Mirror Mirror Beauty Center (w/ Andrea Hope)

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West and the house. Yes, she is the owner, the founder, the creator, the developer, the amazing woman that's behind Mind the Mirror, Mirror Beauty Center. Correct, we gotta hear y, Yes, I'm like correct, correct, let out She's here. I am here. Um, so what's happening? A lot, A lot is happening. I am definitely in a new role for me that I am learning day by day. But it's exciting and I am glad to be where I am. Gratitude is everything, right, So glad to be wearing I mean, just think about it.

You're from Chicago, Yes, south Side High Park to the exact south Side High Park. Is that that's the Bob Bob High Park? Like high Park? That's where I was born? What what's what's what's high Park about? Um? It is off the Lakeshore Drive? Is it nice the neighborhood? Is it a good nice area? Okay, it's no, it's changed

over the years. I went back maybe like two years ago to just actually like stay there for I was there for like two weeks and I was like, oh, it's changed so much from when I was a kid. But I was raised here in la oh Son in Chicago. Here, spent my summers in Chicago. So I would at the end of the school year, I would leave and then I would be gone, like awesome, this is for high

school college. She would leave. Wait starting in elementary school, So elementary school middle school, it kind of stopped maybe like tenth grade of high school, I would stay here. I'm like, I got friends family over Chicago, you would stay with or something. Yeah, my grandmother, Oh yeah, my grandmother have aunt's uncles all throughout different parts of the city, so we definitely would, you know, bounce around from the house to house with my cousins when I'm in town.

And then my mother is from New York, so sometimes New York. Yeah, She's from Queens. So sometimes I would leave and go to New York for like a week or two and then go back to Chicago and then come back like a day before school started here in La, I would be gone awesommer and then you went to So you did elementary through college in cal Cally. Well,

I did some of elementary in Atlanta. Oh you had a little more, Andrea, Yeah, I've a little bit, a little bit in Atlanta, and then I got here second grade, okay, And so from second grade on I was here, raised in La, went to school out here into it's time for me to go out of state for college. Okay, wow, okay, okay, Well that was good. What did your study? So I did broadcast journalism and Communication, Walter Crown Kite School of Broadcast Journalism. So what's it called at the Walter Crown

Kite School a broadcast journalism. I heard the heck out of that. How that was a good spirit, that was a good experience. College was funky, out of state. Okay. Yeah, part of sorority, very active, Okay, sorority. What is your your organization? I'm Alpha Kappa Alpha. Okay, the Ladies of Alpha Tappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Okay. If you didn't know, you better ask somebody. Hello, Kamala Harris. Yes absolutely, but I'm gonna throw the flowers where they left. Yes, okay,

thank you. Okay. So you went to college and then you said broadcast journalism, I want to go into beauty. What I said, broadcast journalism, I'm want to go into entertainment, all right. So I was like, oh, okay, I want to do something that entertainment. Dabbled around, figure out where I wanted to fall, and that is currently my day job. Are you like on camera, behind the micro anything, behind the scenes, okay, on the entertainment and sports side okay.

And then I was like, but I'm a product junkie, so like I would go do entertainment, but anything beauty, anything like fashion, I'm like sucked in. I'm like, oh, I wish I worked in the Oh I wish I word. So I'm like, okay, I can't keep wishing that I worked in VD. So how do I put myself into that industry? And it's like we kind of met in the beauty rail, but not really because we were modeling modeling. Yes, I tell them what we were modeling. We were modeling

for our good sis. She is vb IP, Yes, she is v Y and we getting fitting form IP. Okay, yes, right, and so we met at that true. Yeah, I remember we're doing a hike and we're doing our thing and run your lord. I was trying to make shot in sweat and nothing makeup off. But you begin to tell me this abstoration is You're liked, I'm gonna start this business, and you were like, I want you to do like a voicemail or something. I'm like, okay, yes, it was

your voice for me. I was, oh, I'm I was working on I was brainstorming, putting it out in the universe. Come on, because we speak things into existence. Yes, I was already talking about it. You know with people that I'm like, oh, okay, this good energy. If I felt the good energy, I'm like, okay, I can share when we're talking about our dreams and goals and aspirations a lot of times and then you pick up energy and I don't always feel that, so I don't always share

as much. But I definitely received that from you. How did you learn to trust that? Just my my intuition what it feels like, right, they say, you know the truth yea, by the way it feels. And I'm working on that because half the time I'm not listening. I am like I feel it, but then my ego gets in the way. I'm gonna do it anywhere. I'm just gonna bypass it. And I look back, like, damn, don't

you should have just listen? Yeah? Listen? Okay, sorry, yeah, Now listening is so important or observing in silence, silence you don't so I'm loud and repocious, so it's like I'm always turned up, but I still slow down, Jim show listen and observed. You said doing you got a voice? Yeah, and you told me what you did. I was like, oh, that's amazing, and I was like, okay, I personally sometimes listen to my voice back and I'd be like, oh, right, that's a great right. But I was like, oh, okay,

I want to use Don's voice for something. And I was like, oh, when I opened my business, it's like she's gonna a voice behind it. The same I was like, oh, I'll just use don voice instead of mind because I love the way it sounds. It's so soothing to the ear. So um that's kind of where we are. And then I was like, once it got going and mirror mirror was actually opened, I was like, and I saw you doing your thing. I'm you know, watching you and hearing you.

I'm like, yes, yes, yes, And I was like, hey, no, what I said I was going to reach out to do I need to do that? Okay, So way through and now we did because listen, I hadn't seen Andrew and probably like gears with the pandemic and everything. And then we ran into each other at the Staples Center or is it this? Wait? What is it now? Crypto crypto dot com? Whose concert was it? Uh? Summer Walker was there? Jazzm Sullivan, Ali and Santana Yes, yes and say let me ran each other. So we had to

bring it back. But let's go back. You said, okay, I'm gonna use things a voice to open up this beauty center. I wanted to say, beauty supply store, what is the beauty center? And then we got to talk about what was the process like of getting that together. I mean, it's a whole storefront. It is. It is a whole storefront, the center versus supply. For me, I feel like black women in particular, when we shop sometimes in our neighborhood mom and pop beauty supply, it's kind

of just to me, thrown together. There's no organization and it's just you know, a bunch of stuff on the shelves and like clutter. And so for me, I don't know, center just hand a little more, you know, elegant and lux And I believe we deserve that when we shop. We spend a lot of money in the beauty industry. So when we come in, we want to feel like, oh, like I want to spend my money here and have an experience, have a true with someone that looks like me,

can understand me that all that good stuff representation. When you walk in, you know, feeling right and like, okay, this is nice. I want to be here like this is like home when I walk in safe, it's comfortable, and more importantly, I can trust what's in there absolutely. Okay, So I switched the words up and went went center over supply. I even like the mirror mirror. I just thought of this now. It's like, you can see yourself mirror mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them?

You are beauty, You are beauty. It's a valid reflection. So when you look in the mirror, you've ever done the mirror tests, you know what that is? No, what is the mirror? The mirror test is when you stand in front of the mirror and you write everything that you love about your body, and then you accept all your flaws that you see in the mirror about your body or yourself, your face, whatever it might be, and then learning to accept those. And so it's a lot

deeper than just what's on the outside. It starts with an inside. So that's kind of where the mirror mirror comes from. Nothing to do with snow white. Nothing to do with snow white, okay, because you know the story is snow white isn't always that great. So you got to take it and spent it and made it something more positive. Come on, piece of cold and turned into a diamond, and come on rain to turn into a rain walkerud No, there's like lots of meanings behind it.

So it's like reflection, acceptance, your flaws, loving what you maybe don't always love so much, but loving that and that every reflection is different. So what we grew up seeing in the media is what we were taught as beautiful, but that's not true at all. And so when you

look in the mirror, you see that. Come yeah, that's that's all behind mirror and mirror, that's all that is absolutely starting And you said, see yourself and loving yourself and then even appreciating your flaws because I think half the time when we look at things that we don't like, we want to change because we don't like it. Right,

rather than positivity, begets positivity. If I'm loving on it, right, whichever part of the body, whichever individual, whichever thing that is, I'm going to take care of it and I'm going to nurture and a goal and for it to grow to be as refined and it's best presentation of this to be possible. So rather than negating or pushing back what it is that we are loving and cultivating a way that reflects truly who we are on the ends on the outside. That said, it's out, yeah, and it's

hard to do that. Did you always love yourself like it? Because you're very beautiful? Like, did you ever struggle or issue with your confidence? Absolutely? I can't speak for everyone, but I feel like everyone goes through I'm talking about you. Where was your thing? Like, my thing has always been my weight. I probably I didn't realize that and whatever that meant to be attractive for pretty, not because I

based it on my way. I think I hid everything behind my way, so I didn't even get myself wrong to even say hey, Dawn, your face and whatever, Like I know I hold a face card yea, but it took a lot that I feel like I was hiding under my weight for whatever reason. So what was your thing? Because to have a beauty center, it would be interesting to know if you did have a struggle with your own beauty or perhaps your thing was to always stay

confident in yourself. No. Absolutely, I definitely had my moments where I would either my complexion I've been you know, someone would say something to me and I'd be like, dang, like, it didn't make me feel a way to make me a little institute? What would they saying? You know, I didn't realize there was a whole light skin thing until I went to Howard. Yeah, I mean, I guess in the Midwest, or let me Dawn's experience going to Detroit. Let me not speak for everybody. You know, if you

were light skinned, your browns, you were just that thing. Now, probably because I was part of the group and when the whole light skin was cute or fine thing, that I didn't really experience a disparity. But it wasn't until I went to Howard that it was forced that, oh my gosh, your light skin. It's like, I know I'm light scanned, okay, And you know, just you just saying that you're a member of Alpha Kalpa Alpha. This is

just based historical context, based on at Howard's campus. Of the whole paperback test, that was something that you actually felt that you experience, not with your organization, but just in general in general. Absolutely, what was I'd like, what do people like, don't play with me, Andrew, you're too

dark or you're too light. It would be more like, oh, you know, you're dark or you know, you just hear complete like complexion comments or you're pretty for a black girl, or you're pretty for a dark skinned girl, or you're pretty,

and I feel like, oh, I'm not just pretty. So it's like a backhanded complict man, And I'm like, I guess that's a compliment, but it's not a compliment because there's some type of condition that you didn't be that standard, but because let me add that, Yeah, so I definitely would. Or there's different comments about complexion. Did you ever try to make yourself lighter? No, okay, I would feel myself. But my mother always taught me that sunscreen is not

just in the summertime. It's year round. So I was always that girl putting on sunscreen. But it wasn't because of the complexion things. Because that's what my mother talked. Part of my skincare, how long somebody as she's blowing you see it. I'm like, the skincare routine started like back when young, but that was the thing, and sometimes like super skinny, like you know, that was the insecurity.

So like straight up and down, you know, Yeah, I was just tall and lean and I was an athlete, but I didn't really get any like muscle or tone until high school. So growing up as a kid, I was just straight up and down, you know, brown skin girl, find her confidence. And now you're you have a business focused on beauty. Isn't it amazing that our dreams and

aspirations they feed a source to ourselves. Yeah. Absolutely. I think that's why it's so important that whatever you're going after is to understand that I should be feeding you in a way. Yeah. And I sat up with Darren I said that with anybody that I'm working with, is that I want to show it I'm my pursuit of my dream, that you're getting something out of it. Yeah, that you also set your boundaries because at the end of the day, we're only as good as what we

can put into it. And if you aren't able to put in a good seed, what is the fruit of it? And why not transfer that seed into a beautiful mirror, mirror beauty center. Correct. But it's also for like when I think about it and I was like developing the business, it's like little girls like me growing up that you can see, like regardless of what the industry might show you or what you see MTV and the magazines in the movie as pretty or you know, gorgeous, whatever the

case may be, and like that's not true. So you know, doing that mirror test. Accepting and being confident in yourself and loving yourself and being safe within the beauty space and knowing that there is a space for you is important.

It's part of what the center is there for as well to give back to the community for women to come together from all different backgrounds, shape, sizes, shades, long hair, short hair, see four hair, every where everything and come together and experience and talk about like, you know, some products might work for you that might not work for me, but I won't know that. You know, we share our

experiences through beauty, through products, through through communication. Yeah, and you talked about this community space and also understand that one of the great things that you offer is that you have different products from whether it be up and coming small business owners as well as you have a space on the back because Jeremiah had a chance to visit location, Yeah, where you possibly may or if you haven't already started holding classes and so forth, can you

share a little bit about that. Sure, So within this space, we do highlight brands that are black and brown founded as well as independent brands and give them the space to you know, be in a store in the community and people come in and actually inquire and like what, you know, what is this brand? And now you are getting the exposure from someone who might not ever see you on Instagram or might not know your website because it's not right in their face because you're just growing

your brand as well in the world. Does somebody get that opportunity, So if they contact us coming to the sword of their content, So they're contacting us either on Instagram which is at or Mirror Beauty Center, they can call us. It is eight one eight nine six four four one eight one, so they can call us. They

can Instagram as they can email us. All the information is on our Instagram and we can email us at me or Mirror Beauty Center at gmail dot We're currently working on our website which will be up as soon as well. But they can reach out to us and we can have that conversation about getting shelf space, getting your brand into the space and which allows people to learn about your brand and try your products and fall in love with them, just like Eve any other brand,

something that has a big name behind it. Yeah, because it's all about the opportunity. But we have to understand that with opportunity, there needs to be space for the opportunity to grow into flourish. And you know, like you said, I feel like African American women like we lead when it comes down to trends, when it comes everything everything culture wise, at the standard and when we look at beauty even down to the point and it's no shame or is a shame. People want to replicate, they want

to mirror us. Yet you sometimes have to search high and low for a black owned beauty supply store slash center. What's up with that? Is it like a firewall that says, hey, you're a minority, black, a brown, you can't own the center. We are the people that are using the products, We are influencing the products. Why is it so hard for us to take up space. Yeah, it's um it's always been that way from some research said, I like, I

obviously have been here forever. But over the time and over the years, of course we could barely vote or you know, own property, and so as time goes on, it's like, okay, we are the number one consumers within the beauty product, especially when it comes to here. Okay, so we're gonna stop. We're gonna stop because when it comes they here, you know where it said. Okay, so listen, you know we have Antre in here. She's talking about

her mirror Mirror Beauty Supply Center. We're talking about all the amazing products that she offers, the opportunities to their offer, and now we're gonna talk about where the space is for a lot of African American should I say women are just business owners, business owners, women all that, and we're trying to figure out how to get aunt chill. Andrea is right here. We're gonna give it to you all. So we're gonna be right back. Okay, all right, and

behind the current, what's happening? Beautiful people? And you're tone intoviting the date with Dawn Day. That was another flaw my voice, which falls within the DD. Were like, you're asking some flaws, her voice is one of them. I would you say your voice is a flaw? I know people always be like, you know, you sound like you're five, or you know it's kind of squeaky, or you know, whatever the case may be. So that was always a flaw.

But yeah, and I hear my voice back, I'd be like, oh sometimes and sometimes I'm like, oh, I sound decent today, and I don't know what it is. I feel like it pro for sure definitely a common and say, I can't necessarily say, how do I say this in a way I can't understand what you're saying. Yeah, but I cannot necessarily relate, Okay, because that was my mother's thing. Speaking was my mother's thing. We would be in a car, she'd be having us listen to the phonetic alphabet. I

didn't even realize it. And then, because I'm so enamored with speaking in general, she reaches and I'd be all up in her groom just looking at the inflection of her voice. So I understand the importance of it, but I never really considered what that looks like when it is a hindrance, because it's not like I don't hear your speech impediment from you. Yeah, but you said your voice, your voice was a hindrance. Yeah, it was. And so I was like, well, I could still study, you know,

because I enjoy that. World goes like, okay, maybe I'll go behind the cameras and behind the scenes. So, but you got so much to say, I do have a lot to say, and so that's why for me when I am behind the scenes, and that includes being in the rooms though, where the decisions are made. Wow, and I speak for us when I'm in these rooms instead of being in front of the camera, where a lot of the time you're in front of the camera, you're kind of told, right, here's your script or this is

what you're doing. But there's a prep and a development that happens behind the scenes that ask the talent sometimes you are not in So I decided I can go the background and be behind the scenes and being technically a television executive and still have some say you know, and speaking you don't have to say something. So I feel like I'm saying because a say some say because I'm being real, I'll say something and my ideal will

move over someone's head. They won't. I'll be like, but then I said that and nothing was done about it, or nothing was said on it or acted on it, or you know, we're deciding on pilot. Season comes around and we're picking up scripts and stuff like that, and I'm just like, okay, well I think you know, and sometimes I have to stand up. We're in the big conference rooms with these long tables and a lot of men in the room, so they will speak over me.

Everyone's speaking, and then the women are in there trying to raise their hands and I'm none of the men are raising their hand, So yeah, I try to make sure that we are heard as women, as Black women, and sometimes I am the only woman in the room where the only black women in the room, and I'm not at a level yet where like I'm leading the meetings or making that final decision because a lot of time it's a company effort or what the priority is

for the company. But just to make sure that I'm in these conversations and can kind of guide them a little bit and feel like I'm doing my part for sure. And I think it's a lot about what knowing ourselves. You know your strengths, and you know how to cater toward your strengths, because after time, we're trying to play a position or try to act in a way that isn't suitable to are necessarily our skill set and can

be as enforceful as it can be. Kind of like if you're trying to do everything, have a knowledge of everything, but put the correct people in place so they can go the distance to delegate. Come on, somebody to delegate. That was something I had to tell Jeremiah with. You know, I say development to be an executive, but you know I ain't gonna fran just happen today. I'm telling him that I can't manage your time. Yeah, you're gonna have

to do that. But what I'm going to have an issue with is that there are things that need to be handled here. And if things are slimming through the cracks and you're not communicating with you what you can handle what you can't, I'm still gonna look at you no matter how hard it work that you're doing, because things aren't happening properly. But if you set your mound and say when you're gonna do something, and you do it correctly and on time, I have nothing to say.

But you have to delegate yourself because at the end of the day, you're only as good as your last mistake. Absolutely, So here you are. You said, okay, let me figure out a way to find my voice that can be heard as a speak amongst a lot of African American women. And when we came back. Before we left, we talked about as far as where's the presence when it comes to our brown and black people in the beauty space, when it comes down to owning centers and supplying stores

and what did you have to say? The challenge was? I feel like we own a very small percentage. It's like five percent of beauty supply stores, and that's on a more like mom and pop level. So when I do research and you look at some of the bigger companies, one the people running them seals are mostly men. So that means like sapphoor An Alta or Sallies. Sallies is not a Sallies is not a woman. It was founded by a man. So there are the CEO of sappho

is also a man. And so there's a lot of companies out there that on a larger scale or ran and operated by men who barely use the products that they're selling. But they're selling to the women dictating our beauty rather than us allowing ourselves to define it. Right. So for me, I see a lot of women owned brands out there. Of course, like Rihanna, there's Pat McGrath and Rihanna having fenty really change the game, right, And I feel like Pat was out before Rihanna. But Rihanna

has a bigger presence in names. A lot of people are do you say Pat Two's Pat McGrath ra. Yeah, A lot of people don't know see McGrath. Yeah, a lot of people don't know who she is. And she's been around since the nineties. She's a makeup artist and back starting with doing Naomi Campbell's makeup. Thanks. Yeah, she's a woman of color. She's a woman of color. Come on, he's a woman of color. Before there was a Rihanna,

there was Pat. And you know the reason why I think it's so important to have these conversations because just like New York Fashion weekap and this year a model had put on the put on Instagram how whatever they were trying to do to their hair. But you find oftentimes people are saying they can't find the right makeup and we have talented makeup artists turned to beauty what do we call these brand developers? Brand developers with the

products that we need. But guess why, there's no space for them to resign, right, So, but now there's Mirror Mirror Center, Yeah there is. And so like Pat is also into forore with Rihanna, but Rihanna has her name right, so a lot of people are like, really, and a lot of people don't know she's black because I'm like, Pat is black. She's the OG. Like I said, she's from the nineties, start out as a makeup artist and then she developed a line and um, then there's Rihanna.

But outside of us creating all these brands, there's no ownership in space. So like a goal for Mirror Mirror is to get Rihanna fenty makeup and skin o her reem and Pat mcgraft like OG and Mirror Mirror to get patterned by Tracy Ellis Ross also an honorary SORE member as well. I've Alpha Kappa Alpha storlready incorporated. So there's women out there that they have all these brands in their in companies, though, are under a roof of someone who's operating nuts whites or a man. Why you

got your voice down? That's whites or not, you know, anyone of color. There's a lot of boardrooms and I look and I read in a research and sometimes I look at these names and I'm like, is that a man or is that a woman? For the CEO of Sepphor in particular, I had a Google and figure it out. I was like, Oh, that's a man. People don't talk about that. No, And so you know, sofor is such a big name and also such a big name even Sally's, like I said, the founder of Sally's is not a

Sally Like, her name is not Sally. It's a man. And we as women and the African American, black and brown founders, we create these brands. I go in stores that are operated, you know, not by us. So I wanted to create a space that's a store operated and you know, eventually mirror, mirror grow. I want to have you know, execs and boards, delegates growing, growing, but to delegates and have a team, you know, and bringing in brands such as you know, like I said, Antee and

stuff like that. And then smaller brands. I shout out to my girl Jessica Chambers with Nova Sage. Oh why not right? Why not? Yeah? Smaller brands. And there's a lot of brands out there that I do not know, but I want to get a chance to know them all. Wow. Now I can only imagine you're standing when you're naming some of these major beauty companies that are owned by men, I'm imagining white man. Correct, What are the some of

the challenges that you faced having a supply center? So for myself, being a woman, one was challenging just to set up some of my distribution accounts to even carry these brands. Would you want to act when you were a man or something, Well, it wasn't that. It would be oh, we're not accepting right now, or oh you know, we're right there, we're not accepting any new clients right now. But I'm like, that doesn't even make sense. You want to make money, right and I have money here to purchase.

Were asking for a disc right, I'm just setting up accounts to purchase or finding the information or you know, reaching out and some of the google get back to you, and the companies don't get back to you. So then I have to keep calling, keep emailing, keep calling it, and they're probably like, gosh, but I'm not getting what I need. And you guys are a business. You guys are operating, so I don't understand why the communication is such a delay twenty four or forty eight hours, But

after that, it's like what's happening? And so I would yeah, have to have sometimes other people stepping meaning I have. I went to one, for example, distribution center here in Los Angeles, and I walked in and they got to see who I was. So no one spoke English. All of a sudden, manager is not there there. You know, there might have been like Korean or Philip Vintemones or something like that. So this might sound bad, but I

needed someone to who spoke their language. So I reached out to my nail tech and I'm like, can if you assist me? Because every time I go there, no one speaks English all of a sudden, So she was like, well, let's call them on the phone. So I call them on the phone. They speaks to me a little more. But then I passed the phone. I'm like to my

partner and she opened doors. What yeah, open doors. Oh we're seeing the application, here's the email, here's you know, you're a minimum of order that you need to complete and get. All of a sudden, we have all the information. She's speaking with them in English or they're in their length. Yeah, so me speaking English and like when I walked in, it was like no one. I was like, Hi, I'm here,

is there anyone that can help me? And then you know they're speaking their language, and so it's like I'm um, manager is not here. Wow, I'm like okay, well is there someone here on the floor that can assist me or help me off? You leave your They're like, pass me pen and paper, be leave your information, someone will get back to you. Didn't hear back, so I drove back same thing. So I was like, well, maybe it's every time they see me. I'm a woman, I'm a

woman of color. Yes, So it was just like okay, so I needed to find another way in. So if that was the back door and reaching out to someone who spoke their language to get what I needed, that's what I did. So there's been a lot of that. Wow, that's I think I just said it where I stand in my head, how that's like a form of gate keeping and keep those out keeping us out? Yeah, that was definitely Why would you turn down someone? Why are

you talking down money? Your business and the goal is to get more business, get more business, get my product out to make more money, and you're gatekeeping, yeah, keeping us out. Well, why isn't that what's stopping home people of color from being the distribution centers? Like what's up with that? Like, how do we get to that part right. So that is so crazy that that is something that I'm kind of working on. It's like I was picking up for order yesterday and I asked him did he

have of a certain brand in there? And he was like, no, not yet, but she's coming here for the taste of soul whatever that is. I was, I don't need to look that up because she's coming. No I didn't know. Yeah, so she's like the owner of the brand will be here for the taste of soul and we have a meeting. She's a black woman, so I'm like, and she's not in this distribution center. So I'm like, I wonder is that purpose? Is she not a part of the distributions?

In it for a reason? But there are some other ones actually is a part of. But all the ones that I'm dealing with, they're mostly Korean owned, just like our beauty supply stores in our communities. So I am interested in what is that process? Like why don't we have any ownership there? But we have such a small

ownership in the beauty supply stores. And I'm like, one step at a time, But I'm also like slow and steady, get the information you need to change the narrative once again when it comes to distribution, right, because we should have access to these things that we need, especially if we're leading the forefront. Yeah, and it's just it's so interesting how just being a person of color, especially a woman of color, how many roll blocks that you get slapped into your face left and right, up and down

and all the way around. But you said something that's so interesting, and I feel that every person should know this, especially when pursuing their dream. You can't fail if you don't quit. You can't allow somebody's no to dictate the yes on your life. So yes, they may have said no, a manager's not here, No, someone's unavailable to speak with you. But because you're in the you understand that you are creator, a creator that can create opportunity and possibility. You went

to the next best name. You found your homegirl or your partner to help you get this conversation going right, And now this is spiritheading for you to create more opportunities like this black what's her name? Do we know her name? This black business that's coming Yeah, Um, she owns me out. Yeah, I don't know what tells somebody? How do you spell it? Elle? It's in target. It's a big, huge brand. Okay, Mia, and I believe I'm

pronouncing it right as Mel. She's black, the owner, and she's black woman of color, and she's not in this in particular distribution center. So he did say that they're going to have a meeting, and I'm like, why are you having a meeting with her? I want to have a meeting with her. Yeah. So so now that she knows, hopefully Mal she gets one of this, yeah, the owner of this. Yeah. But there's a lot of that, and

you just figure it out. And there's still a lot of brands that I'm still figuring out how to get them into the space. So okay, as you were figuring out how to create space an opportunity, is there some advice that you want to give somebody a heads up who's like, oh, I'm a smaller Andrewa with those aspirations. Yeah, I would say, work really hard on what you want to do when it comes to this space. The space is huge. The beauty world and industry is huge, and

it's a industry that's not going anywhere. So work and determine what that is. And then once you determine that, do the work to make sure that you get there and don't quit. Don't quit, don't There'll be a lot of people who are going to say that's a dumb idea, or why why do that? Or are you gonna hit some roadblocks people stopping you. It's just don't quit, keep going, and as long as you believe in what you're doing,

everyone else will follow suit and believe to Hey. Yeah, that's why it's called your vision, your dream for a reason. It's yours. So remember that while you're working. There's a lot of times so I'm like, why do I get myself into Why did I do this to myself? But it's it's in me, because if it wasn't in me, you wouldn't even being able to put the all together.

So when you do stuff like that, you know you're on the right track, you're in a flow, you're honoring yourself, and I think that's one of the most beautiful gifts that you can give to yourself. Yes, so you may mention about you having give nine to five. Do you plan to keep balancing both or ultimately one day do you want to fully transition to beating and bed supply

owner slash distributor. Yes, eventually, I want to transition out of my Corporate America position and job and focus solely on Mirror and Mirror and growing the brand, growing the space, growing into distribution. Your voice is getting low when you're saying it. Does it make you nervous? It does? It scares me? I what is the worst thing that can happen? You think you'd be great? Yeah? Like nothing, And I said, you know it just yeah, it's just like why that's

such like big because you don't even want to stay. Yeah. I'm like, man, I'm just like okay, and I'm like still like baby stepping crawling before our water. May do you think that you are? Maybe you're actually taking leaps? Yeah, maybe you're doing trucks. I mean you just talked about how not a lot of people of color, let alone African American women, own centers dedicated to beauty, and you're one of them. Yes, that says a lot. Says a lot. Same from the same young woman that was just here

of you wants podcast a bit talking about finding her voice. Yeah, hello somebody Hello, Yeah, booty who hello, Hello, hallo hallo. Exactly very true. Yeah, I am. It's scary every day when I wake up, I'm like, Okay, let's get to day started, and I never know what's gonna come with it. And then when I'm away from this space because it's my baby and I'm still working, it's like I can't be as hands on at that very moment that I

would like to be. And there's a lot of trust going after your dreams, right, Yeah, So I'm trusting other people when I'm gone to run the business and operate it as I would. So that matters to me who's in the space, who's behind the counter, who's greeting you when you walk in and answering your questions, that there's representation and knowledge behind the team that is the face of the center when I'm there or not there, and

that's important to find the right team. Yes, it just makes me think, like, you know, what does it mean and what does your support system look like? And who told you that you were possible? My village, which starts with my mother. Yeah, my mom always tells me, babe, you could do anything you want to do, go for it, do it, don't talk about it, do it. Just don't talk. Like even when I was like I want to do this center of this space, I talked about it bro. She was like, so what are you doing to make

that happen? And just talking about it and just telling me every time you see a center or you go buy something, I would come back and be like, man, they didn't have what I needed, or I gotta drive over here and then drive over here and drive over here. Because the brands, they're such a separation and divide on the brands that are used by women of color versus used by you know, someone who is not. But there's

a divide there. So you walk into certain stories and you're not going to see your edge control that you come more edge control right to delay the baby here, Right, you're not gonna see certain brands that we use in certain spaces. Like I was saying, like Mel's not She's not and to four she just gone to Altar, but she started in a targeting a Walmart, right, which are major brands we talk about, you know, really zoning and the beauty space because Target and Walmart are not beauty spaces, right.

They carry they are large convenience stores that carry everything you need from clothes to toys, to home good to your you know products and kitchen. Right, you can go into Target and literally buy something from you can buy it in pajamas, you can buy it vacuums, you can get groceries, but then you can also get hair care products. Right, So in just the beauty space, that's not where some of our brands start unless you have a big name

behind you, someone backing you. And there are some brands out there, don't get me wrong, that are women owned and minority own that do go straight to that level. But then they're more of those that don't than do. And that's why we have spaces like Merror and Merror Beauty Supply Center that are creating these opportunities for these black and brown founders to exist. Correct. Speaking of which, can you tell me what is it about the black and brown founder or what that means to you? So

for me, that is it's so important. So start off the black and brown what is it? I don't even know what it is. So if a brand that is founded by someone who is black around, if that's a man or a woman, we want to give you a space because there are a lot of brands out there that are still looking for space and to have a spotlight shine on them, yes on what they're doing, what they're creating. And you are just as important as someone who has maybe a big brand or a name backing,

and we want to give you a space. And that's what it's about for me. And it's always fun to find those brands. Yeah, yeah, what do you how do you usually find though? Like where are they existing? Because I mean for somebody that may not you know, gearing up to the possibly give you a call on an email. How do you make yourself accessible for such a supply center or perhaps being represented or a distributor? Like what do you should you be doing? Should be posting on

social media? Like absolutely, you should be posting on social media. You should be a part of any you know, like pop ups or community events to shine light on your brand, to shine light on what you create. It so just being active, putting yourself out there any opportunity to be a part of the event. I feel like you should. But posting on social media A lot of times I'm scrolling or word of mouth, word they always word of mouth. I might see somebody with something on or like oh

my gosh, your hell looks great. I'm like, what what kind of hair do you have? Then? Or you know, like for a braid. Sometimes I see braiding here that I can tell is not what I'm using. I'm like, what a brand braiding? And they're like, oh, it's it's human here. It's oh, that's the difference because they're so there's so much out there, or like, your skin looks amazing, what is your skincare routine? Now? What products are you using? And sometimes people will put me on brand side, you've

never heard of this brand. I'm like, no, like, it's amazing, you should try it and be the junkie and me, I'm like, I will try it. I need a head. Yeah, I'm like, I will try it. You're you're right, And sometimes I love it and sometimes I don't, and that's okay. But now I know about this brand, and sometimes people ask me and I pass it along, right, because that's what you're supposed to do, right, lift And while we climb as we can information, we want to make sure

that we shut it to somebody else. Sharing, yeah, sharing yeah, which for women sometimes I feel like we struggle there, like we think we're each other's competition. So I'm like, but we're not. Because it's enough from from you doing meeting or to win the next one behind us. I've experienced it a couple of times, and I think the grace and understanding. I don't feel as though that people are coming from oh I gotta stop you. I feel like it's coming from survival of when you've been restricted

from food. So you don't even realize that it's taking more energy for you to pull me down versus if we work together, because that's what everybody's trying to get out. And you're talking about just simply going to a distribution. They're saying, the manager isn't here, we can't have a conversation. There's so many people in so many different arenas that are talking about, oh, they're not here. Oh, we can't have the conversation. Somebody to get a peek of light off.

Somebody open them out, We move out the way. But I was listening to Joe old Stain, and it's something that we think we all have to be reminded of, is that when something has your name on it, it's not going to any other address than you. Right. So this whole trying to divert the route and try to delay it you can't stop, was meant for you, right because it's coming now. One thing we talked about or I had Jeremie ask you about is some of your top five products? Yeah? You got? What are your about

your products? What products you like? Okay, so I can grab I'm like, she brought something and so this is where your into. Oh okay, so I got she said, yes, okay, So wait or which one go? First year? You can because two of my products are in there, and I wanted to share them with you just in case you did not know about these brands. Oh my god, Okay, listen, I have gifts. I love to eat and I love to be affirmed. Oh my god. So okay, yes, okay, so and we could talk about okay, we could talk

about together. Bam bam. So first one up that I love that I use is Black Girl sun string Woman on Black Owned, hold it to the camera, black Girl Sunscreen. Like I said, from a very young age, I was always taught that sunscreen should be year round, just not in the summer. So this definitely is one of my go toos. There's no like white cast for the nilanin in our skin that we love, so yeah, no white residue that's right and has some good ingredients in it,

So definitely one of my go tos. Or so what a church to who's the phone? Okay, I'll tell you. They're black women. Yeah, they're black women. Um, they've been around for a few years, and I know I just love them. Well, I don't love I love skincare. Ok yeah, so big on skincare. So okay, she's like doing, I'm like, okay, so we have so I love skincare. This is K and C Beauty, which is also a woman owned brand, and their eye patches, We're our patch is so good.

I've had just help with puffiness and if you look tired and find lines sometimes depending on the ones you use, but there's so many different ones out there, but I do like these. I do use them morning in nights sometimes, especially working the hours I'm working lately. I still got a look, you know, to hold it and tell it together. So and these are refuses with retinal which is really good. That's what got me excited. Yeah, I just had a

peal Andrew. My face has been when I say lit up, like there's some footage that we haven't been able to use in the studio because my face has been lit I don't know if it was like a hormonal thing, if I had taken something. But I just got my glocolic pills, so I'm excited about it. Yes, but yeah, yes,

so and retinal is good. If you don't have retinal in your skincare regiment, it should be you know me later work because they're peeling off layers and that's important because we have to remove in order to absorb, absorb the moisturization, all that kind of good stuff. Get with fine lines. And if somebody isn't okay, you just give a quick little glance or explanation of what retinal is. Retinal is, I want to share the number three the

Paddocks is a retinhall serum that it is. You can get it prescription, but there's our institutions sometimes low amounts in the right lower amounts, but um, you can also go to your German college and get a prescription which is a little stronger. But if you want to start off with something a little more mild, you can definitely. Um. So this is a retinal sir, what's your name on there? So this is please forgive me because I don't even

want to mess up her name Shaney or Shani Darden exactly. Okay, So I'm like, I don't even mess it up. But she's also woman in black Gong as well. She isn't so for it. But this is a retinal reform serm that then you use at night. Retino is good at night, but because it is a stronger serm that is refreshing that first first layer of skim. That's why I say sunscreen is so important. The next day. You want to make sure you put on the sunscreen on the face, and you always want to pat in by the way,

pat and lift up, pat and lift up? How it lift up? Do you do? You do the face exercise? Moment you say, I do sometimes jaw line and that's just good to just before coming in here. I wasn't doing that in the car when you get ready to speak a whole lot. Yeah, it's good, but this is definitely any retinal really, but this is what I'm currently using um And then when I need little extra I'll get something from my dermatologist which is obviously a bit stronger,

you know, prescription. So so far we have black Girl Sunscreen, Woman known Cancy Beauty, which is also woman known. I want to say she's I don't know exactly she's like, but I feel like she's like somethwhere up in the flavor. Yes, and she is the same thing. And that's so those are all skincare na. Switch it over to some hair. So this is a goat less hair oil by Obral Oh well here, okay, here oil. Look at fury rets. I love the packaging of that great love. I'm listening.

I love oils. I feel like our hair needs all different types of oils. And sometimes I don't always oil, I feel like as much as I should. But you know you need certain oils on your scalt. It smells good on your scout versus on your strands. Don't feel greasy. Yes, it's it is amazing. I would say that it smells great, it's light, it has nutrients in it for the hair. I take it all the way down to my ends and on to the room, all the way down to the roots, down to the ends. Yeah. And it's definitely

a good goal too. But I feel like oils are important. So that's my goal because if you think about it, when we get oh, we just get oh my god, it's something more bad. We get dry and decrepit. Yeah, I got dry, stay hydrated and more so, and then we do here so for the for the edges and the slick slick a ponytail do your baby hairs. Um, I use ken Ra, which is a wax like Matt finished. Hold. I don't really like all that shine. It's like, why

not what you put on your head? All right? I felt like, get to come from the oils, not because the product is oily or greasy, right right, So it slicks the way I needed to, and it sounds amazing too. I love things that smell good because, like you know, people like come in for a hood you smell me right then you're smelling me from my hand to my skin to my oils, you know. So this is definitely something.

And all these also are available in mirror mirror besides this one which I'm trying to get her in here as well. Yeah, um yeah that's five. Have one more, go ahead. Um it's for the body so body oil oil because like you said, we get dry. Yeah so in winter months, summer months, right, we're going into fall, right into fall. So I always mix, you know, you can mix your oils and emotions, but I do love

the keels um dry body oil smells amazing. You mna smell is you sprayed out and oh wow, fresh out the shower and it definitely yes, Rob is definitely go to. So those are my skating care, body hair care products that I definitely used all them this morning. And no matter, no wonder why you're lowing like this. Listen, if you didn't know, you better check out Mirror Mirror Beauty Center, I was saying. Supply, I added that word in here.

Beauty center opened seven days a week. Yeah, Monday through Friday, ten day a Saturday ten to seven in Sunday twitty five yea even brought in. I got a personal product that she sells in the store. Ye black Girl sun screw. You gotta check it out. I love this. Thank you so much, of course, thank you. Um now, thank you. You've been giving us so much information. I have this segment and it's called shed light on this. Okay, you're ready. It's gonna take some thinking, not too much, all right,

So let me tell you she had light on. This is a segment where you are going to be given a scenario. It's going to be with a character who's dealing with a situation that they don't necessarily know how to handle. Now, your task is to come up with a solution that you believe would work best for the situation. There's no right or wrong answer. Just give your advice from your knowledge and your experience, your life experience. Okay, Andrea, are you ready? I'm ready? Okay, here we go Okay.

Veronica has just launched her first card game company. Her first product is a questionnaire game based on dating topics. Believing that her card game would succeed immediately, she ordered over six hundred decks of cards for her inventory. It has been six months and she has only sold ten orders. She has a social media page for her business, but

it has not gotten much traction. She is now stuck with nearly a full inventory, and her confidence in geting her and her confidence in continuing her company has plummeted. She spends so much time and money into this idea, and she fears that it was all for nothing. She has the baby whether to cut her losses and give up on her business, or to figure a new way to increase her sales. Andrea, can you shut some light on this? Absolutely one. It's Vanessa right, Veronica, and knew

it was in the vs. Veronica, don't quit. You don't want to give up on your dream. You're gonna pivot, right, So your social media page isn't getting their attraction that you feel like it needs. So what are what are other options we can do? That means, you know, reaching out to a company where you could put your cards in a space that people already know and love, because when they're in there, they're coming across a new brand, such like a mirror and mirror where they're like, oh

what's this? Oh this is school and they want to give it a try. But when you're talking to these stores or companies, you come with a way to maybe there's a wholesale program where it's like, hey, upfront, you buy you know, a dozen, So therefore you have just got rid of some of your inventory and I've already gotten your profit. Now what they want to do with it once they buy it from it's up to them.

So you might be selling your cards on your site for fifteen, but they might get in and storeconomy can do whatever they want unless you have them under a contract and they might sell them for thirty. But no matter what, you still got rid of them and you still got your profit from So there's other ways to pivot and move when things are not going your way. So I would just don't quit and pivot and start

to think outside the box on your cards. Maybe there's an event happening, pop up, a farmer's market, a you know, a dating what is it when they do like the speed dating, you know, and they have little gideons you can buy and give or and then sometimes it is being a sponsor or something just so people can Sometimes you have to give to get come on, and you gotta think about it. So you can't just hold everything because what are you gonna have to contake in your hands? Exactly?

So you give a little in kid a lot sometimes too. So I would learn to put yourself out there, be involved in something small, pop up a farmer's market or a block party, a dating and you know they're like dating cards, so put yourself in position when it comes to something dating one. That would be my advice. M love that, Yeah, yeah, give it pivot, think outside the box. I love that you guys, just dad, you're surviving indeed with dawn day and get excited about your life. So

now we got this segment. Thank you for shedding light on this. Absolutely now we have something. I love how you use the term pivot because what's happening with the vite chest is exactly how you use the word pivot. Now, and here are some terms that relate to you your business. Who Andrea Hope is? I love your Hope? How could you not go through your jury? It's the name? I love it? No, yeah, it grew on me. Thank you though. Yeah. So this next thing survit a chest and in it,

like I said, has terms relating to you. I want you to pick a term out right, okay, say what it is and what it means. Okay, but then what's the Andrea twist on it? What makes it inspirational? Like in basketball, there's literally a pivot position like move to the next But just like you explain, you pivot in life, whether it's pivot and finding another way to put your cards in the store, or how you pivoted when you were going to the distributor and they said, hey, our

managers not here in language. Are you ready to dig in the vited chest? I'm ready. I mean we might have to do a deep dive. The treasure is down under you'll see, Okay, so shout it's a little mermaid. Shout out all right, seem are you ready? I'm ready? I thank you. Okay, let me dig them deep down there.

Thank you. Edge control felt a word on that. Yeah, edge control product that can use for our edge right to hold him there, hold them down, to slip them, to put them into place, to be creative because edge controls allows you to swoop, twil twists, wind up your edges the way you would like. Some people don't like all that. Some people like I'm simple and slip right, but then some people do like a little twist and a little turn, and that's okay. That's where you get

creative with it, right. And each time you use the edge control and create your slickness, your ponytail, your edges, it's always different, and then the way you would do it would be different. Right, So how would we relate that to life? How can we add a little edge to our lives? I feel like sometimes you need something that is going to either have you steal right so that you can maybe get a control of what's happening and observe what's happening so that you can pivot into

life or what the situation is. So having to be still and hold still right so that you can delegate or grow or listen or make those decisions that you need that sometimes have us on edge, right, they have us on edge, and so it it's just them holding in the mold that we need at that moment to get us where we're going or where we're trying to get to. Well, well, did you get a world? So hope I want to because we all could use a little edge control, because sometimes please get a little out

of hand. Yes, but god shit, being so be steep still, I got some ways I want to move over under upside and down underone. No for real though, that was right, Like have you ever thought about like let us start on something? But I just feel like people ask me things sometimes and I try not you know, and that's just how I feel. I try not to work. I just tried not to um. I tried not to make it all about you, right, even though you might come to me with something and I might think of it.

It's bigger than just you, right, So yeah, life comes, things happen, and I'm really big on pivoting, like holding still, so the edge control it spoke to me, I was like, we I'm lately on edge and so with a new business work in corporate life, right, it has its on edge but sometimes we got to learn to control it and not get too excited. You get too excited sometimes, right, and you you spas sometimes you treat people not so kind.

And so it's like when you have more control over your emotions or your thoughts and you can just hold still, that way you can operate and get things done or figure out what that is or what that looks like for you. But you gotta be still and be calm and do things with purpose, hey, and not chaos because you either excited or you're nervous or you don't know what to do. And sometimes that shows like, well she don't know what to do because she has crazy yelling

at people. Right, So you want to be be a boss of your own. We're all our own boss, right, be a ball boss up, you know, have some control role. Mm hmmm. Because sometimes we be on the air, that's right, Because sometimes be on the air and that's okay, that was yo. Usually I pull out like a couple more butt like I like where you put those? I like it? What else isn't there? Was? Okay? Lets it was so big? Yeah, okay, let's say. Now I'm like nervous, I'm like damn, oh

wait I got, oh, just put one down. Okay, okay, perfect hot comb, hot comb, baby hot coomb. Wait before you even go, right, what the hot comb is? And then you gotta tell me one of your earliest or one of your fondest memories without hotcomb. Okay. So for those who do not know what a hot comb is, it is a metal yes, and like a metal comb, right that Normally it's put on a stove, sometimes your kitchen stove. Put on my golwn eye, right, and it will straighten your hair out. You can use it to

straighten it. Before there was a flatirn, there was a hot come on, right, So let's take it back. Before there was a flat iron, there was a hot comb to get the hair straight and it was created by a black one. So we've been leading in this industry for a long time, right, So it started and it starts here. So a hot comb one of my childhood

memories is. But it's either protect your ears, right, because so you're trusting someone to straighten most of the time you're hair with this hot comb and you are at there will you're sitting in the chair, so you gotta protect your ears, protecting it. They're trying to grip the front of the head to get it, and you squinting before the comb even touches comes near your head or

your hair. You're another what' you're squinching for? I'm like, I'm skaring ready because that heat from that metal, because sometimes it's not even the combat from the metal, like you're picking up before the comb even gets close to you. So which I don't think people want to say, hello, right, you better testing on that tissue. And then I told the Pam, don't act like y'all know paper towel and if it's getting low, if it's a little brown, slow down,

wait a minute, it's a little too hot. Don't want to lose your edges. Don't lose your kitchen or your ears. Like it was, it was a thing. I would be holding my ears and I would literally squitch down everybody. You don't know, I'll be sweating a lot, especially look got juicy. Especially I was a child, my mom the call away hid could you would imagine the sizzle? That was traumatizing, and it say, do you know what? Somebody need to do a documentary on the hot comb? The

hot comb. Everyone would can't relate that, So how would you relate that even to life or some inspiration from the hot comb. The hot comb. Life will bring you heat. Oh and when it does, don't tense U just go with it. Flow with it. Flow, wouldn't it blow with it? Pivot huh. It's just to do process this process. So yeah, life brings you heat. Situations bring you heat. He put in the hot chair, ain't and you go with it? And I loved that the transformation process, right, Yeah, sometimes

you gotta have a little heat to stretch out the kings. Yeah. Sometimes we need a good story and they has to start from the root all the way down to the end. Yes, because we don't halfway do something. We complete. That's that's what the hot comb came falls. Well, the perseverance right there. I love that through come on and the way that we are seeing things through with mirror mirror beauty center. Yeah okay, yeah, now we missed it. You got a space on the back. Are you doing hairback there? So

that space is an esthetician space. Skincare is it starts with a great foundation. Come on, and the foundation is our skin. Hello, right, so when you're putting all these products on top of it, if it's the foundation is rocky or shaky, right, products can't work the way they needs. Wow, we're gonna pretend like she pulled out the word foundation. What is your foundation looking like? But more and morally, what are you putting on top of the foundation. Yeah,

that's how it's gonna work for you. Hey, and I'm just thinking of just just reflected on this conversation. I see how things are working for you, Andrea. Thank you so much for staying committed to your dream. It is so inspiring. You know when I ran into you at the concert and then we stayed in content and you were like, yo, I want you to voiceover and I see online how you got mirror Mirror, And then I'm rewinding back years ago we're on running and you mentioned

and it's like, were you out here doing it? I think you already a success story. I wish I knew the percentage of black owned beauty supply centers or beauty centers, but you're one of them. Yes, thank you for showing up. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate that people say theyn't want to be seen, but they don't want to show up, and you showed up. No, absolutely catching. Thank you so how can people find you Andrea if they wants to get involved with Mirror Mirror just whatever,

what did they do? So we have our Instagram like I said earlier, which is meror Mirror at Mirror Mirror Beauty Center there. We are located at two zero six four two Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California, in the San Fernando Valley, which is where I grew up. And our email is mereor Miror Beauty Center at gmail dot com. Our website which is in the works and hopefully we'll be launching within the next month. It will be mere or miyor beauty center dot com as well, and all

our information will be on the site. Contact us, come see us, come shot with us. The team is there, myself is there. You're interested in getting in the store, We would love to have the conversation. Love to hear about your brand or your products, and y'all look forward to seeing more of the community come out two. I love that. And it's a braiden bar and studio services available. Yes, in the back when it's esthetician. We also have a braid bar on the other side, both in the back

of the store. But yeah, our braider so it's great just a space where you can come do a little skincare, get your hair done, learn about some products or cool brands, get your everyday essential needs. And the brands are curated by by me personally, where I feel like those are you know, from the good for you. I do look your ingredient lists. I am big on that, just like with my food, because you don't know what you're putting inside the topic on on in so I look at

labels a lot. It's important to know what you're using. You might eat something or use something that doesn't work and you know doesn't work well with you, then you want to learn to stay away from that. One mirror does one size mirror doesn't at all, absolutely doesn't catch it. That's why there's so many brands out there catch it. So so many cookies come on breads and cereals. When you walk down. There's another thing when people like, oh,

don't follow your dreams. There's too many of this because he used tell me it's saturated, and I'm like, because there's like Beatie store here, the beat store, there's beauty store here that's from there. It's a sapphore. There's an old so why would anyone want to come to mirror mirror just like you might like frosted flakes and I

like honeycomb. Catch why catch you? Options? Right? God, options, Because there's a different kind of girl that wants a steak that you may get from Mastros, that you may get from Friday, just depending on what you want. What girl are you? What kind of guy are you with? They are you? I'm just asking get anything else? Thank you for having me, Thank you for being here. It's so good to see it and thinking about another woman.

Business owner Black brought us together. Come on, as I said, it's all about working together, coming together, bringing great women together. And look what it is tenning into I know who you know. It takes a village. It takes a village. Thank you. V shout out to Vanaga called in mine she is v V I oh shot yeah, Well this

has been a delight. If you like to be a guest and perhaps sit in this very tear that Andrea is sitting in, or you have a topic idea, I want to encourage you to shoot us an email Vitamin D at dawn day Speaks dot com. I would love to have you. And also, you know we're doing advice letters. So if you need some advice on your relationship, on your career, anything, email me. Now I say this all the time, and I just want to serve as another minder.

What do I say? If you want to be better and you want to do better, you have to be able to see better and that means taking the good with the bad. So when I'm giving you my advice on whatever situation, problems, circumstances, or circumstance that you're coming with, know that I'm gonna keep it real with you. I'm gonna shed light on things that may have you feeling a little uncomfortable. Huh. But you can't be what you cannot see, especially if you've seeing something that isn't real.

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