Jayda Cheaves on $50K Real Estate Loss, Building a 7-Figure Brand, Motherhood & Cutting Her Circle

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2:51And I love AI. I'm a clock girl. Ever since then, my life has completely changed. And I have saved over hundreds of thousands. People don't want to buy into you unless they feel like they genuinely know you. Now with your face on the brain, they want more. You want us to buy? Show us everything. And I think that's the battle that I'm dealing with now. Everybody got an opinion on social media. I had this striped outfit. I got so much backlash. Like I was like, maybe I should stop production on this. Like it was bad. and that outfit sold out and everybody begging me to restock it you'll lose so much money listening to what people with no credentials gotta say is there another industry that you particularly want to go into i need something that's always generating money that's the reason why i even go so hard with my businesses it's because of my son are you keeping him around the business so he can eat what entrepreneurship is at a very young age i had someone like are you gonna be an entrepreneur and he's like i'm gonna be a rapper i'm like all right guys welcome back we got a good friend of ours a friend of the platform jada how you doing i'm good how are y 'all good this is a reunion show yeah it's a reunion three years three year reunion probably probably yeah we did our show that's so what abilities i was in l.a when we did that in l.a yeah i think that was four years ago it might be that was four years ago 2022 yeah yes wow and then you came to invest fest yep last year um and yeah it's been you know great just following your journey everything that you've able to accomplish so first of all congratulations on everything thank you yeah we've been watching sharing it all yeah i use my resources i call y 'all too when i when i need advice so y 'all are doing amazing as well thank you how's it feel for you as far as like figuring it out in real time like you know you you you social media you're doing the brand deals you're doing the clothing line you're doing everything you're doing the podcast you talk about the podcast about real estate how is it for you to actually just be setting your own blueprint in real time with the world watching every move that you make i think every day i just learn as i go there's no real blueprint to it i'm just kind of living and existing and just every day is something new but i just know that i have goals that i set and i want to achieve so i just keep going so i can't really say it's like a a real layout of how it looks it's just something that i do and learn Yeah.

5:08Four years has passed, which is crazy because we've been watching the journey. I wonder, as you look back at the 2022 Jada, what has been the biggest evolution in you and your brand since that point? just overall growth i learned so much from that first that was only a year out of me establishing wait a minute and it was doing well but now it's doing great you know so just becoming more hands-on along the way and trying to just get back in control of my business overall and not just letting it run for me actually setting up systems putting things into place to help me keep scaling i think that is where i'm at now from where i was then yeah i think when people watched that episode they were pleasantly surprised right they had seen you on social media the feedback was wait she actually knows business so it's good to hear that you're saying now i'm putting systems in place i'm growing and evolving because they're growing with you too right so they're watching some of the mistakes how do you feel about living in that space where people are watching them you're actually living them making some some errors people are watching and saying oh wait let's not go that route how do you feel do you feel responsibility in that sense um I do like to be the blueprint for not making the same mistake twice so I just wish that a lot of the things I went through or am going through as far as business now somebody got on there and said like all right don't set this up this way because this could end up going like this so I just like to be that voice for all entrepreneurs especially my young black entrepreneurs because it's like don't make the same mistake twice don't make the same mistake I did so if I can ever be vocal about it i'm always like put trying to put them on like don't do this so i think it's a little bit of responsibility but it's also like i think that's part of the reason why i've been so successful because i've never been scared to like help people out so one of the things that you were very transparent about um was real estate and you put on social media as far as your experience as far as you know getting at home then kind of changing your mind it happened a few times walk us through i never really heard the full story because i think that that's that was very like transparent and i heard i seen a lot of real estate agents that i knew in the comments like well you should have did this you should have contacted me everybody you know everybody got opinion on social media yeah so walk us through that process of what happened so i originally came up with this idea of like okay i'm to a point now my mom has a home i wanted to that was one of my biggest goals like i want to put my mom in a house to where i don't got to keep paying rent so I purchased her home but I didn't have all these stipulations and things to go through she just found the home she liked all right we're getting it mine it was a little different because of course this is a big house like it's a multi-million dollar house so went through the process of finding a home had a realtor that I was working with and got the home went toward it did all the whole inspections did the whole process and I realized that like, hold up.

8:07I don't think I'm ready for this. Is there any way that I'll be able to get my earnest money back? And they like, no. But for that first house, I was like, not really tripping because it's like, okay, this was the first time, first mistake. We're not going to go through it again. So I found another house in the same area. When you say you wasn't ready, you wasn't ready to be a homeowner or you just didn't want that house? I didn't want that house because I started doing more research. Something better came up on the market. And I'm like, this is way, it was cheaper and i'm like it just didn't make sense buying the other one for more money but not the better like amenities and like the things that it came with and the finishes and just it was just not what i wanted so um it was a house around the corner and took the l for the first one 25 000 i couldn't get it back i didn't want to argue with it because it's like okay that was my mistake for pushing the needle that quick on something that i wasn't for sure about so same thing happened with the next house I found.

9:03And then I just started sitting with the fact of like, do I really want to have a house in Atlanta with just me and my son? Like, as far as like safety and everything that's going on, like I know multiple people that are close to me that have had issues, like, you know, just stuff that go on in Atlanta. So I'm like, eh, I'm not ready for this. And even hiring 24 hour security, it's like, do I really want to put that much trust into somebody else's hands like it's just that's another bill a whole nother bill for one but for two it's like i don't know if i trust something that much like somebody knowing my wares my ins my outs one time i just don't know so i'm like i want a condo so go back in time i lost out completely on the earnest money another time and this time i tried to do it different like get a lawyer involved etc etc but it wasn't really nothing i could do so that was just a lesson learned i was very vocal about it because i'm like i just moved a little too fast and i was totally new to buying homes i just remember when i brought my mama home we didn't have to go through that because she was like i like this i didn't really care about the finishes and stuff as long as she was happy so me learning this process i was very i paid so much attention to this next purchase that i did get which is the home that i'm in now and as soon as i walked in i loved it and i was like okay well we don't have to worry about going through that process again.

10:25But it was like a completely different look of how it looks now. Cause it was like, if you would see the house that I purchased, y 'all would probably be like, Jada, why did you waste your money? But I saw the vision. I definitely like gutted it out, renovated it from top to bottom. And it is my dream home now. So, so you renovated it. Yeah, completely. Hands on with the renovation from top to bottom. Like literally everything was tailored to exactly what I wanted. And I was about to say something else. I forgot. God dang it. Oh, I actually added so much more value in the house. So I got it appraised again just for my peace and sanity, just to see.

11:05And yeah. I think the last time we spoke, I was talking to you about the finishing. I was designing my home as well. I was like, yo, I love what you're doing. Keep going. You might have something in interior design. It's a valuable lesson. It's a costly lesson. I wonder as you're watching people learn from your mistakes and you have your peers Are there people that are guiding you that have been through experience? I know you said you had a realtor But even like some of your peers or maybe somebody that's older to say hey, let me help you Are you just figuring these things out on your own? So i'm very independent to the point where I don't really like asking questions I'm getting out of that the older I get because some of the mistakes that I'm making can be detrimental.

11:52My aunt is really big into real estate. She has like multiple properties. So she kind of walked me through, but it was one of those things like, girl, you already did it. It's nothing you could do now to go back and fix this. You made the decision. You signed the contract. You got to eat it. You got to eat this mistake. Mind you, you didn't do it once. You did it twice. So it's on you now, but I'm like, but it wasn't what I wanted. And she like, it's on you. it's nothing you could do like you can't blame your real estate agent you can't it's on you so yeah but also i have a question so the real estate agent that i was using at the time um they don't get paid do they get paid off the earnest money i'm not really familiar with how that process works because she was it got to a point where no they don't they don't no so it got to a point where she still wanted exactly how much the house was worth oh so her commission her permission and i'm like from you but yeah but i'm like i didn't because she's like i worked this time i didn't get paid right so i was like i'll give you something but to give you what the house was worth when i'm not gonna live in that house i just didn't see that making sense so that became another like battle legal battle as well no it didn't okay i mean but i just wanted to know i just never really questioned it because i'm like if it becomes if it comes up it comes up it's a valuable lesson though because even me i'm building a home and there's so much stuff that i didn't know yeah about real estate and a lot of mistakes that I made and a learning process as far as like building a home from scratch and learning about, you know, the grout that goes in between the towels and the type of paint that you want to put on and, you know, the finishing, like you said, the kitchens and stuff like that.

13:26I went to China and I got a whole bunch of stuff. So, you know, as you grow a lot of time, I don't think people understand that there's always something to learn that you don't know. And with the real estate, it could be very, very costly like like for me like i i had a very very costly mistake because um i purchased land but i didn't know that it had a a water like basement it was pretty much like a it was it's like a pond and i had to put that underground but that cost like four hundred thousand dollars to put that on the ground but that wasn't on the actual type of report that was something you ran into yes oh no yeah so it's a lot that goes so much and so many things come up in the process that you kind of just hit with and it's like you've got to deal with it because if not you can't move forward so i think those things should be expressed as homeowners and i try to use my platform as much as possible like you know renovating even thinking that it's going to be done at a certain time and you got to wait another year like all those things are just surprises that you're hit with on the journey it's like dang and the taxes oh i just told we just had a conversation about tax upkeep maintenance grass away the HOA oh my rating in HOA property tax school tax the HOA is bad especially if you're in a bad HOA yeah because they got to approve everything that you do every little thing so even certain type of marbles we wanted like we got to run it by them I'm like what it's going in my house yeah even what's the weight the weight on the elevator it's like what the heck are we doing so sometimes even when you're trying to renovate you know if you're depending on where you're zoned It might be historical area.

15:05You're not allowed to change certain things from the exterior I had a whole four month battle about a driveway. Are you serious? Yeah They wouldn't let me pave it because it didn't meet town ordinance. It was like a whole thing I went there and they were reading it wrong But like these are the things in every delay, right? It's a four month process to get the driveway, but that affects the next thing Right the bank can't close on a loan because I can't figure out finish the construction loan And then I got to pay interest fees. So every time there's a delay like we just think from the outside in it's like oh it's a delay no that that costs money every single month yeah um that you gotta just figure out right it's either you stop the project or you figure it out yeah and I actually was a kid going through this same type of process with my dad and it was like right when the recession hit and he just stopped the project because and now I get it back then it's like why would you you came this far why would you stop but it's like that shit is expensive so it just everything just makes sense to me now that I'm older looking from a different point of view it's like dang he he had to do what he had to do in order to keep surviving and sustaining his regular life you know so well now that you are a homeowner how do you feel totally worth it it's worth it that's why I said I got my house appraised after you know putting in and gutting everything out and doing all these extraordinary things just for my peace and sanity not that I'm gonna sell my house but just to see like was this shit worth it and it was like i was just like wow so you know just sitting on an asset feels good you know there's no feeling like that like we have this conversation i'm like it'll be worth it he looks at me like i'm not sure bro we'll see no it is you just gotta stick it out and i'm not gonna lie 2020 what we in 2026 2025 because i purchased in 2024 it was rough i was like hold up back against the wall like this gets pricier and pricier like what are we doing and now it's like i could finally breathe again you know and kind of just like now that i'm in it but i did i couldn't see it through at first like i was irritated like right like always on edge going to see it upset with my contractors taking it out on them but it's like they just doing what they can especially when you got to wait on certain people to give you the yay or nay yeah i watched will smith's um he was talking about a movie but it kind of like resonated in terms of real estate he was saying how he met with a producer and they were like how are you doing with this new film and he's like we're about 90 % done he was like okay you're halfway there and he was like what what do you mean he was like that 10 % to the finish line is going to be the longest most drawn out most difficult most trying piece of the process so just brace yourself for that and i'm like damn when you think about real estate you're right like everything could we almost at the finish line and here we go with the nonsense right yeah so i'm glad you got to go through it i'm glad i'm not glad that we're going through it and still going through it but people get to learn from it and being transparent do you ever shy away from saying to yourself maybe i keep this away from my audience or everything is hey let me share it because somebody can learn?

18:09Well, it just depends. I don't just something happen. I'm instantly sharing. It's always a topic and it's like, okay, I could touch on this now just when the timing is right. But you know, it's a lot of things that I haven't shared that one day, maybe I will, it just has to be in conversation or make sense. So yeah. Talk about the clothing brand. Um, it's taken off, right. Especially since the last time that we spoke. So what's been the key to, you think the success over the last couple of years of your brand I know you're very vocal as far as promoting it you're in you're in a lot of the ads you have a lot of different type of women plus size models I've noticed all types of different like which what you think is why it has become so successful so from the start I so from the start I was doing it with my own warehouse, my own employees, and just kind of working my way through the years of just doing everything myself in-house.

19:112024, I realized that I'm selling out, I'm doing the same things, but I'm not scaling, I'm not growing. So we tried to implement all these systems because with my beauty brand, I learned so much with my beauty brand. I have a partner with that brand and we had a 3PL center. So I'm just seeing how things are moving way quicker with my beauty brand. And I'm like, what are we doing so different that they're doing at their 3PL center that we're not doing at my warehouse? And it was so many different answers for that question. So I think opening up that business kind of opened my eyes up to how things could actually work without having to work so hard.

19:50So now I implemented that same structure and systems for Wait a Man. So I now have a 3PL center. I'm about to turn my old warehouse that we were doing all fulfillment out of into a Creative space and I just completely got rid of trying to do orders in-house, which now i'm not limited to space I'm, not limited to My my employee attitudes like I don't have to deal with none of that stuff anymore It just runs itself So that was when I really was able to like scale tremendously And like just see things take off over this last year Like we jumped from 100 ,000 orders to 200 ,000 orders within like less than a year.

20:28So it just really like I had to. Of course, it was hard because a lot of those team members that I had, they were with me from the start. A lot of college girls that I found at like different events that I brought in and hired. So it was real hard. But at the end of the day, it's business and you got to do what's best for you. I tried to like keep some of them on the team. It's like virtually customer service, logistics, like certain different roles that they can still, you know, be a part of the team. But I just had to take that big leap of faith and just step out and kind of, you know, I feel like we think we're able to do all these things because.

21:04It's easy, it's just shipping orders, packing labels, but it's so much more that goes into it. Like these people actually went to school to study this stuff. I was hiring my family, my cousins, college girls to just do these, you know, play these roles that you got to go to school for and really be skilled in. So I think just honestly taking that leap of faith and trying not to do everything in-house myself is what really helped me just grow over these last couple of years. Yeah, a lot of times we'll create businesses and they might make money, but how do we grow them? I'm glad that you're talking about that.

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25:29When we talk about social media, you know all the data. When it comes to wait a minute, is it the same type of passion that has transcended from social media into your businesses? Mm-hmm. And I love AI. it has truly helped me sustain and keep growing over these last couple months i just got into i used to be against ai y 'all like bad everything was i know it's bad what's that um i think because i look at the you know i'm a very empathetic person but i look at like the creative and all the roles that are trying are going to be replaced because we have this new tool but it's like you either gonna fall short or fall behind because this is what the new norm is going to become so i just kind of started you know relying on it more as far as data and projecting um how many or how much inventory i need to have for this next drop based off the last drop like actually using the data to help me keep things going rather than me just playing russian roulette which uh platform are you using for for your ai like is it are you using like claude or i love claude okay i'm against strategy pt this is gonna get controversial no let me not say that i'm a cloud girl okay i feel like cloud is way more personal um it's just overall a better experience and i also have a bot so that helps me out a lot keep everything in one place you created a bot like an agent for yourself and that helps you with your business keep all my data storage just help me keep everything and then i'm also shopify pro so being shopify pro i have like my own robot within shopify that kind of just give me all my analytics everything yeah they just announced that so did you have to reach a certain metric to be a shopify pro i know and i should say congratulations on a hundred thousand orders that's nothing to sneeze at congratulate two hundred thousand even obviously even more congratulations but is there a certain threshold you have to reach to qualify for that now that i don't know i think it's just what you pay for in volume it was offered to me i don't know if there was like a certain time period when it happened but it happened pretty quick so i can't say certain threshold or i don't i don't really know i want to know about this chat gbt thing oh it's what's up it's um a bot that i got implemented and like why you're against chat gc oh i just think it's just basic it's a little surface i think clod is a little bit more structured to like go into detail and it also because at first when i had my bot i was using chat gpt and it was just like no personality it wasn't really we weren't resonating well so then when i got claude you can like add all these things into your butt and now it's just like it's like talking to my home girl you know so like she talks like me she responds like me it's just really such a whole different experience than chat gpt that's right for the um for the for the the claude are you asking it like creative ideas like bouncing ideas off it or are you just feeding it information and just say okay like guide me here is it a combination of both i use it strictly for data okay data analytics helping me decide how many um pieces of like certain sizes i need to drop going into like old old drop seeing what i need to change to like make this certain amount of money so i just strictly data as far as creatives i'm never gonna lose sight of that because I think that's why people like the brands.

28:59It's because I'm so adamant about my vision. This is how I want it to look. This is how I want things to be. And I have a great creative team that helps me bring these ideas that I have to life. So just data. So you don't use AI for creative? Yeah, no. Okay. You know, I use AI to design my house. One thing we always say on this show is that you have to be more intentional about your money because it's not about how much you make. It's about how you manage the money you spend. Exactly. That's why tools like Kloner are interesting because it gives you flexibility when managing your purchases. When checking out, you can decide how you want to pay, whether that's paying everything right away or spreading out payments depending on what works for you.

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30:21Then within one hour, it designed the exterior of my house. Are you serious? And I gave it to my contractor and that's what I built. And they had never seen it before. They're like, who came up with this? I'm like, Chad GBT came up with it. Wow. So I think from a creative standpoint, I think that it's like, I hate to use an analogy, but it's like steroids. Like you got to already be strong. Absolutely. But it enhances. performance it's like a performance enhancer like i think the creatives that really start to it doesn't take away from your creative ability it just help bring it to life a little quicker exactly a little quicker yeah yeah i mean my team probably use it i just have these ideas and they bring me back like these documents and templates of how things are going to look but i mean i me personally i just kind of give them my ideas but it can help it can be useful for everything and i have an interior designer too and i just kind of give them my ideas as well and then he brings me back vision board so i'm pretty sure he used an ai so it's like the same thing i took everything in real estate i told him in finance like natural intelligence with artificial intelligence that combination is is dangerous like i've seen portfolios just increase over time because of the knowledge that they have when it's incorporated the the idea um of you using ai i think is pretty dope because i don't think i've heard anybody in your generation that's using it in terms of business when you're amongst your peers is this conversation are people talking about how they're going to incorporate it or do you feel like hmm i might be the only one i'm the only one for sure um yeah and i learned about this from my partners at the gym like i work out with guys and they're like super tech guys and there's also some beauty in working out with guys because also just fuels me because like y 'all not about to have me looking weak so but not only that the conversations and just hearing like their mindsets and like the things that they're implementing to their businesses and stuff so one day he was talking about a bot and he spent all this money from flying this guy from malibu in and i'm like hold up put me down how much was it i think i know what you're speaking of and i'm like okay i'll turn me on and ever since then my life has completely like completely changed and i have saved like over hundreds of thousands just within this last like couple months that i've had it just running everything by it and they're like no this is wrong they said 10 but it's calculated out like just stuff that i would you know miss you know because i just handle like all financials and stuff myself i do have a cpa but it's easy for humans to miss stuff you know so having a robot that is like all they do is study data as a numbers story is interesting because we might have the same mutual friend he literally told me the same story about you know you need to use open claw you need to use open claw i'm flying this guy here from malibu and he's staying with me and by the time i spoke to him next he was like you know open cause my life during that conversation i'm telling him how to invest in the companies that are actually creating it and now he's become obsessed with that i'm so like it's bad i am i'm ai obsessed like i it's but everything every i mean every day is something new that they establish and that you can implement into your bot or into your company it's like never ending.

33:36Does your son use AR? No. Okay. No, not yet. Not yet. He's making juices, man. Yeah. He, he's, yeah, he's not into that stuff yet, but he will. I could just tell Shopify, Shopify pro. Um, just explain like, what's the difference between like a regular Shopify and like the perks that you may get with the pro account. So the pro account, they give you like a rep that you can call anytime, any day, any place they're always going to answer. So just say for instance we're having an issue with our store and something is glitching my tech girl can't figure it out normally she figures it out but if we ever just need to hop on we could just give them a call and then you also get that ai robot i don't know if it's for all stores but i do think it's just a shopify pro thing um but that just came about within like the last couple months it wasn't always there but mainly just that store rep you spoke about uh oh and it's cheaper a month.

34:33You spoke about the team and I think this is important. The team that you started with may not be the team that's going to get you to the next level, hiring cousins, hiring friends. When you realize that that's no longer going to work, how were you able to handle that? Because there's something that we've encountered where we had friends that worked with us and we realized that we put them in a position where they probably weren't going to succeed because it wasn't their skill set have you had to encounter that how did the relationship stay strong or was it hey i'm going to the next level everybody may not be able to i think it's just a mutual agreement that it's like it's nothing you can say if it just doesn't align anymore and as a businesswoman you just have to have that mindset that like it's not about nobody else and i think i helped myself back two years prior to me making that final decision because I was stuck on loyalty.

35:29I was stuck on not wanting to make anybody mad at me. But now it's like, you got to do what's best for you. I have a child. I have a legacy I'm building. I can't worry about what somebody else is going to be mad about. So. Well, speaking in that vein of relationships, another thing you post on social media as far as you had an epiphany that you had to change some of the people that you was around because how people were perceiving you. Yeah. Right. And it's like birds of a feather flock together. That's like what they say. Have you made that change? And like what really like what was the driving?

36:05I know you're saying like it was how like some guys was coming up to you and approaching you. But like what was that moment where you really just sat down? Like the way that I'm being perceived is not who I actually am and who I want the world to see. Well, I think for so long, I always had the mindset of like, I can do whatever I can hang around whoever that's not me. Cause that's not, that's not who I am. That's not how I act. But the more I started establishing like solid relationships, business friends, corporate friends, it's like, wow, I like these conversations. I can align with these conversations a lot more than the conversations that I can have in the club.

36:41You get what I'm saying? So I just started paying more attention and just being more intentional overall with like the things I partake in during the week, the things that I want to talk about, sit and discuss. And then you just realize a lot of things just lack substance. It's like, I don't want to keep feet and stuff like that. That's not helping me grow. So I just started doing a lot of clipping. Like I had to start clipping and it's just, it's been working for me. It's a little, you know, you get a little bored sometimes, but I think being bored is good. The clipping is just ghost. You just start ghosting people.

37:10yeah it's simple it's mute but it's it's like a mutual it's mutual because it's like if i'm not nobody's gonna keep blowing you up after you just they realize that okay she's not responding you know so it's like all right we it's over with how's the reception when you walk because you do have partners and i wonder how you approach that how has the reception been um i guess since we last saw you right so obviously there's been growth in business obviously been growth in you on the personal side. Are partners looking at you differently? Are they approaching you differently? Are they taking you more serious than who they thought they were seeing on social media back then?

37:46Absolutely. So that also plays a part in like everything has to change around me because I'm now dealing with people that are way more skilled, way more, they got way more years, way more leverage. So it's like in order for me to be taking that serious, I have to show up like that. And you know, I'm still young and turnt. I'm not saying I'm not. So things happen, but I'm just that. That's why I spoke about earlier, like just me becoming more skilled and knowledgeable so that I could show up and know exactly what I'm talking about. And when I'm agreeing to things, I know what I'm agreeing to. So it's just all about, you know, kind of studying the things that you want to stand behind.

38:26How do you balance? Because obviously you're a very intelligent person, but obviously, you know, like you said, you're young as well. Right. And you are an influencer. Right. And sexuality might be part of that As far as how you could dress at a certain time Stuff like that So when you are dealing in corporate environments Or dealing with men or even women How do you balance that Because that's not something that men don't have to worry about We don't have to worry about how somebody's looking at us If they're sexually objectifying us What's your thought process As you get older How do you think about those things As balancing Your online persona and then being a mother, being a businesswoman and being respected?

39:11Um, I think that just has to do with morals and just how you're raised and how you carry yourself as a woman. Uh, cause at the end of the day, I, like I said, I'm young. It's her, you know, I'm just, that's just what it is. But I just, I know when to switch things on and off and all of the partners that I had, they're men. They're all men. I don't have any like women partners on my team yet. I'm actually in communication with one. She's, it's actually crazy how this just came about, but she's also, she's actually trying to buy one of my companies. So she's a lady and I am just so stunned to just hear more from her.

39:47So that's something exciting that's happening right now, but everyone's men. And I think I know how to respect myself and respect others to where I'm not trying to like give off certain energies. So it's just all about, you know balance and knowing when I think social media is a whole different person from how I show up in the real world a lot of people don't even know I can't have these type of conversations just because of what I post so I do have like different outlets like I got back onto YouTube where I just get on there and talk about like business I talk about everything on YouTube but it just lets people see a different version of me that they don't just see off of a picture that or clip or a instagram post you know so there's so much more substance and i think you just have to if you know you know it's one of those type of things we just had a conversation with pinky cold and kind of demystifying some of the myths of having a business selling a business at the time we first met you it was creating a business now this conversation that maybe somebody's interested in investing in the business or acquiring the business did you prepare for that is that something that was on your mind or it's just been an opportunity that's been presented and hey let's see what this is about um it was never something that i thought of i just it's just one of those things that it's like you don't get to that point where somebody really wants to buy your company um so now i've been thinking about it with all my companies because i'm like dang if this is here already just imagine where the other ones are going to go you know so i never thought about it up until recently so it's just i can't say i'm going to do it but It is something that I've been in conversation about, but it's like, these are my babies.

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