August 16, 2021 • 46 mins
Robyn and Gizelle talk about moving, L.A. restaurants, breastfeeding, Lollapalooza, crazy airplane passengers and Rihanna.
The ladies also reminisce on several of their jobs before becoming reality TV stars and the lessons they learned along the way!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect
podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Welcome to an all
new episode of Reasonably Shady. I am Jazelle Briants, What's up?
(00:20):
What's Up? And I am Robin Dixon, and we are
so happy that you're here with us. Yes once again
and okay, so like, thank you so much again. We
have to always say for watching the Real Housewives of Potomac.
We are on Sunday nights at eight p m. Eastern
Standard Time on Bravo TV. Thank you for watching. Yes,
thank you, thank you. Ye it's kidd juicy, I mean
(00:43):
the juice is a spilling. Okay, all right, So as
per normal, we gotta give our reasonably shady moments of
the week. Okay, So, oh my gosh, moving, Oh my gosh,
this ring moving. Moving sucks. So my reasonably shading moment
(01:07):
just goes to the whole concept of moving, of packing, moving,
of unpacking. Like, what part do you of moving do
you think is the worst? I think the packing, not
the unpacking. No, No, because packing, like you can just
literally just grab stuff, throwing in boxes and you know,
(01:27):
kick the box up and whatever. But unpacking when you
have to try to figure out where the stuff is
going or you know what I'm saying, because it might not.
It's like the house you moved to is not the
same configuration. You might not have the same drawers or cabinets,
or you might realize I don't need this, or we
might say like okay, I don't want all this stuff. Right,
It's just so did you purge before you packed? Half
(01:51):
and half? So I packed my closet, like my personal stuff,
so I was I purged that stuff. But like I
and then moving, the shady part goes to my movers
call him out. I don't really want to call them out. Alright, fine,
we won't, but I paid for a pack and move,
like a full house pack and move, and the movers
(02:14):
show I was like three men and they were like,
um yeah, most people. Most people just their boxes are
already packed and we just picked their boxes up in
the little tracks like we've never packed a house before.
And I'm like what what Okay, listen at that point
they need to be fired, right And I'm like what,
(02:34):
I'm like, w t F. So my you know, one
day moving job turned into a two day moving job
requiring too and it's so weird because I'm like, the
last time I moved, which was like four years ago,
it wasn't like it wasn't this much. Okay, So what's
the So you came from what square footage and you
went to what square footage? Do you know that you know?
(02:55):
I really don't know. I think the townhouse was like
square feet and then my new house, you know, the
basement and all that is probably like five thousands square feet.
I don't know, so like so up to the east
side sky. But it was I mean at first, I'm like,
why do I have so much stuff? Right? Why? Like
(03:16):
you know what I mean. It's like when when you
are unpacking, that's when you realize like how much stuff
you have and you don't need. I feel like i
could just literally like throw all the rest of the
boxes away and I would not miss anything. And I'm
sure the boys have accumulated a lot of just stuff.
The boys, I mean me want like all of us.
It's just all right. Well, I was doing some traveling
(03:39):
over the past week or so, and I was in
Los Angeles, very excited. I took my kids there because
they had never been, and they were like, you know,
we need we want to go. We want to go
down Rodeo. We want to be in Beverly Hills, we
want to We're important. Anyway. My point is every restaurant
that I went to, and I went to some very
nice fine dining, so I would be chewing on my
(04:03):
last bite of food and they're ready to get you
out of there, and they were literally snatching up my
plate and they were like, okay, all right, bye bye,
like they were Every restaurant was snatching my plate up
and I was still chewing my last bite. L A restaurants,
y'all a shady. I don't know what is going on.
I don't know if y'all all have a mandate like
(04:24):
get people out, turntables over. I don't know what it is,
but goddamn it, let me eat my food and leave
my plate alone. Wow. Yeah, that's frustrating. I definitely feel
like the restaurant in the street with the pandemic is
just like jacked up because either they're short on workers
um or they're like trying to make up for lost
time and so everything is like super expensive. And then
(04:47):
like you said, they're like trying to get you in
and out. Yes, and I'm a black woman, I like
to like save all my food. So let me say that.
Did they even let you order dessert? One place? He
brought me the check before I ordered dessert, and to
know me as to know that I always ordered dessert.
Excuse you, sir, I need to see the dessert menu.
I am not done. She not done? Did you ask
(05:07):
them like, what is that with this? No? I just
you know you would have called them out, but it
was every restaurant. Every restaurant was like literally they weren't.
They weren't being rude about it. They were just snatching
my plate on my last bike. I think they're like, okay,
we're trying to get as many people in and out
and and what's every restaurant like Super booked Oka they
were crowded yea, yeah, they had people in there. So
(05:30):
I just I didn't like it. Um l a restaurants,
y'all are shod and leave me alone the end the end? Yes, okay,
but so much is happening in the world robbing since
we last chatted. I kind of wouldn't know because I've
been underboxes for test a couple of weeks. Okay, when
do you think you'll be done on patching? Okay? So
(05:51):
like to my liking, I need another full week, and
I like and I don't want to leave. You know,
sometimes it's like you move. First of all, moving is
like giving birth. So it's like you you know, when
you give birth, it's such a horrible, horrific experience, but
you do it again, like you know, you you kind
of like forget how bad it is and you do
it again. So I feel like moving is the same thing.
(06:12):
It's like, I know, moving sucks, but you know, I
chose to do it again. So anyway, but I don't
want to leave, like I don't want to just like
I have a really big stoge room and I don't
want to just like throw everything in the store room
and forget about it, like I want to get through
every single thing and put everything in its place. So
I'm gonna give myself another week, so I apologize, and look,
(06:37):
I have all these emails that have been neglected, and
I got some business I need to take care of.
Probably probably all right. Well, one thing that struck me,
um news wise was that you know, okay, you know
iced tea and cocoa, yes, like cocoa, saying she is
still breastfeeding her daughter. I saw that, and she's like
(06:58):
five five, Yes, she's five. So it sparked all of
this talk about like is this normal? Is this oh
what mom should be doing? Anyone saying that was normal?
But I don't think I didn't. God, I think it's crazy.
It's insane. If the baby can pull your titty out
your bra it's a problem. Yeah. And if she can
(07:18):
like run around and tell people I pulled mommys titty out,
you know what I'm saying, It's like it is all
the way nasty. Now Icy did come out and say, hey,
you know, the way me and Coco live our lives
is not the way y'all might live your lives and
do not. Um, but I think that you're setting your
child up for let's see, um booby envy. Maybe. Now wait,
(07:44):
now why does she explain? Like why she alright, first
of all, like how often is it? Like, like why
do you continue to do that? Is it because like
it's a bonding thing. It's a bonding thing. Um, I
mean I think at some point, well, I mean it's
that's just that's just really weird. I think the daughter
eventually pretty soon will probably stop, you know what I mean,
(08:04):
Like on her own, I think, like not want it anymore?
And then how often do they do it? Is that
like bedtime? Is it did? After I saw the headline
and I read a little bit, I was disgusted, So
I don't I don't know that the particulars. And to
be honest, so this might be t m I but
like I breast fed for like, um six months my kids,
but like my boobs to me are like more of
(08:28):
a like a sexual thing, like for with you know,
with my partner, Like I prefer to leave them for him.
So I couldn't wait for my kids to get off
my boots, you know, because I felt it felt kind
of weird. I'm like, yeah, were my boobs, but this
for some you know, yeah that was that was for
daddy kids. Yes, So I couldn't wait for them together.
It was It was very painful for me to breastfeed,
(08:49):
like that whole latching on thing hurt so bad that
I was like, I don't want to do this. I remember,
I will never forget my mother. So I was trying
to breastfeed the twins so you can ima engine. I
had one on one breast and the other on the
other breast at the same time. Like football's and she
was like, um, and I think I was crying while
I was doing this, and she looks at me and
(09:11):
she's like, is this working for you? And I said no,
it's horrible. So she was like, we're done with this.
Don't do this right, So she literally like went to
the store got infamale or semilac whatever that stuff formula,
and I was it was it was a right, it was.
Girls are beautiful, smart, intelligent, athletic, you know, fully grown.
(09:34):
So I be. I mean, I know a lot of
women that is something that they feel pressured to do
is to breast feed because that's you know, that's the healthy,
natural thing to do. Um. But if you if it's
if it's difficult and it's causing you pain, I mean
there I think everyone's going to go through, like the
pain because there's like a rawness and all that. But
like if it's excruciating and uncomfortable, don't stress yourself, you know,
(09:57):
feat yourself up if you can't do it, and it's fine.
And if you can do it, like cocoa, I think
eighteen months is to cut off. Eighteen months to two years,
that's to cut off. Yes, okay, so I I was.
I was on the Twitter, not the Twitter. I was
on the Instagram, and I saw Lallapalooza right, and I
saw like the festival music festival. It was a big
(10:20):
music festival in Chicago. It was like two people. And
so I was as I was watching it, watching the
clips from and I was like, clearly this was like
I'm thinking this was like two three years ago. No,
this was like the other day and and like rolling
out loud and all these what happened to the COVID,
y'all forgot COVID exists? They forgot. But I was actually
(10:41):
all my way here and I've heard a news repoint
they said there's in Chicago there there are two hundred
plus COVID new COVID cases that they are linking to
Lalla Palosa. So imagine if they have those two hundred
that they are aware of, how many more there are
because people might be asymptom asymptomatic or something like yes.
And there was reported that was reporting on how they
(11:03):
were checking your quote vaccine vaccination car at the door
and it was like like you literally at the show
a piece like you could just show a white card,
just like a white pie. Just hold up a paper
and a and you got in right now. It was
outdoor though, right, yes, okay, I mean honestly I did.
So I went to Miami in the midst of moving.
I went to Miami last weekend and I you know,
(11:25):
we were down there, you know, walking around with that
our masks and stuff, and and at some point I'm like, oh,
this is like not feeling right, you know what I mean.
I'm like, let me start putting my mask back on,
because you know, you hear about the cases creeping up,
and I'm like, we're vaccinated, but we still don't want
to pass it on to other people who aren't. UM,
(11:46):
and it just started not feeling right. So hopefully people
kind of I know, we're all sick of the pandemic, um,
but hopefully we start taking it more a little more serious.
And these young people like the Lallapalooza, the rolling out loud,
we're rolling loud whatever, rolling whatever whatever that was. Think. Um,
you know, y'all have to be very aware that like
(12:08):
this new variant is it seems like it is targeted
towards the young people. UM, So everybody has to be
very very careful. It's super contagious and then you know,
sadly we're hearing about people you know that we um
you know Candice's music producer who was not vaccinated and
passed away from rest in peace, Chuckie Thompson. It's it's
(12:28):
not gone, y'all. It's not it's not. One of my
line sisters is struggling right now. She's in the ICU. So, yeah,
you did. This is not the time to like let
go of our safety precautions vaccinated that. I've been asking
that and nobody wants to give me a straight answer.
So I'm just gonna leave that alone. Okay. Now, we
have been traveling and I've been seeing I've been like
(12:49):
hyper aware of the people that have been acting crazy
on these airplanes. Okay, I don't understand. Okay, so this
is okay, So let's be clear. There are people on
airplanes that are losing their minds. The last report I
saw the man had to be duct taped to his seat.
Duct tape why because he was screaming and yelling, he
(13:11):
was going off. I think he hit a flight attendant.
He did something, and it was to the point where
the whole plane was like, yeah, duct tape his ass,
Like nobody wanted him like his mouth everything that though. Okay,
I'm gonna tell you. Okay, So he was drunk. Okay,
So I feel like there should be a band of
alcohol in airports until people act like they got some sense. See,
(13:34):
I was going to say, I think it's because the
airplanes aren't serving alcohol anymore that people are acting crazy. No.
I was on the plane recently. I'm like, Dan, can
I get some fodka or something? And they're like no,
I'm sorry what I wanted to be mad? I was
like no, so I wanted to bust the window open
because I couldn't get some alcohol. Like that's why people
are mad alcohol. And people are mad because they're going
(13:57):
to the Buffalo wing spot in the airport and they're
getting totally like hammered and getting on the plane. But
that's nothing new. That is nothing new, So why is it?
Like I don't know, I don't know, but I think
it was like did he not want to wear his
mask or something. It probably was that, like he didn't
have the little clip that I saw, he did not
(14:19):
have a mask on. It's probably what it was. They
probably like, sir, you need to wear a mask, and
he's like miss and then he's drunk. And then when
you're drunk like robbin, what did he says, you're infringing
with my freedom? Yes, but I was just so happy
that they don't. I didn't know they had duct tape
on planes all for the purposes of duct taking people
(14:41):
the seats. That's you just sit in there like stuck
and you're feeling like an asshole. Like you imagine, I
would literally be taking pictures of this person, like everyone,
this is the thing. Okay, So when someone acts up
on your next flight and their duct tape to the
to the seat, every person on place, your walk up
to the person and take a picture of them. Just
(15:01):
make him feel like a bigger asshole, right, like right,
take a selfie with him. Look at me at the asshole.
He was screaming that his parents had two million dollars.
My parents got two million dollars. Y'all can't do this
to me. Give me your money, right, Oh yes, we
can watch and change. That was a bad. So I
just want to ask for people to get themselves together
(15:23):
before they get them on these planes. And I want
the allowance to serve alcohol again, Yes, because I don't
I don't know about you robbing. But I don't sit
in the same cabin as my kids. My kids with
me and my children travel, they sit in a different
cabin than me, and so if they're back there, I
want to make sure a safe that they're okay yet
(15:45):
to my brother, we were when we were in Portland
and we were flying home at the same time, and
I was in first class and I bought my brother
a coach ticket, and he thought I was like the
worst person in the world. Know, It's like, you are
so me you. I'm like, I'm sorry, at least I
bought you as a ticket, right and if and if
(16:06):
he had a problem, he could upgrade his damn sound
right exactly. But he was so he was so salty.
I was funny. Yeah, my kids don't know the difference,
so they just go right on back there and get
your life hilarious. We do have to shout out our
girl re Re also known as Rihanna, miss fenty Money
(16:29):
now bill money Bag. So I mean, how does I
just you know, when they did the headline that Rihanna
is now a billionaire, I wanted to know, like who
calculated the money? Like how does that go down? Right?
Because it's the same thing because you know, remember when
they said, um, Kylie Jenner was a billionaire, and then
they came back and was like, yeah, there was like no,
(16:49):
we fabricated. Yeah, they like took it back. So it's like, right,
what are they what are they basing that off of?
I think it's like the valuation. I don't. I don't
really think it's like, oh, she has a billion dollars
in her pocket, right, It's like the valuation of their
companies and the worth of their companies. So they're basing
it on, you know, whatever public information that companies of
that size have to disclose. It's her company of publicly
(17:12):
publicly traded company. Probably not, I don't, I doubt it,
but the matter of fact that she's gotten there, she's well,
how old is she thirty something something? Younger than us?
That's just black excellence, black girl magic. She's younger than
us and richer than us. And that's I guess that's
amazing because that's like, you know, I assume a bulk
of that came from the makeup and and from her
(17:35):
lingerie lingerie, But I think the makeup is what kind
of like drove the rest of everything, you know what
I mean? Like, so, I mean same thing. If you
look at Kylie Jenner, where where does she make her
money her makeup? Like that is? But everybody keep you know,
everybody for years has been like when is Rihanna coming
out with more music? Guess what? Guess what? She don't
have any to do that again in her life, right
(17:56):
because that is a grinds And you know, artist, you know,
I correct me if I'm wrong someone. But I feel
like they make their money on tour more like that's
where they really make their bread. And I'm sorry, but
touring it looks exhausting to me, do you know? Yeah,
you gotta you gotta be in it right constantly on
(18:17):
the road, you know, Just it's exhausting, it's physically demanding,
it's it could be lonely, you know. So shoot, I'm sorry.
If I'm Rihanna, Okay, I might make a song or two,
but I might not listen. If I'm Rihanna and I
got a billion in my pocket, I'm not. I'm sitting
on the couch, y'all. I'm here to tell you. Couch
is my name, my friend. I would I would love
to hear some new Rihanna music, though I know I
(18:39):
know re read if you don't mind. Um. Okay, So
someone is calling me to asked me to extend my
car warranty. Have you done that yet? Have you extendish
your car warranty? You know I haven't? Should I I mean,
make these people stop calling you? All right, Well, we
would like to share with you guys today on this
episode some you know we we have told you guys
(19:00):
a lot about our background, where we came from, all
that good stuff. But we've had Robin and I have
had so many jobs in our life and none of
it got us to where we are now. But this
episode is called jobs are Us? Okay, So Robin, I'm
gonna let you start with with the job because I
(19:22):
think yours are a little bit more hilarious than my.
My minor straightforward Robin's are not okay, so gosh, and
I'd run down all of them. I mean, I don't know. Okay.
So when I was in high school, you know, I'll
admit I didn't want for anything, like you know, my
parents gave me everything, a brand new car, I had
(19:42):
money in my pocket, clothes, whatever. But I decided, like, no,
I want to work, right, I mean, who like what
I don't know. I mean, I guess a lot of
teeny was Yes, I'm sure she gets everything from you. Yes,
but she's working and can I just I don't mean
to interrupt you. She gave me her first paycheck and
she gave it to me to putting her a little
(20:03):
bank account, and it was like two hundred three two
three dollars or something. She was so excited and um,
she felt empowered, right, So it wasn't about the fact
that it was two hundred dollars, it was it was
about it was her. She worked for it, she earned it,
and it made her feel like she's growing up. Absolutely. Yeah.
(20:24):
So I I chose to work on my own. My
parents didn't forced me to. I was just like, Okay,
I want a job. So I worked. My first job
was at a cafe at a swimming pool. So it
was in the summertime, nice and I worked in the cafe.
I made burgers, wings, grilled chicken sandwiches, mazza relisted French
(20:44):
fries and I was it was so crazy because the
food was really good, like really really good. So I
worked so it was like you know, a little kitchen
job and we did it all from you know, opening
and closing and cleaning and cooking and nice and charges
and all that type of it was. It was hard work.
My cousin's husband owned a catering business at the time,
so he was kind of like behind, like the management
(21:07):
of it. So it was kind of good to like
work for a family member. But I had a lot
of responsibility and I kind of learned to cook. You know,
Oh nice, you got some skills. So you were like
flipping burgers, flipping burgers. You were taking the chicken wings
and like putting them in the Yes, how old were you? Um?
I was in high school, so I probably was like
(21:28):
going into my senior year of high school the summertime,
you know what it was at a summer pool, like
sixteen yeah, okay, sixteen seventeen, Okay, that's the process. Yes,
So that one was good, you know, that's just and
that really helped me appreciate how difficult it is to
work in a kitchen, you know, whether it's you know,
at McDonald's or at a five star restaurant, like, it's
(21:49):
that thing. It's hard work, yes, sign a gang. So
I definitely appreciated that. So then I worked at Northstrom. Okay,
in the shoot apartment. Nice hard work. Okay, so the
women that come into their feet stay, you know, not
really know um and you know, and I would have
to do the whole like putting the shoes on the people.
(22:11):
Really yes, But in Nordstrom, I really appreciated my experience
at Nortrom because they're really big on customer service, at
least when I was there, and I just learned a
lot about dealing with customers going like above and beyond,
you know, so it's like okay, whenever, So first shoe,
it's like, okay, if someone asked for once, you you
go back and come back and bring them for yes,
(22:33):
or you know, when you're checking them out, like don't
hand in the bag across the counter. You gotta walk
around the counter and hand them the bag. Yeah, they
do do that. That's all we were We were taught
to do that. Yes, that's part of the customer service things.
So so working in or from almost spoiled me when
I would go to other stores because I'm looking for
(22:54):
that same type of customer service and you're not getting it.
I'm not getting it. And if I go to a
northstroom and like the sales people don't walk up to
me and say like hi. So first of all, they're like, okay,
if someone comes in your department, walk out to them
and say hi, could I help you? Walk away? Like So,
I'm as a customer who has worked at North Room,
when I walk into a North Room, I'm expecting the
(23:16):
salesperson to greet me, like right away. I'm expecting them
to like walk around the counter to hand me my bag,
like I'm expecting the stuff. So I will now today
as a shopper, if I walk into a section in
North Room and they don't greet me, I'm taking my
purchase to the next part, Like I'm going to walk across,
you know, to another department and I'm just waiting whoever
the salesperson is that's going to like, you know, go
(23:38):
out of their way to say hi, do we then
you get my sale. I'm just but I'm sure you
don't have that problem now, I mean, you're you walk
in as Robin Dixon and it's not an issue. I
mean I still see it. I Mean I'm like always
amazed that like people who really just want to stand
behind the counter and not do their job, you know,
but working in the shoe department at North Room So
(23:59):
I work in Towson Town Center and the shoot department
was two levels, so it was like you had to
go upstairs, up and down. I literally I would come
home from work and I'm like, I'd work that job
mostly throughout my time in college. I can't remember how
many different years, at least like over the course of
(24:23):
probably three or four years. Oh, I felt like an
old person, Like I was literally a college student and
I was literally because you had to walk up and
down the stairs. It was it was work NonStop, back
and forth, up and down all around. That was hard work.
Um let's see. So I worked, so that was like
(24:43):
all throughout college. Um. Then I would say my first
job out of college was for Otis Elevator. What the
hell is that Otis Elevator. Yeah, when you get on
the elevator, you look down and says Otis, Like, all
the are you selling elevators? What are you talking about?
(25:03):
This is ridiculous, right right, that's real cute, right. I
mean I had a I saw, I had a business degree.
So my I was working in the sales department for
the maintenance plan of elevators. So like you know, they
sell like service plans, you know, they like, okay, if
you have an elevator, you wanted to be serviced every
you know, quarter or whatever. So I worked in that department.
(25:26):
Now this was I can't remember what year it was,
but I didn't really enjoy that job. Okay, okay, and
Aliyah died in a plane crash. Okay, and like the
next day I went back to work and I was like,
um Alia died in a plane plane crash, and life
is too short. I quit, Like you should just told
(25:49):
them that you quit. Not blame it on Aliyah, who
you don't know and her death, this is the worst.
But I was so like I was distraught by her
her death, like like I was so messed up from that,
and it was like damn because she's she pretty much
were like the same age and so seeing her, she
(26:10):
was so beautiful, so talented, and just seeing her gone
like that, like it was just like I just really,
I'm like life is too short, Like I'm not I
cannot sit here, life is too short. I cannot work
for y'all normal because I really don't like this job.
I hate this job, but I'm not going to do
something that I hate. Okay. That was like Jesus Christ
was about nine months. I stayed it for nine months. Okay, okay,
(26:31):
then did you get a job after that? Well? I
worked for my mom. Okay, very good. And your mom
has that printing Yeah, so my mom has her own business.
She does like printing promotional products, anything that's like you know,
printed um banners, programs, inc. Pins. You know, anytime you
have like you know, you go to a bank and
the bank the name of the bank is on a
pen like stuff like that. Yes, if you ever need
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you know, this is like a collecial. Yes, a plug
for my mom if you ever need a printed material
to promote your business, your church, whatever, your organization. How
at my mama? Yes, what's the name of the business.
So the name of the business is Specialty Marketing and Printing.
And what is her Instagram page? I'm just sending on
(27:14):
to her instagram? Well, I mean g G. Bragg at
gg Bragg is her Instagram page? Is my mama? How
about at mrs Bragg? Yes, who is no nonsense out
here in these streets? Okay, so we're we're gonna we're
gonna find out your favorite job. Favorite let's hone this
in gosh, I mean okay, so all right, I work
(27:36):
for mom. I like working for my mom because I
can do what I want, clearly. But she didn't really
pay me that much. So she gave birth to you.
That was payment enough. That's what I tell my kids.
Y'all have food. I will be honest, Like, I liked
working in Nordstrom really, and I think that the fact
(27:57):
that I have an online business and you crims business
and I'm selling stuff, I think that like I think
it's like tied together. Like I like to sell stuff,
So I think that it once you get em balancet
your hats in north Stroom, that's like total full sure
is Yeah, so we got to make that happen. Yes, absolutely,
So none of your jobs prepared you for where you
are today. Um, I would say they all prepared me,
(28:23):
David didn't prepare you for the real house. While tell me, okay, no, no, no,
nothing prepared for that. I got like a couple more. Okay, alright,
go ahead, go ahead. I worked at under Armour. Okay
that I remember that, in the corporate office at under Armour.
And um, I'll tell you why I worked there. So
Woma was in the NBA. He played for the Wizards.
I really didn't need to work. But I wanted to work,
(28:46):
you know what I mean, And I wanted to get
like I needed like a break from him, you know,
a break from the boo. Yes, I just needed to
be like our house. I wasn't like always available, right,
So I went and got me a full time job
on the armor working in their sales department for like
their big box store. So like I would do like
(29:06):
the reporting for like, oh, how many units were sold
at Dicks. And the one thing that frustrated me about
that job, like I would do all the reporting. I
would gather the data and I would give it to like,
you know, the managers or whatever, and then they would
have these big meetings, big sales meetings, and they would
never include me, and I just I felt like, if
(29:28):
I'm putting these reports together, it would be nice to
know how they're being utilized, you know, and so that
I can you know, maybe improve upon the reports or
so I can learn something. And so, yeah, I quit
that job. Robin was not included in the meetings. So
she quit, y'all. This this is this is a recurring
theme here. That was like eight months. That's the one thing.
(29:52):
If I don't you, I didn't eight months. Okay, So
now eight nine months is like your threshold. After that,
that's when I'm like, it's not working right, right, right,
right exactly. So then I spent you know, we got married,
and I spent a number of years as a housewife.
I didn't work. I did Oh, this is probably my
favorite job working for the PR company. Yes, you know,
(30:12):
I did work on a contractual basis or a project
basis for a PR company, like doing event planning, which
was a lot of fun. Like that was probably like
that did not feel like work to me, but it
was a lot of work, you know. Yes, my friend
Aba owns a very like respectable, accomplished, successful PR agency,
(30:32):
luxury PR agency in d C. And so she would
have some of the most you know, top of the
line clients and we would throw some of the most
fabulous parties and stuff. So I but didn't invite me
to any of these parties. But that's not the point
of the story. Yes, okay, So do you feel like
(30:54):
all of that, all of the year jobs have taught
you something? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I mean just from like
I said, from Norston with the customer service element, from
the jobs that I quit to know, like what didn't
work for me or what I would want more from
a job. The PR job, it's like you're balancing so
many moving parts at one time, working in events and
(31:16):
PR and having so many clients, and you know, I
remember one time I had like six major major events
in like the same month, and it was like I
was like pulling my hair out because it's just so
many moving parts. And so now it's like I'm more
like my own boss, but I am juggling so many
(31:36):
different things. But you've done that before, so you know
how to get that done right exactly. That's nice. My
dad told me, like I think I was like probably
a baby, that his money was his money, and um,
I didn't have any money until I got a job,
so um, I had to get up out there and
get like now, mind you, I don't want to like say,
(31:59):
my parents didn't like ted toe like give me everything
under the sun, similar to you. I like, you know,
I had everything I wanted, but my dad was like, yeah,
this is my money. So um. Which was fifteen. So
I decided to get a job at like fifteen. But
that was like the best thing he could have ever
like taught me. And I try to instill that in
(32:19):
my kids, but they'd be getting over I'd just be
behind him everything. Um but anyway, so at fifteen, I
went out and got a job at heart Ease. That
was my first job, best eating up in town, up
and down all around. I think that's the slogan. I
don't know I made that up. So um, they realized
I was fifteen, like after the first week and they
were like, girl, you're too young. You can't work here
because it was like some child labor law. I thought
(32:41):
I could. They were like your fire And I got
fired from my first job in like five days. Okay.
So then um, I worked at chest Peake Bay seafood House,
which was like all you can eat spot. So it
was like they don't have these anymore, I don't think,
but like you pay a certain price and you can
get everything on the in you and so like you
(33:01):
had the waitress has to like run back to the
to the kitchen every eight seconds. Oh my god. And
people used to ask me, like, our your shoes comfortable
because you're gonna be running the night gairl are yousues comfortable?
I said, now I can't do this. I quick right
after that was about four days okay. So then I
started working for Postal Pizza, which was like equivalent to
(33:25):
like a domino. Okay. So I was the girl that
answered the phone. I was like, hello, Postal Pizza, can
I help you please? And I would take their order okay, okay,
and then the drivers will come and get the pizza
and drive it out. So I would literally have five
phones in front of me and they would all be
ringing at the same time, and I was the only
girl there to answer, and I'd be like, Postal Pizza,
(33:46):
can you hold on please click pst Pizza? What you
need post Pizza? Postal Pizza. It was a mess. So
sometimes my dad would like prank me. He would call
and he'd be like he talked real slowly, Giselle, she'll Dad,
So I've been on a hole for thirty five minutes
(34:06):
and I don't understand why I have to wait this long.
Oh my god, Dad, leave me alone, Leave me alone. Yeah,
he was like, I just wanted to hear you say
supposed to pizza. Gne please. My dad is the worst, Okay.
So I stayed there like throughout high school and and
out there, you know, and if I had to leave
for a month and come back. They would let me
(34:28):
do it. They were like cool. Then I worked at
Bridges Great Outdoors for Women. Remember Bridges. Bridges was like
a clothing store and they had several lines, so like
there was the Bridges for Men, which was like high end,
and then they had the Great Outdoors, which was like polo,
and then they had the women's line. And I worked
(34:48):
at that store and they were like, oh my gosh,
you're amazing. Can you like not go to college and
like stay here and run run this little store? No, bitches.
I got an education, I got to get like no,
but they also let me like come back for college
and work there like over um Christmas break and you know,
whenever I had breaks. Okay. So then my dad was
(35:11):
like all right, Gezel. You know he thought I was
going to be like, um super smart and um be
like a doctor or something. I don't know what do
you So he was like, I'm gonna get yourself some internships. Okay.
So one of the internships was when I told you
all before I was doing autopsies yeah, on dead bodies,
which was insane, Like why am I doing this? Like
this is this is not even fit. I am like
(35:34):
a cute girl. Okay, what am I doing cutting up bodies? Okay?
That was a hot mess. Um, So I stopped doing that.
And then eventually when I got out of college, I
worked for the Double A CP and I started doing
their events. So I like you, I understand like how
you have eight hundred balls in the air for events,
(35:57):
but they all like have to come together and it's
not like it's hard, but you have to do everything
or else the whole thing to fall apart. Yeah, it's
a lot. And so then that's where I got to
meet like President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and because we
I had to interface with politicians and corporations and it
was like that was a great job, Like I love
that job and it was like not work for me exactly,
(36:19):
so that that was fantastic. And then I um did
pharmaceutical sales. Okay, so I was like paid drug dealer.
Oh and those doctors love to see you in the door.
There was like zails here is that this is a thing.
All of the pharmaceutical sales reps are good looking, all
of them, like p that's I think the criteria. Yes,
(36:40):
and I'm gonna pay you well. We got paid well,
like our car um things aren't like they used to be,
because like I used to be able to take my doctor,
like one I had a doctor. She was like real crazy.
She was like, let's go to the strip club, right.
I used to take her to the strip club. I'll
probably get me or the fece men there was men dance.
(37:02):
I would take her to the strip club. And at
the strip club, you could get a receipt. Because I
wouldn't want to get reimbursed. You can get a receipt
that's blank, so at the top it doesn't say it's
it's very generic. What the name is like restaurant exactly,
and then you know that way. And because clearly I'm
not the only person get trying to get reimbursed, and
(37:24):
they've done this before, they know how to do this.
So I would ask for the special receipt, and um,
they knew exactly what I was talking about. And I
used to take doctor. That was her name. I shouldn't
make that. Shouldn't have said that. It was a lot
of doctor. Yeah, we would go to the strip club.
We would have a ball. Okay, I'd be like, Drake
saw me where to strip us that let's get the dollars.
(37:45):
Let's make it rain. This is before to make it rain.
So you're the reason they cut back on that, because
I know they cut all that mess back. Oh they
don't do that anymore. Yeah, this I was a pharmaceutical
rap in the good old days when you could literally
like take your doctor anywhere and it was fine. You can,
you can just like write it off. So they quit
that because I I ruined it for everyone. I had
(38:06):
a job running um like the meetings, the dinner meetings
for pharmaceutical um companies. Yes, and they hired out. They
hired this company that I worked for for compliance reasons
because the reps would be like so out of control.
So I would be there um just kind of like
making sure everything was above board. Oh wow, it was
(38:29):
like the wild wild West back then. But if you
knew a drug wrap and let's say you needed drugs, right,
you know, over the counter drugs, you would just you
would swap out like he had. I was orthor McNeil.
If you had a five A rap, you swap out
some drugs. I saw birth control pills. Everybody was looking
for me because everybody wanted birth control pills for their girlfriend.
So you know, it was definitely wrong what we were
(38:50):
doing right, but we have fun. Yes, yeah, y'all ruined.
Y'all ruined it for everybody. Y'all have ruined it. Now
they're like so strict, so you can't you can't do anything.
And then I got married and I helped my husband
build his business, which was you know, the church. And
then um My last like job that I really liked
was when I was making like cookies and cupcakes. I
(39:14):
had sweetches out. It was such a a little bakery
at the spot or something. Yes, I would sell it
at um Lord, I forgot the Timothy Dean Timothy Dean, Yes, yes,
and I was Timothy Dean had a has a bistro
and I would sell like the cupcakes and cookies at
(39:36):
the b stro So I would make everything there. It's
very labor intensive, but I loved it. Yes, I feel
like you should get back into that. I think so too,
when I get a little bit more time on my hands. Yes, yes,
but I can say that all of that helped form
who I am today. I really got to thank my
dad because my dad was like I didn't get it
(39:57):
at the time, but he wanted to make sure that
I had all of these things under my belt. It's
just like resources that I can pull from, and now
I know I can do anything. I can do any
job that you give me, because I've done a million things. Absolutely.
I want to talk about side hustles that I picked
up because and this might be helpful for people listening,
(40:20):
like if you're looking for some extra money, because I
definitely went through a time when I literally had like
fifty million side hustles because you know, while and I
were going through our financial troubles and I was just
trying to find any of every way to make money.
So one of them was, um focus groups. What is that?
Focus groups? Like? There are you can sign up for
(40:41):
focus groups. I literally got paid and this is like
you know, I got paid like two dollars for someone
to come and watch you make a salad because like,
you know, they're doing their research. So this is so
companies have focus groups to do research on like consumer
behavior or never heard of this? Yeah, girl, So if
you're looking at like I still I keep unsubscribing to
(41:03):
these emails, but I still get the emails of you know,
these companies that are looking for people to participate in
their focus group about yes yes, yes, yes yes, Okay
now I know exactly what you're talking about, right, so
they can figure out the best way to sell their
products exactly. Yes, whatever it is. Yeah, I would do
multiple focus groups. You know, you get a quick hundred
hundred dollars here, two hundred there, you know. So for
(41:25):
for people who are like you know, trying to find
you know, little small ways to make extra money, just
google focus groups. Like and you were selling your clothes,
not selling your clothes, but you were doing so assignment. Well, okay, eBay,
I had a I had a boom in eBay business.
We sold I had want We had so much Louis
Vuitton luggage. And the good thing about that stuff is
(41:47):
that it holds its value, you know. So I made
a lot of money on eBay. So but even not
even you know, you don't have to just sell like
you know, designer stuff on eBay or consignment places. You
can sell like little Nike, your your kids, it's closed whatever, shoes, everything,
So that right there is a hustle in itself. Yes,
another one. My friend Carly and I okay, Carl, Carly
(42:10):
is always here with us, Okay. Now she's director of Operations,
Yes she has a title. She demanded to get a title.
She's the director of operations. And don't you get it twisted? Okay, yes,
what about Carly? So Carly and I we sold jewelry.
Oh yes, yes, and we literally have it. Like we
we would go to the jewelry shows and buy jewelry
(42:32):
from different jewelry vendors, and we would host jewelry parties.
So or we will go, you know, if there's like
an event, we would get a tape me because I've
never been invited to a jewelry party. I guess you
know what we may not have been. This is rude.
I don't know, I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Maybe maybe maybe I thought you weren't interested in that.
(42:52):
You know what the fashion jewelry. Me and Robin are
breaking up. You know, it's like a little forty Robbin
is shady. But I'm telling you those type of businesses
if you can like so jewelry. I honestly there's times
when I'm like, I wanna, you know, have a jewelry website.
I want to like start selling jewelry again, because that
is like such an easy sell. Like we would go
(43:14):
to a jewelry party and make like two dollars and
one night. Yes, yes it was. Let's start this back
up again. I want my cut. I want it right.
So if it's so, we you know, we would be
vendors at events and stuff like that. That was actually
I've really enjoyed that. So I like to sell stuff.
So yeah, so don't be surprised if I sell jewelry
(43:35):
one day. But I'll be doing it too with Robin.
Rom ain't gonna cut me out of this. This is
good stuff, all right. So I so the I guess
the purpose and the what we really want to get
across to you guys is that whatever your job is today, like,
you never know what tomorrow is gonna bring to you.
You never know if this you might hate it and
quit it in nine months like Robin does, but that
(43:57):
still is gonna give you some umpen in a toolbox
for like the next job exactly exactly. Or you know,
you can have a job that you love but it's
like running you rag it, which is fine because you
love it, but you're still growing from it. I always say,
I always think, like you know, when there's jobs that
you love, maybe at some point figure out how you
can venture out and be your own boss doing that,
(44:19):
you know, if you're working for a company, really like it. Um,
I think the next step up is to like venture
out and be your own boss. I got one more job.
I worked for our house furniture for like two weeks.
I was as I'm mad at there might not because
I'm I'm still waiting for me to come. The furniture
is beautiful. I worked there for two weeks, like I
like it, literally like two weeks of training, and then
(44:41):
we started filming the real house. I was of atomic
and I was like, oh I quit. I was like,
I'm busy, and at the same time I was working
my pr event job. I was doing my like I
would get my huston clearly us clearly. So sorry our
house for quitting after two weeks of training. And I
guess that's the purpose of our story. Get your hustle
(45:03):
on word. Yes, yes, yes, so that is our episode today,
and don't ever forget to either be reasonable or be shady. Yes,
and share with us, you know, some of your hustles,
your side hustles, because we would like to share them
with the listeners. And you know, we if you have
feedback on this episode, what's up at reasonably shady dot com.
Ye until then, see you next day. By by Reasonably
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Welcome to Reasonably Shady, a production of the Black Effect
podcast Network and I Heart Radio. Welcome to an all
new episode of Reasonably Shady. I am Jazelle Briants, What's up?
(00:20):
What's Up? And I am Robin Dixon, and we are
so happy that you're here with us. Yes once again
and okay, so like, thank you so much again. We
have to always say for watching the Real Housewives of Potomac.
We are on Sunday nights at eight p m. Eastern
Standard Time on Bravo TV. Thank you for watching. Yes,
thank you, thank you. Ye it's kidd juicy, I mean
(00:43):
the juice is a spilling. Okay, all right, So as
per normal, we gotta give our reasonably shady moments of
the week. Okay, So, oh my gosh, moving, Oh my gosh,
this ring moving. Moving sucks. So my reasonably shading moment
(01:07):
just goes to the whole concept of moving, of packing, moving,
of unpacking. Like, what part do you of moving do
you think is the worst? I think the packing, not
the unpacking. No, No, because packing, like you can just
literally just grab stuff, throwing in boxes and you know,
(01:27):
kick the box up and whatever. But unpacking when you
have to try to figure out where the stuff is
going or you know what I'm saying, because it might not.
It's like the house you moved to is not the
same configuration. You might not have the same drawers or cabinets,
or you might realize I don't need this, or we
might say like okay, I don't want all this stuff. Right,
It's just so did you purge before you packed? Half
(01:51):
and half? So I packed my closet, like my personal stuff,
so I was I purged that stuff. But like I
and then moving, the shady part goes to my movers
call him out. I don't really want to call them out. Alright, fine,
we won't, but I paid for a pack and move,
like a full house pack and move, and the movers
(02:14):
show I was like three men and they were like,
um yeah, most people. Most people just their boxes are
already packed and we just picked their boxes up in
the little tracks like we've never packed a house before.
And I'm like what what Okay, listen at that point
they need to be fired, right And I'm like what,
(02:34):
I'm like, w t F. So my you know, one
day moving job turned into a two day moving job
requiring too and it's so weird because I'm like, the
last time I moved, which was like four years ago,
it wasn't like it wasn't this much. Okay, So what's
the So you came from what square footage and you
went to what square footage? Do you know that you know?
(02:55):
I really don't know. I think the townhouse was like
square feet and then my new house, you know, the
basement and all that is probably like five thousands square feet.
I don't know, so like so up to the east
side sky. But it was I mean at first, I'm like,
why do I have so much stuff? Right? Why? Like
(03:16):
you know what I mean. It's like when when you
are unpacking, that's when you realize like how much stuff
you have and you don't need. I feel like i
could just literally like throw all the rest of the
boxes away and I would not miss anything. And I'm
sure the boys have accumulated a lot of just stuff.
The boys, I mean me want like all of us.
It's just all right. Well, I was doing some traveling
(03:39):
over the past week or so, and I was in
Los Angeles, very excited. I took my kids there because
they had never been, and they were like, you know,
we need we want to go. We want to go
down Rodeo. We want to be in Beverly Hills, we
want to We're important. Anyway. My point is every restaurant
that I went to, and I went to some very
nice fine dining, so I would be chewing on my
(04:03):
last bite of food and they're ready to get you
out of there, and they were literally snatching up my
plate and they were like, okay, all right, bye bye,
like they were Every restaurant was snatching my plate up
and I was still chewing my last bite. L A restaurants,
y'all a shady. I don't know what is going on.
I don't know if y'all all have a mandate like
(04:24):
get people out, turntables over. I don't know what it is,
but goddamn it, let me eat my food and leave
my plate alone. Wow. Yeah, that's frustrating. I definitely feel
like the restaurant in the street with the pandemic is
just like jacked up because either they're short on workers
um or they're like trying to make up for lost
time and so everything is like super expensive. And then
(04:47):
like you said, they're like trying to get you in
and out. Yes, and I'm a black woman, I like
to like save all my food. So let me say that.
Did they even let you order dessert? One place? He
brought me the check before I ordered dessert, and to
know me as to know that I always ordered dessert.
Excuse you, sir, I need to see the dessert menu.
I am not done. She not done? Did you ask
(05:07):
them like, what is that with this? No? I just
you know you would have called them out, but it
was every restaurant. Every restaurant was like literally they weren't.
They weren't being rude about it. They were just snatching
my plate on my last bike. I think they're like, okay,
we're trying to get as many people in and out
and and what's every restaurant like Super booked Oka they
were crowded yea, yeah, they had people in there. So
(05:30):
I just I didn't like it. Um l a restaurants,
y'all are shod and leave me alone the end the end? Yes, okay,
but so much is happening in the world robbing since
we last chatted. I kind of wouldn't know because I've
been underboxes for test a couple of weeks. Okay, when
do you think you'll be done on patching? Okay? So
(05:51):
like to my liking, I need another full week, and
I like and I don't want to leave. You know,
sometimes it's like you move. First of all, moving is
like giving birth. So it's like you you know, when
you give birth, it's such a horrible, horrific experience, but
you do it again, like you know, you you kind
of like forget how bad it is and you do
it again. So I feel like moving is the same thing.
(06:12):
It's like, I know, moving sucks, but you know, I
chose to do it again. So anyway, but I don't
want to leave, like I don't want to just like
I have a really big stoge room and I don't
want to just like throw everything in the store room
and forget about it, like I want to get through
every single thing and put everything in its place. So
I'm gonna give myself another week, so I apologize, and look,
(06:37):
I have all these emails that have been neglected, and
I got some business I need to take care of.
Probably probably all right. Well, one thing that struck me,
um news wise was that you know, okay, you know
iced tea and cocoa, yes, like cocoa, saying she is
still breastfeeding her daughter. I saw that, and she's like
(06:58):
five five, Yes, she's five. So it sparked all of
this talk about like is this normal? Is this oh
what mom should be doing? Anyone saying that was normal?
But I don't think I didn't. God, I think it's crazy.
It's insane. If the baby can pull your titty out
your bra it's a problem. Yeah. And if she can
(07:18):
like run around and tell people I pulled mommys titty out,
you know what I'm saying, It's like it is all
the way nasty. Now Icy did come out and say, hey,
you know, the way me and Coco live our lives
is not the way y'all might live your lives and
do not. Um, but I think that you're setting your
child up for let's see, um booby envy. Maybe. Now wait,
(07:44):
now why does she explain? Like why she alright, first
of all, like how often is it? Like, like why
do you continue to do that? Is it because like
it's a bonding thing. It's a bonding thing. Um, I
mean I think at some point, well, I mean it's
that's just that's just really weird. I think the daughter
eventually pretty soon will probably stop, you know what I mean,
(08:04):
Like on her own, I think, like not want it anymore?
And then how often do they do it? Is that
like bedtime? Is it did? After I saw the headline
and I read a little bit, I was disgusted, So
I don't I don't know that the particulars. And to
be honest, so this might be t m I but
like I breast fed for like, um six months my kids,
but like my boobs to me are like more of
(08:28):
a like a sexual thing, like for with you know,
with my partner, Like I prefer to leave them for him.
So I couldn't wait for my kids to get off
my boots, you know, because I felt it felt kind
of weird. I'm like, yeah, were my boobs, but this
for some you know, yeah that was that was for
daddy kids. Yes, So I couldn't wait for them together.
It was It was very painful for me to breastfeed,
(08:49):
like that whole latching on thing hurt so bad that
I was like, I don't want to do this. I remember,
I will never forget my mother. So I was trying
to breastfeed the twins so you can ima engine. I
had one on one breast and the other on the
other breast at the same time. Like football's and she
was like, um, and I think I was crying while
I was doing this, and she looks at me and
(09:11):
she's like, is this working for you? And I said no,
it's horrible. So she was like, we're done with this.
Don't do this right, So she literally like went to
the store got infamale or semilac whatever that stuff formula,
and I was it was it was a right, it was.
Girls are beautiful, smart, intelligent, athletic, you know, fully grown.
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So I be. I mean, I know a lot of
women that is something that they feel pressured to do
is to breast feed because that's you know, that's the healthy,
natural thing to do. Um. But if you if it's
if it's difficult and it's causing you pain, I mean
there I think everyone's going to go through, like the
pain because there's like a rawness and all that. But
like if it's excruciating and uncomfortable, don't stress yourself, you know,
(09:57):
feat yourself up if you can't do it, and it's fine.
And if you can do it, like cocoa, I think
eighteen months is to cut off. Eighteen months to two years,
that's to cut off. Yes, okay, so I I was.
I was on the Twitter, not the Twitter. I was
on the Instagram, and I saw Lallapalooza right, and I
saw like the festival music festival. It was a big
(10:20):
music festival in Chicago. It was like two people. And
so I was as I was watching it, watching the
clips from and I was like, clearly this was like
I'm thinking this was like two three years ago. No,
this was like the other day and and like rolling
out loud and all these what happened to the COVID,
y'all forgot COVID exists? They forgot. But I was actually
(10:41):
all my way here and I've heard a news repoint
they said there's in Chicago there there are two hundred
plus COVID new COVID cases that they are linking to
Lalla Palosa. So imagine if they have those two hundred
that they are aware of, how many more there are
because people might be asymptom asymptomatic or something like yes.
And there was reported that was reporting on how they
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were checking your quote vaccine vaccination car at the door
and it was like like you literally at the show
a piece like you could just show a white card,
just like a white pie. Just hold up a paper
and a and you got in right now. It was
outdoor though, right, yes, okay, I mean honestly I did.
So I went to Miami in the midst of moving.
I went to Miami last weekend and I you know,
(11:25):
we were down there, you know, walking around with that
our masks and stuff, and and at some point I'm like, oh,
this is like not feeling right, you know what I mean.
I'm like, let me start putting my mask back on,
because you know, you hear about the cases creeping up,
and I'm like, we're vaccinated, but we still don't want
to pass it on to other people who aren't. UM,
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and it just started not feeling right. So hopefully people
kind of I know, we're all sick of the pandemic, um,
but hopefully we start taking it more a little more serious.
And these young people like the Lallapalooza, the rolling out loud,
we're rolling loud whatever, rolling whatever whatever that was. Think. Um,
you know, y'all have to be very aware that like
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this new variant is it seems like it is targeted
towards the young people. UM, So everybody has to be
very very careful. It's super contagious and then you know,
sadly we're hearing about people you know that we um
you know Candice's music producer who was not vaccinated and
passed away from rest in peace, Chuckie Thompson. It's it's
(12:28):
not gone, y'all. It's not it's not. One of my
line sisters is struggling right now. She's in the ICU. So, yeah,
you did. This is not the time to like let
go of our safety precautions vaccinated that. I've been asking
that and nobody wants to give me a straight answer.
So I'm just gonna leave that alone. Okay. Now, we
have been traveling and I've been seeing I've been like
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hyper aware of the people that have been acting crazy
on these airplanes. Okay, I don't understand. Okay, so this
is okay, So let's be clear. There are people on
airplanes that are losing their minds. The last report I
saw the man had to be duct taped to his seat.
Duct tape why because he was screaming and yelling, he
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was going off. I think he hit a flight attendant.
He did something, and it was to the point where
the whole plane was like, yeah, duct tape his ass,
Like nobody wanted him like his mouth everything that though. Okay,
I'm gonna tell you. Okay, So he was drunk. Okay,
So I feel like there should be a band of
alcohol in airports until people act like they got some sense. See,
(13:34):
I was going to say, I think it's because the
airplanes aren't serving alcohol anymore that people are acting crazy. No.
I was on the plane recently. I'm like, Dan, can
I get some fodka or something? And they're like no,
I'm sorry what I wanted to be mad? I was
like no, so I wanted to bust the window open
because I couldn't get some alcohol. Like that's why people
are mad alcohol. And people are mad because they're going
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to the Buffalo wing spot in the airport and they're
getting totally like hammered and getting on the plane. But
that's nothing new. That is nothing new, So why is it?
Like I don't know, I don't know, but I think
it was like did he not want to wear his
mask or something. It probably was that, like he didn't
have the little clip that I saw, he did not
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have a mask on. It's probably what it was. They
probably like, sir, you need to wear a mask, and
he's like miss and then he's drunk. And then when
you're drunk like robbin, what did he says, you're infringing
with my freedom? Yes, but I was just so happy
that they don't. I didn't know they had duct tape
on planes all for the purposes of duct taking people
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the seats. That's you just sit in there like stuck
and you're feeling like an asshole. Like you imagine, I
would literally be taking pictures of this person, like everyone,
this is the thing. Okay, So when someone acts up
on your next flight and their duct tape to the
to the seat, every person on place, your walk up
to the person and take a picture of them. Just
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make him feel like a bigger asshole, right, like right,
take a selfie with him. Look at me at the asshole.
He was screaming that his parents had two million dollars.
My parents got two million dollars. Y'all can't do this
to me. Give me your money, right, Oh yes, we
can watch and change. That was a bad. So I
just want to ask for people to get themselves together
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before they get them on these planes. And I want
the allowance to serve alcohol again, Yes, because I don't
I don't know about you robbing. But I don't sit
in the same cabin as my kids. My kids with
me and my children travel, they sit in a different
cabin than me, and so if they're back there, I
want to make sure a safe that they're okay yet
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to my brother, we were when we were in Portland
and we were flying home at the same time, and
I was in first class and I bought my brother
a coach ticket, and he thought I was like the
worst person in the world. Know, It's like, you are
so me you. I'm like, I'm sorry, at least I
bought you as a ticket, right and if and if
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he had a problem, he could upgrade his damn sound
right exactly. But he was so he was so salty.
I was funny. Yeah, my kids don't know the difference,
so they just go right on back there and get
your life hilarious. We do have to shout out our
girl re Re also known as Rihanna, miss fenty Money
(16:29):
now bill money Bag. So I mean, how does I
just you know, when they did the headline that Rihanna
is now a billionaire, I wanted to know, like who
calculated the money? Like how does that go down? Right?
Because it's the same thing because you know, remember when
they said, um, Kylie Jenner was a billionaire, and then
they came back and was like, yeah, there was like no,
(16:49):
we fabricated. Yeah, they like took it back. So it's like, right,
what are they what are they basing that off of?
I think it's like the valuation. I don't. I don't
really think it's like, oh, she has a billion dollars
in her pocket, right, It's like the valuation of their
companies and the worth of their companies. So they're basing
it on, you know, whatever public information that companies of
that size have to disclose. It's her company of publicly
(17:12):
publicly traded company. Probably not, I don't, I doubt it,
but the matter of fact that she's gotten there, she's well,
how old is she thirty something something? Younger than us?
That's just black excellence, black girl magic. She's younger than
us and richer than us. And that's I guess that's
amazing because that's like, you know, I assume a bulk
of that came from the makeup and and from her
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lingerie lingerie, But I think the makeup is what kind
of like drove the rest of everything, you know what
I mean? Like, so, I mean same thing. If you
look at Kylie Jenner, where where does she make her
money her makeup? Like that is? But everybody keep you know,
everybody for years has been like when is Rihanna coming
out with more music? Guess what? Guess what? She don't
have any to do that again in her life, right
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because that is a grinds And you know, artist, you know,
I correct me if I'm wrong someone. But I feel
like they make their money on tour more like that's
where they really make their bread. And I'm sorry, but
touring it looks exhausting to me, do you know? Yeah,
you gotta you gotta be in it right constantly on
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the road, you know, Just it's exhausting, it's physically demanding,
it's it could be lonely, you know. So shoot, I'm sorry.
If I'm Rihanna, Okay, I might make a song or two,
but I might not listen. If I'm Rihanna and I
got a billion in my pocket, I'm not. I'm sitting
on the couch, y'all. I'm here to tell you. Couch
is my name, my friend. I would I would love
to hear some new Rihanna music, though I know I
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know re read if you don't mind. Um. Okay, So
someone is calling me to asked me to extend my
car warranty. Have you done that yet? Have you extendish
your car warranty? You know I haven't? Should I I mean,
make these people stop calling you? All right, Well, we
would like to share with you guys today on this
episode some you know we we have told you guys
(19:00):
a lot about our background, where we came from, all
that good stuff. But we've had Robin and I have
had so many jobs in our life and none of
it got us to where we are now. But this
episode is called jobs are Us? Okay, So Robin, I'm
gonna let you start with with the job because I
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think yours are a little bit more hilarious than my.
My minor straightforward Robin's are not okay, so gosh, and
I'd run down all of them. I mean, I don't know. Okay.
So when I was in high school, you know, I'll
admit I didn't want for anything, like you know, my
parents gave me everything, a brand new car, I had
(19:42):
money in my pocket, clothes, whatever. But I decided, like, no,
I want to work, right, I mean, who like what
I don't know. I mean, I guess a lot of
teeny was Yes, I'm sure she gets everything from you. Yes,
but she's working and can I just I don't mean
to interrupt you. She gave me her first paycheck and
she gave it to me to putting her a little
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bank account, and it was like two hundred three two
three dollars or something. She was so excited and um,
she felt empowered, right, So it wasn't about the fact
that it was two hundred dollars, it was it was
about it was her. She worked for it, she earned it,
and it made her feel like she's growing up. Absolutely. Yeah.
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So I I chose to work on my own. My
parents didn't forced me to. I was just like, Okay,
I want a job. So I worked. My first job
was at a cafe at a swimming pool. So it
was in the summertime, nice and I worked in the cafe.
I made burgers, wings, grilled chicken sandwiches, mazza relisted French
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fries and I was it was so crazy because the
food was really good, like really really good. So I
worked so it was like you know, a little kitchen
job and we did it all from you know, opening
and closing and cleaning and cooking and nice and charges
and all that type of it was. It was hard work.
My cousin's husband owned a catering business at the time,
so he was kind of like behind, like the management
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of it. So it was kind of good to like
work for a family member. But I had a lot
of responsibility and I kind of learned to cook. You know,
Oh nice, you got some skills. So you were like
flipping burgers, flipping burgers. You were taking the chicken wings
and like putting them in the Yes, how old were you? Um?
I was in high school, so I probably was like
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going into my senior year of high school the summertime,
you know what it was at a summer pool, like
sixteen yeah, okay, sixteen seventeen, Okay, that's the process. Yes,
So that one was good, you know, that's just and
that really helped me appreciate how difficult it is to
work in a kitchen, you know, whether it's you know,
at McDonald's or at a five star restaurant, like, it's
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that thing. It's hard work, yes, sign a gang. So
I definitely appreciated that. So then I worked at Northstrom. Okay,
in the shoot apartment. Nice hard work. Okay, so the
women that come into their feet stay, you know, not
really know um and you know, and I would have
to do the whole like putting the shoes on the people.
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Really yes, But in Nordstrom, I really appreciated my experience
at Nortrom because they're really big on customer service, at
least when I was there, and I just learned a
lot about dealing with customers going like above and beyond,
you know, so it's like okay, whenever, So first shoe,
it's like, okay, if someone asked for once, you you
go back and come back and bring them for yes,
(22:33):
or you know, when you're checking them out, like don't
hand in the bag across the counter. You gotta walk
around the counter and hand them the bag. Yeah, they
do do that. That's all we were We were taught
to do that. Yes, that's part of the customer service things.
So so working in or from almost spoiled me when
I would go to other stores because I'm looking for
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that same type of customer service and you're not getting it.
I'm not getting it. And if I go to a
northstroom and like the sales people don't walk up to
me and say like hi. So first of all, they're like, okay,
if someone comes in your department, walk out to them
and say hi, could I help you? Walk away? Like So,
I'm as a customer who has worked at North Room,
when I walk into a North Room, I'm expecting the
(23:16):
salesperson to greet me, like right away. I'm expecting them
to like walk around the counter to hand me my bag,
like I'm expecting the stuff. So I will now today
as a shopper, if I walk into a section in
North Room and they don't greet me, I'm taking my
purchase to the next part, Like I'm going to walk across,
you know, to another department and I'm just waiting whoever
the salesperson is that's going to like, you know, go
(23:38):
out of their way to say hi, do we then
you get my sale. I'm just but I'm sure you
don't have that problem now, I mean, you're you walk
in as Robin Dixon and it's not an issue. I
mean I still see it. I Mean I'm like always
amazed that like people who really just want to stand
behind the counter and not do their job, you know,
but working in the shoe department at North Room So
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I work in Towson Town Center and the shoot department
was two levels, so it was like you had to
go upstairs, up and down. I literally I would come
home from work and I'm like, I'd work that job
mostly throughout my time in college. I can't remember how
many different years, at least like over the course of
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probably three or four years. Oh, I felt like an
old person, Like I was literally a college student and
I was literally because you had to walk up and
down the stairs. It was it was work NonStop, back
and forth, up and down all around. That was hard work.
Um let's see. So I worked, so that was like
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all throughout college. Um. Then I would say my first
job out of college was for Otis Elevator. What the
hell is that Otis Elevator. Yeah, when you get on
the elevator, you look down and says Otis, Like, all
the are you selling elevators? What are you talking about?
(25:03):
This is ridiculous, right right, that's real cute, right. I
mean I had a I saw, I had a business degree.
So my I was working in the sales department for
the maintenance plan of elevators. So like you know, they
sell like service plans, you know, they like, okay, if
you have an elevator, you wanted to be serviced every
you know, quarter or whatever. So I worked in that department.
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Now this was I can't remember what year it was,
but I didn't really enjoy that job. Okay, okay, and
Aliyah died in a plane crash. Okay, and like the
next day I went back to work and I was like,
um Alia died in a plane plane crash, and life
is too short. I quit, Like you should just told
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them that you quit. Not blame it on Aliyah, who
you don't know and her death, this is the worst.
But I was so like I was distraught by her
her death, like like I was so messed up from that,
and it was like damn because she's she pretty much
were like the same age and so seeing her, she
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was so beautiful, so talented, and just seeing her gone
like that, like it was just like I just really,
I'm like life is too short, Like I'm not I
cannot sit here, life is too short. I cannot work
for y'all normal because I really don't like this job.
I hate this job, but I'm not going to do
something that I hate. Okay. That was like Jesus Christ
was about nine months. I stayed it for nine months. Okay, okay,
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then did you get a job after that? Well? I
worked for my mom. Okay, very good. And your mom
has that printing Yeah, so my mom has her own business.
She does like printing promotional products, anything that's like you know,
printed um banners, programs, inc. Pins. You know, anytime you
have like you know, you go to a bank and
the bank the name of the bank is on a
pen like stuff like that. Yes, if you ever need
(26:54):
you know, this is like a collecial. Yes, a plug
for my mom if you ever need a printed material
to promote your business, your church, whatever, your organization. How
at my mama? Yes, what's the name of the business.
So the name of the business is Specialty Marketing and Printing.
And what is her Instagram page? I'm just sending on
(27:14):
to her instagram? Well, I mean g G. Bragg at
gg Bragg is her Instagram page? Is my mama? How
about at mrs Bragg? Yes, who is no nonsense out
here in these streets? Okay, so we're we're gonna we're
gonna find out your favorite job. Favorite let's hone this
in gosh, I mean okay, so all right, I work
(27:36):
for mom. I like working for my mom because I
can do what I want, clearly. But she didn't really
pay me that much. So she gave birth to you.
That was payment enough. That's what I tell my kids.
Y'all have food. I will be honest, Like, I liked
working in Nordstrom really, and I think that the fact
(27:57):
that I have an online business and you crims business
and I'm selling stuff, I think that like I think
it's like tied together. Like I like to sell stuff,
So I think that it once you get em balancet
your hats in north Stroom, that's like total full sure
is Yeah, so we got to make that happen. Yes, absolutely,
So none of your jobs prepared you for where you
are today. Um, I would say they all prepared me,
(28:23):
David didn't prepare you for the real house. While tell me, okay, no, no, no,
nothing prepared for that. I got like a couple more. Okay, alright,
go ahead, go ahead. I worked at under Armour. Okay
that I remember that, in the corporate office at under Armour.
And um, I'll tell you why I worked there. So
Woma was in the NBA. He played for the Wizards.
I really didn't need to work. But I wanted to work,
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you know what I mean, And I wanted to get
like I needed like a break from him, you know,
a break from the boo. Yes, I just needed to
be like our house. I wasn't like always available, right,
So I went and got me a full time job
on the armor working in their sales department for like
their big box store. So like I would do like
(29:06):
the reporting for like, oh, how many units were sold
at Dicks. And the one thing that frustrated me about
that job, like I would do all the reporting. I
would gather the data and I would give it to like,
you know, the managers or whatever, and then they would
have these big meetings, big sales meetings, and they would
never include me, and I just I felt like, if
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I'm putting these reports together, it would be nice to
know how they're being utilized, you know, and so that
I can you know, maybe improve upon the reports or
so I can learn something. And so, yeah, I quit
that job. Robin was not included in the meetings. So
she quit, y'all. This this is this is a recurring
theme here. That was like eight months. That's the one thing.
(29:52):
If I don't you, I didn't eight months. Okay, So
now eight nine months is like your threshold. After that,
that's when I'm like, it's not working right, right, right,
right exactly. So then I spent you know, we got married,
and I spent a number of years as a housewife.
I didn't work. I did Oh, this is probably my
favorite job working for the PR company. Yes, you know,
(30:12):
I did work on a contractual basis or a project
basis for a PR company, like doing event planning, which
was a lot of fun. Like that was probably like
that did not feel like work to me, but it
was a lot of work, you know. Yes, my friend
Aba owns a very like respectable, accomplished, successful PR agency,
(30:32):
luxury PR agency in d C. And so she would
have some of the most you know, top of the
line clients and we would throw some of the most
fabulous parties and stuff. So I but didn't invite me
to any of these parties. But that's not the point
of the story. Yes, okay, So do you feel like
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all of that, all of the year jobs have taught
you something? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, I mean just from like
I said, from Norston with the customer service element, from
the jobs that I quit to know, like what didn't
work for me or what I would want more from
a job. The PR job, it's like you're balancing so
many moving parts at one time, working in events and
(31:16):
PR and having so many clients, and you know, I
remember one time I had like six major major events
in like the same month, and it was like I
was like pulling my hair out because it's just so
many moving parts. And so now it's like I'm more
like my own boss, but I am juggling so many
(31:36):
different things. But you've done that before, so you know
how to get that done right exactly. That's nice. My
dad told me, like I think I was like probably
a baby, that his money was his money, and um,
I didn't have any money until I got a job,
so um, I had to get up out there and
get like now, mind you, I don't want to like say,
(31:59):
my parents didn't like ted toe like give me everything
under the sun, similar to you. I like, you know,
I had everything I wanted, but my dad was like, yeah,
this is my money. So um. Which was fifteen. So
I decided to get a job at like fifteen. But
that was like the best thing he could have ever
like taught me. And I try to instill that in
(32:19):
my kids, but they'd be getting over I'd just be
behind him everything. Um but anyway, so at fifteen, I
went out and got a job at heart Ease. That
was my first job, best eating up in town, up
and down all around. I think that's the slogan. I
don't know I made that up. So um, they realized
I was fifteen, like after the first week and they
were like, girl, you're too young. You can't work here
because it was like some child labor law. I thought
(32:41):
I could. They were like your fire And I got
fired from my first job in like five days. Okay.
So then um, I worked at chest Peake Bay seafood House,
which was like all you can eat spot. So it
was like they don't have these anymore, I don't think,
but like you pay a certain price and you can
get everything on the in you and so like you
(33:01):
had the waitress has to like run back to the
to the kitchen every eight seconds. Oh my god. And
people used to ask me, like, our your shoes comfortable
because you're gonna be running the night gairl are yousues comfortable?
I said, now I can't do this. I quick right
after that was about four days okay. So then I
started working for Postal Pizza, which was like equivalent to
(33:25):
like a domino. Okay. So I was the girl that
answered the phone. I was like, hello, Postal Pizza, can
I help you please? And I would take their order okay, okay,
and then the drivers will come and get the pizza
and drive it out. So I would literally have five
phones in front of me and they would all be
ringing at the same time, and I was the only
girl there to answer, and I'd be like, Postal Pizza,
(33:46):
can you hold on please click pst Pizza? What you
need post Pizza? Postal Pizza. It was a mess. So
sometimes my dad would like prank me. He would call
and he'd be like he talked real slowly, Giselle, she'll Dad,
So I've been on a hole for thirty five minutes
(34:06):
and I don't understand why I have to wait this long.
Oh my god, Dad, leave me alone, Leave me alone. Yeah,
he was like, I just wanted to hear you say
supposed to pizza. Gne please. My dad is the worst, Okay.
So I stayed there like throughout high school and and
out there, you know, and if I had to leave
for a month and come back. They would let me
(34:28):
do it. They were like cool. Then I worked at
Bridges Great Outdoors for Women. Remember Bridges. Bridges was like
a clothing store and they had several lines, so like
there was the Bridges for Men, which was like high end,
and then they had the Great Outdoors, which was like polo,
and then they had the women's line. And I worked
(34:48):
at that store and they were like, oh my gosh,
you're amazing. Can you like not go to college and
like stay here and run run this little store? No, bitches.
I got an education, I got to get like no,
but they also let me like come back for college
and work there like over um Christmas break and you know,
whenever I had breaks. Okay. So then my dad was
(35:11):
like all right, Gezel. You know he thought I was
going to be like, um super smart and um be
like a doctor or something. I don't know what do
you So he was like, I'm gonna get yourself some internships. Okay.
So one of the internships was when I told you
all before I was doing autopsies yeah, on dead bodies,
which was insane, Like why am I doing this? Like
this is this is not even fit. I am like
(35:34):
a cute girl. Okay, what am I doing cutting up bodies? Okay?
That was a hot mess. Um, So I stopped doing that.
And then eventually when I got out of college, I
worked for the Double A CP and I started doing
their events. So I like you, I understand like how
you have eight hundred balls in the air for events,
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but they all like have to come together and it's
not like it's hard, but you have to do everything
or else the whole thing to fall apart. Yeah, it's
a lot. And so then that's where I got to
meet like President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and because we
I had to interface with politicians and corporations and it
was like that was a great job, Like I love
that job and it was like not work for me exactly,
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so that that was fantastic. And then I um did
pharmaceutical sales. Okay, so I was like paid drug dealer.
Oh and those doctors love to see you in the door.
There was like zails here is that this is a thing.
All of the pharmaceutical sales reps are good looking, all
of them, like p that's I think the criteria. Yes,
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and I'm gonna pay you well. We got paid well,
like our car um things aren't like they used to be,
because like I used to be able to take my doctor,
like one I had a doctor. She was like real crazy.
She was like, let's go to the strip club, right.
I used to take her to the strip club. I'll
probably get me or the fece men there was men dance.
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I would take her to the strip club. And at
the strip club, you could get a receipt. Because I
wouldn't want to get reimbursed. You can get a receipt
that's blank, so at the top it doesn't say it's
it's very generic. What the name is like restaurant exactly,
and then you know that way. And because clearly I'm
not the only person get trying to get reimbursed, and
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they've done this before, they know how to do this.
So I would ask for the special receipt, and um,
they knew exactly what I was talking about. And I
used to take doctor. That was her name. I shouldn't
make that. Shouldn't have said that. It was a lot
of doctor. Yeah, we would go to the strip club.
We would have a ball. Okay, I'd be like, Drake
saw me where to strip us that let's get the dollars.
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Let's make it rain. This is before to make it rain.
So you're the reason they cut back on that, because
I know they cut all that mess back. Oh they
don't do that anymore. Yeah, this I was a pharmaceutical
rap in the good old days when you could literally
like take your doctor anywhere and it was fine. You can,
you can just like write it off. So they quit
that because I I ruined it for everyone. I had
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a job running um like the meetings, the dinner meetings
for pharmaceutical um companies. Yes, and they hired out. They
hired this company that I worked for for compliance reasons
because the reps would be like so out of control.
So I would be there um just kind of like
making sure everything was above board. Oh wow, it was
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like the wild wild West back then. But if you
knew a drug wrap and let's say you needed drugs, right,
you know, over the counter drugs, you would just you
would swap out like he had. I was orthor McNeil.
If you had a five A rap, you swap out
some drugs. I saw birth control pills. Everybody was looking
for me because everybody wanted birth control pills for their girlfriend.
So you know, it was definitely wrong what we were
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doing right, but we have fun. Yes, yeah, y'all ruined.
Y'all ruined it for everybody. Y'all have ruined it. Now
they're like so strict, so you can't you can't do anything.
And then I got married and I helped my husband
build his business, which was you know, the church. And
then um My last like job that I really liked
was when I was making like cookies and cupcakes. I
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had sweetches out. It was such a a little bakery
at the spot or something. Yes, I would sell it
at um Lord, I forgot the Timothy Dean Timothy Dean, Yes, yes,
and I was Timothy Dean had a has a bistro
and I would sell like the cupcakes and cookies at
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the b stro So I would make everything there. It's
very labor intensive, but I loved it. Yes, I feel
like you should get back into that. I think so too,
when I get a little bit more time on my hands. Yes, yes,
but I can say that all of that helped form
who I am today. I really got to thank my
dad because my dad was like I didn't get it
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at the time, but he wanted to make sure that
I had all of these things under my belt. It's
just like resources that I can pull from, and now
I know I can do anything. I can do any
job that you give me, because I've done a million things. Absolutely.
I want to talk about side hustles that I picked
up because and this might be helpful for people listening,
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like if you're looking for some extra money, because I
definitely went through a time when I literally had like
fifty million side hustles because you know, while and I
were going through our financial troubles and I was just
trying to find any of every way to make money.
So one of them was, um focus groups. What is that?
Focus groups? Like? There are you can sign up for
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focus groups. I literally got paid and this is like
you know, I got paid like two dollars for someone
to come and watch you make a salad because like,
you know, they're doing their research. So this is so
companies have focus groups to do research on like consumer
behavior or never heard of this? Yeah, girl, So if
you're looking at like I still I keep unsubscribing to
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these emails, but I still get the emails of you know,
these companies that are looking for people to participate in
their focus group about yes yes, yes, yes yes, Okay
now I know exactly what you're talking about, right, so
they can figure out the best way to sell their
products exactly. Yes, whatever it is. Yeah, I would do
multiple focus groups. You know, you get a quick hundred
hundred dollars here, two hundred there, you know. So for
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for people who are like you know, trying to find
you know, little small ways to make extra money, just
google focus groups. Like and you were selling your clothes,
not selling your clothes, but you were doing so assignment. Well, okay, eBay,
I had a I had a boom in eBay business.
We sold I had want We had so much Louis
Vuitton luggage. And the good thing about that stuff is
(41:47):
that it holds its value, you know. So I made
a lot of money on eBay. So but even not
even you know, you don't have to just sell like
you know, designer stuff on eBay or consignment places. You
can sell like little Nike, your your kids, it's closed whatever, shoes, everything,
So that right there is a hustle in itself. Yes,
another one. My friend Carly and I okay, Carl, Carly
(42:10):
is always here with us, Okay. Now she's director of Operations,
Yes she has a title. She demanded to get a title.
She's the director of operations. And don't you get it twisted? Okay, yes,
what about Carly? So Carly and I we sold jewelry.
Oh yes, yes, and we literally have it. Like we
we would go to the jewelry shows and buy jewelry
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from different jewelry vendors, and we would host jewelry parties.
So or we will go, you know, if there's like
an event, we would get a tape me because I've
never been invited to a jewelry party. I guess you
know what we may not have been. This is rude.
I don't know, I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Maybe maybe maybe I thought you weren't interested in that.
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You know what the fashion jewelry. Me and Robin are
breaking up. You know, it's like a little forty Robbin
is shady. But I'm telling you those type of businesses
if you can like so jewelry. I honestly there's times
when I'm like, I wanna, you know, have a jewelry website.
I want to like start selling jewelry again, because that
is like such an easy sell. Like we would go
(43:14):
to a jewelry party and make like two dollars and
one night. Yes, yes it was. Let's start this back
up again. I want my cut. I want it right.
So if it's so, we you know, we would be
vendors at events and stuff like that. That was actually
I've really enjoyed that. So I like to sell stuff.
So yeah, so don't be surprised if I sell jewelry
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one day. But I'll be doing it too with Robin.
Rom ain't gonna cut me out of this. This is
good stuff, all right. So I so the I guess
the purpose and the what we really want to get
across to you guys is that whatever your job is today, like,
you never know what tomorrow is gonna bring to you.
You never know if this you might hate it and
quit it in nine months like Robin does, but that
(43:57):
still is gonna give you some umpen in a toolbox
for like the next job exactly exactly. Or you know,
you can have a job that you love but it's
like running you rag it, which is fine because you
love it, but you're still growing from it. I always say,
I always think, like you know, when there's jobs that
you love, maybe at some point figure out how you
can venture out and be your own boss doing that,
(44:19):
you know, if you're working for a company, really like it. Um,
I think the next step up is to like venture
out and be your own boss. I got one more job.
I worked for our house furniture for like two weeks.
I was as I'm mad at there might not because
I'm I'm still waiting for me to come. The furniture
is beautiful. I worked there for two weeks, like I
like it, literally like two weeks of training, and then
(44:41):
we started filming the real house. I was of atomic
and I was like, oh I quit. I was like,
I'm busy, and at the same time I was working
my pr event job. I was doing my like I
would get my huston clearly us clearly. So sorry our
house for quitting after two weeks of training. And I
guess that's the purpose of our story. Get your hustle
(45:03):
on word. Yes, yes, yes, so that is our episode today,
and don't ever forget to either be reasonable or be shady. Yes,
and share with us, you know, some of your hustles,
your side hustles, because we would like to share them
with the listeners. And you know, we if you have
feedback on this episode, what's up at reasonably shady dot com.
Ye until then, see you next day. By by Reasonably
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