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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Pread Show. Each time, celebrate the holiday
season with Mariah Carey's Christmas Time in Las Vegas this
November twenty eight through December thirteenth, Adobe Live at Park MGM,
and you could be going a trip for two to
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(00:20):
Texts Fantasy to five seven, seven, three nine right now
for a chance to win. A confirmation text will be
sent standard message and data rates may apply. It's all
thanks to Live Nation. This is the Pread Show. All right, guys,
major celebrity book events which you know we're on the
pulse of book events on this show. Naperville Anderson's Bookshop,
(00:43):
Bobby Brown, the Bobby Brown, the world famous Bobby Brown.
Bobby do you know that you and Steve Jobs are
the same person? Basically? Do you know that I do
like wearing a wardrobe? Oh Yo, that's the thing. If
you just were all black all the time? How easy
with that me? Don't you know what are you weren't
on the cover of this book. I don't have any
front of me. You weren't basically all black?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Maybe then I know, maybe I kind of softened my
black to maybe it's much more flattering.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, that's good to know. See Bobby Brown already giving
me advice. And I gotta say I used to I
used to be a Bobby Brown Cosmetics guy, but then
you sold it. And the comparison to Steve Jobs is
then they fired you from your own company. So now
you know me Jones Road all day. That's the only
thing I wear. How you get fired from your own company.
I know it's in the book, but.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
How it is definitely in the book, and it was
a definite. First of all, when they bought Bobby Brown,
I stayed twenty two years as an employee. So for
many of the years it was great, and then at
the end it wasn't just like you know, many people's situation,
and we did not see.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Eye to eye on most things.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And they canceled my work contract one day unexpectedly, and
you know, honestly gave me an opportunity to stay around
but keep my mouth shut, and that really didn't work
for me.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, Tikiki, I know you, you know you, Paulina. We
have some women in here, you know, business moguls in
Chicago and surrounding. You got to watch out. You can
get fired from your own named business. This is not
a good thing, listen, how you know?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, but it wasn't my business.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They bought me, so you know, they own they owned
the company, and they could do whatever they want. And honestly,
I'm not the only one that's been through things that happen.
But the book really talks about what you do with
this stuff when it's handed to you, Like, so what now?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
All?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Now? What am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I had four and a half years left on a
noncompete when I left, and I'm like, oh my god,
I was fifty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
What was I going to do?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You were going to be rich, Bobby, is what you
were going to do? But that you know, I understand what.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You mean, you know, But it's honestly, yeah, I've been
very successful. I've worked really hard for it. I've had
people on my team, my husband, you know, now my
son runs our company. But you know, when you're someone
that has worked your whole life in addition to raising
three kids and you know, a long term marriage, it's like,
(03:04):
now what do I do?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Like I wasn't about to go play pick a.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Ball, right, that's just not me right, right, So I
had to figure stuff out.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you've done so much Bobby Brown Cosmetics. Of course,
you've been recognized by every major publication. Then you've gone
on to build another huge company, Jones Road, and you've
written nine books. This is the tenth. Will be at
Anderson's Bookshop in Ahborville tonight from seven to eight. But yes,
we do have a lot of women who listen to
the show in business, A couple in the room. What
would be and I know it's probably hard to narrow
(03:32):
it down, what would be a main sort of piece
of advice that you would give to really anybody, but
maybe especially a woman who's, you know, building a brand
and trying to start a business.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, first of.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All, your life is more important than your work. Your
health is the most important thing. If you don't feel
good and you don't eat right, and you don't exercise,
how are you going to have the stamina to do
all the things that.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Needs to get done.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Because you can't ignore anything, you have to kind of
be over all of it. And for women particularly, I
really do believe women we are the ultimate multitaskers, so
we can do all these things if we're creative and
organized and just figure stuff out.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I had to do it kind of on the run,
and so I've added.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
A whole bunch of hacks in my book for working moms,
like how you get how you do this, and mostly
like the real story about it's not all perfect. Sometimes
it's a big old mess and you just got to
get on with it.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's great advice. What is the worst advice anyone has
ever given you in all the different ventures that you've
been involved with.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No one wants to take advice from a soccer mom.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I've had so many like dumb advices. Someone once told
me that I was very demure. I'm five foot tall,
and I need something so people notice me when I
walk in a room.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Perhaps I get a hat with a feather in it.
Like great advice, great advice. Yeah, can you imagine me
walking into a hat and a feather, you know?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So, yeah, some sort of signature. And that was.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Huh, you do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But you know what, I didn't come to this, you know,
confidence when I was young. I mean, it really took
me a long time to realize. You know, guys, I
don't need to be what you are telling me to be.
I just need to be myself and that's really, you know,
the secret to being confident. So I do tell all
these all these stories in the book that somehow you
(05:22):
know I still remember, thank goodness, because there's a.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Lot of them.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, it's Bobby Brown, It's still Bobby. That's the book tonight.
Naperville Anderson's bookshelp. You'll be there from seven to eight.
And we also have a lot of young women who
listen to us. What would you tell yourself all these
years ago before you started down this road.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
To learn how to chill?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I have not done that, by the way, That's the
thing I'm most unsuccessful.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
How to chill and.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
How to you know, like lower my cortisol and you know,
calm down. It doesn't mean I can't do everything I
want to do.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So that's my biggest advice.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And just to honestly just know there are so many
possibilities out there and you could really like create your
own story. You just have to be comfortable that you
know that you're able to do this, and also you
don't know everything.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Be a sponge and learn. I'm still learning.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I learned so much in the last five minutes. It's
and I don't mean to say, but navy being more
flattering than black is the main takeaway.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And then I get to wear blue jeans, and then you.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Get to wear blue jeans all the time, and I
don't have to spend money dry cleaning my black pants.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So you know this is I'm going to go read
the book. I'm sure I'm going to be inspired. But
this changed things for me right now because I thought
black was the way to get away with it. But
night now Bobby Brown's telling me it's navy, So navy
it is.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, and you could do navy and black if you're
not quite all navy yet.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Okay, I think that's a little That's what Mett's getting
risky for me because I'm not. But go see Bobby
Brown tonight. Buy everyone, buy the book wherever you are,
but then Anderson's Bookshop in Aprilville from seven to eight.
You'll be there.
This is the Pread Show. Each time, celebrate the holiday
season with Mariah Carey's Christmas Time in Las Vegas this
November twenty eight through December thirteenth, Adobe Live at Park MGM,
and you could be going a trip for two to
the December twelfth show at two Night's Day at Park
MGM December twelfth through the fourteenth and round trip airfare.
(00:20):
Texts Fantasy to five seven, seven, three nine right now
for a chance to win. A confirmation text will be
sent standard message and data rates may apply. It's all
thanks to Live Nation. This is the Pread Show. All right, guys,
major celebrity book events which you know we're on the
pulse of book events on this show. Naperville Anderson's Bookshop,
(00:43):
Bobby Brown, the Bobby Brown, the world famous Bobby Brown.
Bobby do you know that you and Steve Jobs are
the same person? Basically? Do you know that I do
like wearing a wardrobe? Oh Yo, that's the thing. If
you just were all black all the time? How easy
with that me? Don't you know what are you weren't
on the cover of this book. I don't have any
front of me. You weren't basically all black?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Maybe then I know, maybe I kind of softened my
black to maybe it's much more flattering.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, that's good to know. See Bobby Brown already giving
me advice. And I gotta say I used to I
used to be a Bobby Brown Cosmetics guy, but then
you sold it. And the comparison to Steve Jobs is
then they fired you from your own company. So now
you know me Jones Road all day. That's the only
thing I wear. How you get fired from your own company.
I know it's in the book, but.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
How it is definitely in the book, and it was
a definite. First of all, when they bought Bobby Brown,
I stayed twenty two years as an employee. So for
many of the years it was great, and then at
the end it wasn't just like you know, many people's situation,
and we did not see.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Eye to eye on most things.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And they canceled my work contract one day unexpectedly, and
you know, honestly gave me an opportunity to stay around
but keep my mouth shut, and that really didn't work
for me.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, Tikiki, I know you, you know you, Paulina. We
have some women in here, you know, business moguls in
Chicago and surrounding. You got to watch out. You can
get fired from your own named business. This is not
a good thing, listen, how you know?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, but it wasn't my business.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
They bought me, so you know, they own they owned
the company, and they could do whatever they want. And honestly,
I'm not the only one that's been through things that happen.
But the book really talks about what you do with
this stuff when it's handed to you, Like, so what now?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
All?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Now? What am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I had four and a half years left on a
noncompete when I left, and I'm like, oh my god,
I was fifty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
What was I going to do?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You were going to be rich, Bobby, is what you
were going to do? But that you know, I understand what.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
You mean, you know, But it's honestly, yeah, I've been
very successful. I've worked really hard for it. I've had
people on my team, my husband, you know, now my
son runs our company. But you know, when you're someone
that has worked your whole life in addition to raising
three kids and you know, a long term marriage, it's like,
(03:04):
now what do I do?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Like I wasn't about to go play pick a.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Ball, right, that's just not me right, right, So I
had to figure stuff out.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you've done so much Bobby Brown Cosmetics. Of course,
you've been recognized by every major publication. Then you've gone
on to build another huge company, Jones Road, and you've
written nine books. This is the tenth. Will be at
Anderson's Bookshop in Ahborville tonight from seven to eight. But yes,
we do have a lot of women who listen to
the show in business, A couple in the room. What
would be and I know it's probably hard to narrow
(03:32):
it down, what would be a main sort of piece
of advice that you would give to really anybody, but
maybe especially a woman who's, you know, building a brand
and trying to start a business.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, first of.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
All, your life is more important than your work. Your
health is the most important thing. If you don't feel
good and you don't eat right, and you don't exercise,
how are you going to have the stamina to do
all the things that.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Needs to get done.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Because you can't ignore anything, you have to kind of
be over all of it. And for women particularly, I
really do believe women we are the ultimate multitaskers, so
we can do all these things if we're creative and
organized and just figure stuff out.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I had to do it kind of on the run,
and so I've added.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
A whole bunch of hacks in my book for working moms,
like how you get how you do this, and mostly
like the real story about it's not all perfect. Sometimes
it's a big old mess and you just got to
get on with it.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's great advice. What is the worst advice anyone has
ever given you in all the different ventures that you've
been involved with.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No one wants to take advice from a soccer mom.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I've had so many like dumb advices. Someone once told
me that I was very demure. I'm five foot tall,
and I need something so people notice me when I
walk in a room.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Perhaps I get a hat with a feather in it.
Like great advice, great advice. Yeah, can you imagine me
walking into a hat and a feather, you know?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So, yeah, some sort of signature. And that was.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Huh, you do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But you know what, I didn't come to this, you know,
confidence when I was young. I mean, it really took
me a long time to realize. You know, guys, I
don't need to be what you are telling me to be.
I just need to be myself and that's really, you know,
the secret to being confident. So I do tell all
these all these stories in the book that somehow you
(05:22):
know I still remember, thank goodness, because there's a.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Lot of them.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, it's Bobby Brown, It's still Bobby. That's the book tonight.
Naperville Anderson's bookshelp. You'll be there from seven to eight.
And we also have a lot of young women who
listen to us. What would you tell yourself all these
years ago before you started down this road.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
To learn how to chill?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I have not done that, by the way, That's the
thing I'm most unsuccessful.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
How to chill and.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
How to you know, like lower my cortisol and you know,
calm down. It doesn't mean I can't do everything I
want to do.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So that's my biggest advice.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And just to honestly just know there are so many
possibilities out there and you could really like create your
own story. You just have to be comfortable that you
know that you're able to do this, and also you
don't know everything.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Be a sponge and learn. I'm still learning.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I learned so much in the last five minutes. It's
and I don't mean to say, but navy being more
flattering than black is the main takeaway.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And then I get to wear blue jeans, and then you.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Get to wear blue jeans all the time, and I
don't have to spend money dry cleaning my black pants.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So you know this is I'm going to go read
the book. I'm sure I'm going to be inspired. But
this changed things for me right now because I thought
black was the way to get away with it. But
night now Bobby Brown's telling me it's navy, So navy
it is.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, and you could do navy and black if you're
not quite all navy yet.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Okay, I think that's a little That's what Mett's getting
risky for me because I'm not. But go see Bobby
Brown tonight. Buy everyone, buy the book wherever you are,
but then Anderson's Bookshop in Aprilville from seven to eight.
You'll be there.
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