March 11, 2022 • 20 mins
Owner of The Pink Hotel, Tiffany Young discusses how her childhood desires led to creating her extravagant 10,000 sqft party hotel.
She shares how the hotel is helping her heal from her childhood trauma and how providing entrepreneurship classes to teens gives others opportunities she wished she had growing up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, money Movers, Welcome back to Money Moves, the daily
podcast determined to give you the keys to the kingdom
of financial stability, wealth and abundances. Welcome back, money Movers
to the Money Moves podcast powered by Greenwood. As I promised,
(00:23):
we have a special guest joining us today. If you
live in the Atlanta area and have children, you have
undoubtedly heard of the Pink Hotel. Tiffany Young has been
featured on Fox five Atlanta and in Rolling Out magazine.
She is the founder of The Pink Hotel, where she
has hosted over seven thousand parties for some of the
biggest celebrities and their children. She has not only built
(00:46):
a fantastic enterprise, but her story is one of endurance,
hard work, and ingenuity. Money Movers, let's welcome Tiffany Young
to the podcast. Tiffany, I really appreciate you joining us today.
I'm delighted to talk to you and have you here.
Your story is definitely an amazing one, Tanyan, thank you
so much for having me. Um. I wish I didn't
(01:06):
have a story, but sometimes your life kind of go
a certain way, so you know, I guess that's why
I'm here today. But I love your show. I love
watching you what you're doing, and I'm just happy to
be a part. Oh thank you. Well, listen, this is
this story is one that we need to dig into
and share with so many others because I feel like
it's inspirational and it's motivating. So what motivated you to
start the pink Hotel? You want the real answers? Yes,
(01:32):
because you know when you gotta use for some people
in so I can keep it real. Well, lack black black.
When you don't have the resources, you get creative. So
I said, okay, Um, I didn't have birthday parties as
a child. I was a single, single mother raised by
single mother, three kids. So I'm saying, what would I
want to have? I would I want to sleep over.
I see my friends getting their nails done, they baking cupcakes,
(01:56):
they're on the stage, dancer with costumes. So you know
you gotta take pain and put it all for a purpose.
And I said, it's a pink hotel. It's my favorite color,
it's the code, it's the color of the little other
little girl's guy. So I put it all together and
you go from room to room because you gotta have everything.
You know, somebody from life. Don't understand why you can
only have cake and ice cream, but you don't get
(02:18):
the building. So that's what I love about the Pink Hotel.
You get everything, especially everything. I didn't have a child.
Oh that's amazing. So this is really your dream come true.
Oh yes, this is my dream come true. This is
uh me healing from my childhood. This my business is.
It's not just a business, it's a it's a ministry.
I call it a business dream because it takes. Yeah,
(02:42):
it heals everything. The first six years I didn't make
no money. I was trying to stay out the refrigerator,
you know, because when you get down, you're getting it. Well,
you probably don't know about the refrigerator life. We all do.
Everybody's got a story. Everybody's got a story that's true,
that's true him. But my business healed me. You know,
I could give back to little girls what I didn't have.
(03:04):
I can help women start businesses, and it slowly healed
me from the things that happened in my life. It
just it's pink, and it's beautiful and it's it's the purpose.
So if you go back to those early days where
you were just you know, a single mom, with a dream.
What was it that really got you to take the
first step, and you know, find a place by building
(03:25):
and start the pink hotel. Well after divorce, I needed
somewhere to stay, and I said, never again will I
not have a room for my son. So wherever I work,
whatever I start, I have to have a room. He
has to have a room. So I said, wait a minute,
I have all these ideas about a party facility. I
(03:45):
need to be able to spend a night. You lived there,
you bought, Yes, I couldn't afford rent an ability, So
I had to choose. See, some people don't choose. Some
people choose to just have it in and I start
their business. Oh no, you gotta leave, I said, Oh,
this is nice, little mock closet right here. Would have
(04:07):
been in it in a light and a plug. You
gotta want it, you know how when a when a
man want a woman, I wanted a cotail more than
I wanted a man, more than I wanted somebody in
my bed. When I wanted a PlayStation for my son,
I wanted dominion. Ye wor dominion me. Don't meet over
lions tight as a no no no, I mean whatever
you put your hands to you dominate that thing. And
(04:29):
if I'm gonna if I'm gonna sweep by myself, my
business better be right. Yeah I took a two. Am
my money better be right? I want dominion? You know
what this ain't. It's not even that kind of show,
is it is? This is This is the This is
the message that you need to tell because so many
people are looking to find their own dominion and sovereignty,
you know, and be independent. But it's not always easy.
(04:51):
And I know the first couple of years for you
were tough. You didn't make any money. You know, you
might have had a roof over your head, but you
went to bed thinking about am I gonna lose this
roof over my head? What was it that pushed you
through to get to where you are today? Sometimes you
have to take what really hurt you and say, oh,
(05:11):
I'm not gonna let that slide. You know, you think
about the disadvantages. I remember going from shelter to shelter
as a kid. I remember splitting. You know the restaurant crystals.
I don't know if you know that restaurant. You look
like you eat sel shape. You know, everybody's had crystals.
I might have been very, very intoxicated, and I definitely
(05:31):
regretted it the day after. But everybody's had crystals. But yeah,
I split that crystals meal with my four brothers and sisters.
So so what I said was that shouldn't have happened
to me. That ain't my story, that's my parents story.
So what can I do to make my story better?
These hands? I said, I was working at fourteen, and
(05:54):
I said, wait, wait a minute, you mean to tell
me I can buff tables and served food and I
can make two hundred dollars with these hands. That's why
when when a man come to me with them hands,
do and I don't mean I'm kind of hands. See,
everybody want to give you their physical hands. No, no, no,
I want to know what can a person do for me? What?
(06:17):
What can dinner in flowers? Can you give me dominion?
Can your business make ways for my business? Can you
drop money into my nonprofit? Because these teenagers need to
need jobs? I mean, uh, but there's something so interesting
about this because you literally this is the story of
like started from the bottom. You built it from nothing.
(06:38):
How did you learn the business of it so that
you were able to be successful? Did you go to school, like,
did you go to university and then we're gonna talk
about your entrepreneur university. Okay, I went to school because
that's what I was told to do. But I went
for the I went for the wrong reason. I wasn't
sitting there learning. I was sitting there saying, Oh, I
wonder if my daddy has seen me now, huh hus shock.
(07:05):
If I had the pluma on the wall, maybe here,
maybe if I don't get pregnant made of here. Maybe
if he said his house is not found the baby
right right? But guess what he wasn't looking. So I said,
you know what, College, I got a piece of paper.
College always says you can put your mind and something
for four years completed. I had that at fourteen. My
(07:28):
mom was already on top of my mama with a
water bill. So I didn't go to college for that.
I went for the wrong reason. And when I when
I when I tried to start my business, I took
the struggle from my life to push through that business.
Because if you ain't got no money, yes, oh you
gotta your your your struggle. You know they didn't they
(07:49):
didn't leave us money, and my family didn't have no money,
and left us Jesus. I don't know a bat that
take Jesus. But when I tell you, it got me
to push. See, when you had the money, you'll go
and buy buildings and equipment and staff and get all
this fun. But when you don't, you'll say, you know,
I'll take this place and I'll live in it. Right,
(08:09):
I don't. I don't run a business out of that.
I don't need a car. There's a public spide across
the street. I can buy a cupcake, ingredients and whatever. So, Tiffany,
you started working at the age of fourteen, and fast
forward we're here with the successful Pink Hotel. But I
know there was a lot in between walking through you know,
your early stage entrepreneurial efforts. Yes, um, I was a
(08:32):
waitress at the Chiefcake Factory because I wanted to start
my business. You know, you gotta get a side job sometimes.
You know, everybody don't want you to know that uber
that's herself, that's hustle. So I worked with the Chiefcake
Factor for a year and I saved sixteen thousand dollars
and the day I got that number, I quit and
I put ten thousand down on a building and I
(08:55):
opened with five dollars, because you know, it takes stuff
to get the bill of them together. So my first business,
I had five hundred dollars in the bank and not
one customer. I didn't have a car. My car was repossessed.
So I asked the neighboring businesses to park in front
of my business to make me look busy, like you
(09:16):
ain't gotta have no car, you don't have to What
was the first business? The first business, wow, I think
it was called one Smart Cookie. I love it then
and then it turned into Peka Street Parlor, and then
it became Pete the Pink Hotel. Took me a little minute,
and you know, like a first marriage for the second
(09:38):
third times a charm, that's right. It takes you time
to figure out what it is for your business. And
do you think even sharing that there's you know, oftentimes
people don't start something because they're so afraid of failure
that it holds them back and they don't even start.
But telling stories like this where you see listen, I started,
I put my last dollar into it, it didn't work.
(10:00):
I moved on to the next thing and the next thing.
And sometimes it takes three or four times to really find,
you know, success and growth and the ability to scale
a business. Yes, and people. People need to share their
feelings more business owners, you know. I think about think
about what your parents could have told you about marriage goodness,
if they would have told you, If somebody would have
(10:21):
told me that location is everything. Yeah, the thousands you
would save. So I talked about my fears so that
people who are afraid can leave. It's going to be rough,
But but what isn't you know? Business could be good,
but your man acking up home. Life could be good,
but your business had made a property two years. It's life.
It's it's up and down. Choose your heart. Yeah. So
(10:43):
you've now reached a level of success with the Pink Hotel,
and you've also started the entrepreneur University. What is this
entrepreneur University. Entrepreneur University is a nonprofit. I started because
I got tired of teenagers doing this today. Mama, can
I have ten dollars and free for us ten dollars
to go to the movies? Mama? Can I have twitter
(11:05):
dolls to take my girlfriend to the I'm from the generation.
If you ain't got no money to take no girls away,
you aren't going. So I said, teams need to know
how to use their hands early because their environment can
dictate how far they can go in their life. And
that's not their choice, that's their parents story. Yes, But
if they can use their hands, if they can make, uh,
(11:27):
make mugs and print t shirts and cut grass, it
can give them an entrepreneur skill for later on in life.
And I think even as a community oftentimes, you know,
if your parents can't do that for you because of
their circumstances, maybe their lineage, it's up to us to
be able to educate more of our youth so that
we can give them access to you know, this this
(11:48):
life that can ultimately give us community wealth, generational wealth.
So this giveback is so important. This is why we
even have this podcast because if you're not getting this
information in your home, you now have the access to it. Yes,
I tell these teenagers all the time, you're on YouTube
all day. If you can draw your eyebrows on, you
can cut some grass. If you can play PlayStation for
(12:11):
six hours a day, how do you can? But that's
not just about a teenagers. That's for everybody. That's for everybody.
That is for everybody. Give me six hours a day.
I mean open up. Yeah, it's just about doing something
with your hands. So, Tiffany, you went from one smart
cookie sixteen thousand dollars to buying a building to start
(12:34):
your first businesses. How did you get from a cookie
to a pink hotel? Wow? Well the cookie didn't work.
It needs money. So I really wasn't one smart cookie,
you know. But it started with the people. Tel started
with what you see now with the Pick Hotel, which
is the big celebrity parties, the spa, the test kitchen,
(12:56):
the baking everything. It started with sixteen thousand dollars. I
didn't have anywhere to live, so I lived in the
Pink Hotel. I didn't have a car, so I I
lived in the Pink hotel. You know. If so you
know it's it's it's I took that Sixten counsel and
I stretched it. My first day of business, I had
five hundred dollars because I had furnished it. I put
(13:17):
paint on the wall, I painted the floor because I
didn't like the floor. It was. I did what I
had to do. But all it takes is one yes.
Because when I started with five hundred dollars, guests who
walked in my door. Seven days after I opened p
did he's child's mother what He came in and she
wanted a party, And she said, you know what, the
police it's not really what I thought it was. I said, well, yes,
(13:39):
I'm just starting to you know all the hell. You know?
She said, I haven't thought about moving it right down
the street. I said, well, yeah, I just got I
put everything. She said, how much you need? I said,
it cost me sixteen to get here, So I said,
(13:59):
She wrote a chef, only take is one yes? She
was until Diddy walked through the door. It takes one yes.
She moved my building. It moved my building. I got
a car, I got an apartment, and my Pink Hotel
was on the map. You don't have to have those
hundred thousand dollars you think you need to have. See,
that's that's fear making. You think you're not ready to
(14:20):
start fear having currency. You weren't scared to be with
that man. You know, we choose our fear now. But
one yes changed my life. Well that was literally your
angel investor, It really was. Yeah, what were some of
the key pivotal points along the way that really helped
(14:43):
launch your business? Wow? Well, having celebrity clients really helped.
I'm forever grateful. I don't know these people, these people
because when a business, all you gotta do is open
it and they'll come to it. You know, building it
and they'll come. So but the celebrity parties have been
really six at school. But I try to give an
excellent experience every time. So when you don't have money
(15:04):
for advertisement, I mean, you gotta woke it Google that
Google ready, gotta stay at four point eight. It's important.
And I just try to give people the experience of
a lifetime. You know, it's you can go to Disney,
but if you come to that pink hotel, you can
take her to to a Fiji. But when you come
(15:25):
to the pink hotel and they paint her nails and
she said, I want this one yellow green, and she
gets it. We know what it's like to be pampered. Yes, well,
these are your dreams coming through for all these little
children and for the mom. You know, this is a
sometime the baby turned into ken you more from the Housewives.
Her baby was six months I remember that. So this
(15:48):
is mom's dreams coming true and little girls dreams coming true.
So what's next for Tiffany and the Pink Hotel. Is
this something you would like to franchise and see all
over the world. You have new dreams that you would
like to manifest. Love for there to be a pink
hotel in every state so that every little girl can
experience what she may not experience at home. And but
(16:10):
sometimes I get a little I don't know if I
want to franchise, because it's gotta be right. Yeah, you
gotta touch her heart. And some people work to make money. No,
I work to touch hearts. You can fisherman fishing for money,
or you can be a fisher of men, and that's
what I want to be. So it may take me
a little longer to get one in each state because
it has to be done right. But that's okay. Sometimes
(16:31):
when you wait, tell us a little bit more about
the details. How many parties are you throwing a year? Wow? Well,
my first year I had about a hundred and nine
For the whole year. We average about eight hundred to
nine hundred parties a year. Wow, that's incredible. That's a
lot of pink joy walking through those doors. And what
(16:53):
was it that you think that was the integral part
to that success? You mentioned having a lot of celebrity parties. Um,
what do you think fueled that? Well, I try to
give the best customer service and the best experience as possible.
So one celebrity will till the till another and tell another.
For example, Um, when pe Diddy came into the party
(17:15):
two months later, I guess, um he told Josh Smith
from Atlanta Hawks. Josh Smith came and then after that
Martha Stewart was there. Um, Nancy Grace had a partner
for her twins, a little baby future t I um, Housewives,
Black Ink Crew. I mean they just start coming and
I don't know these people because you don't have to
(17:36):
know them too to be successful. People tell them about me,
you know, still my name and and and the experience
I give is the most important to meet factor of
the success of the Pink Hotel. And I love that.
And I think you know one of the things that
you can tell very clearly from your Pink Hotel, it
doesn't matter who you are that walks through the door.
Everybody leaves there having a positive and super experience. And
(18:00):
also tell us how we can learn more about how
people can put their children into the entrepreneur University for
Entrepreneur University. You can find us on Instagram. It's the
university that's with two ease, so t D University. Okay,
one more question about the entrepreneur University. What ages is
it geared to? Is it young children, teens, youth? Adults?
Tell us a little bit more about that. Sure, So
(18:23):
for Entrepreneur University, ages ten to seventeen is where we go. Um,
mainly because at that age they're coming from the age
of parents do it for them to where they want
to find their independence. So we want to catch them
before they say I'll feel like going, I want to
stay in my room. No. Ten is the age. Let's
get them right then. I love it, Tiffany, you are
truly a fisher of hearts, pink nails and pretty things
(18:47):
and we can all appreciate that. Can you tell us
where people can find you on social media and obviously
where they can book their next party at the Pink Hotel? Sure,
we're on Instagram. It's the Peak Hotel. Um you can
our location. It's eight Tree Lane in Snailville, Georgia and
it's not far. We we draw out in Miami, we
(19:10):
draw out of the bike week. Come get you some
self some motivation. You bring your baby. Oh, I love it.
You have made your dreams come true as well as
those of many of young children in Atlanta, and we
wish you the best and we cannot wait to be
pampered at the Pink Hotel. Thank you so much, and
come on down and see us. We're in Snailville not
(19:31):
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Hey, money Movers, Welcome back to Money Moves, the daily
podcast determined to give you the keys to the kingdom
of financial stability, wealth and abundances. Welcome back, money Movers
to the Money Moves podcast powered by Greenwood. As I promised,
(00:23):
we have a special guest joining us today. If you
live in the Atlanta area and have children, you have
undoubtedly heard of the Pink Hotel. Tiffany Young has been
featured on Fox five Atlanta and in Rolling Out magazine.
She is the founder of The Pink Hotel, where she
has hosted over seven thousand parties for some of the
biggest celebrities and their children. She has not only built
(00:46):
a fantastic enterprise, but her story is one of endurance,
hard work, and ingenuity. Money Movers, let's welcome Tiffany Young
to the podcast. Tiffany, I really appreciate you joining us today.
I'm delighted to talk to you and have you here.
Your story is definitely an amazing one, Tanyan, thank you
so much for having me. Um. I wish I didn't
(01:06):
have a story, but sometimes your life kind of go
a certain way, so you know, I guess that's why
I'm here today. But I love your show. I love
watching you what you're doing, and I'm just happy to
be a part. Oh thank you. Well, listen, this is
this story is one that we need to dig into
and share with so many others because I feel like
it's inspirational and it's motivating. So what motivated you to
start the pink Hotel? You want the real answers? Yes,
(01:32):
because you know when you gotta use for some people
in so I can keep it real. Well, lack black black.
When you don't have the resources, you get creative. So
I said, okay, Um, I didn't have birthday parties as
a child. I was a single, single mother raised by
single mother, three kids. So I'm saying, what would I
want to have? I would I want to sleep over.
I see my friends getting their nails done, they baking cupcakes,
(01:56):
they're on the stage, dancer with costumes. So you know
you gotta take pain and put it all for a purpose.
And I said, it's a pink hotel. It's my favorite color,
it's the code, it's the color of the little other
little girl's guy. So I put it all together and
you go from room to room because you gotta have everything.
You know, somebody from life. Don't understand why you can
only have cake and ice cream, but you don't get
(02:18):
the building. So that's what I love about the Pink Hotel.
You get everything, especially everything. I didn't have a child.
Oh that's amazing. So this is really your dream come true.
Oh yes, this is my dream come true. This is
uh me healing from my childhood. This my business is.
It's not just a business, it's a it's a ministry.
I call it a business dream because it takes. Yeah,
(02:42):
it heals everything. The first six years I didn't make
no money. I was trying to stay out the refrigerator,
you know, because when you get down, you're getting it. Well,
you probably don't know about the refrigerator life. We all do.
Everybody's got a story. Everybody's got a story that's true,
that's true him. But my business healed me. You know,
I could give back to little girls what I didn't have.
(03:04):
I can help women start businesses, and it slowly healed
me from the things that happened in my life. It
just it's pink, and it's beautiful and it's it's the purpose.
So if you go back to those early days where
you were just you know, a single mom, with a dream.
What was it that really got you to take the
first step, and you know, find a place by building
(03:25):
and start the pink hotel. Well after divorce, I needed
somewhere to stay, and I said, never again will I
not have a room for my son. So wherever I work,
whatever I start, I have to have a room. He
has to have a room. So I said, wait a minute,
I have all these ideas about a party facility. I
(03:45):
need to be able to spend a night. You lived there,
you bought, Yes, I couldn't afford rent an ability, So
I had to choose. See, some people don't choose. Some
people choose to just have it in and I start
their business. Oh no, you gotta leave, I said, Oh,
this is nice, little mock closet right here. Would have
(04:07):
been in it in a light and a plug. You
gotta want it, you know how when a when a
man want a woman, I wanted a cotail more than
I wanted a man, more than I wanted somebody in
my bed. When I wanted a PlayStation for my son,
I wanted dominion. Ye wor dominion me. Don't meet over
lions tight as a no no no, I mean whatever
you put your hands to you dominate that thing. And
(04:29):
if I'm gonna if I'm gonna sweep by myself, my
business better be right. Yeah I took a two. Am
my money better be right? I want dominion? You know
what this ain't. It's not even that kind of show,
is it is? This is This is the This is
the message that you need to tell because so many
people are looking to find their own dominion and sovereignty,
you know, and be independent. But it's not always easy.
(04:51):
And I know the first couple of years for you
were tough. You didn't make any money. You know, you
might have had a roof over your head, but you
went to bed thinking about am I gonna lose this
roof over my head? What was it that pushed you
through to get to where you are today? Sometimes you
have to take what really hurt you and say, oh,
(05:11):
I'm not gonna let that slide. You know, you think
about the disadvantages. I remember going from shelter to shelter
as a kid. I remember splitting. You know the restaurant crystals.
I don't know if you know that restaurant. You look
like you eat sel shape. You know, everybody's had crystals.
I might have been very, very intoxicated, and I definitely
(05:31):
regretted it the day after. But everybody's had crystals. But yeah,
I split that crystals meal with my four brothers and sisters.
So so what I said was that shouldn't have happened
to me. That ain't my story, that's my parents story.
So what can I do to make my story better?
These hands? I said, I was working at fourteen, and
(05:54):
I said, wait, wait a minute, you mean to tell
me I can buff tables and served food and I
can make two hundred dollars with these hands. That's why
when when a man come to me with them hands,
do and I don't mean I'm kind of hands. See,
everybody want to give you their physical hands. No, no, no,
I want to know what can a person do for me? What?
(06:17):
What can dinner in flowers? Can you give me dominion?
Can your business make ways for my business? Can you
drop money into my nonprofit? Because these teenagers need to
need jobs? I mean, uh, but there's something so interesting
about this because you literally this is the story of
like started from the bottom. You built it from nothing.
(06:38):
How did you learn the business of it so that
you were able to be successful? Did you go to school, like,
did you go to university and then we're gonna talk
about your entrepreneur university. Okay, I went to school because
that's what I was told to do. But I went
for the I went for the wrong reason. I wasn't
sitting there learning. I was sitting there saying, Oh, I
wonder if my daddy has seen me now, huh hus shock.
(07:05):
If I had the pluma on the wall, maybe here,
maybe if I don't get pregnant made of here. Maybe
if he said his house is not found the baby
right right? But guess what he wasn't looking. So I said,
you know what, College, I got a piece of paper.
College always says you can put your mind and something
for four years completed. I had that at fourteen. My
(07:28):
mom was already on top of my mama with a
water bill. So I didn't go to college for that.
I went for the wrong reason. And when I when
I when I tried to start my business, I took
the struggle from my life to push through that business.
Because if you ain't got no money, yes, oh you
gotta your your your struggle. You know they didn't they
(07:49):
didn't leave us money, and my family didn't have no money,
and left us Jesus. I don't know a bat that
take Jesus. But when I tell you, it got me
to push. See, when you had the money, you'll go
and buy buildings and equipment and staff and get all
this fun. But when you don't, you'll say, you know,
I'll take this place and I'll live in it. Right,
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I don't. I don't run a business out of that.
I don't need a car. There's a public spide across
the street. I can buy a cupcake, ingredients and whatever. So, Tiffany,
you started working at the age of fourteen, and fast
forward we're here with the successful Pink Hotel. But I
know there was a lot in between walking through you know,
your early stage entrepreneurial efforts. Yes, um, I was a
(08:32):
waitress at the Chiefcake Factory because I wanted to start
my business. You know, you gotta get a side job sometimes.
You know, everybody don't want you to know that uber
that's herself, that's hustle. So I worked with the Chiefcake
Factor for a year and I saved sixteen thousand dollars
and the day I got that number, I quit and
I put ten thousand down on a building and I
(08:55):
opened with five dollars, because you know, it takes stuff
to get the bill of them together. So my first business,
I had five hundred dollars in the bank and not
one customer. I didn't have a car. My car was repossessed.
So I asked the neighboring businesses to park in front
of my business to make me look busy, like you
(09:16):
ain't gotta have no car, you don't have to What
was the first business? The first business, wow, I think
it was called one Smart Cookie. I love it then
and then it turned into Peka Street Parlor, and then
it became Pete the Pink Hotel. Took me a little minute,
and you know, like a first marriage for the second
(09:38):
third times a charm, that's right. It takes you time
to figure out what it is for your business. And
do you think even sharing that there's you know, oftentimes
people don't start something because they're so afraid of failure
that it holds them back and they don't even start.
But telling stories like this where you see listen, I started,
I put my last dollar into it, it didn't work.
(10:00):
I moved on to the next thing and the next thing.
And sometimes it takes three or four times to really find,
you know, success and growth and the ability to scale
a business. Yes, and people. People need to share their
feelings more business owners, you know. I think about think
about what your parents could have told you about marriage goodness,
if they would have told you, If somebody would have
(10:21):
told me that location is everything. Yeah, the thousands you
would save. So I talked about my fears so that
people who are afraid can leave. It's going to be rough,
But but what isn't you know? Business could be good,
but your man acking up home. Life could be good,
but your business had made a property two years. It's life.
It's it's up and down. Choose your heart. Yeah. So
(10:43):
you've now reached a level of success with the Pink Hotel,
and you've also started the entrepreneur University. What is this
entrepreneur University. Entrepreneur University is a nonprofit. I started because
I got tired of teenagers doing this today. Mama, can
I have ten dollars and free for us ten dollars
to go to the movies? Mama? Can I have twitter
(11:05):
dolls to take my girlfriend to the I'm from the generation.
If you ain't got no money to take no girls away,
you aren't going. So I said, teams need to know
how to use their hands early because their environment can
dictate how far they can go in their life. And
that's not their choice, that's their parents story. Yes, But
if they can use their hands, if they can make, uh,
(11:27):
make mugs and print t shirts and cut grass, it
can give them an entrepreneur skill for later on in life.
And I think even as a community oftentimes, you know,
if your parents can't do that for you because of
their circumstances, maybe their lineage, it's up to us to
be able to educate more of our youth so that
we can give them access to you know, this this
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life that can ultimately give us community wealth, generational wealth.
So this giveback is so important. This is why we
even have this podcast because if you're not getting this
information in your home, you now have the access to it. Yes,
I tell these teenagers all the time, you're on YouTube
all day. If you can draw your eyebrows on, you
can cut some grass. If you can play PlayStation for
(12:11):
six hours a day, how do you can? But that's
not just about a teenagers. That's for everybody. That's for everybody.
That is for everybody. Give me six hours a day.
I mean open up. Yeah, it's just about doing something
with your hands. So, Tiffany, you went from one smart
cookie sixteen thousand dollars to buying a building to start
(12:34):
your first businesses. How did you get from a cookie
to a pink hotel? Wow? Well the cookie didn't work.
It needs money. So I really wasn't one smart cookie,
you know. But it started with the people. Tel started
with what you see now with the Pick Hotel, which
is the big celebrity parties, the spa, the test kitchen,
(12:56):
the baking everything. It started with sixteen thousand dollars. I
didn't have anywhere to live, so I lived in the
Pink Hotel. I didn't have a car, so I I
lived in the Pink hotel. You know. If so you
know it's it's it's I took that Sixten counsel and
I stretched it. My first day of business, I had
five hundred dollars because I had furnished it. I put
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paint on the wall, I painted the floor because I
didn't like the floor. It was. I did what I
had to do. But all it takes is one yes.
Because when I started with five hundred dollars, guests who
walked in my door. Seven days after I opened p
did he's child's mother what He came in and she
wanted a party, And she said, you know what, the
police it's not really what I thought it was. I said, well, yes,
(13:39):
I'm just starting to you know all the hell. You know?
She said, I haven't thought about moving it right down
the street. I said, well, yeah, I just got I
put everything. She said, how much you need? I said,
it cost me sixteen to get here, So I said,
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She wrote a chef, only take is one yes? She
was until Diddy walked through the door. It takes one yes.
She moved my building. It moved my building. I got
a car, I got an apartment, and my Pink Hotel
was on the map. You don't have to have those
hundred thousand dollars you think you need to have. See,
that's that's fear making. You think you're not ready to
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start fear having currency. You weren't scared to be with
that man. You know, we choose our fear now. But
one yes changed my life. Well that was literally your
angel investor, It really was. Yeah, what were some of
the key pivotal points along the way that really helped
(14:43):
launch your business? Wow? Well, having celebrity clients really helped.
I'm forever grateful. I don't know these people, these people
because when a business, all you gotta do is open
it and they'll come to it. You know, building it
and they'll come. So but the celebrity parties have been
really six at school. But I try to give an
excellent experience every time. So when you don't have money
(15:04):
for advertisement, I mean, you gotta woke it Google that
Google ready, gotta stay at four point eight. It's important.
And I just try to give people the experience of
a lifetime. You know, it's you can go to Disney,
but if you come to that pink hotel, you can
take her to to a Fiji. But when you come
(15:25):
to the pink hotel and they paint her nails and
she said, I want this one yellow green, and she
gets it. We know what it's like to be pampered. Yes, well,
these are your dreams coming through for all these little
children and for the mom. You know, this is a
sometime the baby turned into ken you more from the Housewives.
Her baby was six months I remember that. So this
(15:48):
is mom's dreams coming true and little girls dreams coming true.
So what's next for Tiffany and the Pink Hotel. Is
this something you would like to franchise and see all
over the world. You have new dreams that you would
like to manifest. Love for there to be a pink
hotel in every state so that every little girl can
experience what she may not experience at home. And but
(16:10):
sometimes I get a little I don't know if I
want to franchise, because it's gotta be right. Yeah, you
gotta touch her heart. And some people work to make money. No,
I work to touch hearts. You can fisherman fishing for money,
or you can be a fisher of men, and that's
what I want to be. So it may take me
a little longer to get one in each state because
it has to be done right. But that's okay. Sometimes
(16:31):
when you wait, tell us a little bit more about
the details. How many parties are you throwing a year? Wow? Well,
my first year I had about a hundred and nine
For the whole year. We average about eight hundred to
nine hundred parties a year. Wow, that's incredible. That's a
lot of pink joy walking through those doors. And what
(16:53):
was it that you think that was the integral part
to that success? You mentioned having a lot of celebrity parties. Um,
what do you think fueled that? Well, I try to
give the best customer service and the best experience as possible.
So one celebrity will till the till another and tell another.
For example, Um, when pe Diddy came into the party
(17:15):
two months later, I guess, um he told Josh Smith
from Atlanta Hawks. Josh Smith came and then after that
Martha Stewart was there. Um, Nancy Grace had a partner
for her twins, a little baby future t I um, Housewives,
Black Ink Crew. I mean they just start coming and
I don't know these people because you don't have to
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know them too to be successful. People tell them about me,
you know, still my name and and and the experience
I give is the most important to meet factor of
the success of the Pink Hotel. And I love that.
And I think you know one of the things that
you can tell very clearly from your Pink Hotel, it
doesn't matter who you are that walks through the door.
Everybody leaves there having a positive and super experience. And
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also tell us how we can learn more about how
people can put their children into the entrepreneur University for
Entrepreneur University. You can find us on Instagram. It's the
university that's with two ease, so t D University. Okay,
one more question about the entrepreneur University. What ages is
it geared to? Is it young children, teens, youth? Adults?
Tell us a little bit more about that. Sure, So
(18:23):
for Entrepreneur University, ages ten to seventeen is where we go. Um,
mainly because at that age they're coming from the age
of parents do it for them to where they want
to find their independence. So we want to catch them
before they say I'll feel like going, I want to
stay in my room. No. Ten is the age. Let's
get them right then. I love it, Tiffany, you are
truly a fisher of hearts, pink nails and pretty things
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and we can all appreciate that. Can you tell us
where people can find you on social media and obviously
where they can book their next party at the Pink Hotel? Sure,
we're on Instagram. It's the Peak Hotel. Um you can
our location. It's eight Tree Lane in Snailville, Georgia and
it's not far. We we draw out in Miami, we
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draw out of the bike week. Come get you some
self some motivation. You bring your baby. Oh, I love it.
You have made your dreams come true as well as
those of many of young children in Atlanta, and we
wish you the best and we cannot wait to be
pampered at the Pink Hotel. Thank you so much, and
come on down and see us. We're in Snailville not
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too far. Thank you so much for tuning in Money
Moves audience. If you want more or a recap of
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