Kim Roxie: Developing alopecia, creating LAMIK Beauty & the truth about Black beauty brands

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Let's talk about this, this e commerce space that you're in,
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because seventy five percent, You've gone on records to say
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seventy five percent of the beauty brands and products that
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are targeted to black women are toxic.
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People are not just buying the product, they're buying what
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can it produce in their lives. I knew for me,
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I wasn't in makeup because I liked to plan makeup.
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I was in beauty because I like to reveal the
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beauty of women. So yeah, I opened up a makeup
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shop at twenty one with no customers, no business plan,
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just no everything. No.
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You said when you were younger, you had this really
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beautiful hair and that was the thing that you were
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complimented on the most. And you're like, oh you, oh
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you you got this real pretty hair girl. Your hair
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is so pretty, even talking about your dark skin, but
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you got pretty hair.
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When I started to lose my hair, yes, I was
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thinking to myself, Okay, so what do I have to
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fall back on now.
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You don't understand that people don't have that support when
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they experience something like hair loss, and especially as women
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who experience hair loss at however it comes, it's extremely
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like it's a blow to your self esteem in a
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lot of ways.
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So I remember the top of twenty twenty shaving my head.
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Out a radical self love.
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I'm always in a position where I'm in bigger shoes
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than what I.
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Can feel at the moment. Welcome to Vaught Empower's Talk.
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So we don't just scratch the surface, we dive deep
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into the lodge of some of the world's most influential
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change makers. I'm your host, Brandy Harvey. Now y'all know
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what happens when my friends come and sit in the seat.
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We're gonna have us a good time today. Kim Roxy
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is the visionary founder and CEO behind the Meek Beauty,
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a clean, vegan color cosmetics brand crafted for multicultural women.
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She launched her first makeup shop in Houston at age
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twenty one with just five hundred dollars from her mother,
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running it for over a decade before relaunching Lemique as
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a national e commerce clean beauty line in twenty twenty.
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A licensed esthetician Clark Atlanta University alumni Attuck Executive Education graduate,
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Kim is deeply committed to ingredient transparency, inclusivity, and building
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a beauty brand that uplifts underrepresented voices. Her work has
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been featured on CBS Mornings, Essence, magazines, Forbes, and the
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City of Houston has declared Kim Roxy Day. Kim Believe
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Beauty is Revealed, not applied. Vondam Power's Talk's Welcome Mother founder,
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entrepreneur and beauty expert Kim Roxy to the show.
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Hello, Hi friend, Oh my gosh, I feel so good
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to be with you. Oh my goodness. We go way
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back and you people don't know, people don't know Young
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Fit and Fly back. You gotta go way back. If
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you know Young Fit and Fly, you gotta go. Wait there,
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listen Young Finn and Fly.
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I was telling my team in pre production, I said, oh,
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Kim is a friend, Like, oh okay.
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I was like, yeah, she's coming on the show. She's
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a friend.
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I was like, Kim, did Young Fitnam Fly for me
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back in I don't know that has been twenty ten, Yeah,
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maybe twenty ten. When you were a makeup artist and
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beauty brand, Lamique was really like just.
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Local, like it wasn't what it is today. And you know,
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during those times, I mean, but we were empowering young
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girls then and I wanted to through Facebook, I think.
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So the story is me and Carly met on Twitter.
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Oh wow, Carly and I did a blind date at Houston's.
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We went to Houston's. Yep, and we did a blind date.
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And it was so funny because we both get there
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and she was like hey.
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It was like hey girl, and are we talking?
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And it literally is like a blind date because you know,
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you're trying to get to know the person you're trying
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to see. Yeah, like it might be a catfish, Like
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what's happening here?
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Right?
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And what was so good though, was and you know,
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now that we know the way each other are, we
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all look for this like spiritual press. It's to happen
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to let us know we're in the right place at
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the right time. She told me that actually one of
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your dad's business partners or something like that told her
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you need to get out and meet people. So it
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just happened at the right time that we like connected.
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On it so antisocial, which is so crazy that she
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met anybody offline and said, yeah, let's go meet at Houston's.
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Let's go eat, and then after we ate. That's how
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you knew you had a good time. She took me
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to come meet you.
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Yeah, yeah, and that was how that was our connection.
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And then you come and do this sleepover that we
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hosted for a group of girls.
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I just want y'all to know the commitment that Carlely
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and Brandy has, Like seriously, this is your heart though,
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brand Yeah, like people have to know that, Like you
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wasn't put up to this, Like this is when you
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had those girls y'all in there overnight and we're in
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there talking about being young and Fly was stressed.
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One of them girls was up in there all night.
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I was like, Lord, we've been doing this all night.
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Why are we doing this? Are we here for this
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with you? But you talked to them that you showed
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them how to shape their brows, you taught them to apply.
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Like light makeup like Ben, Yeah, they enjoyed you so much.
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Yeah, those are the good days. And we did that
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like multiple times. Then you had me come over for
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gay girls who were the world girls who the world.
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I mean, we've done a lot of stuff and just
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you know, some people you meet and you you let
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it go right whenever it fades. But we've been able
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to continue. And I think it's just this connection. We
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were around the same age. We didn't even know that,
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but we're we're both Leo's, right, all of us and Leos. Yeah,
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so we even just have that, and so I just
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think it's just it shows the power being open. We
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didn't live in the same city, connected online and like
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literally still friends a decade later.
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But we were doing the Lord's work, and I feel
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like that's the common thread that has like kept us
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bonded together. And then you and I I posted I'm
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in Miami at color comm and You're like, you hit
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me up on Instagram and like, I'm in Miami, where
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are you at? And you like I'm about to pull up?
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And you came to the conference because I was in Miami. Yeah,
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because you were there.
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Yeah. And then we sat up and talked for till.
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The wee hours of the morning. I don't even know
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what time that was that we were talking.
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You know how Okay, anybody out there knows when you
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have a good conversation and it goes so late to
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now you like hungry at like two o'clock in the morning.
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We're trying to figure out are we about to eat
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something else? Like what are we about to do? Were
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sitting in the lobby of this hotel. It was so
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much going on in the hotel that night, so it
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was just yeah, but it's like I feel like for
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so many women who you know, come in contact with you. You
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were just on FaceTime with my mother before we even
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get get on air. You just have this loving spirit
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and for someone who had such a really a pretty
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tumultuous life up sixteen years old, you're kicked out of
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high school, and so you believe that you don't start
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from perfect.
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You start from right where you are.
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You start from right where you are, and sometimes where
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you are is a hard place, but it's the rock
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in that foundation. Like talking to your mom before she
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had me like almost in tears. I was like, oh,
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I can't mess up my makeup, not right now, not
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right now, because her voice.
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Her presence just reminds me of my rock, my mother.
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Yeah, and immediately my mother's spirit just came over me
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right just by talking to Marsha, you know, by talking
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to the queen.
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And when I met her, it was almost like kind
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of the same thing.
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You met her at All Star weekend in Cleveland, Ohio,
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because she lives in Cleveland.
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She lives in Cleveland.
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She was with her church member, So don't get it twisted.
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She wasn't just at all star just all starting it.
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Okay. She was with her church members and we at
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this event and we're there.
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It was called Black Fashion Movement, and basically it was
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designers and creators and founders are brands that on the
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prestige level that are black owned. And she came out
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to support her and her church members. And literally I'm
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sitting up there doing her face, showing her the brown
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kid and all of that from the meat, and they
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sit up there talking about the meat they about to
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have on zoom for some upcoming situation at the church, Like,
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y'all are serious about this brand.
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I know what you're saying's true, very much on brand.
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So but when I met her there, it was kind
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of like when I met you all, it was just
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like boom, fireworks.
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Okay.
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We together, and she called me one of her daughters,
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and I took that serious because I felt my mother's love.
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You know, breast cancer has affected my family in such
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a strong way, and and my mother in particular and
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my sister now which I can't even grapple with that
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whole idea that that's really just happened. But when I
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heard her voice and when I see the other survivorship
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and women, when I see the love, yeah, and that motherly.
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Instinct, how she just took me in. Yeah.
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I was like, yeah, yeah, she doesn't mean a stranger.
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And she's the survivor of breast cancer. And that was
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also like the common thread that you all talked about.
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I mean, that weekend, she met so many different people.
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She was sending me pictures. I'm getting pictures tagged on
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Instagram like, hey met your mom this weekend. Hey met
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your mom is with hey girls like yo, mama this weekend.
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And I'm like, she never meets a stranger. And so
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I mean, I think that's just your nature as well, though,
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because I mean, you have created a brand that has
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has really been built in love. Because Lemique originally was
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your name backwards, but it is Lamique is love and
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kindness and makeup, make loving make makeup and kindness.
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But it's exactly that though, it's exactly Okay, First I
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started vanity. Right when you come up with a name,
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You're like, okay, where can my name go?
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Yeah? Right, where he is? Where's my name?
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And that's how it started. So it was kim spelled backwards.
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It was actually the love from my middle name because
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my mom named all of her girls love something.
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So I'm Lakeisha because her name was Loretta. Loretta.
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Your daughter is named after after my mom. And so
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my sister's Lesha Lakeisha ladone. Come on, now, y'all know
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them loves. We was we was in there, We was
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in there so so so I thought it was really
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cool actually to be named Lakeisha, especially in elementary.
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But I took that love and I made that lamique. Well.
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I was in a meeting with a buyer for a
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major retailer and they said, so what does lamiq mean?
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And in that moment, I could not say kim spelled
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backwards and love for my mother.
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That it ain't sound that wasn't gonna come on. I
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was like, that don't sound good. It's not a good
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origin story, like that brand's story. You don't like that. Well,
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actually it's kim me. It's with my little name. You
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know what I'm saying. You gonna take the products and
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now right.
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So I was like, in that moment, and even before
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we started, the way you prayed right in that moment,
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that's kind of what happened.
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I was like, Lord, give me something to say right now,
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I had to let her finish talking.
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That she was talking, I was saying, Lord, give me something,
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and I came out. I said, it stands for.
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Love and make up in kindness.
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Wow, And look at that woman straightened out, you ten toles, you.
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Were standing on business and the.
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Whole room went silent because they're all in beauty and
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they never hear brands that actually have meanings to the names.
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Every brand is just whatever their name, named after a designer,
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named after the makeup artists. And so I'm not just
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taking anything away from that at all. But I knew
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for me, I wasn't in makeup because I like to
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plan map. I was in beauty because I like to
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reveal the beauty of women.
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I like to pump women up. I like to get
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women excited.
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I love to show women and tell women the truth
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about them, that they're amazing and that they're beautiful and girl,
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I don't know what he or she said.
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But you know they hating, right. So that's what I
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like to do.
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And so when I was here in Atlanta going to
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Clark Atlanta University, I worked at a makeup counter just
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as a little side job because foot Locker didn't hire me.
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Let's be clear.
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If they would have called me back, i'd be working there, yo.
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But I would have worked there. But I ended up
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getting called back at this makeup store, and so I
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ended up working there. And the first couple of weeks
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into working there, my manager said, now, how are you
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selling all this makeup? She said, because you don't know
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what you're doing. So she said, you don't know how
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to do makeup at all, So.
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What are you? You were as skilled as you are now? Yea,
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nowhere near.
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And so I said, you know what, I've fallen in
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love when making women feel good about themselves. And I
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used to take every shift. I used to work morning
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and night because it became. What I understand now is
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that it's a calling.
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I mean, it's so interesting because as you're telling the story,
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I'm thinking about the other Kim who sat on the
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seat real talk Kim the pastor when she talked about
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she worked at the makeup counter and was selling all
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these lip glosses and stuff, and they like.
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How are you even doing it?
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You don't even know how to do She was like,
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I was so good at telling women how beautiful they
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were and how great they were, And I was so
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into the story of their life that I became a
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top seller.
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And that's you.
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Because you was going to grab folks out the food
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court to come.
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I said, come on down here and funny story, real talk.
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Kim and I spoke at a conference together in Houston
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and tore that thing up and had a good time.
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Because to your point, people are not just buying the product.
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They're buying what can it produce in their lives? What
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can this product produce for me? It produce good self esteem?
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Will it produce motivation for me to wake up? What
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will it produce for me? And that's what I attached to.
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So yeah, I opened up a makeup shop at twenty
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one with no customers, no business plan, just no everything. No. Really,
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if I would have been my advice, I would be like, no,
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So what you.
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Need to do is go back and start over.
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But you got this five hundred dollars investment from your
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mother because she believed in you.
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My mother, So the real gaggy is my mother loves makeup.
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The real gaggy is my mother. Literally when we opened
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that up, when I opened up that makeup shop, her sister,
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her cousins, was like, girl, your mama dream has come true.
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My mother loved makeup.
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Beautiful, dark skinned woman, loved to wear different wigs. My
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mom was just that girl. And so she worked at
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the post office. You would have thought she worked downtown
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here somewhere, but she worked at the post office. But
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she sit at her little vanity and put on her makeup.
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She thought highly of herself, and I think for me.
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When I opened up that makeup shop, I didn't know it,
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but I was her dream was coming true too. So
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when I opened it up, I didn't have any customers.
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I had to walk down to the food court.
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Babe.
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You learn how to strike up a conversation and know
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how to start a relationship real quick. I'm like, hey, girl, hey,
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and walk them all the way down to the store.
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But that's how I ended up building up my clientele.
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It was not you know, such and such told them
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about me. And so I kind of always have that attitude.
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I'm always going sometimes I get I'm like, why did
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you put yourself in that position? Again, I'm always taking
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these leaps, always taking these leaps. Never fully had the
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resources for the leaps I take, But in stead he's
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taking these leaps, and at some point the resources either
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get manufactured or they get attracted.
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Yeah, but that's what I would say.
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Even to this day, I'm always in a position where
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I'm in bigger shoes than what I can feel at
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the moment.
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Oh wow, Wow, that's so good.
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You take these leaves, and I mean, for over ten
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years you have this makeup studio. I mean that's a
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full service studio. It's lashes, it's makeup, it's brows, it's
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all those things. And you really started to fall in
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love with browse because you're like, a brow is seventy
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five percent of your face. But then it really became
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a focal point of brows because you experience hair loss
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with alopecia.
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Yeah when so, I was experiencing hair loss in my twenties,
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but I was not I was not coming in contact
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with it. I wasn't identifying with it. I remember going
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to the dermatologists. The dermatologists was male and a different
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shade from me, and he just sort of told me like, oh,
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take this role game, right and sort of you know,
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just take it and maybe it'll work out for you.
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Kind of.
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They didn't explain, didn't really do analysis on my scalp,
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and so I went a long time, just wondering. But
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because I love style, I steady with my wigs, study
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with my different things.
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No big deal.
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Then finally what I got to my thirties, I was like, yeah,
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like I'm trying.
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To cover up these ball spots. It's just becoming too much.
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My eyebrows are starting to get you know, less hair
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less hair, and.
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At this point you have clumps of hair that are
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coming out, okay.
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Yeah, and I'm experiencing thin and edge all the things,
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like because actually I actually have like three different forms
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of alopecia, because there's different forms of alopecia. Alopecia areata,
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let's see cca alopecia, alopecia that affects you know, just
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there in the crown of the head. Like it's different
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forms of alopecia. Then you have totalists. I don't have totalis,
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but your form is the alopecia areata.
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Okay, And what does that mean?
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So that means that the baldness can just come in spots,
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So somebody can have a full head of hair and
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then just have boss spots in different places. Like my
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hair actually grows a lot in the back, but it's
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a ball spot at the top, it's one over here
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on the side, like it's those kind of things and so,
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and then there's also the CCCA. It's the long one
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that I also have where it affects the crown of
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the head. So yeah, there's different forms of alopecia. And
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when I finally went to a dermatologist in this case
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who looked like me, she was like, I know exactly
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what's going on and explained and I finally got the
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diagnosis around it and everything, and from my eyebrows, I
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was experiencing that same hair loss.
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So how do you feel when your calling card leaves you?
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Right, it's almost like what you're known for now all
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of a sudden you don't even have Now you feel
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like it imposta right, Like you're like, oh, I can
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tell you how to do your eyebrows, but I don't
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have any.
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And because I want you to go back, because you
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said when you were younger, you had this really beautiful
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hair and that was the thing that you were complimented
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on the most. And you're like, oh you, oh, you
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you got this real pretty hair.
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Girl.
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Your hair is so pretty even talking about your dark skin,
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but you got pretty hair.
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Why you bringing it up? Brandy, That's exactly it I was.
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I was almost like a victim to that, Like I
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hurt that so much I expected to hear it.
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It's to a certain extent.
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Oh you you dark, but you got some pretty hair,
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and like almost like my hair saved me.
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Wow, saved my cuteness. It's so deep. It's so deep yea.
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And people don't realize that's like a normal practice, that's
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like a normal thing, and we actually wait to see
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so like even when you walk in the room, it's
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almost like people even wait till you turned around and
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then be like, oh, okay, well come on, you can be
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a cheerleader or you know, that kind of activity.
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And you know, I'm just I was so used to it.
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I thought it was thought it was normal.
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I thought that was just a way, and you know,
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in Houston and the culture and you know, being light
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skin and all this stuff.
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You know, I didn't when I started to lose my hair.
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Yes, I was thinking to myself, Okay, so what do
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I have to fall back on now?
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Right? And I'm in the beauty industry where.
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You're supposed to look a certain kind of way, So
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I actually had to navigate how I then would fully
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show up. So I remember the top of twenty twenty
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shaving my head out. A radical self love. Just went
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to the barber one day, just went to my girl.
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I said, just cut it off. I said, let's not
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talk about it, because.
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You were just tired of having to manage the hair
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falling out and covering up and doing all that.
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Because I'm late to events because I'm up here fooling
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with this hair and people don't realize I done tussled.
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I didne rumbled with his hair. Listen, I'm fighting this wig.
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I'm fighting everything up in here, trying to get get
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to this this thing.
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I'm gonna stay right.
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And then you know, not knowing, and it's just like
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all of us, we're all going through something behind these eyes.
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But it's like I want to tell somebody to know
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I've been two hours trying to tussle with this heir.
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You think I'm just you know, trying to be a
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diva do right. And so I got tired and I
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had a radical self love. I say, you gotta do
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this for you, Kim, like you gotta believe that you
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still look cute. And I remember one time I referred
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back real quick because I have been raising money for
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mammograms in Houston since twenty fourteen, and twenty fourteen is
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the year my mom passed, so she got to see
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me do that first event in Houston. We raised about
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fifty thousand dollars. But I said if we hit our goal,
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I would shave my head. So I shaved my hair,
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but I didn't shave all my hair because even in
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that I couldn't get myself to even do the whole thing.
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When they started to share, I was like, oh, okay, wait,
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let's just leave something right here.
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Right.
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But I remember my mom saying to me, you got
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the cutest head. So I kind of had that little
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voice in my head, I got the cutest head.
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You do have like a perfectly shaped, little little head.
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Now I know if I cut my shit off, baby,
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I'm looking like, God, what.
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Baby, stop it? Stop it?
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Because this face card is if come on hitting the hair,
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it can take me to my mama's mind. The hair,
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you're good, they can take me to the mall. This
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space card can get me places. Yeah, you're definitely kidd Liza.
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So I mean, but you you're fighting with this, and
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then you have this moment of back and forth and
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then you say.
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I'm gonna do it, and I did it out of
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radical self love. I did it.
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And then the pandemic hits and we don't even know
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if like COVID is in our hand, we don't know
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where it's at right.
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So I was like, oh, were good. In my head,
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I'm glad baby. I ain't got no COVID hair, but
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I want to watch it, you know, I have to
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do all that.
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So and then when it all hit, I was launching
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Lamik nationally, then e commerce, launching a brand back out again,
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and I had this bright idea.
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That everybody was so confused and what's going on?
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And then our leaders weren't telling us exactly what was happening.
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And I said, yeah, I'm gonna turn on this camera because.
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You're relaunching your You're now gonna do e commerce with
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Lamique in twenty twenty March of twenty twenty, to be exact,
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To be exact, you're relaunching, and then COVID hits and
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you're like, oh my god, what do I do? And you,
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like so many other people, said I'm gonna turn this
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camera and make and see what happens.
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And you end up going.
488
00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:58.039
Live every Friday night, and you start selling your products
489
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like you your own QVC HC.
490
00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:02.759
Baby you there, and you're like, this is what we're doing.
491
00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:05.480
Let me show y'all, how y'all use the products. You're
492
00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:07.759
doing all of that, and you start to build this
493
00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:10.799
community absolutely, And I just was.
494
00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:13.200
I had done a quick survey to the email list
495
00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:14.960
I had, and I said, are you working from home?
496
00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:17.200
Are you going? And everybody's saying that was working from home?
497
00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:18.839
I said, do you know how to do your makeup?
498
00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:22.000
Seventy percent said no? So I said, Okay, what I
499
00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.799
realized is the le meet customer. She's a girl that's
500
00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:27.559
went to school, she's gotten a job, she's breaking the
501
00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:29.880
glass ceiling, she never went to the makeup class.
502
00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:32.119
Yeah you know what I mean. And so I know that.
503
00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.400
So I'm like, okay, how do I help her?
504
00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:35.960
But now she's doing zooms, Now she's doing presentations, and
505
00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:36.960
she needs to show up.
506
00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.839
So I was like, all.
507
00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:41.960
Right, now you only have this box that you're showing
508
00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:45.079
up in. Right, they can't see the full outfit, so
509
00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:47.240
they got to see what you're doing on the face.
510
00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:48.160
Yeah, that's it.
511
00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:50.920
And so I was like, I'm gonna show y'all how
512
00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:54.359
to do it. And then also I like to make
513
00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:56.599
people laugh. I like to see people smile. I was like,
514
00:24:56.599 --> 00:24:58.039
we're gonna have this a good old time. We're gonna
515
00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:03.440
play some music. The twist was my daughter did not
516
00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:06.680
let me be great. She was like, so, what we're
517
00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:07.319
doing in here?
518
00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:09.759
And so I have cause you were using her room.
519
00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:13.640
I used my daughter's room cause she was on the
520
00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:15.319
side of the house that was, you know, the most
521
00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:17.720
quiet and sort of you know, all of the things.
522
00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:19.400
She had a good little background for me. I was like, hey,
523
00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:21.759
I'm gonna use this room and she was like, I
524
00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:23.160
put it in a living room. I was like, look,
525
00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:26.079
Decea Snacks, this is your show. She was four years
526
00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:27.680
old at the time. This is your show, right, this
527
00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:28.599
show you like to white?
528
00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:29.799
Right She uh.
529
00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:32.920
Huh uh huh stay right here. Okay, she's to say
530
00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:37.319
that just bj about to be ten. Yeah yeah, yeah,
531
00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:39.680
so uh yeah you bless your heart.
532
00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:43.240
So I would go back in the room.
533
00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:45.519
And I'm like, okay, she gonna be good. She comes
534
00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:48.440
busting in there. What we're doing, what we're doing, and
535
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.200
I'm playing music, and she's like, let's go. We all lie,
536
00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:53.319
we all cool.
537
00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:55.839
Got it. I'm gonna live too. I'm doing makeup too.
538
00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:59.799
At four and I was like trying to do the
539
00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:02.680
first like trying to do like this, like but they
540
00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:03.720
don't take those signals.
541
00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:09.240
You're like, get out of here. She like, girl, hey, y'allah.
542
00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:12.200
Yeah, that's how DJ was in the pandemic. He was
543
00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:13.920
definitely popping up on our.
544
00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:18.440
Live like, hey, like I'm here, don't y'all little friends
545
00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:18.799
out there?
546
00:26:20.359 --> 00:26:23.119
And so we went and so the first night I
547
00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:25.480
saw I couldn't get away. So then I was like,
548
00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:28.279
just come on in, bring her in, just bring her in.
549
00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:32.160
And she rocked it, and we rocked it, And for
550
00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:36.400
four consecutive years, we went live every Friday night and
551
00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.160
people literally watched her go from not knowing how to read,
552
00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:43.400
to learn how to read the comments, to knowing how
553
00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.839
to do the giveaways, to knowing what was the next
554
00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.480
step in the process, all the way through.
555
00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.440
Now she's like running the TikTok. Now she's running the TikTok.
556
00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:55.960
She's running TikTok. Nine years old. She's running the TikTok. Up.
557
00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:58.480
She goes with me sometimes to some of the events,
558
00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:00.480
and she's doing social media.
559
00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:01.319
Wow.
560
00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:04.599
Yeah, yeah, she's a little lady. Though she's a lady.
561
00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:06.240
She's a lady, she's a lady, but she's on.
562
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:06.960
She's on.
563
00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:09.119
The people say like, oh, does she like playing to
564
00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:12.400
make up? I'm like, no, Loretta, don't just like playing
565
00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:13.680
the makeup her name.
566
00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:19.880
She's already grown. Whose phone is that? Oh that's your phone?
567
00:27:20.079 --> 00:27:25.119
Why would I have a Why would I have a well?
568
00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:26.200
And what time is it?
569
00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:28.759
Yeah?
570
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:30.440
Why would I have an alarm at twelve forty five?
571
00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:37.400
That's interesting, right, we should him about that. Now, make
572
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:41.200
sure you turned it off though you didn't hit the snooze.
573
00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:44.839
I'll turn it off. Let me give you a real
574
00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:47.559
quick let me just confirm. First of all, we know
575
00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:49.279
you gotta enjoy. We ain't never heard that.
576
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.240
Yeah, it was a file on because I was like,
577
00:27:57.279 --> 00:27:58.319
y'all got on the file on?
578
00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:02.200
Y'all like, do we leave out?
579
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:07.119
That's right? That's right, that's right. Because my phone's gonna
580
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.119
get tapped. This man gonna tap them phones. You already know.
581
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.440
Android, we're gonna be the last ones alive. Like listen,
582
00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:16.480
I just I want.
583
00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:18.200
To go back to a flip phone anyway, So it's
584
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.200
like I don't need nothing else.
585
00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:25.599
Call listen. But your Your daughter's named after your mom.
586
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.680
Her name is Loretta, so she's already made to be grown, okay,
587
00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:29.799
because that's a grown name.
588
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:33.920
You don't even hear kids named Loretta no more. Okay,
589
00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:36.599
so you know she's grown. She's grown, and you already
590
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:40.160
know the kids we have, your nephew, my daughter, Like,
591
00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:44.839
I can't just tell her Loretta, just go do She's like, no,
592
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:51.119
I've considered it, and I'm an essence fast and no,
593
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:53.079
y'all get in line, and y'all do the TikTok the
594
00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:55.640
way I asked you to. Okay, and you tell a
595
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:58.319
team get over here, jt get over here, Corrissa. She'll
596
00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:00.799
call her names, yeah, no dish, but just like we
597
00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.559
about to do this, and I'm just like looking at
598
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:08.240
her like okay, and they respect it because she knows
599
00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.079
what she's talking about. Yeah, it's not baby stuff, and
600
00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:12.559
she knows what she's talking about.
601
00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:16.119
She's an active participant. And I mean, I think, to
602
00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:21.559
watch you grow this business and to watch you evolve
603
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:25.400
from e commerce to now being in in major retail
604
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:28.720
stores like Alta, you know this is not like some
605
00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:30.519
little feet and she knows that.
606
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:32.759
She knows that, and she knows the work.
607
00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:35.559
I talk to her about it, even when I'm gonna
608
00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:37.279
be going for a week at a time or something
609
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:39.880
like that. I'm like, Loretta, now you know I got
610
00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:41.119
to go to such and such because she wants to
611
00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:43.839
know exactly what I'm doing. It's very critical. She don't
612
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:46.119
want to hear from the streets. That's when she get mad.
613
00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:48.680
So she want to know what's happen going on. And
614
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:50.119
when I tell her, I say, Okay, I'm going to
615
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:52.319
go do this. I'm going to go try to do this.
616
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.039
I say, if I get there and the people say yes,
617
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:56.839
then that means I'm probably gonna stay on, you know,
618
00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:58.559
a couple more days, because then I'm gonna need to
619
00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:00.839
work it out and do the meeting and do whatever.
620
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:01.559
The demonstration is.
621
00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:05.000
And then she's like, okay, okay, all right, got it, Okay,
622
00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:05.880
I'll take care of things.
623
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:08.200
You know. It's all like, I'll hold it down.
624
00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:11.960
Why you out here doing your work? Yes, I mean,
625
00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:15.680
let's talk about this, this e commerce space that you're
626
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:19.720
in because seventy five percent you've gone on records to say,
627
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:22.839
seventy five percent of the beauty brands and products that
628
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:24.799
are targeted to black women are toxic.
629
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:29.799
They're filled with many chemicals. There is some new research.
630
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.799
Just NPR reported about it and other outlets. They did
631
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:36.079
a study of sixty four black and Latino women in
632
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:42.160
California and they examined their makeup and went through.
633
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:43.480
It in their personal care product.
634
00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:47.240
So shampoo, the deal, the eyeliner, the all, the all,
635
00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:50.000
the case, all your personal care products, and over half
636
00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:55.799
had known cercent engens and so Yes, there is a
637
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:58.599
correlation between what we put on our face, which is
638
00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:02.079
our skin is our largest organ. Our lips. Anything we
639
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.359
put on our lips we eat in our lifetime. We'll
640
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:07.440
eat thirteen lipsticks or lip glosses in our lifetime. Wow,
641
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:09.839
So what you put on your lips you digest. It's
642
00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:13.400
a certain point. I was talking to our doctors. You know,
643
00:31:13.799 --> 00:31:16.160
what you put in your eyes around your eyes, it
644
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:20.920
seeps into your eyes, goes into that bloodstream at some point. So, yeah,
645
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:24.160
these products, we have to be more conscious. It's not
646
00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:26.799
about being scared, it's just about being conscious, being aware.
647
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:30.279
You know, I always tell people when I talk about
648
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.039
the seventy five percent of beauty products marketing to us
649
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:36.640
are toxic, I'm also talking about that black market makeup
650
00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:38.599
you buy and you know it. It's not the brand
651
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:42.200
that counterfeit makeup the you know, think about those things.
652
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:44.359
Don't just if you know you don't know the company
653
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:46.240
you're getting it from. Don't just be out here buying
654
00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:49.279
stuff and putting it on your face. So all of
655
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:51.839
those kind of different things. But yeah, you know, I
656
00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:54.039
always tell people, hey, if they're not making the best,
657
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:56.920
you know, especially when it comes to people of color,
658
00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:59.200
like if they're not making the best for you, healthcare
659
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:02.079
isn't the best, whatever the case. We're dealing with maternal
660
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.599
rates that are bad, all these different things. What makes
661
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.000
you think that people are trying to make the best
662
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.599
makeup for you? And I waited around. I was waiting
663
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:12.880
for somebody else to do it, to be honest. Yeah,
664
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:15.160
I had my makeup shop in Houston. I had met
665
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:18.400
my chemists, he retired from stey Lauder. We were making products,
666
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:20.799
but I was selling them right there in my makeup shop,
667
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:25.079
pretty local, taking care of my business. Nobody came and
668
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:27.759
did what I feel like we deserved. And then finally
669
00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:30.440
I just had to just had to do it.
670
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:31.519
You had to take the leap.
671
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.000
And you've talked about all the leaps that you've made
672
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.119
over your career, each one has been the leap right,
673
00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.079
not knowing that the net is gonna up here, but
674
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:43.920
somehow it does. And one of the you were entering
675
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:46.400
into the lip gloss space and you were like, uh,
676
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:49.880
I'm not gonna do this. It's very saturated, the market
677
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.359
is very saturated. That's not the space I need to
678
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:56.920
continue in. And here comes this woman named Margaret.
679
00:32:57.759 --> 00:32:58.799
Here comes Margaret.
680
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:03.519
Margaret sends an email because we didn't have the lip gloss,
681
00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:05.880
and she's like, hey, well I used to be at
682
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:08.319
the store. I could buy the lip gloss. You know,
683
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:10.279
you're going national and everything, but I don't see no
684
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:13.480
lip gloss. You're going all big and everything. But I
685
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:17.680
don't get no glass. And I'm like, oh, Margaret, like
686
00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:21.720
you know that's everybody got lip glass, Like just go
687
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.000
get some from somewhere, because again, I'm not doing this
688
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:26.960
out of my own vain thing. I only do what's needed.
689
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:31.039
And she was like, no, no, no, no, you don't understand.
690
00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:36.079
I used to get upper respiratory infections from lip gloss
691
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:37.319
and lipsticks I was using.
692
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.440
When I used La mequ I got none.
693
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:43.640
So I'm gonna eat that lip gloss, and I literally
694
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:47.359
launched the lip gloss because she wanted it, because I
695
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:52.880
knew Margaret was just a representation of the other women
696
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:56.880
that were out there just like Margaret, who need that option.
697
00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:03.640
And she called me back to what I'm I'm supposed
698
00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:06.119
to be doing, and that is sometimes not worried about
699
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:10.079
what everybody else is doing, but understanding your purpose and
700
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:11.760
the reason why you're producing what you're doing.
701
00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:16.199
So yeah, I mean talk about the purpose because there's
702
00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:18.639
so many There have been so many factors along the way,
703
00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:22.679
your mom being a factor, your sister being a factor,
704
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.320
your daughter Loretta being a factor, all of these. But
705
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:27.840
what is the thing that's fueling you in this season
706
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:29.760
of your life with the beauty industry?
707
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:34.280
Wow? So what's fueling me right now?
708
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.320
It's something that I only see in the eyes of
709
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:43.639
people when I see them. It's not something that I'm
710
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.639
just like, oh, I need to do this. It's I
711
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:49.480
just had to pop up. I just did an event
712
00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:52.480
with Norstrom because we just launched on norstrum dot com,
713
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:55.679
and so I was doing an in story event and
714
00:34:56.760 --> 00:34:59.239
a girl from high school said, Oh, I had to
715
00:34:59.239 --> 00:34:59.840
get over here.
716
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.000
I hurt you.
717
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:04.559
You were over here breast cancer survivors came, Oh, this
718
00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:09.039
is what we That's what I'm like, really, and my friends.
719
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:10.920
Are like, yeah, Kim, You're like, do it.
720
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:12.920
But I'm still the sixty year old Kim that got
721
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.800
kicked out of high school who's still proving herself.
722
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.280
You know, see yourself as a success story or somebody
723
00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.920
who's made some valiant strides in their life.
724
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:24.559
You're not seeing that. I'm not. I'm not.
725
00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:29.000
I'm not seeing it in a place of that's what
726
00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:30.800
I'm trying to fuel and do.
727
00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:31.519
I don't.
728
00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:35.360
I don't really see it like that. You know. It's
729
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:37.679
not that I have low self esteem or anything. It's
730
00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:42.360
just that's not my motivation. My motivation is people. People
731
00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:45.199
will tell you, like, I'll still do somebody eyebrows if
732
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:47.360
I got to, if I got five minutes, But at
733
00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:50.119
the same time, I could have been right here with you, right,
734
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:54.039
It's not about that for me. It's just about evoking
735
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:59.039
that joy, evoking that love, staying consistent, always in there.
736
00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:00.000
I am.
737
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.920
I'm about breaking these glass ceilings. You know, there is
738
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:07.559
real inequities in the beauty industry. I will get turned
739
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:12.360
up on that because if I look at with Olta.
740
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:15.480
I was the first black owned clean makeup brand to
741
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:21.000
launch on their website. We're on jcpenny dot com. We
742
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:23.400
are one a few black On brands in there. We're
743
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:25.400
on Northstrom. We're on a few black On brands in there.
744
00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:28.920
And made in the US. That's another thing. A lot
745
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.519
of our products are made in Houston, Texas, where I'm from.
746
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:35.039
So I'm actually like making makeup where I'm from. It's
747
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:38.280
a lot of air that I'm like, Okay, God, okay, okay,
748
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:42.280
I see what you're doing it. But thinking that what
749
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:46.800
I'm doing is something that I can sort of like
750
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:51.920
just sit on. No, yeah, studying the fire, Yeah, steady.
751
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:52.639
Studying a fire.
752
00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:57.360
How is faith fueled this mission not just for clean beauty,
753
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:01.000
but to bring love and kindness and make up and
754
00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:03.639
enjoy and evoke that joy when you meet people?
755
00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.000
How has faith anchored you along the way?
756
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:13.119
Faith is me showing up somewhere because God told me
757
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:15.199
to and don't even know nobody there?
758
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:19.920
Who all over there? Asking that you're just going, I'm
759
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:23.519
just going. I love that I'm asking who all over there?
760
00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:26.599
Who all over there? God, don't don't don't send me
761
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:27.239
them over there.
762
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:31.280
I don't know, but when I get that over, I
763
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:35.280
will be like, oh, for real, just just where, just
764
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:37.119
where you.
765
00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:38.480
For real, you couldn't have been you playing.
766
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:41.280
And then and then God to use somebody who I
767
00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:44.440
think is full of you know what, yeah, and will
768
00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:46.440
set me up for something real, and I'll.
769
00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:49.760
Be like, oh, I trust you, I trust you. I
770
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:50.559
see what you're trying to do.
771
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:52.880
Trust you, I see what you And even when it
772
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:55.760
came to you know you know how, we say, God
773
00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:57.159
take the foolish things in this world.
774
00:37:58.079 --> 00:37:59.800
And I've seen it over and over again.
775
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.920
And that's the reason why even with people who I
776
00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:08.000
know have talked ill or things like that, they about
777
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:09.559
to be my footstool real soon, right.
778
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:10.599
I believe that.
779
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:12.960
I know that because I've seen it so many times
780
00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:15.960
that I can't even talk bad about them because then
781
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:18.920
I'm gonna mess it up. Yeah, So I gotta let them,
782
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:21.119
you know, do them, because then they're still a part
783
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:21.559
of the plan.
784
00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:23.400
All things work together for good.
785
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:28.840
The faith is the order that Okay, I was supposed
786
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.679
to a customer, we have a customer service issue, the
787
00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:32.960
package supposed to get that.
788
00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:35.440
Now she mad? Is her wedding you know anything?
789
00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:38.239
Or whatever the case is, I get on the phone
790
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:40.239
with the customer, or a team get on the phone
791
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:42.960
with the customer because we got on the phone and
792
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.880
faced it right, or you know, a lot of time
793
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:47.320
just having faith because I'm like, I don't know what
794
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:49.559
I'm gonna tell this person, but I'm sorry, but that's
795
00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:50.079
not enough.
796
00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:50.760
Right.
797
00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:53.119
But then we get on the phone and then they're like, oh,
798
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:55.119
we having this conference. Do you think we can do
799
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.440
that just because you talk to them, just she's talked
800
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:01.880
it through. Pretty much every one of my customer service
801
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:05.000
issues has always resulted in a bigger contract, in a
802
00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:08.599
bigger seal and a bigger something, bigger impact, something has happened.
803
00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:10.000
Yeah, that's faith.
804
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:14.199
But that's kindness too. I think that's kindness and compassion.
805
00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:17.320
And I think you always greet people with that. And
806
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:21.760
when people encounter you, they encounter love in the makeup
807
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:24.840
and kindness, right, love and makeup and kindness, you know,
808
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:28.639
And I think that that's the the undergirding of the
809
00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:31.880
brand of why people are are invested the way they are.
810
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:37.559
Yeah, and it's my and it's my also my personal
811
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:43.960
mantra L A m i K also stands for Loretta
812
00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:50.559
Always made Up and Kim, because I feel like my
813
00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:55.239
mother was the sout of the earth and really the
814
00:39:55.320 --> 00:40:00.519
reason why I understand about being kind and I also
815
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.280
understand about taking up space at the same time and
816
00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:08.079
honoring who you are and all at the same time.
817
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.199
And so that is also my personal affirmation love and
818
00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:14.519
make up and kindness. That's something you can tell yourself.
819
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:17.719
Because beauty is revealed and not applied.
820
00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:20.440
I want you to delve into this. It's so funny
821
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:24.039
because when you were on the CBS Morning Show and
822
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:27.440
Gil was like, uh uh, I think beauty is applied.
823
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:31.679
I have to apply mine. Okay, listen, Gil.
824
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:35.800
Said, I don't know about that, Kim, And in meanwhile,
825
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:39.679
shout out to Gil's makeup artist, Radune, who uses my
826
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:43.519
brow kit on her. But then also Redune is an
827
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:44.679
amazing person and.
828
00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:46.159
Can reveal the beauty of people.
829
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:49.760
I love to meet beauty professionals who reveal your beauty
830
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:52.679
just through And so basically what we mean by that
831
00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:57.920
is beauty is revealed because there's things about you that
832
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:01.320
people don't know. Once they find out, they're like, oh,
833
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:04.679
she bad, oh he I don't like him, you know,
834
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:06.880
And those are the kind of things that we talk
835
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:09.440
about because just looking good.
836
00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:12.119
It's one thing. It's one thing.
837
00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:17.000
Yeah, but you start to look real sour if what's
838
00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:22.800
revealed from you doesn't match what I see, Yeah, yeah,
839
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:24.440
that's the beauty, and get real hollow.
840
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:25.360
Yeah yeah.
841
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:28.079
The beauty is revealed by how you show up in
842
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.239
the kindness, in the compassion, in the grace.
843
00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:37.440
Yeah, and in who you are, your talents, your empathy,
844
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:39.159
your whatever it is.
845
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:40.480
People be so surprised.
846
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:43.119
Sometimes I even say this because a lot of times
847
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:47.239
we're getting real you know, ladies ready, they're buying products
848
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.039
for different things, and I always tell them. They say, oh, yeah,
849
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:54.000
well I don't talk as good as Brandy does or Kim.
850
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:56.480
You know, I don't have as much confidence as you
851
00:41:56.519 --> 00:41:59.360
do the work. Rock a ball hit like that, and
852
00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:04.360
I go, no, your little quirkiness, we like that. It's
853
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:07.000
just being who you are and just being.
854
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:07.559
Alright with that.
855
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:11.639
You don't have to be like anybody else to be
856
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:16.559
someone who's admired and looked at it as beautiful. I
857
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:19.400
can tell you that from me because I thought my
858
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:22.360
beauty did look a certain way. And when it stopped
859
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.719
looking that way, what was I to do? Clothes on
860
00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:31.599
the company because I don't look like what beauty girl.
861
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:34.679
I had to start revealing some stuff and started to
862
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:38.199
reveal my story. And so even on my Instagram, I
863
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:41.079
have the video of me getting my head shaved, the
864
00:42:41.079 --> 00:42:45.480
ball spots showing and all that, and I.
865
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:46.599
Didn't even care who saw it.
866
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:50.760
I don't even care because somebody's gonna look at it
867
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:56.000
and say, if she'll be that transparent and show the
868
00:42:56.039 --> 00:42:57.840
side that we don't like to see and I don't
869
00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:01.719
look my best and she has a whole beauty company,
870
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:04.920
then I can be honest and transparent with myself at
871
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:08.199
least and do the things and changes that I need
872
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:09.559
to do to reveal my beauty.
873
00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:14.800
I mean, now, you're a sponsor at Baldicon. I mean
874
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:17.639
you were just here in Atlanta as a sponsor for Baldicon.
875
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:19.079
So how did that even come about?
876
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:20.679
That came about?
877
00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:24.880
I think I saw Baldicon on the internet and Felicia
878
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:27.639
is the founder of Baldiecon. Felicia, I don't know if
879
00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:29.400
you follow me, if found you, but every way we
880
00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:30.079
found each other.
881
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:32.639
And I was like, oh, I'm.
882
00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:36.199
Coming because because she did once she did the first
883
00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:38.760
year we came on on the second year, she did
884
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:40.400
the first year. I think I seen maybe a couple
885
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:45.159
of pictures afterwards, and then I see this picture of
886
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:48.760
these ball women smiling, they looking happy. I'm like, I
887
00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:52.119
want to go with them. Drop me off with them, Yeah,
888
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:52.679
drop me off.
889
00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:55.480
You don't even have to know who all over it.
890
00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:59.280
I know over there it was, and so I was like,
891
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:01.039
I want to be in and we talked and she
892
00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:03.679
was like, oh my goodness, yes, bring the makeup through this.
893
00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:06.039
And so actually we were right here. We're right here
894
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:09.920
next to this hotel, coolier cone, right right here, and.
895
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:13.559
So we went. That was the second year. That was
896
00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:14.880
our first year sponsoring Leami.
897
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:17.880
We were a part of it, and then last year
898
00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:22.719
we were a part of it, and then this year
899
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:30.119
it was so off the chain and it's such an
900
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:33.039
experience where it's a type of conference you're gonna cry,
901
00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:35.960
you're gonna laugh, you're gonna live about. You're gonna leave
902
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:38.480
with about five friends. Okay, one of them is a
903
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:41.000
friend that looks gonna ride with you at dawn type
904
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:44.559
of friend. Then you're gonna have somebody that's gonna help you,
905
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:46.599
you know, give you business advice, and you're gonna have
906
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:47.239
somebody to help.
907
00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:47.880
You in your corporate.
908
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:51.960
But because you gotta remember, everyone is kind of there
909
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.119
because of this hair situation, and some people are ball
910
00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:55.760
by choice.
911
00:44:56.039 --> 00:44:58.559
Okay, so at Baldi cons some people are balled by choice.
912
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.440
And some people may have all ap short experience hair
913
00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:02.360
loss in a different way.
914
00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:05.400
They might have lupus, they might be temporarily bald. We
915
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.079
have some people come that are actively going through chemo
916
00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:12.760
and there they're just bad for that particular time. But
917
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:14.960
we always say once bald, always ball, because you know
918
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.000
what that experience in life is like. But people are
919
00:45:18.039 --> 00:45:20.960
coming from these different backgrounds, and so you have to
920
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:23.079
remember that we're just not our ball here. So these
921
00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:26.639
people are professionals, These people are entertainers. These people we
922
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:28.400
had so many women in the room this year that
923
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:33.440
went viral. We had you know, line dancing with Teressa. Okay,
924
00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:36.199
so she teached line dancing. Did everybody follow on YouTube?
925
00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:40.639
So Loretta, your daughter goes, yeah, so.
926
00:45:41.559 --> 00:45:44.760
You got my plane ticket for body cunt. I said,
927
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:45.880
you got my ticket?
928
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:48.440
I said, who said you was coming to baldy Gun.
929
00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:51.199
You ain't come last year? What you're talking about? And
930
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:53.719
she said, oh, y'all gonna have line dancing with Teresa
931
00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:56.519
then I'm going, oh yeah, that's all I learned Boots
932
00:45:56.519 --> 00:46:01.800
on the ground from I'm coming said, and she was like,
933
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:04.239
when my friends in line dance and find out, so
934
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.159
first of all the friends are over fifty year old women.
935
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:08.840
Because she goes to the community center to go to
936
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:11.159
line dancing on Mondays. Of course it was her name's Loretta,
937
00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:14.119
so this is why she's going to line dancing at
938
00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:15.039
the community center.
939
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:17.960
And so she was like, when they find out I
940
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:18.519
went line.
941
00:46:18.440 --> 00:46:22.639
Dance with Terressa, she like, I had have made it listen.
942
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:25.960
So we went and line dancing with a Teresta there.
943
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.400
But millions of people find to follow Teresa. We we
944
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:33.000
had not. Your daughter said I'm gonna go line dance
945
00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:34.280
with Teressa at Baldy Car.
946
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:37.880
I love that, And Teresa gave her a fan. Oh
947
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:38.679
she was.
948
00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:46.280
She was girl, I was like, and so she lined
949
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:47.400
danced with her all night.
950
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:51.639
And but we had so many people there that.
951
00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:56.360
Have made major impact, major impact by just showing up
952
00:46:56.559 --> 00:46:59.320
doing their different talents, doing their different things. And so
953
00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:02.039
next year is gonna be five years, it's gonna be crazy.
954
00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:06.679
But the things that I heard from Baldi Coon and
955
00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:09.360
us showing up there and us supporting that movement, and
956
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:12.400
I've been a part of the fundraising on that side
957
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:13.719
just because we need it.
958
00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:15.679
Women are literally coming.
959
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:17.760
Some of them took off their wig in the parking
960
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:21.000
lote and walked into the room and said, nobody has
961
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:22.199
ever seen me like this before.
962
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:22.800
Wow.
963
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.199
And some of them are saying, I can't be in
964
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:29.119
pictures because if my husband finds out that I showed
965
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:31.400
up like this and I get on there, he's gonna
966
00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:31.960
be upset.
967
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:35.519
So I can't take any pictures.
968
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:38.199
It's things like that too, because I mean, I've had
969
00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:41.039
women reach out to me chiem It's so amazing you
970
00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:41.920
can share your story.
971
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:43.079
I took pictures.
972
00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:46.079
I explained to my significant other that you know, I
973
00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:48.840
want to come out and just they told me no.
974
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:49.760
Hmm.
975
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:55.000
You don't understand that people don't have that support when
976
00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:59.079
they experience something like hair loss, and especially as women
977
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:05.719
who experience hair loss. However it comes, it's extremely like
978
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:07.800
it's a blow to your self esteem in a lot
979
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:11.000
of ways because it's the crown of our heads. It's
980
00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:13.360
a thing that you thought made you pretty. It's the
981
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:15.639
thing that so many other women think that you know,
982
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:17.840
they're not ind Iri I'm not my hair yet.
983
00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:21.360
You know, they're not there yet, and you don't feel
984
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:23.000
like the world is there. And you might be in
985
00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:26.400
a community or and it's not. It's not and you
986
00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:28.840
might be in a rural area where now you just like,
987
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.719
you know, we don't everybody don't want attention. Let's just
988
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:34.400
put it that way, right, Everybody doesn't want to stand out.
989
00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:37.159
Some people just want to look like everybody else. And
990
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:39.800
that's okay because you just want to get along. I
991
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:43.719
remember at Baldicon, you know, because we pump each other up.
992
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:46.000
We was like, look, not have a good time because
993
00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:48.840
you know, you can't go back to work like this, right.
994
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:49.800
But then some.
995
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.039
Women are saying we had a couple of women said,
996
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:54.159
I'm not going back to work with that wig, gone right.
997
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:56.639
They gonna know, you know, and I'm going wear a
998
00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:58.320
wig when I feel like it, but they'm not gonna
999
00:48:58.400 --> 00:48:59.920
I'm not gonna be bound to it, you know.
1000
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:02.320
And those are the kind of things that happen.
1001
00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:04.719
And for us as a company, for La Meek, we
1002
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:07.760
show up at that event to empower the women and
1003
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:12.679
let them know, look, you look good, you look great.
1004
00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:17.760
But on top of that, do not allow what's happening
1005
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:22.000
to you change you. Sometimes you can go through things,
1006
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:26.199
especially with your beauty physical especially, and.
1007
00:49:26.119 --> 00:49:27.840
It can it can. It can make you bitter, it
1008
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:30.400
can make you sour, it can make you know, it
1009
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:34.000
could it could. It could harm you in a way that.
1010
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:38.519
It's not it's not cute, right, And so I think
1011
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:40.280
that that's what that's about too, And even in my
1012
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:43.119
own personal I'm talking to you from a very a
1013
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:46.079
place of honesty that sometimes do I wake up and
1014
00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:50.239
so of look at myself in the mirror and go, okay,
1015
00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:52.519
you know, yeah, sometimes I wake up a little frustrated
1016
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:55.000
that I still that, you know, I experienced this, But
1017
00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:57.039
then you know, you you you work through it and
1018
00:49:57.039 --> 00:49:59.039
you're like, I'm good, you know, and you and you
1019
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:05.519
show back up because I also understand that my life
1020
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:08.840
has purpose and it comes from God. And he don't
1021
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:13.559
always consult with us. How that's gonna go down? Yeah,
1022
00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:17.119
he don't always pull us to the meeting. Yeah, he
1023
00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:18.199
just give the order.
1024
00:50:18.239 --> 00:50:18.920
Just get an order.
1025
00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:21.800
But he means well by because I couldn't even imagine
1026
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:23.000
life about this ball community.
1027
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.079
I can't even imagine.
1028
00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:27.960
What's the one thing you would go back and tell
1029
00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:33.800
young Kim Roxy, who is starting her makeup store in
1030
00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:38.039
that mall in Houston and trying to get those clients
1031
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:42.760
from the food court to come just try something new.
1032
00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:48.280
What would you tell that younger version of yourself. Every
1033
00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:52.559
raggedy tragedy is gonna bring strategy.
1034
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:59.079
Every raggedy tragedy is gonna bring strategy. Amen, that's a
1035
00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:03.199
word right there, I said, God, clock that, Hannah clock it.
1036
00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:09.119
Yeah, yeah, I've seen it every time I polled customers
1037
00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:10.960
from the food court. But the big thing, the reason
1038
00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:12.360
why I was able to stay in business in that
1039
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:16.559
mall was because Hurricane Katrina happened. Hurricane Katrina wouldn't have happened.
1040
00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:18.480
I still would have went out of business a little
1041
00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:23.719
shortly after that Hurricane Katrina happened, and that I was tragedy, tragedy.
1042
00:51:24.840 --> 00:51:30.000
The mall went into bankruptcy. Everybody had to vacate tragedy.
1043
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.199
But God set me up for a strategy to go
1044
00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:34.559
into the richest neighborhood in Houston with my boutique, and
1045
00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:37.880
then everybody thought I was amazing. I had to catfish
1046
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:39.239
the man to get the lease in office. I mean
1047
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:41.719
to get the least for the space though in this
1048
00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:46.039
River Rokes area, which is our wealthy neighborhood in Houston, because.
1049
00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:48.599
He would have rent it to me.
1050
00:51:48.679 --> 00:51:50.920
I didn't know it though my friend went to school
1051
00:51:51.400 --> 00:51:55.480
predominantly white school. I didn't write, and so I didn't know.
1052
00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:57.599
You know, the way things go. I'm like, yir, I'm
1053
00:51:57.599 --> 00:51:59.840
at the college. Man, I got my first last month rent.
1054
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:00.639
No, I'm good.
1055
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:03.440
She was like, don't call him people, and so she
1056
00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:05.920
had someone come act like he was my relator.
1057
00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:07.039
I didn't know.
1058
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:08.559
I went the day to go pick up the keys
1059
00:52:08.599 --> 00:52:11.480
because I decided I wanted it, and the guy said, oh,
1060
00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:16.239
where's Scott. I said Scott, I said, you're talking about
1061
00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:20.239
my realtor. He was like, I thought he was the owner.
1062
00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:22.280
I thought he was the one opening up the beauty.
1063
00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:24.119
It's a beauty thing, right, I thought he was opening
1064
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:28.559
I said, no, it's me. He said, what are you
1065
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:30.280
married to a basketball player or something?
1066
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:38.679
Oh? Okay, so yeah, you've been catfish. So you're running
1067
00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:48.280
to me. Gotcha, gotcha? Gotcha? Clock that? So wow, those
1068
00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:48.800
are the things.
1069
00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:56.239
But but tragedy strategy, Okay, the pandemic happens. I had
1070
00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:59.800
already closed down the makeup shop because in twenty eighteen,
1071
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:03.679
God gave me a word that there was more. You know,
1072
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:07.000
I never understood people who have it going on and
1073
00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:10.039
then they sort of stop what they do and to
1074
00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:12.119
go do something. And in that moment I did that.
1075
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:14.360
I had to surrender to what God said. He said
1076
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:16.079
it was more. So I closed on my makeup shop.
1077
00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:18.199
I wrote a letter of my customers. I said, God
1078
00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:18.800
said it's more.
1079
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:19.719
Now.
1080
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:21.800
If you think I'm you need to go talk to him.
1081
00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:23.760
If you think I'm having mexice that she did, just
1082
00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:24.639
go talk to him.
1083
00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:29.440
Okay, take it up with God. With God, that's the management. Yeah.
1084
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:33.159
And so but I remember telling a woman in the
1085
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:35.840
back of a church believe it or not, my girl.
1086
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:38.079
I called her my witness. I told her in the
1087
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:38.679
back of that church.
1088
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:40.440
She was asking me about, you know, closing up the
1089
00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:42.159
shop and what I was about to do next. And
1090
00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:44.400
because people just didn't understand, like what are you what
1091
00:53:44.440 --> 00:53:47.360
are you doing? And she wasn't actually, you know, she
1092
00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:49.360
wasn't being ugly. She was like, what's you about to
1093
00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:52.360
do next? And I felt so challenged because I didn't know.
1094
00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:56.280
And all I could say was I'm about to build
1095
00:53:56.320 --> 00:53:59.480
a makeup line for twenty twenty and she's my witness.
1096
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.760
I said that, And so that was in twenty eighteen,
1097
00:54:03.199 --> 00:54:05.440
and so twenty nineteen I was working on it. I
1098
00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:08.920
was a part of accelerators and things like that. And
1099
00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:11.159
in twenty twenty March twenty twenty, I was ready launch
1100
00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:15.719
and I built the line for twenty twenty.
1101
00:54:15.639 --> 00:54:21.119
And then tragedy. Tragedy happened, and God gave me the strategy.
1102
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:21.800
That's strategy.
1103
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:24.800
Yeah, turn the camera on you ready for twenty twenty?
1104
00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:26.920
You didn't, you didn't put everything online?
1105
00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:29.400
You ready? So yeah, that's what I would say.
1106
00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:32.519
And a lot of times we either break to tragedy,
1107
00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:34.840
we break down, we run from it.
1108
00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:38.119
But that's where a strategy at. That's what I would
1109
00:54:38.119 --> 00:54:41.679
tell that. Kim. Yeah, that is so good. That is
1110
00:54:41.719 --> 00:54:45.119
so good, cause we are constantly thinking about.
1111
00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:49.239
Well, what was or what could have been? Or maybe
1112
00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:51.199
I could or just should have could have would us?
1113
00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:53.719
We think about all those things. But you're like, no,
1114
00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:57.480
I'm not even gonna dwell there, I'm looking forward to
1115
00:54:57.480 --> 00:54:59.519
it cause I know a strategy is on the way.
1116
00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:01.519
At this point.
1117
00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:05.559
When the turmoil happens, I know God cooking, I'm like, oh,
1118
00:55:05.599 --> 00:55:09.719
he cooking Okay, I see it all right, that didn't happen,
1119
00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:12.199
that order didn't come through, or this happened, or you know,
1120
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:15.679
it's like, oh he cooking, yeah, let him cook.
1121
00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:17.400
Let him cook, Let him cook.
1122
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:23.760
And then the words of BJ you're cook, bro, and
1123
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:28.239
the words of BJ right, okay, it cook bro. All
1124
00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:30.360
he says is all the time, all the time, somebody
1125
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.000
getting cooked, baby. So hopefully he know God cooking, okay,
1126
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:34.960
and that's a good thing.
1127
00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:36.960
Oh he knows cooking.
1128
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:41.280
As we begin to close out this interview, one word
1129
00:55:41.800 --> 00:55:44.800
you're committed to in this season of your life. One
1130
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:46.960
word you're committed to in this season of your life
1131
00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:49.079
Expecting expecting?
1132
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:58.519
Why Because I'm there, you know. I think that when
1133
00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:02.639
you think about expecting an expectation and all that, you
1134
00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:07.079
have to be there to expect it, like it's almost
1135
00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:09.519
like yeah, I'm you know, I'm here, I'm ready, I'm
1136
00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:15.119
attract i'm moving. I just feel that I'm expecting. I'm expecting,
1137
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:20.559
even sometimes expecting tragedies. I'm expecting even you know, triumphs.
1138
00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:24.159
I'm expecting, you know, because there's strategy that's coming, there's
1139
00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:25.880
the moves that are coming that.
1140
00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:28.519
But yeah, expecting, Yeah, expecting.
1141
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:33.000
Yeah, Ken Roxy a pleasure, a honor always. Just you
1142
00:56:33.039 --> 00:56:36.960
are such a light. You come into any space and
1143
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:40.239
you light it up every time I see you. It
1144
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:42.920
is like this glow about you, this golow around you.
1145
00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:46.400
You are such a pleasure to know, and so thank
1146
00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:48.960
you for joining me. Bontim Power Talks another good one
1147
00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:51.000
for the books. Be sure to share this with somebody
1148
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:54.039
who needs to raise the level of expectation in this
1149
00:56:54.119 --> 00:56:56.599
season of their life. Until next time, I'm your girl,
1150
00:56:56.679 --> 00:56:59.159
Brandy Harvey eat well, give it damn move your body
1151
00:56:59.199 --> 00:56:59.800
every single day?
1152
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:04.320
Please? Can I also say this, go back and put
1153
00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:06.119
the mic. I guess I'm gonna say. Okay, you gouts
1154
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:08.679
say we gotta do truth to men, So but go ahead.
1155
00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:12.159
Okay, okay, okay, I have to say this. I have
1156
00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:19.639
to say this because Brandy is it's so it's so substantial.
1157
00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:21.920
When I think about your name and I think about you,
1158
00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:26.119
all I can think about is like this sustaining power,
1159
00:57:27.559 --> 00:57:30.800
and so you know, I just have to give you love, friend,
1160
00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:36.199
because you have sustained you have. You know, when you
1161
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:40.039
think about even the ripples and the little tears that
1162
00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:44.679
have happened in your life, still sustained, and so I
1163
00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:47.000
just I just have to give your flowers and people
1164
00:57:47.079 --> 00:57:50.559
have to know too that you've always been this way,
1165
00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:52.280
always been this way.
1166
00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:54.400
Since I know, yeah we met again.
1167
00:57:54.280 --> 00:57:59.239
Twenty ten, Yeah, so so over a decade ago. Just
1168
00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:02.719
just always been this way, always been this way, always been.
1169
00:58:03.320 --> 00:58:04.800
About the business.
1170
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:08.480
And so I am just so happy that you have
1171
00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:12.320
just unleashed I feel like, and I feel.
1172
00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:14.480
Like so far we've only gotten about forty percent.
1173
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:18.800
Yeah, you still got a whole nother sixty percent of unleashing.
1174
00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:22.519
I'm talking about well like out here, and I'm just
1175
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:25.119
so grateful though that you're doing it and that you're
1176
00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:28.440
living it and your representation matters, and I love you
1177
00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:28.920
so much.
1178
00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:29.880
Thank you, Kim.
1179
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:32.360
Listen, I know that's life because in my toes start
1180
00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:34.599
the wiggling, y'all. You know what I'm saying. I was
1181
00:58:34.599 --> 00:58:37.440
feeling nothing in my spirit. I knew that that that's
1182
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:40.360
some good some good stuff. Listen, I already know