The Love Movement Podcast

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Co hosts The Money Mining Iss Toya Capri and also
see be Chris Brown aka the Musky.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Man is Thinking.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
And we will later introduce our special guest for today.
We got Sean Wade in the building and we also
have Latanya Williams Jenkins in the building, so we will
explain to you guys who these beautiful women are. In
the meantime, we got to give a big shout out
to our sponsors. We gotta pay these bills, keep us
rolling first and foremost. We got Tasteful located in Westchester,

(00:36):
nineteen twenty nine, South Manheim. I did go on their website.
I saw that they had a happy hour throughout the
week from three to seven. So if you ever want
to stop in, grab you a cocktail and eat something good. Okay, well,
I don't know which night, so I didn't want to
get the blood every night dining and then okay, yeah,
all right, yes, okay, don't know where they get these

(00:56):
wings from.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
These wings high dollar is good.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's what I can. We'll figure that out.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
So we're gonna keep it in the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
If you drive up the street, make sure you stop
by Stacy's Cafe eight forty five Man High and bell Wood.
That's one of Chris's favorite spots. He keeps them in
business too.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Go a little further down you make it to the.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
View, seventeen one Roosevelt Road in brid View.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
They do have special days, special nights.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Cocktail hour, in which I did stop in prior to
come in here.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, without being.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
No, no, I stopped listen. I was thinking about you.
I paid for a happy hour. You know what I mean,
I think about you.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hey, I'm gonna give you time to talk. Nor ready,
we ain't even start each yet. That's what I was
going to say. Mayor Nathaniel Booker is celebrating his birthday
at the View as of right now. I think it's
gonna be happening until seven. Is supposed toppen till seven
or eight, but you already know how our Mayor gets down,

(02:16):
so he might be there till eleven o'clock. So we
got the Viola Shi located fifteen sixteen Roosevelt Road in Brivview,
and also the Blue Note, another one that see be
his favorite spots.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, we shoot pool. Yes, as matter of fact, I
was gonna say just one to nine. I had no more.
I didn't have a second he won it, So we
having another one November, the second, fourth, and the fifth.
That's a Sunday, a Tuesday, and a Wednesday, and on
the championship day that Wednesday, we're gonna.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Have free food and stuff like that and tell them
how they can register to get into the They can't.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Have to go to the Blue Note and see Jessica. Okay,
Jessica is handling all of the money. We're gonna have
cash prizes. It's gonna be nice.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
And how long do they have to register prior to
the event? Can they register on the same day?

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, not on the same day,
one week before the event, because I got to tally
up everything and make.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Sure it's okay. All right, y'all, I hear it.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Last, but not least, we got the avenue. We had
our mystery sponsors.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yes, the good.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I just don't under stay.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
We are from Boding somebody, and I don't know where
they where they yet what they doing.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I just got to say the avenue, okay. So that's it.
That's all.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, special thanks to our last week guests Michael and
Tory Gilmer.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
They are owner operator.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Of Yours b STRO Cafe located eleven fifteen South Fifth
Avenue in Maywood. They do do a lot of football nights.
They have very good breakfast, nice cocktails. We uh toy
and I. We took a tour last week. Awesome, very

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sexy vibe.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I like it. So make sure y'all go by and support.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
And they talked about their dream you know how. Oh
yeah it came about. So it's very good. Uh, I was,
I was kind of wild. I didn't know y'all had
the candy, stole the old Tina hood and then you know,
I'm not knowing this. So with blessing, blessings.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
To them, Yes, congratulations to them both. Let's get into
these hot topics, one being the Bears for their win. Finally,
this is the second win.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Don't we get this the fourth game? Right? Yes, so
it's our turn.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Okay, now I might I might get a little bit
more into football this time around if they keep if
they keep it up, yeah, watching this one of them
kind of fingernail.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Give me something to watch.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
You've been watching fashion. He got his fingernails, brew and orange.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
A lot of them doing that.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
I don't understand that thing.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I think even Dwayne Wade got his own Neil Polish line.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
It's been eccentric for a while.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, well, I think we need to mention the fact
that the love movement has been recognized. That's one of
the greatest educations of media media. I mean, we've been
doing this since twenty twenty two and first, yeah, our
first guess was us. Then I figured I was a

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police officer. I said, my best thing is to interview,
because I used to interview.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
People, interview or interrogate.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Right, right, But anyway, Yeah, but we've been recognized and
I want to thank that as for that, and thank
you guys for making show.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Absolutely I'm glad you mentioned that because that was part
of my list, but I hadn't got to that yet.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Oh god, my notes.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's where the list came from. We got so much
going on in the world, including the government shut down.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
How do you guys feel about that?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Note?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Before the show, I was talking to miss Latania Williams
here and she currently works for the government. So how
is that affecting you?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
I feel the effect.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Yeah, there's a lot of rules that's going through, a
lot of notifications that you know, what we can and
cannot do. Prior to what was the October first yesterday.
You know, we were able to work credit work over time,
and of course everything is come.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
To a halt.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
You know, we have we are essential employees, so we
have to be there. So that makes it a little
difficult because for some people just to commute back and
forth from wherever they are within the city.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Is gonna take a toll.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, you said that you are in essential.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Employes.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Okay, physically in the post office branch. Well, yeah, she's
not gonna say where she worked at.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, I was looking at the post office is going
to continue to go with the A lot of the
different other agencies gonna they just doing the military and
the what's the other branch they're doing military and uh,
I can't think of it, but I will. But yeah,

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they didn't close down right, they didn't do social Security
and all that good stuff. Because a lot of older
people don't get a chance to redeem their money because
they're not working at all. They would get their money
back after the right whatever over time or whatever they
owe them or whatever the case might be.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
So it's interesting how it works, right, And the other thing,
sadly is we're dealing with ice. Shout out to America,
Trina brought you. Yeah, I feel so bad.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Serious, it's stressful, and the police force and everyone that
works it is very, very traumatic, and it's dangerous.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
And I posted a question today, a Love Movement question
about is ICE is doing a good job the ICE program,
or how they're going too far? And you responded, I
did explain to us what you meant by that.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
So I believe that everyone has the right to humanity. Yes,
And so whether you're a convicted criminal or not, you
don't deserve to be caged like an animal. Shame on
us if we didn't secure our borders enough where they
could get over here.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
But I'm a firm believer.

Speaker 7 (09:12):
You know, whether you invited somebody in or you did
not invite the man, don't mistreat them. There's due process
and we should be following it, and we are not.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
And it was another young lady said that they're doing
a good job because they're getting the immigrants out of here,
and you responded to her, what you think.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
I think that they're going a little bit overboard. I
think it's a show. You know, there are many other
presidents that preceded him that were getting the immigrants out. However,
They did not put it on stage. They were not
breaking down doors, they were not putting kids in handcuffs
and zip ties. They did not throw kids, i mean

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women on the floor. At least we didn't see it exactly.
You know, they are putting on a show. They are
going and targeting black and brown communities, and that is
the issue because we didn't deserve this, We didn't ask
for this. And how are you.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
How are you able to ascertain who is legal or
who isn't.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Cut you, guys, get I do want to get back
to your question. However, we do got a phone call
coming in. We're going to answer this call and then
I'm going to go back to your question.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Welcome to the Love Line. Who's speaking?

Speaker 8 (10:24):
This is and everybody.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
What's what's up?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
We was just on your topic and you had an
we had you had an opinion, and we'd like to
hear it.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:37):
I was responding to I saw Chris's comment or question
earlier today and and as you just mentioned, someone talked
about doing their job, they should be putting immigrants out.
And then this person also said something about the fact
that immigrants are taking all of our housing, the money,

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all of those sorts of things, and was first of all,
as an African American person, I feel no need to
punch down on anybody. I think that there are ample
individuals who are wealthier than us, who have more power

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than us. Those are the individuals that we are to
be concerned about. Those are the individuals who can actually
do us harm. They can take away our speech, they
can stop us from protesting, they can lock people up
with our due process, they consent us off the street.
So it's not the immigrant whose power lists for the

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most part, without money, without paces to live, that we
should be most worried about. There's a group of powerful
individuals who aim to really do us harm. The other
thing I would say about the ice, and I'm calling
it an invasion. At this moment, we have the contestant
of the two purposes of these kinds of raids or

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this kind of activity. One is, you know, that's just
the immigration, you know, control. But the other one is
to just basically scare the Jesus out of all Americans.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, let me, they don't go uprising.

Speaker 8 (12:16):
And so when you scare the entire American population, you
squashed the thing. And that's part of the goal here
and we need to be really cognizant and aware of that.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, I didn't know what and I respect that, But
also I had one of my callers he said that, uh,
these guys that are working the ICES program now were
the insurgents at the capitol, and uh, Trump turned around
and gave them one hundred thousand dollars jobs and pardoned
them from the whole program. So the controllers there and
I can see and understand exactly what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
I totally agree.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
It's been said that they were they were just these
bounty hunters like that.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
So so they were bounty hunters.

Speaker 7 (12:57):
Bounty hunters get paid by who they captured, right, and
so for them, they feel like, let me go capture everybody.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's no different than let's just throw everything on the
wall and see what sticks. And that's what's going on now.
I agree with Latanya.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
This is all a show, and it's going to be
at the expense of us all because it's extremely expensive
what they're this is an extremely expensive temper tantrum that's
going on, and we're all going to feel it.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Well, thank you, miss miss Evans. We do appreciate you
giving us a call. However, we do got to go
to the next caller.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yes, thank you, you have a good one.

Speaker 8 (13:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, we're all the time schedule today, y'all.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
So, Toy, you were asking a question prior to the call.

Speaker 5 (13:49):
There, how are they identifying who's appropriate to target and the.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Profile?

Speaker 5 (13:58):
And ultimately that's the part that's inhumane to me because
you don't know. So you're just taking these people through
the process and ultimately, you know, we don't know what
happens after that. We really don't know what happens after it.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
And people are getting lost, absolutely, you know, they're getting
lost in the system. Yes, you know, I did hear
or read somewhere where the alligator acatrast.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
You know, the people or that was there.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
They really don't know where they are, you know, So
what about those families and you know, those loved ones.
And that's that's really really hard to I mean, even
if you feel that okay, you know there was a
bunch of Hispanics that came into the you know, into
our cities and taking up our homes, you have to
have some type of compassion. And that is where I

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think you're right, That is someone's loved.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
One there's no compassion in politics, and that's one of
the problems that we have. That's why they're fighting now,
that's why the government shut down or whatever the case
might be. It's no, I'm not I'm a whole mind
back just because you doing what you're doing. It's no compassion.
But at the end of the day, it's very important
that we understand that most of this stuff that is

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going on affects us in one way or another. I
don't care if it's right or wrong or whatever the
case might be, but we're going to be affected by
one way. Those those ice programs are getting paid, but
those people that work on the other side, they're not
getting paid.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
What's It's a big distraction really, what's important, Epstein files exactly,
and the fact that the campaign was ran on stimulating
our economy and getting us back where you and I
and none of all of us going back to the
grocery store and not feeling the pinch that we currently

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you know, feel with our income not increasing but the
expenses of everyday living is increasing.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
So that's really what this is about.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
Its total distraction based on the promises that were made
during the campaign that can't be fulfilled, and this is
more of a way to kind of just distract us
all from what really is happening.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
He's and they distracting those from the light bills. That's
another thing.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Chris the checked. He'll know his building went up. You
think it's the same, You think it's the same.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Progress, That's right.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
That's miss Wade. Oh lord, you got to that point.
You're that old now where you can say I'm going
to fix the income.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Everybody's on to fix it.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
But I hear that a lot of African American people.
They always say I want to fix it. Everybody I
know that's retired they say that everything. And I get it.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
And I worked at the police station every week.

Speaker 9 (17:04):
I surprises it's and it's sad because I saw somebody
post the other day they were excited about getting this
job and they said one down, two more to go.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
I'm like, dad, that's just the world that we live in.
We now got to have two and three jobs just
to make hands meet. So let's say it.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
I congratulated her forgetting the one job, but yeah, it's
hard to just find one job, let alone two or
three of them.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
So big up to those that do have a job.
Be grateful for sure.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
We everybody is going through a lot coming down to
the show. We got Sean Wade in the building. She
is the owner operator of Total Capacity Training and Development Center.
Alongside of her is her sister friend Latinia Williams Jenkins,
who is going to be a part of her So
with Me Academy, who is who is a part of

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the She is the rector of Sowing Me Academy. So
with that being said, please tell us who you are
and how you got started with Total Capacity Training Center.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Well, first and foremost you all thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I know, been tried.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Let me get it together perfect. Yeah, it really is.
This has been in the making. I've been working with
youth for well over twenty five years. I worked on
the darker side of it though, so more of the
at risk youth, So that's not something you want to

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talk about. I've been in extremely dangerous positions. I've dealt
with human trafficking right right in my own hometown, you know,
and that's hard to see when you know the family
and you know I my daughter as she grew up,

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you know, Uh, she had a concern, right, she.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Had a concern with career or.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
With with me dealing with at risk.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
I did the same too. I work with that risk
kids as well.

Speaker 7 (19:19):
And it's because it can be dangerous when when you
start talking about human trafficking, you're not just dealing with
that young lady. You're also dealing with her offender, and
so their ultimate goal is to keep her where they
want her. So I had one of my most dangerous
situations right in Maywood, Illinois. But nevertheless, when I had

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a young lady and I knew her whole family, that
was my turning point because I got to a point
where I felt like, if I can't save her, I'm
letting down the entire family.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
So I pivoted.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
And I just started talking about, you know, I want
to do some positive and if you want to join me,
you got to come up to where I am. I
can't reach down there for you no more, right because
I've been reaching and reaching and reaching and you.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
Keep pulling back.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
So that is what birth Total Capacity Training and Development Center.
And it was just I was just having a conversation
with somebody and they at first they were like, why
would you want to reinvent the will?

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Just go help somebody, and.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
I said, everybody's will don't turn the same and everybody's story.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Ain't the same, correct.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
And I coached these girls from self disclosure because I
was that teenager, right CB. I did everything I thought
I was big and bad enough to do. So I
can relate to a lot of things that they are doing.
But I also can show them that life comes in stages, right,

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So when you hit thirteen, you want to be sixteen.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Right, when you hit sixteen, you want.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
To be eighteen. If they knew, if you only knew, right,
please please.

Speaker 7 (21:16):
And so just from my own life experiences, my own
self discoveries, I decided to start the program, and coupled
with they've removed so much from the schools. Yeah, so
basically our program is a home economics program, because you know,
I remember going to school and going to missus Jackson's

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class and taking foods and and the I forget what
it was called when they had the mock wedding and
you yeah, and you had to take the baby home.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
I never got that one.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, I always wanted that until I heard that baby
cyt for real real son had a.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
And so it just became a passion and a goal
of mine and probably for the last I'm gonna say
sixteen years I have prayed.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
For this day. What made you come up with that name?
Total capacity?

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Well, total capacity encompasses everything, and so we service the
entire person.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
It's not just academics.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
It's not just you know, you're having a bad day,
it's not just cooking. When they leave the program, we
want them to be a whole person. We want them
to be ready. We want them to have life skills.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
You know we have.

Speaker 7 (22:53):
We've got everything in under that roof that they will need.
We even have a zendance. So if they having a
bad day, I'm not calling your mother going to a chill.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Get your mind right.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
You you come from a heck of a family too.
Your daddy was in Black Panthers, Your mama was a sweetheart,
Shirley and Paul Wade. And it's very, very important that
I look at the look in your eyes and say,
from the business standpoint where your daddy had his business
and stuff, where did how did that affect you?

Speaker 4 (23:26):
What did you see? So I watched my mother for years.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
She maintained her career as well as ran that business,
and and that's something to really admire because it's not easy.
So she was a mother and she was a mother.
I was a teenager, right, she was a mother. Matter
of fact, I was younger than a teenager. So I
watched my mother do both and she never ever complained.

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So prior to starting as I had a catering business
for long time, and I ran the catering business alongside
my career job.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Comes and I got that from my mother and and
I watched.

Speaker 7 (24:12):
You know, my mother and father were prominent in the community.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yes they did.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
And and shout out to everybody that gives my father
all the respects still to this day.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
You know, I go somewhere and you paulways do.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Now I'm still a little young Paul.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Wait now was he the owner of the liquor store
that was located on Medicine?

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, so I do know your dad. I did have
the privileges, but.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
You know I would say this, but the wage, Do
y'all have a meet? Not had everybody on this show
to uh denied and and and just taking the schools.
Do y'all sit down and meet once a month or so?
You know we to do because I got them on

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the show November sixth, DLD coming back and.

Speaker 7 (25:07):
So entrepreneurship runs deep in our venys. You know, if
I had to just name drop denor reality, that was
my youngest, my grandmother's youngest sister and her husband. So
all of that on seventeenth had the way insurance, all
the way turned the corner.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
The Lacey's.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
So my aunt Maddie, I almost called her by a nickname,
but she had the ice cream parlor.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
So entrepreneurship it had.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
To be inspirational to all of the kids in the
family that case, because a lot of us, I could
say us per se, but there are a lot of
people that don't know a lot of business owners. And
now it's it is becoming the norm, which is a
good thing for the African American community. We now can
say we know the owner to that store, we know
the owner to that boutique, or you know, whatever the

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case may be.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
But that's awesome that Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
So we've had lots and lots of entrepreneurs in our family. Yeah,
and I'm fortunate because I had it on both sides.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
We so that's good stuff right there. So but listen,
you gotta be event coming up I do, so tell
us what you do for the people that's in your camp.
Tell us all of the different activities and stuff that
you guys have.

Speaker 7 (26:25):
So we service girls ages ten to seventeen, and on
every Saturday, they have sewing and cooking. We've been going
through a renovation since twenty twenty three, and we were
just explaining that even in the very beginning we were having.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Sewing was the first thing that we launched.

Speaker 7 (26:47):
And I'm gonna let Miss Latonia talk a little bit
about that, but sewing was the first thing we launched.
And I had signs up to said pardon our dust,
and I was standing on plywood saying don't stand over here.
But it's because I was just that determined that this
was going to happen, and if it meant that I

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had to stand there in a white suit to keep
dust and dirt, that I did it. I did it all.
There's plenty videos with me with two French braids in
my hair, fanding on rocks and trenches. But it was
my baby, and so the buildout was important to me
because I knew what I wanted to do and I
knew how I wanted it to be. So we do

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sewing cooking on Saturdays, so we're there from ten in
the morning. So cooking is from ten to noon, and
then beginning sewing is from noon to two, and then
intermediate is from two to four. So they go through
there's phases. So the beginning is they I'm gonna let
her explain that. How about that, Let's let miss lataanya.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Okay, So yes, we do the basic sewing with understanding
the fundamentals of the machine. We go from sewing on
paper to sewing on muslin. We talk about the needles
and then the anatomy of the sewing machine altogether. Once

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they understand or do the first two classes, then they're
making a toe back. So after each class or after
each four weeks, so each session is four weeks, they
can walk away with something tangible and that is when
I can see the smiles on their face and the
proud you know, how proud they are to finish. The
intermediate goes more into understanding patterns, working with fabric. I

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think we did want a pair of shorts the second time,
and she wasn't able.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
To wear them.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
However, you know the next time, the next time she'll
be able.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
To, you know, to complete it.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
The next phase that I'm going in as far as
with the new sessions starting on the October fourth. We
are going from concept to creation and I am so
excited about that project because at the end of the
series of classes, they will walk away with garments that

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they will be able to wear.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
They will be able to bring their.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
Friends and family, probably April April time frame, and we'll
do a fashion show for them with with.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Garments that they actually wore.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
So I am super, super excited. My background is fashion design.
I've gone to school for fashion design right here in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
I a d T.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
I also, of course part of the family, but you know,
business as you know whatever. Yeah, yeah, you know. So
I used to have a song line for for a
number of years and white blouse so online or whatever

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that I just again over time, family, you know, kids
got in a way, and then of course everything kinds
of phase out. But this is almost like a renewal
awakening from myself, you know. And when Sean brought it
to my attention that, you know, she said, do you
think I think Her question for me was, do you
think you can teach me how to sew? Because I

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want to teach Like that's that's no, that's a loaded questions.
Let me just take that up your planet, you know,
so and then since then we've been and that was
over a year ago that I've been right there by
her side through it all, through every question, through every construction,
through every I think a flood in the in the

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building while we were about to have a class the
next day, and I mean, it's it has been a
rollercoaster of events. But I am so happy and so
proud to be with her, and in this moment.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Now, you guys have good energy together, good chemistry too.
I know, prior to the show we talked about possibly
having adult classes.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I told you Toy and I would be.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
Throughout the So it's crazy because when we initially launched
the sewing classes for kids, you know, I think we
did a pop up for kids and we had a
bunch of kids that came. We got so many inquiries
about teaching adults, and Sean was like, wait, hold on.
You know, periodically we do soap sip and sos. So

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we've done quite a few sip and sos there where
we're I think one time we made tote bags. Another
person came, a group of women came for a birthday,
so they had balloons and chacouterie boards and wine and
so on. And so forth, and they they did clutch
backs the last sip and so that we did. We

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did Chinese knockbacks. So and then they had their embroidered
name uh that they can put on it. So it
made it personalized. But I think I was telling you
earlier that if it was my family, we would be like,
forget the sewing, let's get the one. Yeah, but these
ladies are so engaged in learning how to sew. Now,

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some people know that that is not for them. However,
at the end of each class, they walked away with
something again, the ability to have something tangible that they
can say I made it's you know, that's my high.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Now that the sewing game has changed over the years,
and it's some easier ways to get to the shoulder
and to the arm, and how you make it, how's
you changed as far as.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
You're look my so I am.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
My aunt is a designer, So I grew up with
the design of my family. My mother taught me how
to sew when I was ten years old. From there,
I had a strong understanding of what fashion was and
what custom work meant for me. It's not it hasn't changed.
It's exactly the same way when we were picking up

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pens in my aunt's you know, when she was to
sew for us, she was, you know, stick pans on
the floor.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
We were just.

Speaker 6 (33:05):
Find me some pans, you know.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
So it hasn't changed now.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
I think that because of not understanding a lot of
the intricate details of how to sew. We are kind
of cutting corners, but the the concept of how to
do it remains the same. Now is either doing it.
Let me not say that, because I think I respect
everybody's art and everybody's talent, but the ability to lay

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out fabric, true fabric and make sure you're on the
grain line and all the details of how to do
it properly is we're cutting corners.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Yeah, But.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Now do they still have the packages where you could
buy the patterns?

Speaker 6 (33:50):
We got a lot of them. You want some, they
sell them. But understand, fabric stores don't exist anymore. We
don't have the joints, we don't have the handcocks. And
that's where I grew up, you know, sitting in a
joyance and flipping through a book of patterns, like, oh,

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I want to wear this, and we were just talking
about that guarden contrail, and I may want in heist everything, Chris, Like,
what is that from?

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Remember?

Speaker 2 (34:27):
That's that's what you get when you when you cutting corners.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
That's what.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
We didn't know what.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
We were doing.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
I'm gonna put it like that.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
She had to right concept.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
You know, she had the machine and the fabric, but
it just didn't work out right, you know.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Shout out to my auntie because she she tried to
teach me how to sel. When I was younger, I
didn't have the interest in it. Then now that I've
gotten older and I look at fashion, there are some
things that I may want to tweak to make it
my own.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Now I'm interested. So she probably watching this show like girl,
now you want to learn.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
So I've always been impressed with so because my aunt
she uh made my.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
So your proms, I knew you say problem.

Speaker 7 (35:16):
Yeah, it was like, okay, I'm impressed the same that
she was talking about. She made my prime and I
guarantee you I had to pick up all the stick
pans for you.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
That was everything.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
Yeah, my prime dress, homecoming suits, everything, she made it all.
Shout out to Louis, you.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Need to make us a suit.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
How do the young people get into program? How does that?

Speaker 4 (35:49):
How does the registration.

Speaker 7 (35:51):
They can just go to the website t C t
DC dot org and scroll down to academies. Now, I
will say that beginning October fourth, there is a fee
attached to cooking and sewing, and it's simply because food

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is extremely.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Supplies supplies period.

Speaker 7 (36:15):
So we are I'm ramping up now more of the
adult events because each adult event we have supports the children.
So you'll start to see more of you know, the
tie classes that we're talking about, the sipping sews. We're
gonna be doing pop ups where the kids will bake
cookies or whatever it is we'll do, and you all

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come out and support them, because that's how they keep going.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
And I'll tell you this.

Speaker 7 (36:41):
I've got one student in particular in the kitchen, and
she was very confident we When it came time we
start talking about the grand opening, she came to me
and she said, can I just make some cookies.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
For you to say, serve at the grand opening?

Speaker 7 (37:02):
And that really touched my heart right because that tells
me she's invested, she's comfortable, she's comfortable enough with me
to come to me and ask. And everything we do
we do with purpose. And so even though we might
be baking cookies or cutting pasta or what.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
I was gonna say. Let it be known, y'all ain't
just over there making cheese soundwiches. I saw potatoes on
the counter. So y'all over there cooking, cooking, y'all at playing.

Speaker 7 (37:31):
Yeah, they they've done a lot of We've done a
lot of different fairs of food.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (37:37):
The one time we did, uh, they did the fried
rice and egg rolls completely from scratch.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
They had to cut the vegetables. So we cook.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
I'm gonna put my twenty three year old in there.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
She told me yesterday she tried to make steak FORGT
to turn the stove off.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I said, I come on that, she noticed it.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
She turned the lights off, she saw the blue plates,
yourself potato.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
What happened to that girl?

Speaker 7 (38:09):
I trade as well. So it's important to me for
them to learn everything. More important than anything is food
sanitation and safety. And that is one of the things
that I don't play about in my kitchen at all.
And so that they all know. You know, you got
to keep a clean house. You got to keep a

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clean kitchen.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
You know.

Speaker 7 (38:31):
You can't you mess around and throw something some garbage
and you and your dish rightminate, So yeah, go ahead, No, no.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
You go ahead.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
What's your mission statement? Tell us that's that's that's very
important when you're doing an organization, and your mission statement
is what you stick to this, that's what motivates you
to do what you're doing.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
So I have three or four let's go, So let's
see what I share with you tonight. My biggest thing,
as I mentioned earlier, is is to speak to the
totality of the young ladies. So we instill confidence in them,
we instill excellence. We do everything and excellence when I

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tell you, we bang that in their heads.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Not that you won't make a mistake, because you will.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
I'm not asking you to be perfect, but but my
late grandfather always used to say to me, your life
gives you lessons. Those lessons create your book. Don't drop
your book or you'll lose your lessons. And so that
has stuck with me all of my life, and so

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I carry that on to the young ladies as well.
Is that I don't expect for you to be perfect.
Nobody expects for you to be perfect, but I want
you to be confident and I want you to always
operate in who you are.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Don't be who society wants.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
You to be.

Speaker 7 (40:04):
Be your own person, because there's a place here for everybody.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
So for us, I would say confidence is.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
I used to use the acronym meal prep, but it
got too confusing because people thought we were really so
I kind of stop using that. But it's just preparedness, motivation,
you know, motivate yourself right. Look in the mirror. I
have mirrors all over in that place, you know, just

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because you know how we are, ladies. We walked past
that mirror and we double back, and we like, wait
a minute, girl, that don't look.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Right, and then the feelings.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Y'all do it too before you go out.

Speaker 7 (40:47):
But it's the same thing with your life. Double back,
make sure you're good, make sure you're decent in their order.
So we talk about it in the sow and and stuff.
You know, they talk we're gonna talk about and have
talked about image, right, Yes, So if if you open
up here, you need to be closed up at the bottom.
You don't just need to be all over.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Right, So us the person with their thighs out, But
that's how I am. It's either one of the tools.
You're not fully exposed all the time I ran it to.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
A young lady at Target, and uh, I just couldn't
understand how a manager would even let her be in
at work in the way she looks. And I'm telling y'all,
sometimes my spirit just don't it, don't shut up, And
so I did. I went over to her and I
told her, I say, you know, are these the only
pants that you have to work? And I don't want

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to be too graphic, but your undergarments should not Your
pants shouldn't be so tight that your undergard.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Well not fix exactly.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
But yeah, so you know I have a I'm a
servant at heart, right, I'm just I love serving people,
and the kids just happen to be my focus and
I love.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
Everything about them.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
They don't come in there always, right, they come from
all walks of life, right, you never know, but you
cannot be judgmental. And you have to meet these kids
where they are. You want to do a TikTok. Let's go.
I might look crazy, but let's go. You know that's
their world.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Not to cut you off, I do want you to
tell the viewers again how they can reach you, how
they can get a hold of miss Sean Wade at
Total capacity.

Speaker 7 (42:45):
You can go to www dot t C t DC
dot org. That is to register. I am reachable. It's
reached me on Facebook. I respond, it's nobody managing my account.
I get in boxes all the time. I do respond
to them. If you have a daughter, a niece, a cousin,

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anybody that you think would benefit from this program. I'm
telling y'all, we're doing some amazing things over there. Get
in there right now while you can get in. At
one point we had a weight list for sewing summer cane.
You know, the kids kind of die out, but as
the momentum is building back up, there will be a

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weight list because sewing can only handle ten at a time.
The kitchen can only handle six, maybe seven for safety.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
So get them in there.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
Hey, hey, listen, I'm telling you, I'm so proud of you.
You You've come a long way and you're doing some
positive stuff. Thank you, and we got the October fourth
in he'llside. That's right, your baby right there. Cut to
thank you, earl. We appreciate you on the test steam everybody.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Closing out clothes.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Why you don't have to treat people the way you
want to retreats and never give up.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
That's a pretty girl on day.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Boo boos just want to have fun to thank you.
No what a real one it's for. How to come
through turn up, turn up with pass