:16
to start the business.
11:17
Well, he already had the location.
11:19
You own the location.
11:20
No, no, no, no, you rent it.
11:22
Um So that's yeah, that's how it started.
11:23
It was just figuring things out.
11:25
I mean, you mentioned the logo.
11:26
I designed the logo.
11:26
Shout out to my high school um Photoshop teacher Miss Wilkinson
11:31
because let me tell you I have gotten so much worth from her
11:35
I designed the logo.
11:36
I designed the menu, you know what it is.
11:39
It's so hard for me to sometimes take credit for being like
11:45
My grandparents came from Cuba with $0 with zero knowledge
11:49
of the language and made shit happen.
11:52
You've done so many in a couple different things and I think
11:55
in each of those lanes, you were fulfilling some sort of purpose
11:58
my purpose for a long time was making my parents proud and
12:01
making my parents happy.
12:02
But I need to fill my cup and I need to be the happiest because
12:07
that's what's going to allow me to be the best version of myself
12:12
I know, I know I jump around because I'm a Gemini but I didn't
12:15
get to hear your purpose after that.
12:17
Wait, it's funny because I know you guys asked us this off screen
12:21
You're like, ok, we're going to talk about our purpose.
12:23
And I sat there and I thought, and I thought, and I thought I'm
12:25
like, oh my God, what am I going to say?
12:26
Is it that I want to be a mom one day?
12:27
Is it that I want to inspire the world?
12:29
And then I was like freaking out about it because I was like
12:31
what am I going to say?
12:33
And then I realized sometimes you're just figuring it out
12:38
And I think I am right there where I am like, I don't want to feel
12:42
so much pressure on putting myself in this one thing of like
12:46
It's like I've had different purposes along the path and I've
12:50
fulfilled some of those as my mind changes, my, my, my desires
12:55
change, my purpose changes.
12:57
So I think for me, like my purpose is I figure it out as I go.
13:00
If I feel like I can make an impact in that particular project
13:03
in that friendship and, you know, that situation, I'll do
13:06
Um, and if I don't, then I won't get, I won't involve myself
13:10
So that's kind of where I am because I do feel pressure sometimes
13:12
I'm like, oh, my God, what is my purpose?
13:14
I think your purpose is something that you will continue to
13:17
fulfill as life goes on.
13:19
You know, it, the more you learn, the more experiences, the
13:22
more like knowledge you have, you're able to even better make
13:26
it, make a difference and know what you, who you are.
13:28
How are you going to know your purpose if you don't even know
13:29
who you are and we do what you like what you Yeah, because you're
13:33
like, everybody's fulfilling their purpose.
13:34
They're opening up a business here doing that.
13:36
And sometimes I'm like, oh my gosh, like what, what's my next
13:40
Like, what am I doing?
13:41
It's like, look around, smell the roses, you know, enjoy where
13:46
And the better thing is like, what's your passion?
13:49
Because then from there that's where you can really figure
13:51
out some sort of purpose.
13:52
Like how you cooking because yeah, I think everybody here
13:55
has multiple purposes.
13:56
I know yours isn't just food.
13:57
Like you're a first off, you're a comedian as well.
14:02
She does so many things.
14:03
Talk about why are you making that phase?
14:05
You're like, uh, because you are, you've done stand up.
14:10
You've done so many incredible different things and I think
14:12
in each of those lanes you were fulfilling some sort of purpose
14:16
But, you know, it's funny how we were talking about your purpose
14:18
changing when my purpose for a long time was making my parents
14:22
proud and making my parents happy.
14:24
That's what you were doing it for.
14:26
And, and for the record, that's a beautiful, humble thing
14:29
But last year taught me that.
14:34
And that's not egocentric, but it's, I need to fill my cup and
14:38
I need to be the happiest because that's what's going to allow
14:41
me to be the best version of myself.
14:45
Um But ironically, in opening my restaurant, I kind of killed
14:49
two birds with one stone.
14:50
But yeah, I think it's beautiful that our purposes are malleable
14:53
because that's what we're supposed to be.
14:56
We're supposed to flow.
14:57
I feel like being on this.
14:58
I think I talk about it a lot like being on this podcast.
15:01
I always had a vision of what I wanted my career.
15:03
And then I started doing this podcast.
15:04
I'm like, I really enjoy getting to know other people and I
15:07
really enjoy a lot of what this podcast is for me and why I love
15:11
being on here is because in my stand up, I explore a lot of relationship
15:15
things and I want to, I want to help women get in the right relationship
15:19
even though maybe I should help myself first.
15:22
You're like, I can take my own advice.
15:24
But for a long time I've been, don't play like that.
15:27
I've been in a lot of bad relationships.
15:29
A lot of bad friendships, sometimes my own fault.
15:31
We talked about that.
15:32
I think earlier, a lot of abusive relationships that I've
15:35
And I'm like, I want, when I first started learning about stand
15:38
up, I learned in my early twenties, I was like, wow, this person
15:41
is saying everything I have on my mind.
15:43
So I want to be that person for other women where I'm like, you
15:46
don't, you don't, you have to be like me.
15:48
I make a lot of mistakes but I don't want you to be in an abusive
15:51
And that's for me where I want to serve women in that way.
15:55
And even men, men are also sometimes in an abusive relationship
15:58
So I want to, I want to help people be better at being in healthier
16:02
And you know what else?
16:03
I think you're so good at honestly is that you put yourself
16:07
out there of flaws and all and you own it.
16:09
And then that makes other people look at you and be like, oh
16:11
my God, like, OK, I'm not that crazy or like, you know, people
16:14
really relate to that.
16:15
I think that's so beautiful because it's not easy putting
16:17
yourself in the cross fire.
16:18
I've always been ok with being self deprecating.
16:20
I learned that word when I was working in a restaurant one time
16:22
And this lady was like, oh my God, you're self deprecating
16:24
I'm like, bitch, what does that mean?
16:25
And it was like, I was like, oh yeah, I always put myself in the
16:29
What I wanted to say not to be all super sensitive.
16:31
But I think that you've taught me how to be more kinder.
16:33
Like I know that you talk a lot about God.
16:35
And I'm like, even when we, I just started doing this project
16:38
I was like, yo, maybe it has inspired me to explore my relationship
16:42
So I think that you have something there, Jessica where it's
16:44
like you have helped me.
16:45
I'm like, I see the way that you live your life and you're blogging
16:49
And I'm like, I want to explore that part of me of how can I be
16:52
a little more kinder to myself and to other people.
16:55
I'm not saying that I'm like this horrible person, but I can
16:58
be a little bit more like, you know, kind.
17:02
So I was just saying, you taught me, I think that we're all teaching
17:08
And um for you and I wanted to ask you this because I know you
17:11
come from a hosting background.
17:12
I'm also a host and I know we've been in the hosting circuit
17:15
Like sometimes, like in the past, there would be times where
17:18
she would hear an opportunity and throw it my way or vice versa
17:21
It, you have to support at the end of the day.
17:23
You as like somebody in the industry, when would you like,
17:26
how would you decipher whether an opportunity was for you
17:29
Whether that was like, whether the environment is right?
17:31
Because you want to make sure that people are right.
17:33
We were even talking about this in the green room.
17:34
You're like, you guys are lucky.
17:35
You guys all genuinely get along because it could be horrible
17:38
getting on a podcast with like people, you genuinely don't
17:41
even like, like or you know, it's just bad energy.
17:45
No, that's a good question.
17:46
Um I really just in tune with my gut and I know that sounds like
17:51
cliche, but it's really true.
17:52
I think all of our knowledge lives in our body.
17:55
Um And I just trust myself, you know, because the second I hear
18:00
something or I walk into a space and I'm like, this doesn't
18:03
feel like it aligns and sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's
18:06
hard saying no to things because maybe it'll pay pretty well
18:10
But if something doesn't feel right in my body, I'm like, yeah
18:14
also just saying no is one of the most powerful things you
18:18
Have you said no to really, really big opportunities because
18:20
it just, yeah, I've said no to things and I'm like, ah, this
18:24
doesn't feel fully on brand for me or how, how, how do you know
18:29
how to trust yourself in these arguments?
18:30
Like, how did you learn to trust yourself?
18:33
It's life or nothing but patterns and repetition, right?
18:35
So, if you are faced with a small decision to make and you confidently
18:41
make it and you're like, oh, that's all good.
18:43
And you keep doing that and you keep doing that, we're just
18:45
That's all we are humans.
18:46
We're not that complicated when we.
18:49
So because I've trusted myself in the past, I know that it's
18:52
I just fully know that everything is always going to work in
18:55
I'm completely um like I can, I can't be negative.
19:00
Like I just know life is rigged my favorite, but it's so crazy
19:03
because saying no to that decision allowed me to like book
19:07
something dope that would have been on that same day.
19:09
Like, yeah, I run a lot of shows, right?
19:12
So I do a lot of live comedy shows and a lot of the times when you
19:14
do a show, people like put you in a brand and like they know you
19:18
So when you walk away, they're like all up in your business
19:19
Like why did you walk away from this?
19:21
And I remember walking away from a project earlier last year
19:23
I was like, yo was I dumb for that and, and you know, you have
19:26
multiple goals at once and one of my goals was to be to go viral
19:30
not because of like vanity stuff, but like, I feel like it
19:32
means stuff to other people.
19:33
So I walked away and I was like, damn, I fucked up my entire career
19:36
And the next day I went viral for being Rihanna and I was like
19:39
OK, well, maybe there's another opportunity, like what
19:42
I'm trying to say when one door shuts, that's such a vanity
19:46
But when one door closes, there's always another opportunity
19:50
And I feel like it was God saying, girl, you don't need to attach
19:53
yourself to this brand because you have your own stuff going
19:56
So I don't know, I just had a lot of things in comedy where I was
19:59
like, yo, did I just ruin my career by like, did I burn this bridge
20:02
and like these careers that we have hosting acting doing stand
20:07
They're very much relationship based.
20:08
So like if you rub somebody the wrong way, you're like, damn
20:11
But I'm like, well, it's not for you is not for you.
20:13
And I'm like, you don't have to be for everybody.
20:15
You don't have to do everything.
20:16
And like you said, just trust the fact that you've got this
20:20
So you're gonna whatever got you this far.
20:22
Just know that there's more to come.
20:23
Plus, you know, you're doing this thing that we do all the time
20:26
They're like, did I ruin it?
20:28
Was it the worst all the time?
20:30
And that's because our brains protecting us, our brain is
20:32
like, let's make sure that, oh my God, it's the worst thing
20:35
whenever has it been as bad or worse than what you imagined
20:40
You're always like, oh, actually that wasn't.
20:44
So that's what fear is.
20:45
It's like our brain protecting us.
20:46
It's our brain being like, well, let's imagine the worst possible
20:50
So we're prepared for it and it's literally never as bad.
20:54
So it's like, why don't you skip that step because you're just
20:56
lowering your vibration and feeling like a poop.
21:00
I was lowering my, I was like, oh my God, I messed up.
21:03
But speaking of vibrations, do you feel like entrepreneurship
21:07
Because I feel like it is like, it's, I guess we all are on a different
21:12
But for me, I'm like, every choice that I make in my career.
21:14
Like, I know that I remember the last episode.
21:16
You're like, what are you doing with your laptop?
21:17
Would comedy not work?
21:19
I know that you mentioned like very, you know, I've never really
21:23
been on vacation without my laptop.
21:25
So what are you doing on your laptop?
21:27
First of all, there's a lot of admin motherfuckers always
21:30
want to play, I remember you, you, somebody was like, you're
21:36
doing work and I'm like, you and I don't, I'm trying to stay
21:42
in my zone right here.
21:44
I didn't say the whole time she's writing her comedy.
21:48
All I'm saying is that stand up is real.
21:51
There's a lot, there's a lot I consider, even though I'm an
21:55
artist, I still consider the business side of stand up, which
21:57
is like, you know, getting paid and booking a relationship
22:00
with the clubs and all these things.
22:02
And there's a lot of, and I just feel like it's a spiritual thing
22:04
for me where it's like the path that I'm on is very like there's
22:08
something bigger than me working.
22:09
Does that make sense?
22:11
It's like you, what are some things that you think entrepreneurs
22:17
the mindset that they have to have in order to have a successful
22:20
Well, OK, let's bring it back to 2015, right?
22:23
Because that's how it started.
22:26
Not that you do have to be crazy, but you do have to just be like
22:32
Um And that's something that I knew going in and again, we had
22:35
literally everything going against us.
22:37
What's crazy is right before we opened, I remember I walked
22:40
outside of the restaurant and right next door was like a little
22:42
beauty shop and one of this, this Viejito, this old dude was
22:46
sweeping up and he's like, listen, I gotta be honest with you
22:50
I've seen restaurants open and closed restaurants don't
22:52
last more than 34 months here.
22:54
He's like, I don't want to be negative, but I just want to let
22:56
you know that and I was like, I just want to let you know that
23:00
we're going to make it years.
23:02
I was like, a matter of fact, you want to be, will be here after
23:05
He still owes me $500.
23:09
I mean, listen, I don't think he meant it in a bad way.
23:12
I really look out for it.
23:14
Yeah, because honestly it was the truth.
23:16
But I'm like, you don't know who he's talking to.
23:18
I hate when people put their limitations on you.
23:20
And I think that could be a business thing or your own artist
23:24
is like, oh, that never happens.
23:25
I used to get that a lot when I first started stand up.
23:27
I'm like me and my, me and my God, we're good and I think you just
23:32
have to really believe in yourself so much so that anything
23:35
that anybody says just falls off of you.
23:38
I was an actress, I'm investing in myself.
23:41
I mean, I don't know what the future holds.
23:45
I just know in my heart that whatever my dream is gonna come
23:48
true because I'm not gonna give up and it's gonna happen.
23:50
I mean, I was living in my parents' house two year like a year
23:54
ago just sitting there doing my auditions every single day
23:57
My mom, my dad would be like, what happened today?
23:59
I'm like, it's coming, dad, it's, I'm gonna get this one every
24:01
time I made an audition, go on into the bed.
24:03
Like mom and dad, like, they would help me run lines and then
24:06
all of a sudden I was like, don't worry, guys can, can uh that
24:08
can I borrow some money to take acting classes?
24:10
She's like, of course, I like, I'm an investment that trust
24:11
me one day, I'm gonna get it back.
24:12
He's like, I know, I know he's always supported me.
24:15
I've had to, I, I owed them so much money for helping me get this
24:17
far and I finally moved out and I finally have my own spot and
24:20
I'm finally growing.
24:21
But you have to really believe yourself and take a risk on yourself
24:25
because that's the only way you could learn.
24:26
And if you fail, you fail, you fall, you fall.
24:28
But that's when you actually learn how to build yourself up
24:31
And I wish I know that not to bring him back to boys, but I wish
24:34
I had that same mindset with a guy.
24:37
Like if he's not super excited about being with me, it's a no
24:40
same thing that I know.
24:42
You're saying, I wish your words powerful.
24:46
I don't even believe in the word failure.
24:47
Like I don't, I don't really think it because to me, a failure
24:50
would mean that whatever you wanted to do, didn't come to fruition
24:53
and you didn't learn anything from it.
24:55
I've learned from every single facet of my life.
24:58
So what it, you know what I'm saying?
25:00
But for example, failure.
25:02
When you, when you're younger and you think like a ticket is
25:05
the end of the world, an accident is the end of the world.
25:07
You don't know better.
25:10
When I was, when I was 17, I worked for Red Bull and one morning
25:14
I didn't wake up and it was like the, my first job, I was so excited
25:19
I was gonna go and I, my phone, I lost my phone.
25:22
Like I was out the night I lost my phone and I didn't wake up and
25:25
I didn't make it to work.
25:26
But I walked there like 3 p.m. I was like, I'm so sorry.
25:28
I, I and they were like, um go home.
25:31
We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll give you a call later.
25:33
And I was like, ok, my heart broke a little bit.
25:34
I was like, ok, I'll be fine.
25:36
It's not a big deal.
25:37
They're like, it's no call, no show.
25:40
No, no, no, no, I never even knew that existed.
25:44
I'm like, what is no call, no show.
25:45
Like at my first job I was shocked and my dad and my mom were like
25:49
I was like, I just didn't wake up.
25:50
They're like, but then the next week I got my first interview
25:54
as an intern for Fox sports through a random serendipitous
25:59
And that opened my eyes to the corporate role of Fox.
26:03
And that's, and I worked there for 78 years.
26:05
So it's like when I thought I was in the worst place in my life
26:08
I would have never had the opportunity to interview as an
26:09
intern and never be where I am today.
26:11
So never give like, don't worry about the little mishaps because
26:15
sometimes it's what leads you to your and you knew for the fox
26:19
Oh, I have my phone.
26:21
Oh, yeah, I was, I was like, mom, wake me up, dad, wake me up like
26:25
I, I even the birds wake me up because I'm not missing this.
26:28
So you become more responsive, you become so much more responsible
26:30
This doesn't have to do with career.
26:32
But I, I don't know if you, you probably don't know, but I, I'm
26:36
like, I was building out a van so I could like travel the country
26:38
and I got broken into it twice before it was built before it
26:43
And that and this was before I was going to hit the road, hit
26:46
the country and travel in it and actually live out of this tiny
26:49
home on wheels type deal.
26:51
So those two very traumatic situations where I'm getting
26:55
like two times, one week, everything stolen like crazy people
27:01
I feel like that was God preparing me for if you're seriously
27:04
so set on traveling the country in a tiny home on wheels in this
27:07
van or whatever, you need to double triple, check the locks
27:11
every single time, add extra protection.
27:13
It's a crazy world out there.
27:14
There's a crazy men, women with really bad intentions.
27:17
I know you live in this bubble and you think nobody's going
27:20
But no, there's a lot of evil out there.
27:22
So I think again, like every mishap, not even just in the entrepreneur
27:26
I think every mishap just in life is preparing you for something
27:31
It's like, OK, that's a red flag.
27:32
I'm going to avoid that next time.
27:33
Can I tell you what are my red flags in business if I have an idea
27:37
And I say, let's say, oh my God, we should do this and the person
27:40
It's a no, the answer should be like, yes, I know that sounds
27:44
But the way people respond just lets you know that person is
27:47
not ready and I wish I know that not to bring him back to boys
27:50
But I wish I had that same mindset with a guy.
27:53
Like if he's not super excited about being with me, it's a no
27:57
same thing that I know I'm not saying you're saying.
27:59
I wish your words are so powerful I will remember how we asked
28:04
before about our purpose and you were saying that people give
28:08
I think my purpose is the adverse of that, which is I want to
28:12
infect people with my like, like you can throw the hell you
28:17
Don't argue with me.
28:18
Like I feel like that's my purpose.
28:20
I know I'm changing my answer for the test today.
28:24
No, that's because as you started with your business, did
28:29
you take any classes or read any books that we're going to enhance
28:33
Well, let's take you guys to when the business starts.
28:36
Because no, no, no, just because we are, you know, 7.5 years
28:40
later and now I can say it's successful.
28:43
But when it first started, oh my God.
28:45
First of all, the first month that it opened, I lost £10 and
28:48
that's not great for me.
28:51
It was because my anxiety was debilitating because it was
28:56
real and I wasn't just opening a, a restaurant.
29:00
I was opening it with my dad.
29:01
So the steaks are like, yeah, sure.
29:04
But it's like, oh my God, if this doesn't work, then my dad has
29:10
So, no, I didn't take classes.
29:11
We just thugged it out.
29:15
No, but and for the record, the first couple of years were really
29:18
really, really hard.
29:19
You have Google and like, how do you do accounting?
29:21
How do you do you know, what are the things that you've learned
29:26
You're just doing it.
29:27
What are the things, some of the nuggets that you could give
29:30
that equal successful business that, you know, you should
29:33
have prepared or that you should do while you're in it.
29:36
Well, for me and this is just how I approach life.
29:39
Because even though I'm like a TV host and all those things
29:41
that's still business.
29:42
So, one thing that was really important for me was to uh save
29:45
a certain amount of money.
29:46
You know, I don't come from uh my, our, our background growing
29:49
up, we money was not, was not great.
29:51
So I knew growing up I'm never gonna deal with financial stress
29:56
So I always kept my credit good.
29:58
I always kept, I always saved a certain amount of money.
30:00
So that's good because it enables you to have less stress.
30:03
You know, did somebody teach you how to budget like that?
30:11
In fact, one of the worst memories of my life was I tried to open
30:15
a United Credit card.
30:17
It must have been 20.
30:18
I'm going to say 2016 because I was like, yeah, I want to get
30:22
points with all the money I spend.
30:24
And I'm like, I know my credit is popping.
30:25
Like why wouldn't it be popping?
30:27
It wouldn't be bopping because um I forgot that I had opened
30:33
a Home Depot credit card for my dad and he took out, he, like
30:37
he maxed it out both cards.
30:40
So that was really hard because I was like, my biggest fear
30:43
Credit your credit for that because, you know, I think it was
30:47
only like, $6000 but it only, you got to talk like that on purpose
30:52
because that's like, you know what I mean?
30:54
You gotta be like, well, it's only a million dollars.
30:57
Um but yeah, you live and you learn, it's like, oh I learned
31:02
that I grabbed his credit card and I was like, I will no longer
31:06
just help you financially.
31:07
I had to really learn that because it was a boundary.
31:10
That was the lack of that boundary was really affecting my
31:15
You're like, I'm cutting this credit card.
31:17
00 literally I was like, I don't care.
31:20
Literally I paid off the full $6000.
31:22
I know balling out of control.
31:24
No, because I was like, no, because I was like, first of all
31:26
I was like, I just, I'm like, I'll never have bad credit.
31:28
I'm telling you like kids grew up being scared of monsters
31:31
I was scared of bad credit as a kid.
31:34
It was a real thing.
31:36
Oh no, that was because that's one of my biggest traumas is
31:40
a lack of money and the instability that comes from that.
31:43
I know the stress that that causes So I knew, I knew as a kid.
31:46
No, never going to deal with that.
31:48
So, what are you doing to maintain your?
31:50
I'm really good with budgets.
31:56
Are you like an excel sheet type of girl?
31:59
It's more i, the one really good advice I got from my ex boyfriend
32:04
was to live below your means and I did that for a really long
32:07
What does that mean?
32:08
So, so he told me this, we must have, we must have been like 19
32:14
He said live below your means.
32:16
So if you make $10,000 a month in your head, you make $7000 a
32:20
You always live poor, poor than you do.
32:24
So, yeah, what are some money tips?
32:25
Because like, ok, like, let's say you get, let's say Ivana
32:28
books a great movie and she gets paid $30,000.
32:33
How much of that should go into savings and how much of that
32:35
Well, here's the thing.
32:35
It all depends on where you are too in your life.
32:38
So, for the first, sorry, it's, it's just, it's a nuanced answer
32:43
because in my twenties living below my means, that's what
32:47
I saved hella money.
32:48
But now that I'm in my thirties, I'm like, I've worked hard
32:52
I've built these foundations now.
32:54
It's time for me to spend more money and treat myself responsible
33:00
But because I'm now leaning into the feminine energy more
33:03
before I was more my masculine energy like the hustle mode
33:06
But now I'm like, no, now it's time that the universe is going
33:10
I want to know what made the shift between more in your masculine
33:15
because I relate to this a lot.
33:17
I was so in my masculine energy, I was like career, career work
33:22
I don't, you know, I don't, I don't want a man.
33:24
I think a lot of that was like the narrative that was around
33:27
me now, I'm like me, me, me, I'm more on my like feminine side
33:32
And I think that I think a lot of females are feeling that way
33:34
now, but I've been seeing a lot, at least with my own friends
33:37
I'm like, well because it's not sustainable to just be one
33:40
So I think, yeah, so last year, I have a word for how to explain
33:45
Every year has a word started happening in like 2019.
33:48
My word of last year was balance because I realized my balance
33:52
wasn't off, it was off and when my balance is off, I don't feel
33:56
And I was like, oh, I need to balance out this masculine and
34:00
feminine energy because I am innately very feminine.
34:03
A lot of my masculinity comes from being raised on the east
34:06
coast, being raised in a neighborhood where you have to protect
34:09
You know, all of these things.
34:11
So yeah, it was just like, how do I reach this balance?
34:14
That's going to make me feel the best with how I'm living my
34:18
life because I was like, ok, you save them.
34:20
I'm like, no, it doesn't make sense.
34:22
Do you feel like when you're in your entrepreneur vibe and
34:25
you're like working at the restaurant or you're answering
34:28
emails from people trying to book you?
34:29
Are you more on your masculine or do you feel like you can still
34:31
kind of stay on your feminine energy doing that?
34:33
Definitely with restaurant stuff.
34:35
I switch a lot more to masculine, especially because it is
34:40
And here's a thing about working with family is those dynamics
34:44
that are already established within the family flow into
34:49
Um So I have had to do a lot of healing so that I like really ground
34:55
myself before I enter the restaurant or before I talk to my
34:58
dad because I immediately want to revert back to old Dadiani
35:02
That's like I'm controlling everything.
35:04
I'm doing all these things and now I'm just like, no, that's
35:07
not who we are anymore.
35:09
So like, I feel bad that I can't give you like, I can't give you
35:12
a practical response in terms of if you make $30,000 because
35:15
I don't like telling people exactly what to do because it depends
35:19
on where and how much you ever saved already.
35:21
Like how much you have invested in as I know it's such a nuanced
35:23
answer because for some people, 50,000 is enough.
35:27
For some people, 5000 is enough.
35:29
You know, and for some people, what makes you feel safe is different
35:34
Like the best advice you could give anybody is spend as much
35:39
That's the, those parts of yourself that you love, the parts
35:43
of yourself that you hate.
35:45
Because then you, then when you have that love with all parts
35:49
of yourself, that's when you'll really know what you want
35:53
to do and how you want to live your life and you're going to want
35:55
to protect yourself.
35:57
You know, I have a question about masculine, feminine energy
36:00
I feel like one of the things that I struggle with a lot as a woman
36:03
in business is negotiating and I feel like sometimes I think
36:07
I'm doing a good job.
36:08
But then I feel like, oh my God, what if I got played?
36:10
Have you ever felt like it can be from the restaurant or the
36:14
hosting side where maybe you felt like you didn't negotiate
36:18
because you were scared or something.
36:20
This is an amazing question because we notoriously specifically
36:24
as women and a lot of times as minorities, we, we always, not
36:27
always, we will often lowball ourselves.
36:30
And it's really because we're like, oh, well, I should just
36:33
be grateful I have this job.
36:34
And my God, if I ask for this much money, they're gonna give
36:40
So my tricks for that is, first of all, I immediately got an
36:44
agent because I was like, I don't want to deal with this for
36:47
I was my own agent and I'm like, I hate this, I hate having to
36:50
be the one that's like this is my.
36:52
Yeah, that's so hard.
36:54
And it's like we should advocate for ourselves, but I don't
36:57
No, I really don't want to.
36:58
So getting an agent definitely rectifies that.
37:01
Um But really the, what I was saying before in terms of being
37:06
like, I didn't negotiate well enough or I could have asked
37:09
That's like a lack mindset, meaning like, well, if they ask
37:13
for too much, they're going, they're going to want someone
37:17
That, do you know that time in your life when they're like,
37:19
well, what's your rate?
37:21
And you're, you're still in the early phases of how you feel
37:25
about yourself and what you've been offering, even though
37:28
you know that your experience and you've done the work and
37:31
you put the mo the, the work and you still like what I, what I
37:34
Should I ask for a little, should I ask for too much?
37:38
That was a really hard time for me, like your daily rate with
37:41
And I asked everybody, well, what's my daily rate?
37:43
And then, and then say, what's your daily rate in my head?
37:46
I, I would think this amount but I would never, who knows that
37:49
they would accept it.
37:51
But you have to ask for what you think you're worth.
37:54
And it's crazy because even if you look at it from things from
37:56
social media or even like a makeup artist are like, well, you're
37:58
only working for an hour.
37:59
Why are you charging that much or it's only a post?
38:01
Well, it's taken me 10 years to get to build this community
38:05
10 years of just posting, working, putting myself out there
38:08
But you know, dealing with online bullying like 10 years of
38:10
this, that's what you're paying for is like a genuine community
38:14
that you're going to be, you know, posting your brand to or
38:15
even just something like a makeup artist or somebody that
38:18
Well, it only takes this long while charging that much.
38:20
Well, it's taken me 1012 years of working experience for me
38:24
to do that in that amount of time, one hour, you know, you're
38:27
paying for the experience.
38:29
And I think that's sometimes what we don't remember is like
38:32
And as a host, it's like you're not paying for just me hosting
38:35
You're paying for like literally the 10, however long amount
38:39
of time you've been in that business of experience and being
38:42
able to think on your feet or whatever preparation you do before
38:46
You're studying as an actress.
38:49
I mean, for an audition, I'm doing my hair.
38:52
I'm buying an outfit.
38:53
I'm studying three days before the audition.
38:57
I'm hiring somebody to do my self tape to read with me.
39:01
I'm driving an hour to the Valley.
39:03
This is like $300 on audition that lasts two minutes.
39:09
If not one that you never hear back from.
39:13
So it's like people, it's a lot more than just what you see.
39:17
There's so much history, even food and like a, like a plate
39:21
It's like you're paying for the rent, electricity, the supplies
39:24
the labor, the cleaning of all the plates.
39:27
Like you don't even think about that.
39:28
I don't think about that when I go into a restaurant, man, that's
39:30
such a, I hate when people are like, I can't believe how expensive
39:33
I'm like, have you not noticed how groceries have gone up?
39:36
Do you think that restaurants are not?
39:38
That's a big thing with me because we've had to obviously raise
39:41
our prices in the past couple of years.
39:42
Not more than once because obviously inflation and people
39:46
have the audacity to complain.
39:47
I'm like, first of all, you got to cook at your house.
39:51
That's always an option.
39:52
That's always an option.
39:54
Look at me going into my masculine.
39:59
If you could go back in time when your dad first moved here before
40:02
he embarked on his business.
40:04
What would you tell your dad's younger self?
40:07
Give him all of the words of affirmation that he didn't get
40:11
So I would just fill him with so much love and confidence and
40:16
just be like regardless, you are here on this planet to thrive
40:19
and you're going to thrive.
40:21
One thing I would commend you.
40:22
I cannot work with my mom.
40:23
She is worse than experience credit report.
40:25
She will be in my inbox, do this, do this, do this.
40:28
She's so annoying like I just can't but I really appreciate
40:32
I appreciate that you're able to put the family trauma.
40:37
I think that's really beautiful to start a business with your
40:41
I would be the kind of daughter that would give my mom money
40:46
I just can't my mom and sometimes even friends like there will
40:50
be times when you have a vision for something and you're like
40:52
I want to bring this person with me and they're slowing you
40:54
down and you have to let them know like yo, like I got into a big
40:58
Sorry, can I say that?
40:59
I'm sorry, I'll be cursing.
41:00
I I have this residual fight with one of my friends because
41:03
we started a comedy show together and for me, I'm very big on
41:07
Maybe the Roy is not that what is Roy?
41:11
Oh Return on investment.
41:13
You guys know that first of all, I thought you said why I was
41:16
like, no, why should be in the seo of this title?
41:20
But Roy is a return on investment is the amount of energy money
41:23
Is that coming back to me in some shape or form for me?
41:26
Because I'm still in my very young infancy stage of comedy
41:29
I'm like, what's important is that, are we selling tickets
41:31
Do did I get to build a new set?
41:33
You know, all of these things that matter to me.
41:35
So we were throwing these shows and people were not coming
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I have other shows but for that show, people were not coming
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And I'm like, yo, like, I love working with you.
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I think that you're a great friend but no one's coming to the
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I'm not gonna keep putting my time to produce a show that nobody's
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So we just have to let it go and she did not take that.
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Well, she's like, you always cancel all these projects that
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I'm like, I love you, but there is no income coming in for this
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So God canceled this, not me, you know, like it's not even about
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eating in the beginning when you're starting off.
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It's about like I have to, for me it's really important to build
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I'm building shows for my community.
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So the show that I have with my best friend, Sasha Maurice Nando
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I want people to always have something to come to while I'm
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And I'm like this show, I want to work with you, but we're just
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You don't get it when I don't feel like some people are a little
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bit more emotional in business than others.
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And when I don't feel good, nobody could tell me what to do.
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And that's, I know that I have poor teamwork skills, but that's
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I think that's really great.
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And I think that go into picking the right team.
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I was gonna say you're not supposed to picking the right marketing
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team, picking the right creative picking right CFO like whatever
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it is, like not everyone's for you.
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But at the same time, they're experts in their field and you
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need to trust that and you, you are in your field and they're
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doing their thing, you can't do everything, but you could
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choose the people that you think are gonna be really successful
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in their jobs to make your business better.
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I think that's a big entrepreneur thing to have.
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I, oh yeah, I'm guessing.
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But I had to learn that because again, my dynamic with my family
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was me being the grandma on the c you need to recognize people's
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strengths and weaknesses, but we are amazing.
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And before we ask, I have one more question for you because
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there are some amazing he a that we want to highlight.
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But before we do, I do want to ask if you could go back in time
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when your dad first moved here before he embarked on his business
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journey and all the ups and downs of it.
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What would you tell your dad's younger self?
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That's an amazing question because I feel like I'm faced with
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my dad's inner child a lot.
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I would give him all of the words of affirmation that he didn't
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Um Yeah, so I would just fill him with so much love and confidence
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and just be like, just know that regardless you are here on
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this planet to thrive and you're going to thrive here, girl
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I really do that here, dad, man making it happen now.
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So many ups and downs child tribulations as an immigrant.
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That's what it's about.
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Get out their work, fail.
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There's no such thing as failure to your family.
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You guys get back up every time you learn those lessons.
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So you never give a freaking damn.
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This conversation kind of makes me think about my dad is an
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He's so mysterious about it sometimes like, oh what do you
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Whatever, but you never know what your parents are actually
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going through day to day and sometimes we got to step outside
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So I really appreciate you opening up and sharing that with
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I want to, we want to shout out some gas of the week.
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So we couldn't do the entrepreneur episode without shouting
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out some amazing hair fas and bosses that are doing their thing
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that we look up to as well.
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I want to shout out Priscilla Ono.
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Priscilla Ono became Rihanna's go to makeup artist.
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You know, I love me some Rihanna.
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And is she your makeup artist?
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I would love to work with Priscilla in the future.
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I would love to be in a fancy campaign manifesting that would
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be good for the brand that would be good.
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So yeah, she's Rihanna's go to makeup artist and Fenty Beauty
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makeup global artist.
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And she followed her passion to get there when she dropped
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out of college at the age of 20 to pursue makeup full time.
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Her Mexican immigrant parents were not pleased and her grandmother
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didn't speak to her for two years until Priscilla appeared
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on these parents were doing the most until they appeared until
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she appeared on television, doing makeup and giving makeup
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Today, she's also pursuing her other passions in fashion
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teaming up with plus size fashion brands.
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Ono's story is a testament to listening to that voice inside
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guiding you to follow your passions even when others can't
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So shout out to Priscilla.
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Her makeup is always on point.
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And then we got Jenny Rodriguez, a stylist who worked her way
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up in the world of celebrity fashion from working at Power
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106 radio station to Styling for E news and becoming Beyonce's
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She says it's important to be patient.
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Enjoy the journey because every thing that you go through
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is meant to happen that way for a reason.
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What's crazy is that when I was working at Bueno sex, I would
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see her there all the time.
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She was always the best vibe.
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It's so cool to see everything that is so many years.
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You really start from someplace.
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Look at or go, you wanna take this one?
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Oh, I'm doing it too.
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This is Desi Perkins.
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She's a Mexican American beauty guru and the founder of desi
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eyewear and skin care from vlogging in early days of youtube
46:37
to developing two namesake beauty brands.
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Dessie has not only been a beauty mogul but also an inspiration
46:43
to women suffering through infertility, which she has openly
46:47
spoken about before finally giving birth to her first child
46:54
And this is actually my home girl Daniela Legarda and her sister
46:59
So they actually founded something called Hermanas at the
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So they throw these awesome events.
47:04
They've partnered up with Meta.
47:05
I've gone to a couple of the events where they just honestly
47:07
bring really, really dope girls from Los Angeles, Latinas
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you guys need to come out to one of them just to get together
47:13
And again, she just kind of stands for the community.
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She does fashion, she's dope, she does makeup, her content
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So make sure you guys follow them.
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And thank you guys so much for tuning in.
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What did you guys feel like you guys took away from this conversation
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Oh, there's just so much one that I feel like we're all on the
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We all kind of have the same kind of just the way that we approach
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things of everything.
47:38
Let's think of it positively.
47:39
We are going to win versus thinking about what can go wrong
47:42
But from this conversation, I took that I should really, maybe
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I don't know if I will ever go into business with my parents
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But really no, I'm just being bad ass.
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But something I talked to my dad about is also like, what are
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How are we going to pass?
47:56
He has a trucking company where he distributes chips like
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certain supermarkets, super dope.
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And I'm like, how are we going to pass that on to someone else
48:03
Don't just give your years of hard work to keep sleeping in
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So I want to have a conversation with my dad about that.
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So that's what I took away from this episode.
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I think for me honestly, I've uh you know, my parents moved
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here like Mexico, Colombia.
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I want to build wealth, y'all like I need to get better at saving
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at budgeting start a business to where, when I'm asleep, I'm
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It's not like I have to be putting in time to get money.
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That's, that can be tough sometimes when you're only making
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money while you're putting in time, why don't you let your
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So I would love to passive income.
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I don't know, manifesting passive income.
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I think, I think I learned that if you do have this vision or
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an idea or a dream just to go for it.
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Even if you don't know the first thing where to start like you
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like you, you and your parents, if you just keep putting 1 ft
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in front of the other lane breaks down, you learn as you go and
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if you have a passion for it and you never give up, I mean, something's
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gotta give, something's gotta give baby.
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And if you believe in yourself, it'll happen, who's gonna
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tell you no, you create your reality?
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So I think that's what I got out of it.
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I mean, I just, I just like you said, love getting to know different
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people and seeing the different journeys that everybody's
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on and just hope that everybody feels really good after this
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and feels inspired and just know you do whatever the hell you
49:29
want, do not listen to the girl.
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Let me tell you, you can do whatever you want.
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You're on this planet because you're meant to thrive like
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I was going to tell my dad's inner child you're here because
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you're meant to thrive.
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Give us your Instagram at Tiani Santana.
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A lot of yummy food is on there.
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And now that I'm here in L A, I'll be watching her food like you
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go to food, restaurants and I'd be looking for recommendations
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So I really appreciate that.
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I'm going to go eat there.
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The Lord's work over here.
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Follow her for sure.
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Thank you guys so much for tuning in to girl.
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Let me tell you, I'm Jessica Flores.
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I'm go, I'm dai, I'm Ivana Rojas and this is work on that every
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We were like, oh, do that again.
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