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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello everyone, and welcome to the Pulse. It's another
edition and today, ladies and gentlemen, I've got a treat
for you on my show. Is a native Memphian who
is doing amazing things out there in the world and
in Memphis. I'm gonna let him introduce himself to you.
(00:22):
Can I do that? Is that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So you're doing all right, I'm doing fine, Okay, wonderful.
Tell everybody who you are, because I'm so excited. Tell
everybody who you are and what it is that you do.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let me see, is it afternoon? Good afternoon everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It'll be morning sometimes for this place, so yeah, just
go well.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For good day everyone. My name is David Quarrels, native Memphian,
and I am a content creator and into your designer
here in the city and well outside of the city
as well. But that is what I do. Yeah, I
have to bring joy in people's days through design and
good content.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, David Quarrels, Ladies and gent's. Where's the audience, he's here, audience.
You know, I've been following you on social media, kind
of stalking you a little bit, really not really straying,
but I've been following you and I saw one year
where Cynthia Daniels had you in her forty under forty Yes, yeah, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thank you, Yeah, still an honor.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And I was yeah, and I was like, wow, that
was I think the first time I was introduced to you.
And it may not have been, but I think that
was around the time because I remember that, and I
remember following you and looking at your page and I
was like, oh, my goodness, what is he doing? What
every is? I love it because I could see all
of these colors and I saw you with you know,
(01:41):
your content and all of that. You got how many
people following you on your Instagram? And I'm sure you
have other pages too, but how many people?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Right now? I think, oh, this always feels so weird
to say about one hundred and sixty two thousand.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah. And are you on TikTok?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am on TikTok. Everything well, I do create different
things for TikTok, but most of the time it's just Instagram. Okay, okay, Facebook,
it's too much going on on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You better move that stuff all with a Facebook get
that Facebook glove.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There's a certain group for Facebook and yes, I will
dip back in ye for Facebook love too, So yes, you're.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right, yeah, And I say that because you know, I mean,
you probably could go to YouTube and do all the
stuff that you do as well.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And that's where I'm wanting to move stuff too. Really,
I like long form a little.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Bit better, okay, okay, and I know that TikTok probably
gives you the opportunity to do that a little bit more.
But we don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What's going to happen with TikTok soa exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
We got to focus on, you know what we in Instagram.
I'm sure it's a great tool for you. It's a
great tool for a lot of people. How do you
feel about black creatives and Instagram?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Ooh so wow that that's a really good question. I
feel that there are a lot of amazing black creators
who are doing amazing things right now. And I don't
know if we're seeing the same opportunities as other creators,
but I think that the black creators now are they
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have ramp things up, They're getting a lot more. I
guess they think a little bit more out of the
box as before. Because a lot of us got our
start during the pandemic, and so it's kind of like
the tactics that we used, or like the creative channels
or like ways that we use during the pandemic. We
have to do away with that because now people's schedules
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are different and we have to give everyone either something
in a very short amount of time, yeah, or like
wow them through really great storytelling. It can be long form,
but it has to be great storytelling because we have
to like keep people so black creative so far, I
mean killing it. I love it. I love seeing it
motivated every single day.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah. And to be a part of that community, how
did that feel? And did you ever see yourself in
that lane? Being from Memphis, being a creative like that?
Did you ever see yourself in that lane?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No? Because very much an honor to be part of
that group. And I still have to remind myself every
day that I am part of that group. But then two,
I never saw myself like that because I'm an ambivert.
So I turn on my extrovertness when I need to. Okay,
usually though, I will be in a corner, probably drawing
somewhere or kind of like just observing. I like to
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people watch and just in a way of learning about humans.
But no, and what ended up doing it is that
I am a zoom instructor, which we'll get into, but
I kept my classes going during the pandemic, and so
in order to engage with people on a screen via zoom,
like I have to look at them, like make them
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feel that I'm in the living room or wherever they
may have been. Yeah, And I kind of took that to, like, well,
after class, I'm bored, and since I have more time
to like really love on my home, then let me
take to the camera in a different way and really
engage with my audience and kind of engage with them
the same way that I'm engaged with my class, like
the students of my class, and maybe it'll feel like
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you're just in my living room with me as I'm
teaching you tips and tricks on how to like make
your house feel better. And so it was a happy mistake. Yeah,
it happened that way. I was just how you said it.
It's a happy mistake, yeah, yeah, because now I love
it so but I just did it to express myself.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But were you designing an interior decorating prior to that?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, So that's what I actually went to school for
did not practice it for a long time. Just where
did you go to school? University of Memphis, Okay, so yeah, graduated, Yeah,
I know that's right, and so graduator from there? What
is that in twenty eleven and then did nothing with
it just because there was like a little experience where
I was like, it wasn't a positive experience. So I
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went the corporate route, and I definitely still didn't get
that like creative satisfaction out of my job. Loved my job,
didn't like that I was not feeling or being fulfilled.
And so I ended up working for Stock and Bil,
which is a local lifestyle store here. Yeah, and I
was their interior stylist and then we would do interior
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design projects based off of the furniture that was sold
in the store. So yes, and that was more along
the lines of what twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and then
I was doing it for my home and like once
the pandemic happened, I'm like, well, shoot, I need to
keep business going. Yeah, and so that's when I decided
to form At that time, it was Concept for seventeen
and that is my full interior design business. But I
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started doing virtual consultations and then virtual design, and I
decided to take a chance on my business in the
middle of a pandemic. So yeah, and from there it
was birth on October sixth of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Really, I would have thought it happened before that. Do
you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Not at all. No, I was punching someone else's clock.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But that's right around the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, Like right when we were like settling in for
the year, I was like, yeah, We're going to open
up a business. Because it was what do we have
to lose?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So and now that you made that decision, and this
is for I want you to listen business owners. You
made that decision and then what you said, Okay, what
have I got to lose? Me start this business?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And then what I did a lot of research just
making sure because I knew that the creative side was there,
but like running my business as far as like just
being a Zoom instructor, that is very different from learning
what markups are, learning what margins should be like acceptable
for me being a interior designer, what should like I
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guess what trade accounts should I open up? And who
do I want to align myself along as far as
like what brands, what do I want my aesthetic to be?
Am I going to be okay with my aesthetic evolving
as I learned more.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Sods, that's a lot of stuff that you were talking
about that I know that a lot of people probably
don't you know what I'm saying, unless that you know,
and I'm sure there are people that know exactly what
you're talking about. But so you didn't just art of business.
You educated yourself and then you jumped in. Yeah, well
you in, then you educated yourself and then you jumped
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in some moth.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's like I jumped in and I was like, wait
a minute, I forgot my floaties. Let me go back
to the shore and get my floaties and let me
go out deeper. Yeah. It was just I needed to
have what I needed in order to swim a little
bit deeper. And so, yeah, I love education, and so
it was a lot of mornings that I will wake
up at five o'clock and study, like, Okay, what should
my contract look like? What should I wow? So, I mean,
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because I believe in contracts it's always necessary. But I
would look for just all of the things to set
up a business for success. Because I knew eventually I
would want to hire people as well. So like looking
at that and then working backwards, like looking at what
my north staria is, and then seeing what do I
need to do in order to get to my north stary.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Okay, I got a business. I ain't done nothing yet,
and mainly because I guess it's because it's just me
and my business is more focused on on uh, you know,
entertaining entertainment. You know that I do m seeing and
all that kind of stuff. But also I have I
had a you know, clothing business, and I you know,
but yeah, and I did a lot of studying, but
you did even more and I could be where you are.
(09:15):
Uh yeah. I So let this be a lesson to
those of you that have a business out there. It's
more to it than just going to get a license
and opening it up. Okay, there's more.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Too when the fun starts.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah yeah. So so you you were working for somebody,
uh you decided to go out on your own. Tell
me how has your the success of your business been
since you started all that?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So it's kind of odd because what is that I
think I used to feel so nervous and calling myself
an interior designer. Uh why just because of imposter syndrome
and we've all addressed just because I haven't practiced it
in such a long time, Like after I finished school.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You felt like a bad actor.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, it was like you went to school and did
what with and so no, you don't deserve to call
yourself that. And so I had gotten myself into that headspace.
Nobody put me there. Yeah, And I think what was
at February fourth of twenty twenty one, I was in
targets pull up, like to get something, pick it up,
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and I got notification from Real Simple that they wanted
to do an interview with me because I had put
up on Instagram that I painted my dining room wall.
So I did a mural and they were like, well, no,
we needed an opinion from interior designers and wanted to
feature your dining room. And that was the first time
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I say all of that to say, that was the
first time that I was publicly named Wait a minute
into your designer.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Okay, now,
wait a minute. Now that is so fabulous. Okay, so
you you submitted yourself, but you didn't submit yourself, but
you put up a post. They saw it. Y'all better
dig into this, y'all better hear this, man, okay, because
(11:05):
this could be you next, you know, and you just
people are watching.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, you never know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But here's the deal. Here's what I love. Okay, so
you went through the whole imposter syndrome thing, you realize
this is really your lane, and then it's like God
just said, pow, here you go.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Life has not been the same after February fourth. That's
what I'll always say. Wow, because I was the first
time yell because they saw a post that I made
and it was just like me, and it was wait
a minute, Target saw a post you may oh, Real
Simple Target did too, but we had to wait some
years for Target.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah but okay, Real Simple did. Uh huh y'all this man,
I saw your stuff with Target. It's beautiful, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I mean it was just creating from the line that
was for the Black History Month. Yeah. So it was
just being a creative part of that, like collaborative group.
I'll say, so I do any of the clothing design
or anything like that. I was just a face for it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Now, let me ask you this, because I know there's
been a lot of talk about targeting us. So is
that relationship still intact?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It was intact for I had a contract to fulfill, Okay,
So it was very strange when it all happened, I'll say,
just because when the announcement was made that they rolled back,
we were all so supposed to publish or share the commercial,
and so we halted it for a while because I
was like, it just doesn't feel right. And we did
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have the freedom to halt like our efforts saying like
I'm not about to publish it because I need to know,
like what's happening. Yeah, But my whole stance on it
was I wanted to make sure because I was there
to promote the black creatives and their collections was yeah, yeah,
And so it would be a disservice like for them
and for myself too not to use my platform to
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not promote all of their hard work that they didn't
know that this was going to happen. Right, So if
I can use my platform and all of the other
creatives who were in it, if they could use their
platforms to build up those collections that those creatives work
so hard on, then That's what I'm going to do.
And that's I posted from that angle, and so I
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was like, while y'all get your stuff together, we're still
going to hold you accountable because we make up a
big percentage of your market and who you market to
and your dollars. As we've seen, I'm going to support
the creatives who made the clothes, who made the home decor,
because that's what I was hired to do. So yeah,
(13:35):
and so that that's what I mean, because they work
so hard years in advance just to get to that
point and to like imagine the disappointment for like Adella
Williams who developed some patterns for the clothing for the
home decor. Imagine how she would feel. And so, and
I actually talked to her. I was like, how are
you feeling? Like what's going on? Like, just know that
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our commitment as the talent is to promote you.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
We're riding with still supporting.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Still, yeah, you've got to and so like, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Expect for you to tell me that, but I think
it's beautiful how you you know, stood in, uh, you know,
with them instead of going outside of them, and you
stood with them.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Because the thing is, we had to look at it
as a lot of the designers who had collections that
were in Target may not have their system set up
to support because I know a lot of people are like, well,
le's to boycott, and that is very much like you
have that freedom to but then you have to see
what is a sustainable way of supporting the designers because
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they may not have their website set up to where
they can.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Support themselves on their own outside of exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And to be able to receive all of the support
that they would have received by a big box store
having their products on their shelves. And so it's like,
just take there, take targets, name and target your purchasing power,
and so no, you don't have to support the system
as a whole, but go and support those artists because
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they still will get their royalties from your support.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I saw a church and maybe you saw it too.
I saw a church go into Target and only buy
black products.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Because that's what it was about. Yeah, And so that's
why I was like, well, if you want to find
a way to like like a happy medium, yeah, Because
the thing was I spoke with some of the creatives
who did have their collections in there. I was like,
what do you want us to do? How do you
want us to support you? Yeah, that's what we'll do
if you don't have your website set up to where
you're gonna because then you'll miss out on all of
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the support that you would have had. And again, big disappointment. Yeah,
so no.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Do you feel like I'm sorry, but you feel like
Instagram helped you with that? And you know, because you're
a brand too outside of what they do, I mean
your brand too.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, and so that's what the happy mistake is. So
not only did two or like one business get birthed
during that time, it was two, so my name became
a brand and I had to ll see my name
as well as which is now Studio four seventeen. It
was concept for seventeen. And it's funny how it is,
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because it's like my personality or like my name's brand
will support the interior design and vice versa. And so yeah,
Instagram definitely helped because people only knew about my work
because I was posting it to Instagram. But then I'll
also have the importance of having your own website. So yeah,
Instagram is to push people to my website because just
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in case they're not around, right, I'll still have all
of my content and all of my platform living and
so if.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Somebody needed to hear that, did you hear that? He
doesn't just have Instagram, he has his own website as well.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, you have to and like, just to make it easy.
My website, my Instagram handle, my TikTok handle, any handle
that I have is my name. So David Quarrels the fourth,
it's going to be easy and very simple. And then
under that Liz Studio for seventeen and so, and then
under that Lives four, which is my jewelry brand. And
so yeah, it's it's odd without Instagram.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No, what is zoom of fall in zoom zooma falls.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Under the personnelity. So yes, it's what I do on
the weekends.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm happy you're here. I'm stormy everybody that's listening to
the show. And David Quarrels is here an interior designer decorator,
which ones both designer both but yeah designer, Yeah, Okay,
David is amazing. You guys should follow him on Instagram
and see the work that he's doing. He's from Memphis.
Support him every way you can. But I think it's
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so important to have this conversation to hopefully reach young
people that are listening. Because you said something that I
want to go back to. You said, my name is
my brand, speak to these young people about to talk
to them.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I mean, oh my god, that is I love your
questions first of all, but I mean you have to
think about your name as your brand, and so that's
also how you carry yourself, yeah, And so I have
to think about it, like I definitely want to carry
myself in a way that makes my parents proud, but
want to make sure that I make myself proud too.
And so if people associate my name with the brand,
and I want that to also be an association with
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how do you feel after you've interacted with me? Wow?
And so if we have a good interaction, My whole
goal is to make people feel good through whatever superpower,
because I always ask people what is your superpower? Which
what is your talent? Yeah? And so I just like
for people to feel good, to feel their best selves,
to want to aspire to do more, but love their
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life in the meantime. And so that's my brand. And
that's not only what I put online, but that is
what I want people to feel when we simply talk.
And so your name is your brand. It is how
you show up. It's what people think about you once
you leave, and ultimately what mark you left on the
earth when you're no longer here.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So that's deep. The way you explain it, it makes
it more of a to me, more of kind of
a call or calling because and it's somewhat infinite, because
it's like cradle to the grave and beyond. You know
what I'm saying. And I don't think a lot of
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us think like that, especially I don't. I don't think
a lot of young people, at least I wasn't. You know,
there was a time in my life when I started
to think about the mark that I wanted to leave.
But for the most part of my life, or a
lot of the part of my life, I'd never thought
about it like that. That makes it, like I think,
it'll make young people if they can get what you said,
it'll make them more accountable. It'll make them not just
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accountable to their parents, but to themselves, Be to thine
own self, be true to you, be all of that. Okay,
you just blew me away with that, Thank you very much.
So with the zoomba, how does that go? Do people
call you and say and how do you have time
to do all of this?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I wonder a lot. So I used to. I used
to have like a regular schedule in doing it. But
I think, what was it last year that I finally
made the decision to quote unquote retire? But I wait,
from what zoom zoomba from zoomba. But that's why I
say quote unquote, because I don't it's not a retirement,
It's just that I don't have a So we can.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Get a class after this, after this interview, we can
get a class that we.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Don't have speakers. Oh no, I forgot.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's a radio station.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Baby, what did I do? But no, so thankfully and
with the MMDC, so i'd say retired. That means that
I no longer have a schedule that you can find regularly. Okay,
so like weekly. But through the what is that the
Medical District? So MMDC, I am hired to teach classes
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and I actually, well, we offer them free. So they
have like yoga classes and different other or like other
activities that are a fitness base but that are free
to the public. And so that's how you can find
me through the MMDC.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And so MMDC do we do we what do we
go to m DC.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Nine oh one. You can follow them on Instagram and
then they will have our full schedule or their full schedule,
and I'm just part of it. So our next class
is in June. It is on a Tuesday, and I
do not know the specific date, but they will have
that up there. But then also through the Downtown Commission,
so the DMC, I do classes as well, and so
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they're all free to the public or if it's going
to be an event, then we'll publish it of course
as an event and there will be a small cost
something that will be I guess achievable for it all.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Okay, because I'm trying to find them because I like
I like that free word, you see it. Yeah, Okay,
I found the Medical District. Yes, oh, I'm already following
them there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So, no, it's been amazing to work with them since
they actually hired me during the pandemic to do virtual classes,
and so we are Memphis has hired me to do
classes virtually and in person, MMDC, the DMC, so now
it's just all through the city. So then that way
there's a bigger reach and that's ultimately how I've built
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my community or became part of a community in the city,
I'll see. And then Instagram came along, so like I've
been around, but just more in the.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, and now we see you on Instagram and see
you blowing up.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So we shall see.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, you're already blowing up, but then you went to
Instagram blew up some.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And I just like to have one.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, well, we see it. I see it not just
in your pictures or in your videos on social media,
but in you personally. You always I see the smile.
Is that something that you carry with you everywhere you go?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I mean, I try to. I think there's enough in
this world that tries to take our smile from us.
And so it's just something internal that if you want
to have a good day, then sometimes you have to
make that decision in the morning and go from there.
And so that's sometime.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Come on here you have to.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And I'll say that there's something like I love reminders,
I love affirmations, and my mom has Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It's just it's a better way of talking to yourself.
Because I've always thought too that you have to make
sure that your head is a safe space to live in.
And so then that way it's also a safe place
for your heart to operate in and there you can
decide whether or not to have a good day. And
there might be forces that kind of try to change it,
but at the end of the day, it's all about
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how you react to things. And it's easier say it
than done. But I know at the end of the day,
I want to have like good, RESTful sleep rather than
stressful sleep, and I could have changed the outcome of
how I felt, So just try to have a good day.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
One of my affirmations years ago that I picked up
is called it says I will not let the ill
actions of others dictate my state of being. I love that.
It's kind of powerful too when you think about it,
because you're always going to have somebody, you know, because
everybody thinks that what happens to them never happens to
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anybody else. You're not the only one that has a
bad day, you know, the only one that somebody is
rude to or mean or nasty to. It happens to everybody.
It's not what happens to you, it's how you deal
with what happens to you.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, I love that, And that's also like a good
basis for building your own village, because then you would
have people to talk to and be like, no, I
had a bad day as well. Yes, so what happened,
but this is how it got over it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Do you think that the pandemic kind of took community
from black the black community a little.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Bit because a lot of our things are based in
like face to face gathering, and so we had to
find a different way to make that to find some
normalcy and gathering. But I know, like, for instance, a
lot of my friends, like we ended up doing virtual
hangs and so we may not have said anything to anybody.
It was just seeing your face on the zoom screen.
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Or we would develop a playlist and just listen to
the playlist together as we would do little things around
the house, check in, are y'all still good? Okay, I'm
cooking great, and just like playfully like do y'all want something?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No one good? And will we couldn't give it to
nobody especially, but I know, like two friend groups of
mine we actually did it. Some that are in Memphis
and then others that we're all over. Yeah, but we
just needed to check in or like let me see
your face, And so you had to find new ways.
And I think within the black community that's something that
we're used to, just making sure that we can make
something go and may out of scraps.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Ye, we don't do it. It's a lot happening in
the world and we are still learning boots on the ground, yep.
And ain't mad because.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
We're making it happen. Yeah, I mean it's historically we
have known how to do it. It's just making sure
that we don't lose that. No, hew, lose the will
to do it because it's in us.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, and remembering too, that community is so important. You
know a lot of us. I know some of you
are recluse. You want to be that way? Uh uh,
you need people, you do. Nobody's an island.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
No, And like I say, I as an ambivert, like
I do have my moments to where I'd like to
be alone, but that's also for me to recharge because
I can't. I always like to say that you can't
pour from an empty copp you can't withdraw from an
empty bank. So like I need to deposit something into
me first to be able to give to you because
you don't want my scraps. That's horrible. David.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
David'll look him up, look him up, follow him like
and all that good stuff. Listen. I saw an episode
of there's a a TV show that's on Netflix. I
can't remember the name of the show. What is it,
I can't remember. Anyways, it's an doctor hospital show that
they've got on there. And and the girl told one
(26:56):
of the guys on the show who'd been just doing
people and treating people any kount of the way he said,
she said, you have nothing in your account. And he
was like, what do you mean. She said, when you
need to draw from an account, you know, usually people
put something in, like they do good things for people,
she said, but you have nothing in your account.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
It's a thing. You either need to deposit something or
just take a beat for a second until you can
pour something into someone else in that I will always
say that, always, always, So that's why it's good to recharge.
But then go back to your group.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff, y'all. Thank you David for
stopping by and talking to us today. I really hope that, yeah,
you're welcome. I really hope that somebody is listening to
us that has a business that needed to hear the
things that you are saying today, or whatever it is
you're going through, you just needed to hear, you know,
(27:57):
the things that you said today, because I think we
are you know, we're living in a space where everybody's
angry and everybody's needing to breathe, exhale, just like you
just did. Yeah, And and people are finding it seemingly
harder to do it. And I think that the anytime
I get the opportunity to share on this show something
(28:18):
that lifts people up instead of pulling them down, it
makes me happy. And I just won't say thank you
for being that happy spot for us today.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And thank you and thank you for like creating a
space to shine light.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, and you are definitely y'all again. Check out David.
He's doing a lot of great things. He's from Memphis.
He's one of memphis own Your mom did she live here?
Did you want to shout your mom and dad out?
You want to shout him out?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Mom and dad and dad is Actually it'll be this
weekend that he plays African in April, and it'll be
like the first time that he plays in public for
a while. Wait a minute, what's your dad do? He's
a guitarist, for Eye to Eye. So I Eye the
band so led by Monty Corals, which is also my uncle.
So we're going down this weekend to support him. It'll
be the first time in a while that he has played,
(29:04):
so I'm excited. What's your dad's name, David Quarrels. So
he's the third, I'm the fourth. And then mom, oh yeah, wow, Okay,
it's in you, built in best friends.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So yeah, yeah, all of that is in you from
your parents.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. Yes, it's art and business okay,
both of them.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, but it doesn't have to be in you for
y'all to get this, okay, because it's contagious. It can
be contagious. Y'all get some of this I'm trying to
tell you, and make your business better, make your homes better,
all of that good stuff. But again, thank you, David.
It is the pulse, y'all. We keep our fingertips on
our on the pulse of our community. And uh, thank
y'all for joining me. David Quarrels. Once again, ladies and gentlemen,
(29:49):
thank you all Right now I'm stormy. Uh we'll see
you next week, same time, same station. God bless you
have a great week,
Well, hello everyone, and welcome to the Pulse. It's another
edition and today, ladies and gentlemen, I've got a treat
for you on my show. Is a native Memphian who
is doing amazing things out there in the world and
in Memphis. I'm gonna let him introduce himself to you.
(00:22):
Can I do that? Is that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I think?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So you're doing all right, I'm doing fine, Okay, wonderful.
Tell everybody who you are, because I'm so excited. Tell
everybody who you are and what it is that you do.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Let me see, is it afternoon? Good afternoon everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It'll be morning sometimes for this place, so yeah, just
go well.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
For good day everyone. My name is David Quarrels, native Memphian,
and I am a content creator and into your designer
here in the city and well outside of the city
as well. But that is what I do. Yeah, I
have to bring joy in people's days through design and
good content.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, David Quarrels, Ladies and gent's. Where's the audience, he's here, audience.
You know, I've been following you on social media, kind
of stalking you a little bit, really not really straying,
but I've been following you and I saw one year
where Cynthia Daniels had you in her forty under forty Yes, yeah, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thank you, Yeah, still an honor.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And I was yeah, and I was like, wow, that
was I think the first time I was introduced to you.
And it may not have been, but I think that
was around the time because I remember that, and I
remember following you and looking at your page and I
was like, oh, my goodness, what is he doing? What
every is? I love it because I could see all
of these colors and I saw you with you know,
(01:41):
your content and all of that. You got how many
people following you on your Instagram? And I'm sure you
have other pages too, but how many people?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Right now? I think, oh, this always feels so weird
to say about one hundred and sixty two thousand.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah. And are you on TikTok?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am on TikTok. Everything well, I do create different
things for TikTok, but most of the time it's just Instagram. Okay, okay, Facebook,
it's too much going on on Facebook.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
You better move that stuff all with a Facebook get
that Facebook glove.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There's a certain group for Facebook and yes, I will
dip back in ye for Facebook love too, So yes, you're.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right, yeah, And I say that because you know, I mean,
you probably could go to YouTube and do all the
stuff that you do as well.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And that's where I'm wanting to move stuff too. Really,
I like long form a little.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Bit better, okay, okay, and I know that TikTok probably
gives you the opportunity to do that a little bit more.
But we don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What's going to happen with TikTok soa exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
We got to focus on, you know what we in Instagram.
I'm sure it's a great tool for you. It's a
great tool for a lot of people. How do you
feel about black creatives and Instagram?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Ooh so wow that that's a really good question. I
feel that there are a lot of amazing black creators
who are doing amazing things right now. And I don't
know if we're seeing the same opportunities as other creators,
but I think that the black creators now are they
(03:09):
have ramp things up, They're getting a lot more. I
guess they think a little bit more out of the
box as before. Because a lot of us got our
start during the pandemic, and so it's kind of like
the tactics that we used, or like the creative channels
or like ways that we use during the pandemic. We
have to do away with that because now people's schedules
(03:30):
are different and we have to give everyone either something
in a very short amount of time, yeah, or like
wow them through really great storytelling. It can be long form,
but it has to be great storytelling because we have
to like keep people so black creative so far, I
mean killing it. I love it. I love seeing it
motivated every single day.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah. And to be a part of that community, how
did that feel? And did you ever see yourself in
that lane? Being from Memphis, being a creative like that?
Did you ever see yourself in that lane?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No? Because very much an honor to be part of
that group. And I still have to remind myself every
day that I am part of that group. But then two,
I never saw myself like that because I'm an ambivert.
So I turn on my extrovertness when I need to. Okay,
usually though, I will be in a corner, probably drawing
somewhere or kind of like just observing. I like to
(04:20):
people watch and just in a way of learning about humans.
But no, and what ended up doing it is that
I am a zoom instructor, which we'll get into, but
I kept my classes going during the pandemic, and so
in order to engage with people on a screen via zoom,
like I have to look at them, like make them
(04:42):
feel that I'm in the living room or wherever they
may have been. Yeah, And I kind of took that to, like, well,
after class, I'm bored, and since I have more time
to like really love on my home, then let me
take to the camera in a different way and really
engage with my audience and kind of engage with them
the same way that I'm engaged with my class, like
the students of my class, and maybe it'll feel like
(05:05):
you're just in my living room with me as I'm
teaching you tips and tricks on how to like make
your house feel better. And so it was a happy mistake. Yeah,
it happened that way. I was just how you said it.
It's a happy mistake, yeah, yeah, because now I love
it so but I just did it to express myself.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But were you designing an interior decorating prior to that?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, So that's what I actually went to school for
did not practice it for a long time. Just where
did you go to school? University of Memphis, Okay, so yeah, graduated, Yeah,
I know that's right, and so graduator from there? What
is that in twenty eleven and then did nothing with
it just because there was like a little experience where
I was like, it wasn't a positive experience. So I
(05:47):
went the corporate route, and I definitely still didn't get
that like creative satisfaction out of my job. Loved my job,
didn't like that I was not feeling or being fulfilled.
And so I ended up working for Stock and Bil,
which is a local lifestyle store here. Yeah, and I
was their interior stylist and then we would do interior
(06:08):
design projects based off of the furniture that was sold
in the store. So yes, and that was more along
the lines of what twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and then
I was doing it for my home and like once
the pandemic happened, I'm like, well, shoot, I need to
keep business going. Yeah, and so that's when I decided
to form At that time, it was Concept for seventeen
and that is my full interior design business. But I
(06:31):
started doing virtual consultations and then virtual design, and I
decided to take a chance on my business in the
middle of a pandemic. So yeah, and from there it
was birth on October sixth of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Really, I would have thought it happened before that. Do
you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Not at all. No, I was punching someone else's clock.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
But that's right around the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, Like right when we were like settling in for
the year, I was like, yeah, We're going to open
up a business. Because it was what do we have
to lose?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So and now that you made that decision, and this
is for I want you to listen business owners. You
made that decision and then what you said, Okay, what
have I got to lose? Me start this business?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And then what I did a lot of research just
making sure because I knew that the creative side was there,
but like running my business as far as like just
being a Zoom instructor, that is very different from learning
what markups are, learning what margins should be like acceptable
for me being a interior designer, what should like I
(07:34):
guess what trade accounts should I open up? And who
do I want to align myself along as far as
like what brands, what do I want my aesthetic to be?
Am I going to be okay with my aesthetic evolving
as I learned more.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Sods, that's a lot of stuff that you were talking
about that I know that a lot of people probably
don't you know what I'm saying, unless that you know,
and I'm sure there are people that know exactly what
you're talking about. But so you didn't just art of business.
You educated yourself and then you jumped in. Yeah, well
you in, then you educated yourself and then you jumped
(08:07):
in some moth.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's like I jumped in and I was like, wait
a minute, I forgot my floaties. Let me go back
to the shore and get my floaties and let me
go out deeper. Yeah. It was just I needed to
have what I needed in order to swim a little
bit deeper. And so, yeah, I love education, and so
it was a lot of mornings that I will wake
up at five o'clock and study, like, Okay, what should
my contract look like? What should I wow? So, I mean,
(08:28):
because I believe in contracts it's always necessary. But I
would look for just all of the things to set
up a business for success. Because I knew eventually I
would want to hire people as well. So like looking
at that and then working backwards, like looking at what
my north staria is, and then seeing what do I
need to do in order to get to my north stary.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Okay, I got a business. I ain't done nothing yet,
and mainly because I guess it's because it's just me
and my business is more focused on on uh, you know,
entertaining entertainment. You know that I do m seeing and
all that kind of stuff. But also I have I
had a you know, clothing business, and I you know,
but yeah, and I did a lot of studying, but
you did even more and I could be where you are.
(09:15):
Uh yeah. I So let this be a lesson to
those of you that have a business out there. It's
more to it than just going to get a license
and opening it up. Okay, there's more.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Too when the fun starts.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah yeah. So so you you were working for somebody,
uh you decided to go out on your own. Tell
me how has your the success of your business been
since you started all that?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So it's kind of odd because what is that I
think I used to feel so nervous and calling myself
an interior designer. Uh why just because of imposter syndrome
and we've all addressed just because I haven't practiced it
in such a long time, Like after I finished school.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You felt like a bad actor.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, it was like you went to school and did
what with and so no, you don't deserve to call
yourself that. And so I had gotten myself into that headspace.
Nobody put me there. Yeah, And I think what was
at February fourth of twenty twenty one, I was in
targets pull up, like to get something, pick it up,
(10:18):
and I got notification from Real Simple that they wanted
to do an interview with me because I had put
up on Instagram that I painted my dining room wall.
So I did a mural and they were like, well, no,
we needed an opinion from interior designers and wanted to
feature your dining room. And that was the first time
(10:38):
I say all of that to say, that was the
first time that I was publicly named Wait a minute
into your designer.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Okay, now,
wait a minute. Now that is so fabulous. Okay, so
you you submitted yourself, but you didn't submit yourself, but
you put up a post. They saw it. Y'all better
dig into this, y'all better hear this, man, okay, because
(11:05):
this could be you next, you know, and you just
people are watching.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, you never know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But here's the deal. Here's what I love. Okay, so
you went through the whole imposter syndrome thing, you realize
this is really your lane, and then it's like God
just said, pow, here you go.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Life has not been the same after February fourth. That's
what I'll always say. Wow, because I was the first
time yell because they saw a post that I made
and it was just like me, and it was wait
a minute, Target saw a post you may oh, Real
Simple Target did too, but we had to wait some
years for Target.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah but okay, Real Simple did. Uh huh y'all this man,
I saw your stuff with Target. It's beautiful, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I mean it was just creating from the line that
was for the Black History Month. Yeah. So it was
just being a creative part of that, like collaborative group.
I'll say, so I do any of the clothing design
or anything like that. I was just a face for it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Now, let me ask you this, because I know there's
been a lot of talk about targeting us. So is
that relationship still intact?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It was intact for I had a contract to fulfill, Okay,
So it was very strange when it all happened, I'll say,
just because when the announcement was made that they rolled back,
we were all so supposed to publish or share the commercial,
and so we halted it for a while because I
was like, it just doesn't feel right. And we did
(12:32):
have the freedom to halt like our efforts saying like
I'm not about to publish it because I need to know,
like what's happening. Yeah, But my whole stance on it
was I wanted to make sure because I was there
to promote the black creatives and their collections was yeah, yeah,
And so it would be a disservice like for them
and for myself too not to use my platform to
(12:55):
not promote all of their hard work that they didn't
know that this was going to happen. Right, So if
I can use my platform and all of the other
creatives who were in it, if they could use their
platforms to build up those collections that those creatives work
so hard on, then That's what I'm going to do.
And that's I posted from that angle, and so I
(13:15):
was like, while y'all get your stuff together, we're still
going to hold you accountable because we make up a
big percentage of your market and who you market to
and your dollars. As we've seen, I'm going to support
the creatives who made the clothes, who made the home decor,
because that's what I was hired to do. So yeah,
(13:35):
and so that that's what I mean, because they work
so hard years in advance just to get to that
point and to like imagine the disappointment for like Adella
Williams who developed some patterns for the clothing for the
home decor. Imagine how she would feel. And so, and
I actually talked to her. I was like, how are
you feeling? Like what's going on? Like, just know that
(13:57):
our commitment as the talent is to promote you.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
We're riding with still supporting.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Still, yeah, you've got to and so like, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Expect for you to tell me that, but I think
it's beautiful how you you know, stood in, uh, you know,
with them instead of going outside of them, and you
stood with them.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Because the thing is, we had to look at it
as a lot of the designers who had collections that
were in Target may not have their system set up
to support because I know a lot of people are like, well,
le's to boycott, and that is very much like you
have that freedom to but then you have to see
what is a sustainable way of supporting the designers because
(14:41):
they may not have their website set up to where
they can.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Support themselves on their own outside of exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
And to be able to receive all of the support
that they would have received by a big box store
having their products on their shelves. And so it's like,
just take there, take targets, name and target your purchasing power,
and so no, you don't have to support the system
as a whole, but go and support those artists because
(15:09):
they still will get their royalties from your support.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I saw a church and maybe you saw it too.
I saw a church go into Target and only buy
black products.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Because that's what it was about. Yeah, And so that's
why I was like, well, if you want to find
a way to like like a happy medium, yeah, Because
the thing was I spoke with some of the creatives
who did have their collections in there. I was like,
what do you want us to do? How do you
want us to support you? Yeah, that's what we'll do
if you don't have your website set up to where
you're gonna because then you'll miss out on all of
(15:41):
the support that you would have had. And again, big disappointment. Yeah,
so no.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Do you feel like I'm sorry, but you feel like
Instagram helped you with that? And you know, because you're
a brand too outside of what they do, I mean
your brand too.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, and so that's what the happy mistake is. So
not only did two or like one business get birthed
during that time, it was two, so my name became
a brand and I had to ll see my name
as well as which is now Studio four seventeen. It
was concept for seventeen. And it's funny how it is,
(16:17):
because it's like my personality or like my name's brand
will support the interior design and vice versa. And so yeah,
Instagram definitely helped because people only knew about my work
because I was posting it to Instagram. But then I'll
also have the importance of having your own website. So yeah,
Instagram is to push people to my website because just
(16:40):
in case they're not around, right, I'll still have all
of my content and all of my platform living and
so if.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Somebody needed to hear that, did you hear that? He
doesn't just have Instagram, he has his own website as well.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, you have to and like, just to make it easy.
My website, my Instagram handle, my TikTok handle, any handle
that I have is my name. So David Quarrels the fourth,
it's going to be easy and very simple. And then
under that Liz Studio for seventeen and so, and then
under that Lives four, which is my jewelry brand. And
so yeah, it's it's odd without Instagram.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No, what is zoom of fall in zoom zooma falls.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Under the personnelity. So yes, it's what I do on
the weekends.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm happy you're here. I'm stormy everybody that's listening to
the show. And David Quarrels is here an interior designer decorator,
which ones both designer both but yeah designer, Yeah, Okay,
David is amazing. You guys should follow him on Instagram
and see the work that he's doing. He's from Memphis.
Support him every way you can. But I think it's
(17:44):
so important to have this conversation to hopefully reach young
people that are listening. Because you said something that I
want to go back to. You said, my name is
my brand, speak to these young people about to talk
to them.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I mean, oh my god, that is I love your
questions first of all, but I mean you have to
think about your name as your brand, and so that's
also how you carry yourself, yeah, And so I have
to think about it, like I definitely want to carry
myself in a way that makes my parents proud, but
want to make sure that I make myself proud too.
And so if people associate my name with the brand,
and I want that to also be an association with
(18:23):
how do you feel after you've interacted with me? Wow?
And so if we have a good interaction, My whole
goal is to make people feel good through whatever superpower,
because I always ask people what is your superpower? Which
what is your talent? Yeah? And so I just like
for people to feel good, to feel their best selves,
to want to aspire to do more, but love their
(18:44):
life in the meantime. And so that's my brand. And
that's not only what I put online, but that is
what I want people to feel when we simply talk.
And so your name is your brand. It is how
you show up. It's what people think about you once
you leave, and ultimately what mark you left on the
earth when you're no longer here.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So that's deep. The way you explain it, it makes
it more of a to me, more of kind of
a call or calling because and it's somewhat infinite, because
it's like cradle to the grave and beyond. You know
what I'm saying. And I don't think a lot of
(19:26):
us think like that, especially I don't. I don't think
a lot of young people, at least I wasn't. You know,
there was a time in my life when I started
to think about the mark that I wanted to leave.
But for the most part of my life, or a
lot of the part of my life, I'd never thought
about it like that. That makes it, like I think,
it'll make young people if they can get what you said,
it'll make them more accountable. It'll make them not just
(19:48):
accountable to their parents, but to themselves, Be to thine
own self, be true to you, be all of that. Okay,
you just blew me away with that, Thank you very much.
So with the zoomba, how does that go? Do people
call you and say and how do you have time
to do all of this?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I wonder a lot. So I used to. I used
to have like a regular schedule in doing it. But
I think, what was it last year that I finally
made the decision to quote unquote retire? But I wait,
from what zoom zoomba from zoomba. But that's why I
say quote unquote, because I don't it's not a retirement,
It's just that I don't have a So we can.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Get a class after this, after this interview, we can
get a class that we.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Don't have speakers. Oh no, I forgot.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's a radio station.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Baby, what did I do? But no, so thankfully and
with the MMDC, so i'd say retired. That means that
I no longer have a schedule that you can find regularly. Okay,
so like weekly. But through the what is that the
Medical District? So MMDC, I am hired to teach classes
(20:58):
and I actually, well, we offer them free. So they
have like yoga classes and different other or like other
activities that are a fitness base but that are free
to the public. And so that's how you can find
me through the MMDC.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
And so MMDC do we do we what do we
go to m DC.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Nine oh one. You can follow them on Instagram and
then they will have our full schedule or their full schedule,
and I'm just part of it. So our next class
is in June. It is on a Tuesday, and I
do not know the specific date, but they will have
that up there. But then also through the Downtown Commission,
so the DMC, I do classes as well, and so
(21:38):
they're all free to the public or if it's going
to be an event, then we'll publish it of course
as an event and there will be a small cost
something that will be I guess achievable for it all.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Okay, because I'm trying to find them because I like
I like that free word, you see it. Yeah, Okay,
I found the Medical District. Yes, oh, I'm already following
them there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So, no, it's been amazing to work with them since
they actually hired me during the pandemic to do virtual classes,
and so we are Memphis has hired me to do
classes virtually and in person, MMDC, the DMC, so now
it's just all through the city. So then that way
there's a bigger reach and that's ultimately how I've built
(22:21):
my community or became part of a community in the city,
I'll see. And then Instagram came along, so like I've
been around, but just more in the.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, and now we see you on Instagram and see
you blowing up.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So we shall see.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, you're already blowing up, but then you went to
Instagram blew up some.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And I just like to have one.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, well, we see it. I see it not just
in your pictures or in your videos on social media,
but in you personally. You always I see the smile.
Is that something that you carry with you everywhere you go?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I mean, I try to. I think there's enough in
this world that tries to take our smile from us.
And so it's just something internal that if you want
to have a good day, then sometimes you have to
make that decision in the morning and go from there.
And so that's sometime.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Come on here you have to.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And I'll say that there's something like I love reminders,
I love affirmations, and my mom has Oh.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
It's just it's a better way of talking to yourself.
Because I've always thought too that you have to make
sure that your head is a safe space to live in.
And so then that way it's also a safe place
for your heart to operate in and there you can
decide whether or not to have a good day. And
there might be forces that kind of try to change it,
but at the end of the day, it's all about
(23:40):
how you react to things. And it's easier say it
than done. But I know at the end of the day,
I want to have like good, RESTful sleep rather than
stressful sleep, and I could have changed the outcome of
how I felt, So just try to have a good day.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
One of my affirmations years ago that I picked up
is called it says I will not let the ill
actions of others dictate my state of being. I love that.
It's kind of powerful too when you think about it,
because you're always going to have somebody, you know, because
everybody thinks that what happens to them never happens to
(24:17):
anybody else. You're not the only one that has a
bad day, you know, the only one that somebody is
rude to or mean or nasty to. It happens to everybody.
It's not what happens to you, it's how you deal
with what happens to you.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, I love that, And that's also like a good
basis for building your own village, because then you would
have people to talk to and be like, no, I
had a bad day as well. Yes, so what happened,
but this is how it got over it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Do you think that the pandemic kind of took community
from black the black community a little.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Bit because a lot of our things are based in
like face to face gathering, and so we had to
find a different way to make that to find some
normalcy and gathering. But I know, like, for instance, a
lot of my friends, like we ended up doing virtual
hangs and so we may not have said anything to anybody.
It was just seeing your face on the zoom screen.
(25:13):
Or we would develop a playlist and just listen to
the playlist together as we would do little things around
the house, check in, are y'all still good? Okay, I'm
cooking great, and just like playfully like do y'all want something?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
No one good? And will we couldn't give it to
nobody especially, but I know, like two friend groups of
mine we actually did it. Some that are in Memphis
and then others that we're all over. Yeah, but we
just needed to check in or like let me see
your face, And so you had to find new ways.
And I think within the black community that's something that
we're used to, just making sure that we can make
something go and may out of scraps.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Ye, we don't do it. It's a lot happening in
the world and we are still learning boots on the ground, yep.
And ain't mad because.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
We're making it happen. Yeah, I mean it's historically we
have known how to do it. It's just making sure
that we don't lose that. No, hew, lose the will
to do it because it's in us.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, and remembering too, that community is so important. You
know a lot of us. I know some of you
are recluse. You want to be that way? Uh uh,
you need people, you do. Nobody's an island.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
No, And like I say, I as an ambivert, like
I do have my moments to where I'd like to
be alone, but that's also for me to recharge because
I can't. I always like to say that you can't
pour from an empty copp you can't withdraw from an
empty bank. So like I need to deposit something into
me first to be able to give to you because
you don't want my scraps. That's horrible. David.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
David'll look him up, look him up, follow him like
and all that good stuff. Listen. I saw an episode
of there's a a TV show that's on Netflix. I
can't remember the name of the show. What is it,
I can't remember. Anyways, it's an doctor hospital show that
they've got on there. And and the girl told one
(26:56):
of the guys on the show who'd been just doing
people and treating people any kount of the way he said,
she said, you have nothing in your account. And he
was like, what do you mean. She said, when you
need to draw from an account, you know, usually people
put something in, like they do good things for people,
she said, but you have nothing in your account.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
It's a thing. You either need to deposit something or
just take a beat for a second until you can
pour something into someone else in that I will always
say that, always, always, So that's why it's good to recharge.
But then go back to your group.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff, y'all. Thank you David for
stopping by and talking to us today. I really hope that, yeah,
you're welcome. I really hope that somebody is listening to
us that has a business that needed to hear the
things that you are saying today, or whatever it is
you're going through, you just needed to hear, you know,
(27:57):
the things that you said today, because I think we
are you know, we're living in a space where everybody's
angry and everybody's needing to breathe, exhale, just like you
just did. Yeah, And and people are finding it seemingly
harder to do it. And I think that the anytime
I get the opportunity to share on this show something
(28:18):
that lifts people up instead of pulling them down, it
makes me happy. And I just won't say thank you
for being that happy spot for us today.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
And thank you and thank you for like creating a
space to shine light.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, and you are definitely y'all again. Check out David.
He's doing a lot of great things. He's from Memphis.
He's one of memphis own Your mom did she live here?
Did you want to shout your mom and dad out?
You want to shout him out?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Mom and dad and dad is Actually it'll be this
weekend that he plays African in April, and it'll be
like the first time that he plays in public for
a while. Wait a minute, what's your dad do? He's
a guitarist, for Eye to Eye. So I Eye the
band so led by Monty Corals, which is also my uncle.
So we're going down this weekend to support him. It'll
be the first time in a while that he has played,
(29:04):
so I'm excited. What's your dad's name, David Quarrels. So
he's the third, I'm the fourth. And then mom, oh yeah, wow, Okay,
it's in you, built in best friends.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So yeah, yeah, all of that is in you from
your parents.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. Yes, it's art and business okay,
both of them.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, but it doesn't have to be in you for
y'all to get this, okay, because it's contagious. It can
be contagious. Y'all get some of this I'm trying to
tell you, and make your business better, make your homes better,
all of that good stuff. But again, thank you, David.
It is the pulse, y'all. We keep our fingertips on
our on the pulse of our community. And uh, thank
y'all for joining me. David Quarrels. Once again, ladies and gentlemen,
(29:49):
thank you all Right now I'm stormy. Uh we'll see
you next week, same time, same station. God bless you
have a great week,
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