December 1, 2025 • 28 mins
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Crystal Hughes.
🎯 Purpose of the Interview
To spotlight Crystal Hughes’ entrepreneurial journey, her resilience through adversity, and her innovative contributions to the beauty industry and nonprofit work. The interview aims to inspire listeners by showing how personal challenges can fuel impactful ventures.
🗝️ Key Takeaways 1. Early Entrepreneurship & Adversity
- At age 21, Crystal opened her first wig and natural hair salon in a flea market.
- Shortly after, she was incarcerated for bank fraud—a decision she made out of desperation to fund her business dreams.
- She wrote a book titled Money and My Daughter while in prison, inspired by her experiences and authors like Wahida Clark.
2. Wig Capital Foundation
- Founded to donate medical wigs to cancer patients and others in need.
- Crystal collected and donated over 5,000 wigs in the first year.
- Partnered with beauty supply stores and hospitals (e.g., Howard University Hospital, MedStar).
- Schools helped refurbish wigs in exchange for community service hours.
3. Mobile Glam Squad
- A tech-driven initiative likened to “Uber for beauty services.”
- Connects licensed beauty professionals with clients, especially those who are immobile or in hospitals.
- Aims to provide group health insurance for stylists and expand to college campuses.
4. Personal Healing & Resilience
- Survived a serious car accident resulting in chronic pain.
- Opted out of surgery and explored “sexual healing” as a form of pain management.
- Worked in a Nevada brothel during recovery, combining physical therapy with alternative healing.
5. Land Development in Utah, Alabama
- Inherited one acre of land from her grandparents.
- Plans to build an adult living facility and raise funds through seasonal events like scavenger hunts.
- Noted signs of economic growth in the area (new gas station, dialysis center, Dollar General).
6. Use of Technology
- Embraced tech tools like ChatGPT for legal and business support.
- Shares tech resources with cosmetology students during marketing tours.
💬 Notable Quotes
- “I always wanted to have my own beauty supply store… I figured out a way to do it.”
- “I wasn’t the brains in the operation… but I knew I had to stay confident.”
- “Anything over $1,000, they had to kind of question it.”
- “I wrote my book in prison… it’s fiction based on true events.”
- “I didn’t want to lose myself… I had to figure out a way.”
- “You are a genius.” — a compliment she received from a mentor after promoting her nonprofit.
- “You can’t stop yourself sometimes… you don’t let the system stop you.” — Rushion McDonald on Crystal’s entrepreneurial spirit.
📌 Final Thoughts
Crystal Hughes’ story is one of resilience, reinvention, and resourcefulness. From incarceration to innovation, she has turned personal pain into purpose, creating platforms that empower others—especially women facing medical and financial challenges.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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business owner, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and a nonprofit I want
you on my show. Now, let's get started. My guess
is a powerhouse entrepreneur and the founder of the Whig
Capitol Foundation. Crystal restores confidence and dignity by donating medical
wig to those in need. Under her new adventures, she's
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breaking barriage with the mobile Glam Squad, revolutionizing the beauty
industry as the uper of beauty services, connecting licensed professionals
with clients nationwide. Please welcome the Money Making Conversation master Class,
Crystal Hughes. How you doing, Crystal, Hi, Russian?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Thank you for having me on the show. I really
appreciate that said Russian.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You said Russian. You said Russian. Now, christ Christ I
took the time to say hi, to say your last name,
and then you're just gonna bust out and say Russian.
You know, I want to keep this on air to
We're gonna keep this for our interview.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Welcome Crystal to my show.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And that's a billion dollar lesson.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well your based working, Crystal, I'm.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Based in Washington, d C. But our own land in Utah, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now, but you made your mark in the beauty industry
when I was reading your bio at the age of
twenty one. You own a beauty salon. Tell us about
that more money in your life.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yes, So, at the age of twenty one, I opened
my first rig retail natural hair salon and a small
and a flea market. Actually it was like a five
hundred square foot space. It's something that I always wanted
to do. I knew when I was like eight years old.
I always wanted to have my own beauty supply store,
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and I figured out a way to do it through
you know, trial and era. I did accomplish that gold,
but unfortunately I ended up going to prison within a
year of me within two or three years actually of
me opening my first store, which that's where I wrote my.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Book Money on my Daughter check it out on Amazon.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
And so I just continue to build my beauty brand
even through in conservation, and even when I got back out,
I just started back and reopened my beauty Plots store
slash salon in the.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Same flea market.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now, you know, Crystal, you just can't say the word
prison and me not go back and get detailed. You know,
at the age of twenty one, I'm rolling five hundred
squrab foot in the flea market. Not many people that
ambitious and that focused to open a beauty salon or
any type of entrepreneurial space at twenty one. But how
did prison or how did the mistakes that you made
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at that early age get you in prison.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Well, I wanted to open my own business and I
didn't know any other way I could do it. I
thought that I can try something. I thought I would
be able to get in and get out. But I
was actually twenty when it happened, and they waited to
turn twenty one so I could be charged as an
adult to arreste. So I only did the crime for
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like six months. It was thanks fraud and nothing major,
but the challenges of being a black woman, a black
girl coming up, wanted to have your own business, wanted
to have be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It just wasn't.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Everybody was telling me it wasn't in our reach and
that I will never be able to do that, and
so it was really hard for me, and so I
thought I did what I had to do to beat
the odds.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What exactly is fraud and how does it work in
the situation? How you were doing it?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Well, it just was like I really can't say the
math mechanic of it because I wasn't the brands of
the operation to say that, you know so, But I
know that I was able to go in and you
got to go in with confidence. Anything you do, you
have to have confidence to be able to walk out.
It wasn't a blue collar crime. I guess you can say,
like a white collar crime, you can walk out. A
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blue collar crime is when you have to run out.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That's how I was taught about it.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
So it was a situation wh where you just have
to stay calm and confident and believe in what you're
doing and not show any sign of nervous business to
alert the team. And basically anything over this is a
little secret. Anything over one thousand dollars, they have to
kind of question it. So you just keep it under
that and you can kind of keep it moving. But
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that's not something I'm proud of that I had to
do that I felt like I needed to do to
start my career and have my entrepreneurship business. It's just
something that it was like survival was a musk, you know,
and then you you you constantly put yourself around people
who tell you you have to be successful no matter
what you know, at what costs you have to make it.
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And so that was the logical time.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So Crystal, that's about the right having the right people
around you or the wrong people around in your case. Relationship, Yeah, mentorship, Now,
when did you. You was incarcerations, you got out. You
got out of that incarceration. Now this book you just
flashed on the screen. How is what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay? So Money and my Daughter. It's a book that
I wrote.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
It's part one is wrote when I was incarcerated and why.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
He the Clark.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
I'm not sure if you know of her, but she's
a very famous author who actually became a New York
bestseller while she was incarcerated. So this wasn't just a
type of prison for it, you know, it was. It
was a very upscale prison. So if I had to
do it, I'm grateful. I did it at that location,
which was all Theton, West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And during that time.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I wrote me a book and I was I won't
say any names, but I shout out to my editors
at the time, and it was just something that I
wanted to do to kind of share my story of
what kind of got me to that point.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's not it's not a real story. It's fiction.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It's based on true events, so I kind of, you know,
mixed up a few.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Things, but it's a really good book.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It's like my survival, one thing that I can turn
to when things get hard is this book. It keeps
me afloat, it helps me invest in my other businesses
as well. So it talks about a country girls turning
city trying to get into things to survive, but only
get into things that God can only save her from.
So it's a part one and a part two. And
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on the back of it I put You're a Genius
by Doctor Oz because Doctor Oz called me a genius
one day when I went to one of his five
minute clinics here in DC and I was promoting my nonprofit,
Weird Capital Foundation that you mentioned, and he asked. He
was like, what's all this big capital stuff going on?
And like, why do all these people have your sticker
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and your logo? I said, well, I just asked them
to put.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
The logo on. And he was like, you're a genius
for being.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Able to do that because you got national recognition from
doing that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So that was pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Now let's talk about the with capital. Why is that important?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
So We're Capital Foundation is a nonprofit I came up
with when, like I said, I always wanted to have
my own d supply store, and so I worked any
businesses in the area to learn how to actually run
a business, especially in the whig department. So doing so,
I met a lot of women who were going through
chemo treatment and they still had to pay for these wigs.
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And I don't understand why they was paying for wigs,
and so I've done my research. I looked into it
and found out that they can actually get a prescription
from their doctors at the heir's partesis to get the whigs.
But some of those weeks are very expensive and costly.
So I decided to come up with a program where
people can recycle their wigs, new or used from anywhere
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in the world. So I had people donate wigs to
me from New York, Alabama, Mississippi, all through the mail.
And then I partnered with various beauty supply stores where
they actually donated their old wigs that they weren't selling
or just went on resale because of a new style
or new trend.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
They would donate those wigs to me.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
So I had like big, huge companies like Beauty Island,
Beautiful You. So shout out to all those beauty supply
stores who actually donated whigs. And so I partner with
various cancer organizations and hospitals like Howard University Hospital, Mount
Washington Hospital met mess Star excuse me, not my Washington,
the mess Star Hospital that I donated weeks too. So
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it was really exciting to be able to offer weeks
to people who were in need. And through the partnership
through Wig Capital Foundation, I've collected and donated over five
thousand weeks through that organization within the first year. And
I've partnered with various public schools and private schools where
they refurbished the whigs and refer and return for community
service hours. And we had a big event where they
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were able to do a fashion show and mash the
whigs with paid survivors and do a whole fashion show
and it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So and how could they reach out to you on
your website?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
So Facebook is a great way to reach out to
me through Whig Capital Foundation. If you just search with
Capital Foundation on Facebook, you can find me and d
m me and reference to how you can donate.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Weeks or how you can receive a free week. We
usually donate. I usually donate three weeks at a time.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I got passionate in this because just going to the
beauty supply store as a kid was like going to
a candy store. It was like the best thing ever
I can do with my grandmother. That was like our
weekend trip. We'll go to the beauty supply store and
get everything we need for our hair. So I just
love the fact and I was like, one day, I'm
going to own my own beauty supply store and I'm
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going to do all I can to have me one
of these stores that I can be able to share beauty. Unfortunately,
I got into a really bad car accident when I
had to literally learn how to walk again. They wanted
me to get three surgeries, but I decided not to and.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I actually.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Resulted to sexual healing, and that's how I was able
to heal myself and not get any surgeries and not
has to What.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Did you do? You said, you what the.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's called sexual healing?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's a whole nother podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But well you can't. I'm sorry. Okay, first of all,
let me slow down because I'm trying to get the
information right. Okay, So you were in the car accident, right,
What was the injury in the car accident?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So I got dinosed with chronic pain birth itightist in
my right shoulder, a pinched nerve in my neck, a
bulging disc in my.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Back, as well as authoritis in my right knee.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Okay, cool, Now you do you currently have any of
those pains? Yes, all of them.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yes, But they come and go.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
The birth rightist comes, comes and goes, the pinched nerves,
something's always there. I'm dinosed with chronic pain, so I'm
always in pain. I just learned how to manage it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Just know how to manage it. So, but you use
the word you said you you were sexual healing cured
that or remedied or gave you a way to control.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It, probably kind of both.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I say, Okay, now is that a is that like
a therapist that you go to, or this is like
a website you could go to. So I just want
to educate my staff or the not only my staff,
but my listeners about where this information is coming from.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, I did my research, okay, and so I learned.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I said something. Well, one day I was just.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Thinking like, how can I, you know, challenge this, like,
how can I not get these surgeries? I said, there's
no way I'm being able to get surgery, Like who's
gonna take care of me?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Because this showed the surgery alone.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
You can't move your arm for like eight whole months,
and I'm like, yeah, right, Like how's that going to happen?
So I didn't have a clear idea of how I
could be able to even get surgery even if I
really needed it. So I figured out, I said, it
has to be a way. And so I heard the
song Marvin Gaye song, I think that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That song, yeah, sexual heal, That's one of my favorite songs.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Sexual healing.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
And I said it has to be something to that,
because for this man to do a whole hit, and
I said, it has to be something to this. So
I did my research on sexual healing, and so I
figured out a way to be able to put myself
in environment where I could use sex.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
As a way to heal my body.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
To heal your body, basically take your thought process away
from the chronic pain.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I don't really know how.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
It worked, to be honest, but I started to feel
myself like literally go down, like I was clinging to
the walkers, and I was like really like losing my
feminine finality because I used to be I was a
dancer for many years.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I just got exotic in the changer.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
So for me, to like not be able to be
I guess as feminine as I could possibly be. It's
starting to like really irritate me. And I started to
see myself as like how can I? And I don't
want to end up on all of these people like
on a walker and the sweatpants.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Used to be this beautiful woman and just down. So
I just like, no, I gotta figure out a way.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
So I researched sexual healing, and I actually went to
a bronco in Nevada and worked there until I was
able to heal myself. Why was that the bronco I
still was going through physical therapy and things of that
nature because they understood why I was there.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Now, you know, this is an incredible story here that
all right, let me just let me recap. Now, let
me recap. Now, you're just okay in twenty years old
fraudulent activity, bank fraud right twenty one, you open your
first beage lawn, correct, which we just were like wigs
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five hundred square foot. Then you went to prison right
because of the bank fraud behavior at twenty which is
the same prison in West Virginia that how Martha Stewart,
but you missed her by a week. Okay, you got
out the Whig Collection, which is this powerful foundation over
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five thousand wigs because you saw a need because people
could not afford these expensive wigs. And so you've been
You're very smart, You're very articulate. You've able to get
people to come into joint ventures and at five thousand
wigs so far and growing correct. And you said, people
can contact you through your Facebook. And what is that Facebook?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
We're Capital Foundation.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We're Capital Foundation. Now you were rolling along, life is good.
Then all of a sudden, you get in an accident.
Accident has caused you to constantly live a life of
chronic pain. How do you deal with the pain? Because
I have a very talented entrepreneur here in Atlanta called
Dunbar Jackson, and he was in an autombile accident and
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he wrote a book about constantly living a life. He said, Richeon,
I'm sitting right here talking to you, and I'm in pain,
and he said he says that he just had to
learn to deal with it and not be angry, right,
because he was always mad. He was always mad. He
was overweight, and he was feeling sorry for himself. He
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was walking around and rolling around in the wheelchair, So
you found an alternative and an alternative. What were you
trying to fix? Was just the pain? Was it just
your personality? Was just your lifestyle, your overall outlook? And
when it started working, how did you pull yourself out
of Henderson, Nevada?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
So it was all the above. Actually, it was just
literally trying to maintain who and what I you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
My persona of things.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I come from where I built myself up to be
this beauty guru. And I was one of the top
paid dances in Baltimore County for for a while, and
I was I was living, I was doing good, and
so to be in a car accident to lose all
of that and like to try to rebuild it was
very very tough for me, and I just didn't want
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to lose myself.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
So how I manage it now is I I like
to work out.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I like to just focus on, you know, who I
who I am, who I become, I get, and I
indulge myself in work and so I just focus on
other things. And then every now and then I do
my best to seek out with my pleasures. But I'm
not married, so I have to be very careful on that,
and I don't know it as a professional anymore because
even though I went in thinking one thought, I realized
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that the industry is not as safe as it sounds.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
So I got out so I can stay safe and alive.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
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X and Instagram. Well, congratulations, First of all, congratulations for
this honest conversation because a lot of people look look
stereotype heres. You're an entrepreneur. You're a person who sought
out a way to be able to remove that pain
from your life. Now you're using natural exercises or different
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programs that when the pain comes, these are your alternative
thought processes that allow you our physical thought process that
allow you to not so much allow you to deal
with it basically, right, Yeah, okay, cool, Now let's go
back to the not go back to because I introduced
this in your show in your intro, was the mobile
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Glam Squad revolution. Again, just a powerful entrepreneur. Mind I
thought it. Mindset, you're like a serial entrepreneur. You can't
stop yourself sometimes or you're gonna let the system stop you.
So but you're good. It seems at being able to
connect the dots. That's what you did with Wig Capital,
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you know, and even to open your your beauty salon
or your Wig salon or your specialty store twenty one,
you still had to connect the dots. And then then
when you had the accident, you had to connect the dots.
Let's talk about mobile glam squad. What is that?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
So basically I put an ad on Indeed, and.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I was looking for people who are interested in servicing
clients mobilely. And I thought about how many hairstylists we
don't have health insurance and it's not hard for us,
it's hard for us to actually get that. So I said,
this would be a great way to brank stilus together
to be able to service college students even when people
just mobile can't get out because I have people ask me, hey, Crystal,
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can you come my aunt's nails while she's in the hospital,
you know, so a lot of times they don't really
have someone to go to or that they can look
out and say, Okay, this person serves mobile only unless
you like on some one of those apps. But there's
still nothing that really connects you with the health insurance part.
So I wanted to be able to create an app
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or stylists can get group health insurance as well as
able to access clients mobilely and give the students a
chance to be able to have reliable hairstylists that they
could commute with. So I actually in a conversation with
hier now about putting mobile units on campus to service
the students.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
So I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Just had a meeting with them last week and they're
just waiting on my proposal.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So I'm working on that as we speak.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Congratulations on that. Now, let's talk about that one acre
of land that you have in Utah, Alabama. How did
you come about acquiring that land?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
So, Raehan, my family, like grandparents, actually left me that land.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
It's a beauty to me because I never thought that
they would leave me anything, honest, So to have somebody
leave you something that's very very it's a sentimental value
to that. And one thing right now that I'm doing
to actually help raise money to get this like plans
for adult living facility is doing the seasonal like scavenger hunt.
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So it's kind of like when you do like a
pumpkin patch and November and Christmas lights and during Christmas season.
So that's kind of how I'm going to have it
set up until the land is able to actually raise
the money. Because the land has been sitting there for
a while and I got it say about maybe I
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think twenty twenty one. I'm not going to give up
until I actually get that land developed and get the
adult living facility on site.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Now, so we say prime. Believe me, I know nothing
about Utah, Alabama. What is the population? Just again, education
and why you feel you can develop a land that
is outside of Tuscalore, still outside of Birmingham and it
will be a winner.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Okay, Well, there is a gas station that just came
to our town actually, and usually gas stations don't come
to town unless there's a profit, right, So that gave
me his up that there is some worth value there. Also,
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it's a Dialecs center right on the same street as
my facility that just.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You know was developed there.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
And Dollar General also is on the same street as
my property. So that all shows that's value value there
and that major corporations are looking into that town. It's
about maybe two three thousand residents, so and I think
it'll be a great opportunity to develop it because it's
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in the city area limits.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I thought about making it a bunker as well.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I thought about that, making it into a bunker for
safe havens.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
A bunker for those end of the world people, huh
in the couple of Utah, I.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Got you, I got you, I got well.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I would tell you if you built it there, at
the cost of building it, that would not be as
expensive as trying to build it somewhere else, and you
probably would have clientele. So presently in the DC area.
What is your entrepreneurship in the DC area?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
So I do vendor pop up shops.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I do that a lot, and I also promote and
sell my books and our hairstyle is a licensed cosmetologist.
So those are the things that I do in the
d be in a d NV, you have to have
many trades.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
With that being saying what the role does technology play
in your business or your mindset? Crystal Hughes, Well.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It's amazing because chat GBT is very helpful. I really
used chat a lot. At first, I was really like
not into it.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I started to talk to my mentors and my colleagues
and they told me like, hey, you need to really
get involved in that because it can really help you
shorten your time frame because you do a lot of
stuff and if you was able to deal with chat GBT,
you will be able to cut down a lot of
stuff shorthand. So now I use that and I actually
use CHAT and my medical malpractice case against the hospitals
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with my baby from when she had her missed near
CIS event. So it's been very helpful in even fighting
the courts. And so I'm very grateful for the AI system.
Now you just have to use it very well, and
it can be very helpful when you use it the
proper way. So now like when I do my proposals
and things of that nature. And that's one of the
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apps that I tell my students when I go do
my marketing tours at the cosmetology schools, I share with
them the various apps that I use to help me
through my success.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Well, before we go, give out your book and where
we can get it one more time.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Okay, so I have money in My Daughter. You can
check it out on Amazon dot com. Money and my
Daughter Part one, Part two.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
It's coming out soon and you can always go to
Whig Capital Foundation on Facebook if you want to get
donate wigs, learn how you can do a whig party,
how you can get involved. If you want to be
interested in hu Glam Squad, just be a mobile stylist
and you're in the DMV. We do have colleges listed
on the website, so you can pick a state you
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can talk about starting it and your location, so you.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Can go to huth Glamsquad dot com.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
That's Huglamsquad dot com and just find me on Facebook,
Crystal Hughes and thank you so much for shan so
much for your help.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Well, thank you, Crystal Hughes.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
That was funny.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
This lady told me because my father he was a
pan yes he was, and uh, he used to always
have a lot of girlfriends. And so she said, I
know why you're bad at names. And I said why
She said, because you probably used to mess up your
girl your father's girlfriend's names. So you just stopped saying,
you know, saying their names. Said what, you got a
point because I used to mess up their names a
lot to the point where I was like, you know,
I'm not just.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Going to say right, rebellious, rebellious, but you're talented, and
about I took your name, uh, miss Nias. You know
my name in stride. I always tell people about my name.
You know is that you know I respect people and
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and I worked my entire life to not have to
say my name to anybody. So through my reputation, through
my branding, through my success, people will know how to
say my name. And that's the same thing. I'd look
at you through your success, and you've had a lot
of success and you will continue to have success because
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I think you have the right mindset. I think you
have the right mindset. And you also are honest about
who you are. And a lot of people spend more
time trying to cover up who they are. Did it
stop them for being what they could be? Because you
are unique individual. And when I saw you in DC,
when I was being honored as Mentor of the Year
and you walked up to me and you told me
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about the Utah property, that one acre of land and
you start telling me some more backstory. I gave you
my card because I wanted to bring you on the show. Now,
I didn't know all the detail you were gonna tell me.
Now you told me a lot more than I do
in DC. But again, yeah, but again, You're Fascinatingly, you're
a fascinating person and I'm glad you came on Money
Making Conversations to Mastic Class. This has been another addition
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Speaker 2 (00:34):
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business owner, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and a nonprofit I want
you on my show. Now, let's get started. My guess
is a powerhouse entrepreneur and the founder of the Whig
Capitol Foundation. Crystal restores confidence and dignity by donating medical
wig to those in need. Under her new adventures, she's
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breaking barriage with the mobile Glam Squad, revolutionizing the beauty
industry as the uper of beauty services, connecting licensed professionals
with clients nationwide. Please welcome the Money Making Conversation master Class,
Crystal Hughes. How you doing, Crystal, Hi, Russian?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Thank you for having me on the show. I really
appreciate that said Russian.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You said Russian. You said Russian. Now, christ Christ I
took the time to say hi, to say your last name,
and then you're just gonna bust out and say Russian.
You know, I want to keep this on air to
We're gonna keep this for our interview.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Welcome Crystal to my show.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And that's a billion dollar lesson.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well your based working, Crystal, I'm.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Based in Washington, d C. But our own land in Utah, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now, but you made your mark in the beauty industry
when I was reading your bio at the age of
twenty one. You own a beauty salon. Tell us about
that more money in your life.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yes, So, at the age of twenty one, I opened
my first rig retail natural hair salon and a small
and a flea market. Actually it was like a five
hundred square foot space. It's something that I always wanted
to do. I knew when I was like eight years old.
I always wanted to have my own beauty supply store,
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and I figured out a way to do it through
you know, trial and era. I did accomplish that gold,
but unfortunately I ended up going to prison within a
year of me within two or three years actually of
me opening my first store, which that's where I wrote my.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Book Money on my Daughter check it out on Amazon.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
And so I just continue to build my beauty brand
even through in conservation, and even when I got back out,
I just started back and reopened my beauty Plots store
slash salon in the.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Same flea market.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now, you know, Crystal, you just can't say the word
prison and me not go back and get detailed. You know,
at the age of twenty one, I'm rolling five hundred
squrab foot in the flea market. Not many people that
ambitious and that focused to open a beauty salon or
any type of entrepreneurial space at twenty one. But how
did prison or how did the mistakes that you made
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at that early age get you in prison.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Well, I wanted to open my own business and I
didn't know any other way I could do it. I
thought that I can try something. I thought I would
be able to get in and get out. But I
was actually twenty when it happened, and they waited to
turn twenty one so I could be charged as an
adult to arreste. So I only did the crime for
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like six months. It was thanks fraud and nothing major,
but the challenges of being a black woman, a black
girl coming up, wanted to have your own business, wanted
to have be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It just wasn't.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Everybody was telling me it wasn't in our reach and
that I will never be able to do that, and
so it was really hard for me, and so I
thought I did what I had to do to beat
the odds.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
What exactly is fraud and how does it work in
the situation? How you were doing it?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Well, it just was like I really can't say the
math mechanic of it because I wasn't the brands of
the operation to say that, you know so, But I
know that I was able to go in and you
got to go in with confidence. Anything you do, you
have to have confidence to be able to walk out.
It wasn't a blue collar crime. I guess you can say,
like a white collar crime, you can walk out. A
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blue collar crime is when you have to run out.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That's how I was taught about it.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
So it was a situation wh where you just have
to stay calm and confident and believe in what you're
doing and not show any sign of nervous business to
alert the team. And basically anything over this is a
little secret. Anything over one thousand dollars, they have to
kind of question it. So you just keep it under
that and you can kind of keep it moving. But
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that's not something I'm proud of that I had to
do that I felt like I needed to do to
start my career and have my entrepreneurship business. It's just
something that it was like survival was a musk, you know,
and then you you you constantly put yourself around people
who tell you you have to be successful no matter
what you know, at what costs you have to make it.
(05:41):
And so that was the logical time.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So Crystal, that's about the right having the right people
around you or the wrong people around in your case. Relationship, Yeah, mentorship, Now,
when did you. You was incarcerations, you got out. You
got out of that incarceration. Now this book you just
flashed on the screen. How is what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Okay? So Money and my Daughter. It's a book that
I wrote.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
It's part one is wrote when I was incarcerated and why.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
He the Clark.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
I'm not sure if you know of her, but she's
a very famous author who actually became a New York
bestseller while she was incarcerated. So this wasn't just a
type of prison for it, you know, it was. It
was a very upscale prison. So if I had to
do it, I'm grateful. I did it at that location,
which was all Theton, West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
And during that time.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I wrote me a book and I was I won't
say any names, but I shout out to my editors
at the time, and it was just something that I
wanted to do to kind of share my story of
what kind of got me to that point.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's not it's not a real story. It's fiction.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
It's based on true events, so I kind of, you know,
mixed up a few.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Things, but it's a really good book.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It's like my survival, one thing that I can turn
to when things get hard is this book. It keeps
me afloat, it helps me invest in my other businesses
as well. So it talks about a country girls turning
city trying to get into things to survive, but only
get into things that God can only save her from.
So it's a part one and a part two. And
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on the back of it I put You're a Genius
by Doctor Oz because Doctor Oz called me a genius
one day when I went to one of his five
minute clinics here in DC and I was promoting my nonprofit,
Weird Capital Foundation that you mentioned, and he asked. He
was like, what's all this big capital stuff going on?
And like, why do all these people have your sticker
(07:36):
and your logo? I said, well, I just asked them
to put.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
The logo on. And he was like, you're a genius
for being.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Able to do that because you got national recognition from
doing that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So that was pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Now let's talk about the with capital. Why is that important?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
So We're Capital Foundation is a nonprofit I came up
with when, like I said, I always wanted to have
my own d supply store, and so I worked any
businesses in the area to learn how to actually run
a business, especially in the whig department. So doing so,
I met a lot of women who were going through
chemo treatment and they still had to pay for these wigs.
(08:13):
And I don't understand why they was paying for wigs,
and so I've done my research. I looked into it
and found out that they can actually get a prescription
from their doctors at the heir's partesis to get the whigs.
But some of those weeks are very expensive and costly.
So I decided to come up with a program where
people can recycle their wigs, new or used from anywhere
(08:34):
in the world. So I had people donate wigs to
me from New York, Alabama, Mississippi, all through the mail.
And then I partnered with various beauty supply stores where
they actually donated their old wigs that they weren't selling
or just went on resale because of a new style
or new trend.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
They would donate those wigs to me.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
So I had like big, huge companies like Beauty Island,
Beautiful You. So shout out to all those beauty supply
stores who actually donated whigs. And so I partner with
various cancer organizations and hospitals like Howard University Hospital, Mount
Washington Hospital met mess Star excuse me, not my Washington,
the mess Star Hospital that I donated weeks too. So
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it was really exciting to be able to offer weeks
to people who were in need. And through the partnership
through Wig Capital Foundation, I've collected and donated over five
thousand weeks through that organization within the first year. And
I've partnered with various public schools and private schools where
they refurbished the whigs and refer and return for community
service hours. And we had a big event where they
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were able to do a fashion show and mash the
whigs with paid survivors and do a whole fashion show
and it was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So and how could they reach out to you on
your website?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
So Facebook is a great way to reach out to
me through Whig Capital Foundation. If you just search with
Capital Foundation on Facebook, you can find me and d
m me and reference to how you can donate.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Weeks or how you can receive a free week. We
usually donate. I usually donate three weeks at a time.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I got passionate in this because just going to the
beauty supply store as a kid was like going to
a candy store. It was like the best thing ever
I can do with my grandmother. That was like our
weekend trip. We'll go to the beauty supply store and
get everything we need for our hair. So I just
love the fact and I was like, one day, I'm
going to own my own beauty supply store and I'm
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going to do all I can to have me one
of these stores that I can be able to share beauty. Unfortunately,
I got into a really bad car accident when I
had to literally learn how to walk again. They wanted
me to get three surgeries, but I decided not to and.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I actually.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Resulted to sexual healing, and that's how I was able
to heal myself and not get any surgeries and not
has to What.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Did you do? You said, you what the.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's called sexual healing?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's a whole nother podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But well you can't. I'm sorry. Okay, first of all,
let me slow down because I'm trying to get the
information right. Okay, So you were in the car accident, right,
What was the injury in the car accident?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So I got dinosed with chronic pain birth itightist in
my right shoulder, a pinched nerve in my neck, a
bulging disc in my.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Back, as well as authoritis in my right knee.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Okay, cool, Now you do you currently have any of
those pains? Yes, all of them.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yes, But they come and go.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
The birth rightist comes, comes and goes, the pinched nerves,
something's always there. I'm dinosed with chronic pain, so I'm
always in pain. I just learned how to manage it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Just know how to manage it. So, but you use
the word you said you you were sexual healing cured
that or remedied or gave you a way to control.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It, probably kind of both.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I say, Okay, now is that a is that like
a therapist that you go to, or this is like
a website you could go to. So I just want
to educate my staff or the not only my staff,
but my listeners about where this information is coming from.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, I did my research, okay, and so I learned.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I said something. Well, one day I was just.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Thinking like, how can I, you know, challenge this, like,
how can I not get these surgeries? I said, there's
no way I'm being able to get surgery, Like who's
gonna take care of me?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Because this showed the surgery alone.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
You can't move your arm for like eight whole months,
and I'm like, yeah, right, Like how's that going to happen?
So I didn't have a clear idea of how I
could be able to even get surgery even if I
really needed it. So I figured out, I said, it
has to be a way. And so I heard the
song Marvin Gaye song, I think that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
That song, yeah, sexual heal, That's one of my favorite songs.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Sexual healing.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
And I said it has to be something to that,
because for this man to do a whole hit, and
I said, it has to be something to this. So
I did my research on sexual healing, and so I
figured out a way to be able to put myself
in environment where I could use sex.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
As a way to heal my body.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
To heal your body, basically take your thought process away
from the chronic pain.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I don't really know how.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
It worked, to be honest, but I started to feel
myself like literally go down, like I was clinging to
the walkers, and I was like really like losing my
feminine finality because I used to be I was a
dancer for many years.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I just got exotic in the changer.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
So for me, to like not be able to be
I guess as feminine as I could possibly be. It's
starting to like really irritate me. And I started to
see myself as like how can I? And I don't
want to end up on all of these people like
on a walker and the sweatpants.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Used to be this beautiful woman and just down. So
I just like, no, I gotta figure out a way.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
So I researched sexual healing, and I actually went to
a bronco in Nevada and worked there until I was
able to heal myself. Why was that the bronco I
still was going through physical therapy and things of that
nature because they understood why I was there.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Now, you know, this is an incredible story here that
all right, let me just let me recap. Now, let
me recap. Now, you're just okay in twenty years old
fraudulent activity, bank fraud right twenty one, you open your
first beage lawn, correct, which we just were like wigs
(14:48):
five hundred square foot. Then you went to prison right
because of the bank fraud behavior at twenty which is
the same prison in West Virginia that how Martha Stewart,
but you missed her by a week. Okay, you got
out the Whig Collection, which is this powerful foundation over
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five thousand wigs because you saw a need because people
could not afford these expensive wigs. And so you've been
You're very smart, You're very articulate. You've able to get
people to come into joint ventures and at five thousand
wigs so far and growing correct. And you said, people
can contact you through your Facebook. And what is that Facebook?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
We're Capital Foundation.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We're Capital Foundation. Now you were rolling along, life is good.
Then all of a sudden, you get in an accident.
Accident has caused you to constantly live a life of
chronic pain. How do you deal with the pain? Because
I have a very talented entrepreneur here in Atlanta called
Dunbar Jackson, and he was in an autombile accident and
(15:59):
he wrote a book about constantly living a life. He said, Richeon,
I'm sitting right here talking to you, and I'm in pain,
and he said he says that he just had to
learn to deal with it and not be angry, right,
because he was always mad. He was always mad. He
was overweight, and he was feeling sorry for himself. He
(16:20):
was walking around and rolling around in the wheelchair, So
you found an alternative and an alternative. What were you
trying to fix? Was just the pain? Was it just
your personality? Was just your lifestyle, your overall outlook? And
when it started working, how did you pull yourself out
of Henderson, Nevada?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
So it was all the above. Actually, it was just
literally trying to maintain who and what I you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
My persona of things.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I come from where I built myself up to be
this beauty guru. And I was one of the top
paid dances in Baltimore County for for a while, and
I was I was living, I was doing good, and
so to be in a car accident to lose all
of that and like to try to rebuild it was
very very tough for me, and I just didn't want
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to lose myself.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
So how I manage it now is I I like
to work out.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I like to just focus on, you know, who I
who I am, who I become, I get, and I
indulge myself in work and so I just focus on
other things. And then every now and then I do
my best to seek out with my pleasures. But I'm
not married, so I have to be very careful on that,
and I don't know it as a professional anymore because
even though I went in thinking one thought, I realized
(17:42):
that the industry is not as safe as it sounds.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
So I got out so I can stay safe and alive.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So don't go anywhere. We will be right back with
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(18:11):
dot com and follow money Making Conversations master Class on Facebook,
X and Instagram. Well, congratulations, First of all, congratulations for
this honest conversation because a lot of people look look
stereotype heres. You're an entrepreneur. You're a person who sought
out a way to be able to remove that pain
from your life. Now you're using natural exercises or different
(18:36):
programs that when the pain comes, these are your alternative
thought processes that allow you our physical thought process that
allow you to not so much allow you to deal
with it basically, right, Yeah, okay, cool, Now let's go
back to the not go back to because I introduced
this in your show in your intro, was the mobile
(18:57):
Glam Squad revolution. Again, just a powerful entrepreneur. Mind I
thought it. Mindset, you're like a serial entrepreneur. You can't
stop yourself sometimes or you're gonna let the system stop you.
So but you're good. It seems at being able to
connect the dots. That's what you did with Wig Capital,
(19:18):
you know, and even to open your your beauty salon
or your Wig salon or your specialty store twenty one,
you still had to connect the dots. And then then
when you had the accident, you had to connect the dots.
Let's talk about mobile glam squad. What is that?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
So basically I put an ad on Indeed, and.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I was looking for people who are interested in servicing
clients mobilely. And I thought about how many hairstylists we
don't have health insurance and it's not hard for us,
it's hard for us to actually get that. So I said,
this would be a great way to brank stilus together
to be able to service college students even when people
just mobile can't get out because I have people ask me, hey, Crystal,
(19:59):
can you come my aunt's nails while she's in the hospital,
you know, so a lot of times they don't really
have someone to go to or that they can look
out and say, Okay, this person serves mobile only unless
you like on some one of those apps. But there's
still nothing that really connects you with the health insurance part.
So I wanted to be able to create an app
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or stylists can get group health insurance as well as
able to access clients mobilely and give the students a
chance to be able to have reliable hairstylists that they
could commute with. So I actually in a conversation with
hier now about putting mobile units on campus to service
the students.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
So I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Just had a meeting with them last week and they're
just waiting on my proposal.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So I'm working on that as we speak.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Congratulations on that. Now, let's talk about that one acre
of land that you have in Utah, Alabama. How did
you come about acquiring that land?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
So, Raehan, my family, like grandparents, actually left me that land.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
It's a beauty to me because I never thought that
they would leave me anything, honest, So to have somebody
leave you something that's very very it's a sentimental value
to that. And one thing right now that I'm doing
to actually help raise money to get this like plans
for adult living facility is doing the seasonal like scavenger hunt.
(21:25):
So it's kind of like when you do like a
pumpkin patch and November and Christmas lights and during Christmas season.
So that's kind of how I'm going to have it
set up until the land is able to actually raise
the money. Because the land has been sitting there for
a while and I got it say about maybe I
(21:46):
think twenty twenty one. I'm not going to give up
until I actually get that land developed and get the
adult living facility on site.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Now, so we say prime. Believe me, I know nothing
about Utah, Alabama. What is the population? Just again, education
and why you feel you can develop a land that
is outside of Tuscalore, still outside of Birmingham and it
will be a winner.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Okay, Well, there is a gas station that just came
to our town actually, and usually gas stations don't come
to town unless there's a profit, right, So that gave
me his up that there is some worth value there. Also,
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it's a Dialecs center right on the same street as
my facility that just.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You know was developed there.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
And Dollar General also is on the same street as
my property. So that all shows that's value value there
and that major corporations are looking into that town. It's
about maybe two three thousand residents, so and I think
it'll be a great opportunity to develop it because it's
(23:06):
in the city area limits.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I thought about making it a bunker as well.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I thought about that, making it into a bunker for
safe havens.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
A bunker for those end of the world people, huh
in the couple of Utah, I.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Got you, I got you, I got well.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I would tell you if you built it there, at
the cost of building it, that would not be as
expensive as trying to build it somewhere else, and you
probably would have clientele. So presently in the DC area.
What is your entrepreneurship in the DC area?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
So I do vendor pop up shops.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I do that a lot, and I also promote and
sell my books and our hairstyle is a licensed cosmetologist.
So those are the things that I do in the
d be in a d NV, you have to have
many trades.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
With that being saying what the role does technology play
in your business or your mindset? Crystal Hughes, Well.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It's amazing because chat GBT is very helpful. I really
used chat a lot. At first, I was really like
not into it.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I started to talk to my mentors and my colleagues
and they told me like, hey, you need to really
get involved in that because it can really help you
shorten your time frame because you do a lot of
stuff and if you was able to deal with chat GBT,
you will be able to cut down a lot of
stuff shorthand. So now I use that and I actually
use CHAT and my medical malpractice case against the hospitals
(24:43):
with my baby from when she had her missed near
CIS event. So it's been very helpful in even fighting
the courts. And so I'm very grateful for the AI system.
Now you just have to use it very well, and
it can be very helpful when you use it the
proper way. So now like when I do my proposals
and things of that nature. And that's one of the
(25:06):
apps that I tell my students when I go do
my marketing tours at the cosmetology schools, I share with
them the various apps that I use to help me
through my success.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Well, before we go, give out your book and where
we can get it one more time.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Okay, so I have money in My Daughter. You can
check it out on Amazon dot com. Money and my
Daughter Part one, Part two.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
It's coming out soon and you can always go to
Whig Capital Foundation on Facebook if you want to get
donate wigs, learn how you can do a whig party,
how you can get involved. If you want to be
interested in hu Glam Squad, just be a mobile stylist
and you're in the DMV. We do have colleges listed
on the website, so you can pick a state you
(25:47):
can talk about starting it and your location, so you.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Can go to huth Glamsquad dot com.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
That's Huglamsquad dot com and just find me on Facebook,
Crystal Hughes and thank you so much for shan so
much for your help.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Well, thank you, Crystal Hughes.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
That was funny.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
This lady told me because my father he was a
pan yes he was, and uh, he used to always
have a lot of girlfriends. And so she said, I
know why you're bad at names. And I said why
She said, because you probably used to mess up your
girl your father's girlfriend's names. So you just stopped saying,
you know, saying their names. Said what, you got a
point because I used to mess up their names a
lot to the point where I was like, you know,
I'm not just.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Going to say right, rebellious, rebellious, but you're talented, and
about I took your name, uh, miss Nias. You know
my name in stride. I always tell people about my name.
You know is that you know I respect people and
(26:46):
and I worked my entire life to not have to
say my name to anybody. So through my reputation, through
my branding, through my success, people will know how to
say my name. And that's the same thing. I'd look
at you through your success, and you've had a lot
of success and you will continue to have success because
(27:06):
I think you have the right mindset. I think you
have the right mindset. And you also are honest about
who you are. And a lot of people spend more
time trying to cover up who they are. Did it
stop them for being what they could be? Because you
are unique individual. And when I saw you in DC,
when I was being honored as Mentor of the Year
and you walked up to me and you told me
(27:28):
about the Utah property, that one acre of land and
you start telling me some more backstory. I gave you
my card because I wanted to bring you on the show. Now,
I didn't know all the detail you were gonna tell me.
Now you told me a lot more than I do
in DC. But again, yeah, but again, You're Fascinatingly, you're
a fascinating person and I'm glad you came on Money
Making Conversations to Mastic Class. This has been another addition
(27:52):
of Money Making Conversations Master Class hosted by me Rashaan McDonald's.
Thank you to our guess on the show today and
thank you our listening audience. Now, if you want to
listen to any episode I want to register to be
a guest on my show, visit Moneymakingconversations dot com. Our
social media handle is money Making Conversations. Join us next
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