Cassie J Reed In Da House!

One, I hope of many podcast I hope to have with this entrepreneur in entertainment with a fire of a Phoenix for her pursuit in her industry. Tune in and find out about her flight so far.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:32

What's going on, Hotbox fam? This is your boy, Sticky Rick here on the Hotbox Podcast, man. We are kicking off our interview season. Uh interview. Interview. Pardon me. Interview season. And looking forward to it. And this is really I don't know, I guess you could say we're getting on to the communicating over talking long distances, you know. And today's gonna be no exceptions. We have three podcasts or three interviews lined up that we're gonna be doing. And our our first one today is Cassie, and uh, we're excited to talk to her. She'll be touching down with us here in a few minutes. Here we go. Even as we speak, ladies and gentlemen. Give me one second. Hey Cassie, what's up?

unknown 1:24

Hi, how are you?

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Oh, doing great. Hey, this is Sticky Rick in the Hot Box Podcast. How are you doing today?

SPEAKER_00 1:29

The CJ Entertainment Entertainment and Consultancy, I am doing great.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

Right on, right on. So tell us a little bit about actually what you do.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Um, well, I started off doing like consulting artists at first about five years ago when I first got into the music thing. I started working with an artist out in Africa that goes by the name of Yanks. I was his PR manager. And I kind of started doing like reels and just started doing other stuff like that. And I kind of got a lot a lot bigger from that. And I had an artist from Vegas hit me up and I started promoting and doing other stuff and learning a lot more. But just recently I started like the last year and a half, I started doing media. And I really think that's my niche for it because I started realizing I'm getting out there more instead of just sitting behind the screen on the internet out there actually working. So I'm doing photography, media. I also do like three, five short-minute interviews, any kind of promoting, anything marketing-wise or promotion. I I do anything in the music business that sidewise.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

Heck yeah, that's amazing. You know, yeah, I got into what I got into. Hell, I was in school for uh graphic arts design, you know, and that kind of started to go to crap once, you know, AI came out and can do it in a few minutes and everything, you know. So um I actually me and my little brother got into podcasting just as something fun and stuff, and it's kind of grown from that. But actually what I learned in the business classes, taking uh graphic arts, you know, has really helped me with what I'm doing, you know. And and to be honest with you, I I enjoy this a lot more, you know. So it's it's funny what we think we want to do, and then we find out later that, hey, I think I like this better, you know.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Yeah, I I definitely want to try podcasting myself. It looks it looks fun, for sure. You can have different people do whatever you want, you know, your own CEO of your stuff.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

So Yeah, that's that's that's one thing I love about it. I mean, we had everybody from you know tattoo artists to musicians and you know, and everybody in between, you know. Like when we did our opening a while ago, you know, this is our first of three interviews that I'm gonna have tonight, you know. I'll be actually interviewing Joe after this interview, and then later on I'll be uh interviewing conclusion. He'll be calling out in California. So, you know, yeah, I I I dig it, you know, it's it's opened up so many opportunities for me. I just I I never saw it, you know. And like I said, you know, my little brother and I started this and it it just I I don't know. It's it's just something and and to be honest with you, I'm I was never the type of person to, you know, public speak and shit like that, you know. That just wasn't but I notice as I've gotten older and stuff, you know, I don't you know, I don't mind it so much, you know, but I guess I enjoy conversations with people more, you know.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

I agree with it. I agree. Um now that I'm older, I feel like talking to people with networking is I've I've met a lot of cool people that I never thought in a million years that I would even be able to have a conversation with. Yeah. Um and I'm over there, you know, like talking to them and interviewing them, and it's like it's it's like a whole different kind of pride level in yourself. And at the end of the day, it's like if I didn't talk and I didn't do those put put myself out there to do the things I was doing, I would be just doing what everybody else is doing. And a lot of people are scared to put themselves out there because anxiety or I have anxiety, but I do it anyway. Sometimes I don't even know what the fuck I'm saying, but hey, at least I'm trying, you know.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Well, you know, I tell everybody, you know, blessings are exactly what they are. They're blessings. Your dreams you have to work at. You know, if you want a dream to come true, you have to work at it. You know, there a lot of people get confused with the dream and a blessing. It's it's not the same thing, you know. You have to actually work at making something happen, you know, and and and one thing I've also said now too with this podcast, the dream is becoming a dream, you know.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

So that's so true. That's so.

SPEAKER_02 5:55

And I I I dig it. I you know, I love this path I'm on, you know, and I'm hearing all the time about you know great opportunities and stuff for my show, and you know, and I'm just I'm just like a dude sitting here in a chair freaking smoking weed and just talking to people, you know. So I mean I I dig the shit out of it. You know?

SPEAKER_00 6:13

I feel that I I still have my nine to five. I've been doing my nine to five to help my my my company go until I need to be where I need to be. Oh yeah. But I wake up and I do my company first, and and I realize that's what keeps me going. And I want to show my children that you can follow your dreams and do whatever you want to do in life. Be whatever you want to be.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

Absolutely. You know, uh and also too that it's never too late. You know it's never too late.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

And a lot of consistency and work grind.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

Yes. Yes, ex exactly. If you want it to work, you gotta work at it. Yep. Uh Monday through Friday, same, you know. But you know, that's it that's just life, you know, bills still gotta be paid, you know. And uh and and until, you know, you get that, you know, golden goose egg or whatever, you know, proverbial one, you know, you just gotta you gotta work at it. But hey, you know, I mean I I enjoy the shit out of it, so I don't mind doing it. I used to.

SPEAKER_00 7:19

I enjoy I feel life would be boring if I wasn't doing something consistently. I wouldn't be bored.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

Yeah. Yeah, I'd just be sitting here just freaking playing PlayStation or watching anime or some bullshit, you know.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

I don't know what I'd be doing, but probably uh probably causing trouble somewhere, something.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

So I feel music has kept me in line and tuned and on the right path.

SPEAKER_02 7:43

Uh music is life. No doubt about that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

It's definitely like uh therapy.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

I mean, I have a I have a playlist for probably about every decade of my life, you know, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Same. Same. I still I like every genre. I noticed you know, when I was younger in my twenties, I liked a lot of metal music. But that for some reason something changed in me and I started listening to a lot of rap music and promoting more local underground artists and then built friendships with these people and then they helped me become what I needed to be as well. And then I I just I feel like I can't listen to anybody that I can't have a conversation with or identify with in today's world anymore.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

I agree. You know, and I tell people all the time I gained a better appreciation for my music by listening to other music, but in doing that, I got to love other music so much. Like me, I love old school Motown. That's my fucking jam, you know, and I I'm a country boy from Mississippi, you know, and you know, I love freaking old Motown, you know. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

It's old Motown's cool, it's peaceful.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Yeah. Because you're groovy too, yeah. It puts you in that frame of mind, okay. Yeah, laid back and just chill. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

I like all sorts of music.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

I do too. Well Yeah. But there's some of it. You know, if it if it makes me move, I dig it.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

That's true. Some music I don't like, true. I can't stand the way it sounds, I do shut it off.

SPEAKER_02 9:29

Yeah, yeah, I do too. It's like, oh, Tom Taste change station. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

I like every type of genre up here.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

My grandmother, they had this festival down in Mississippi called the Jimmy Rogers Festival. And he was called the Sinking Breakman, and my grandmother used to go to it all the time. And I got in fact I got a picture of her up on my wall with Ernest Tubbs, and it's got even an Ernest Tubbs guitar pick in it and stuff. I got pictures with her haggard and stuff, you know. And I kinda, you know, she got me my connection to music, you know, and I don't know where I would be without that connection that she gave me, you know. And heck, I I I tell you what, music invokes every emotion I've ever probably had in my life, also.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 10:20

So, what do you do when you're not doing nothing?

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Well, I have three daughters, and I got one that's in the USA gymnastics, so she trains a lot. So I'm full-time, and then I also work full-time for my cousin's company, I'm a content adjuster for fire mold and theft jobs for build insurance claims, and I also go inside the houses to get public information and stuff. So I've been with him for 13 years. I I love my job. It's a cool job. Music is always bad. So music is kind of a hobby thing for me. I listen to a lot of music. I like to drink I haven't done in years. I love animals. I love cooking if I could have real successful when I like a bunch of money is something I would get myself a food truck. That's like my end result. Like if I if something ever happened, I would buy myself a food truck. I would cook I would cook myself because I like it. And I like to cook on the road, so I'd like to travel. I want to my house is kind of already paid off and my kids can off because I'm never gonna have a house handed up to me. So they want to move, that's on them, but I'm gonna move out on their own enough. I would like to travel. So maybe I'd like to travel with like a food company truck or something. I don't know. That's like my impassionate result. Because I I I I cook a lot, and everybody that's had my food loves my food. So I can cook anything too, besides tamales.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

Okay. Everybody loves food. I know I love food. Especially when I got the moches.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

I like animals too, but I feel like I've lost a lot of it's not that I don't love animals anymore. I have three daughters, and when there's so many energy levels in the house, it makes animals kind of act strange. Yeah. And I just I I love animals. I have a German shepherd and I have a Pomeranian mix. And and the three kids, the energy level is crazy. But I am not as passionate about as animals as I used to be. I was going to college for animals to be a vet tech, and but I don't know. Something in me is not the same about the animal thing anymore. I think it's because I'm older.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

Yeah. I know it's it's it's weird. In fact, I was gonna mention something earlier. Oh yeah, do you find that getting older too, you know, you realize that idle idol mind, idle hands are the devil's workshop, you know? Because I think that's one reason why I I I stay busy or try to stay busy too, and and actually not just stay busy, but put that energy to be productive, you know.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

Right. Yeah, I feel like time's slipping by. I definitely gotta keep get moving.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:56

I know I traveled, I took the kids Christmas time. I told them, you know, I'd rather take you guys and see things. So we went out to the Grand Canyon and Vegas. We walked a Vegas trip on Christmas Day. We did a lot of cool things that I thought I would never be able to have the opportunity to do. And why we were doing it, I made it each day we went through, I got to interview the artists that I was supposed to interview for my my CJ Entertainment Consultancy, which eventually I like to piece together and make either autobiography, movie, documentary, or like behind the scenes on the road with you know, my company. I would like to do something with all the content I've put together. I'm looking for good videography because I'm not the best at it. I try. I like something, something a little more professional than what I I offer, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 14:52

No, I completely understand. You know, like I said, I started this podcast out just for fun, and I noticed there's a few areas that I'm lacking in it that I'm actually having to reach out for help for.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

You know, it's definitely a learning process, that's for sure. It's fun though. It is learned. It is I wish I would have started this stuff 20 years ago. I what's funny though, I was. I was promoting my cousin's not here no more. Rest in peace. He was in a metal band. It was pretty popular all over the radio in Macomb County, Michigan. But he died. But when he was in his band, I actually went on stage with him a couple times and was back up vocals for him doing metal. And then also I would promote for him and get a bunch of people to come to his shows and stuff like that. So I realized I kind of was doing this back then, but now I'm doing it at a more professional level kind of a company. And actually trying to do, you know, at a company level instead of family-based level.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

That's always a thing.

unknown 16:02

I kind of always kind of had the passion for what I'm doing. I just didn't know it yet.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

And I had I didn't have the music people telling me, you know, you definitely belong in music and you know, you got what it takes, and people going out of their way to help me do this and put this thing together, you know, that wasn't there before. I got a lot of people supporting me in what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

And you know, that that's support goes a long way. That's that's right. You know, who you surround yourself with can op can often define where you go in life, you know. Yep, it's very huge.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

If you're not seen a picture once of of a fruit, I think it was oranges, and it was the one orange by itself, it had no mold on it, and then the the there was like four oranges, and then three of them were moldy, and then the other one was getting moldy too, because it was around the moldy orange. And that is huge. Because if you're surrounding yourself with positive people, you're more than likely to do positive things. Whereas if you're hanging around with the wrong crowd, nine out of ten, you're probably gonna be doing not such good things too. And I, being older and having daughters, would like to be doing the right things.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

Yeah, that's true. That's that's where I'm at in my life, you know. I mean, it's I don't have the patience for things that are not positive and you know. That's just you know annoying.

SPEAKER_00 17:28

People are people's drama is annoying.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

Yeah, it is. And that that's and that and that's one reason why, you know, even though what I do has to deal a lot with social media, I tell people to get away from social media all the time. You know, to turn it off, turn it off, go to a concert, go meet some people, you know, get the fucking plug. You know? This is not you know, what you see on Facebook, Instagram, that's not real life. You know most of these people are just doing this just to make money, you know. They don't really care if they're entertaining you or not. They just care if you're interested in it or not. You know, if you don't know somebody in real life on one of the sites that you're on, you know, if you've never had a phone conversation with them, don't what don't let them what they type in a little comment section dictate your emotions or how you feel. You know, so many people do that, you know. And it's just yeah, it's it's gotten insane, you know, the drama and stuff politically or whatever, you know, and and it's all made up to divide us, you know. I mean it that's that's all it is. Because if we're fighting each other, we're not fighting them. And it sucks because I see it, you know, in places that I go and and with people that I know and the division that it's caused, you know. And I'm just like, man, there was a fucking time where everybody hated fucking politics and shit, you know. Why does everybody care so much about it now? I don't get it.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

You know, it totally got sense. It's all the same.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

Yeah. I mean, they're exactly right when they say both wings same bird. That's exactly fucking right, you know.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

I feel oh I'm not gonna want to really talk politics because I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

Oh yeah, yeah, no. I'm I'm I'm just I'm I'm just saying I'm just I just don't I don't agree with any politics.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

I like how other I just sometimes America drives me nuts. Yeah. I like other countries, like they seem some that I have friends in other countries, and then like I have other friends that go to other countries and visit, and I haven't personally been anywhere besides Canada, but I don't I do have my passport and I have my visa to Ghana. So I do have plans to get out of here when I can. But I see stuff and I've heard and I've done a lot of studying. That's all I do on my free time. Uh so I have hobbies. I like to study, I guess. I study philosophy, I study uh like psychology, I study mental illness, I study sobriety, I study all of like stuff that could help me better myself so I could be a better person, so I could be a you know a better human on earth, I guess. So I could like you said, I could pollute the earth with positivity instead of negativity because it's that's important to me. So I study a lot, but I don't know where I was going with this. I I have it.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

I I would just like to see everyday good people run this country. You know, I don't care if they have a law degree or whatever, you know, that makes no difference. You know, just because somebody has a degree doesn't make them a good person, you know. And uh that gets lost, I think that gets really lost in translation. You know, people all think, oh, he's got a they got a college degree. That makes them good people. No, it don't. You know, that just makes them educated, you know. I mean there's a lot of educated bad people out there, you know. So I just like to see everyday, you know, someone normal, you know, maybe somebody who's worked in a factory for 35 years, who's lived life, who actually has knowledge about life and what everyday Americans are going through, you know, doesn't have a college degree or anything, but you know, hey, he's been a good worker all his life, and he wants to win for office. Yeah, let's put him in. He's got life experience. He actually knows about what everyday people are going through.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

It's true. It's true. Yeah, there's a lot of street smart people that are real smart that don't have no college education. And I've met a lot of people personal people that have gone a lot further than people that have college degrees.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

Yep. I know a lot of people, I know a lot of people college degrees flipping burgers, you know. And one reason for that is because they grew up in a small town and they got a degree that there's no that they can't use where they're from, you know, and a lot of people get scared to leave home. You know, that's what we were.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

That's true, right? That I was gonna say that.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

People feel they have to stay.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

And when you stay stuck in your own hometown, you don't really see anything or learn anything but what's in your area, and that's not very good. Like I've tra I've definitely traveled. I've well traveled. My children have been well traveled.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

Yeah, my dad was in the Air Force, so I've I've lived a couple of places across this country, you know, and I've got to meet a lot of different people and experience a lot of different cultures and everything, you know, and you know you know one thing that I see, you know, happening like on the internet and stuff, you know, is that people give their opinion, but a lot of these people have never been never left their hometown, you know. But they're so feel so strongly about what they're saying, and it's just it just blows your mind, you know. I have conversations with people with people like that all the time, and I was like World is so much bigger than what you guys think it is. You know, there's so much more to it. Hell, I've no people I know people who've never left to go on vacation. You know, I've never been out of this state or that state. Oh, get out, go see something. This country's beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

It is. Uh it's very beautiful. Uh I've if I had to recommend any cool places, I would say Colorado, it's cold and snowy, but it's absolutely beautiful. You're 7,000 feet up in a mountain and like the sky of like it's just absolutely beautiful. The Grand Canyon's beautiful. Seeing a real cactus. Oh my God. That was like the most amazing moment in my life. And I'm like seeing my friends jump off cliffs in like Costa Rica and stuff. And I'm like, dang, I've I've just seen a cactus, and I'm like, I can't wait to see out of America. So I'm setting myself up for bigger dreams, I think, is what is what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

And you got to, you know. And that's what I said, you know, and you know what I'm joining? And I'll I'll know and I'll know it'll be great when I get there, but I'm gonna have memories of the journey when I get there.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

Yes, for sure. Take a lot of pictures too. Yeah. Yes. You look back at the moment because life's so fast you're not even seeing it go by, but you look back and you're like, holy cow, wow.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

Yeah. And I and I wonder what I wonder what you're gonna appreciate more. Are you gonna appreciate where you're at, or are you gonna appreciate more the journey that that you took to get there?

unknown 24:41

Right.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

That's true. That's spoof of thought right there.

unknown 24:48

That's so true.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

Yep. Life's a journey, not a destination.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

Well It's definitely life is definitely a wild journey too.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

It's uh it's something it's joyful, it's amazing, it's beautiful, it's tiring, it's uh life's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, a bunch of things pulling you in different directions and stuff, but uh then I smoke a joint and then I'm like I'm saying that again.

SPEAKER_00 25:31

I'll hit my vape pen.

SPEAKER_02 25:35

Is that your preferred way to smoke?

SPEAKER_00 25:37

Uh well I used to dab. I used to I loved back 20 years ago I loved smoking weed. But now that I have the girls, I really don't smoke in front of them. I do have my own little area in my my office. I have like my dab stuff. I went back to dabbing shortly, like two weeks ago. I had had like a year and a half sober from dabbing. But I kind of missed it, so I ended up dabbing, and I don't think I'm gonna stick with it. I'm just gonna stick with my maintenance.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

I'll feel that. I'll feel that. Well, Cassie, before we jump off of here, do you want to give uh you know your plugs where everybody can find you at and everything?

SPEAKER_00 26:21

Yeah, people can find me at Cassie Reed or CJ Entertainment Consultancy on all platforms, and that is on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. And I can put together merch, I can put together interviews, do photography or media for anybody at their any kind of event. It doesn't have to be a concert, it could be, you know, anything, a wedding or you know, any any kind of needs I'm there for.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

And um I appreciate you guys very much for taking the time out to do this interview with me, too. So shit.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

We'll do it again, you know. Yeah, for sure. We can definitely do it. You know, I love sitting back and bullshitting, you know, now that we got this first one out of the way, we can just roll on to the next one, you know?

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Yeah, for sure. I I love to do that for sure. Hell yeah. Well we'll uh am I gonna find this uh interview at share it.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

You will find this interview on I tell you what, I will send you the links after we get through, okay?

SPEAKER_00 27:21

Are you gonna if you want if you can make some content and then I can share it on my page that way if if you would like to do that?

SPEAKER_02 27:29

Yeah, and actually I'll I'll make you some snippets of this podcast and send to you that you can post.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

Hell, no problem. No problem.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Make sure you have your like your links where people can find you so more people can hit you up for an interview as well.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

Yeah, you too. And share those links to my podcast page so everybody can find you there, okay?

SPEAKER_00 27:49

Okay, I will for sure. I appreciate your time.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Hell yeah, and Cassie, I appreciate you so much. Thank you for being here on the Hotbox Podcast. Good vibes tribes. You heard it here, man. Yeah, look up to Cassie, man. She heard the download on her, and she'll be back with us on here, but you know. Good people like talking to good people. You know how we are here at the Hotbox Podcast. We love good people. Cassie, you have a great weekend, and thank you for talking with us, okay?

SPEAKER_00 28:14

Have a blessed weekend too, my brother.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

You talk to you later, okay?

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Bye.

unknown 28:17

Bye.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

Well, everybody, that was it here on the Hotbox Podcast, and we're gonna close out the show. Like I said, we got two more interviews lined up, and we're gonna go get set up and everything for that. And man, we're just rolling through. We're gonna have a busy night, and probably smoking a little bit more the next show, but hey, we'll get back with you guys soon. Love you guys.