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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, my name is Sherry
and welcome to my podcast,
Silver Tea, and today thisepisode is about
entrepreneurship and I have aspecial guest on.
Her name is Miss Hollywood andwe're going to talk to her about
how has her journey so far beenin the business world?
Renee?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hi everybody.
Okay, so, first off, my name isMiss Hollywood.
A lot of people know me byRenee I don't go by that anymore
but I started a show, aplatform 2022.
I don't know, that's where I'mat.
I started a platform in 2022,but I want to know what you want
(00:39):
to know about how that processstarted.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So I mean, I think
your name is very unique.
Can you tell me a little bitabout how you came up with your
name?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm glad you asked
that, because nobody ever asked
me where Miss Hollywood camefrom.
As you can see, I'm chill today, so a lot of people might think
Miss Hollywood, I have to beglitz and glam, nails, done all
that.
But I got that name from a guywho was working.
Where I worked 20 somethingyears ago, 20, 30 years ago
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maybe um, I had on steel toeboots, jeans, sweatpants or
whatever and he was like aforeman, like a grandfather
figure.
He was like you just look likeyou belong in Hollywood.
And I was like really like okay, whatever.
But look at me, now I'm usingthat name for my platform and I
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it was like it was like thego-to name.
I didn't think of anything else.
I wasn't going to use Renee.
I said, what can I do, missHollywood?
So I kind of grappled with it alittle bit and then I'm like
that's it and that's how I gotit.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I mean that's.
I love the story.
So tell me how has having thisunique name influenced your
identity and business journey?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's funny because,
again, like I just said, when I
first started, people look at melike 20, 30 years ago I was
Miss Hollywood, Like the, the,what people think of as
Hollywood.
You know what I'm sayingDressed up, furs and all that
stuff.
I'm in my soft girl chill eranow.
You know, at my age I won'ttell my age, but I think that
(02:18):
Hollywood, Miss Hollywood, iswhatever you want it to be.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So what challenges
have you faced and how did you
overcome them while you're goingthrough this journey of Miss
Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
The challenges that I
faced the most, unfortunately,
are haters reporting my video.
As a content creator, it seemslike the bigger you get, you get
people that just report yourvideos for no reason.
I mean, that's pretty much beenthe story of the entire time
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that I've had my my platform,which is two years people
reporting my videos so I can'tget monetized.
Um, so that's why I try tosteer people towards my website,
because I feel like socialmedia, like apps, they have us
in a chokehold and I don't wantto be controlled by the social
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media app.
So I kind of just use them tobuild the platform, to build my
following, and try to directpeople to my website so that I
can maintain control of myplatform.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, so I know you,
we had a conversation and we
talked about what makes yourbrand stand out, and I know you
kind of get away from beingcalled a podcast and more about
being called a show.
Can you tell me a little bitmore about that?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Okay.
So when I first started firstoff, I sat down before I started
and I said what do I not wantto be?
Because there are bloggers thatI see that you know are I don't
know.
I just I don't like how they dowhat they do, and that's you
know, are I don't know, I just Idon't like how they do what
they do, and that's you know,that's my, my issue, not theirs.
(04:06):
That's you know they're doingwhat they do and they're making
money or whatever they're doing.
But there was this oneparticular blogger that I will
not name, but I just knew that Idid not want to be like that
blogger.
Um, so I had to figure out whatI wanted to be.
Do you want to be like WendyWilliams?
What do you?
What do you want to be like?
For me, I want to be myself,because I'm definitely a
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different type of character.
Okay, definitely a differenttype of character.
But I wanted to bring somethingto people that was something
that would help like.
Okay, so let me, let me, let mego back a little bit.
Started out with the chat withMiss Hollywood.
Started out with the chat withMiss Hollywood, okay.
So, basically, with the chatwith Miss Hollywood, I was doing
one-on-one interviews withpeople and I wanted to hear
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their real life stories, whetherit was good or bad drug
addiction, abusive relationships, you know, whatever it was and
my hope was that their storieswould help somebody that was
watching.
That was not, you know, likebrave enough to come forward
with their own story, but youwould still be helping somebody
that you didn't know.
I wanted to try to help.
(05:13):
You know, help other people,and that whole concept just goes
back to my own story, which I'mnot going to get into because
y'all going to be recording fora year, a couple of years.
But it worked and I started tofeel like that wasn't enough.
I felt like my personality wastoo big and that just wasn't
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enough for me.
So then I added celebrity gossip, trending news, and then Woo
Honey Wednesdays.
Woo Honey Wednesdays is like mybaby.
So I have two co-hosts, sunny Dand Alto Edwards, and Woo Honey
Wednesdays.
We talk about celebrity gossipand trending news, but we also
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provide something that peoplecan implement into their
personal lives to help them, andI get tons of messages from
people all the time thanking meLike I'm so glad you talked
about that.
Thank you, you gave me innerstrength, you made me stronger.
You made me realize that Idon't have to give an F.
That's the one I really like.
So I'm helping people tounderstand that.
(06:21):
You know like I am not just aperson out here who can, just
who just gets on.
You know social media everyweek, because my shows once a
week and just talks about whatcelebrities are doing and all
that.
No, there's a bigger picture,but this is all just a stepping
stone for me.
This is not.
This is not what I'm gonna bedoing.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I love how you were
talking about how you're
receiving letters and people aretelling you how you you're
making a positive impact intheir lives.
So I we had a conversationearlier when we talked about
you're not just impacting peoplein the community, but but you
impacting beyond.
So how do you feel aboutknowing that you're impacting
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somebody in a whole differentcountry, somewhere?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It's wild Again.
I get lots of inboxes frompeople just thanking me and it's
weird, but it makes me feelgood because I feel like, where
I come from, I did not havesupport.
I did not have, you know, Ijust didn't have like support
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period, that's pretty much it.
I didn't have support.
I didn't have anybody to go to,to confide in, you know, to
turn to, so for people to feelcomfortable enough and safe
enough to come to me, that is,that's a big deal to me and I
cherish that.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And you know, I hope
to make an even bigger impact
and I want to touch back on yourWoo Honey Wednesday so that I
had opportunity to be a guestco-host and I love the anonymous
letter.
They are so interesting andintriguing and fully infamous.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
How did you?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
come up with that?
Yes, yeah, it is sexual.
I'm telling you how did youcome up with that?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Let me tell you
something Everything that I'm
doing now, I tried it all in thevery beginning, but I didn't
have a following.
I didn't have a base.
I was just growing it and I wasimpatient at that time.
I wanted everything right away.
But it doesn't work that way.
You have to be patient.
So I have convinced myself thatI need to be patient and slow
(08:30):
down, because I was, you know,like I just wanted everything
right now, and that's just nothow it works.
So I don't know, I'm just, I'mworking on my craft, I'm working
on myself and just trying to.
You know, I'm trying to elevate, I'm trying to level up and do
things, but also show otherpeople that you can do this,
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because a lot of people thinkthat when you get a certain age,
all right, you need to sit downLike, listen, I'm just getting
started.
Y'all going to get sick of me.
I ain't been sick of me, theybeen sick of me.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So are you receiving
any type of community
initiatives or any partnerships,Not just in the community, but
are you just?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I'm working on some
right now- I'm working on some
things right now.
Yeah, Actually, a couple of bigdeals, so we'll see what
happens.
I don't get ahead of myselfbecause I've done that before,
and when I talk about too muchand I you know, it gets messed
up.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So I know you are.
You're a wife and a grandmother, and so how do you balance your
, your life between?
I was watching a podcast whereit tells you your balance your
life, as well as balance yourpodcast or your show.
So I mean, how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I just do it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You don't lose
yourself.
I have support too.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
My husband supports
me.
You know the kind of life thatI have.
I'm able to do what I want todo when I want to do it, and I
have support for the first timein my life.
So, yeah, I'm able to do a lotof things.
That's how I do it.
Have my grandkids over Listen,grandkids come over.
You know, they know Mima isdoing whatever on her phone.
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I live with this thing, okay,but I have started to chill with
the screen time Because, again,in the beginning, when I first
started, I did a whole blog andI'm like, oh yeah, you got to
make sure that you balance.
You know, like you just said,you got to balance your family
life and, you know, spend timewith your spouse and do this.
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I wasn't doing that, I was hype.
I'm on this phone like content,content, my like, my limit for
content is supposed to be likethree a day.
Girl.
I'm doing like 35 pieces ofcontent a day.
That's how much I love what Ido, though.
So I mean, I do what I do andeverybody happy in my house.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You have a wonderful
viewership.
I mean, you're up to what 15,14 million plus viewers what?
15, 14 million plus 14 millionviewers.
That that's fascinating.
Yeah, now what advice would yougive to a upcoming podcaster
like myself?
What would you give them?
Like what's the best thing totell me I would?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
say to you have to be
very consistent, because that's
the one thing that I do.
I'm very consistent, even whenI'm sick, I'm.
I'm doing content.
You know what I mean.
You have to be consistent.
And if you can't, if you findthat you can't like, you know
like if you're sick or something, and you're the type of person
that when you're sick, you'rejust down, try to schedule your
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post, have your, have yourcontent ready and just schedule
it out.
You know what I mean and that,even if you're not sick,
schedule it out, because thenyou can do other things that you
need to prioritize.
You know what I mean.
Your life is not just going tobe all about content, but it has
to be, you know, consistent,Because as soon as you fall off,
your numbers fall off.
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The algorithm all messed up,you know that's.
You got to do that.
Stay consistent.
The algorithm all messed up,you know that's.
You got to do that.
Stay consistent.
So that would be the advicethat I and don't and don't rush
it If your numbers.
You know a lot of people don'tlike to focus on the numbers.
I like to focus on the numbers,but, um, I would just say, just
be patient, because when it'ssupposed to, you know, happen,
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and you know everything issupposed to.
Your number is supposed to jumpup, your followers jump up, and
all that It'll happen when it'ssupposed to.
Don't think that, you know, youjust started, really, you know,
not long ago, so you just justbe patient, Just be patient.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
So where do you see
your brand in the next five
years?
I know you have some otherstuff you said you have in the
fire going on.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Where do I see my
brand?
Yeah somebody else running itbecause I ain't doing it.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Wow yeah, I got other
things to do.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
this is a stepping
stone, I'm telling you, but I
really it's.
Sometimes I shock myselfbecause I'm just like how did
you even think?
First off, you started off justtalking to people, right, and
now you got Woo, honeyWednesdays, you got all this
other stuff that you're doing,like I do like tons of things.
But I eventually want to moveinto other things that I wanted
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to do as a child actingcommercials, all kinds of things
, other things that I want to do, not this.
But I have created a base, youknow, to help me to have people
be able to follow what I do next.
And I don't know, it's justit's still like kind of shocking
that.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I don't know, it's
crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So it sounds like
you're going to achieve all your
dreams in the next five years,so I'm rooting for you.
I'm here in your corner.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
So can you tell us
where we can watch Woo Honey
Wednesdays?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
How you say Woo Honey
, woo Honey, you're going to
watch.
Well, okay, so you watch WooHoney Wednesdays on the Char
Miss Hollywood's officialFacebook, youtube, instagram,
what else?
My LinkedIn yeah, so you canwatch the show on all those
channels.
But the season finale, seasonone, is over this Wednesday.
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Season one is over.
I'll see what's going to happenafter season one, because you
know my mind, I don't know.
It's always up to something.
In my mind, it's just.
This is constant.
I'm always thinking of newthings to do.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I hope you enjoyed
the show.
I want to thank Miss Hollywoodfor coming on.
Thank you, my listeners and myviewers, and you know what I
always say Early detection isthe best protection.
So please get your annualmammograms done.
And if you haven't gotten themdone, what are you waiting for?
If you got them done, schedulethem for next year.
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Until next time, I'll see youin the next episode.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Outro Music.