Beauty 2 The Streets (w/ Shirley Raines)

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excited about your life. If you didn't know, we are recording okay and we're on yeah, and oh my gosh, I don't have the FCC down my back, so girl, we can talk. Yeah, a real conversation. You was like, I want to say something extraction of stuff, but I'm like, let's just keep it real. So first and foremost, this

is vitamin D with daring day. You may have heard me make mention, but to you, okay, okay, I was like, I'll find coming in high You know I'm an airy so it's like, um, anyway, I'm back to you, so vitamin D. Let me just tell you real quick. It started underneath the comforter in New York, but it's a part of my name. Essentially, you get vitamin D for the sun, so I'm here to shed light and see

your life. It started off using lyrics of popular music because you know, my thing has always been to inspire and to motivate people. Hence I got life tattered in my mouth. I know that, but it ain't gangster like you don't because you all saw it. Oh my gosh, I would't even love to hear this story. This this is art. It's like art. Mind you. I got three

and thought I'm the most gangster you know. Bye bye anyway, So yeah, starting with that, and I would use the lyrics of popular music because I was like, yo, I want to motivate and inspire people, but don't want to come just like a motivational speaker or like you go to CEOs and it's like you can't connect similar to

the work you do. You got other people with this diversity, equity, inclusion, but are you on the streets knowing what the people need because you're constantly telling people, but are you communicating exactly? So um, I said, well, let me go away where people can't, where people are, let me reach them. Everybody loves music, so you might hear a track back that ass up and that's about standing in your integrity. You might you know, get to see and she talking about

being titanium. That means your bulletproof. Nothing can penetrate you. Yes, you know. So anyway, here we are now. I love that you have this platform. It's needed. It's needed because real conversations are needed, real conversation and we're not able to have those real people. But I'm not able to you know, speak my You're trying its entirety. Wow, you feel that way? I knew. I feel like, yeah, I

feel like it's on the editing floor. You know that I wouln't say what I want to say, but I feel like it's going to be on the editing floor because I don't feel like people think it's important to leave that in there. I don't feel like it's intentional. I feel like they maybe don't think that that's important. They've heard it before, but they haven't heard it the way I've said it. You know what I mean, I hear you, and you know what that's even how I

feel over KJLA. Yeah, family, I host from page KJLA. But I always say make room. Yes, like you can't tell me how my life experience, whether produce my trauma or reaction from trauma, or just how I live my life, Like, who are you to say what my truth is other than me? I am the truth, I am the way, Absolutely, I am the life. Absolutely can I shine, absolutely touching while it's high. I lets you wonder, you say, Dawn, you just got on here and you just talking. Who

is this? Well, this is the one and only Shirley Ryans. Shirley, you ain't know because you two finally had these headphones on. But that was around of applause. I went up and did a shitty But this is Shirley rains and all I can think of that Kirk Franklin track Rain Down, Rain ain't down, oh me? Oh but you know, but in the same essence, just like how God rains down blessings. You are raining down blessings to people I don't want to say, who are homeless, who are experiencing homelessness, who

are experiencing encampment. Why do you want to say that? Because you know, I spoke with somebody. I'm on the metro myself right now and even biking and running into running across, coming in contact and this gentleman I try. I was like, oh, are you homeless? Homeless? He said, no, I'm an encampment and he viewed it that was based on I guess this one individual viewed it as a way of Um. I guess it was like a judgment or a slander, and I so can I receive you?

Because it wasn't for him. It wasn't I want to say, a condition and not his state of being or essence. But does it mean the same thing perhaps, But I wanted to make room to say, okay, encampment. Yeah, I feel like and I hear that a lot, and I don't feel like it has anything to do with the word. You don't think it's like an identity people referred to as homelessness, because like that's how you identify. No, No,

you know, is your condition? It is homelessness. I feel like I feel like when we're arguing about a word to put it, I feel like the argument of trying to find a proper word for ugly situation should not even be That's like saying she was violated, she was taking advantage of No, she was raped. Let's not trying to find a pretty word for ugly situation. So my whole argument is this, why are we worried about what we call them when how we're treating them is this way?

It doesn't They don't wait shuggly. They gotta know who you are. Lord. Well, we're coming in hot, coming out, Okay, So I got Shirley Rains Shirley Rains It's founder and executive director of Beauty to the Streets, a non profit organization that aims to serve the homeless by providing necessities alongside the things that make us feel inherently human. A hot shower, a hearty meal, the hope inducing feeling of

looking in the mirror and loving what you see. Rains in her nonprofit, Beauty to the Streets, has been a stronghold on Los Angeles gid Row since twenty seventeen, providing food, clothing, and hair and makeup services weekly to hundreds of people. As of now, her organization has focused their efforts in Long Beach. Currently, they are partnered with cow State Long Beach helping them stock their food and pantry, and it's also working to get a food truck on campus a

few times a week to support unhoused students. Vitamin D Family, You Better Radio wims, Shirley rained, Hey, okay, so now we started. Okay, thank you Vitamin D Family for having me, and thank you doing oh doing like the break of day. You've got to catch your violence high. Okay, guys, Okay, so I told you about Shirley Scharlie and I, um we actually met. Oh my gosh, and I shared with bits and pieces with you all about me being on

front page. But we met on front page and I had her come in because I saw this woman, our own social media passing off for I said producer body, who is this? And then now, since the interview on KJLAH one or two point three, owned by the legendary Living Treasure, Detroit's own Stevie Wonder you were on stage with Lizzo, haul Off says, I don't even want to jump to the next thing. Girl, you outside and listen, that was a secret that I had to hold onto

for a couple of months. So you was in my face at King and tell let t boty Listen, Um, that was an amazing honor. What was that about? Tell me? Tell me T was Lizzo Um accepting the People's Choice Award the PCAs And you know she's a really sweet person. Listen has worked with us before. Look, that's not my first time meeting Lizzo. Lizzo has actually had us come to her house and pick up clothing. Fallback says, yeah, how did you get in contact with Lizzo? Lizzo actually

reached out to me. She did a post about us one time and I was the thing. I was working in skid row and all of a sudden my phone just would not stop vibrating, and I was like, where is all this coming from? And I went to TikTok and Lizo had actually did a post about me and shared and she encouraged people to donate to us, a black run nonprofit, and I got tens of thousands of boxes of donations. Lizzle donated money and it just was

a whirlwind. I thinked her and that was the end of it, and later we had a need for plus sized clothing and Lizza was cleaning out her closets, so she hit us up and said, hey, you know, come to my house and pick up for clothing. So they put every single thing on a hangar and gave us all of her clothing, girl everything stuff I had seen her on TikTok with I'm not going you identity, it's something it stood out to me because I've donated, you

said on a hangar. Usually when I think of people are donating clothes, they're the one and throwing it in the bag. Yes, bunching it in the bag, said, she hung it on the hand. First time we ever got donations on their Yeah, she put every single item on her hangar and didn't have us go to her assistance house or anything. Had us pull up to her house because she said, I'm a real person, a real person. So we'd already connected and I think during the DMS

and she said, you know, you're welcome. And so when this honor came up for her, she wanted to shed light on some people who she felt like deserved the spotlight. Seventeen amazing people. You know, I got to meet up Brianna Taylor's mom, Tomka was there and we I mean, she's amazing. This is the house when you guys are on stage. This is at the Awn State. Tamika was part of the seventeen I see. I only saw clips. Yeah, Tamika was there. Brianna's she's a girl. This queen is

so strong. We had girls one she's hilarious girl. I spend my days where she's hilarious girl. Seventeen were amazing. Yeah, but Tamika was there and it was just amazing meeting her. It was such an honor just to be in the presence of all these women. And I don't you know, I don't feel like it's hard for me to receive those things, because, like I said, I'm just following instructions. There's literally a book that tells you're supposed to help people.

You know, I didn't make this up. I didn't create it, you know what I'm saying, And so um, it's hard to receive that. But when you sit in the room with people like that and you hear stories and you get to be on stages like that, I think it just reaffirms you know that you're on the right track because they say, birds of a feather flock together, and if you see fruits blossoming upon you, that means you

on the right block. You know, it takes somebody that thinks that they're less than to get jealous of someone else just because God is blessing somebody next to you. Don't you got enough sense to say God is in the neighborhood, in the white room at the right time. Your ego get you the fastest way. The best thing you need to do you have on your way to your ego is a kneepad. That part right because you're falling on your knees. But they don't hear me though.

So the fact that you are amongst all these great women, Yeah, what does that say about you? You know what, I am a very grounded person. It's very hard for me to receive and take confidence, especially for this work. One thing me and Tomica talks about a lot. One thing I feel like I'm not one of these things is not like the other like I have. You know seven meis I'm considered an influencer, but I can't even influence my baby daddy to marry me. Girl, I'm not in here.

But that was so real. You coming in and I want to explore, but we gotta go here. I'm an activist and so it's hard to be in those spaces and receive that because I feel like a lot of times it's the messenger who gets the praise while the message gets pushed to the back. And I always have said, pay attention to the message and not the messenger, that's all. And people fought me for my habits. I'm like, you shouldn't be looking at what I'm doing behind the scenes

that for my life. Pay attention to my message. My roots are firmly planted. You know, our fruit is good. You know you could tell a tree by its fruit. So I was telling big Titis in the car ride home. I mean up here, you know. And when people seem to look at me and judge me because I don't fit this image of what they think. Come on, I'm someone like me who does the work I'm doing, it's supposed to fit. Then it's like, okay, you know, then

they have a problem with it. But no, my fruit is good howl means my roots are in good soil. You know what I'm saying. And then again I keep saying, don't pay attention to me. I'm the messenger. The message is completely different. So you keep talking about this message. What's the impact of What have you seen with the impact of your message? What is your message doing? Miss rings? I hope my message we ain't hope. We have to a firm to speak what it is, not, what enable

it could be, what it is? Well, from what I see in my DMS on social media, it is helping people to move in their own community, you know, and shed a light on homelessness. And it shed a light on the people who are experiencing homelessness what they're going through. It's humanizing people. You know, people were so I think it's when they come in and found our nonprofit. We provide choices. You know, you want your hair done. What We don't put food in the bag. I don't have

to eat it just because you're homeless. Just because you don't have four wall structures, doesn't mean you should eat meat. If you're a vegetarian, it doesn't mean you should eat sugar if you're diabetic. It doesn't mean your standards change just because your circumstances change. So they have a right to keep those same standards without those circumstances. But people think that they don't sometimes they think they negate those. But why but why we're referring to is your organization

entitled Beauty to the Streets? Correct? When did you start this organization again? Gosh, I think it was like around two thousand and sixteen or some twenty. Been in in the seventeen correct, And I just already going out. It wasn't really an organization. I was going out with another nonprofit police project in the backstreets of Los Angeles. And where is the backstreets in the la um behind skid Row?

There's some So skid Row is a fifty five block radius where they're en campuses, their encompasses um like about eight thousand homeless people in that fifty five block radius. And it's a really dangerous place. So you got some people who are vets, you got LGBTQ, trans community people who don't want to stay in that population. So they kind of go, await do you said dangers? Why don't you want to drive by a girl? Yeah? Was it there? Oh? Yeah? Girl?

You you you said dangerous? Well that's that's that's that. But that's not a girl, that's life. I'm from Compton. Wait what happened. You're doing good work down there. If somebody tried to shoot you, you know what, it's just it's the streets, you know. What do you mean by that? Like, I've never I haven't been in a drive by. So when you you're you lit, what does that mean? Like

you're talking to somebody and then somebody came spraying bullets. Yeah, basically we were walking down the street and something happened, and you know, gunfire arose and we were just on the block and serving at that time. And of course you were serving, yes, you were doing the work. Yes, And are you sure? How do you know that you were the target? We weren't. I don't think we were. If we just were in the wrong place, wrong time.

That could have been somebody's baby. It could have been and that's my mother that was trying to get from this abusive relationship, or perhaps somebody that fell into some depression. It could and that sounds dangerous, but let me let me let me say this. I've been doing this work for seven years. That's the first time. How many shootings have you heard about that? At school? Come on, or at the bank talking or a Walmart, catching a Costco on the buses or people's homes. There's more shootings in

those places in the skin row. So while this sounds dangerous and it looks violent, and I think it looks more, it looks worse. It is because you got this environment, yes, and then you got this nonprofit serving and these good peoples. The dramatic yeah, but it's the same dramatics of what happens behind the closed doors that we don't see the same dramatic or what it happens in the church and every place as we go. So this is why I want people to see it's happening everywhere. You know, am

I scared to skip row? I'm more scared to walk into a Costco because I don't know who's upset that day? So you still go down the skin roll servant? We do not. We do not. Is it based on the shooting or it is protection from my team? I have to I have It's not just me. I have to

consider we're a nonprofit. We have a full team now, and you know, I have a full team, and I have a family, and I've grown a lot, you know, And the spirit will move you when you need to move, and sometimes you just have to accept that there's there's a there's a closing to every opening, you know, and I feel like it was a time to move on. And look at we've got the colleges. Now, we've got good fruit going on. So sometimes break so needed. I

love skid Row dearly. Okay, I've loved the men in my life dearly, but they've been very dangerous for me, and I've had to leave them. Yeah, sometimes you love me and you got to leave some dangerous things. I say, sometimes the greatest form of love is letting go. And I learned that with my mom's transition. But hold on. You talked about the backstreets La Give it to me. You said that that now you're on the backstreets of LA working which is behind, yeah, behind skid Row, or

some of the elderly are in Polly's Project. He he goes back there and he feeds and brings clothing and all those things. Polly's Project, Paully's Project. That's it's a nonprofit that it's been in skid Row for a very Los Angeles for a very long time. So I came up under Polly's Project, and I'm the women in the trans community, and everybody begin to compliment me on my hair and my makeup, my earrings, and I think my third time out with him, I'm like, you guys want

these things because it'sund like they were hinting. They're like, yeah, if you could. So I brought makeup. The next time I came at sample makeup, I had a lot, and I brought some colors weren't I wasn't using. And then the next Sunday I went out with Paul. They hadn't they didn't have the makeup on her, their hair wasn't done. I'm like, do you even't like it? They're like, well, we didn't have a mirror, we don't have water. I'm like,

oh well, let me bring some water. So I went to targeting about a fold up chair and about an igloo container, and I bought some red solo cups and I began to just boil water at home and I would drag it with me and I would wash their hair and chairs, and I would take um, I would take grocery bags like trash bags and time around its smocks.

And I was slowing him down a little bit because he was like, Okay, I'm ready to go to next block and feet I'm like, hey, maybe I'll come out here on the day when you don't come, like on a Saturday. He was like, oh, that would be good. And they started calling in a makeup lady, and young kids used to come and try to get makeup from me in the backstreets. I'm like, where y'all all that there? Like, well, we're in skid row. I'm like, well, let me go over there and take care of y'all. And so that's

how I ended up in a skid row. And that's how I ended up doing my own thing. And then I took the social media. I'm like, oh, look, y'all, I need more help. Like everybody won't make up in here, and I don't handle money, and I to the social media. I'm like, well, maybe I should like make my name something that I do. I'm I'm gonna chase my name

to beat to the street. And I did that, and I was just doing my thing, and then I think I was turning fifty and this lady hit me in my DM She's like, hey, I have a birthday present for you. You said, what what Jesus scare me? Oh my god, I was on the roll sided it is what she tried oh you is what she tried. You said you do. We're turning fifty. I'm about to be fifty five on the twenty nine of my birthday. I'm listen.

No no no, no, no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no man, no no no no. It's very rare that you can give me like this. You want to know because numbers speak to me. I see, no, see, I didn't have to read it because your energy and your vibrance, it's so vulnerable that it's not like, oh, let me guess, but yo, what you're still sitting, you're holding to God be the glory. She could be set

readjust my life. First of all, I told you she come in here with some emeralds, I mean luscious like a gem hair. The lashes are whisping to dreams that only angels could speak. Okay, and then it radiates this golden eyes shadow that kisses with the orange almost like the sun. So if you need it to get light, you just look into her eyes gen with jewels on her nose and her lips. Oh my god, what a dip. Then she gives it with the who girl on your lap.

Now you better stop. Now, don't put me in the bob. Maybe come sit on your lap now, girl, I'm starting to get some feelings. Now you better stop. You better pull what in the world surely I know no, listen, I do not have to give it his life. There's nothing like this was a genuine reaction. Yeah, okay, can we get back to the story, Dawn. I'm glad you asked. Okay, So this lady dm ju Yeah, I'm turning fifty. And she says, I would like to gift you a nonprofit status.

I've been following you and I think you're gonna do some good work. One day and I didn't turn down anything free, and I'm like, okay. She was a lawyer, so Danis Snados. She remains my lawyer today, and she gifted me my nonprofit status and with that, she gave me her accountant for a year. She said, me and my husband are gonna pay for you to have our accountant for a year. Yeah. She's like, I think you're

gonna need this. I think you're doing great work. And I was like okay, and I kind of just put it in the closet, put it aside, and then one day I got a call from Good Morning America and they were like you need to be a five, O, one C three are you? I'm like, oh wow, that lady gave me that paper I was, I think, hey, am, And things just shot off from there and I'm like, let me contact that lady. I'm like, hey, you remember

that paper you gave me? And then she became a really good friend and she's my lawyer for life and Larry is still my accountant. Wow, what everything was room for you? Yes, ma'am, you understand that. And it's like it's no secret your gift isn't giffing. Wow, wow, real quick, somebody is listening like, oh my gosh, what are they talking about? What does she look like? What's your social media? So somebody can take a pick while they sitting in beauty?

The word beauty, the number two, the and streets spelled is z on the nbauty to the streets on Instagram, TikTok Facebook, beauty two streets on Twitter. Because you don't have enough characters over there? Oh is that? What do I? Yes? That can't hold us back? Then? Is there a rap someone or anything? Yeah? Bet streets dot org check it out, check it out y'all see what we do out there. So along with Beauty to the Streets, you got something called Foody to the Streets. That the same. What's that

it's our food truck. So we were gifted a food truck. Um, we were gifted a grant. And this grant came from a person who wants to rename an anomalous, remain anonymous. Oh my gosh, tongue tight remain anonymous. And um, they gave us one hundred thousand some dollars. But here's the thing, and I really liked that. They didn't want to give us cash. They wanted to give us something that was sustainable.

And you know, and I always wanted a food truck because I felt like I wanted to be able to go feed whenever we could feed, self sufficient and self sustaining. And that's what we did with it. So we got Foody to the Streets. Rick on my team, it's I got some manifests on my team. Rick is my Rick and Sydney have been with me for the longest on my team, and probably five years ago, Rick said, I told him I wanted food truck. He said, if we ever get it, we gotta name it foody to the streets.

So many we gotta He looked at me, is that you got to give it to Mas said, it's yours. It's done, It's done. So Rick named that truck five years ago, real talk. And when we actually I'm like, I can't believe he's I told you, I told you, I knew he would always get one. And we called it foody to the streets. Wow, envisioned like two fish and five loans and some manifests on my team. How did you get this team? They just saw you doing

social media? Yeah, social media is power. Yeah. I mean I've as it's been a transition and a tough time finding the right people. But you know, God will always do that little sifter and make sure that the right people remain. Like when you're soakn beings, and if you ever want to people wonder how you know God. You gotta experience God to know God things that aren't unexplainable. Yeah. And the fact that you have a testament just says that you had a story. And half the time when

we got a testament, that's because we've been tested. I have been tested to the extreme. You know, I think a lot of times and That's why I think I have the following I have. I know I have the following I have because, yeah, and my story, it doesn't like what I have doesn't come from a great place. When people are like, I want to be just like you and be careful what you wish for. What do you mean by you know? I would like for people to say, do the things that I do. Don't say

you want to be like me? You know what I mean? Because the way I got here is not the way you think I got here. I got here through trauma. I got here through pain. I got here through brokenness, you know what I mean. This wasn't like a lifelong dream to do some work like this. This is taking all of my broken pieces and finding a home for them. And then home happened to be beauty to the streets and the work that I do. So this all comes from a broken place. But that's okay because it allows

me to do the work that I do. But it's important to share that story because I think a lot of people are like, I can't wait to get myself together so I can do the work that you do. Who said I'm together? I mean, I'm doing the best I can. But I don't want to create this false image like you see on social media of you know, people with millions of followers and blue check marks and you know, going out doing great things and it coming from great places, because it makes it people feel like

who are struggling, that they can't do great things. And I have panic and anxiety disorder. I buried a child, but every day I live with that, I deal with. You said you bared or buried, buried a child. That's how my nonprofit started. I mean, that's how my pain started. What do you mean by that? What happened? It was when I was I was married when I was younger, in my twenties, and just stupidly gave up my housing for my husband travel with him. He went a wall

from the Marines. You know. I ended up pregnant with my daughter and I had my firstborn son. He was his stepfather, and he was you know, five days his third birthday, and we were just running around with this with my husband. I made poor choices and gave up my housing. Essentially was homeless myself. So you have experienced, yes, but not sleep well. Yeah. I didn't like sleep on the streets physically because I kept walking car or your

cousin's count. I mean I literally walked the streets all night when my baby's covered in a struggler like I was. You know, that life for me, so my my, my passion for this was you know, being in hotels and not having a place for my little boy to play

in the backyard. And um, you know, the day before I had gone to the doctors to get my you know, my OBG exam because I was pregnant with my daughter, and um, he just was so restless, you know, and he got in trouble when he got back to the hotel, and I was like, you know what, let me just he needs the backyard. I'm gonna send him to my grandmother's just great grandmother's. You know, she raised me. You know,

my life was really broken. But this is the one who spoke life and me and taught me everything and made me who I am. And I had an uncle who had some you know, mental problems, and we've all grown up in the house. We all knew there was medicine in the house. And you know, even though he was five days to his third birthday, he too knew the drill you don't touch or drink or eat anything

unless Nana said so. And you know, unfortunately, that day brought about a lot of anxiety and you know, I can't even get into it, but I knew there was something wrong that whole day, Like the spirit was just like with yourself. Yeah, I knew something was wrong with my son. And I'm like, I got a bad feeling. So I called. I'm like, I say okay, and she's like, yeah, he's good. He's playing. I'm like okay. I'm like you're sure. She's like yeah. I'm like, go check because she's like

it's fine. Well, I'm like, well, I just got a bad feeling and I just couldn't sleep all night, you know, went to get him the next morning. He was in the back seat of her car and she's like, oh, he's sleeping. I'm like, oh, that's odd. And I you know, my life was so I'm gonna keep it a buck with you. I was gonna get my food stamps, you know, I was on welfare and I was gonna get my

food stamps. And I got out of the car and he didn't move his head to catch your breath, and in the seat of the cushion as something just said get back in the car and take him to the hospital. And I was like okay, and I was like, na,

we need to go to the hospital. My grandma was like, no, he's fine, and you know, we took him to the hospital and he wasn't fine, and everything in me said he wasn't fine, and he was very tired, and he kept saying he wants to sleep, and I was like, no, you need to walk, you need to stay awake, and you know, everything in me was kind of like, well, he's not gonna make it, and you're torturing him by walking him, so you should just say everything you need

to say now, because this isn't gonna end the way you think it's gonna end. It was very clear, the instructions were very clear. They were very clear. This was not gonna end the way I wanted it to end. So I told him I loved him, and he told me he loved me, and I let him go to sleep on my shoulder and I walked him in the hospital, and you know, I didn't come back out without him. Had the whole family come and my husband ended up

coming and everybody was distraught, but I sat there. I don't know, It's just like this this knowingness that I don't know it was in for me anyway. I was gonna kill myself when that was over. I was six. I was pregnant with my daughter when that happened, So I didn't really freak out too much because I thought, I'm not gonna lift through this. I'll just kill myself when it's over. And you know, and by the time I had her three months later, I forgot to kill myself.

I was in such a dark place. It gets a lot darker than suicide. People think suicide is the lowest. If you hang on, he gets a lot darker. Really, when I got back to suicide, I was happy. I was like, oh, thank god, I'm back. It was a dark It was a dark, dark, dark place. Did you get much support from your husband? I got no support from Was he a narcissist? He was a rapist? But him out to be a rapist. Years later it came out he had raped a twelve year old. He went

to prison, he turned I hadn't buried the rapist. He was a rapist? Did he didn't have any dealings with any of your children? He did? He did? He raped her youngest daughter, So how okay? So what does that look like now your relationship as far as with your children, understanding the importance of just having a home. You know, I see, well, all of those experiences shaped and molded me. Not the one with the husband, because I take no blame for that, you know what I mean, that's his

own demons. But certainly giving up stuff for a man traveling, you know, not keeping my own you know what I mean. I'm so strong minded when I see young queens doing stuff like that, like I understand, you know, partnership, but we have to be very careful because I too. I'm taking care of women on the street who are married for many years. Stay at home moms didn't get a job because hubby said I'm gonna take care of you. He turned fifteen, he cashed her in for somebody else,

and she's homeless. Their story is nothing more than just depending on a man because he said, I got this, but unfortunately you gotta get it too. So let me ask you this. I still he found out what he did to your youngest daughter. Could you walk away at that moment? That didn't happen at that time with me. He wasn't with me when that happened. That happened many years later. I kept so you allowed her to be around. Nope, never did happen. I took I never he really saw her.

When I got pregnant with her and I found out what he did, I left the state and he never saw her. A family member disagreed and thought said he had a right to see his children and sent my children against my will to their dad. Use a lie. Oh no, I'm telling y' I've been through a girl. I got what. They sent my child down there, yea. I blame myself again. I was experiencing some struggles of homelessness and the family member said they would take my

children in for me, and they did. But when they took my children, they said, you know what, they have a right to be with their dad, and I sent them to be with their dad. I'm like, you what, And before I can get him back, he did what he did, and the police called me and my daughter was sent back, and shoot, buipolar did this day? I can only I don't. I can't imagine. That's a lot of trauma. Oh yeah, that's just bits and pieces. That's

not even a girl. That's light work right there, compared to the other stuff I've been through well, piece by piece. You know, you can make a beautiful picture. It can. But I mean, that's why I can understand the stories I hear in the street, you know what I mean, Like people been through some things. Everything, ain't you know, peaches and cream. Some people have suffered extreme circumstances. I know I have, and people counting me out because of that.

You know, people told me I wasn't gonna rise from that. You know, people thought it was over. I thought it was over for me. I thought there's no way to come back from this, you know what I mean. But there's no way to love again and trust again when you've married someone who's done, who's done something so deplorable, you know what I mean. There's no way to have another child when you when you've buried a child, you know what I mean, Like there's no replacing, there's no replacing.

People are like, but I owe you overcame that, you became Beautyshire Street. No, no no, no, no, no no no no. You know I didn't overcame what you don't overcome a death of a child, you accept I accepted it. I didn't overcome it. I had to accept it, and it took me many years accepted and I had to accept it because if not, it was gonna kill me. It's gonna destroy me inside out. Well, we're talking about how this inside job has led to some great outside work

you've been doing. Right. We got Shirley Rains right here on vitaingin t with Dante. I'm telling you, it's a real conversation, what a real person right now. Um, we're talking about beauty to the streets and those experience and homelessness. When we come back, we know that the first black woman mayor of LA it's called the state of emergency on homelessness? But what does that really mean? Yeah, we're gonna dive in. We'll be right back. Callaway, peace. What's

up everybody? This is trade change And you are listening to Dawn Day. Right before the break you had shared. Uh, I don't have appropriate words, but things I feel like no one would want to experience a death of a child, or even learning that your child had been assaulted, especially by a father, and there was nothing you can do. And the first thing that came to my mind is like, wow,

and what you describe? Where was your choice? Yeah, these circumstances didn't give you an option with a choice, and when you came in, one of the first things that we discussed when you talked about beauty to the streets, as you said that we want to give those who are experiencing homelessness a choice. If you have diabetes, you should not have to eat food that's gonna bring up your sugar. If you are vegetarian or Venian, why should you have to eat me? Options? Yep, yep, And I

had none. I felt like I think that's where it started. I'm not know that's where it started. The passion comes from my son because I didn't have a choice. I had to accept that. You know, I didn't have a choice if my son died. I didn't have a choice about a lot of things I felt in life. I didn't have a choice what happened to me in nine years old or ten or eleven, twelve, thirteen, forty fifteen or sixteen, you know what I mean. So I think

it's so empowered. Choices are empowering, and that's why the hair and makeup, even though people don't see those as choices, it is like what color would you like your hair? Like? Any choice is empowering, even if even if it's just picking your hair color, picking the length of your eyelashes. That's all I could provide back in twenty seventeen and back in those years, just those things. And I took a lot of criticism on social media because people are like, well,

that's not important. One, that's not important when they're not going anywhere. They're not going anywhere anywhere. When you take a shower and sit on the couch, but you want to get up, you have the choice to get up and feel good and look good, and they want that as well. I mean, I kind of a testament. I've been wearing hats for a bit. You know, I have my blonde locks in and you know, I went in for you know, they say, I go to go so you know all they started doing. Then I said, lord,

so I had to put a hat on. That didn't make me feel good. Girl, got my hair color together, baby, got in the salon. We're not even finished attaching or you know, assessing them. But I can't tell you that that's probably this energy that you're feeling. The excitement. I felt like, oh my gosh, yeah, I got my hair up in my points don't have a had one girl. And it's interesting when individuals aren't feeling the best throughout the day. Don't get your nails done. That's who I'm saying.

Put your feet up. I don't care if you're drinking your tea. You're doing something that just makes you feel like you inherently beautiful. That's what I say. If you call a friend right now and say, girl, I lost my job and my man left me, she gonna say, let's go get our nails done, let's go get our hair done. None of your circumstances have changed. You still don't have a job, your man still left you. But

it's just a little pocket of air. It's just a moment that they're giving you to, you know, take that little break. And that's what the homeless need to. People are like, well, they're not getting them off the street. Well, that's not what my mission is about. Beating to the street is providing pockets of air. Getting the homeless off the street is a city is a city issue. That's not what I provide. I'm just trying to give CPR. Come on until the real responders come, paramedics and then

the emergency room exactly, come on, catch it. But I'm not the life saver. I'm the temporary help. I never said I was it. So when people are like, or you should be doing this instead of this, Nope, I'm doing exactly what my calling is, to go out there and provide life saving measures. Because I didn't have those things, I had to you know how hard it is to CPR on yourself. I had to bring myself back to life the death of my child, from all the circumstances

I've been through. I had to speak life into myself. Nobody did that. I had to find a reason in the will to keep going, and not just to keep going, but to try to not fall into a poor me situation. Not to pour me story. Suggusts me story. People bury kids all the time all the time. Its adjusts me story now to pour me story. But I had to get into that. I had to learn to separate myself

from earthly possessions. You know, every time now I pray to God like these are God's loans, children's are God's loans. I had to detach from everything down here. That's why I don't care about money. I don't care about those things because I've lost the child. I've lost the most precious thing in the world. Nothing down here is yours, and I spend enough time being selfish, and I feel like the rest of my journey here is to certain people.

And I have enough information, I have enough experience, says that I've gone through to make that happen. You know, don't let it be for nothing, Don't let it. I never asked God to take my pain away from bearing a child. I asked him to make it make sense because I know the pain ain't gonna go nowhere don't. And so I don't have my child. But there's people on the street that don't have a mother. Oh maybe I feed that child since my child not here to feed.

That's what I always say when I see people out, you know, experiencing homelessness. I'm always like, that's somebody's bag. Absolutely, somebody's bad. Somebody changed that diaper, Somebody loved them, somebody, I don't care if it was motherfucker. Somebody at some point in time cared enough to when that baby cried, somebody ran to a room and picked them up. Somebody has loved that spirit, and somebody would won't that spirit

to be content to be loved by somebody. And as a person who's experienced those things in the street myself. I know that a lot. I get a lot of messages and deals from people who are like, I don't know where my love one is, but I hope that you're taking care of them, because they want to know that someone else is loving on them when they can't be loved. They want to notice somebody out somebody out

there takes care of them and cares about it. Okay, So I love the idea that we're acknowledging that it is somebody else's baby. How we need to look and put eyes on people, How we need to do something. How is the city thing? So we know we have Mayor Careen Bass in office, and she has declared a state of emergency on homelessness. What are your thoughts? Absolutely none. They declare everything all the time. Okay, So let's be clear.

What is a state of emergency. It is a situation in which the government is empowered to be able to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do for the safety and protection of its citizens. Now what will a quote unquote state of emergency look

like for homelessness? Okay, let's talk about it. Gives Mayor Bass some power to lift red tape around the things like building affordable housing and shelters, or investing in services and resources without going through a competitive bidding process like she would under normal circumstances. So let's just be clear. Because we talked about what it's going to do, it will not do. What it will not do is that it will not bring in any additional money. So don't

think because it's an emergency, all the money is coming. No, we have more power and where the money is going. And then plus it will not grant us and influx of social workers or resources. So it's not about adding It's more so about control and pushing what we have do, pushing what we have half through, dang thoughts, you didn't change your position to everything? How you feel? Yeah, because you know what I mean, all of that changed our

position to everything. BT lavit and you know it's it's all of that is fine, and Dad, I don't have a problem when anything that you just read. I'm all about the facts. If you have started that when there was maybe five thousand homes in La County, maybe you'd have got somewhere. Let's talk about the facts. The facts are these. You have seventy thousand homes in La County alone, you have close to eight thousand, probably more if you do if a sensus, if everybody really takes the sense

and a fifty five block radius. Okay, each structure that you build in Los Angeles, the destruct of the laws in the code permits two hundred and fifty people per building. You've got eight thousand people in a fifty five block radius. If you can only house two hundred and fifty per structure you build, where are you going to build enough structure to house seventy thousand people. That's a small city.

It's become an epidemic. It's too big right now. And I love that you said that, because that's what you said on the front page. In fact, you said, and I quote, it's not that the new mayor is not going to do her job, is that she can't correct. It's gone too far. Correct. Basically, there are too many people on house. I like what you said. You said, Hey, Dawn, how are we going to build up these buildings? Correct? Well, here's the thing. Why don't we use what we have?

So it sounds like that's what KB is doing with her inside safe program. Let me tell you so, just as you reflected, how about how many people are experiencing homeless as we said about sixty six seventy thousand, so one of the twentieth that's when KB had launched or Inside Safe program, which what it is is that it means that the city will use master leasing to sub

lease hotels and motels for property owners. Okay, so some of these hotels, motels that are just empty, let's use it these room they will provide shelter for the unhoused while the city works to build more affordable housing. So right now the weather is changing, it's cold outside. I know what I felt conduct call coming out the garage, be getting to building. What about when you're sitting out there and let alone, you may have holes on your shoes,

you may not have the proper code. Now as well, with the Inside Safe program, it's a directive will be issued to fast track affordable housing and shelter applications within sixty days. We all know you might be pushed on the back runner. But again, the reason why it's the state of emergency is because now we have rules and regulations that are supposed to enforce and push through. Let's give it a moment hold on it. Says, now, which this process will take usually take sixty to nine months

for the application. So we're going from sixty days to nine months, and this program will cost under one hundred million dollars. Now you sound like you're shocked, but I'm saying this the reason why we got all these motels and hotels open. Rather than having other people that made you don't come in to run them out? Why not using for the city. Here's the thing, she got the budget. As a business, your main thing, your focus is on

the red lining. You want to ensure that if I got this room, I got this building, I'm getting the money. If the city is offering the money. What's the problem? You said, Hey, gone, we got all these people that don't scare roll. How can we house them? Can we be honest? You're out there? How many people are actually gonna make the choice to go? Now? Out of that, who's willing to go? Can we start there? And there's a lot of situations there, and I can see the

nimbies coming out. Not in my backyard, because again there is red tape you those buildings. As soon as the homeless come there, the neighbors will complain. Not in my backyard. Those are residential areas still, and that is the problem. The reason they're gonna have water, they're gonna have shoulders to showering to get dressed. No, they listen, they're trying

to get us shut down right now. I won't even say where we are, our new location, where we're all right now, the neighbors are complaining by where we are. People don't care. So she's gonna come up against the nimbies. Not in my back Nimbies, Not in my backyard. So not in my backyard, Nimbi. So the nimbies are gonna come out and say not in my backyard, and then they're gonna push back. It's not that they don't have

the right ideas. That has gone too far. The reason skid Row should be their home is because it is not a residential area. It is a business area. Here's the thing. Nimby will not have a problem like I was saying on your other show with the flower market in the backyard. They're not gonna have a problem with the with a fabric with a fabric store in their backyard. Move the businesses and leave the homeless in the in the business district. It's not residential there are no neighbors

around the complaint. Now should should businesses who have been there for twenty thirty years be forced to move because of this? Well, that is the city's fault. And this is what happens when I say it's a gang green situation. Sometimes you lose a part of the body when you don't treat it properly and treat it right away. They should have treated this before it become a gangering situation.

Seventy thousand people is basically losing the leg The city has absorbed the loss of skin Row, and I think that budget that you're talking about should be used also to absorb the moving of some of those businesses that leads these big warehouses. Now we could begin to make these structural buildings for the homeless, and they most certainly can house a lot of them. Well, can I talk to you here? I've spoken to some individuals, like I said,

beyond the Metro. I ran it to this woman, Sandra Jeremiah and I right outside the grocery store and I said, hey, Sandra, I said, why are you outside? I had a representative loof ruth Land, the Verde ain't pad Land Verde. She was on from this organization called path if you are experiencing homelessness called Staves Pound two on one. However, her thing was, is that Sandra who was experiencing homelesses? She said, I ain't trying to go down to themselves shelters. They're dangerous,

people are using drugs, people will become assaulted. So when you say to me, hey, John, let's get this warehouse, saying house all these people here, where is the safety in that? At least if I'm in a motel or hotel, I feel as though I got protection in my room. My kids are safe. There's a bear right here. But I hear you, and then I want to come to you at this What about the whole notion? You know, you said your whole idea is to make sure that

people feel human. I know, I understand. I see where your logic is going, say hey, push or make sure everybody stays in ski role. But wouldn't it be more of a human feel to have them be in the neighborhood. I get the people don't, but we got to help each other. When do we create the change? Because having them in a warehouse, how do you get to see the aspiration of what it looks like to have a family or just the normal things to do, because I feel like being on ski roll you kind of been

ostracized from society. Yeah, I don't mean like warehouse like bump is. I mean create create tiny homes within that create their little spaces within that. I don't mean lump Yeah, no, no, no, I'm sorry. I want them to have their own. I actually think one of the things I've also looked at as well with the city of Los Angeles is, and let's talk about it, the yards and yards of empty buses that have just sitting there. The trains that have just been sitting there. I'm from I was born in

nineteen sixty seven. I see all these old box car trains sitting there. Those can be converted into tiny homes. Those can be confirmed and then they can do like I think, those can be converted into tiny homes, do like a couple of you know, like group bathrooms within. They're almost like a mobile homes that we haven't heard of. You hear people all the time talking about they turn in school buses into a mobile. There's tons of empty buses out there, There's tons of empty box car trains.

I don't understand why we aren't using what we have to create individual tiny homes for them. And by those, I say, yeah, they're gonna need somewhere to put those. Okay, bring those in the skid row. But I mean there's a lot of options. I don't I don't think her ideas are necessarily bad. I think everything looks good on paper but not applicable. Let's not talk about forget the fact that the city actually had a lawsuit against them. Wait for the homeless. This you remember there's somebody sued

the city of Los Angeles. They had ninety days to get the homeless off the street. They had a lawsuit against them. This was the second time the cities Los Angeles was sued and told to get the homeless off the street. We knew nothing was going to happen. And people came to me. Newspapers call me, you, reporters call me. The city has been sued and the homeless will be off the street in ninety days. What do you think about that? I just kept working because I don't think

anything because it's not going to happen. And here we are, what two years, three years later, and nothing happened to them. So what do you say to people that say homeless, this is a choice. I say that choices come from traumatic places. I say that sometimes people do choose things, but unconsciously, there's a subconscious choice and an unconscious choice. I see how you can see it like they're choosing

to stay here. People that say, well, you know, I offered them a home and they don't want to be here. They choose, they're choosing the street. Fear is traumatizing, you know, going into a structural building, taking on responsibilities, living that life again. It's scary. Women who have gotten divorced or break they don't want to love again. It's very scary going back into something that traumatized you before. So imagine losing all your structure, possession, your worldly possessions, having to

acclam make yourself to a life on the streets. And then here's an opportunity to get all that back. But what if it doesn't work, what if I don't succeed, what if it's just another failure? And by that they would rather choose subconsciously, unconsciously, that life on the street then to take that chance again. And it's trauma. It's nothing more than trauma. And that's where we have to work with them. That's why I don't think building them.

If you build the buildings, they still won't come. You're right, it's not because they're lazy. It's not because they don't want it. It's because they're scared. And let's just be honest. Something new we heard, We hear people have been incarcerated for years. Yeah, that outside and be like I don't know what to do, and get locked back up saying like,

oh I feel comfortable here, and hey, look listen. You know vitamin dia is all about shedding a life because if you want to be better and you want to do better, you got to be able to see better. Yeah, don't act. There hasn't been a time at once in your life that you didn't take an opportunity because you didn't know what was going to happen. Absolutely could have been that job. It could have been very well, fallen

in love. It could have been creating this idea right in that book, even releasing the way you know what you gotta do, Brian to have another baby, trying to conceive again after the loss. Nobody wanted to disappoint me. So you would rather not get married again. To get married again, you would rather be childless to try to have a baby again and have a miscarriage, You would rather sleep on the street. Are you choosing not to have a child? Norma stopping you? Are you choosing to

stay at that job with no money? No, you just don't know you're worth of no value. So you're still sitting at that underpaid job. You're not choosing that. You just don't know. You have options. And the options you have are kind of scary. And because this is what I got, And what if I take this chance on getting a higher paid job and it don't work out, I'll just stay where I'm at. I'll just stay where i'm at, accept the money I get because this is

such a chance. And same thing with them, same difference with them. I'm seeing them get right to the door with the and do something stupid. I'm like, oh my god, well, how can we get unstuck? How do we get and remove ourselves? And it's a oh god, girl, And that's a bigger question, you know. And I'm not gonna I'm gonna be real with you. I'm still working through my own trauma. I'm I'm still trying to work on my

own path of enlightenment. But I feel like I don't know how to get Sometimes when you've gotten so far underwater, it's too dangerous to come up all the way because you you get these bubbles in your body so lower. But slowly, by slowly, someone is sharing that little, that little air pump with you and slowly bringing you to the top. Now you're gonna look up. It's a long way. I've never tried to get to the top. What I'm trying to do is create pockets of air under the

water where the people are. You know what I'm saying. I don't really know if it's important to get to the top. I don't know if we'll ever get healed enough to get to the top. But you can't survive off of pockets of air. You can, And I think sometimes acceptance is key. And this is this is such a gosh a girl, This is such a mess up

situation and with homelessness. And I think I come from where the place I'm moving from is just kind of working from where they're at, and I'm reading from where they're at, accepting that this is what it looks like for right now. What can I do today? I can feed you today, I can love you today. I can do your hair and stuff today, and we'll work on tomorrow tomorrow. And everybody, you know so oftentimes miss the importance of a right now and we understand right now

is where we find our peace of mind. And if they say that without a vision of people will perish. What did you see? Well, Beauty to the streets is allowing people to see themselves right here, right now, exceedingly and abundantly. We are God. We are trying. We are trying. We've been doing it for a couple of years now and it seems to be going well. So far, so good. I didn't get a chance. My time is really running out. I really need to be heading out because housekeeping needs

to be here. But I'm sure the people are wonder who is Big Teeth? Why is he always putting? Uh? Who is this name? Big? Who is first? Who is it? Big Tea? Is my people? Come on? I say hi, come on, Big Tea yourself. You tell them who you are. Y'all know, I'm Miss Shirley's personal protection agent, her merch security. Big Tea. Y'all see me on TikTok, Instagram and all of that. He's my personal security. You know, every sense the incident with scar Row and stuff and me just

being you know, a little known. These days, I have to move a little differently. And and I you know, I'm working. I'm working at Big Tea is at with me at three o'clock in the in the Huh, how do you mean? Oh? Well, you know, um, gosh, big you know, we brought security in. That's it's Scared Row. We brought in a group of security guards here blessing us. Yeah. And you know, and I'm gonna keep it real with you. You know, I didn't have a security guard of color.

And I'm like, hey, y'all, I gotta have a security guard of color down there, Like I gotta have this balance. It's dynamic. You know. I need me a brother down here because we need to have every representation down here. And Big Tea came along, and you know, he's been with me, and when the incident happened in Scared O, he you know, he was with the likes of the rappers and he came on over to the humble nonprofit side and um, you know, he's you know, he's a man.

He gets me, drives me home and then makes sure he opens doors and gets me to my elevator and and Steh, I'm working two and three in the morning and he's stared with me four and five because I work, and he's at the where I was with me watching my back while I'm loading in the dark, and watching my back while we're feeding in the dark, him amongst the others. So Bit team, what does this work mean to you? Honestly, it meant a lot. To be able to see the things that she do and the impact

that it has. It kind of makes me look at the situation and like she said, I've done security with a lot of like different type of celebrities far as like rappers and stuff like that. So to be on this side of the industry, it's like it's a it's a different view. And to see the things that she do for the community is like very awesome. So it's

it's great work. Damn Yo team, he vouched. If I know last shit turned it off, poor blast the vicine, you got my facarty blood shit, zakar retas how chocolates, some coming, saw Papa catchup pick it out, Yes, And what we're gonna pick up now is that if you would like to check out the One and Only Shirley Rains, who's bringing beauty to the streets. How can they find you?

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Me and Big Tea are gonna be going to San Francisco on January the sixth to feed with the City Eats and we're gonna be partnering with Sam's club. They're we're gonna be helping us sponsor the food out there. We've been working with Sam's Club, so that's amazing. Yeah. Yes, and then me and Big te are he's gonna be traveling with me. My birthday is the summer twenty ninth, and so we're traveling for my birthday because he's gonna score me everywhere. And I am going. I can't tell

you it's a surprise. What I can't to you is no, it's not that kind of surprised. But I'm gonna go hand out makeup bags to a very deserving group of homeless women in a different city for my birthday. They've asked for We visited cities before they asked for makeup. I didn't have it. So we're gonna drive. He's gonna drive me down this time so I can take the makeup with me versus flying. And UM, gotta bless you and we're gonna, yeah, we're gonna go do makeup bags.

Beauty to the Streets is going on a nationwide tour. Yes, and it maybe how to sit in near you, So you might want to go on to social media and check out that's Beauty number two the Street yeah, you got to catch it while it's high. Please, this is always type of catch up. Hey, pick it up, pick it up? What do this conversation meaning too? This is the first time you came somebody did? What was it like? You know what? What one? Your energy is amazing and it feels good to how you know when I like

a real platform where you could really really talk. You have great energy and it means a lot to be able to have a place to express what we're doing and black women uplifting black women. Let's just talk about that. It's not enough queens straightening crowns. You know what I'm saying. And the fact that you had me on the one show and then thought enough to told me that and

the same day sent the DM. A lot of people say, I'm gonna have you back, But if people aren't always people of the word, you said, just gonna hand me back. And that very day I got in, it was a DM saying because you set this time and actually I couldn't always doing something for the homeless, so you adjusted it to this day to allow me to come in this day. So absolutely did. And now I said, I'm doing something with the homeless. This thing and they say, okay,

let's let's switch it to this day. I'm like, okay, B TB going this day and here we are, here they are, ye see Shirley Rains and me Vitamin D. Pick it up, pick it up, bit saw pepper cats. All right. And while you picking this up, maybe you want to be on the show, or perhaps you have an idea for a topic. I want to make sure that you go ahead and shoot an email Vitamin D at Doing dayspeace dot com. Also, this is an opportunity.

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