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Balancing Love, Music, and Business: Brittany Clay's Journey of Faith, Community, and A Sweet Experience
Brittany Clay, an inspiring entrepreneur and advocate for love and relationships, opens up about her extraordinary journey in balancing family life, music, and business. Discover the heartwarming story behind her unexpected venture into the dessert world with "A Sweet Experience," which started from her unique graham cracker crusted sweet potato pie. Brittany's story is a testament to the power of community support and faith in navigating life's challenges. Her passion for nurturing love, both in her marriage and in her community, shines through in every note of music she creates with her husband, Rob.
Throughout this episode, Brittany shares invaluable lessons on mindset, trust, and discipline that have been pivotal in her entrepreneurial journey. From transitioning from music to desserts, she uncovers business strategies that have propelled her forward, including marketing, networking, and applying for grants. We also explore the power of showing up with intention and faith, illustrated through a captivating anecdote that serves as a metaphor for the potential within us all. As a life coach, Brittany encourages listeners to harness their power for the greatest good, celebrating life's journey with gratitude and love. This episode is a heartfelt celebration of growth, faith, and the beautiful dance of life's challenges and triumphs. A Sweet Experience on All Social Channels.
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Speaker 2:All right, Hello, hello, hello, hello and welcome Brittany Clay.
Speaker 3:Hello Welcome. How are you? How are you? I'm doing very well. How hello, hello, hello and welcome Brittany Clay. Hello Welcome. How are you? How are you? I'm doing very well. How are you?
Speaker 2:Brittany Guys, y'all don't understand we got Brittany Clay in the house today. Wow, this is a privilege to be here with you today.
Speaker 3:That's what I say.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Thank you. This is going to be an awesome time that we're going to have together and, as you've heard, three Keys for your Journey podcast. I'm your host, but today is about Brittany Clay Tell us for our listening audience there's some people they're listening from wherever they're listening, and they never don't know you have never met you. So for those people, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, hello again. Thank you for having me. I am Brittany Clay, pronounced Brittany Clay. That is funny. People used to tell me like all the time you say Brittany, why do you say it like that? Well, that's how it's pronounced. One and then two. I just I love my name, you know, so you can love it too. But yes, I am a believer. I am a wife to a wonderful man, rob Clay. I love that guy so much. I have five children. I don't know why I almost said seven, maybe because I have one grandchild and one on the way.
Speaker 2:Okay, congratulations for that.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much. So we're really heavily involved with our family, our kids. We just love those people. And what else, oh, we sing.
Speaker 2:That's right, okay, so when we say we sing, you got to give more information because most of you don't know you are.
Speaker 3:I am Brittany, half of the duo love r&b yes we sing music that inspires couples to remember why they fell in love, grow to stay in love and learn to love again. That's one of my passions. And then relationships, like everything relationship when it comes to when it's the struggle or when it's triumphant. I love relationships because it's all about mindset and really how you show up, you know, and so that that is it for me.
Speaker 2:And I have to say this I feel like I heard your husband, rob, saying and I don't know if it was on a Facebook video, I don't remember what it was, but he said as you all sing, it's not just, it's not. The message of what you're singing is through real relationships, ups and downs.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And through all of that, how you maintain victorious because you stuck together.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and because of God, that's our foundation, it's always been our foundation. It's always been our foundation. I don't know where I would be without God one, but then without my husband, and, like his faith, because he always, no matter what happens, redirects me back to where my direction should be, my focus should be, and that's in God, you know.
Speaker 2:Wow, I think that's incredible. Okay, so the business that you have is called A Sweet Experience? Tell us about that.
Speaker 3:A Sweet Experience. I always laugh when people ask about A Sweet Experience because to me it's a fluke. It's one of those things that God just sets you up and then you like obey and you just watch him work. So A Sweet Experience is our dessert shop and I say our because I really try to include my husband in everything I do. So it is ours, we're partners and we started making.
Speaker 3:We started this business with a graham cracker crusted sweet potato pie, which I held on to that recipe for so long, because in our community, you know, everybody can't bring sweet potato pie to Thanksgiving. It's kind of like you got to be qualified, you got to fill out the application to bring the mac and cheese, to make the turkey and especially the desserts. You know you might be able to get away with bringing the plates, you might be able to get away with bringing the mashed potatoes, but when it comes to sweet potato pies and those specialty desserts, you have to have the invitation. And so I was about to share this in my dessert, my sweet potato pie, with the community and I was so nervous because I just I didn't know it was a graham cracker crusted sweet potato pie. I had never seen anybody else do it. But it was so delicious and when I finally felt like I perfected it, I had to share it.
Speaker 3:And when I did, it just went crazy. It went viral, locally viral, and people just rallied behind me and I made you know, maybe $250, $500. And I was like, oh, the IRS might come get me, so maybe I should start a business. And I ended up like the lady in the E-Myth If you've ever read that. Now, that is a book for entrepreneurs any entrepreneurs. So the E-Myth, revisited there's, the main character is a lady who owns a bakery because her friends hyped her up, based off of her desserts, to start a business and then she found herself scrambling for help and not knowing what to do, wanting to close the doors to her business, and she found her way out, you know.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, so wow, and I'm sure we'll get more into some revelations around. A sweet experience. How did you? I'm just curious, how did you come up with the name?
Speaker 3:A sweet experience, okay, so again I have to give credit to my husband, rob. We are pretty creative. Words are what we do. We love to write, we write a lot of music, we write poems, we just write. But he is just clever when it comes to words. And when we bit into that last pie I made before we started sharing it with anyone else, we were just like this is so good, this is an experience, this is sweet. It's not too sweet, it's not, you know, too much. It's a sweet experience. It just kind of came like that. But my husband kind of he's the one who came up with it and I was like that's it, that's it. And so he names all of our desserts and he just he has a way with words, wow.
Speaker 2:That is. That's awesome, a sweet experience, because, as y'all were taking that last bite, this is an experience.
Speaker 3:It was.
Speaker 2:Okay, Wow, Well, it resonates. It resonates A sweet experience and I love the way you actually say it A sweet experience and it almost sticks with your. It kind of sticks in your psyche so I appreciate that Amazing. It kind of sticks in your psyche, so I appreciate that Amazing.
Speaker 3:Now, when you think about you know, obviously the goal of this podcast is to for those that might be listening, wherever they're listening, to really get a chance to pick the brains of entrepreneurs, kind of where they there are keys I call them keys that have been influential throughout your journey thus far. Do you have some? Yes?
Speaker 2:keys. So key number one would be, trust God.
Speaker 3:So when I say that, is because I started when you asked me about the introduction. I started with music and singing and I always thought that by now I'll be on stages singing to millions of people, with everybody knowing the words to our songs. And that's just not the case yet. Thousands of people maybe, but not as many as I thought. Like, I'm just not in the music industry in a way that I thought I would be already, and that's fine.
Speaker 3:But God sometimes has a way of teaching you things through other avenues, and I believe a sweet experience was is the avenue for us. And so what it taught me because with Love R&B, we were singers, we've written and recorded albums and we can go to the church, we can go to the lounges or anywhere there's a stage we can pretty much set up and sing and entertain an audience but the business behind it wasn't on point. We weren't an LLC, we weren't set up to do business, and so when I set up a Sweet Experience to do business, I gained the relationships of business owners and other entrepreneurs that were able to give me more and more insight and to just push me along and say, okay, you can do this, you can make it, Whereas with Love R&B not that they didn't take us seriously, but there wasn't any foundation for us to carry on as a business, if that makes sense. And so now I'm learning that all of these other things that you need in place is what? Now I know how to market.
Speaker 3:Nobody was teaching me how to market LoveR&B. Nobody was teaching me to just network for LoveR&B. No one was teaching me to apply for these grants, and I wouldn't have been able to apply because I didn't have the structure in place. And so just having those things in place is what God is teaching me Like. Get things in order.
Speaker 2:So I think if I picked up on a trust God was I trust God and then allowing him to lead and guide and direct you in those next steps that you actually need to take. And then there comes obedience to actually do it.
Speaker 3:You do have to have obedience and the discipline to obey.
Speaker 2:Wow, just sit on that for a minute, I know. Wow, just sit on that for a minute, I know, wow, okay. So first and most important, trust God and allow him direct your path.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, what comes second?
Speaker 3:Mindset, mindset, and I'd say trust God first and then mindset, because sometimes you think you got your mindset or from. I'm gonna speak for myself. I think I have my mindset in order. Ok, I'm thinking these thoughts and I'm thinking right and I'm believing right. You know, the Bible tells us, you know, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, there may be another one in there. Think on these things and a lot of times I'll find myself thinking on things that may not be praiseworthy.
Speaker 3:And what you focus on really grows and I found that when I think the way that I have been instructed to think, according to that verse, those thoughts grow as well and I find myself in better relationships, in better situations, with better opportunities, not necessarily with all the answers, but in places that lead to peace and not confusion, in places where, okay, here are your next steps, like I found myself in, you know, progress OKC. Big shout out to Progress OKC. But that cohort Generation Impact, that was amazing. But I feel like, just in that trust in God, knowing if I'm thinking the right things and I'm thinking in the way that he's told me to, that it's going to lead me into somewhere that's not chaotic, that's not confusing, and even if it may be a challenge or a decision that needs to be made, that may not even be an easy decision, it'll align. You'll put yourself in alignment with those thoughts. You take yourself out of alignment when you're focused on pessimistic things. I'll just say that, because there's so many things you can focus on that you don't have to.
Speaker 2:And our culture. I'm not going to say it's designed this way, but there's so many things in our culture that can get you off focus.
Speaker 3:We're conditioned to be off focus. Yeah, we are, even when you talk to friends. Or I got a phone call. I got a scam call not too long ago and because I had a ticket for speeding, I got called and they told me I missed my court date. I had to stay on the phone with them or I was going to get a warrant and all things were bad. They were telling me I need to pay them $900 right then, at that moment, or I need to turn myself in and go to jail. And so in that moment I was like, well, let's just go to jail, let's just do this.
Speaker 3:And I realized, like I don't have time to go to jail. I got cookies to bake, I got orders to fill, I got parties to plan, I got things to do. Can't go to jail today. So I said, you know what? Let me just I'm going to pay you, fine, fine, but if you have to stay on the phone, you're going to have to stay on the phone for about two hours while I finish running my errands, until I get to the bank, and because God doesn't rush me.
Speaker 3:So who are you to rush me Over the phone, to rush me? And you know if you, if it was really that serious, you're coming to my door, knocking on my door, finding my people. You know, I've been through that rodeo before. That doesn't scare me, so to speak, you know. And so we haven't even gotten to that part, but anyway. So I wasn't afraid of going to jail, I wasn't afraid of paying the money, but I did not like the way that the call made me feel. Although it would have been something that I could have resolved, it didn't feel good. And so God doesn't operate like that, and when you get to know him, based off of how you think, how you move, the actions that you take, you'll know what path to take. He leads our path and you know how to be led by him because of the love that the path allows you to follow. Yeah, Wow.
Speaker 2:So mindset, shifting our mindset, renewing our mindset daily, moment by moment, to stay in line with the things that you trust God for. I'm putting this together as you're giving it, trusting God. Then I got to get my mind right and I got to get my mind to stay right and that's renewing that mind on a daily basis, moment by moment. Sometimes, because the world has conditioned us with so many different kinds of things.
Speaker 3:So many different ways to think, because we have the opportunity to choose every time. But the reason why I trust again I always go back to trusting God is because we can make our thoughts our idols. We can make our thoughts the thing that we put our trust in, and that's not where it should be. Our trust should always fall back in line with God, Because, even if we thought that this was the right thing to do and it turns out just so happens that that decision took you on a route that you would not have liked to take, you still got to trust God to get off that route.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like the GPS. Gps. We've gotten so conditioned this is me to our phones that if I'm supposed to go from point A to point B and I throw it in my GPS and I make the wrong right, left, wrong turn, it redirects me. But when you don't have a GPS, I'm going back to what you said you've got to trust God to redirect you. It doesn't mean you can't still get to the destination, absolutely. It just means that you might take a different direction. But your mindset's got to be set on that. Wow, is there a third?
Speaker 3:Ooh good, what would be my third Love man? And not just love, but showing up in love.
Speaker 3:Showing up in love Paint me a picture of what that looks like. Okay, I was and this doesn't have anything to do with business. This time I don't know if I've even talked about business. I just really reflect off of just life's moments. But I was at Target one time. No, I was at Walgreens and my husband had pulled up to Walgreens after the night before leaving because the line was so long. So we got there this next day. He pulled in and he was like second person in line. I was like look at you, you made a decision to leave and now we're back and it's not going to take us that long.
Speaker 3:And in that moment I saw the lights in the parking lot at Target, which is right across the street. If you're in the drive-thru you can see directly towards Target's parking lot and their lights flickered on and off. And I saw it and I asked my husband if he saw it. He's like no and I said well, god has given us the power, you know, to do all well we can do. All things are possible with God. I got God with me. I want my husband to see these lights flicker again, so I'm just gonna channel my energy towards get turning these lights on and off. Right. And so I did like a weirdo and I'm like, okay, lights go off, I can see, I can visualize them, like I'm doing all the technique, all the worldly techniques, to get these lights to go on and off and I, I see people on the roof, so I don't know if it was an accident or anything like that and I'm just really trying to mess with target's power.
Speaker 3:And um, and the lady comes to the window. She, you know, she had already been to the window and said we'll be right back with you with your stuff. The lady comes back to the window after I'm doing all of this and she says sir, no, let me tell you this. I said, I said I need the, the, the, the lights that are right by me to just power off, on and off, with no harm and no repercussions. And the lady came to the window almost instantly, right after that. She said mr clay, I'm so sorry, I don't know what's going on, but our power just went out. And I was like I am so sorry, like she was like no, it's not your fault, I can't tell her wow, yeah, really wow and in that moment God said okay, you did it.
Speaker 3:From now on, you get to choose how you use your power. And was I using that for love or to prove a point at that? You know, I said love and showing up. I was trying to show up in my power, in my strength, with God. Not in God, but with God, you know like his sidekick.
Speaker 2:Right, I follow you in your own self. Versus. Versus on assignment for him.
Speaker 3:My husband. He looked at me because I wasted his time again. I had wasted his time again, and that's not love. And so we have the opportunity to do incredible things, amazing things, powerful things, but that doesn't mean that it's the right thing, it doesn't mean that it's the right time, and it does mean that we have to consider always what is the greatest good for all people. What is the greatest good for all people? And so when you show up, you're not just showing up with you know, just because you're there and you're showing up and you're, the way you show up is going to always impact someone else, always. So how are we showing up?
Speaker 2:Yeah, ain't nothing else to say. That's a great question to end with how are we showing up? How are we showing up every day? You feel like now I mean this may be just me. It feels like I mean, have you ever thought about life coaching?
Speaker 3:You dropping dimes nuggets nickels quarters.
Speaker 2:Have you ever thought about life coaching? Or you got you dropping dimes and nuggets nickels dot quarters. That have you ever thought?
Speaker 3:about that absolutely, um, what? I am the miracle coach. Um, that is one of the entities that I have. I am the miracle co and we really focus on helping wives show up in a way that they desire to show up and live fulfilling lives that in turn, offer fulfilling marriages. Because for a long time, even in the midst of me being a self-proclaimed marriage I don't know what, even to call it like a marriage guru I wasn't a guru.
Speaker 3:I never said I was a guru, but I can't even think of a word to say but just in the marriage community and really supporting other marriages, I found myself, as a wife, just really miserable and really wanting more out of my relationship, more from my husband, but what I had done was found myself, um really, I had found myself trusting in everything but what I should have been trusting in, and so those keys that I I come from, that I give, are definitely keys to a framework God gave me for being miracle wife, life-minded, wow, and yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, multi-talented artist, business owner, mom, wife Wow, I mean, and I'm just giving kudos and flowers while I can, I mean while we all go through the ups and downs of life, but you are every time I see you're smiling, you have a good attitude, and I never, I never say you always say everything is perfect, but you but but I get a glimpse of there's more good than bad with the keys you gave today. There's always a path to get back, to be, um, peaceful with where you are, uh, and where you're trying to go, the aptitude to learn and want to grow, taking what God gives you and taking that in like a garden, wanting to till that the right way and then allow that to. You know it's like planting seeds and you know God has to give the increase, but it feels like you just you take what you've been given and there's contentment with that. And then there's this, this heart to want to strive to continue to be better while you're on this assignment, while we're all six feet up and not six feet under. Yeah, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I really do so. No, it wasn't all about today, a sweet experience, but I think you gave us a part of your life and I really appreciate that as well, where I can see where it is has been a sweet experience. So thank you. Now, okay, people are going to ask. They're going to ask me how can I get in contact with Brittany? How can we get in contact with you? Whether it be the marriage code, whether it be a sweet experience, whether it may just be to talk to you, just to talk to you, how can people get in contact with you?
Speaker 3:Since we all started here with a sweet experience, let's just go that route. It's the most consistent. It's the brand that we're building. So a sweet EXP is where they can follow us on all our social media platforms Facebook, instagram, tiktok. A Sweet EXP. And then our email is asuitexp at gmailcom. The website is asuitexpcom. So A Sweet EXP.
Speaker 2:And that website is. I've been out there, man, it's got all your products. I mean, we talked about the sweet potato pie. Yes, but it's them good butter cookies.
Speaker 2:Them butter cookies, this goo, I mean this ooey goo goo. I mean come on, there's more things. So go out to the website, Follow on the social channels. No worries that, as Brittany said those things, we're going to put all that in the comments. Um man, thank you so much for being here. We've really been blessed to have you and I can't wait to have you back again.
Speaker 3:Thank you, I I enjoyed it. It's been a pleasure and I can't wait to come back.
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