The “This, That and the Other” Podcast
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The “This, That and the Other” Podcast
The Beauty Connect: Where Jesus Meets Jeezy feat. Tameka Taylor
Meet Tameka Taylor – entrepreneur, salon owner, daycare co-owner, podcast host, and the woman known as "The Connector." In this captivating conversation, Tameka shares her remarkable journey from becoming a mother at 17 to building multiple successful businesses while staying true to her authentic self.
Tameka's story begins in Chicago before moving to Florida, where early motherhood became the catalyst for her entrepreneurial drive. Rather than letting traditional employment dictate her availability for her children, she created her own path that prioritized family while building financial independence. With refreshing candor, she reveals how a near-brush with the law became the final push toward full-time entrepreneurship – a decision that changed everything.
The conversation explores Tameka's business evolution, from founding Elite Beauty Professionals salon to partnering with her daughter in Tailored to Learning Child Care Academy. Her annual Boss's Brunch event, which began as casual living room sessions helping entrepreneurs during the pandemic, has transformed into a powerful platform for women's personal and professional development. Throughout her ventures, Tameka prioritizes collaboration over competition, embodying her role as a connector of people and opportunities.
What truly sets Tameka apart is her unapologetic authenticity, perfectly captured in her quote: "I love Jesus and I love Jeezy." She refuses to compartmentalize different aspects of herself, embracing both spiritual depth and playful enjoyment of life. As a 44-year-old grandmother of four who defies age expectations, Tameka offers wisdom on balancing family relationships with business ambitions, developing a strong personal brand, and finding purpose beyond parenting.
Whether you're a parent seeking better work-life balance, an entrepreneur looking to expand your network, or simply someone who appreciates stories of resilience and reinvention, Tameka's insights will inspire you to embrace your whole self while building the life you desire. Follow her journey across social platforms @TamekaTaylor or visit www.tamekataylor.com to connect with this dynamic force for collaboration and growth.
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Speaker 1:It's Thursday night, we getting all grown and sexy. We need to run that back. You want to run it back. That's my favorite part about this whole thing. Let's run that thing back. Let's get it Bye.
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Speaker 8:Shout out to D-Note call. They call me the gospel, because I'm nothing but the truth. You know, I'm locked and loaded, ready to go with my partners at the this, that and the Other podcast, where every discussion is straight five and that's nine to a major yeah.
Speaker 1:You want to hear my favorite part? Listen to this. The this, that and the Other Podcast. Come on, man, we out here spending big bucks.
Speaker 2:I think my favorite part went to TO said Yabish.
Speaker 1:Yabish, I love TO Shout out to the homie. To Shout out to Lee J you guys know what it is. Shout out to Dino for putting that together. Listen, man. Like I said, it's Thursday.
Speaker 1:You know what it is this dab look real sexy man take a look around, look at all this, look at that man. Yeah, I love it. I love it, I'm ready for this. You ready? Yeah, man, listen, listen, we got the wine poured up. Shout out to my nephew Devontae, the technical guy. Listen, man, we're going to get started. We're going to have a special guest, our brother Donald Lewis, pull up sooner than later. Also, our brother Swan, possibly, is back. We'll see if he trickles in or not. We got a big one in the building tonight. I am joined by none other. You know what I'm going to. Let you do your own. You know, say get the cobwebs, shake the awkers, you ain't been. Shout out to T-Baby.
Speaker 2:Yes, shout out to listen, it's been a minute. Yeah, I don't even know how to introduce myself.
Speaker 1:You know how to do it. Shout out to the funeral home.
Speaker 6:You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Shout out to yeah, we on chat with Chyna. All right, so y'all already know. Listen, the first shout out forever will always go to Biscuit.
Speaker 1:Shout out to my daddy Biscuit Shout out to my daughter Thank you, Biscuit, for letting mommy come out tonight. I was going to say shout out to Biscuit, Listen.
Speaker 2:shout out my people. Shout out my realtor. I'm a homeowner now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're my home.
Speaker 2:Shout out my support system. T-baby said I've been going for a minute Now.
Speaker 1:I'm back with the job. Yeah, man, we miss you. T-baby, you know I had to check in on you.
Speaker 2:I ain't going to take up too much time. Listen, y'all know my favorite shout-out is going to always be the last shout-out. I'm never telling y'all to kill y'all people, but when they die, call Reggie Cannon at Cannon Funeral.
Speaker 4:Home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, shout-out to your sister with Slay. What do you call her? Your Slay sister, ashley? Oh, my Slaughter, yeah, your Slaughter. The Cobwebs, ash. Yeah, I got you, I got you, I got you man.
Speaker 2:Shout out to my Slaughter that's my praying partner, my Slaughter, my ride or die. My right hand, my business partner, my bestie. Shout out to Ash, I love you, Chica.
Speaker 1:You said your prayer partner. That's dope. I ain't never heard nobody say that before. Yes, that is my prayer partner. I I need to get me a prayer partner. My wife prays with me. She prays over me all the time. I'm glad she do. Somebody got to it. We out here. We out here, like my girl, tamika said I love Jesus and I love Jeezy Both of them Listen. Speaking of Tamika, let me go ahead and get my horns ready, man, listen, listen, listen. I got a little introduction for you. You ready, you ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:I'm ready.
Speaker 1:She is a woman of many titles. She is the boss of all bosses. She is the CEO of elite beauty professionals. She is known as the connector. She's an all-around queen. She pushed up. Listen to this. I'm really proud of this one. I want to hear it, Let me hear it. She pushed a grand in grandma. She is the epitome of the phrase black don't crack. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Miss Tamika Taylor.
Speaker 2:Now, that was an introduction. Yeah, not the grand in grand. Most people don't even believe I'm a grandmother.
Speaker 1:I know I was just about to say I'm a grandmother and that's why I wanted to say that, because I was like man people, I just found out myself by doing my little research and I was like wait, really she's a grandma.
Speaker 2:I'm a grandma.
Speaker 1:Dang, I have four grandchildren. Four, I have grandchildren. Yeah, dang, that's what's up.
Speaker 2:Blessing, blessing this year was my birthday, so I was like my theme was four plus four equals.
Speaker 5:I ate.
Speaker 2:I turned 44. So a lot of times when I tell people how old I am, and that I have grandchildren and children as old as I do. They looking at me like crazy and we stand there in awe for a moment. But I tell people, I say you know, in all seriousness, I feel like when you're a great person, you love God, you take care of your children, that you, you really cultivate good relationships.
Speaker 2:God is going to bless you with that time off your life, so I be telling the people I'm 27 and she don't sound like my mama and she just turned 50, like two years ago, and still swearing she's 27 and I'm like how sis mama she got to grow up because I done turned 28. So how she 27, 27 and you could definitely pass for any age like that. Call me Gigi now, like that grandma thing, like I put, I put the G and grandma yeah, but the grandkids call me Gigi, I'm their Gigi.
Speaker 1:Definitely a Gigi. That's so cute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what's up Because I'm the OG.
Speaker 1:Yeah, blessing, that's a blessing man.
Speaker 2:That's what's up If my daughter ever make me a grandma, that's when I'm going to be the OG. I used to say it was going to be called I wanted to be called I was too young to be a grandma. Grandma, yeah, yeah. My mom don't even want to be called. She's nana.
Speaker 5:So, and my grandkids know, nana versus gg like they'd be like that's nana and they know that's their great grandmother.
Speaker 1:But then they know I'm gg and I'm their grandmother yeah, not too long ago you posted a picture with your mama, you and your daughter, and I'm like oh, like this is. This is crazy, like your mom still look yeah young as crap and I'm like man and I have the issue.
Speaker 2:You have machina with your mom, like can you sit down please?
Speaker 5:I'm gonna need you to sit down.
Speaker 2:You're not my sister you are my mother, please I'm quick to tell her I don't have kids. My malia belongs to her.
Speaker 3:Listen now that's a debate.
Speaker 2:We have, because my mom swears she raised my oldest child and I'm like we can talk about it. I'm going to let you have that moment. I'm going to let you have it man, listen before we get.
Speaker 1:Shout out to the chat. Man, if you tuned in to the chat, make sure you share it. Shout out to Burley. Shout out to Burley. We love you. We can't wait July 19. Make sure you share it. Shout out to Burley. Is that Burley? Yeah, burley. Shout out to Burley. We love you. We can't wait July 19th. I ain't going to say much more, but shout out to T-Baby. Shout out to Ariel Adams. Listen, we here Share the love. Share it. Debonte put that video. I told you Before we get in. Oh, that's right, that's right, I had a problem, but I'm going to go ahead and play it out on the speaker and hope everybody can hear it, because Tamika was talking that talk. Let's get it.
Speaker 2:I just wanted to come see y'all today. I said what's up? Happy Making Moves Monday. And I wanted to tell y'all do what you want. They hating anyway. Like, do what makes you feel good. Don't worry about what people gotta say about you, don't worry about people's opinions of you, because so often we stop and we think, oh, what's so-and-so gonna think about that, so-and-so waiting on you to do it, because it's gonna give them freedom and liberation. One thing about me, baby I love the lord, but I also love cheesy.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes yes yes, really, really love worshiping, but I love trap music like and nobody's gonna take that from me, so don't let anybody take it from you. Live your best life. You only get one to live.
Speaker 1:Yes, Lord.
Speaker 2:I got to steal that from you. So when you see me one day, say that I'm going to make sure I quote you, because I do love Jesus and Jeezy.
Speaker 2:And it was so funny because I was bumping Jeezy at the same time, right, and I just thought about it because I love God, and so so, so often people get it misconstrued because they'll judge you based on where they see you. They'll judge you based on where you show up. They'll judge you based on the fact that I like to turn up. But don't get it twisted. God is first. I'm saved. Not so at all. I still will knock if you bug.
Speaker 1:Man, that's why the fellas I wish they were here. Man, shout out to my brother Saint Shout out to Swan. When we met at the Jazz Mars event, I already knew of you. I just haven't met you personally, but when I met you personally, it was face-to-face, it was everything that I thought it would be. Your energy, man, listen, your positivity, your positivity is you have an aura to you and I seen you, I see you.
Speaker 1:Uh, briefly, I think it was boss fest yeah uh, when they had it in tampa, yeah, that was good, but I was leaving at the time because I had to hurry up to come to strive, to strive for a cause, and I wanted to go say what's up to you but I had to leave. But, like you, have a presence by you. You know what I'm saying. Thank you. When you walk into the room, everybody know Tamika Taylor is there, because you're going to see that smile from across the room. Yes, you're going to hear her. You know you're going to feel her presence. So when does that come from?
Speaker 2:Well, first of all, thank you for that. I really appreciate that. I think it comes from confidence, just having confidence. I will say this I used to ask my mom. I say Mom, when I go in the room, I say everybody looking at me, everybody looking at me.
Speaker 2:It used to Right, it used to make me really uncomfortable, but as I grew and I became who God wanted me to be, I understood that there was a light on me, that there was something that they saw that I possibly I just didn't see.
Speaker 2:And so one of my prayers today is just God, let me see you, let me see me how you see me. So now that I understand who I am, I understand what I carry and I understand they hate in any way, I just show up as my full, authentic self. And when I say that, hey, in any way, it's not that I'm saying we got haters or we do, but it's not about that. But what I'm saying is that people are going to think what they want to think, no matter how you show up. If you show up clean, if you show up with diamonds on, if you show up in your worst or your best, they're going to form their opinion about you their opinion about you. So I just feel like I want to walk in the room owning who I am. I don't want anybody to think that I question who I am because I know I am samika taylor. Yes, young girls nowadays need to know that, and that's something they need to know. They need to know I am whoever their name is, and know who they are.
Speaker 2:They so caught up in wanting to be somebody else. Let me not get started. But, Marsha, you got a daughter though you say you have, I met your daughter. Well, when I say met, I feel like we encounter each other on a spiritual level when we're in the same room, amen. So I saw your daughter, biscuit, and I have two girls. So my girls are the best part of me, because anytime that I need a reminder that I've done a great job, I look at them.
Speaker 2:That is my baby. For me, I could talk all day about my baby all day, but Biscuit is one of those. She knows who she is, she knows what she wants, and it's hard, sometimes raising yourself because she is me all over again, but I wouldn't change it because she knows who I am what I like what I don't like yeah, and.
Speaker 2:I feel a lot of girls at her age don't know that and that troubles me because this is our next generation that's coming up absolutely, and I'm not saying that it's all the parents fault, because there is that saying that says my mama raised me right, I did wrong on my own. However, the moms need to be held a little bit more accountable for these young girls that are growing up and and are suffering from self-identity crisis and they don't know who they are. It's okay to not know where you want to go, but to not know who you are and to build up on that is a problem. So, yes, absolutely, and that's the whole podcast. That's the whole podcast. We could go deep right. There's a deep dive. I'm raising a 26 20. My oldest daughter is 26, okay, and um, she owns two daycares, like she's at capacity um, she is going to be I mean at
Speaker 5:capacity and just split by that she's at capacity with both of her sinners.
Speaker 2:Um, she's seen multiple six figures and she was one that knew who she was and what she wanted to do at a very early age. And I'm not going to even lie to you. Sometimes she's my reminder to reflect on who God called me to be and she's my motivation, and so I tell my best friend, um, shout out to the best. Yeah, that's my prayer partner, but, yeah, we can go deep about them knowing, and I just thank god that I was able to cultivate a daughter who knows who she is and who is a good role model to her age group.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah shout out to tia crockett on the on the live man y'all want to talk about somebody that you can get deep with.
Speaker 2:I went to listen to her in the morning. Hold on, wait a second. Let me just tia, you won't hear she on mic check, mic check. One, two, one, two. I went to opulent daughters retreat. How was it? I went to opulent daughters retreat and I'm gonna tell you, I had got up one morning on tuesday I think she does it on tuesday morning and I was unsure, because I don't just go into anybody's um space, and it was something that she said and I know that girl. Sit with God. Pure point of view.
Speaker 1:She sit with.
Speaker 2:God, and it was something.
Speaker 2:Coffee in the morning with them and everything Do not make me run in this room, and it was something she said, and the Holy Spirit said you got to go. And I'll just say this in short opulent daughters, retreat experience for me, cultivated, and prepare me for everything I've gone through in 2025. That's all I'll say. And I tell you that lady right there, I met her Shout out to Taj because Taj, actually, when I had mindset maintenance, he said that's somebody you want to invite Definitely. And I reached out to her, told her I had a ticket for her. Just show up, girl, be busy though. And she came. She did, and I reached out to her, told her I had a ticket for her.
Speaker 3:Just show up, girl be busy though.
Speaker 5:She came.
Speaker 3:She did.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, she came. Yes, and I started following her on social media. You know she did because she sat at the table next to me. I remember hugging her. And I started following her on social media and one morning she was up praying. Hey, she was up praying one morning.
Speaker 1:At 7 o'clock in the morning, she go live. Yes, 7, I think it's 7.
Speaker 2:And baby, when I say a word between her and Pastor Fola you go in.
Speaker 1:Oh man.
Speaker 2:Listen, I just had a surgery procedure and it's been two weeks ago yesterday and right before I was in the prep room and I had to make her a video. I was in the prep room right before they take you back and I went to my facebook before you know. I had to give up my phone and tia had sent me a prayer that was about two minutes and something long and me and my mom you know we grab hands and we listen and I told her. I said your prayer took me where I needed to go so I told.
Speaker 2:I said I know you sit with god like listen.
Speaker 1:Tia you, my girl, for real, real life you know I told pastor Fuller when we had him on the pod, like everybody knows how I feel about pastors, sometimes right.
Speaker 5:I feel, like.
Speaker 1:Sometimes they can come off a little scammy.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But with Pastor Fuller we love your transparency. You know I ain't making this up. People realize that there's scammers out there. You know, pastors that ain't really living that life yeah, there's. There's scammers out there, you know, pastors that ain't really living that life yeah. But there's two people that convinced me one thousand, three people that convinced me one thousand percent, and that's uh, pastor fuller, his wife and tia crockett.
Speaker 1:We had her and the girls on the pod yes and that was one of my favorite episodes yeah, man shouting the king of stokes too, man, I love her. Man the poet, yeah yeah. So you know, like I said, you know you light up a room when you go, when you come to places. You know everybody knows you're there. But let's talk about early Tamika. Okay, like what it took for you, the Jeezy Right.
Speaker 2:The snowman.
Speaker 5:Let's talk about summer In the wintertime.
Speaker 2:You understand.
Speaker 1:The stuff that you know. Let's talk about early life, like where are you from, how was your life growing up and you know to where you at now?
Speaker 2:So I'm originally from Chicago, illinois, chi-town. Okay, yes, I'm originally from Chicago. I moved to Florida when I was really young I want to say I was about six years old when we moved here because Chicago is rough and was always rough. That's why me and my baby stayed in the downtown area when we went and we did not leave from there. You better not Listen it get ratchet by the pier too. My daddy was like hey, you need to get from down there.
Speaker 5:The Navy Pier.
Speaker 2:The Navy Pier. Okay, well, that's as far as we went. And then we went to the Bean, because I had to see the Bean. You've never seen the bean. Oh, you're talking about the big silver thing.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, yeah. Yeah, I didn't know, it's called the bean girl. Shout out to America's favorite cousins appreciate you, homie.
Speaker 2:So we, uh we, we saw that and then we were back to. You know that where the peak, where it was, it's a, it's a very beautiful place. So, coming from you know, chicago, moving Florida, I've been in Florida. I'm 44. So I've been in Florida a great deal of my life. I had my first child at 17. So I saw a post earlier and a young lady was talking about how she was a mom before she became a woman, and so that was part of my testimony. Bestie here can tell you my conversation has been lord. I want to go deeper in you because I'm trying to detach from taking care of my kids for all these years, and it was not easy. It was not easy. I come from corporate. I can't say I had a hard life. My mom was the best. Shout out to mary taylor harris. She was the absolute best. She sounded like she was mary Taylor Harris.
Speaker 1:That sound like somebody good. She sound like a good mama.
Speaker 2:That's the OG. Do you hear me? My mom does not play.
Speaker 6:That's a good mama name right there.
Speaker 2:And she taught me how to be a woman. She taught me how to take care of my family. She taught me how to be a mom and so, although raising children at 17 was a struggle with God, it made it really sweet. So, coming out of corporate and raising my children, I wanted to have time, freedom. So me being a young mom is what pushed me into becoming an entrepreneur, because being a mom, having to work, being a single parent it's like when the people tell me, oh, you can't be off because you got to work Like forget y'all job, I'm taking care of my kids. So for me, I was always a mom first.
Speaker 2:Nothing in my life came outside of. Everything in my life was because I was a mom. I love that Was because I was a mom. I did everything for my children, and part of what I'm trying to separate from right now is my children were my why, and I understand now that that can't be, and I want to tell women women, don't make your children your why, because when they grow up now you trying to figure out who the hell you?
Speaker 1:are outside of these. That's something that people don't think about a lot. But I could definitely attest from a man's point of view about daughters. Yeah, like I mean, I'm not saying I was a wild dude, but when I had my daughter, instantly I was like okay, now I have something to live for, now I have something to and shout out to her cause we love her, I met her that night beautiful girl, isn't she?
Speaker 2:she look just like him, but she's beautiful. Wait what? But she's beautiful, not?
Speaker 1:but she's beautiful. So maybe y'all since we on my daughter, so I'll be transparent with y'all. Maybe I can get some advice from the ladies. She got a little boyfriend.
Speaker 2:We love it.
Speaker 1:How old is she? She is no, she's not. She's 13, 14. She's 15.
Speaker 2:She is not 15. 14, 15. Listen to that, aunt.
Speaker 1:Aunt don't want her to be, he be forgetting how old she is sometimes, cause one day she'll look like she's 12 and then you, he won't see everybody. When we come back, she look like she's 18, but she done grew and got tall. Yeah, she's tall, she's tall, but so how should I deal with this? So this is my problem with it, like I'm not the father that oh you can't have no boyfriend.
Speaker 1:I want to be a segment to it, the balance of it. I want to accept it, but I also want to show resistance because, like, I don't want her to think that you know, yeah, it's okay to have a boyfriend and then you think it's okay to do other things. You know, let's just work on the boyfriend holding hands. Still, you know we're not ready for the kisses and making out stuff. You know what I mean? Okay so, but on the other hand, so I told my daughter this is why I show resistance, because you might look at this kid as your boyfriend everything's all sweet but as a father, I look at this kid as your first heartbreak. You know what I'm saying? How do I prepare myself for that first heartbreak?
Speaker 2:So for me, being a single parent, I wanted to cultivate a relationship with my children where they felt safe to talk to me about anything, while also setting boundaries.
Speaker 1:I can say that you find that easy.
Speaker 2:Uh, was that an easy task talking to them like getting them to talk to you um, I wouldn't say it was an easy task. My girls were a little easier, because there's always going to be those topics where you still dad, I'm still mom. They'll be like how I tell my dad, you know this, or how I tell my mom this. But I think what's most importantly, what most important, is that you make her feel safe, that you make her feel comfortable, that, whether she's ready to talk to you about it or not, that it's okay to talk to you about anything. And what I will tell her is that dating these guys out here, girl, be glad you got your daddy your daddy gonna put you up on game.
Speaker 1:Exactly my point. And like I was telling sis, you know, like I told her, I was like I know it's hard for you to open up to me about this, because she talks to her mother more than she does about boyfriend stuff, right, and she finds it a little weird to talk to me. But I tell her, look, you know, guess what?
Speaker 5:I'm a boy you know what I mean like what I told you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know what I mean. I was.
Speaker 5:I you know I gotta bring it down to her relatable so yeah, so you know I, I know all the tricks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, I'm saying like I put on clinics with this stuff. You know what I mean. So if you feel like you know this kid is telling you something and you don't know, I say come talk to me, I'll tell you what's real or what's not?
Speaker 2:yes, and don't like the fight the first boy, I'm sorry. Like, don't like the first boy. Like, keep your options open keep it in the friend zone yeah you know and let him know your daddy active.
Speaker 2:But I would say, don't make her feel uncomfortable about dating. Because one thing growing up, my mom married military first, so my stepdad was military and I was 15 and I could not date. So I used to sneak and talk on the phone. I used to sneak and go with boys and so that was something I didn't want my girls to feel like they had to do. So I was very open about that. Like, is there an age limit that they should be at before they start? I think that that is a boundary. But when they start doing it, I think that the relationships need to be cultivated, that they need to be safe and they need to be comfortable and you need to let them know that it's OK to like boys. That's what God allowed us to do, but there are boundaries that have to be set.
Speaker 1:Ok, so I'm doing. I'm doing a good job. You're doing a great job.
Speaker 2:A little plug here, because it was like two years ago Biscuit and I created the bonding journals and I think it was like two years ago, biscuit and I created the bonding journals and I think I have an extra one, a daddy-daughter one. I'll look, if I do, I'll give it to you.
Speaker 1:I like it.
Speaker 2:And Biscuit, and I have. I created one. There's one for mommy-daughters, mommies and sons, daddy-daughters and fathers and sons. So there's a bonding journal and every topic specifies you know, the ones for the moms and daughters are not the same for the fathers and the sons, you know so it's different.
Speaker 2:But, as I shared with him the other day, biscuit started, I think she had her first boyfriend in like sixth grade and she was. It was like she didn't know to lie, to be like I don't have no boyfriend. It was like she just kind of came out and told us but it did take a while for her to tell her dad. But when she did tell her dad it's kind of like now I don't have a filter, I can tell my daddy everything you know I ain't gonna say everything but her and her dad.
Speaker 2:They talk now that's great so that is there. But I told lou and sharing this with him, the other day she got her first boyfriend in sixth grade, got her first heartbreak in sixth grade. Let me tell y'all I knew my baby was sick I'm talking about she didn't get out of the bed, she and and we talked about it leading up to the heartbreak, because it was like he would always say, oh, this, this girl that he was always with, oh, that's just my best friend, that's my best friend come to find out.
Speaker 2:Right, come to find out they were sleeping together. So y'all, when I tell y'all my baby was sick, okay, but I just told luke I was so damn happy when she got that heartbreak, because now I'm the parent that go through her phone every now and again. Yeah, baby, when I used to see the way these boys was talking to malia and she was talking to them, one of them said she didn't wait, uh, for him to walk her to class or something. And my baby responded I wasn't about to be late because of you.
Speaker 2:Like biscuit is a beast now so I know, it sounds bad that you know she's going to have her first heartbreak, how she bounces back from it, is going to tell you what kind of person? Because now you can't tell Biscuit, she just don't be with the shit.
Speaker 5:It don't take but one time.
Speaker 2:And I wish I was like that with her or like that when I was her age and I'm not just bragging because she's my kid, but the kid is my kid I was looking at those messages and I was like put your foot down. I told her daddy one day. I said listen, these little boys, they might go and put their hands on my little way.
Speaker 1:She be talking. Everybody who didn't tune in. Our brother, donald Lewis, is in the building. Dr Donald Lewis, tamika Taylor. This is Donald, dr, donald, dr Donald. This is Tamika Taylor. This is Dr Donald, dr Donald. This is Tamika Taylor. Nice to meet you. Welcome, my brother.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:I said my apologies on being late. Oh, that's okay.
Speaker 1:That's all right, we didn't even notice. I do want to go back, tamika, like you said, back to your early life, and what were some of the things you went through to make you who you are, the person you are now?
Speaker 2:I can say my biggest life altering was becoming a mom. Like I'm kind of stuck. I need your help, donald, because I'm trying to come out, but no, becoming a mom. I always knew that I didn't want nobody to tell me what to do. I wanted to be in charge of my own time and be able to have freedom. So just being a mom early, wanting to cultivate freedom, is what pushed me into being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2:I went through a few heartbreaks because, baby, I got three baby daddies. I ain't ashamed to let you know. I move on quick, Period. He, not it. Okay, let's see. You know not that I was really, you know, planning to be a mom. It just kind of happened, me and my friend joke all the time. We was like we became, became moms. We were just hunting, like we're just gonna be real about it, and I will say this um, I told my mom, I said, mom, you didn't have the conversation with me about the birds and the bees she said well, I thought that because I was a straight-a student, you know, I graduated with like a three-point agpa.
Speaker 2:I'm like, but did you not know that the chemistry was I'm gonna like a boy like you should have told me and I think that honestly how I'm built, how I'm wired. If my mom would have had the conversation with me at 16, um, I would not have become a mom. I wanted to go to the University of South Florida, I wanted to go to fam, I wanted to go to college. But when I became a mother, it was like, oh, this has to come first yeah.
Speaker 2:I had the opportunity, my mom said well, I'll keep the baby. No, my mom, my baby will not be confused about who the mother is, you know. So those are some of the things that shaped me to become who I am today, and just knowing that my mom was a great mom.
Speaker 1:But I also wanted to be to my kids who I thought I needed in addition to who my mom was as well that that says a lot right there, and that says a lot about you too, because you know, I've seen young girls have babies and they do rely on the grandmother a lot, a lot of times the grandma is the one that's raising. Oh, she not like that.
Speaker 2:She not built like that. It wasn't now her, I think, because my mom was the type of mother that she wanted to see me do great.
Speaker 2:She knew I wanted to go to college. I think that's kind of like the first instinct. My 21 year old daughter wanted to go to the air force and so before she got pregnant, of course you can go. But when she got pregnant, because you want to see your child cultivate their dreams, it's like I'll keep the baby because that's what we've been doing all our life. But after I said no, I had baby number two. I said hey, I want to go to the navy. She's like I ain't keeping no kids. It was kind of like one and done.
Speaker 2:You know, with her you get the opportunity one time and I never wanted to be that young mom who put that responsibility on my mom because she was a single mother. So why put her through what she coming out of? She deserved to celebrate raising us and living her life outside of being a mom and being everything to us. You got to let your daughter listen to Kaya just one time.
Speaker 6:One time Don't trust.
Speaker 2:Nope.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, matter of fact, matter of fact tonight I'm a ride around the block with her in the car. You don't need but three minutes.
Speaker 1:I'm going to take her to school in the morning. I'll make sure I play.
Speaker 2:FaceTime me, so I can see that's too funny. But yeah, akia for the win. Yeah, michelle.
Speaker 1:So you do got a lot of things going on and there's just something. I do want to cover most of them. So if I leave anything out, you know, let me know. First let's talk about CEO Elite Beauty Professionals.
Speaker 2:So that is my salon, so I'll tell you a little bit about that. So when I moved to winter haven, I had moved to winter haven from georgia I thought I wanted to go somewhere else. You know we'd be running and carrying on, so yeah, I was running a little bit and I was only gone for like maybe two years and I came back to winter haven and, um, I finished cosmetology school. That actually came out a very important, um, pivotal point in my life.
Speaker 2:I had almost caught a felony, y'all and when I caught the felony you're scamming, I was not okay, I make all my money legal, but I will look if you so it was a situation like that I had got into an altercation because you weren't gonna try me. The fact that you asked me to she on his skin was I'll wait for you to say something.
Speaker 2:Because I was trying to get into her story but I was like, did this thing, did this thing? But no, and I moved to Georgia thinking that you know it wouldn't follow me. It was adjudication withheld and all of that. But I ended up getting a job for inventory for Starbucks, because I came out of Publix here and when, um, I came, when I went there, they didn't give me the job. They said, oh, we ran your background.
Speaker 2:I'm like, but it's adjudication with hell, and so from that was the last time I filled out a job application. Y'all and that was like 2011 and um, I was struggling in Georgia with my kids and my mom was like quit getting on the road back and forth with those kids. I was home every weekend so she said stay with me. I'm like I'm 30, find time to offer me a place to stay but I took her up on her offer and I went to.
Speaker 2:I went to hair school and, um, when I went to hair school I came to Winter Haven and I opened my salon in Winter Haven. So a lot of people that know me from here know me as the glamour room, extensions and hair loss salon, mocha glam. Um, I did all things hair loss and so when the pandemic came, I wanted I didn't know if I was going to close or rebrand and I was sitting in my salon one day just sitting there like god, what we're gonna do, I ain't making no money. The people say we're not essential, these doors ain't swinging and the rent still got to be paid. And he said remember, he said, go back to the original plan. So I never closed and I rebranded to elite beauty professionals. What he reminded me of is that I never opened the salon for me, but I opened the salon to give other girls that were like me, because I've been wanting to do I have a picture when I was three holding a blow dryer. I'm supposed to be was to cultivate an environment for young girls like myself who maybe didn't have the opportunity to open a salon but wanted to be in business for themselves. So, with the lead beauty professionals.
Speaker 2:I ran into a lot of girls that um were all about their brand. They didn't understand that elite beauty professionals isn't my brand, I'm my brand, or the glamour room is what they thought. They would get caught up in my brand. So elite beauty professionals came out of if you're a beauty professional, I feel like you're elite. No matter what your brand is, you're elite. So I rebranded about three years ago. So I do currently own that salon in Winter Haven, florida, next to Jazzy's Diner. I only work two days a week, so y'all don't be booking me Except Tuesdays and Thursdays, but me except Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Speaker 3:But you do tapings, you do tapings, I, so it's not on my menu, marsina. See, that's what I'm saying, so I did niche down um.
Speaker 2:I had about 40 services on my menu and I niched down to about six, but we can talk about the tapings off air okay you got any uh.
Speaker 1:You got any uh thing that can help me?
Speaker 2:let me tell you something I was doing everything. I was doing me and hair replacement. I was doing everything, but not anymore. So that's the ceo part of the salon. I'm also I'm a ceo part owner of uh, tailored to learning child care academy with my daughter. I'm an assistant director there. So, yeah, so tell us more about that oh, so listen, I love to talk about her. That is my uh reminder that I did a great job as a mom yeah, she had her first child at 19 and um I was just like you don't need no baby, you don't need no baby.
Speaker 2:And she'll tell you that she wanted to change the trajectory of being a young mom and she had her first child at 19. And I was just like you don't need no baby, you don't need no baby. And she'll tell you that she wanted to change the trajectory of being a young mom and she said not only did I become a young mom, but I also became a young millionaire. They want to know if you got product too. I do, I do. Yeah, I got some hair oil and stuff y'all.
Speaker 1:Child of T-Baby, look yeah, but child of T-Baby, look yeah. I knew it was T-Baby that I asked that yes, I do have product.
Speaker 2:You can go on my website, wwwtamekataylorcom and you can see all things me cause. She is her brain.
Speaker 5:I am my brain and that's a conversation.
Speaker 2:But my daughter actually started at home. She started at her home daycare. She was making thousand dollars at home and um. She's got a lot you gotta like kids to do that.
Speaker 5:Huh, huh you gotta like kids, you gotta love them, and you know I love the kids, but it takes a special person and she loved her babies.
Speaker 2:But what I will tell you is that from the time she was young, she used to sit with an imaginary classroom, so she knew what she wanted to do.
Speaker 2:Wow she used to sit circle, what we said earlier circle what we said so she's been cultivating this since a little girl, and so she came out of the house and she opened her first center within a year. She was at capacity, so she opened her second center and I'm like, well, how much money you making over there I was already investing because I'm gonna see my baby do well and, um, I decided that I wanted to be her backup.
Speaker 2:Now the caveat to it is me being in the beauty profession. I did a lot of people who own daycares or whatever and they would tell me I would share with them because, like, we're networking now, what advice would you give my daughter? And they said, if she ever does it, you become her director. Because she young, she's going to be making money, she's going to have haters and everybody don't need to be in her business. So I decided to step up and go to school and become staff credential. So I have my national certification in child care development and I'm also her assistant director.
Speaker 1:So I have my national director. That's what's up right there, man, like I said, woman of many titles.
Speaker 2:Yes, we got like 66 kids.
Speaker 1:We want 100.
Speaker 2:And it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 1:It's coming. Yeah, because I remember looking into daycare when my daughter was young and I saw the prices they were charging, I was like I'm in the wrong business. Listen.
Speaker 2:But people will tell you it doesn't make money. Like I had a lady during the pandemic. She was like tell your daughter, don't get in it and make money. And my daughter is real humble and when she shared with me two years after making her first 80,000 and she told me at home, I said you lie, I said don't people say there ain't no money in there. She said, mom, they not telling the truth.
Speaker 2:So I think, that if you're in it and you're, maybe you're struggling business, but God really blessed my baby, like he really really blessed my daughter. Um, she's a young mom, so a lot of the parents are young. They relate to her. The children love her. Um, the staff is amazing.
Speaker 1:We are a um not to cut you off to me, I'm sorry, but saint, let's call it. And he wants to show you love. Hold on, hold on hey saint oh, make sure he's on here and let me hold on I gotta get him connected here. My bad hold on hold, on hold, we're going to get you right.
Speaker 2:Marsina, you cool girl, I'm trying to be you girl, that's right, hold on one second you know, while he getting connected have you ever seen that one on TikTok, where it's like how people view me and the girl sitting all stuck up, but then when it gets to be playing, that's me, me too, yeah, that's me, that's hot, you there, saint yeah yeah, y'all hear me yeah, we hear you loud and clear.
Speaker 3:My brother was good, y'all had a takeover you know out here in beautiful Lakeland Texas Cattle Company, you know a Lakeland tradition. Bring me something they can strip in a salad man. Listen bro, I seen the prices on this motherfucker. I was like dang bang. All right, I don't know bro, I'm like boy. Y'all done the party like 13 times in the last 10 years after they said they on building on fire.
Speaker 2:Then they went back up on it, but y'all didn't hear that from me.
Speaker 3:They had a recoup. Nah, hell, nah, bro. They know what they did. This shit expensive, bro. But yeah, we Gucci bro, we live. You know, voice is back normal. Yeah, yeah, I'm blessed. How's everybody man? You know, I'm sorry I couldn't make it, but you know, this is my dude's birthday.
Speaker 2:Happy birthday mom.
Speaker 3:Happy birthday. Yeah, bro, shout out to my dude, you know.
Speaker 1:happy birthday, mom, yeah bro, shout out to my dudes. You know, yes, sir, she made that big, that big number. So, yeah, shout out to my dudes. I know you wanted to call real quick and, uh, you know, show to make it some love man. And oh, yeah, yeah, for sure, man, um, I'm sorry I couldn't be there.
Speaker 3:I wish I could have. But you know um. You know one one thing we realize when we get older man time ain't promised to nobody, bro, and every opportunity squandered is an opportunity missed. You know what I'm saying. So, and I ain't never been one of them people that live with regrets, so I don't want to ever have to live with regrets or say I wish I would have. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, for sure. But yeah, we definitely, we definitely.
Speaker 1:You still there.
Speaker 3:Oh, my bad, my bad, y'all turned on the car.
Speaker 5:Y'all don't lock.
Speaker 1:Oh, there we go, all right.
Speaker 3:But I say, yeah, we, you know we get y'all get a second invite, everybody that comes through. So we definitely going to turn up and we're going to be live in and live in color Trying to tell you we definitely appreciate you, we appreciate you coming in you know what I'm saying To the number one podcast in Polk County. You know what I'm saying Future, your future, endeavors, good blessings and all the good vibes your way. Thank you, we definitely see emotion.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I appreciate that Nice of mine, Tell.
Speaker 1:Tamika, how long I've been talking about this episode. How excited I was.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, bro, listen, I was kind of blown. I'm like, damn bro, we've been talking about this episode for a minute. Yeah, yeah, bro, listen, that was kind of blows. I'm like, damn bro, we've been talking about this episode for a minute, yeah. And then I see, and I'm thinking about this shit and I'm like, hold on, my siblings hit me up. They're like, hey, so because, see, last month I'm a bad son, right.
Speaker 3:February with my daddy's birthday, february 6th, and we also had a guest on the show. But the guest that we had on the show you know he'd been that's my cousin and we had been trying to get this man on the show for over a year and a half dog, and we finally locked him in to an episode and it's my daddy's birthday and I called my daddy and I said Pop, you know I love you right.
Speaker 5:He was like yeah, I was like.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna have to miss your birthday, bro. He's like what you mean? I said man, I'm gonna miss your birthday Pop. He said well, who coming on the show? I said Jonathan. He's like oh, you know what I mean. I had to uh, but you know, pop Pop Pops is a young man. Momoms is definitely in her uh, in her, in her, you know yeah, so I gotta. I gotta appreciate my deuce while I got them.
Speaker 2:Yes, for sure, for sure. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate that I do. I wish I could have met you be watching y'all though.
Speaker 3:We have been all the support. Even if it's two minutes, we appreciate it.
Speaker 2:For real. I appreciate you guys for this and that.
Speaker 3:I appreciate you showing the thigh on my behalf. I'm going to catch the replay.
Speaker 1:Donald in the building too.
Speaker 3:Hold on, hold on, brother. My dog's been quiet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's been quiet man.
Speaker 4:Donald, you good over there Nah man.
Speaker 3:I'm just watching. Stop the.
Speaker 2:Don in the building bro. Yes, yes.
Speaker 3:Love you bro, love you bro.
Speaker 4:Likewise brother.
Speaker 3:Hey, definitely, definitely appreciate your wisdom, bro. And we watching the motion. You know what I'm saying. I don't watch my boy go from 125 pounds 160 pounds of straight solid muscle. You know what I'm saying watching the journey you know what my reign? I'm like? Damn. I wish I had that motivation. I'll be there one day. I'm on this watermelon journey now, like like Lou. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 3:man, I love y'all.
Speaker 1:We love you too, bro. Appreciate you tapping in bro.
Speaker 3:Good night, good night. Good night, good night.
Speaker 1:Be, safe. Yeah, shout out to Saint man. That's what's up, man, I ain't never seen that one Come on man.
Speaker 2:I ain't never seen that one. Come on man. You know we try to make it do what it do. I ain't never seen that one.
Speaker 3:Call in on the show.
Speaker 2:Call in Put in the requests, y'all better than the Ricky Smiley morning show Hear me, this is this, that and the other radio.
Speaker 1:But, like I said, let's go back to you. Like all the stuff you got going on, man, let's talk about, uh, boss's brunch. You still, is that something? That's still what you're doing, or what?
Speaker 2:are we doing with that? You know. So you're looking at me outside. What is she looking at me? But no, so, definitely so. Um, I had just talked. I was just talking to the team about redoing it again. It'll be my fourth year this year in october. What was so crazy, y'all is last year we did october 5th right, and the theme was the Legacy Edition. Our birth girl has to do lunch during the pandemic because it was so many people missed money because they business one together. So I basically started in my living room trying to, you know, help people look at their business, make sure their paperwork was right, because, baby, I was going to get the money. I got the coins.
Speaker 2:And I didn't want anybody else to miss out and if I could help them, that's what I did. And then I wanted to cultivate a space where women can come and just tap into their physical, mental and spiritual self, Because there are steps to this success thing. So first year was themed, it was about mind, body, soul. Second year I did Next Level. We had Ashley Douglas from my church. She was there.
Speaker 3:You go to Greater Works. I go to Greater Works, yes.
Speaker 2:I go to Greater.
Speaker 5:Works when I go to church yeah, I go to Greater Works.
Speaker 2:That's my covering my pastor shout out to him. Pastor Holman is my friend. Yeah, Pastor Debra, that's my girl, her and Bishop, and the third year I wanted to go a level higher. I don't want to cut you out, but I got to tell you this you go back to your church. You look like you go to greater work I look like I go to greater work because they gotta look now.
Speaker 2:You look like you, and you know I that I accept that so well, because what I say about my church home is that, um, everything flows the way the head flows, and I'll say that and that's all you got to say. When you talk about my church home, is that, um, everything flows the way the head flows, and I'll say that and that's all you got to say when you talk about that church.
Speaker 1:That's simone says she absolutely loved boss's brunch thank you, simone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, simone was one of my speakers um she actually did um the branding session, um of the event, and this year was about legacy. I wanted to talk about what we do with that money and where is the money. So we had Terrence Wilson. He did real estate. Oh he is. Yeah, terrence, was there A gem?
Speaker 1:Yes he was there Shout out to Terrence.
Speaker 2:It was amazing. So this year October I think, we talked a little bit.
Speaker 5:What's the?
Speaker 2:date. So I haven't got the date yet because I will tell you guys, this this year went crazy. I just um, I'm two weeks out of a major surgery in my life. So when I found out about that I just kind of stopped everything because I was a little confused. I'm like, okay, god, how you gonna tell me to put my hands on all this and then I gotta lay down for surgery. Like this is crazy. So now I'm back thinking about the things on the calendar because I wanted to take care of me first.
Speaker 2:Can you not do it October the 5th, it won't be October the 5th, ok good.
Speaker 2:We wrote that out and I normally pray about it and I ask God to tell me what's going to be a good weekend, because whoever going to come going to come. But I'm working on I think we talked about empower her. But I'm working on I think we talked about empower her. And the reason why was because I know that what I've gone through the first part of the year, god is empowering me and I want to create a room because we talk about business, we talk about all that, but I wanted to create a space where we actually empower each other.
Speaker 2:So, I'm still working on that, but that's the gist of I want people to leave with something, not just come to a brunch and eat and be cute. I want people to leave with something, not just come to a brunch and eat and be cute. I want them to actually leave with something. You want them to be fed.
Speaker 3:Definitely they leave with a book, so you can't say that you came and you didn't get. You know.
Speaker 2:Recap everything and it's very impactful.
Speaker 1:It's very impactful, yeah, yeah. So when I reached out to you and sent you the proposed flyer because I'm still trying to work on that, don't say nothing you made it. What's the word I'm looking for? Like you made it, hey, you better put the connector on there. Yeah, yeah. And you was like you may get it right. So why is that? What is the connector? Why is that so important to you?
Speaker 2:Well, you had the entrepreneur influencer on there. So the entrepreneur influencer was what I started off as, because I felt like I will influence you to quit your job. So I influence people to come out of corporate and pursue their entrepreneur. Maura is you trying to tell me to quit what is?
Speaker 2:that Listen quick, I mean I help people develop exit strategies to do that. So rebranding last year I went I wanted to always do a rebranding shoot out of the country so I linked up with shout out to Khadijah and we went to Mexico and I did a rebrand and me and her had to drive from, I think, like Cancun, to Tulum.
Speaker 2:And while we were driving, we were just having a moment with Holy spirit and she was like I think you're more than the entrepreneur influencer and she said I believe that you are the connector. She said you connect people to the resources and the things they need to get what they're trying to get. And we kind of ran with that. I prayed about it and we ran with that.
Speaker 1:It happened organically it happened organically.
Speaker 2:So I I'm a creature of habit, I like the entrepreneur influencer, but I think the connector did more, because now, as I sit in this room, I'm connected to you guys.
Speaker 3:So I'm connected to you guys, so I'm able to plug people in. I can't wait to blow your phone up this week and I want to connect you guys.
Speaker 2:Look at me being the connector. And so that's another thing. I've met so many people that use that title, and so I think that we all are connectors in our own right, and we have to be okay with that, because that's not who I am. That's just one of my qualities, that's one of my skills I'm able to connect people because we all have that ability. Yeah, but that's why I was so firm on that, because that's my brand to me, because I was a connector.
Speaker 3:I just want them to be clear.
Speaker 1:You know I tend to be like I feel like I'm the connector sometimes too. But yes, it's got me in some weird situations Like is that ever like you ever connect two parties together and you're like they know each other already or they may or may not get along or somewhere down the road is a history there?
Speaker 2:So my very first podcast episode, um the beauty connector. I had decided that I was going to patronize other stylists in my area, so I was sitting in um, I sat in um a two and I'm sure they don't mind me saying I sat in c robinson chair, I sat in my queasy hall chair and I'm just talking all things beauty, right, I don't know until and when I asked them to be on the podcast. I'm telling them what I want to do. I'm like I'm trying to cultivate an environment of collaboration, of a competition we all got the same issues, we all talking about the same thing.
Speaker 2:When it's slow for you, it's slow for me. You know, will y'all sit on the couch? They both said yes. I didn't know until we got to the podcast that clients had tried to put them against each other, and that was a groundbreaking. Groundbreaking moment for them, because they knew that god had put me in a space to put them in a space to clear the air. And we didn't know that until the couch, and so I had them call me the next day. I was on the phone with each of them an hour piece, and they was like when we left the podcast, man, we was on the phone for so long and what's so crazy is you didn't even know that people try to put us against each other so that was like a moment where I'm like oh, my god God.
Speaker 2:I hope they didn't think that I cause I didn't have any idea.
Speaker 1:I just get my hair done. I want to meet you, so talk about the podcast.
Speaker 2:So the podcast? Let me tell y'all my podcast was supposed to be coffee. The.
Speaker 1:Don. The Don said to make you look good, my girl.
Speaker 2:Hey girl, how you doing. I met her like she. Let me say y'all's song, Shazza Da Dawn. So the podcast came about. I wanted to do Coffee in a Blunt.
Speaker 1:We talked about this when we first talked and the reason why I wanted to do Coffee in a Blunt. I love your transparency, by the way.
Speaker 5:I wanted to do Coffee in a Blunt, because that's actually a dope-ass title.
Speaker 1:That's what I said when she first told me about it.
Speaker 2:I almost had water all over your mind, listen, and it get deep, because you know I go to greater works, right? So what happened was I used to get up every morning at seven. Well, five, meditate, it's by seven. I'm having my coffee in a blunt yeah and I'm on the phone with my sister and we're having deep conversations. I might be on the phone with my bestie. I'm having having deep conversations. She'll call me now. You got your coffee in a blunt.
Speaker 2:And so when I, um, I had Jacoy do the logo and at that time God downloaded into me the beauty industry. He was like you need to be talking to them. So, sitting in a chair asking the girls to talk, I got a flyer made and when he sent me the flyer with the beauty connect, it's like holy spirit spoke to me and was like this is it, this is the podcast. And when I did the first panel was on youtube. Um, when I did the first episode, I didn't even expect it to be a podcast, but Tia spoke about it and she's like hey, this what you're doing, this is like. That was the confirmation conversation which led me to opulent daughters. Everything was so strategic and so that is strategic. That is strategic.
Speaker 2:So he brought me back full circle. Like this is your area of expertise. So coffee in the blunt didn't go out the door, but we birthed the beauty connector and with the beauty connect if y'all listen, don't try to steal that idea oh, it's already it's copyright, okay, copyright don't play with me talk to us the beauty connect group, because I'm like that's a little easier because the, the coffee and a blunt is kind of candid.
Speaker 2:So we still gonna do those conversations where we just talking yeah but the beauty connect gave me something that was more personal to me and it gave me a centralized topic and it gave me a way to put on other people because, honestly, I'm not doing this for me. It's not about me. It's about how many people I can help, how many people I can expose and how I can just show people. I'm cool as hell and I own a salon, but hey, it's enough for everybody yes, that's a fact.
Speaker 1:That's a fact. I love that. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know what? Us having the platforms and all that is enough for all of us? It's not. You know, the motto is collaboration over competition all day over here, for that For sure, that's a motto that would never die with us.
Speaker 4:So so I have a, I have a question for you Um, with everything that you have going on right, Entrepreneurship, businesses, all of that how do you feel like all of those things? Or how do you manage like your personal life, or maybe your personal relationships, with all of these things professionally going on?
Speaker 2:So one good thing about it when it comes to um, the daycare my I'm in business with my daughter so I see my and my baby girl works there. So I get to see being a part of that business allows me to still be able to spend time with my daughters. I get to see being a part of that business allows me to still be able to spend time with my daughters. I get to go. I get to go to lunch with them. I get to um. Actually, one day I went and I freed my daughter up to go to the spa. I still get to be a mom. Um, trust me, I get my time.
Speaker 2:Um me and my best friend here we cultivate. Certain days I make sure that I keep a balance, because if I do too much entrepreneur stuff I don't feel complete. So I have to go out, I have to have my spa time, I have to go shopping. I'll text and say girl, I need a Gucci belt. It's going to make me feel good today. So it's just a matter of being in tune with myself, knowing when I'm doing too much of one thing and I need to offset it with some leisure time because I'm about my bread now do you feel like?
Speaker 4:do you feel like you've ever like gotten caught in a space where you know you just really were like hyper focused and maybe you did spend just too much time on one end or the other?
Speaker 2:oh, yes, definitely. How did?
Speaker 4:you, how did you like kind of navigate that space?
Speaker 2:I had to do what I had to do and then, once I realized that it was, I was leaning the scale was leaning more to one side I began to scale back on the days that I worked. That's how I went from being a six-day-a-week stylist to a five-day-a-week stylist, to a four-day-a-week stylist, to a two-day-a-week stylist, because I realized I needed that balance.
Speaker 4:When you say you had to do what you had to do. What do you mean when you say that?
Speaker 2:so when I initially became an entrepreneur, um, people ask me now so the gag is, I don't cook. So I tell people, when god sent my husband, he need to know how to cook, because that's a that's. I'm not compromising that, so I would be in the salon. So much that's funny.
Speaker 1:You said it because when I looked at you I was like she looks like a good cook. I'm a good cook.
Speaker 2:There's a difference I might make you a little slum sum, but no, and so when I first got into it, of course the grind didn't stop. So I had to be there, and it took a lot away from my children. My oldest daughter had to learn how to cook, and that girl can cook now.
Speaker 1:That's what I heard. Swan, make sure we knew that.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I didn't realize how absent I was until they stopped calling my mom and saying my mom was telling my mom they were hungry, right?
Speaker 3:We joke about it now.
Speaker 2:My mom said, you know, they'll call me girl and I'll send them a pizza. And so my daughter was like, yeah, I go home and she don't cook dinner. I'm like, well, how you know? Oh, I was on Pinterest, and so that's. I'm like, no, can't, I'm doing too much. She only 15, she cleaning the house, she being a mom, she, she doing all those things that I appreciated, but I didn't want to put that much on her. So that's when I first cut back and I started taking set. I started closing on Saturdays shout out to Kenya Stokes.
Speaker 1:She goes hey, y'all, we got T the goat on here. We love the Kenya Stokes.
Speaker 2:We were just talking about the Kenya. We talked her up. That girl is fire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's bad. Listen, I love the Kenya because I know well I don't know like in detail, but I know some of her story, like I've known her when she was out there and to where she's at now. I always tell her I love it.
Speaker 2:My favorite quote is I'm not just pretty for a big girl, I'm just pretty.
Speaker 1:And she's saying with so much attitude too you hear me, yeah, yeah, when she speak the earth shake.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's conviction, it's powerful. She's really writing from her soul.
Speaker 1:I love Nakia, we love you Nakia. You know her soul. Yeah, I love nakenya, we love you nakenya. You know when you being in the beauty world? And there's a question I want to ask. This is just a mean, this is just a mean question. Yeah, some of the trends, the hair trends, right, that's out there right, it's kind of wild for me okay is there like one hair trend that you wish women would stop doing.
Speaker 2:Oh my god um one hair trend what I wish what's yours. Why is she thinking on it? Yeah?
Speaker 1:I was hoping you wouldn't ask me that question.
Speaker 2:I want to know yours. I haven't thought about it, I just don't like man.
Speaker 1:I'm going to sound like a real a-hole on this one.
Speaker 2:That's okay Like they ain't going to touch you, lou. I got your back, you already know.
Speaker 1:I feel like with some, with some black women, I feel like the blonde. Oh, it's not really always a good look for you. Okay, it do work for some, but there's a lot of them and I'm just like, yeah, but I can't say nothing because then I'm the a-hole. You know what I'm saying and it ain't my position to talk.
Speaker 2:Blonde. So I agree, I totally agree. Would that be something I would say I wish they would stop as a trend?
Speaker 1:No, Like some women pull it off, they pull it off beautifully.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but it go back to the stylist that put it in their head.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cause they knew before they put it in.
Speaker 6:Yeah, like.
Speaker 2:Cause I'm like so what made you choose this color? It's your birthday. I mean come on, have more fun. I mean Wait, why she always waits until I pick up the book.
Speaker 1:There's certain Like if you were a professional in your field, I feel like you should be able to tell your customers hey, like, when I got my tattoos recently, recently I asked a dude I'm like dude, if I was a. I told her I said if I was a tattoo artist, like, I probably wouldn't do face tattoos. Yeah, because I'm like, or I'll, I'll have a conversation with that person.
Speaker 2:Yes, let's segue for just a second because since you brought that up before she answers, when you said you know, if I was a hairstylist I probably wouldn't do it, that right there too, tells me and shows me that hairstylists have changed, because I remember going to the salon with my mama first of all, we used to be there all day.
Speaker 3:And when I say all day, I mean all day.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about we get there at nine and we did till five like all day, but your hairstylist was your friend you know the person you confided in a lot into, and and I'm not saying that all of these hairstylists have to be that now but you don't have that and that's why you have those hairstylists who will just put that in your head well, he don't like the lace front.
Speaker 1:Who don't like the lace? You say he don't like the lace front.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have guys that don't like it. But I don't care, because I love me.
Speaker 1:A good lace I remember back in the day it was kind of like taboo to have weave. Like I remember when, like in high school, when chicks were weaving like their other chicks would make fun of oh, she got weave, and you know but you know, but then that's quickly okay so what?
Speaker 2:what's your hairstyle you think they should do away with? I don't have one. I just think that, because I'm an honest stylist, um, like I'm an honest stylist, my clients will tell you I'm honest. If I don't think that's gonna work for you, if I don't think it's gonna be becoming of you, if I don't think it's going to be becoming of you, they teach you that in hair school right.
Speaker 2:They teach you how to help your client pick a style based on their facial shape. So it's your responsibility to make sure that your client is the best representation of you, so that if you're blind, if you and I'm not going to say, girl, you're too dark or you're too light for this color, but I always require a consultation so I know what my client wants before I go into it. So I don't really run into that problem. And they trust me and they say well, whatever you think, oh, now I'm going to pick what I think.
Speaker 3:Yeah so.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't run into that.
Speaker 1:You got one, marciana, or do you want to pick the fifth?
Speaker 2:You know I don't care. T baby said my hairstylist be like no, ma'am, don't do that, thank you. I can't really say a style itself, but when I tell y'all I just don't like to see lime green hair on women okay I just don't like. I'm sorry, I don't. I don't if it's a a halloween party or something, but I just I hate when I see lime like I swear you're gonna wear that too. Yeah, like where are you going?
Speaker 1:I'm seeing women wear lime green hair and they think it's professional.
Speaker 2:Wear it to in a professional environment no way they wearing it to the funerals and I'm just like what was the funeral? Okay? No but it's just you know. So I can't say that I have a hairstyle that I, but I am tired of seeing our black women with lime green hair like I just yeah, I don't like it on this, but I don't like it that's a good one.
Speaker 1:That's a good one. Don you got a favorite or you got one of them. Wish you stopped. They wish they stopped out here.
Speaker 4:What kind of no comment. No, no, no, no, like I have to see it first of all. Yeah, because you know I have to see it. Our guys like I, yeah, because you know I have to see it.
Speaker 2:Our guys like I dated this one guy. Y'all he didn't like short hair because his mama had short hair. Is that a thing for y'all Like? Y'all don't like women that have hairstyles like y'all mama.
Speaker 4:I don't like short hair, but I don't know about, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:My mom has. I'm the same way. It has nothing to do with my mom, but I prefer my wife to have longer hair. When she goes to get a haircut, I'm like, yeah, I don't take much. When she goes to get a haircut, I'm like why you need a haircut? You know what I'm saying? Your hair is good man.
Speaker 2:Don, I'm sorry if I messed you up. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:It might look good on you. Don said that's my next color. I wanted to try Now explore, Do your thing.
Speaker 2:You know, Do your thing, I just would I yeah.
Speaker 1:Get a second opinion Dawn.
Speaker 4:Maybe they should explore what you said You're going to be honest with them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to be honest. You know you can be like get a filter, take a picture of some laundry. Until people get second, third, fourth opinion.
Speaker 2:Before you spend your money. Yeah, yeah, but, I don't want to kill nobody's confidence. If that's what you want to do, go for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hell. Yeah. Listen, Dawn, if you feel like you're all here doing your damn thing in some lime green, you wear that Forgive what Marshina says, she don't wear that.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, chat with Chyna Right.
Speaker 2:Who, if you?
Speaker 3:feel like you look good in line green.
Speaker 1:Damn it, wear it you know I'm notorious, yeah you are, you are. You don't make me go out and buy suits and everything, man. Ever since I met her, I got like two, three suits I had to bro I had to, bro, I had to, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So now that we do have some ladies in the building, I do want to ask. So I heard something on the radio. Right and this is off topic of the whole entrepreneur we're going to get into it, right, yeah, all right. So you guys remember New Edition, right, of course, right, yeah, yeah. So Ricky Bell Ricky from New Edition bbd right, he's 57 years old 57 and his wife is 41. Okay, right, they've been married for 20 years. This past week they just announced they're having their first child okay now do you think?
Speaker 1:what's your opinion on him being so old and having a baby?
Speaker 2:so opinion. I think it's beautiful. Honestly, I think that we've been taught that? Um to have children older is not the right way, but that's actually the right way, um, actually, as a woman, when we get into our 40s, that's when our body is ready to have a baby per my um pcp.
Speaker 2:So I'm not just dr google ain't saying say this. So I think that to wait is a beautiful thing because now they've experienced life and they are preparing to bring that baby in. So I think the older you are, the more prepared you are. I don't think there's no age on when you should stop having children if it's your goal to have a family. The bible says be fruitful and multiply, so I my opinion is.
Speaker 1:I think it's beautiful yeah, um my, you got an opinion on that. I'll give my opinion and you go, so here's my opinion on that.
Speaker 1:So I do. I do agree with that also, but and maybe I'm being a little bit stingy or greedy with this so my thing is it's your podcast, yeah. So I'm thinking like, okay, if I have kids, I want to be able to play with them. Okay, you know, I got a son, I want to catch with him, and you know all that If I have a baby at 50, she ain't even had a baby. They just announced she's pregnant. You know he's gonna be 60 years old, you know, or 58, you know, almost 60 years old. Right, he's not going to see that child grow up, you don't know that right, that's what I was gonna say, I mean he gonna, he probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, god lord willing. Right, let's just say that lord willing he might live to be 100. So yeah, but no. But so yeah, lord willing, yes, but that's not always the case. You know we're talking about ricky bell here. He's bbd new edition.
Speaker 2:He don't have a wild life. You know what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying, yeah, but god bless him. Yeah, if he does lives to be that, oh, that's good. But in reality that's not always promised, though I guess, no matter what you look at, not always promised. But my, my, my viewpoint of it is is like damn, I'm not gonna be able to see that kid grow, especially if I have a son. I'm not gonna be able to play catch with him, show him the things, because I'm gonna be an old ass dude. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:So I feel like and maybe that's like I said being being greedy, but I mean, that's just being honest with who you are Right, who you are in your life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I, you know my son's eight and I'm 46 years old, you know, okay, he long, so and I think about that, like you know, especially you know my dad. Like you know, they said I lost weight. I did that because I do want to play with my son. And you know catch and you know stuff like that. That's a metaphor. That's a metaphor, metaphor. You know, I ain't, I ain't gonna be out here catching anything, you know, but that's just a metaphor. I want to see him, you know, and have. I want to see my daughter, you know, get married and all that. But you know, I ain't no spring ticket. So to have a baby at 57 years old and your first baby, you know, what I'm saying is that you, you might, lord willing, you might not be able to get that seat at. You know, I'm saying yeah, that's just my opinion yeah, so I feel both, I see both sides.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna give a quick, you know response to both sides. I don't know if everyone is familiar with altricia wilcox treaty.
Speaker 2:Yes, so treaty and her husband were married and you know, I think she, she, I'm not telling her business because she's put out there but they have been trying to get pregnant for a while and when they weren't trying is when it happened and she got pregnant with her daughter, like it was an unexpected you know, yeah, pregnancy, and I just feel. I said that to say I feel like it's God's timing, when and what he wants. Now I think Janet Jackson was like 50 when she had her baby yes, the brat is older and just had her baby. That's why I say it's all about God's timing with me.
Speaker 2:For me personally and I've said this many of times I feel like I had my daughter at the perfect age. I was 22. I've been able to grow up with her and still see her grow up. But also, too, you may never know that child like you. Think about it like when my child, when you know you want to go to your kids 50th birthday party, but the daddy gonna be 100 at that, you know at that age. But what God has in store for you is in store. But also too.
Speaker 2:let me say this how she said earlier, you know, when we feel like we need to have kids young, so many people think, oh, I need to have my kids by the time I'm 30, so I can watch. You don't even realize how much excitement and joy you get within the five years Like you know.
Speaker 2:Stop counting the hours and the moment and the age and the time, and just learn to live in the moments that you do have and the age and the time, and just learn to live in the the moments that you do have because you know. Let's just say you know, the baby is 30 years old and the dad is 80 or. However, the time that they've had together he's not going to miss out on. What he doesn't know is to come.
Speaker 5:He's going to remember what he had at that time.
Speaker 2:So stop counting to say, oh well, when he's 50 and the dad is 100, oh, he might not be able to walk the baby down the aisle, or whatever the case may be Like. Live in those moments. And that kind of you know, we as society now get so caught up in wanting to say well, I want to see this when I get older by this age, by this age and you know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 2:Who time we on God's timing, timing not ours? Because what they say tell god your plans and he gonna laugh, he's gonna laugh, so and it's not to downplay what you say, because I wholeheartedly get it like I.
Speaker 2:I want you to play catch, please play catch. I want you, I want you to. But I want you to also embrace the moments in the times that you have now and don't worry about, oh well, when he's 35, I'll be 75, whatever, yeah, you know. Embrace and the times that you have now and don't worry about, oh well, when he's 35, I'll be 75.
Speaker 5:You know, embrace those times that you have with him now.
Speaker 2:And I heard something today real quick, and it said that Not real quick. We on your time. Listen, if we're thinking about the future, the future is unrealistic because even when we get there, it's now.
Speaker 1:That's a bar. Say that again, yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's a bar. Say that again yeah, so we think about the future is unrealistic, because even when we get there is now, it becomes now, and so living in the moment is what we have to do because, like you said I thought I'd be, I have a million dollars in my bank account by 40. Well, I'm 44 I ain't seen the extra comma yet you know, but have I made a million dollars by now I have have.
Speaker 2:So I think that if we take the restraints off God and let God be God, we don't know what it is. I'm 44. I don't feel a day over 21. So it's about how you feel in your body. The age are just years that God have blessed you with on this earth. It's Marvin Sapp and I didn't mean to cut you off, but he says to him 40 years is but one hour, one hour.
Speaker 2:So I think that's how and it's so crazy talking about the childbirth, but we have to look at that in the perspective of life and it keeps us. It can keep us sad because we have set our tone for what society says we should be doing by this time.
Speaker 1:This is when god says he's having a baby, so god got the plan. Yeah, so the chat t baby said plus you have more patience, uh, more life experience to pour onto your kids.
Speaker 2:Um, I gotta just wait, let me say, let me, let me say something right quick, let me just say something right quick. I don't know about that, and let me tell you why.
Speaker 1:Because I'm not saying don't say and you look good, my girl and you do.
Speaker 2:You do, thank you, thank you. Listen, y'all. Biscuit is so self-sufficient right now and I think about the way that kids learn that you know everything is so different from when I was growing up and when she I, you say you got patience. I don't know if I would have the patience to try to sit there and do homework and I'm not saying, I'm not doing no homework, me neither yes, my mama is my mama. Shout out to my mama because she is the goat shout out to mom but and she want another grandbaby.
Speaker 2:So bad because she only has biscuit. We're gonna have it, but listen, I'm trying to figure, I'm trying to figure out, because she's talking about. You know she's gonna take care of the baby like carol got one time to not be home. When I drop this baby off and I'm going to send her a picture from the fire department, because that's where it's going to be, you hear me, baby? Because who is doing homework Like I?
Speaker 3:just.
Speaker 2:I don't know if God blessed me with another baby. First of all, he got to send me a man that want another baby and that man going to have to want to sit home and do homework, because that's just not me, it's not, it's that's like how I'm not.
Speaker 3:When she said right when she said you don't have the patience.
Speaker 2:I just I honestly don't see that yeah I just don't, so I I gotta disagree with her on that one.
Speaker 2:I disagree because I got grandkids and so I have to plan my time with them because they will drive me crazy. Um, my grand, my daughter, called me this morning. She said ma, I'll call you, just call, are you up? I'm like, no, I asleep, but I'm up now. She said I'll call to tell you how your granddaughter just aggravated me. She said why is she in the room putting on press on nails? And then she get up in her shoes on the wrong foot and she go to bring them. So she's like it's okay, mommy, I can just put them on the right foot when I go to class. I say, yeah, that would have worried me.
Speaker 2:So I will say I can't say you have more patience. I will say that it's not necessarily you get more patience with age. I really have to plan my patience because, yeah, I feel that I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Is it Ariel Adams? She said my friend passed at 30 years old 30 something from lupus and couldn't see her oldest graduate and have two younger kids. So yeah, you never. That's pretty much.
Speaker 2:That's crazy I just the one of the memories just popped up with one of my good friends. Uh, we went to high school together, yeah, and I was thinking about it. Like she has kids that are in high school now and I'm thinking, damn, I think she died maybe over 10 years ago and it's like when it's someone that close and you realize that they have kids the same age as you and what they've missed out on.
Speaker 2:So that's why I say you have to embrace the moments that you are blessed with, because it's some people that don't have that opportunity it was a influencer just passed away, giving childbirth like during, you know from complications from childbirth Like during you know from complications from childbirth. So it's like you know that quick moment is gone, just that fast. So you have to embrace the moments that you are blessed with. You're now.
Speaker 1:Donald, you got some insight on that, Donald.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I would say, I would just piggyback and say really it's about timing. Usually, when people have children young, they're usually broke and immature.
Speaker 2:So when you get a little bit older, don't put my business out there like that, please don't. I'm like I feel offended, broke and immature. That's a fact, speaking objectively, you should have said that in the beginning, objectively, so yeah.
Speaker 4:So a lot of times we're usually broken and mature, and so the older we get, a lot of times we're usually broken, immature and um.
Speaker 2:So the older we get, a lot of times we're a little bit more established.
Speaker 4:I wasn't immature, I was just fast um. So we're a little bit more established, um, and even the bible talks a little bit about like, um, something to the effect of like. A good parent leaves an inheritance for their children. So a lot of times it's very difficult to establish yourself and raise children at the same time what verse that was so it's somewhere in proverbs, I believe it's here I believe it's somewhere in proverbs, but but so I think, like you know, sometimes it just could have been in their situation.
Speaker 4:It just could have been that maybe they weren't established yet and now they finally felt like they were in a place where they were established and they were in a good space to have children and so that's, that's what happened yeah because even though you like he was in the music industry and all that kind of stuff like, sometimes the perception of like being in those types of industries is a little bit different than the reality.
Speaker 4:So we might be looking at it as, oh my god he's. You know, he got all of this money, he got all this sex, he got all this fame, but we don't really know what those contracts look like. We don't really know. You know what I mean. And so sometimes it takes a little while to even recuperate that money. So even though he might have been on tv and everything like that, he might actually now really be seeing the money from all the stuff that he put out, because it takes x amount of years to get money from your masters and all that kind of stuff. So it just, he just could be in a better space, him and his wife could just be in a better space.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and, as I can say, this is about God's timing, because you know, who knows why it took so long for them to have the baby. Do you want more?
Speaker 4:kids.
Speaker 1:I can't. I got my boy and I went immediately.
Speaker 2:Got snip, snip you know that's something that you don't hear a lot. You know it's always the woman that has to go and fix it, and so that's commendable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that you didn't want to. Yeah, that's real.
Speaker 4:So, speaking of us, my bad hold on Lou, Proverbs 13, 22.
Speaker 1:Okay, I got a Bible on standby.
Speaker 4:The richest man. What 13, 22, 13, 22.
Speaker 2:I'm sending it to my mama and I'm gonna send y'all the response tomorrow. I tell y'all what.
Speaker 1:I need her to read that. So, speaking of the music business, that's a good book, by the way, too. Yeah, we're going to segue into a whole nother category. So, speaking of the music business and being a celebrity, there's a certain video that went viral and I want y'all to take on that. We're gonna put it on the screen and then we're gonna talk about it I hope luke got some kind of like you know uh this is why he got herpes now.
Speaker 1:So so this is the video. I don't know if you can see it, tamika, I don't know if you.
Speaker 1:If you saw, uh, this video of usher don't get no copyright, so you know, with usher, he, he does, he does, uh concerts and he serenades women, right, yeah, so this? So he serenaded this lady. She's lost in his eyes. He brings out a bowl of cherries and she eats the cherries from his hand. But itries, and she eats the cherries from his hand. I ain't seen this video, but it's the way she eats the cherries. So look, kind of close, right, uh-huh, kind of close, real close. But that's Usher though. So this whole video is to go to the see. On the side it says a 45-year-old man has filed for divorce from his wife after she allowed Usher to seduce her on stage. Watch the way she eats these cherries. We're going ahead of the mic, look. And she lost in his eyes. It's just her and him right now. They are not in the stadium right now. It's just her and him, look.
Speaker 2:What seat that was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, look at the way she eating that cherry. Look at that Ooh, look at her.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Lord, yeah, okay, so that's the video right. Kind of went viral, the guys like you know this is internet so it just may or may it was 94.1.
Speaker 2:They talked about it on 94.1 oh yeah I listen to ricky smiley station now, so I haven't listened to 94.1 since september last year oh, let me get me, can't do my boy orlando on the free show, like that.
Speaker 1:Shout out to orlando on the free show. Uh, so apparently, like I said, a 45 year old man filed for divorce. I don't know if there's a update on this, whether this story is true, but let's run with it anyway. Um, so I mean, my boy has talked about this, right, and I'll speak on, you know, for my personal opinion on this. Um, if my wife went to an usher concert, right, and she did that, I wouldn't have any problems with it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Because one now, and I'll get back to why. I would have a problem with it if it did escalate. But I I have no problem with it if it did escalate, but I have no problem because it's fun, you know what I mean. She had fun, that lady had. You couldn't tell that lady nothing, yeah, and my wife, even though my wife would never do anything like that, but I wouldn't get mad if she did, because it's fun, you know. And she had a good time. She didn't kiss him, she didn time. She didn't kiss him, she didn't go back to the hotel with him, didn't have sex with him, none of that. She had a good time. Guess what? Guess where she's coming after that. She gonna get all riled up from us, or is she gonna call him the daddy? You know what?
Speaker 2:I'm saying it's all fun, but I'm gonna just say something about you. No, but I know this serious. You're secure in what you have.
Speaker 1:That's where I'm good.
Speaker 2:That's where I'm good, okay that's all I want to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm secure in what you have. That's where I'm good, that's where I'm getting. Okay, that's all I want to say. Yeah, I'm secure in what I have and I know that, you know. Hey, I'm glad you had a good time, you know, you didn't let it go too crazy, uh now sex would have been real good when they came home oh yeah, it would have been.
Speaker 2:He wouldn't have been in his family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I'm getting at that's what I'm getting at like gotta learn how to make it work for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you hear me.
Speaker 1:So now, if she would have kissed him, I wouldn't have been mad at the kiss, but I would have been mad that, bro, this is Usher yeah you have herpes my guy, you know what I mean, like, or is it a fact, or can I say allegedly, I don't know. I think it came out, I think it's a fact, right? So there's the problem for me, right there.
Speaker 2:So if he didn't have herpes it would have been okay it would have been a conversation.
Speaker 1:Let's put it that way. Okay, that's fair TO TO call me. Call me what you want, usher getting swung on.
Speaker 2:Tavio, don't act like that.
Speaker 4:That's that Pisces shit yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he said, the Don said but at least he's not swinging on Usher, not his wife.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah Good. He wanted a divorce because she went to see a celebrity who's known for feeding women in the crowd cherries. It's just fun. If you both know your spot in significant others, life and security shouldn't be a problem. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I agree with that. An insecure man that women just cannot. That insecurity it just I don't want that lady. He don't. Or did him and the white lady just got married, or they're about to get married. Yeah, that's for show purposes. Don't know, we might need you on that one.
Speaker 1:Don't know, we've met don't you got some intake on that one? Are you, you, if you don't, I? I want to ask, let's say just okay, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 4:So I'm gonna have a slightly different perspective only because of the nature of what it is that I do for a living. That would be very problematic Because chances are, even if they go home and their sex is good, it's probably not good because of him. It's probably good because she's still wet because of Usher.
Speaker 6:You got to tell me how you get it.
Speaker 1:That's what I was going to say, bro, that's what I was going to say, I'll take it. How you get it. That's all I'm saying, bro, that's what I'm saying. I'll take it, bro, I'll take it.
Speaker 4:I'll be there with you, but you know that might be a little problematic Y'all ain't going to sit here and act like y'all ain't never thought about nobody else when you're sleeping with your woman.
Speaker 6:That's a good point.
Speaker 1:I mean, but you better not say nothing. No, the conversation with my boys about this one of the dudes brought up he goes. I know guys that watch porn to get excited or whatever, to get the mood going too but that.
Speaker 4:But that can still be problematic. Yeah, porn is problematic. Yes, 100, yeah, that, that kind of stuff to unique vassar, yeah, that kind of stuff can be problematic in relationships. You know what I? Mean, yeah, it can be, you're right absolutely 100, because, um, and then also, too, one of the things I would be asking is okay, are you doing that with your husband? All them cherry shits and all that kind of stuff, I mean wait if he didn't.
Speaker 2:He didn't step it up and be a little spike. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1:Or, or or or. She may not even like that. Her husband, yeah. Oh so yeah, hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on, because I missed a major part of this video. I'm sorry I forgot this. So the guy said I'm getting divorced because over the 20 something years we've been married, you never showed me affection in public because he don't like, she don't like him like that. That's what the doctor said yeah, yeah, my bad, I missed that whole.
Speaker 3:That's probably like the main topic I should have brought up from the beginning so I've just started with that I've worked with clients who, um I've worked with.
Speaker 4:I've worked with clients, both male and female, who will, um will have like a family session. Their husband or their wife will come and they'll be like all lovey-dovey and kissing and hugging all over their husband and their wife and then, right after their husband and wife leave, they'll go mess around with one of my clients, one of my other clients, at the treatment center. See why you got to have your daughter listen to you and there's no protection in the treatment center.
Speaker 2:But they brought their own protection. Now don't they.
Speaker 4:No, they didn't you don't know that I'm trying to defend the people. Now. They may have made their own protection while they was there, you know so. So I mean for me like, yeah, those would be like questions.
Speaker 1:Unique Bassett brought up a good point women, women, excuse, women, excuse that usher or celebrity is not obtainable in real life. My thing is what if that opportunity actually comes, exactly also obtainable in real life.
Speaker 4:My thing is what if that?
Speaker 1:opportunity actually comes, exactly, exactly. Also, let's flip it this way for y'all ladies. Let's say your man go to a Glorilla concert, or Megan Thee Stallion. Or remember Janet Jackson used to do the lap dances or whatever.
Speaker 2:I hope she bend over in front of him and he smack it and come on home.
Speaker 1:You're good with that, tam. I'm on home and You're good with that.
Speaker 2:Tamika, what about you? You're good with that, I mean. So I'm a little you know what I'm saying Like initially, I'm going to be like hold up, no, for real. But I'm also going to be realistic. I'm going to be like okay, you're fun. You know you have fun, it's good. Now bring that ass here boy, you, I'm going to feel a way. I'm a woman, so I'm a woman first. So my emotions, initial emotion I'm going to feel a way but, because I'm mature and I'm in tune and I'm confident.
Speaker 4:I got them. So plus women act very different with like, plus women act very different with different men. So you know.
Speaker 1:Ariel said they should have been divorced before the concert. Right, if that was a?
Speaker 4:problem. So right, if that was a problem. So so, if so, if she's not doing that for her husband, but she's doing that with usher, what that means is, she likes usher, she don't really like her husband right and not yeah, not in a sexual, because women have two natures, right. So they have a sexual nature and then they have like a more like uh, let's just say a public nature for say it's right, so the husband could be like the public face, but who really gets her wet is an usher.
Speaker 2:So and I wanted to point out to your question when you was like let's flip it. So when you say, okay, if they go see gorilla and make the stallion, okay, that's cool, I'm like I say, and you're right, we are gonna feel away at first. But like I said, I want I hope he smack it and then he come home have a good time baby.
Speaker 2:But what I'm not gonna allow is you can't go to the strip club and get that attention she's too close and she's too local and she's too available, like no, we could go to the strip club together, like I. I will do that, but when it comes to the celebrities and stuff, like you said, you had fun yeah, it was.
Speaker 3:You had to leave yeah, no, it happened.
Speaker 2:But you know, I feel like that's where you draw the line. Now you want to go to the strip club and get a lap dance.
Speaker 5:Uh-uh, not, not that, yeah no, you have to shout together yeah well, yeah, yeah, we're together, yeah, we're together.
Speaker 2:But I'm saying you go out with your homeboys and you want to come back and tell me she gave you.
Speaker 4:You gotta find somebody else to play with, okay yeah, it's just, it's just a sign of disrespect, and I think any woman who truly has like respect for a man because here's another thing too you gotta keep in mind right, this is a social media area era, right? So she knew that this kind of stuff was go viral so she, exactly exactly exactly she probably was waiting on this moment right right right, right because I think she did it, interviewing everything.
Speaker 3:So like this is her moment.
Speaker 4:She didn't give it. You know what I mean, so I think you always got to keep that in mind the women and it might be the men.
Speaker 2:I've I've seen just other friendships in relationships to where the men don't want to leave because they don't want to seem like they're the bad guy, but also, too, is the women. Sometimes they get stuck and it's like dang, I don't want to be the bad person and didn't know, I just stayed. You know what?
Speaker 4:also could be happening, too, is that might have just been. What we could be seeing is just like that could be what's going on on TV.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 4:She might have an usher in her real life. And it might not be him, especially if he's talking about, especially if he's saying you've never done that for me and we've been together for 20 years. No-transcript.
Speaker 2:She done, did it for somebody? Did you see the way her?
Speaker 1:tongue was moving. He looked at that video and was like you ain't never did that to my cherries.
Speaker 4:Lou, I need you to stay with me. Lou, Stay with me.
Speaker 2:That's the problem right there, because he got cherries and not cojones.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 4:But look, apparently she's doing something with cherries too, she taught a little knot in the stem, and everything she been practicing and he talking about yeah, she been practicing.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna, I'm gonna be real with you, my guy. You see this if she hasn't made out with you in public over 20 years, she don't like you, bro, she is putting up with you. My god, you should have been divorced, like ariel said, you should have been divorced before the concert maybe, maybe you just the bag yeah, yeah, yeah, man, that's man.
Speaker 1:Look, I wanted I'm glad y'all were here, because I really wanted to talk to y'all about that man, because you know it's, it's, it's wild out here, man, it's wild, it is. Um, where's she learning to do that at?
Speaker 1:yeah, exactly so to make a. You know, you said you watch the show. Uh, we do have a segment. This is how we usually close it. It's a game. You ain't you ain't been a part of this yet, but uh, it's a game. It's a game called one gotta go. Okay, we're going to put some pictures up here, and I think most of them are One Gotta Go. You just tell me who gotta go or what gotta go, okay, all right. Okay, you want to start with the hair first, the hair shit first, all right, whatever Just, do you, do you, do you, do you? We'll just go with it. If y'all on the chat, make sure y'all share that we're about to play One Gotta Go. So right here, these are different hairstyles. Out of all these hairstyles, which one gotta go? This is throwback. This is throwbacks over here, though I don't even think they even do these anymore. Yo remember number one. Number one was my high school years, right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, listen.
Speaker 2:Number seven, number seven. Gotta go Number seven, number seven, they gotta go Number nine.
Speaker 4:I ain't gonna lie, she got a little smile. Yeah, I like the nine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, y'all ain't even looking at the hair Number seven look like a backup dancer for TLC.
Speaker 2:They not looking at the hair they not looking at that they not looking at that Nah look, she got the little smile little light skin.
Speaker 1:Look at the cheetah. Cheetah print.
Speaker 6:I ride cheetah.
Speaker 1:Number eight, number five look like she got eczema.
Speaker 2:Wait a minute, you gonna get in trouble. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:I went too far. Chat I went too far.
Speaker 4:Which one gotta go. Which one gotta go. You said which one Number one. Them eyes is crazy yeah.
Speaker 1:She looking through my soul?
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was in somebody's house Along back in the day.
Speaker 1:All these tits Look like they was in Players club.
Speaker 4:Yeah, right. Hey yo can you just imagine, like, if you roll over, like the house be dark or some shit like that, and she looking at you yeah, you flash a flashlight.
Speaker 1:Like listen, yeah, she looking, she thinks she looking seductive too, a deer headlight you can't tell her nothing in that head shot wow, that is crazy work so number seven. You said gotta go. I agree with that number seven. What do you think, marcina?
Speaker 2:I said number six though number six actually cause. I had number seven without the bangs.
Speaker 4:I don't hate. I think, I think we keep number seven though yeah, because we need, like you know, I like that, I like the spectrum of color. We got number nine for the light skin, number seven for the dark skin.
Speaker 2:I told you. I told you they wasn't even looking at the hair. I'm just looking at the hair.
Speaker 5:That's the hairstylist in me.
Speaker 2:I'm just looking at the hair.
Speaker 1:Best friend, which one do you say? Which one got to go? Yeah, seven.
Speaker 4:See, Tamika, you got to have both B-O-F-F.
Speaker 1:Six and seven do look alike, so does nine, but 9 got a little twist, but yeah 9 she look a little natural. She like that's her hair yeah, that's what she did oh, now we're gonna do some R&B groups. That's Jodeci, drew Hill, boyz II Men, a new edition which one gotta go in all their music. Gotta go, drew Hill, what, what.
Speaker 6:Drew.
Speaker 2:Hill gotta go. You make sure you walk up to her. You know what? Oh, that is that's. You know what? I think it was the blonde hair, like Sisqo did it for me with the blonde hair, it was just like.
Speaker 1:I always thought he was just hiding the fact that he was yeah that's what I think too.
Speaker 2:The music was dope, but I mean out of them. For me I was a new edition girl, Like I grew up on Mr Telephone man, and that's who I was going to be. There's something wrong with my life when I dial my baby's number. I get a click every time. You can't tell me nothing about them.
Speaker 1:Oh man, but yeah, I mean, I mean who you say, Marcina.
Speaker 2:I was getting rid of New Edition cause, baby, you can't tell me nothing about Boyz II, men you can't tell me nothing about Joe. Every moment, listen, drew Hill is just I.
Speaker 5:Just what's some of you like from Drew Hill listen.
Speaker 2:Drew will order the whole album just lit, i'ma tell you y'all to play something for me, play something.
Speaker 5:I don't remember.
Speaker 6:I got this feeling oh yeah, Now that's the dream and I just can't turn it loose, and then five steps was hard too.
Speaker 2:We were five, Like they music. It was the blonde hair for me Like why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 2:The music was dope. Like the music was dope. I literally just listened to their whole. I unshuffled the other day. I love me some.
Speaker 1:Drew Hill. So new edition got to go for you, Dawn, what you think bro?
Speaker 4:I'm not really into this picture as much as the first one. Y'all can just pick one, even though Drew Hill do got to stay, though Drew Hill and Boyz II Men got to stay, so new edition.
Speaker 1:This is difficult for me because I like them all, but I got to go with Drew Hill.
Speaker 4:I guess this guy's insane.
Speaker 2:Damn, that's hard to say it's a hard decision because they all are dope. They all made dope music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was the blonde half for me, drew Hill, because new edition man, I can't get rid of them. And Boyz, competition man, I can't get rid of them. And boys and men's got one of my favorite songs ever mama, mama, yeah.
Speaker 4:and then jodeci come on, we can't get rid of it and I think and I think and I think in terms of like, just uh, harmony and stuff like that, boys and men is probably the best yeah, that should have been.
Speaker 1:I'm mad they don't make music now they're probably the best naturally the best.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like naturally senior group baby help.
Speaker 2:Baby help. When they came and sung Silent Night on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I wanted to have a baby and have them come.
Speaker 1:Sad note my nephew Devontae is named after Devontae from Jodeci. I'm trying to say what was your mama doing Well we know who she's not getting with. Let's see what the chat say. Then we'll go back to this. Shout out to the chat. Share the live. Share the live. Drew Hill, it's not way till the water runs dry. Yeah, that's a good one. Ariel's a boys man. Beauty is her name.
Speaker 4:It's crazy too. Yes, sweet, listen. These are the times times, yeah, when they did the whole see baby san cisco, the gayest gangster in history he came out in that thong video.
Speaker 1:Hey listen, that's his, that's his personal life yeah, yeah, we're not judging over here on this dad and the other podcast right, you gotta do that.
Speaker 2:That's why I eliminated, do you don? Said number three was my aunt's hairstyle for prom. I know that's right.
Speaker 1:All right next one oh, we back. Another hairstyle oh Dawn, we back.
Speaker 4:Straight hair is crazy.
Speaker 1:Listen, if I could live in the world without any of these hairstyles, kill me. I like all of them.
Speaker 2:I love them all.
Speaker 1:I love the curly hair, especially if it's natural. I can't get rid of none of them.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't. And I don't even care for the color, but I like it on her. Done Done. I like the hair though I'm talking about the hair.
Speaker 1:He ain't even got to the hair yet he ain't even got to the hair, tamika, okay, he's still on the face. Yeah, all of them look good, man, keep them all. I don't want to live in the world without any of those hairstyles. If I had to pick, though, the blue is a little bit wild, but I love it.
Speaker 2:It look good on her though. Yeah, it look good on her Like we was talking about the lime green, yeah yeah, you got to pick your battle. See Dawn, the Dawn you still on there, girl, put your green on Dawn. Yeah, put your green on Dawn.
Speaker 1:Right girl.
Speaker 2:Forgive what Marshina said. I saw somebody chatting on the chat say something.
Speaker 1:Marshina don't even know what she's talking about. Anyway, when it come, I lost mine, 19 years old oh my god. I shaved it off when I graduated. You need to say the blue gotta go. The green wig is my guess.
Speaker 2:Yes down on bendin' knee listen.
Speaker 1:See down on bendin' knee bro sings too hard and boys to men. He makes my jaw hurt watching him. The green wig is my favorite is my guess. It's a guess. It's my guess. Love them all. Curly hair is high maintenance, so I can do without. I know that's right. Curly hair is high maintenance. Next, look at that curly hair.
Speaker 4:I fuck with curly hair. Yeah, that curly hair was pretty. Yeah, straight hair.
Speaker 1:What's going on? Curly hair, Don Nah, I fuck with curly hair. Yeah, straight hair boy. That son just hit her right there. What's going on, Swan?
Speaker 2:Swan gonna make his way in.
Speaker 1:No matter what Swan, gotta go. Unique how about them gators? Even though they won, I'm throwing up in my mouth Pause.
Speaker 4:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Alright, which one gotta go comedians Jamie Foxx, Cat Williams, chris Tucker or Mike Epps? Who gotta go?
Speaker 2:I say Jamie, I look at him more as a musician.
Speaker 1:This is easy for me. This is easy for me. Who? Gotta go, chris Tucker, gotta go what?
Speaker 4:Chris Tucker might have to go why we're talking about Chris Tucker gotta go.
Speaker 5:What Chris Tucker might have to go. Why we're talking about Chris Tucker gotta go he's funny in movies yeah, stand up.
Speaker 6:Stand up is trash.
Speaker 1:I've never seen him in stand up okay, back in the day when he did Def Jam, he was funny, but I saw his newest shit. I'll turn that shit off.
Speaker 2:Jamie Foxx is funny. Well you know he lives for the Lord now. So he a little different, yeah, I mean, he was only funny to me in Rush Hour. I'll never go see him, you didn't like him in Friday.
Speaker 5:I liked him in Friday.
Speaker 2:Friday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I forgot about Friday. He's great. He's a great comedian actor.
Speaker 4:Cat Williams is just funny.
Speaker 2:I didn't hear a lot about Cat Williams when he just did the show this last time. Y'all heard a lot about it. My mom went and she said a lot of people. Oh, yeah, because he just did the Shannon Sharp, like he did the Shannon Sharp right before. A lot of that stuff that he talks about on Shannon Sharp wasn't even in his when he went, so it was kind of like people went thinking he was going to talk more about that and he didn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah oh okay, the one in Tampa he came. When he came to Tampa they got to fight in there, big fight, a big brawl. He left, yeah, he left, yeah. But Mike Epps is naturally funny, though. Yeah, he's just one of them dudes. You know from the block that he just make you laugh. For no reason they got a big comedy show coming out.
Speaker 1:I'm going out. Yeah, they're coming to Emily. Yeah, that's a good lineup, yeah, real good. All right, one got to go, eminem, kanye. One gotta go. You spoke, yeah, jay-z gotta go. Okay, listen, let's just stop right there. I'm getting rid of Kanye. Have you seen the buffoonery that Kanye has been doing lately?
Speaker 4:No, he's gotta go. Yeah, we talking about that.
Speaker 2:You're gonna pick Kanye over, jay. The college dropout was like the last good thing that he did.
Speaker 1:He had. The first three albums were great. Kanye Kanye. The college dropout was like the last good thing that he did he had.
Speaker 2:The first three albums were great, but after that, in this, in this, in this category? No for me. I'm asking a question about him.
Speaker 6:We are the OVT.
Speaker 2:I love that he walked in in perfect timing because I just told y'all that's who gotta go oh? You saw him? Yeah, this is my bestie and Tabio, you remember meeting him at the show?
Speaker 6:Yeah, we said we got you in seed and everything you done gained some weight baby.
Speaker 5:You did.
Speaker 2:Them 75 days are going hard. Right the hard challenge, look good on. Right the hard challenge, look good, the hard challenge, look good. Yeah, make a seat for you. Yeah, pull up a spot, man. Yeah, but Kanye gotta go, so Kanye for you, yeah.
Speaker 1:Kanye for me. Yeah, yeah, I can live without Kanye ever existing.
Speaker 6:I'm not gonna lie College dropout late registration graduation all classics, Classics, I tied them together. College dropout late registration graduation all classics, Classics Classics.
Speaker 4:But Eminem got to go in this category.
Speaker 6:You know what I mean. Come on dog. When those kids on my ride when I drive in it.
Speaker 2:One mic would never Right.
Speaker 4:But musically I think it might have the weakest catalog music.
Speaker 1:He might have a point there. He might have a point there.
Speaker 4:Marsha Mathers LP, because look, have a point there, marshall.
Speaker 6:Mathers LP.
Speaker 4:Because look, Eminem show.
Speaker 6:Slim Shady LP.
Speaker 1:That's three. Come on now.
Speaker 6:We talking about three versus three.
Speaker 4:Okay. But I'm saying, though, you got Kanye and you even got like the, what's that one shit, I didn't even like it. The 808 on Heartbreak.
Speaker 6:Okay, let's go beyond music. Eminem made more niggas millionaires than a lot of.
Speaker 4:Maybe not better than Kanye. Kanye's a producer.
Speaker 6:Who Kanye made millionaires. Jay-z was already rich.
Speaker 2:Right Jay-Z made.
Speaker 6:Kanye rich.
Speaker 4:Off Kanye.
Speaker 6:Jay-Z was rich before Kanye.
Speaker 4:No, Kanye's a producer.
Speaker 6:What that mean. Produce the records. Eminem made more than okay 50?. Everybody in G-Unit got money off of Eminem alone, 50 was already 50 though. No, he wasn't. No, he wasn't. Hell. No, bro, come on, bro. 50 was a multi-platinum selling artist before Eminem.
Speaker 4:No Stop it, stop it, bro, stop it. How did Eminem?
Speaker 6:find you who called it in Saint who?
Speaker 2:called it in.
Speaker 6:Saint.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, what's up?
Speaker 1:Saint, let's talk. Saint, hold on, hold on, you're live, sir.
Speaker 3:First of all, can everybody hear me yeah?
Speaker 1:Here we go, Tameka All right TO.
Speaker 3:first of all, blessings and salutations, my brother.
Speaker 6:Peace, blessings and salutations. Now come on with the bullshit. I know you, finna, say something.
Speaker 3:Yup, y'all motherfuckers know it. First of all, Okay. Eminem is the weakest link.
Speaker 6:He got the weakest catalog out of the four. I would have to agree with that.
Speaker 1:I would have to agree with that Culturally, Because lyrically no, no, no. Culturally yes.
Speaker 6:Eminem is the only one out of all of them that murdered Jay-Z on his own song.
Speaker 1:No challenge Fair but what I'm saying is you can't take it. Hold on one at a time, one at a time, one at a time Say what Are you talking about, renegade?
Speaker 6:But that's it. That's it. They only got one song together.
Speaker 3:But I will tell you this. I will tell you this Okay. You got to understand, even though Slim Shade, the LLP, the Marshall Mathers LP, was good.
Speaker 5:Okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:I think his first two albums was solid Three.
Speaker 6:So Eminem show, I think first two, three.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're right, the Eminem show was the best. Even after the Eminem show, that started getting a little weird to me, bro Marilyn Manson, eminem is responsible for 8 Mile?
Speaker 6:bro Eminem is responsible for staying. Ain't? Nobody else in that catalog got an 8 Mile or a stand? Who?
Speaker 3:else in that catalog went Diamond. You tripping who else went Diamond.
Speaker 6:Who as many times as him okay hotline as many times as him you sleep.
Speaker 1:Look it up. This is all everybody's opinion on things.
Speaker 3:Let's move on to the next one. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel like.
Speaker 6:I go to bed for that white boy he done made more niggas, more millionaires than Lotto has. I say, yeezy made a lot of niggas, millionaires. No, no, who, who? Yeezy got rich.
Speaker 3:Yeezy. First of all, yeezy made, yeezy relevant.
Speaker 4:Everybody.
Speaker 3:Stop.
Speaker 6:Come on, hey, hang up on it, hang up on it.
Speaker 5:Hang up on it. Hang up on it, Bro stop.
Speaker 3:Reasonable doubt was before.
Speaker 1:Yeezy Listen, listen to me, listen to me, bro. Come on, we got Tameka Taylor in here, guys. We got Tameka Taylor. My bad, my bad.
Speaker 3:We gonna have this conversation Another day bro Jay-Z has some good albums, bro, but Jay-Z started getting To a point where he hit his peak and he had to either Re-, re-, re-imagine himself and remake himself, or he was gonna continue to be one of them fucking same old 84 rappers, but before Yeezy started giving him all the production, bro, he would have been matter of fact.
Speaker 6:We really, really want a real talk about it. So Jay have Just Blaze, jay have Pharrell.
Speaker 5:Jay have.
Speaker 6:Timbaland Jay have come on.
Speaker 1:We gotta go. We gotta wrap this up up. My producer has an appointment to go to tonight. We love you, saint, we love you alright. So this one, this artist, gotta go, and all their whole catalog. Who's that in the corner, tyler? Oh, that's kindred. That's kindred, kindred. Yay, michael travis scott yeah easy work. Yeah, travis uh, uh, yeah. I wouldn't agree with that. It's a tie between that, michael, y'all gonna get mad at me. But yeah, I agree with travis what you say, tamika travis, travis.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, travis.
Speaker 1:Okay, this one One got to go Drake, usher, wayne, breezy, tupac or R Kelly.
Speaker 2:Let me see what that is. It will probably be Drake for me.
Speaker 5:I'm not a big.
Speaker 2:Drake fan. I like Drake. I like the old Drake when he first came out, that was me.
Speaker 1:I like the old Drake when he first came out, that was me. I like that. I like that, my guess, damn as much as I hate to say this.
Speaker 2:You better not say Kills.
Speaker 1:Nah, I got to get rid of Breezy man. What I got to get rid of Breezy.
Speaker 2:I'm going Breezy's world right now. I can't get rid of Usher you can, I mean you can, you can get rid of Usher, you can get rid of.
Speaker 1:Rocky already you know yeah, cause he already causing divorces and all type of shit. He causing problems. But man, usher's catalog to me cause I'm old, you know what I'm saying. It's amazing, yeah. So, and don't get me wrong, I love Breezy, you know, but I can't get rid of Usher bro. None of those guys can get rid of either.
Speaker 2:Pac already gone. You could have said him over Breezy.
Speaker 1:That residuals track is out of here. Side note Dawn. Did you say something on that one, dawn? What was your one?
Speaker 2:We got to go back to the hairstyles.
Speaker 3:Right the blonde blue.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, he ain't paying attention, no more.
Speaker 6:He ain't paying attention.
Speaker 2:The blonde blue, the bald head, the cheetah print Like this ain't his thing right now. Oh, okay, okay, too many escalators.
Speaker 4:Hey look, I thought I had said that early on.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I got your back. Don's a music guy, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, alright, that's easy, right. Tom Cruise, will Smith, samuel L Jackson or Robert Downey Jr, tom Cruise, tom Cruise, I agree he's a weirdo he is.
Speaker 6:You can't get rid of the hard man, first of all yeah, you can't get rid of the hard man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come on, bro, yeah you can't get rid of the best black actor ever.
Speaker 2:Oh wait what. This is hard. I'm going to send this one out. Yeah, this is the one right here, I'm sending this one out.
Speaker 1:I can get rid of Samuel L Jackson. Damn I can't even finish that sentence.
Speaker 2:That's because you ain't supposed to say it. You supposed to get rid of Will first.
Speaker 1:Wow, fresh Prince is near and dear to my heart.
Speaker 2:It's something about the other three that I just love, like listen, you can watch Fresh Prince and listen. I hated Denzel in Training Day, but, american Gangster, you can't Samuel L Jackson in A Time to Kill like you can't do nothing with it, Okay so.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say Samuel L Jackson. And I'll say why Because motherfucker oh.
Speaker 2:Because he performed at the Super Bowl. He about to tell you don't mess this up.
Speaker 1:He's been in more trash movies than any of these guys.
Speaker 6:That's because he's been acting more than any of these guys Come on man and that's because he did 10,000 films too. But we talking about the quality of the guys.
Speaker 2:Come on, man, and that's because he did 10,000 films too, but we talking about the quality of the character, but how many?
Speaker 1:well, will Smith has been in one or two, but how many trash movies can you say, denzel, did?
Speaker 6:I love iRobot, I was about to say iRobot is what's happening today. You tripping, I'm just trying to bounce from my other people. So you say Will, what do you say?
Speaker 1:Tamika.
Speaker 2:I'm going to sit that one out. I watch all of them. Samuel L Jackson got me when he played Uncle Sam at the Super Bowl. That was legendary for me, samuel. L Jackson yeah and you was sold right, he said the same word. Samuel L.
Speaker 1:Jackson's Black Snake Moon. That was a good movie.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 6:Nah, you a fucking freak bro, that's I can't agree. That says a lot about you.
Speaker 1:That was a weird movie. It was so weird that I was like damn, this is fucking great acting. Have you ever seen?
Speaker 2:Black Snake Moon. Nah, I ain't seen that one.
Speaker 1:It had the white girl, type of thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:I didn't watch it till the end it's just weird, like it was like damn bro, like for him to do that all I see is the Capital One guy.
Speaker 2:I don't know what y'all talking about.
Speaker 1:Alright, actors Lorenz Tate, mekhi Pfeiffer, taye Diggs and Omar Epps can we get more hairstyles up here? That's all I could find was those two. By the way, the hairstyle man, it was not a lot out there.
Speaker 6:I mean we're R&B divas and that, and that I mean it's Tamika's show, my bad yeah, exactly we're calling them hairstyles.
Speaker 2:Teal, hairstyles oh, hairstyles, yes hairstyles Tamika, which one gotta go that one's hard too, but probably, I think, laurence Tate, a little corny sometimes. Makai Pfeiffer he was okay in Soul Food. Tate Diggs that's my guy. I like him, hands down. Who was that in the corner? Omar Ips have we seen him since Love and Basketball? We have. He did a doctor show or something like that he did, but he also just did the one the Devil Within. That was a pretty good show. I haven't seen that one.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that was a good one. Yeah, that was a good movie.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, that's the one with the brother.
Speaker 1:Okay yeah, yeah, I did see that one.
Speaker 2:I did see that one. So if I had to choose based off the movies I've watched, I'm going to say Taye Diggs, because I can't get rid of. Lorenzo Take as a dead president oh, I forgot about dead presidency, that's okay. I can watch that over and over again that's one of them. Movies that take me back to the 90s. I ain't never seen that made me want to.
Speaker 1:I ain't going to talk about it. Yeah, listen to GZ with coffee and blunts. You hear me?
Speaker 2:yeah yeah, take me all the way back. What would?
Speaker 1:I do. I ain't never seen tay digs in a movie. I'm like man that was great acting me. You know all americans great though, but yeah, it's like he's always played the the. He was, you know, the supporting actor he did yeah he did all right one, one gotta go. I don't know how to say Daniel's last name, john David Washington. Michael B Jordan, that's Denzel's son he paid on. He was on that show, ballers, and then he was also in that movie, tenet.
Speaker 4:Marshawn is still looking like okay, but what movie did he?
Speaker 2:play. I'm going to say him because I don't know him Right. Me too I'm with you. You don't know Denzel, son. No, we know Denzel. We know his daddy Right, we know his daddy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he's got to go, all right. Michael B Jordan, what's this guy's name?
Speaker 6:Why did I have to put the picture of?
Speaker 1:bro, on the he looking crazy which one Lorenz Tate still for me yeah probably still be Lorenz Tate yeah, because Michael.
Speaker 2:B Jordan is good. The guy down at the bottom is good. I kind of fell off with the young guy Michael Ealy yeah and Divorce in the Black. He turned mealy yeah in Divorce in the Black. He turned me all the way off with Divorce in the Black.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen that one, but I'm going to. Oh, yes, when he threw them babies out that window, that was him. But did he play in Divorce in the Black? No, that wasn't him, that wasn't my baby. But yeah, when he threw them babies out. Yeah, but yeah, when he threw them babies out. I don't want to. Yeah, that was the one. So him Go through the chat real quick.
Speaker 1:Was anybody playing along?
Speaker 2:Four Color Girls, yeah that was it?
Speaker 1:I was so mad they made Amari harder with Gay and Nat Ely got to go. Sang said Ely, okay, denzel's son got to go. John Washington Okay, yeah, don't be a menace. Yeah, no menace to society, not, yeah, that was yeah.
Speaker 2:There you go, can't get rid of him for that four color girls. I ain't gonna tell y'all I do not like that movie what's what? I'm gonna cut your mic off why you don't like the movie I don't, I just and you know what I just it's crazy my baby just bought a a hoodie. She's got a hoodie that she wears from Poetic Justice, and that was a movie I just didn't care for either Poetic.
Speaker 5:Justice.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it was a one-watcher. What I don't like how?
Speaker 1:Jenny did pop In the office.
Speaker 2:Where were they going in the postal truck To the family reunion? I'll definitely say that.
Speaker 1:They was going on a mail run. Yeah, where were they going? For real, I'll definitely say that they was going on a mail run. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah, how can you over game?
Speaker 2:You about to get jumped on Right, you make sure you walk into his car.
Speaker 6:Over the game, bro how.
Speaker 2:I'm taking game over, he just mad about the Super Bowl performance because he was over there with Drake.
Speaker 4:No, no, I don't care about that. We suing Universal and getting money, so we don't care.
Speaker 1:We're going to talk about that next episode. That's big business right there.
Speaker 5:Game got to go.
Speaker 1:Damn man, I can't, man, damn, I can't pick that. This is just for you, right here. Y'all know who's got to stay baby. Wayne, ti GZ or Luda yeah.
Speaker 2:Luda definitely got to go. Y'all could just blow Jeezy on up Period. You see, look, you see his picture's the clearest one that's up there.
Speaker 5:There's a reason for that.
Speaker 3:There's a reason for that.
Speaker 1:Originally the picture was fabulous, but I cropped Jeezy in there, just for you to see.
Speaker 2:I know that's right. One time for the snowman.
Speaker 1:It's all in summertime. Everybody say Luda. I said TI, ti. I was raised on Luda, though I was raised on Luda too, he's a different generation.
Speaker 6:I look at your mouth with a hummingbird ass.
Speaker 5:Your mouth. Write chicks that your ass can't can. 145 in the. He's a different generation.
Speaker 6:That's the last one.
Speaker 5:My bad man. All right, all right, all right. What's the end of the song?
Speaker 1:that's the last one. Alright, alright, alright. What's the chat saying?
Speaker 6:we'll wrap this thing up shout out to the chat.
Speaker 2:GZ raised me. I know that's right.
Speaker 1:T-Baby said Luda gotta go, yeah, saying over there GZ raised me. Luda gotta go. Unique said Luda the Don says Luda T to go. Unique said Luda the Don says Luda T-Baby says he's not picking. That wasn't even federal. She said game, although game had crazy bars, game did have crazy bars.
Speaker 6:man, y'all should have put tricking though. That then would have been a real conversation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. But listen, man Marcina, appreciate you for always coming through for me, don, you already know what it is TO appreciate you always popping in on us, bro. I love that I get to see him here, me too.
Speaker 2:I'm waiting on a return text. He ain't return one of your texts, girl my boy busy out here he is he booked and busy?
Speaker 1:I'm gonna let him slide now you gotta apologize. Now you gotta apologize now.
Speaker 2:You gotta apologize. You did, but you said, I will know afterwards.
Speaker 6:It's afterwards tomorrow, like alright, y'all, it's been a good episode to make you listen.
Speaker 1:Man, I was really, like they say, I was really, you know, excited for this episode. I've been talking about it since we talked. It's everything. It came out everything. I expected it more. Yes, you know what I'm saying. I'm going to let you know you're beautiful inside and out, thank you. You know you got a family here, this, that and the other. I love y'all. You need us for anything. We here for you. We appreciate you for taking the time out and kicking it with us. Tell the people out there on the chat and everybody who's listening in the universe where they can reach you at what you got going on your socials.
Speaker 2:All that good stuff so thank you for giving me the opportunity to be on this, that and the other. It's been amazing. Um, I actually actually got to connect with good people that I've been following, so so to see you in the flesh is amazing. You can follow me on all social media platforms by Tamika Taylor right, facebook, instagram, and then you can go to my website, wwwtamikataylorcom and find out all things that you need to know Products, classes, upcoming events. I have a community called the connector community. You can find out about the beauty connect podcast and just all things me.
Speaker 1:Yes, Lord.
Speaker 2:If you know my name, you know where to find me.
Speaker 1:Yes, lord, and real quick, before we end this tea. Baby, we see you, your daddy's going into surgery in the morning. He is definitely in all our prayers, yes, prayers, listen. Prayers to you for strength and guidance, prayers to your daddy and you know, and that surgeon that he has those magic hands touched by God and make sure your dad, you know, gets through it unscathed. We love you, t-baby, always tuning in and showing love to us. The Dawn says she's so proud of you, tamika. Thank you the.
Speaker 2:Dawn, I'm so glad I met you.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's what's up, Saint. We love you bro. This has been this. That and the Other Catch us next Thursday. We cooking up. We got some events popping up. Shout out to TO and Firm Vision. We out this thing. The this, that and the Other podcast.