In this episode of "Geaux Queen," we feature the talented Tiffany S. Walker, the creative force behind Dallas' Pink Lucy brand. Tiffany shares her journey from her early beginnings as a designer to becoming a prominent figure in the fashion industry. She discusses the inspirations behind her unique designs, the profound impact her mother has had on her career, and how she gives back to the community through her Pink Academy.
Join us for an inspiring conversation with Tiffany as she talks about staying true to her vision, overcoming challenges, and empowering others through fashion.
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Do you remember that old song from back in the day by Bobby
McFerrin? Don't worry, be happy.
Let that be your mantra, Don't worry, be happy.
Whatever it is, that's when you down.
If you're overthinker, whatever it is, is putting you on
overtime because you cannot get it out your mind.
Don't worry about it. Sit it down, stop thinking about
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it, put it away and don't think about it anymore.
Don't worry. Be happy, focus on your
happiness, focus on your energy.Don't let any problem or
situation that you're going through weigh you down another
minute. Remember that.
Don't worry. Be happy.
It sounds super simple, but it'sa way to live.
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It's a way to think to just don't worry, be happy.
Things have a way of working itself out.
There's so many things. I bet you can look back on your
life that you stressed yourself out.
You were like, Lord, I don't know how I'm going to get
through this. And that situation resolved
itself. It may not have resolved itself
quickly, but when it did resolveitself, there was nothing that
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you did to make that resolve. Everything worked out in your
favor. What did the worrying do?
Nothing. All it did was add stress on top
of what you were already dealingwith to begin with.
So just remember that simple mantra, that simple phrase.
Don't worry, be happy. It's all going to work itself
out in the long run. Hey Queen, welcome to another
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episode of the Q Chat. Today we have the pleasure of
speaking with the incredibly talented Dallas based designer
Tiffany S Walker. Tiffany is the creative force
behind Pink Lucy. Tiffany shares her journey from
her early beginnings in Louisiana in the fashion world
to becoming a prominent designer.
We'll dive into what inspires her unique creations, the
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profound impact her mother has had on her birthday career, and
the meaningful ways in which shegives back to her community
through her Pink Academy. So join us as we learn more
about Tiffany's story of passion, resilience, and
philanthropy. She's a queen about a business,
working hard on a mission and how purpose driven.
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Crown on, never tilted. Go queen.
Go queen, go queen. So thank you guys for joining
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another episode. The Key Chat today, my very
special guest is Miss Tiffany S Walker.
Tiffany just recently celebrated21 years of her company, Pink
Lucy. So we're going to talk about her
amazing design company. Also she has this amazing pink
Academy which works with young kids from ages 8 to 17.
So many things I want to talk toher about.
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So how you doing today? I'm well, how about you?
I'm saying good, so happy to talk with you.
Like I told you on camera, I don't know why didn't wear pink
pink, You know, I think I worn it out, so maybe that's why they
put it on. But I wanted to start with
asking about your inspiration. I know like we talked that
you're actually from my home state of Louisiana from short
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sport. So I know I was reading about a
lot of things about you. I know your mom was one of the
inspirations behind Pink Blue Sea.
So I want you to start and tell us your roots and how well you
started this company and also the inspiration with your
mother. OK, so like she said, I'm
originally from Shreveport, LA, born and raised, and my mother
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was a great inspiration in my life as well as my father.
I lost my dad when I was 13 years old.
My father was in the fashion industry.
He modeled professionally. He also did set design windows,
displays, like just an artist all the way around.
And he was an artist as far as like drawing and painting as
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well. So I was around it all my life.
My mother was a fit model for Neiman Marcus.
So I grew up in a household thatreally pushed creativity and I
was, I was always told that any dream that I had that I could
completely pursue it. So it wasn't those things, One
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of those things where my parentsjust like constantly trying to
box me and like, oh, you need tobe a lawyer, you need to be a
doctor. It was nothing like that.
So I'm growing up in a householdthat allowed me to be completely
who I was and to be a creative just really fueled it even more.
And when my father passed away when I was 13 years old, I made
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a decision vision at that time that I was going to pursue art
and fashion because there was were the two things that I love.
And I was going to make sure that I went as far as I possibly
could to continue his legacy andalso to do what he did not do.
You know, I felt like there was so much more than he could have
done with all the talent that hehad.
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But he had some things that, youknow, were up against him.
They didn't allow him to fully pursue his his goals and his
dreams. And I just decided that I wasn't
going to be one of those people that said, oh, I wish I would
have XYZ. Oh, I could have.
Like, I never wanted that to be my story.
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So I made that decision at a very young age and I made sure
that I saw it through completely, from styling my
friends to having my room looking like a store display,
you know, just anything I could do to hone the crafting skills
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that I had. And my mother made a pact with
me that, OK, I will completely support your dream, but you must
go to college and graduate from a four year, a four year
accredited college. She did not want me to go to art
school. She wanted me to make sure that
I had something to fall back on and I did.
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Just then. I graduated from Louisiana Tech
University in Reston with a degree in fashion merchandising
and marketing with a minor in art.
So after I graduated, I was like, OK, I did it.
I did exactly what you said I had to do.
And now I'm ready to pursue my dreams and my goals completely.
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So I come, I came to her one dayand I was like, Ma, I think I
should have a fashion show. She was like, she looked at me.
She said, with what money? And I was like, no, like I'm a
figure it out. And she's like, Tiffany, I just
put you through school. Like I, I don't, I don't have
it. Like, I think that would be
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great, but you're going to have to find the money for that, you
know? And I was like, Mama, don't
worry, I got it. So I instantly went to my
computer and I've always been a great writer.
So I wrote up these sponsor letters and I sent it to
everyone that knew what I wantedto do.
I'm talking about my pediatrician, my my mom's
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friends, like high school counselors, everybody, anyone I
could think of that I felt like a contribute to, to this fashion
show. I sent out these sponsored
letters and I, I believe after Isent those, I had $20 in my bank
account. OK, by the time I've sent out
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all those letters and start getting responses back, I had
probably close to $4000, which was a lot of money back then,
you know. And I had my first fashion show
and then after that I continued to have fashion shows.
It became a theme in Shreveport,which and I went under the name
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T Shamice at the time because Shamice is my middle name.
So it just grew and it grew and one of my biggest fashion shows
had over 1200 people and that ishow I got my name out and also
how I made sure that people knewexactly what I could do is force
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my talents is concerned. So from producing the fashion
show to selecting and training the models to doing the full
collection I'm talking about, wewould have like 50 pieces, not
exaggerating in this one fashionshow have these different things
that have different things like it was crazy.
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I look back and I'm like how didI do all of this?
Like it was a whole production that was all started by me.
And I gave other people, you know, my age and younger
opportunities to, you know, really hunt, hone their crafts
as well. An opportunity that they would
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not have had otherwise because nothing was like that was
happening in Shreveport. So I created a stage for them
literally, you know, for them tobe able to realized their dreams
that everyone told us that couldnot happen because we're in
Shreveport, LA and that and we proved that that was not the
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case. And I have seen so many of them
like go out to do amazing thingsand to know that I had a hand in
that, it's just a a really good feeling for me.
And that's how Pink Lucy was started.
It's, I mean, I'm talking about from doing plate sales, car
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washes, you know, raffles, whatever we could do to raise
the money for what we were trying to do, you know, within
reason. That's what we did.
And that was complete bootstrapping and hustling to
make it happen. That's something else that is so
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inspirational and it's beautifulhow your parents, you know, or
your motivation and your inspirations and especially what
you said about your father too, doing the things that he wasn't
able to do, like that really is something else too.
I also, like I said that you gave a platform for other people
and I know that's something thatwhen you know people come up and
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they create something of their own, I think it's a humbling
experience to to help others. How important is it for you with
your brand that you not only create something great, but like
you said, you created something that gave other people a stage
two? How important is that for you?
That's extremely important to mebecause when I look back at it,
like I did not have anyone that I could really learn from,
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right? So of course you had, you know,
people that may have, you know, sold and were seamstresses,
alteration shops, whatever in Shreveport, but someone that was
a fashion designer that did not exist, right?
So here I am trying to make something happen that was
completely out of the water for where I was, right?
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So I just learned that I had to put my resources together,
right? And, and just figure it out.
So maybe there's not a designer that I can be an understudy, you
know, for, but there are seamstresses and that, you know,
are well seasoned and well versed and, you know, know about
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fabrics and, and, you know, cut and fit and pattern making and
all of those things. I surrounded myself around those
people. Like I would go work in their
shops like just so I could learnfrom them.
No pay. I didn't need pay.
That's not what it was about. I needed to learn.
So, you know, even when I was working on my shows, like it was
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an alteration shop that was like, we got some space, just
come in here, you know, we'll help you.
And I would cut. I would like do everything there
and they would help me put together, you know, the garments
for my fashion show. And that was, I can't tell you
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how amazing that was. So the fact that I had people
that reached down to help me is the reason why I am so adamant
about making sure that I help asmany people as possible.
Because if it were not for thosepeople, I would not be where I
am today. So I've never forgotten where I
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came from at all. I can't forget.
It is in the fabric of pink Lucy.
Those people that helped me, youknow, because it developed me
into the designer that I am today.
And that's truly a blessing. So when I see people younger,
old that's eager about, you know, pursuing their dreams and
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making something that so many people probably told them they
could not do, like I'm like, girl, come on.
Because I'm living proof that whatever you want to do, you can
do it. So that's that's what I'm about.
That's something else. And of course, I definitely want
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to talk to you about the Pink Academy.
But I do have one question. So when you were a child, were
you sewing at that age? Too, I was I can't say
necessarily so I didn't really start sewing and so I think it
was about age 14, but you know, as far as like the kid that
would be redesigning their clothes, the clothes for their
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dolls and you know, like anything crafty that I could do,
that's what I did like I was thekid that pretty much stayed in
the house. I didn't want to go outside.
I wanted to create. That's that's what made me
happy, you know, and I'm, I'm the youngest child of four, four
girls. So my sisters are 13 years to
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1617 years older than me. So I was raised like an only
child. So I didn't have anybody to play
with anyway. So, you know, those things
became the things that I wanted to do to keep myself
entertained, you know, And because of that, I got into it
even more because that's what that that, you know, essentially
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they were my siblings, like the the dolls and the the fabrics
and all that kind of stuff because and there was nobody
else in the household with me, which is me and my mom, my
father had passed. My sisters were out of the
house. So that's what kept me
entertained. And that's also what fueled, you
know, the desire to be a creative so much because I'm
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like, wow, like, I can literallycreate all of this stuff and use
my time wisely. Even as a kid, I'm trying to use
my time wisely, you know, to do something that truly gave me
enjoyment. And running around outside, you
know how to sweat. It wasn't my thing, but I
enjoyed creating. Wow, that's great.
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The reason I was curious becauseI know like I'll see some people
that they design and some of them are self-taught or some of
them may have gone to school to learn how to do it.
But it's just such a fascinatingthing to mean how people close
together just learn how to cut patterns.
And because we buy stuff, you know, we take that for granted.
But there's someone that sat there and modeled that because
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I'm from the old school. Like when I was a kid, if you
have like a school dance, you didn't go to the store, you went
to the seamstress and you eithershow them a picture or you got a
pattern, you know? Right, Right.
The pattern and fabric. Right.
Or you show them a picture, you know, and they are with the
record of the pattern that will kind of fit the picture you
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showed them. But you know, that was just my
upbringing where you got dressesmade.
That was just a regular thing. So I just think that's so cool
people that create that. So I want to ask you a course
about the Pink Academy. And I know this ties back, I
feel like to you giving back andalso helping young people, which
is always a commendable thing. So tell us about this Pink
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Academy. I know it works with children
ages 8 to 17, different workshops and things that are
age oriented. So can you tell some more about
that? Yeah, absolutely.
So what a lot of people don't know about me is that I have an
educational background as well. I taught the fashion design
programs and fashion design and fashion styling for Cattle
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parish schools in Shreveport, LA, and I wrote the first
fashion styling and makeup artistry program for the state
of Louisiana. I was a makeup artist too for
Mac Cosmetics. So the whole beauty and fashion
thing is just all me. So I had the opportunity to
create this curriculum and the curriculum is taught throughout
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the state. And to think that I'm the reason
that this happened. And I put together the
curriculum, I taught other teachers how to implement it
into their their programs. And I did that for six years,
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six years. And, you know, because of the
background that I have in education, I understand how
important education is. Being a college graduate, also
just being a student of life, I realize how important it is for
us to pass down information. And the only way that we can get
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better at anything is learning the insurance and outs of it.
And that's the thing about education is, is opening up your
mind, letting you see the possibilities, helping you come
up with, you know, whatever you're trying to create or do or
whatever you're trying to pursue.
So I'm really passionate about helping children especially
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learn that they don't have to stay within this box like you.
It's OK. The color outside the lines.
It's OK to be completely who youare.
It's OK, you know, if you like certain things and your friends
doesn't like those things, and if they call you weird, that's
OK too. You know, I was the weird
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popular girl. Like, they considered me as
weird because I dressed way in ways that they didn't dress.
I like things that they didn't necessarily like.
But I was also the girl. And when she threw the party,
everybody wanted to be there, you know?
So those kind of things usually don't work together, but they
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work for me. And these are still things that
are a part of of who I am in my business.
So I want to give these kids a voice and let them see that a
woman, a black woman that looks just like them or their mothers
or whatever went on to do all ofthis and that they can do it
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too. I didn't have to be a lawyer or
a doctor, you know, in order to be successful, right?
And how what, however, you just define success, right?
I didn't have to do what the status quo said that I needed to
do. I took a leap of faith.
You know, with entrepreneurship.And here I am still standing 21
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years later. And if I can do it, anybody can
do. I had all the odds up against
me. Father passed away.
My mother had lupus. She was on disability, you know,
you wouldn't know that anything was wrong with her because she
never made any excuses. She still showed up.
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She did everything that she could do for her family,
regardless of her illness. She did not allow that illness
to define her. So because of me seeing that
growing up, I don't know what itis to give up, right?
I don't know what it looks like to be like, oh, you know, I
can't do XYZ because of whatever, whatever situation.
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I have learned because it was modeled to me that you push
through whatever you're going through, no matter what it is
you push through. And if you need help, you ask
for that help, right? So I want to be the help that
these young people need for themto realize that all of your
dreams can come true if you put forth the work and the effort in
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order to achieve it. And the main thing is in order
to achieve certain goals, you have to be educated and you have
to know this thing in and out. You have to be a master of it.
You have to continue to practiceyour your craft and hone your
skills in order to be the best of the best.
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There's we can't settle. We got to be the best of the
best. That's the only thing that's
that's susceptible. So that is why I, I decided to
start the Peak Academy because not only is education vitally
important to me, seeing our young black kids, you know, go
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on to do marvelous things and tolive their dreams is very
important to me because my mother made sure that my dreams
came true even on a fixed income, you know, on disability.
But somehow she was still my first investor, you know, like,
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that's a blessing. I lost my mom in 2018.
And when she passed, before she passed, actually, she had a
conversation with me. I don't know if God had put it
in her spirit that this was going to happen.
I don't know where it was, but out of nowhere, we always talk.
We were best friends. So we're on the phone with each
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other. We talk, we talk.
Just like I talked to my girlfriends, right?
And she's like, you know, I justwant you to know that if
anything were to ever happen to me, I expect for you to continue
your business, for you to continue to be successful and do
all the things that you that yousaid you wanted to do and that
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you plan to do. And I'm going to tell you this,
if for any reason you did not dothat because you were so
depressed about me leaving you, I could never forgive you for
that. And she was like, so I'm telling
you now that if something is to happen, if something happens to
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me, I expect for you to continuePink Lucy, no matter what.
And I'm like, my mom, why are wetalking about this?
Like, you know, I'm like, I don't want to because thinking
about losing her was just something I never wanted to
think about. My mom had lupus for 38 years,
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38 years. They call her a medical miracle
because they could not believe that this woman was doing so
well with this disease. She they would have her come to
speak at medical conferences. You know, she created programs
for doctors to better understandtheir patients.
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They may have had lower literacyskills, like she was a
trailblazer and I got I got likethe fact that she gave me
instructions as to how to conduct myself when she passes.
Like so when she passed and of course I'm completely
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devastated, fell into a horribledepression and just really just,
you know, trying to figure out what is life without her.
How do I continue on? OK, I know she gave me these
instructions that I didn't thinkI was going to have to use so
soon, you know, But this is where I'm at.
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And it, as I got deeper into this depression, it was like I
can hear her voice telling me these things all over again,
what she expected. And that is the one thing that
got me through. Like I couldn't let her down.
She had did so much for me. I could not let her down.
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I couldn't let all of this that I worked so hard for that she
made sure that, you know, she supported and did whatever she
could with the limited resourcesthat she had.
I couldn't lose that based basedon depression and grief.
I couldn't. So I kept fighting and you know,
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I can't lie, I almost lost my business because I was, I
couldn't show up anymore. I was out of it, you know.
So with that being said, that's what made me continue.
And because of that, I do everything in her honor, every
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single. And of course, it makes me teary
eyed, but I do everything in herhonor, whatever I do.
If they're if we have any type of, you know, event or like I
opened up a new showroom that's dedicated to her, her pictures
on the wall, you know, there's aplaque with that, you know,
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states who she is and you know, dedicated the entire showroom to
her because this lady is the reason why I'm here.
Wow. That's beautiful and you
definitely live up to what she wanted for you, you know,
creating something amazing. I didn't have a choice.
That woman started visiting me in my dreams.
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That was an expectation, and I had to make sure that I kept my
promise. I had to keep my promise.
But it's nothing like having a motivator, even if the motivator
is something that's devastating or heartbreaking.
You know that. And sometimes things that break
our heart are really leading us to our purpose, no matter what,
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because each and every one of ushave a destiny.
And sometimes that destiny, the part of reaching that goal also
has heartache of losing someone or just something that we may
not be able to understand leads us to our purpose.
How do the kids how they able toapply?
Like how does it work, you know,being a part of the Academy,
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Like where are the children? Like do they have to apply
their? Particular so basically they
just have to register and the registration is actually if you
go to my IG Pink Lucy official and you click on the link,
there's a link tree that comes up the application is there and
all the information that you need is also there.
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And of course you can always contact our showroom if you need
more information but yeah you know, and then we offer also
classes for adults as well. We have sipping Souls where you
get to soup, wine and, and so I am actually getting ready to do
a master class for fashion designers and that that class is
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basically to help hone skills asfar as business is concerned,
the business of fashion. But see, there's one thing to
have talent, but if you don't know how to properly run a
business, it didn't mean anything, you know what I mean?
So it's one of those things where you have to learn the
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business of fashion in order to stay relevant all of these
years, you know? And that class is for anyone
that is a designer, that is intermediate or events, and it's
called the executor. So the execution of whatever
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you're trying to create, being able to have the building blocks
in order to do that, because a lot of us have a lot of grand
ideas, but we don't know how to properly execute them.
So that's what this master classthat we're getting ready to
release, that's what it's about.Wow.
That's amazing. I want to ask you too.
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I know you've worked with a few notable people.
I probably make the stallion. Can you tell us some of the
notable people that you work with and?
Yeah, let let me. Put the most memorable moments,
too. So I would say the most
memorable. So OK, we work with met the
stallion before she blew up, right.
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So I remember like not even being certain of exactly who she
was. I'm like, OK, who?
And they're like, Oh yes, like one of my assistants told me
like, Oh yeah, she's like, she'sthe hottest thing.
Like she's going to be the hottest thing, you know?
And I was like, see, I don't, I'm not one of those people that
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like, I'm not going to be like, Oh, I'm not going to do XYZ
because she's not this because see, people cannot be that today
and be something amazing, you know, years or even months, you
know, from that time. So I've I've always realized
that. So it was, looking back at it,
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the opportunity to actually style her wasn't an amazing
opportunity. But I have to keep a list of all
of the people that we have worked with because it has been
quite a few. So let me pull it up right
quick. All right, so we have worked
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with Big Frieda, Love Big Freedom so much.
I did some things for Corey. Lorraine, Shawnee O'Neal, Brooke
Bailey, Malaysia, Erica. Erica Dixon, Erica Mina
Delicious Fantasia, Cinderella, DJ Duffy, Trina Just Britney,
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Toya Wright. Yandy Maya Temela Mann, Lola
Monroe, Erica. Mary, Mary, Tina of Mary Mary.
Some more. The comedian.
Yeah. So.
And my clothes were actually sold in Patricia Field before
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she retired in New York. Who is who was the stylist for
Sex in the City? And I am.
I was so in love with Sex in theCity, So to get that opportunity
was just everything for me. So I've worked with a lot of
celebs and and influencers, but the most memorable thing I think
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is for its media is concerned was being on the own network.
So there was a show called MarryMe Now, and I had the
opportunity to be on an episode where one of the ladies who were
getting married actually got hergown custom made by me.
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So that was just a unforgettableexperience.
Wow, that's. Something.
Else thank you. That's just great that you
started out in Shreveport. Yes, have come to this and a lot
of those people you named, I know they dress amazing.
So those are some great, you know, clients that have for
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sure. So I wanted to end everything by
asking you something that is really important.
And I know just your story is really inspirational and I just
love not only that you've created something great, but the
way you've given back to. So I wanted to ask you our
platform promote self love. Self love really is the feel to
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just have that confidence, the feel to follow a dream of you,
to be bigger than what you thinkyour dreams are even capable of.
So I want to ask you what all the amazing things that you've
done? How do you define self love and
what role has it played in your life?
That's a great question. I define self love is making
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sure that you take care of you because no one is going to take
care of you the way that you take it.
Take care of you. But in order to take care of
you, you have to 1st put the most importance on yourself.
You also have to make sure that you are taking care of yourself
physically and spiritually. You got to feed that spirit.
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Faith is very important to me, my relationship with Christ.
I am God fearing. I learned early on that your
faith has to be much bigger thanyour fears.
Faith should be here. The fear needs to be right
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there. And once you master that you can
do everything and anything. You know, the thing of it is, is
that we have imposter syndrome sometimes and I have to even,
you know, get myself out of it. Like I'll overthink it instead
of doing something because I'm not sure how it's going to turn
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out. I'll procrastinate, you know,
and I have to remind myself constantly.
You know, my thing is faith overfear.
It's even on my wall to remind. I'm in my office right now.
I'm in my showroom. It's on my wall to remind me.
Faith over fear on my wrist. Faith.
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This is what I live by. Faith.
Nothing teaches you how to depend solely on the Lord like
starting your own business, being an entrepreneur.
Some days you don't know how, you don't know where, when, any
of it. You know, things are constantly
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coming at you, whether it be financially with staff, you
know, products, inventory, everything, clients and having
to deal with all these differentpersonalities.
Everything is coming at you and you have to be able to still
show up for your business and take care of things no matter
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how stressed out you are, you know, and for me, the biggest
thing that I can't even say, thebiggest thing, the thing that
gets me through is prayer in my faith.
So, you know, self love is, is very important, but God is love.
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So when you build that relationship with him, you're
going to have all the love you need inside of you already.
And that love has to be given toyou first before you can give it
to anybody else. That's beautiful.
That is a beautiful perspective.I absolutely love it.
This is an amazing conversation.I just, like I said, I love what
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you're doing. And again, like I told you off
camera, it's just so great when I see someone from my home state
that has moved on and created something amazing.
I just love what you're doing. Before we end everything though,
tell everybody how they can follow you on social media, how
they care about you. OK, so you can follow me at on
Instagram at pink Lucy official.My website is shop shop Pink
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lucy.com. Honestly, I we're getting ready
to launch a new website because our domain was stolen and we
finally got it back the originaldomain which is pink Lucy
official. So it will be launching on next
week, but if you go to my Instagram and you click on the
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link, it's going to take you to the new site.
So people see official through and through Instagram and
website. I love it.
Thank you so much for this kind.Of welcome.
Again, you are such an inspiration.
I know people who are going to either listen or watch this.
They're going to get so much information and information and
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inspiration, motivation, empowerment, definitely.
And people who are tuning in, just remember, you don't have to
let anything stop you hold on toyour dreams.
If you have to change your environment, go ahead and do
that. And like she also mentioned too,
if someone thinks that you're weird, So what?
That means you're different. That means you stand out.
And it's a blessing as you to beset aside because sometimes
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we're set aside because we have a bigger dream.
We can't afford to be like everybody else and different
dream and being set aside will lead you to greatness.
And also just like Tiffany mentioned, she processed and
built something through grief too.
So sometimes things that we don't understand, things that
can be heartbreaking, it still is all a part of our master
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plan. I know sometimes it's hard to
understand that, but God does not make mistakes.
Everything that happens to us isa part of our ultimate master
plan so we can find our purpose in life.
So don't give up on your dreams.Don't let anything deter you.
Stay motivated and stay inspired.
So thank you guys again for tuning in to this episode.
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You can catch this conversation and much more with some amazing
women at www.goqueen.com. And also remember to be safe and
always go love yourself. She's a queen about a business
working hard on a mission.
Do you remember that old song from back in the day by Bobby
McFerrin? Don't worry, be happy.
Let that be your mantra, Don't worry, be happy.
Whatever it is, that's when you down.
If you're overthinker, whatever it is, is putting you on
overtime because you cannot get it out your mind.
Don't worry about it. Sit it down, stop thinking about
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it, put it away and don't think about it anymore.
Don't worry. Be happy, focus on your
happiness, focus on your energy.Don't let any problem or
situation that you're going through weigh you down another
minute. Remember that.
Don't worry. Be happy.
It sounds super simple, but it'sa way to live.
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It's a way to think to just don't worry, be happy.
Things have a way of working itself out.
There's so many things. I bet you can look back on your
life that you stressed yourself out.
You were like, Lord, I don't know how I'm going to get
through this. And that situation resolved
itself. It may not have resolved itself
quickly, but when it did resolveitself, there was nothing that
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you did to make that resolve. Everything worked out in your
favor. What did the worrying do?
Nothing. All it did was add stress on top
of what you were already dealingwith to begin with.
So just remember that simple mantra, that simple phrase.
Don't worry, be happy. It's all going to work itself
out in the long run. Hey Queen, welcome to another
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episode of the Q Chat. Today we have the pleasure of
speaking with the incredibly talented Dallas based designer
Tiffany S Walker. Tiffany is the creative force
behind Pink Lucy. Tiffany shares her journey from
her early beginnings in Louisiana in the fashion world
to becoming a prominent designer.
We'll dive into what inspires her unique creations, the
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profound impact her mother has had on her birthday career, and
the meaningful ways in which shegives back to her community
through her Pink Academy. So join us as we learn more
about Tiffany's story of passion, resilience, and
philanthropy. She's a queen about a business,
working hard on a mission and how purpose driven.
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Crown on, never tilted. Go queen.
Go queen, go queen. So thank you guys for joining
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another episode. The Key Chat today, my very
special guest is Miss Tiffany S Walker.
Tiffany just recently celebrated21 years of her company, Pink
Lucy. So we're going to talk about her
amazing design company. Also she has this amazing pink
Academy which works with young kids from ages 8 to 17.
So many things I want to talk toher about.
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So how you doing today? I'm well, how about you?
I'm saying good, so happy to talk with you.
Like I told you on camera, I don't know why didn't wear pink
pink, You know, I think I worn it out, so maybe that's why they
put it on. But I wanted to start with
asking about your inspiration. I know like we talked that
you're actually from my home state of Louisiana from short
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sport. So I know I was reading about a
lot of things about you. I know your mom was one of the
inspirations behind Pink Blue Sea.
So I want you to start and tell us your roots and how well you
started this company and also the inspiration with your
mother. OK, so like she said, I'm
originally from Shreveport, LA, born and raised, and my mother
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was a great inspiration in my life as well as my father.
I lost my dad when I was 13 years old.
My father was in the fashion industry.
He modeled professionally. He also did set design windows,
displays, like just an artist all the way around.
And he was an artist as far as like drawing and painting as
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well. So I was around it all my life.
My mother was a fit model for Neiman Marcus.
So I grew up in a household thatreally pushed creativity and I
was, I was always told that any dream that I had that I could
completely pursue it. So it wasn't those things, One
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of those things where my parentsjust like constantly trying to
box me and like, oh, you need tobe a lawyer, you need to be a
doctor. It was nothing like that.
So I'm growing up in a householdthat allowed me to be completely
who I was and to be a creative just really fueled it even more.
And when my father passed away when I was 13 years old, I made
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a decision vision at that time that I was going to pursue art
and fashion because there was were the two things that I love.
And I was going to make sure that I went as far as I possibly
could to continue his legacy andalso to do what he did not do.
You know, I felt like there was so much more than he could have
done with all the talent that hehad.
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But he had some things that, youknow, were up against him.
They didn't allow him to fully pursue his his goals and his
dreams. And I just decided that I wasn't
going to be one of those people that said, oh, I wish I would
have XYZ. Oh, I could have.
Like, I never wanted that to be my story.
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So I made that decision at a very young age and I made sure
that I saw it through completely, from styling my
friends to having my room looking like a store display,
you know, just anything I could do to hone the crafting skills
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that I had. And my mother made a pact with
me that, OK, I will completely support your dream, but you must
go to college and graduate from a four year, a four year
accredited college. She did not want me to go to art
school. She wanted me to make sure that
I had something to fall back on and I did.
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Just then. I graduated from Louisiana Tech
University in Reston with a degree in fashion merchandising
and marketing with a minor in art.
So after I graduated, I was like, OK, I did it.
I did exactly what you said I had to do.
And now I'm ready to pursue my dreams and my goals completely.
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So I come, I came to her one dayand I was like, Ma, I think I
should have a fashion show. She was like, she looked at me.
She said, with what money? And I was like, no, like I'm a
figure it out. And she's like, Tiffany, I just
put you through school. Like I, I don't, I don't have
it. Like, I think that would be
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great, but you're going to have to find the money for that, you
know? And I was like, Mama, don't
worry, I got it. So I instantly went to my
computer and I've always been a great writer.
So I wrote up these sponsor letters and I sent it to
everyone that knew what I wantedto do.
I'm talking about my pediatrician, my my mom's
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friends, like high school counselors, everybody, anyone I
could think of that I felt like a contribute to, to this fashion
show. I sent out these sponsored
letters and I, I believe after Isent those, I had $20 in my bank
account. OK, by the time I've sent out
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all those letters and start getting responses back, I had
probably close to $4000, which was a lot of money back then,
you know. And I had my first fashion show
and then after that I continued to have fashion shows.
It became a theme in Shreveport,which and I went under the name
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T Shamice at the time because Shamice is my middle name.
So it just grew and it grew and one of my biggest fashion shows
had over 1200 people and that ishow I got my name out and also
how I made sure that people knewexactly what I could do is force
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my talents is concerned. So from producing the fashion
show to selecting and training the models to doing the full
collection I'm talking about, wewould have like 50 pieces, not
exaggerating in this one fashionshow have these different things
that have different things like it was crazy.
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I look back and I'm like how didI do all of this?
Like it was a whole production that was all started by me.
And I gave other people, you know, my age and younger
opportunities to, you know, really hunt, hone their crafts
as well. An opportunity that they would
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not have had otherwise because nothing was like that was
happening in Shreveport. So I created a stage for them
literally, you know, for them tobe able to realized their dreams
that everyone told us that couldnot happen because we're in
Shreveport, LA and that and we proved that that was not the
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case. And I have seen so many of them
like go out to do amazing thingsand to know that I had a hand in
that, it's just a a really good feeling for me.
And that's how Pink Lucy was started.
It's, I mean, I'm talking about from doing plate sales, car
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washes, you know, raffles, whatever we could do to raise
the money for what we were trying to do, you know, within
reason. That's what we did.
And that was complete bootstrapping and hustling to
make it happen. That's something else that is so
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inspirational and it's beautifulhow your parents, you know, or
your motivation and your inspirations and especially what
you said about your father too, doing the things that he wasn't
able to do, like that really is something else too.
I also, like I said that you gave a platform for other people
and I know that's something thatwhen you know people come up and
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they create something of their own, I think it's a humbling
experience to to help others. How important is it for you with
your brand that you not only create something great, but like
you said, you created something that gave other people a stage
two? How important is that for you?
That's extremely important to mebecause when I look back at it,
like I did not have anyone that I could really learn from,
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right? So of course you had, you know,
people that may have, you know, sold and were seamstresses,
alteration shops, whatever in Shreveport, but someone that was
a fashion designer that did not exist, right?
So here I am trying to make something happen that was
completely out of the water for where I was, right?
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So I just learned that I had to put my resources together,
right? And, and just figure it out.
So maybe there's not a designer that I can be an understudy, you
know, for, but there are seamstresses and that, you know,
are well seasoned and well versed and, you know, know about
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fabrics and, and, you know, cut and fit and pattern making and
all of those things. I surrounded myself around those
people. Like I would go work in their
shops like just so I could learnfrom them.
No pay. I didn't need pay.
That's not what it was about. I needed to learn.
So, you know, even when I was working on my shows, like it was
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an alteration shop that was like, we got some space, just
come in here, you know, we'll help you.
And I would cut. I would like do everything there
and they would help me put together, you know, the garments
for my fashion show. And that was, I can't tell you
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how amazing that was. So the fact that I had people
that reached down to help me is the reason why I am so adamant
about making sure that I help asmany people as possible.
Because if it were not for thosepeople, I would not be where I
am today. So I've never forgotten where I
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came from at all. I can't forget.
It is in the fabric of pink Lucy.
Those people that helped me, youknow, because it developed me
into the designer that I am today.
And that's truly a blessing. So when I see people younger,
old that's eager about, you know, pursuing their dreams and
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making something that so many people probably told them they
could not do, like I'm like, girl, come on.
Because I'm living proof that whatever you want to do, you can
do it. So that's that's what I'm about.
That's something else. And of course, I definitely want
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to talk to you about the Pink Academy.
But I do have one question. So when you were a child, were
you sewing at that age? Too, I was I can't say
necessarily so I didn't really start sewing and so I think it
was about age 14, but you know, as far as like the kid that
would be redesigning their clothes, the clothes for their
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dolls and you know, like anything crafty that I could do,
that's what I did like I was thekid that pretty much stayed in
the house. I didn't want to go outside.
I wanted to create. That's that's what made me
happy, you know, and I'm, I'm the youngest child of four, four
girls. So my sisters are 13 years to
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1617 years older than me. So I was raised like an only
child. So I didn't have anybody to play
with anyway. So, you know, those things
became the things that I wanted to do to keep myself
entertained, you know, And because of that, I got into it
even more because that's what that that, you know, essentially
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they were my siblings, like the the dolls and the the fabrics
and all that kind of stuff because and there was nobody
else in the household with me, which is me and my mom, my
father had passed. My sisters were out of the
house. So that's what kept me
entertained. And that's also what fueled, you
know, the desire to be a creative so much because I'm
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like, wow, like, I can literallycreate all of this stuff and use
my time wisely. Even as a kid, I'm trying to use
my time wisely, you know, to do something that truly gave me
enjoyment. And running around outside, you
know how to sweat. It wasn't my thing, but I
enjoyed creating. Wow, that's great.
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The reason I was curious becauseI know like I'll see some people
that they design and some of them are self-taught or some of
them may have gone to school to learn how to do it.
But it's just such a fascinatingthing to mean how people close
together just learn how to cut patterns.
And because we buy stuff, you know, we take that for granted.
But there's someone that sat there and modeled that because
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I'm from the old school. Like when I was a kid, if you
have like a school dance, you didn't go to the store, you went
to the seamstress and you eithershow them a picture or you got a
pattern, you know? Right, Right.
The pattern and fabric. Right.
Or you show them a picture, you know, and they are with the
record of the pattern that will kind of fit the picture you
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showed them. But you know, that was just my
upbringing where you got dressesmade.
That was just a regular thing. So I just think that's so cool
people that create that. So I want to ask you a course
about the Pink Academy. And I know this ties back, I
feel like to you giving back andalso helping young people, which
is always a commendable thing. So tell us about this Pink
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Academy. I know it works with children
ages 8 to 17, different workshops and things that are
age oriented. So can you tell some more about
that? Yeah, absolutely.
So what a lot of people don't know about me is that I have an
educational background as well. I taught the fashion design
programs and fashion design and fashion styling for Cattle
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parish schools in Shreveport, LA, and I wrote the first
fashion styling and makeup artistry program for the state
of Louisiana. I was a makeup artist too for
Mac Cosmetics. So the whole beauty and fashion
thing is just all me. So I had the opportunity to
create this curriculum and the curriculum is taught throughout
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the state. And to think that I'm the reason
that this happened. And I put together the
curriculum, I taught other teachers how to implement it
into their their programs. And I did that for six years,
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six years. And, you know, because of the
background that I have in education, I understand how
important education is. Being a college graduate, also
just being a student of life, I realize how important it is for
us to pass down information. And the only way that we can get
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better at anything is learning the insurance and outs of it.
And that's the thing about education is, is opening up your
mind, letting you see the possibilities, helping you come
up with, you know, whatever you're trying to create or do or
whatever you're trying to pursue.
So I'm really passionate about helping children especially
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learn that they don't have to stay within this box like you.
It's OK. The color outside the lines.
It's OK to be completely who youare.
It's OK, you know, if you like certain things and your friends
doesn't like those things, and if they call you weird, that's
OK too. You know, I was the weird
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popular girl. Like, they considered me as
weird because I dressed way in ways that they didn't dress.
I like things that they didn't necessarily like.
But I was also the girl. And when she threw the party,
everybody wanted to be there, you know?
So those kind of things usually don't work together, but they
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work for me. And these are still things that
are a part of of who I am in my business.
So I want to give these kids a voice and let them see that a
woman, a black woman that looks just like them or their mothers
or whatever went on to do all ofthis and that they can do it
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too. I didn't have to be a lawyer or
a doctor, you know, in order to be successful, right?
And how what, however, you just define success, right?
I didn't have to do what the status quo said that I needed to
do. I took a leap of faith.
You know, with entrepreneurship.And here I am still standing 21
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years later. And if I can do it, anybody can
do. I had all the odds up against
me. Father passed away.
My mother had lupus. She was on disability, you know,
you wouldn't know that anything was wrong with her because she
never made any excuses. She still showed up.
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She did everything that she could do for her family,
regardless of her illness. She did not allow that illness
to define her. So because of me seeing that
growing up, I don't know what itis to give up, right?
I don't know what it looks like to be like, oh, you know, I
can't do XYZ because of whatever, whatever situation.
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I have learned because it was modeled to me that you push
through whatever you're going through, no matter what it is
you push through. And if you need help, you ask
for that help, right? So I want to be the help that
these young people need for themto realize that all of your
dreams can come true if you put forth the work and the effort in
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order to achieve it. And the main thing is in order
to achieve certain goals, you have to be educated and you have
to know this thing in and out. You have to be a master of it.
You have to continue to practiceyour your craft and hone your
skills in order to be the best of the best.
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There's we can't settle. We got to be the best of the
best. That's the only thing that's
that's susceptible. So that is why I, I decided to
start the Peak Academy because not only is education vitally
important to me, seeing our young black kids, you know, go
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on to do marvelous things and tolive their dreams is very
important to me because my mother made sure that my dreams
came true even on a fixed income, you know, on disability.
But somehow she was still my first investor, you know, like,
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that's a blessing. I lost my mom in 2018.
And when she passed, before she passed, actually, she had a
conversation with me. I don't know if God had put it
in her spirit that this was going to happen.
I don't know where it was, but out of nowhere, we always talk.
We were best friends. So we're on the phone with each
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other. We talk, we talk.
Just like I talked to my girlfriends, right?
And she's like, you know, I justwant you to know that if
anything were to ever happen to me, I expect for you to continue
your business, for you to continue to be successful and do
all the things that you that yousaid you wanted to do and that
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you plan to do. And I'm going to tell you this,
if for any reason you did not dothat because you were so
depressed about me leaving you, I could never forgive you for
that. And she was like, so I'm telling
you now that if something is to happen, if something happens to
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me, I expect for you to continuePink Lucy, no matter what.
And I'm like, my mom, why are wetalking about this?
Like, you know, I'm like, I don't want to because thinking
about losing her was just something I never wanted to
think about. My mom had lupus for 38 years,
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38 years. They call her a medical miracle
because they could not believe that this woman was doing so
well with this disease. She they would have her come to
speak at medical conferences. You know, she created programs
for doctors to better understandtheir patients.
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They may have had lower literacyskills, like she was a
trailblazer and I got I got likethe fact that she gave me
instructions as to how to conduct myself when she passes.
Like so when she passed and of course I'm completely
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devastated, fell into a horribledepression and just really just,
you know, trying to figure out what is life without her.
How do I continue on? OK, I know she gave me these
instructions that I didn't thinkI was going to have to use so
soon, you know, But this is where I'm at.
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And it, as I got deeper into this depression, it was like I
can hear her voice telling me these things all over again,
what she expected. And that is the one thing that
got me through. Like I couldn't let her down.
She had did so much for me. I could not let her down.
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I couldn't let all of this that I worked so hard for that she
made sure that, you know, she supported and did whatever she
could with the limited resourcesthat she had.
I couldn't lose that based basedon depression and grief.
I couldn't. So I kept fighting and you know,
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I can't lie, I almost lost my business because I was, I
couldn't show up anymore. I was out of it, you know.
So with that being said, that's what made me continue.
And because of that, I do everything in her honor, every
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single. And of course, it makes me teary
eyed, but I do everything in herhonor, whatever I do.
If they're if we have any type of, you know, event or like I
opened up a new showroom that's dedicated to her, her pictures
on the wall, you know, there's aplaque with that, you know,
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states who she is and you know, dedicated the entire showroom to
her because this lady is the reason why I'm here.
Wow. That's beautiful and you
definitely live up to what she wanted for you, you know,
creating something amazing. I didn't have a choice.
That woman started visiting me in my dreams.
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That was an expectation, and I had to make sure that I kept my
promise. I had to keep my promise.
But it's nothing like having a motivator, even if the motivator
is something that's devastating or heartbreaking.
You know that. And sometimes things that break
our heart are really leading us to our purpose, no matter what,
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because each and every one of ushave a destiny.
And sometimes that destiny, the part of reaching that goal also
has heartache of losing someone or just something that we may
not be able to understand leads us to our purpose.
How do the kids how they able toapply?
Like how does it work, you know,being a part of the Academy,
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Like where are the children? Like do they have to apply
their? Particular so basically they
just have to register and the registration is actually if you
go to my IG Pink Lucy official and you click on the link,
there's a link tree that comes up the application is there and
all the information that you need is also there.
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And of course you can always contact our showroom if you need
more information but yeah you know, and then we offer also
classes for adults as well. We have sipping Souls where you
get to soup, wine and, and so I am actually getting ready to do
a master class for fashion designers and that that class is
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basically to help hone skills asfar as business is concerned,
the business of fashion. But see, there's one thing to
have talent, but if you don't know how to properly run a
business, it didn't mean anything, you know what I mean?
So it's one of those things where you have to learn the
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business of fashion in order to stay relevant all of these
years, you know? And that class is for anyone
that is a designer, that is intermediate or events, and it's
called the executor. So the execution of whatever
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you're trying to create, being able to have the building blocks
in order to do that, because a lot of us have a lot of grand
ideas, but we don't know how to properly execute them.
So that's what this master classthat we're getting ready to
release, that's what it's about.Wow.
That's amazing. I want to ask you too.
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I know you've worked with a few notable people.
I probably make the stallion. Can you tell us some of the
notable people that you work with and?
Yeah, let let me. Put the most memorable moments,
too. So I would say the most
memorable. So OK, we work with met the
stallion before she blew up, right.
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So I remember like not even being certain of exactly who she
was. I'm like, OK, who?
And they're like, Oh yes, like one of my assistants told me
like, Oh yeah, she's like, she'sthe hottest thing.
Like she's going to be the hottest thing, you know?
And I was like, see, I don't, I'm not one of those people that
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like, I'm not going to be like, Oh, I'm not going to do XYZ
because she's not this because see, people cannot be that today
and be something amazing, you know, years or even months, you
know, from that time. So I've I've always realized
that. So it was, looking back at it,
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the opportunity to actually style her wasn't an amazing
opportunity. But I have to keep a list of all
of the people that we have worked with because it has been
quite a few. So let me pull it up right
quick. All right, so we have worked
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with Big Frieda, Love Big Freedom so much.
I did some things for Corey. Lorraine, Shawnee O'Neal, Brooke
Bailey, Malaysia, Erica. Erica Dixon, Erica Mina
Delicious Fantasia, Cinderella, DJ Duffy, Trina Just Britney,
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Toya Wright. Yandy Maya Temela Mann, Lola
Monroe, Erica. Mary, Mary, Tina of Mary Mary.
Some more. The comedian.
Yeah. So.
And my clothes were actually sold in Patricia Field before
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she retired in New York. Who is who was the stylist for
Sex in the City? And I am.
I was so in love with Sex in theCity, So to get that opportunity
was just everything for me. So I've worked with a lot of
celebs and and influencers, but the most memorable thing I think
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is for its media is concerned was being on the own network.
So there was a show called MarryMe Now, and I had the
opportunity to be on an episode where one of the ladies who were
getting married actually got hergown custom made by me.
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So that was just a unforgettableexperience.
Wow, that's. Something.
Else thank you. That's just great that you
started out in Shreveport. Yes, have come to this and a lot
of those people you named, I know they dress amazing.
So those are some great, you know, clients that have for
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sure. So I wanted to end everything by
asking you something that is really important.
And I know just your story is really inspirational and I just
love not only that you've created something great, but the
way you've given back to. So I wanted to ask you our
platform promote self love. Self love really is the feel to
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just have that confidence, the feel to follow a dream of you,
to be bigger than what you thinkyour dreams are even capable of.
So I want to ask you what all the amazing things that you've
done? How do you define self love and
what role has it played in your life?
That's a great question. I define self love is making
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sure that you take care of you because no one is going to take
care of you the way that you take it.
Take care of you. But in order to take care of
you, you have to 1st put the most importance on yourself.
You also have to make sure that you are taking care of yourself
physically and spiritually. You got to feed that spirit.
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Faith is very important to me, my relationship with Christ.
I am God fearing. I learned early on that your
faith has to be much bigger thanyour fears.
Faith should be here. The fear needs to be right
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there. And once you master that you can
do everything and anything. You know, the thing of it is, is
that we have imposter syndrome sometimes and I have to even,
you know, get myself out of it. Like I'll overthink it instead
of doing something because I'm not sure how it's going to turn
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out. I'll procrastinate, you know,
and I have to remind myself constantly.
You know, my thing is faith overfear.
It's even on my wall to remind. I'm in my office right now.
I'm in my showroom. It's on my wall to remind me.
Faith over fear on my wrist. Faith.
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This is what I live by. Faith.
Nothing teaches you how to depend solely on the Lord like
starting your own business, being an entrepreneur.
Some days you don't know how, you don't know where, when, any
of it. You know, things are constantly
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coming at you, whether it be financially with staff, you
know, products, inventory, everything, clients and having
to deal with all these differentpersonalities.
Everything is coming at you and you have to be able to still
show up for your business and take care of things no matter
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how stressed out you are, you know, and for me, the biggest
thing that I can't even say, thebiggest thing, the thing that
gets me through is prayer in my faith.
So, you know, self love is, is very important, but God is love.
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So when you build that relationship with him, you're
going to have all the love you need inside of you already.
And that love has to be given toyou first before you can give it
to anybody else. That's beautiful.
That is a beautiful perspective.I absolutely love it.
This is an amazing conversation.I just, like I said, I love what
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you're doing. And again, like I told you off
camera, it's just so great when I see someone from my home state
that has moved on and created something amazing.
I just love what you're doing. Before we end everything though,
tell everybody how they can follow you on social media, how
they care about you. OK, so you can follow me at on
Instagram at pink Lucy official.My website is shop shop Pink
(37:20):
lucy.com. Honestly, I we're getting ready
to launch a new website because our domain was stolen and we
finally got it back the originaldomain which is pink Lucy
official. So it will be launching on next
week, but if you go to my Instagram and you click on the
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link, it's going to take you to the new site.
So people see official through and through Instagram and
website. I love it.
Thank you so much for this kind.Of welcome.
Again, you are such an inspiration.
I know people who are going to either listen or watch this.
They're going to get so much information and information and
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inspiration, motivation, empowerment, definitely.
And people who are tuning in, just remember, you don't have to
let anything stop you hold on toyour dreams.
If you have to change your environment, go ahead and do
that. And like she also mentioned too,
if someone thinks that you're weird, So what?
That means you're different. That means you stand out.
And it's a blessing as you to beset aside because sometimes
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we're set aside because we have a bigger dream.
We can't afford to be like everybody else and different
dream and being set aside will lead you to greatness.
And also just like Tiffany mentioned, she processed and
built something through grief too.
So sometimes things that we don't understand, things that
can be heartbreaking, it still is all a part of our master
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plan. I know sometimes it's hard to
understand that, but God does not make mistakes.
Everything that happens to us isa part of our ultimate master
plan so we can find our purpose in life.
So don't give up on your dreams.Don't let anything deter you.
Stay motivated and stay inspired.
So thank you guys again for tuning in to this episode.
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You can catch this conversation and much more with some amazing
women at www.goqueen.com. And also remember to be safe and
always go love yourself. She's a queen about a business
working hard on a mission.
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