What does Lupus Mean to you?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:57):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hey you guys, thank you for tuning in to another
wonderful episode of Lucas Has No Face Podcast. What's your
wonderful hosts Savannah and we have our special guests in
the building, Rachel V.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hi. You guys, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
For making the time to join our wonderful podcast today.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Thank you, thank you for the opportunity. You are welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
We got so many wonderful things today, you guys. We
will be talking about what do lupas means to you? Okay,
that's the whole that's the whole month today, the whole
month starting off Aprah all the way in tonight, you guys.
So what do lupas means? We'll be talking about that.
So before we get started, I know we're late. Things happen,

(02:07):
life happens. It's okay, I'm so stickling with time, but
I don't know this six grace.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
It's okay. You're doing this after a long day, like,
give yourself grace.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's okay, man, I'll be all the time and then
I don't know wud be happening? Like it just be
like that that lasts two hours. I'll just be like,
I literally have a.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Friend like that.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
She is one of the most the best business people ever.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
But since gonna be late? Since is gonna be late?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't know, but thank y'all for being patient. Thank
you for being patient. Nob we had you set up straight.
You was comfortable, right.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I was real comfortable. Me and tone had a good talk.
I was good. See that's all that mean when you.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Around people that just make you feel comfortable, like family
were good.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I don't have no problem. Okay, that's all that matters.
That's how that matters. So we ain't never.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
On time, right, party, don't start that. We show her.
I love your energy, dude.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Okay, before we get into this, miss Rachel V. First
of all, I love the way yo. Your name ring
Rachel V.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
I love it. I love it. I love it. Who
is Rachel V? Though? Who is Rachel v? Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Rachel vis a for She's a lot of things. She's
a multi creator, She's a she's multi talented entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
She is a licensed Peitian, a license aesthetic instructor. She
has a fashion degree and fashion marketing and management.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
She's a mother of three beautiful kids and a.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Wife man, all of that, all of that. So let's
break that down. So you are an instructor. Yes, I
am a licensed aesthetics instructor, so people can come to
you and you can teach them.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I'm licensed to teach aesthetics, yes.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Because most people teach things and they give out certificates,
but they really.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Are not licensed. Are a lot of license yet. So
you are.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
They can come and they can go start their own business.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yes, that's like I can go work at m ATC
in the aesthetics department and actually be a professor for aesthetics.
I've worked at Eyelash Pro Aesthetics Institute.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Shout out to Lexi, one.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Of the first black owned aesthetics schools in Wisconsin. So
shout out to her. I worked there with her for
almost a year. She got my journey started. She believed
in me and I appreciate.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
That, and that's how it became.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Aesthetics instructor after being a esthetician for almost three years
when I joined her.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
That is so dough because there's a lot of a
misconception out here. You know, you people have businesses and
then they teach these people and then they give them
certificates and then they try to go start and it's
not valid.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
So this is the thing.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
So with most things, you need a license under the
state no matter what. So when it comes to like
you want to be an esthetician, you still need to
go to an actual school to get the credits. Like
people think like, oh, I can just be an esthetician.
I can just wax people, I can just do facials.
You have to take a state I have to take
a state test to state tests are practical in a

(05:24):
actual word test in order to get my certification. So
I actually had to do school for a whole year
for that, and then the esthetics instructor I had to
do another certain amount of months to then take a test.
I had to take a live test for that, a
practical test for that. So it's not just like I
think people, it's like cosmetology, you have to go to

(05:46):
school for it. I am licensed to work in a school.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
I am licensed.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
So if I give you, if you're already licensed as
a esthetician and you want to come get wax and
classes with me, then I can do that or facial
classes or any extra extra education classes to help you
with to pursue what you want to pursue. A lot
of times in schools, especially beauty school.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
You don't learn. You get a glimpse of stuff because
it's kind of quick.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
A year since doesn't seem fast, but a year ago fast.
So you might get into waxing for a couple of weeks,
but you're not focused on waxing. So you might graduate
and want to be a waxer and focus on waxing,
but you really haven't had the actual time to.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Be perfect, to be as on mark as you really
want to.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
So that's where you would come to me and pay
me to take classes, and I would extended education and
I can help you become that quick waxer where you're
waxing in less than ten ten minutes or less.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
And then if they want to be instructor, they can
come to you too, or what they have to they
have to go to school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't play
with you. You don't play with you.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, because I think people get that mixed up.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Because I get a lot of people excuse me on
taking my gun maut y'all a little bush ghetto started
chewing it on camera and make my It makes me
look like I'm being real sloppy.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't like that as a lady at the end
of that day.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
But with that being said, though, yeah, so I think
a lot of people get that mixed up because I
get people all the time like, hey, can you teach
me how to do facials? And I'm like, well, you
actually have to go to accredited school to do facials,
and we have we have some good We have two
black owned aesthetic schools in Wisconsin, so one owned by
Lache and one owned by Lexi, but we also have

(07:32):
other schools in ATC. Of course, I got my certification
at m ATC, but you continual education can go to
people who are license instructors. Now you can teach sertain
stuff without being a license instructor, like I know people
who teach lashes stuff like that, which is really right
now in Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Because every state is different, every state law is different,
so wherever you live it, look up your laws. It's
important to know your laws when you're trying to get
into the beauty industry because every state does not allow
the same things. But they can teach lashes because lashes
are not really something that has to be done through
aesthetics or cosmetology, Like it's just like a beauty thing

(08:14):
that you learn and you can teach people. So yeah,
so like, but you do get people who teach stuff
that they probably not supposed to be teaching, or people
who practice stuff they probably not supposed to be practicing.
But that's why I always tell people, you know, just
do your research on people. You know, understand the laws
in your state, understand what's going on, and you know,
go from there.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
That is dope. I love education.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I was thinking about like, even though I'm in a
health care field, I thought about that. I was like,
I want to learn how to do that, just just
to learn how to do it.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
And it's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I think people sometimes put themselves in a box like
or I'm in health care, so I got to just
be in health care. Health Care and beauty goes together
in so many different ways though, Like I know people
who do they do health weeks for cancer patients and
different peopleeople who lose their hair, and like that's how
health and beauty can go together. Or even facials for instance,

(09:08):
like we estheticians can work under a dermatologist to help
them because it's as much as their doctor. It's certain
practices that we do, certain things that they do that
can collide and work together, you know what I mean.
So there's never I feel like there's never just one
industry you have to be in. I feel like we

(09:29):
put ourselves in that box and that's why we get
stuck there because all do health care. But I do
want to learn that. But that's not in my lane.
Everything's in your lane if you're willing to.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Go for it.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
And your skin look flawless, thank you, thank you. Don't
make up your skin look flawless, y'all, skin look flawless. Okay,
So you got the education behind all that. And then
so where can they.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Follow you at? So you can find me on social
media pretty much. Rachel V.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Skin and Beauty is on Instagram, Rachel Lewis on Facebook, y'all.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
And just to let everybody know, Lewis is my husband's name.
His first name. I made Rachel.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Lewis years ago because at one point we were sharing
social media and then after a while I just left
it there. But my name is Rachel Vasquez, okay, Rachel URVASQUEAZ.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
That's why I call myself Rachel V. But yeah, so Rachel.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Lewis on Facebook, Rachel v Skinning Beauty on Instagram, and
Rachel VI's cosmetics on all platforms.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Before we get into the skin and beauty, let's read
some of these comments. Tom, can you bring some of
those up bigger? Please larger so Rachel couldn't see those
starting off with. I don't know if he heard me.
Can you see those?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I see which one we're starting with. I can't even
see what that's saying.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
I see when that says, what's one thing you want
to learn but didn't learn yet? I'm actually working on.
And if you follow me and you know me, and
if you don't, I garden. I eventually want to own
a farm. That's one of my long term goals. I

(11:21):
don't want to say retirement because I really want to
do a way before I retire, but I'm really into homesteading.
I'm getting more into it. One of the things I
really want to learn is I just want to become
a actual professional gardener, like where I really know like

(11:41):
the soil, everything like that. Right now, I'm self taught.
I do really good, but I know there's more that
I can do if I learn more. Because when I
get the land, I want to be able to have
the ability to grow as much as I want to
and produce as much as I want so becoming a
a high class guard. I actually just looked into classes

(12:02):
for that at Madison University, So hopefully I can get
in in the fall and I can become a high
class gardener where I know a lot more and I'm
able to actually teach and get back to my community
and help young kids. Hopefully get some contracts with some
schools and go into schools and help people learn how
to garden.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's the We're definitely gonna touch more on that later
on in the show. You're gonna read it out loud,
but it's Van, that's me.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
So you are a nurse, right, yes, so no, So
another way that your laying crosses with a staate you
being a nurse. You can do both hair removal, scarf thing.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
You can do a lot of stuff with nursing. You
even thought about.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
You didn't even connect with a spot owner like say,
for instance, me and.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
You could work.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
You can work in my spot certain times a week
and like just do like vitamin IV injections, like charge
people for ivs, like just different stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Because actually, to be honest, with y'all. I'm in nursing school.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
It is kicking by ass, Okay, where you go? I
did not.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
I wanted to be able to do some of the
stuff she just named, and you have to be a
registered nurse to do.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
That, you have to be an RN. Hey, but it's
kick man. What classes do you got right now?

Speaker 3 (13:30):
I just need to get over the hump of anatomy.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
That shit is like what.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Like I'm understand it, but I'm like, listen, let me
tell you something.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
This is totally off topic.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Like when I went back to school for PA right
physician assistance and because my anatomy and physiology was over
five years old when I went to school a long
time ago, I had to retake that class. When I
tell you, I had to take that class twice, Baby,
I'm fa let me tell anybody if I'm gonna sign
up for it again in the fall.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
When I tell you you.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Can't have no life, you literally can't. Like you literally
got a buckle. And I'm not saying that his hands
on the instructor. I was trying to do it online
and baby was giving so much work.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
I wanted to ask her, do she got a man?
You ain't got nothing to do.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Listen, you gotta let me tell you the secret about
the online. Research the instructor. It's the instructor, like research
them before I signed up again, research the instructor. Because
when I did it online, I said, I said, this
don't have nothing to do with the book. Like what what.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Is That's like nothing I think she wanted you to do.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's like eighty a sign different and I'm like, bro,
stay on one thing, stay on one thing.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I got a taking that gateway. Oh my god, we'll talk.
We'll talk about it.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Said that being said, don't put limits on yourself because
just like she said, I would like to, you actually
have a license where you can go learn that stuff
and you can do that stuff. That's though I didn't
even think about that. But I love everything about beauty.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
I am like one little thing of botox. In ten minutes,
I may switch. I may switch. Thank you can't. I
didn't even know you was a register. N I need
to give you another hand, tapers, baby, that ain't easy.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Shout out saying anyone in that y'all nurse, anybody that
school for nursing, anybody that graduated. I don't care LPN
rin pe NP whatever, even our CNA baby, even CNAs.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's not easy. Y'all need to get on people more
grace than y'all need.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Y'all need to get tip your hat off to them
because baby, they sacrificing baby.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Seriously, like it's a lot of work. Seriously.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Now, though back then it was easy going back school
and you're older with kids, it's that's something different.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Man. After that's a whole other topic. I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's a whole other topic. Okay, So we talked about
so your cosmetic line, yes, Rachel Vis cosmetics. How did
you get into that? Because I that's what I contacted
you about wanted to do. I didn't, I wasn't. We
didn't talk, but I contacted you because I wanted to

(16:29):
do a skin line with sunscreen in there because ops
warriors need to have something, yes they do, and I
wanted to do that to add it into my my thing.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
And we just never did it. But how did you
get into that? And by the way, I got your
lipstick on.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I love it, thank you both to Okay, So it
started off with my lipstick. I launched my first line
of listick in to seventeen. Yeah to seventeen.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I was the owner of Sheik nine one one boutique
at the time, and so I launched it there. Hated
my first batch, rock the colors. Did what I had
to do to promote it, but it was just not
the quality I was really looking for. Then fast forward,
I started researching, getting in touch with different people who
were willing to share some game and helped.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Me, and from there I start.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
I actually found a batch that I fell in love
with and that is the batch that I currently been
having for a while now.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
So it started off with lipstick.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Then as I got into skincare because I actually went
to school for aesthetics.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Right before the pandemic like.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Two nineteen, because I had just graduated with my fashion
degree and I went right back to school.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
And so I got in. That's when I got into
the skincare because I was like, ooh, I want to
I want to.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Make my own skincare. So I started learning how to
make my own bars of soap and that's where the
Tumoric soap and all that came from. Then I got
into learning how to work with manufacturers to make my
own skincare, and that's where the tumoric jail line came from.
So really it just all started with liftsick, and it
just kind of like, little by little I wanted to
test out like originally I had lifsick for a long

(18:13):
time by myself. Then I added like I was into
highlight at the time, and then I was into eyeshadow.
I had lib liners things like that. Then I started
kind of breaking it down to like what do you
actually wear on a consistent basis. I'm not a super
makeup girly where I wear a lot of foundation a lot,
so I was like, you know, what I need to
stick to what I can actually wear, and so liftstick

(18:35):
was good, and then skincare fell into that because I
like wearing my bare skin a lot.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
I'm not I'm in.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Between a girly girl and a boy, so a lot
of times I'm a boy, so I don't want to
put all that stuff on my face. But you know,
sometimes I want to look good. I do wear makeup,
but I really am into like more of and something
that I want to, you know, produce later on is
a tented, attentive moisturizer, something that's really lightweight. It gives

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you the coverage that you need without giving you the heaviness.
But yeah, that's how I got into it. I started
off with liftstick because I always loved liftstick. It was
always a thing for me where no matter what, I
was gonna have on some color lipstick. If you look
back into my going out days, when I really went
to the club and I and me and my girls
used to call ourself f I B. I used to
wear every color lifpstick under the sun, every hair color

(19:24):
under the sun, and it was just a part.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Of who I was. And so I was like, I
need my own liftstick line. I'm always buying lipstick.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I was buying a lot of mac Ready supply, anything
I could get my hands on that had color on it.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
And I was like, ih, I want my lipstick to
be a little better.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
I'm tired of being at the club and constantly putting
it on and drink, trying to drink, and then liftstick.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Is all over my face.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Like we all had those nights where we're like, I
need the lifttick get up here, Like why didn't nobody
tell me?

Speaker 3 (19:55):
So I was like, I need a lipstick that stays
on at least fourteen hours. And the lipstick I have
now richel VI's cosmetics. I am proud to say I
love my formula.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
I love the fact that you are very transparent when
you was like the first back was garbage, because people
actually need to hear that because some people that goes
into business or don't go into business, are very scared
and this is totally off the topic, too, are very
scared to go into business of failure. Right. They feel
like when they go into business, everything has to be right.
Nothing is going to be right the first time you
go into that.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
So I think you gotta do it. You just gotta
do it.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
You're gonna fail right, Gordon one exactly. That's that's how
you learn right. And I love your lipstick. I spend
a lot on.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
On people.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Chanelle Vinti Mac Mac is one of my all time favorites,
and I have to say about your lipstick.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
It's very light.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
It makes me feel like I don't have anything on,
and it's not gunk. Some lipstick I wear throughout the day,
I have to like rub it off and my skin
is peeling. So this is my second time wearing your lipstick,
and I have to say, I really like the weight
of it and I like how it feels on my skin.
And it doesn't dry my lip out. It's like a moisturizer.

(21:08):
So koodles to you.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I love it. So I love your lipstick. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So before we go on to another topic, let's read
some more of these comments they coming in. Thank you
guys for a commenting tone. Can you put them up
on a screen? Kenda, you got this, Rachel, she said
you that chickens? I do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
The lip is top the listic is top tier. Period.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Hey hey, hey, preach, preach, preach, preach for sure. So okay,
you just an all around girl.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
You are a mom.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
You got chickens in a freaking garden. You are a
boss and to me, bust me all around. Right, you
are a mom, you are a wife. You are you
running a business. As you work your nine to five
to feed your business, you're pouring back into the community.
You are basically I feel like these are volunteer arms

(22:09):
you coming here and pouring back into my podcast, bringing
awareness to Loopez and a whole bunch of host of
things in the community.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
So, before we get.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Too much off topic, I do want to start talking
about what do loopus means to you?

Speaker 1 (22:23):
That's so while we're here today, Yes.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yes, we are, and I'm so thankful to be a
part of this amazing event. So loop is to me
is one of those things. And I think I was
telling you this, and I hate to compare it to cancer,
but I do because I come from a family where
cancer is something that we deal with a lot in
our family. We have dealt with a lot in our family.
And I have a friend of the family who actually

(22:48):
has LOOPS and she's younger than me. And to like
see that on somebody and like really talk about it
with them and see that their health goes up and
down and things like that, I feel like it takes
a warrior to be to have loopus, just like it
takes a word to have cancer. For me, I really

(23:08):
tip my hat off to people for just keep going,
because when you know you have something like that, especially
from a young age, it's like that's that's implated in
your mind, like I have this, But to not allow
it to stop you from doing anything, sure, that's that's
what I love to see. So I'm not a person
that has dealt with lupis, but I've seen it in

(23:31):
somebody's close and I'm just like, you know.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
What, if they can keep they can keep going. I
know I could keep going. It should. I feel like
it should be motivation to people.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Absolutely when you see people not give up because of
a sickness, that they really could.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Say, yeah, I got the sickness and I ain't gonna
be able to do nothing.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Absolutely, but to see people fighting, but to also see
people like you who are advocates for that, and like
you said, I love your your line, like lupus has
no face because I think a lot of times we think.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
It won't happen to us, like it wouldn't be me, like,
but it could be anybody.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Absolutely, you could be You could be talking to somebody
with Lupez complaining all the time and never know they
got it. Yeah, and they probably thinking they heir like
you really complain in it like it's not that bad,
you know what I'm saying, Like it's just one of
those things. So I definitely think lupis to me just
means warrior. It means motivation and means fighter. It to

(24:32):
me it just means all around just just strength, just strength,
Like what else can you say? You got to have
strength to have something like that and to just keep going,
like I know everybody level loopus is not the same
because I followed people and seen people go through different
stages of it, sure, you know, and I see people

(24:53):
who lose people to it. And that's why I compare
it to cancer, because it's one of those things where
it's it's really not up to you.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
No, it's definitely not it's definitely not up to us.
But what I can say is that it's an invisible illness,
and unlike cancer, it's not enough awareness brought to lucas right.
There's no commercials and things of that nature. People don't
talk about it enough. People don't accept it enough right

(25:25):
because they can't make sense out of it. It's definitely
medications out there, holistic things. It's definitely things that you
can do to live well with it. Babies have it,
young adults have it, young teenagers.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Men have it. And I see it. I see it.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
The young lady in my family, she's probably in her thirties,
like she probably just turned thirty, and like this week,
she went into the hospital and then she got out.
She actually asked me about this episode. I told her
to be online, so hopefully she's watching. But she has
a very beautiful spirit. But you will never know that
she has loopers unless she tells you. So, like when
I seen their girls in the hospital, I was like

(26:03):
you okay, she was like yeah, I had a flare up,
but now she's out and like she it's like it
didn't like not to say it didn't phase her because
I know mentally it's probably phasing her because you got
to deal with that. Yeah, but like the energy she
put out hasn't shifted, you know what I mean? And
I think that's major.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
That is that's dope, That's that's how I love to
see people like that, right, because that lets me know
they accepted what they have.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
And most warriors don't accept what they have.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
So if you don't accept what you have, you can't
do better because if you don't accept it, you don't
get educated about it, and you don't learn about your
triggers right. And then your family when you don't know
how to deal with yourself, your family don't know how
to do it right because it's it's an unpredictable illness. Yeah,
you know, and your family. You know, you could be
partying with me one day and then all can be
down the next day and it's like you lying you Yeah, yeah,

(26:53):
it's just fine. You was just out how you don't
feel good. People can't make sense out of it, right, seriously,
because we were just all together. And then when I
seen her going into the hospital, I'm like, what's wrong
with you?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
And she was.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
I knew she had it because she told us in
the past, but like I never see her like deal
with it, like go go be sick or anything.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
So when I see it, I'm like, well.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I'm gonna pray for you because I'm just like really
like she was just with us, and like then she
get out, she right back to like just perky and happy,
and I'm just like, woo.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
That gotta be a lot you do.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
I like not to even get off the topic, but
like for me, I've been asked to like show more
of myself, right, and.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I do periodically, But I do a lot before I
come out to the world.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I get up very early. You know, I pray, I meditate.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Some days it takes longer for me to like get
up and move in because I'm stiff or I'm in pain,
or you know, I couldn't go to sleep. I didn't
get any sleep the night before, so I've been up
for like twenty four to four eight hours and I
gotta deal with my people at work, and I gotta
deal with my kids and you know, right, and I
gotta stay at this tone. I never get the opportunity

(28:08):
to lash out. So I'm at a mellow tone all
day long.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
I never that people not people.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
I have a great support system, but they still don't
really understand, you know what I'm saying, like when I'm
at a low tone. My girlfriend called me the other
day and she was just like, what's wrong, and I'm
like nothing, I'm cool, you know, but my tone was
I had low energy. She knew something was wrong, but
it was just like, you know, it really wasn't too

(28:41):
much to really talk about. It was it was just
one of those I had just one of those days,
and she felt the energy. So she sent me a
text to day like I'm praying for you whatever because
I have it was just like I had it because
I always have to be there for everybody, and it's
just like.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm trying to show up, but you still have to
show it for yourself. Yeah, So I just hours.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
It was just one of those days and then like
today I'm just like I'm back at it again.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, you're back, You're back, Ready, but at the same time,
you you do have to be okay with taking that
you know, that time and saying that you're not okay
like you're doing.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
That's why today I slept all day. My phone was
ringing like crazy. I slept all day to day then
answer the phone, I ate, and I got the bed
and I slept, picked my phone.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Entrepreneur.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
To be honest, that's one of the hardest things to
ever do, because you feel so bad. You feel like
you could be doing so many other things, and it's
like kicking you in the ass that.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
You really like laying in this bed, but you really
need that rest.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, And I missed so many phone calls, so many emails,
so many things I have to get back to, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Just like, you know what I need.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Actually I needed the whole day for real, but I
was just like that was an ooh.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Jow me some water.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Got myself back together, and just because it's not you
know what I'm saying, it's not I'm not gonna stop.
Took my medication and just you know, got right back
to it because I'm like, if God gave me the
extra wind that I needed and the energy that I
needed to do then I'm get back up and.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
I'm just gonna go out and do it. And that's
what's up though, So you know that's just kind of
like what it is. So these questions that I predicted
for you is so see, like I said, where can
I purchase your lipshick?

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Oh, let's read some of these questions, Tom, can you
put some on the screen at Rachel Vcosmetics dot com.
It can be anybody, And I'm learning that I actually
like learning about stuff like this because it makes you

(30:48):
more aware. You're like, okay, so like a four on
four day, right, So many people came up to me
and I kept saying the spell over and over and
over again, and it was like some many people have
people with loopers, and they was like, why haven't I
turned on horse? She just don't want to be bothered,
And I'm like, she does want to be bothered. You
know you need to check up on her. And you
know she's just telling you that because she doesn't know

(31:09):
how to explain to your or she doesn't know how
to articulate her feelings to you. But go over there,
cook for her, help her clean up, just beating her presence,
like she's going to love that, you know, and they
was like, well, I didn't think about it like that,
you know, just being around sending her message because they're
reading it.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Like I used to be that person I would read.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I liked it to be all of that when I
was pushing people away, you know what I'm saying, seeing
all the love and all of that.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
So people was really like, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
So it felt so good for me to pour back
into people and like people was crying and like I
had to eat all of that, Like I took all
the energy and it was like weighing on me at
the end of the day. But I was so proud
of myself, like like, oh my god, my mother was
dealing with this. I didn't know how to deal with this,
and I'm so glad I met you. It's not too
many people out here, you know. I get phone calls
talk of the morning you go to the hospital. Some

(32:01):
people on their last day, last bed, or some people
don't know how to deal with it, and like I'm
being that person. So it's like to have a team
to handle all of this stuff for me or with
me would be idea, right, yeah, but it's it be hard.
It be hard, like having a love with not being

(32:22):
able to move, going down, being in a hospital for
three four.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Months, that is it's eye opening.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Yeah, like family members don't know how to being angry
emotional mood swings because they don't know how to deal
with their own things. That's why I offer classes to
help them accept what they have and deal with their
hair losses and you know, learning their triggers, because if
you learn your triggers, you can help your Your informations
is the thing that you have and not being so yeah,

(32:57):
you can go like I'm in a regnation right now,
so I don't have that many flare ups. Like if
I get sick, it's not that bad, and I know
how to maintain it. Like it's rare, very rare, Like
I can go have a cocktail and live life, but
I know when to stop.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
That's why I show people, like most people like, how
are you promoting wellness?

Speaker 2 (33:22):
And you're going out and I'm like, well, I'm showing
you how to live life while you have lupis, but
knowing your triggers, that's why I'm showing y' all this.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
So y'all you can go and still have a good time, have.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
A quality of life.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
So you can know.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
And it was like, well, oh, you don't have to
have lupus and be in a bubble. But you got
I've done the work for so many years and that's
why I'm able to do. I have sunscreen out, I
I've drunk my water, I did my you know, my
meditation before I left, I did all. I did everything
before I came out into the world.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
You made.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Absolutely And then, you know, I tell nothing. People in
box me every day, all day, every day, so you
know about a whole a whole bunch of things, you know,
and I tell them, but you know, some people don't
want to they're not ready to come out to the world.

(34:17):
And I've show showed my hair loss on my website
and they grew all the way back. But it's a process.
It is.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Everything is a process, and you gotta be willing to
ask for help. You gotta speak up. They don't. They don't.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
So you're you said your friend, right.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Mm hmm, do you know how to deal with.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, honestly, she doesn't. We talk about it a little bit,
but she really just be. She live a good life,
like she works, she.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Go to work and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
I'm pretty sure he stuff that she fighting in between,
but I've seen her, you know, push through, and you know,
I always try to let her know, like if she
wants to talk about it, or if she needs me
let me know, or that I'm praying for her consistently
because I mean, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Sometimes I don't know what else to do.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
But we're around our family is around each other a lot,
so like she's never completely by herself, Okay, you know
what I mean. We're like we're just together for Easter,
Like we're never just like not around each other that much.
Like it's rare like for holidays or special occasions like
or Sunday dinners or just random stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Our family will find a reason to get together for
some reason.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
But yeah, but me personally, like I've dealt with more
like cancer than lupus, and I know with cancer and
my family, you just celebrate, like celebrate them as much
as you can, like be a part of their life
as much as you can.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Disappointment anything they need you to do, anything they ask
you or need you to do.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
A lot of times it was an older family members,
so they really weren't like to open or press for
you to do a lot. But if they ask you
to show up, you just show up, you know, even
if it's just to sit on the couch and crack
jokes and laugh. You just honestly, it's just it's one
of those unpredictable sicknesses. So you just want to enjoy

(36:25):
the time you have with them. Like my auntie up
until her last days, they had a party for her.
We make sure we come to the party.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
She had a lot of birthday parties.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
She had birthday parties before her birthday just to make
sure she just to make sure she was celebrated, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
So your people are very poked about what it is
that they need. Yeah, pretty much like it. If you
need somebody, you just gotta you. You definitely gonna have
the voice that you need them, and see a lot
of people don't. Yeah, Like I.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Don't know, Like for me personally, it just depends on
how you deal with stuff. Because me, I always think about, like, okay,
if I was if I was to get sick, because
like I said, cancer does run in my family.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'm like, how would I how would I feel? How
would I be?

Speaker 3 (37:11):
And I always compare it to like the loss of
my father. He thank you, He's been gone for like
nine years. But he didn't have like cancer or loopids,
but he just was sick with a lot of different
stuff when he died and when he passed away, you know,
like the grieving process. Like I'm not a griever who
needs to be in a space with a lot of

(37:32):
people or needs to talk to a lot of people
like I like to.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
I learned how to do it alone.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
So for me, I feel like if I did get
diagnosed with something like that, I don't think I would
be a person who really needs a lot because I'm
just not a needy I'm just not a person who
who has to be around people like I think I
would be more like a person who just wants to
connect with nature or just sit with a loan a

(38:01):
lot of times, Like I wouldn't want to be treated differently,
like you know what I mean, And I think I
think one of the powers in my family is making
sure you keep your strength. So with that being said,
like she'll treat you the same, like if we ribbed
you yesterday, We're gonna rib.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
That like it ain't no different. You're about to get
ribbed like.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
You're normal, geting wrong with you, Like I've dealt with
a lot of different things.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Growing up.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
I had a cousin who was like my sister who
had Down syndrome, who grew up in the house with me.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
You think I treated her like she had Down syndrome. No,
that was like my sister. We argued.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
She talked crazy. I talk crazy back, like he was
talking to you. Like I paid her to do my
dishes so I wouldn't get in trouble, Like, girl, don't
you go to do the dish today? I got this
five dollars for you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Like, So for me, when I see people with like
down syndrome or any type, I look at them different
because it's like I grew up with that, Like I
grew up around that.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
So for me, she was normal to us. She went
to the movies with us, she went to basketball games
with us, like everybody knew her, you know what I mean.
So it was like, I'm not about to treat you like,
you know, yeah, like you normal?

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Okay, gotcha, that's how? Yeah, okay, good?

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Like just treating people.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
I just feel like, treat people with kindness, treat them
like they normal, like you know people, I feel like,
no matter what's going on. You want to be treated
normal and with decency and with respect no matter what.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
That's dope.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
So, like, how you ever had anyone that came in
with an autoimmune disease that you're doing they're facial or
anything going And if so, did you have to do
anything special?

Speaker 3 (39:42):
So, yes, I have done a facial on somebody with lupis,
ends a facial on somebody with cancer. And honestly, depending
on like if they're in remission or whatever, if if
it's active or not. Most of the time, if it's active,
I don't I don't take them because there's no there's
no way to tell like how.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
The products are going because I'm using I'm using.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
You know, professional grade products, so I don't know how
they're going to react to your skin. And I can't
really tell you without testing it out because everybody's skin
is different, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
So, but I do always if they're not active, I.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Still do more of more natural stuff, stuff that doesn't
have a lot of alcohol.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Because it can irritate and flare up.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Yeah, you know, So I try to be as gentle
as possible and use products that I know are more
natural based. So that's when I'll get more into like
my alo based facials where I'm using actual natural allos
and things like that. I haven't had it too often, though,
but I have wax people with lupus.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Okay, yeah, do you have like a disclaimer or do
you tell them or so?

Speaker 3 (40:52):
I do have as I always have a disclaimer, and
I'm really in my space is a safe space, so
we always have convers like I want to know you know,
if you've ever been waxed before.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
You if you didn't like that experience, why you didn't
like that experience? I don't care.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
I don't care who watched you. I don't need to
know their information. But what didn't you like about the experience?

Speaker 1 (41:14):
What was different?

Speaker 3 (41:15):
If you do have lupis or cancer or something, how
long have you been without any medication or flare ups?

Speaker 1 (41:23):
And how sensitive is your skin?

Speaker 3 (41:26):
If I do my first pull and I notice anything
that doesn't look right, like maybe your skin is too
thin or you're bleeding a little too much, I would
rather stop the service and educate, then to keep going
and get paid, Like I rather you keep your money
and I not harm you and you come back at
a better time.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
But I'm very vocal in my space.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
When it comes to protecting my clients and asking them questions.
And I'm very honest when I tell people, like everybody's
skin is different. It is so from one client to
the next, everybody wants had the same results, you know
what I mean, everybody won't have the same feelings. You know,
if I don't feel like waxing is right for you,
I'm going to tell you because it might not be

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right for you if.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Your skin is really think you're on blood thinners, things
like that or anything, this probably ain't the best time
for you to do it.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Probably should wait.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Okay, So question, I never heard that waxing. So what
would make waxing not right for you?

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Your skin if it's too thin, if you haven't if
your skin hasn't been being taken care of, And that
can come from medications that you want to make your
skin thin. It could come, but from treatments you're getting
that you got to go to the doctor and get
you know, some people's skin is not as thick as others,
and then like some people bleed out as more than others.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
So when you're.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Waxing and I'm removing hair, if I'm pulling it completely
from the follicle.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
You might get a little blood. For a normal person,
you might get a little spec of blood or something.
But for somebody who may be on blood thinners, I
might get a lot of blood. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
If you're diabetic, I might get a lot more blood,
especially if you're not taking care of your diabetes, Like,
if you're not properly taking care of your health. So,
like you said, like some people don't want to talk
about having it lupis, so they might lie on their paperwork.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
I can't prove if you're lying. But if I pull
your skin back and it don't look right, I'm going
to ask you.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Hey, so do you usually bruise easily? Because I know
lupis causes bruising. Yeah, so I'm going to ask you, hey,
do you usually bruise easily?

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Because then that.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Way, that kind of conversation, you don't have no choice
but to eventually tell me unless you want your whole
culture to be bruised.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
I know I wouldn't want that. I'm like, girl, you
know what I ain't tell you. I got LOOPI go
ahead and stop before you bruise me. All love, baby,
I still want to.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Use this, but that's you know, I feel like, just
open that conversation, open that floor up to have that
natural conversation where they can feel more open and honest
to you, because then I can educate you and tell
you why this might not be the best time for
you to get a wax. You know, nothing personal and
I understand you want you want to join a pretty
kiddie gang, but this might not be the time, and

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it'll be a spot waiting for you when you're ready
to come back.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
But let's get that part together.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Because a lot of people, because they don't want to
talk about it, because they don't want to tell people
they're not actually taking care of it. They're not eating properly,
they're not taking care of their body, you know. And
a lot of a lot of times people do that
because they're they just in denial about it, or they
just don't want to deal with it.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
They're just like, it is what it is.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
I got it.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
I don't feel like I ain't taking no medicine, I
ain't doing this, I ain't doing that. But a lot
of times that can cause more issues. So I'm I'm
I'm just a decision that's going to ask you because
I'm not about to just get in a room and
just do whatever, and then you you blame it on me.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
You're not gonna blame it on me, man.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
No, that's dope that you care more about the person
than collecting a bug, because it's just that's humanity.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
But ain't worth it if you're gonna drag my name
through the muff exactly.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
People, you gotta take care of yourself. You just you
just got to take care of yourself. It's just not
worth it. How do you see the representation of Luca's
awareness in the beauty and wellness community?

Speaker 1 (45:26):
You don't. Honestly, I haven't seen.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
You are one of the first people and you're not
even interviewed the industry right now because you're gonna be
because we talked about it.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
But I really don't. I really don't see it.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Like we learn about different diseases in school like that
you have to be aware of and be careful about
because of you know, it might not be compatible whatever
you're doing. But it's not talked about like you said
when you said it wasn't talking about enough. It's not
talked about enough. It's not something that we we whole
a lot of conversations about. But I feel like that's

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what any disease, we don't really get into it that
much unless we see it.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
And that's crazy. We talk about everything else. This has
to be norm. There's gotta be norm in our community.
But like I said, people probably are lying on their
consent forms. People don't tell you.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Know how many people won't tell you they have certain
stuff because they just want they want the service they want,
and they're also not just that it might be embarrassing
to them. Like what we think is not embarrassing and
was a natural conversation. For some people, it might be
embarrassing and they don't want to talk about it, so
they don't want to put it on their consent form,
or they haven't educated themself enough about their own disease

(46:43):
to tell you about it, like they still trying to
figure it out.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
So it's not talked about a lot, Like I don't get.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
I don't know if I'm not I'm only speaking from
my point of view because maybe other eestheticians have talked
about it with people, but for me, it's not something
that I've had a lot of conversation with people about.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
That's crazy, you guys, You guys got to take care
of yourself. If you guys are so embarrassed to talk
about yourself, you guys gotta wrap it up. Actually people
for paperwork, so you don't get what you don't want,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
No for real people and you.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
And honestly, one thing I learned from this profession that
like not only humble me, but made me more graceful
with people is people.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Don't know what they don't know.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
We assume that, even especially with women, we assume are
she dirty? She should have knew that she smelled like
that she And I'm not saying that they don't all
of them don't, but some of them just don't know.
And I had to realize, like some people not raised
with a certain type of mom.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Some people don't have a household where they were they
were told how to wear paths or how to do
this or how to do that, you know, and I
think we assume as women like oh, because when I
grew up, my mom always one of the things she
always say, did you smell yourself for anybody else?

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Do listen?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
He said that all the time, like you smell yourself
for anybody else? To which made me even more self
conscious about smells like to the point where I'm just
like I smell in public, like, oh.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Who is that somebody like? And it's just a natural
thing because that's what I grew up around. But I
grew up with.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
I grew up with a sister who you know, talked
about hygiene all the time, like she just didn't play
about our hygiene like you know. So, But honestly, it's
people who just don't know. And it's not because they
don't want to know.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
No one has ever took the time to educate them,
and they don't know at all because we think, are
who who gonna want to be with?

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Somebody like that, it's somebody for everybody.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Oh yeah, it's somebody for everybody, and you better believe,
you better believe.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Hygiene don't just start women men.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Some men don't have the best hygiene, so they're not
they're not really on the scale of understanding what women
bad hygiene is because they don't have good hygiene. And
this is not to you know, make anybody feel bad
or talk down to anybody or anything. But honestly, I
just had to realize on this profession that people don't
know what they don't know. Everybody was not brought up

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the same. Everybody wasn't raised in the same environment. Everybody
didn't have certain type of mother or a certain type
of father. Some people didn't have neither, so they had to.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Figure it out and learn on their own. Yeah, for sure.
Like yes, I used to. I used to.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
I had a few friends. Even as an adult.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
I used to.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
But I used to be like, how do I tell
them tell somebody that they smell a certain way without
hurting their feelings?

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Right?

Speaker 2 (49:55):
And that's when I learned about having uncomfortable conversations, right, because,
like you said, they don't know what they don't know,
and you're gonna like I got one girl, and I
was raised like that too, and I got one son.
You don't smell yourself before anybody smell you. You don't
leave yo koochie in the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
You know what I'm saying. You gotta let them embarrassed,
says up too behind my son. Until you got so
you've got a little older. I used to be like, musty,
you is musty. You don't want to say shower. It
was like fighting a dog, Like so you mad because
I'm telling you to get in a shower because you funky.
But I'm like, you know what. After a while, I

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was like, he got a grawler that himself.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
When you get ribbed at school, you gonna come home
and jump your but in that shower and you gonna
But I have two girls now, so I'm just like
very and my girls play a lot of sports. They're tomboys,
So I talk about skin with them. I talk about body.
My daughter's been getting there underarm wax since they were eight.

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They're not thirteen. But at the end of the day,
they still have to discover theyself. Like you can tell
them whatever you want, you can show them whatever you want,
but they have to discover it because like with skincare,
you will think everybody in my house will have nice skin. No,
we got skincare products all around the house everywhere. Everybody

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swear they washing their face, and I'm like, why are
your face look like that?

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Why are you looking like a little mister crunchbar? Like
why you got all the agne?

Speaker 3 (51:31):
And then I'm like I get to the point where
I just have to realize they have to come to
a time where they care more about it than you do.
Because you can talk to you bluw on the face,
you can give them by them every expensive product, bob,
everything they need.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
But if they're not into that right now, they're not
going to be into it.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
But that's the difference of you and another mother though,
because we're gonna I'm gonna keep talking about it no
matter if you want me to talk about it or not.
And I'm gonna you and I'm gonna tell you you stay.
I'm may embarrassed you, like bro, you smell that, that's you, Like,
I'm embarrass you. Like you might be mad at the moment,
and you might be like, at least you hear from home,

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But I'm gonna tell you at home because you not
going outside with me like that, at least you walking
through a store.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
I was at the mall or something and myself and
he was younger, and like every corner I turned like,
this must just slapping. It was just like kept slapping me,
and I was.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Like And then I finally turned around because he had
all day, he had all day to clean himself. I
think turn said, I mean, let me smell you. He
can't class. I said, why would you leave my.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
House like this?

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Why would you leave my house like kids? But then
this is when I realized kids don't care.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
They they don't care.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
But as adults, you gotta think about those kids who
don't have mothers like us, who not in bear them,
who just like not even telling them nothing, or they
not around their parents at all because of whatever happened
in their life, it just didn't happen. They don't have
anybody telling them how to dispose of women products and
things like that, so they're getting it how they live.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
I used to be own my daughter. My daughter used
to be so mad at me.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
She used to be face, used to be frown everything,
and you know, she traveled to Texas and stuff like that,
and I was like, you going to see your daddy house,
you better make show you better.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
But now she got it together. Now she got it.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
But I used to be I just be like, ugh,
like you a girl and you pretty like Hugh. They
don't be saying why she used to be so mad.
I When I go in the room, I'd be like,
why y'all room like look like like.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Y'all are girls? Y'all are little girl? Would a room
look like this?

Speaker 2 (53:49):
But then you know, at the end of the day, baby,
I'm not about to dress myself out close that bedroom
door because y'all still gonna sleep in there. She got
it together though, she got it together. She did, she
got she fourteen, she got it together.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
They thirteen, So they.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Get in there, but it ain't all the way there
now that now as far as like feminine stuff, they
do keep up with themselves.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
But when they come to like room, just throwing on whatever.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Baby, don't judge me by my kids because they You
remember back in the day, you used to see people.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Dressed, like, why she all dressing her kids look like that? Yes, baby,
my kids is gonna look like kids. Yeah, she don't
her dressing skills. I don't.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I don't know, baby, I don't know. Maybe my daughters
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
And everything in their fresh to the death. Baby, yeah,
you can't tell you mine having on their daddy hoodie
with some with some baggy pants and they little shoes
and they be swearing like they live. They be like
I'm lit, like okay, or daddy be like leave her alone.
Let I be like, don't walk around in my Nike side.

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Why do you My one daughter steals everybody in the
house socks. I'm like, those are not your side. She like,
maybe they're not like but why would you walk barefooted.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Around with the side I don't know? Take off my sides,
bro take them off. They don't care. They don't. Kids don't.
Kids don't. Don't we care too much? Yeah, we care
too much. Hear hurt everything yelling every I asked guys
to take that off of me. Baby, They gonna be

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who they want to be. Just like, why you got
that on that don't even match? My son gets so
mad at them for not matching. He'd be so.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
He'd be just like so because he's like a he's
into like designer stuff and like certain stuff which he
can't afford. It is not in his tax record, but
he's uh, you know, he's a broke bum right now,
but he loves like expensive self. So like when they
get dressy, be like, ma, mam ma, I'll be like,

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what you ain't gonna tell them to change their clothes.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Look what they got on? I mean it don't even
it don't even look right. You could put it on too,
the same song. I'd be like, why you care? They
don't even go.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
To the same school as you. She'd be like, man,
they just man, they just be dressing like whatever. Boom,
Like they got straight. A's though, Is it clean? Are
y'all musty cleaner? That's that's the only thing I care
about now, is it clean? Is y'all musty? As long
as it ain't as long as it ain't dirty, and

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y'all smell good? Hey, get out, get out the house,
be on time clean. We just got too totally different
dress styles.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
I just be like, do what you're gonna do. Do
what you're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
But yeah, how do you manage skincare routines for clients
who may also be living with Lopez?

Speaker 3 (56:56):
So definitely number one, like talking about whatever you know,
l whatever level or where're at, will loop is because
that's going to allow me to decide what's the best
product for you. I'm a firm believer also to not
only you know, gog just based on what I want
to sell, but actually what my client needs. So if

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I don't have what you need, I'm going to send
you where it's at. So I'm going to tell you
what story to go to, what product is the more
natural product, what you should be using on your skin.
But also a lot of things that skincare people don't
understand and people like to forget, is what you put
in your body. It is most You can clean your
face every day, but if you're not eating right, if

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you're not eating and fruit, you know.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Adding fruel to your body that's necessary, then it the
skin care won't matter.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
The skincare won't matter because it's just like the gym.
You know, you go to the gym, you work out,
you work it out. When you lead a gym, you
go to drink. You just defeated your whole workout.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
You might as well have kept that workout for that
day because you just put liquor has way more calories
in it than what you just burned off, you know.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
So it's the same thing with skincare.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Like I tell my son, like your acme will not
go away until you get a balanced diet. The anything
that comes on your face is a reflection of something
going wrong or off balance in your body. So if
you are breaking out and I don't care lupus, no
loopis whatever. If you are breaking out, if you're constantly
getting bumps after you're eating certain stuff or drinking certain

(58:38):
like you speak spoke of like knowing your triggers.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
In skincare, you have to know your triggers and you
have to know that you need to know enough about
what you're putting in your body in order to tell
your esthetian the truth. Yeah, it's like when we go
to doctor doctor, like.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
Oh, do you drink or smoke?

Speaker 2 (58:57):
You're like, oh, You're like, yeah, you drinking it? Like
how often I have like one glass wine a week?
When you up in Brownstone drinking martinis every other day?
Like why you just lie to that man like that.
He can't get you no whooping. But you know to
be honest, Like and that's the same thing when you
come to your sis. You have to be honest because

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your results will reflect. And that is the hardest part
about facials.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
In the black community, no matter what you got going
on inside your body, because people are not honest with theirselfs.
People want to eat greasy foods, they want to drink
liquor all the time, and then they want flawless skin
and it does not work. Every medication you put in
your body reflects what goes happens to your skin. Every

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piece of food you put in your body reflects on
what happens to your skin. Everything reflects. How you clean
your bed reflects what's gonna go happen with your skin.
How you take care of yourself from the inside out, truly,
truly is a testament to what's going to go on
with your skin. If you have loops, you know that

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you should be using more natural products, But what's the
point of having a natural base on the outside if
you're putting preservatives and unhealthy foods inside. So you're using
vegetables on your skin on the outside, but you're literally
consuming liquor, soda, fry foods all the time on your body.

(01:00:33):
And we'll look you in the face and say, I
don't drink water because it's nasty.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
What you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
So it's so funny that you say that, Like my
diet is so trash right now. Like I'm back and
forth with it, Like I'll have a good diet and
then my diet is trish. So like when I'm super busy,
my diet is trash because I'm eating out. But if
I cook at home, my diet is good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
I'm not gonna crash.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
Being an entrepreneur and like always having stuff to do
and being a mom. I know you you feel the
same way. I know in your profession you're running around
your movie you grooving. It is hard to keep a
balance out yet, So you just really have to make
the conscious decision to pack a lunch to pack, and
that's what I've been doing. I've been packing lunches, and
then if I don't have a lunch, I'm not eating.

(01:01:24):
I'm just gonna be homegery I'm just gonna try to
drink a lot of fluids because and.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
I don't drink sodas like that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
The most sugar I drink is like juice if I
do have a juice, but I don't even drink a
lot of juices like that. So I think my worst
thing I drink is a Lani energy drink, which has
no sugar in it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
But it does have colors. What you think about celsics.
I don't mind those. I drink them, but I don't
drink them consistently enough.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
I drink more of that kind of stuff when I'm
working out, is a pre workout instead of like just
an energy drink.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
But I do drink Alani's a lot more than I
drink anything. I really.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
I used to drink Red Bulls, but I don't drink
them because they're very, very bad for you. So I
tried to find a replacement, which was the Alanis, which
I really do like they don't have sugar in on,
but they.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Do have calories. I think it's like two twenty five calories.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
But honestly, skincare products are really the only difference is
finding more natural based forilupus people and really like understanding
what they're putting in their body.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
No, for sure, like in all honestly, like when my
diet is good, I don't need an energy drink, like
when you're when you're eating right, the waters, all the
feuds and the vegetables, they give you energy, like you
have a natural energy, and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
You got a rest too.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
You gotta rest because I say, I eat pretty good
now since I've been on my finish journey. I of
course I have some days where I eat other foods.
But if I do eat other foods, I kind of
eat in small portions. Like today we cooked at our house,
which I'm gonna eat when I get home, burgers like
turkey slider burgers, so of course bread, but it's all

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mini so like I stopped myself at one or two
of those, I won't go further.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Like and I don't eat it with fries. I don't
eat it with all of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Like I just eat just like just my little burger
with like onions and stuff on top, Like I try
not to add the extra stuff, but I get it.
Like we all have our cheat days. We all have
our and I don't even want to call it a
cheat day. We all have our days where we consume
whatever we want.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
It's all. It's all balance. Yeah, just you got to
create a balance. You don't have to be perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Nothing is perfect, absolutely, because with certain weekends, like if
I go out a lot, or like I'm out of
town and I know we drinking a lot, I know
for sure, I already know my trigger, So I already
know when I come back, I'm going to break out.
I'd be like I'm gonna get some books, like I'm
going to break out somewhere. I'm gonna get a fat
bub because I just had too much sugar this weekend

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because I drink sugary drinks.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Yeah, I know that's my I know that's my trigger.
I know that's my trigger.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
I'm not about to sit around and drink a bunch
of shots, so I know I gotta have a margarita
lemon drop like stuff with just unnecessary sugar in it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
So I know that I'm going to break out, and
but I'm okay with it because you know your trigger.
I know my triggers so and I don't how to
get with it. I'm not one of them girls that
be trying.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
If y'all ever watch my social media and watch me
talk in the morning or whenever I get on it talk,
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Don't stop doing it. I haven't seen one in a while.
I do not care if y'all see my pimples. I
know most people cover them up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
I'll be like, oh, here's the pimple, because the point
is to show y'all that you can get them to
go away if you just do the proper things.

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
The point is not stress or panic, because stress has
more pimples they do. Stress breaks you out more, so
if you stress about it, you just get more breakout.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
So you just have to be like, Okay, I got
a pimple. Like I'll be trying to get people to
understand that, follow me.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
That that's normal. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Before before we end this, let's talk a little bit
about your guarden. Your chickens actually got going on? What's
what's what's going on with that? So I'm a nick
and mom, I have five chickens. Their names are first,
So how do you even get into that, Like, like,
let's start there, Shanne, what okay?

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
I just felt like when my first.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Set of chicken, I just have to make them black
as possible, and the names helped me. I just wanted
to be black because I also want I really want
people to understand, like you don't have to be a
certain type of person to be a farmer, be a
gardener or have a homestay, like.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
You can be whoever you want to be, Like you
can be from the hood.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
And but I think a lot of times, a lot
of that stuff is so stereotype, like oh, well, you got.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
To live out here and have all of this.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
And like one thing I always do, I you know,
I pray a lot, and so I've seen my I've
seen my farm clear vision.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
I've seen what God has for me. But I had
to show him that I was that I'm willing to
work for it. So I started with the chickens so
I can show him like, hey, when you give my
when you give me my land, I'm going to be
prepared because I'm doing the necessary steps to educate myself
on how to take care of it. I'm doing the
necessary steps on how to actually keep whatever blessing you

(01:06:21):
give me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
And I'm willing to start here. I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna cry because I'm starting here. I'm gonna make
the space that I have do what I needed to do.
So that's where my I've been gardening, taking it serious
since my dad passed away.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
It was like free therapy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Gardening is cheaper than therapy, and it's like the best
therapy I've ever had. Like I've gone to therapy. I'm
an advocate for therapy. I think everybody needs therapy. I
don't care what you've been through. I don't care how
good your life is. Therapy is good for you. But
having that balance of therapy when my dad died and
then starting to garden because I gardened with my mom
growing up, but I always look that as a chore,

(01:07:00):
like you know, like put on some gloves, come out
here and help pick them weeds.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
You're like, bro, I don't want a garden. You do, like, well,
I gotta help you with these weeds. On a Saturday,
I want to go outside and play like but she
always made me do it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
Every house we lived there, we had a garden, and
when my dad passed away, and I, like I told you,
I wanted to like I didn't really want to be
bothered with a lot of things or a lot of people,
are a lot of places. So my backyard became like
a good sanctuary for me. One thing me and my
family gonna do. We're gonna barbecue, Okay, we're gonna kick it,
like we can turn the backyard into a party. And

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so for me starting a garden and really take it
serious and learn more about and really get into like
what I'm growing and watching it go from the soil
to my table, and like being able to feed myself
like it's I me and my mom, we really is.
And I don't none at all. She might buy them,

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and she seeing myself because she's old school. So if
they see it self, they just feel like they gotta
buy it. But we I haven't been to the grocerytore
to buy greens since twenty seventeen.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Girl, be quiet. I don't buy greens from the store.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
We harvest them, we cook them just a little bit
good enough, and then we freeze them. We got so
many bags of greens in our freezer that we just
pull out and cook. I need something, a girl, you
can have some because I went to Walmart and we
at the end of the season. At the end of
the season, sometimes we even have stuff that go to
waste because we harve so much of it. Like my

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mama just said that day, like you got pickles you
made last year that you ain't even open you downstairs.
I said, well, I guess we can bring them up
for the summer and start opening them and start eating them.
I just been I just let them sit and because
for me, gardening is just like my my peace, my
it's my like sanctuary.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
It's my time with me.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
Like it's a time where I get to reflect with me,
connect with God, connect with Earth, and just really had
that moment to myself where I don't need anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
I will sit outside and like even now now that
I got that, I sit there and talk to the chickens.
I know they're not gonna talk back, but I said,
we're talking to them, but you eat the eggs, so
they didn't start producing eggs. Jet My babies are only
six weeks old, probably like six weeks exactly. They will
be considered adults, not real adults, but adults after eight weeks,

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so they got about two more weeks and then once
they get comfortable in their new coop situation, because we
are building a coop a little by little. They're outside
now though, but we're still like updating stuff that we're
like every day we see new stuff that we want
to add to the coop or take away from the coop.
And once they get completely comfortable, that's when they could
possibly start laying eggs. They really can lay eggs anytime,

(01:09:54):
but I'm hoping they don't start laying eggs until their
little nests coming the milk, because I'm wait, no, no,
but they could start laying eggs at any time. But
when they do, yes, I'm for sure eating them. Those
eggs are actually fresher than the eggs we get from
the store. A lot of times, by the time we
get the eggs from the store, they have already probably
been gone from the animal for two weeks or more.

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So when eggs are when eggs come out of hens,
they have this coat on them. I forgot the name
of the coat, but it keeps it basically protects the eggs.
So egg can sit on their counter for three years
with that coat on it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Once you wash that coat off, that egg has to
be refrigerator and now it has an expiration day. So
when we get eggs, they have been away from the
farm a long time, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
So it's good that we eat.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
Like in my house, I don't know about everybody else house,
the eggs go fast. In my house, it's like crazy,
like I'm buying too many eggs, Like I can't wait
till these chickens start laying, and I can't wait to
get more land, get more chickens so they can keep
laying eggs because you know they all had a seasons.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
My god, So are you gonna get to the point
where you start selling the eggs?

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
I want to, but I also want if I sell,
I want to sell in a manner of where I'm
really giving back because I think once they start producing
a certain level of eggs, I will have so many
that I don't want to be greedy. So I remember
back in the day when I used to go to
farmers markets with my mom when I was little. Something
that I really enjoyed is something I actually said this summer.

Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
I want to get back into on Sundays after church,
like going to farmer's market, making that a part of
my Sunday routine, where they sold like eggs for two dollars,
three dollars, like not all of this like so expensive,
Like we're families that really can't afford it, just can't
afford it, you know, I.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Would love to give back.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
I seen I follow, not follow, but I've seen a
couple of people, like on TikTok, I try to follow
farmers and stuff like that so I can just learn
little stuff. But I see they have like eggs stands
where people can come pay like two dollars for fresh eggs.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
And they lead a little money in there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
I don't know how much I can trust people in
my city to lead the money and just take their eggs.
But they little stands be cute because like it'd be
like fresh eggs available and then they in like a
cooler and once they're going for that day, they going
for that day, but they lead they little money inside
the thing or they venmo or cash after person.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
But like I don't have to stand at the stand.
You literally come pick up your eggs, pay your bill,
and you go about your way. And some of them
left little notes like thank you so much. For your
fresh eggs. This is so generous to our family, like
and like that is so super Yeah, so I'm hoping
to get into that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
I like I tell people, like, right now, I'm moving
on God's time and not on mind.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
So I'm not in a rush for anything. I'm not
even a rush for them to lay eggs.

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
I know it's a process and I know that I
have to learn them, and that's the biggest thing I
want to I really want to show God that I'm
willing to learn it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
So you just got up one day and said I
want some chickens.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
I've been wanting them for a whole and like my
husband was procrastinating. My husband was procrastinating about it, and
I was having like a really like a down day
one day, and I was just like I text him
in the middle of the day. He was like at
work or something. I was like, how would you feel
if you came home and I had chickens? Usually he

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knows what that means, like if I act something like that.
So when he came home, I had chickens, and it
was just like one of those things where like I'm
like I have to just jump into it, like it's
not gonna be perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
Is the yard ain't gonna look exactly how I want it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
Everything won't be like Instagram ready, but it'll be ready
for me and I'll figure it out along the way.
Just do it, like, just do it, because at the
end of the day, if it's something I really want
to get into, if I really want a farm, I
really want to, you know, be this person who is
into nature.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
I have to start learning the process.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
I have to learn more about it, which will also
help me learn more about people and their skin and
help them in different ways. It's something i'd really want
to do. I want to go into more of the
holistic type of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
I am so proud of you you are doing, like
all of the things you are so genuinely genuine. Ever
since I met you, I get this dope by this
dope energy. You always give the best compliments, and I
have to say, like, I'm not gonna lie. When you
first complimented me, I was so thrown off and I
literally just told one of my.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
Girlfriendss, no, listen, listen because it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
How like it's just crazy how we're programmed that we
don't even know we think we know who we are
and our impacts, and we don't always know that, and
sometimes it's it feels so good for another person that is,
like you feel like it's up there to give you
that type of love and encouragement and just pour into you.

(01:14:51):
Because when you're the poor, it's where that people pour
back into you or recognize even when you're pouring you
know what I mean. I am a motive better by
That's just who I am, So I naturally like to
motivate people and tell people to keep going and stay encouraged.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
But it's rare that I get a lot of that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
So when people tell me they're proud of me, or
they they genuinely rock with what I who I am
because I'm always myself.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
You're gonna get Rachel. Whether I'm stuttering when I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Talking, I know how to pretend to be anybody else
from me. I'm gonna say a word. I might not
pronounce a word, right, I'm I might. I might, I
might scramble a word. My family be like Rachel's me,
what was you?

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
What was that word? I'm like, Bro, you knew what
I mean. My kids even correct me, Mom, that's not
how you say that. I know what it means. I
know what it means, but you know that's it. But
I'm always me.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
So sometimes you never know how your personality or your
boldness or your creativity comes off to people. So when
you first told me, you pour it into me, you
inbox me and told me like how proud you were
me and all this stuff, I was like, I was like, man, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Weird, Like why should be proud of me? Like what
am I doing? I'm not doing anything right now?

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
And I think a lot of times we think we
have to be like doing stuff in the moment, you
know what I mean, or doing something that's just so
big that it was like, oh, applause, when a lot
of times it's just you being you that people are
proud of and just doing your own walk.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
So same to you. I think you are amazing. I
didn't know until the day that you were a nurse.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
So like every time I say I'm quitting nursing school,
God literally puts a nurse in front of me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
I don't know what it means yet, doesn't mean I'm
gonna be a nurse.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
But I think you're trying to tell me to keep going.
But we're gonna see I'm gonna keep praying. I'm gonna
keep praying about it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
No, keep going.

Speaker 2 (01:16:39):
But I would have never knew that if your spirit
is so full. I'm gonna be honest. I thought that
you had a foundation for lupis. I didn't know that
you were like really in the field.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
Like I'm learning.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
I'm learning so much every time I meet you, every
time I connect with you, I feel like I learned
something new about you. And I love that and I
want you to know, like you, what you're doing does
matter and it does need to be talked about more
in spaces because you educated me a lot, and I'm
thankful for that because I think a lot of times,
like I said before, we don't know what we don't know,

(01:17:14):
and when it's not in your face, you don't Sometimes
you don't care to learn it unless somebody like tells you, like, hey,
this is important, and this is important, and I think
you should keep talking about it and just keep doing
you like, keep doing what you're doing, don't stop like
it's needed you. So as much as you're proud of me,

(01:17:38):
I'm proud of you too for creating this platform and
being willing to just talk about it no matter who's listening.
Who's not listening, like it needs to be talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
So don't don't stop what you're doing, and don't think
that you have to stay in any box like you can.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
You can do whatever you want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
No, I appreciate that. Yeah, since two thousand and eight nurds.
Then this platform came just out of nowhere and I'm here,
but no shot, I'm probady. I see you doing all
types of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Fashion.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
I'm definitely into fashion. I seen you because you dress
and you can get it dressed.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
I'll see you too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
And then the cosmetics and everything, I'm like, she dope
as hell. And then all the messages I've been watching
you for a pretty long time.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
Oh so that's all. I'm like, I'm proud of you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
And then like your energy dope, and you was a
girl's girl. And then when I reached out to you,
you was like really nice and dope. And then you
reached back out and then I was like, oh, her
energy is dope. And then when I meet you in person,
it was it was because I think a lot of times,
especially with women and our in our different industry, sometimes
you don't know how a person may come off like

(01:18:41):
you're like, Okay, they seem nice on social media, but
then you reach out and you're like, oh okay you
and you got to learn people. But I honestly appreciate
anybody that supports me, believes in me, is been following me,
still following me, still rocking with me, because.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
I know, like I am following people a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Yeah, when you was with Ash and then you got
your own spot, like I've been seeing you so that
songs like you got your own thing, your own sweet
and then every time I reached out to you like
donated whatever you came through, and I was just like,
you don't you know what I'm saying. So that's all
I'm like, I'm probably talking you ain't doing like you've
been doing. You've been busting major rules.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
What you're talking about? You know you just like you
ain't doing nothing, you like I really ain't ind it
like I ain't did nothing lately.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
You know, over these last ten years, you've been busting
ruggles and I've been seeing all of your mouths on.
So yes, I am super proud of you. Keep going
and you have not changed, and your energy has not changed.
And you've been in girls girls, and you know what
I'm saying, so it's been super President.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Well, thank you so much for the opportunity, Thank you
for allowing me on your platform, and I can't wait
for May third.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
I hope y'all registered. I geah, but even we've been
posting it, so I hope y'all registered.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
It's not just for people who have lupis.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
You whether you you know somebody with bring them with you,
or if you want to come by yourself and just
get more knowledge, you never know who you can bump
shoulders with in room. I always tell people, every opportunity
is a network opportunity. It's what you make of it.
It don't matter what kind of moo you. I just
went to a tech event last Saturday. I don't I'm
not in tech.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
I'm not in tech, but I went in a room
just to bump shoulders with people, and you know, I
left out feeling good, like man, like okay, like if
I ever wanted to get into tech, I know some
avenues that will help my business now that I didn't
even think was considered like tech, you know, but just
learning new things.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
So when you walk in this room, it's not just
about people with lupis.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
It's about learning how to deal with this, about learning
how to be that encouraging friend or family member. It's
about just showing up to educate yourself. So when you
talk about it, you're talking with knowledge, You're talking from
resources that you that are credible, you know, absolutely, and
just surrounding yourself with.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
Other women who just need some uplifting. Absolutely, you know.
Definitely registered. It's a free event.

Speaker 3 (01:21:05):
And when she said it was free, I was like, okay, Like,
no reason not to come out, even if you only
stay for a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Just come brup them shoulders, y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Definitely a free event. Like you said, it's gonna be
some major people in the building. You heard her and
all her credictionals. There's gonna be some doctors in the building,
everybody in the building, and gonna have some type of
licenses in the building from all walks of life. So
like she said, networking, it's gonna be some you know,
some finger foods and all types of stuff. So you're
gonna walk away with something. We're gonna have a free

(01:21:34):
rifle giveaway. You're gonna walk away with something, for sure,
So come come check out. It's gonna be on Mitchell Street,
May third, from two to four. Two to four is free.
Super excited, hope to see all of y'all there. Yes,
come come, come, come, come, come, come, come. So again,

(01:21:56):
thank you so much for tuning in every Wednesday with
your host Loopus Has No Face Podcast. We had our
special guests Rachel be in the building. We're gonna drop
our tacks. If you're looking for an esthetician or some
skincare and some makeup, please replay it until next time.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
See you soon.

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