Kelly Rowland as Mea Culpa, Reesa Tessa "Who TF Did I Get Married" Explained & More

With unpacking all that that fun boring stuff that you hate. You gotta unpack all your stuff, like yeah, I just I need a vacation, Like alrighty right, I need a vacation so you can go somewhere else. I know, I know that. I never mind again exactly then state yeah, yeah, but uh it's so it's okay, you know, like I went through this whole phase of like, I don't feel like doing anything right now, so I think I wasted like two weeks of just not doing anything. So now I got to get back in the the flow of unpacking. That's how it happens. Yes, good luck, yea. You know, I hate hate moving. I hate packing all that. Did you have so? Did you have movers? Yeah? We did, and I don't know I got I got some mixed feelings on the movers, like they were really good initially, and then at the end it was kind of like we felt like bombarded when it was time for them to finish and they were like, oh, where's our tip? Then they just was like yes, yes, And I think they said that upfront, like oh, at the end, we're supposed to get a tip. And then it was something else about putting a Google review out there, so we had to do that. And then when I went back and read the reviews later because I did read them initially, but later, people were like, oh, we were scared because it was a bunch of men and they were all they actually they spoke in their native language, so people were scared and intimidated, Like, oh, they just rolled up on me and then you know they were speaking. They went off in the corner and was speaking in their language and they just looked like intimidating. So these were the reviews for the moving company. M hm, wow. Yeah, I found the bad ones later, so I was just I mean, I didn't really have that bad but experience it was pretty decent. Okay, but with the pack and as long as as long as you pack right, as long as they all I gotta do is put the stuff in the right rooms. Yeah. Yeah, and and that was that was interesting. That was got Charles in here twice. That's how hard work, y'all? Right, right, stays was your day? Oh? It was pretty good. I'm just like I feel like I'm trying to get a get a breather every now and then just swamp with work, paper work. It feels like so I've been in front of computers all day. That was my That's my Saturday. People was like oh, getting out, moving around, running around, doing some chores, feeling some fresh air. You know. I hate that. Now I'm stuck behind screens. It's all good. I hate that, but but it was productive. Though. It's productive. I can see you got something done. Yeah, work for other people. Welcome class. I guess I was waiting for me to be on town. She in the building now no, Uh, the Mayor of Camden County is getting married and I'm the maid of honor in their wedding and so you know they have it's a lot that they're doing. So it's just like the third meeting greet and you know, it's all beautiful. But it was like it happened to day. So shout out the desert ray. Congratulations Mayor and first Lady of Camden count Y. Yeah, but I know we got a fantastic uh day to day right with interviews and everything with everything. Yeah, okay, so see how it was your day. I'm good, just trying to make some some things happen. You know. You know, it was busy running around as usual. Didn't have a lot of time to do everything that I wanted to do. But that's every day, every day. Today that happened to me. I was like, all right, I have my whole list of things that I was going to get done. And I got one thing, like maybe two things done, and I look back at my bed, my California came with my duvet comfort, and I got back in it. I got I was like, yo, I said, all right, one more, just one more again, one more again, and I laid down and I was like, I'm gonna just lay here for fifteen minutes. Oh, it wasn't really fifteen, No, it started, it went a little longer. It went a little longer. But y'all know, we're supposed to get some nice weather coming up. Please we are. Yeah, but my, my, my, my, black, my melanedd people, black people we get when we come out the winter into the summer, tell it. And then we get that one of three days, one of three days of good weather. We don't know how to act Nope, So just know that it's about to be in the high sixties and just act accordingly, right, yeah, and please dress accordingly in that part, yeah, because I'll be like, wow, y'all y'all pulled that out already, right, they only said it was gonna be two days. I ain't gonna hold you though. My wardrobe now consists of stuff that I could wear all year around. I just put on catsuits or tights underneath so that I can Yeah, so I could multitask with it. So I like that. Yeah. Stay, you made an announcements some time ago about things that are changing in your life. An announcement, how's that going? Things changing in my life? Yes? How is that okay? Well, a huge milestone that's coming, a milestone. Yeah. Wedding planning is in high gear, very very high gear. Under five months away, which it seems like it's tomorrow. People keep saying you're ready. I keep saying no. But they have been to a Lady Stop production. They know it's all and it's gonna be a movie. It's top tier, like if for real, like even if when we go to your house and we have met the China, so I already know that this that this wedding is going to be. So somebody asked us, who's your coordinator? Do you have a cord? I said no, you didn't get one. I didn't get to so I'm so I'm planning. You need one, you gotta have one. I will have one for closer to the but right now I don't know. I don't Yes, yeah, it'll be well, it'll be closer to that day. So by then I won't even the stuff that they're going to be handling, I won't even be able to do because I won't even be there. And so that's really the stuff I need help with. But right now, the stuff that's happening, like right now, I really love the fact that my fiance is so involved because me and him have been doing a lot of stuff together, so do you know, I mean just like little stuff. It's like me and him just been tackling it. So it's been easy. So I don't really because even the brider part, like my braids made of mind. I can do this, I can do that, and I'm like, oh, it's done. He did it or I did it or you know, like that sort of thing. So you know, I like that. Yeah, it's been a good experience. I've heard other experiences where it's like, yeah, we're breaking up, right, but it's been waves. It's you know that stuff comes in waves. But like right now, I think it's getting closer or excited, and it's a lot of stuff that's happening, and a lot of the get together that are starting to happen. Like you were just talking about the meet and greets and all that kind of stuff. So we're excited for our family and our friends and just all that stuff. I think for me the most, what I'm most excited about is just spending time with everybody. But that's just the biggest thing. But the planning, I think, I'm all right, I think cause I don't really even like the coordinator is supposed to be like in the midst of your guest list and all that stuff, But how when you don't know these people? So I'd rather just do that stuff myself, for sure. You haven't you know, well, you know, you know, the whole team going to be there, we're going support and all that. Whatever. However we could jump in, we'll jump in and uh yeah, we're just going to have a good time, I'm sure. And it's in a beautiful place. Man, I've seen the places at a beautiful place. And so did y'all find out where y're actually going through the ceremony? I know you was going back and forth no, no, No, the ceremony is outside. Everything is. Yeah. I definitely I chose the venue I chose because I definitely want to outside ceremony. I wanted somewhere with beautiful grounds. I wouldn't have to like travel and take photos after. So everything is at one place. So I'm excited about that. No dumb Friday night evening weddings start to six, but we're going from six to midnight. Y'all. Party weddings changed though, not like oh in the church, go to the place like it's more it's yeah. Yeah, at one time, I think I was set on. Some people are setting on and having to be married in the church. Yeah, I'm not. Well, we're gonna talk more about that by the time it comes up. You know, we talk these after the talking w P P m P Philadelphia one o six point five film. We talked week these after talk with your boy Greg and beautiful Lawrence and beautiful and beautiful and this is you already know what's coming up next? You ready? Yes? This is all right? Give it to me early, all right. So Kelly Rowland, she's starring in Tyler Perry's Netflix movies Na Coppa. The film depicts a criminal defense attorney who takes on the case of a seductive artist accused of murdering his girlfriend. But when burning desires getting away, things get hot and a little dangerous. Well, Kelly Rowland is on a press tour. She's promoting the film with co star Travontae Rhodes. Unfortunately, Kelly has been running into some rough patches. So while she's doing an interview, and she's been touring and doing these press runs all over the you know, in the States, while she's doing an interview with radio station B one O three Atlanta on the Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee. The part of the interview where Kelly and her co star are questioned on the actual movie is kind of concluding. Big Tigger transitions into asking Kelly about Beyonce's new country album. So Kelly, hold hold a whole right flag, wanna play flag, gonna play, gonna play hold on. So Tigger acts Kelly on her movie tour about Beyonce, about Beyonce and the country album and all of us. So he tried it. He tried it because Kelly just just fonded, like that's her business to talk about, not mine. If that wasn't enough. Jazzy McBee his co hole. She kind of doubles down, saying, I know you're tired of this question, but we got to ask about child. You don't have to exactly, so Kelly said, ask them, I'm here to talk about me a COPA hold on, I need some more stuff here. Wait right, right, right right, wait, so you mean to tell me right that after she said something to Tigger about x Y and z asks them, the young lady jumps on and follows Tigger question up after his answer. He just received his answer yes, And that's what people were like, Why did she even like continue to play I need a flag on the play, I need some more She's like, because you know we're not gonna ever talk to her. So but you could you could literally see the tiredness on Kelly's face. And there's also been a lot of negative press around her exit from an episode of The Today's Show with Hold and Jenna. Kelly was there to co host the third hour of the show and promote her new film, so she was placed in a small dressing room. They put Jlo in the larger dressing room, so when Kelly asks to be moved, they were like, well, we got jl in a bigger dressing room and they just couldn't accommodate her, so she left. But everybody's been kind of creating this little negative buzz around that. But then she went on the Sherry Shepherd's Show and Sherry said that they gave her the best dressing room. Even in Sherry's interview, it was all about Kelly and her new movie, So it was no questions about Beyonce and Dustney's Child, which is the way that it should have been. So do we need to kind of leave Kelly alone and like let her have her moment, stop asking her about Beyonce Destiny's Child. And you know, people are saying that they're tired of that, She's tired of living in Beyonce shadow and this is the one time where she gets to kind of like talk about her movie and this is her moment. But question is yes, yes, yes, and yes exactly, And that's everybody mm hmm. I mean, because if you have something that you're promoving, you want to be there to talk about that, and you know, you want to hear about what I got going on. You know, I'm an excartist in films, and I got like all the stuff happening and y'all want to talk ask me questions about somebody else. First of all, had nothing to do with anyone else. Everything to do with while you're doing a tour, Perry, no, nobody else. The reason I say I disagree kind of is yes, to about her, but Destiny's Child was her. So even if they asked questions about Destiny's child, that's that's still relevant. That's your child. Yeah, yeah, beyond Asyon's album, Well, that's asking about a group you were in. But if now they're being if they're being strategic to try to get into the jests child to ask about, yeah, hold up flag on to play flag on the play. That's the second. Anytime you do a press junket for a movie, specifically about the movie, nothing else supposed to be. So, yeah, it's supposed to be. So as as journalists say, as we are, we would know better not to ask them unless they open the door for it. Then we can kick the door, run and start talking about it. But fair enough, But I think holistically I was answering it that when she does different just because of an interview with Kelly Rowland, Destiny's Child was major you can ask questions, but people want to know about the Beyonce and get out of here. Kelly got her own her you know, her own legend icon, you know her own renown name. Anybody attached to Beyonce is going to get Beyonce questions. But it shouldn't happen like this now, don't think about it. Nobody is going to ask Mark Wahlberg about Marky marking a punky bunch. He has made it clear, don't do that. You know what I'm saying, and that you respect him, respect my sister, Respect the sister. Respect the sister. They should know better than that. And if whether she was part of that group or not, press junket about a movie specifically about the stuff that you do on a movie or what you did your other tour dates, what was what did you like everything about the movie? Like again, if she says something about if she did that, yeah, I just don't. I don't like the I have a hard time with You know, you can read between the lines when press is putting out information and then they're saying, like with the terms and stuff that they say, she stormed all dramatically and like it's what you're is giving angry black woman. So I got a whole problem with that, you know, from from the beginning. I'm glad you clarify with j I didn't even know about that she did that because I was about to tell you, yes, and better dressing room. Yeah, and then you're gonna tell her, oh, Jlo has the and she's been there before. Let me just put that out there, like she's been on the Today Show with Holden and Jenna previously numerous times, so like she already knows like the dressing room situation. So I was about to say, so, let's think about that though, y'all because as producers and we have a show here, we have guests on our show. We we had three dress rooms. One is large and the other two are the same size. Yes, and then you have two two people like that coming in. Who gets the bigger dressing room or do you not put either one and that? And then like first come first her? What are you talking about, like, especially when you have people come and wanting to be a diva or divo and you coming in fashion to be too late. Uh, Well, we had this dressing room for first come, first serve. That's how I see it. Well, I think they probably did it as who was the bigger start I know, which I'm sure which I'm sure they did. But if people allowed crazy Jlo ship would have been like you could come into my room unless they had something against each other. But I know me if you call me on a safe for example, I'm a headliner and I got a huge room, I'm only one person, Like yo, come on, like, come to pork chops right there. Don't eat meat, eat up. You know what I'm saying. Their share rooms, they with their own because they probably got their own authorigies with them. Yeah, it's like, you know, like I'm just sure not Hollywood, I got you though, I'm just not you mean, because I'm thinking. I'm just thinking that like when we bring guests here, if we had dressing the poor people in and we like, how will we approach it? Will we give j Lo or Kelly Roland the bigger dressa root in? Yeah? Why, I'm a Kelly Roller fan. I'm just saying, so if if I can, if I can do this right now, I would like to kind of break up the sizzle and if we can do a a part two or second half and just have everybody stick around for the second half of the sizzle. If I could do that, that's a good job. Okay, make sure you make sure you stay. Make sure it's gonna get real, gonna get real juice. You want some time for that? We were talking Who the F did I marry? So stick around? Yes? Relationships right, I need a flag on, I need a whistle or something like that. We talked we have to to talk on w P P and PEP Philadelphia one O six point five. If we talked to talk with you and beautiful Laurence, beautiful, beautiful. And next up we have a young lady with whom I have a tru minsius amount of respect for. Classy lady. Do you have a day? Who do you have to day? Today? We have Yamka Edmunds. She's founder of I Hope I'm pronouncing this right, Levigne Professionals, and a certified hair loss practitioner. She empowers women and girls to embrace their strength and overcome hair loss challenges through her holistic approach. She combines hair restorations expertise with motivational speaking and advocacy for self improvement. Yamka's compassionate understanding of the emotional impact of hair laws allows her to restore hair and instill confidence, offering valuable insights for her audience. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm We talk weekly. Welcome to miss Yamka ATMs. Hello, Hello, how are you? Is it? Yes? I just want to make sure we got your name right, y'all Meckiah right, it's y'all Mekia. If we want to get my sister name right, y'a, Mikia. That's right, no doubt. How are you my sister? How are you? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm sitting in my car because I was at a close friend of mine she turned forty today. I had to step away and come sit in my car. So I hope you guys can hear me well. But I'm excited to be here. No, we hear you really well. And I just gotta tell you I'm feeling the hat. You know. I love the hat, you know absolutely. So you know, I'm a wardrobe stylist, and you know, and one of my favorite colors is like red, right, and so that kind of like pilot that genre red from the orange, just the hot and scarlets, all of that good stuff, right, And so why don't we talk a little bit about what you're wearing right now? Because I just got to give a nop to all my fashion folks. So let's talk a little bit about what you're wearing. Yeah, so what I'm wearing right now, it's a sweater dress. If I could stand up, I will show you. Okay, cool, I need that. I have short hair, so I love wearing my hair short. But I love me a nice fidora. I love me so. I love for doors, and I have this red clutch and I have on some some red and cream pumps. Yeah, gotta love me. You got unless they too long to get back on. Yeah, they's kind of complicated, all right, don't worry about it. Then I get it. I know. I know the challenges. I know the challenges, no doubt, no doubts. I'm sorry about that. Nah, that's so like, that's all right. But look, you know, one of the things that you know, we like to do is it's to start from the beginning, you know. And since you brought up hair, let's start there, you know, And what got you into that, especially the health and wellness of it, And let's talk a little bit about your journey. So I started out as a license cosmetologists and I've been in this industry since two thousand and four. I've been doing hair for a long time. And I had a moment and this may get it's going to get personal because where I got to where I'm at now, I had to go through something personal to get to where I am and so being a licensed cosmetologist for so many years, I kind of found myself in a space where I kind of wanted to get away from doing hair because it became kind of redundant. And I'm the type of person where I like to be challenged and I get bored kind of quick. And so I had a moment in my life where I went through a toxic divorce and that's when I had my AHA moment. So I got bored in the industry and then I was going through a toxic divorce. So what I did was shut down my SONGNG for two years and I sat still until I had to figure out what I wanted to do next. And hair loss came to my mind. And how that came to my mind was I was praying and I was like, I need to figure out what my next step is going to be. But whatever my next step be. It has to be something that is going to not require me to be behind a chair for ten hours and to make the amount of money that I was making. Then I wanted to make that in like one day. So I was praying and I was like, God, I want to be able to work smart and not harder, and hair loss just kept coming to my mind. And so after I had started having the thoughts of, you know, hair loss, I ended up mysteriously receiving messages and emails about hair loss centers, and so instantly I started saying, Okay, God, he answered my prayers. And so I ended up going back to school to become a certified hair loss practitioner. I went to New York. I was there for about six months, back and forth because I'm from Baltimore. And I ended up becoming a certified hair loss practitioner, and then I got into hair restoration. Now, when I got into hair restoration, I did not know it was going to be the way it was. And what I mean by that is women telling me their story, women telling me that they were having suicidal thoughts, women telling me that they going through the voices like I had. Women just telling me a lot of their stories which was leading to them losing their hair and of course medical conditions such as cancer. And so I had another moment and I said, if I'm gonna go and do this, I need to go all the way and do it all the way. And so I just said, I'm gonna figure out how I can't open up in hairdlaws Center. And I started doing the work, and I had started putting systems in place, and the systems that I was putting in place was very challenging, but I believe that if I was gonna go down this route, that I needed to have these systems in place so that our demographic would be able to benefit from our services. And all of this took place and from about twenty seventeen up until literally last year we had our grand opening in October. And dealing with women with hair loss, it's depressing, it's very it can be very challenging. It put me in a space where it made me realize that, Wow, it's a lot of different it's a lot of women out here that's going through hair loss, that's losing their hair, and I would never thought that people hair can come out from the stories that they were telling me, and that stories inspired me and pushed me into taking my business to the next level. I had a hair salon, as I stated before, I shut it down, and when I opened back up, I opened up a hair long center, and so that's where I've been. In twenty twenty, I opened up a small hair loss space. In twenty twenty one, I opened up a bigger location. In twenty twenty two, I opened up a larger space and had in twenty twenty three, which was last year, I opened up ten hundred square foot location where now I have two employees. And so the story it really took some time. It took years, but that's pretty much where I'm at. And even with me provide these hair restoration services, I decided that since I'm already a speaker, I might as well use my platform to help women who are experienced and hair loss. So every year we host conferences for women for women that's dealing with alopecia, but we also speak with women in general about how to reach their true authentic self. I kind of collaborated both together. No, I like that, I like that, and I want to When you said or mentioned hair loss, right, the first thing that came to mind was the whole conversation around Jada Pinkett Smith right in her conversation based around alopecia. Right, I want you to just talk a little bit about alopecia, and I guess the severity of that. And I guess for people who don't understand the dynamics of that, can you walk them through kind of those particular issues and how emotionally and mentally that can affect the person who is experiencing hair loss. So alopecia is so many components connected to alopecia. Depending on each woman and their story, it determines the severity for that specific individual. So like when we talk about Jada Pinkett, by the way, I get told I look like her all the time and I specialize in hair loss. So people just be like, maybe y'all two can get together. I don't know, maybe one day of that happened, but I believe that with her situation, she had alopecia for a moment. So alopecia is it can come and go for some people, and for some people it can be permanent. There are so many different types of alopecia. Jada Pinka alopecia was hormonal and whatever it was that caused her to trigger her hair grew back because she has hair now, So she had alopecia for a moment and it can be unpredictable. So the severity behind her specific story at that moment in time and her hair came back. So if she felt what she felt during that moment in that period in her life when she had alopecia, you can only imagine what it's doing to women who can't grow their hair back at all. And so, as I mentioned before, I had clients who wanted to commit suicide. I had a husband of mine who came to me and told me, I say their Marge, And in my mind, I'm like, wow, I would not have ever thought that alopecia can mess up a home to that degree. Now, on the outside, when we see people with it, we don't think nothing of it. We just think, oh, they got haird loss or they have alopecia. We don't know the cause behind it. That's a whole other thing, though, because if someone is taking chemo or they taking some type of medication, that's one thing they already gotta deal with. And then you gotta look at yourself with no hair. That's the second thing you gotta deal with, then you gotta you're dealing with stress, you're dealing with depression, You're dealing with a lot of different things that's connected to the why, the cause, and the effect. So it's a lot all in one. But what I can say is what I noticed that with every woman has in calming that has alopecia, whether it stays or whether it whether it is permanent or temporary, is that they all create a false narrative about themselves. And this false narrative that they create, it could be anywhere from they have low self esteem, they have no confidence in themselves, and then they even start creating stories in their mind that don't even exist. And so that's what create That's what caused me to say, I want to speak to these women because service in them was just wasn't enough. I mean, they can come in and get these hair loss systems that we provide for them, but mentally, they done created that story that's still living in their mind. And so now we had to go an extra mile or go the next step to try to help them unlearn those false narratives in those limited beliefs that they put on themselves. Got so you so not only alopecia, but hair loss happen and men also, right, and a lot of this isn't necessarily a death sentence, Right, you can kind of come back from certain hair loss. Right. And if that's the case, what would be some examples of routines or ways that you know a young lady who might be losing her hair, or or are one of our seasoned citizens that may be losing their hair? You know, what are some of the routines? And does it differ from men and women? Is it the same kind of routine? Are men chemistry so much different than women that their hair loss may be a little harder to grow back? Like? Can you wait do that and explain it? Yeah, So with men you have male pattern hair loss, and with females you have female pattern hair loss. Now with men, it's kind of different. Because I was challenged to pitch my business to men because I can serve it's men too, and little that I know, men don't a lot of men that are African American because I do service like white men, Indian men, but African American men they don't. The ones that I came in contact with, they don't like being bald. They want to do something about it. And so one of the services we do provide for men and women in Scout micro pigmentation, which is called a hair tattoo. But the routines that a man would take and a routine that a woman would take would be I would say completely different. Yes, because women we personally a woman with hair, we go through a lot to keep our hair or to maintain our hair. So for a woman who don't have hair, they gonna like work double. So the routine that that I put in place for some of my clients when it don't even come to just restoring their hair is and then maybe she got a call her something. Uh there she go. Uh she went back out, and so there she go. Can you hear me? Now? I can? Okay, So they join in town hall meetings groups. Somebody must be somebody must be really calling her. They're like, Yo, I'm trying to talk to you right now, but I'm having an interview. We talked weekly. She's trying to talk to Charles Gregory. Ye, stop calling her. She needs to talk to us right now. But I find it interesting until she comes back on I see her. Then she must be having some connection issues. But I find it interesting that there are certain things that men and women truly different from, you know, in terms of routines that make themselves better. I'm no, that's all right, that's all right, go ahead, I'll let you finish. Yep. Oh yeah. Some of the routines is joining groups, support groups, townhall meeting, a healthy diet. Another part of the routine is pretty much like maintaining your mental health, honestly, because that's where it starts at when it comes to men. To be honest, a lot of men, when they begin to lose their hair, they don't really think about a routine most of the time. I don't think a man really put a routine in place when they deal with alopecia. They just go shave all their hair off and they go on with their day. Women, on the other hand, they have to go through a routine. Whether they realize it or not, they going through a routine. So when we're talking about restoring their hair and their mental health too, it's a collaboration between the two that requires a daily routine because even though you're physically doing something about it, you still gotta have something in place to help the mental side. No, I got you, I got you so so that said, right, Are you then saying that if the process I'm talking with regards to men, but even some women, the process now once they start losing hair. Are you saying now that once you lose hair, once you start losing your hair as you get older, then that's it and you have to go through a different process or can you truly start regrowing that hair back again? You know, I've been hearing things, you know, and different companies like I believe it's called crele Essence, and it's other products out there that I see. It's like oil, natural oils that you're putting on your skin and your hair and it's starting to you know, I guess work out those follicles again and the hair start out. You know. Look, I don't do this, but this is kind of commercialized content that I'm respeirraing, right, And so I'm just wondering, is it all be all? When men and women start losing their hair naturally, without like alopecia or without any medical conditions, without chemo, but just naturally, when they start naturally losing their hair, is that the end? Or can they start to regrow? Yeah, it definitely can regrow. So like at my facility, we don't only service people with alopecia. Now, alopecia is another term for hair losts. They both the same thing, okay, right, So we service people with alopecia with stending hair and people that's like in between, and so it's not an end all be all, depending on the person situation. So what I tell people to do, if you have a hair full of hair, take supplements, and take the supplements I'm talking about is only geared towards hair restoration because when you begin to send out man or woman, it could be genetics as well. But when you begin to thin out, if you start five years ahead of time, then you're pretty much ten years ahead of what's to come. Hair lots starts before we can even see it happen on the scalp. So by the time we start to see the thinning hair, the hair loss face started three to six months before we started to see the manifestation out. But it's not an end all be all. So it's this service that we provide called tricostapy, where we can look at the scalp with a microscope and the clients get to see their filicles. We get to see what their scalp look like. We get to detect if the hair is going to come out or if they going to experience premature hair loss, and we get to actually stop it before it starts. So if the filingcles are still active, then most definitely the hair can regrow. But if the filecles are no longer active, unfortunately, the filicle needs to be active in order for hair to grow through the filicle. So if a woman has scarring alopecia or alopecia totalis or universalis, which are different types of alopecia, the filicles are no longer active. That's when you see people with shiny bald heads. Yeah, so when you see that, and I don't like to say ball because it just sounds so bad, but I'm gonna say when you see people with a shiny pain point, that's a sign that the person filecles are no longer active. But if you see little black dots on someone's scout, like if if a man or a woman get their haircut really low, like a number one, and you could see the filcles, you can see the little black dots on the scalp, that means there's still a filicle. But if you don't see a black dot, then the filicle is no longer there. So it just depends to your question. It depends on the person and their situation. It's not an end all be off of everyone. Though. I got one more question for you, I know, y'all, I just want to let the ladies have an opportunity to speak when it comes to safe example, women who have been, you know, wearing kind of weaves, right and they're putting the glue and their hair and taking it out, putting glue back in and and things of that nature. How damaging is that to the quote unquote follicle, right? But also yeah, yeah, but that's where I was going. That's where I was going, right cause you know they they talk about the edges, right, and yeah it's a privilegelege. Yeah yeah, So what what is it? Is that one of those situations where uh, once the edges are going there done? And is it because of the glue? Like why does that happen? You know, I don't have to worry about edges per se, but you know, I hear this conversation constantly, Well do you have a young daughter or do you have a daughter? Uh? I know, I wish I had I kind of do. Yeah, you know, I clean, I clean, I clean my baby girl off the sure good that you know this information now because you can't share it with them. But to your question, absolutely, glue is definitely damaging to the hair and the filicle. Relaxes are as well. That's something that I had to I had struggle with pulling back from because once I learned what relaxes do consciously, I just was like, I don't want no parts no more, because that's a part of the problem, the hair glue around the frontal area through the hair. If a woman constantly is gluing tracks west on their hair, they definitely setting themselves up for attraction alopecia. And if they continue to do it back to back, back to back, then of absolutely the follicle will become damaged and the hair will no longer be able to grow through the filicle. So I tell women all the time, if you like the way it tracks, at least give your hair a break. Our hair is so important. And I will turn a person away real quick because for one, I'm not doing me personally. I don't do tracks. I don't do that anymore because it takes too long, and I just don't feel like it. I don't feel like it, but I just don't want to be a part of the problem, and I know the damage that can be done. So I tell clients all the time, and this is what you want, then you gotta go somewhere else. I'm the wrong person for you. I don't want to participate in doing glue and things like that. The only glue that I'm applying is the medical adhesive that I'm putting on my clients with alopecia, and they have to have no hair for us to use that type of medical adhesive. But yes, it can be damaging to the fibcle, especially the edges, because our edges is our Velli's hairs, which are fine hairs, and when we put in glue around that, or if we constantly wearing wigs and the friction from the wigs is retherondup against our frontal are you where our thin hairs are, then of course the hair isn't strong enough. It's going to start to break off and come out Wow. Interesting. And just to piggyback off of what Charles said, a lot of us as black women were protective styles and we think that we're wearing like right now, my hair is braided up, and we think that we're wearing this to protect our style if we go to the gym and all these other things. But over time, not just with weaves, but with like type braids, type ponytails, they start to pull as well. Do you think that there are any we you know, a lot of times we think that there's like a quick fix to get the hair follicles or to be like, oh I can get hair transplants or something like bonded or something. Is there a way that we can really allow our hair to grow in a way that's still stylish but in a healthy way. Well, I will say this, there is no right or wrong because everybody lifestyle is different. Everybody want what they want. Some people still want the creamy, crank relaxer. Some people want to go natural. Like it's just no one, no one way. When it comes to hair restoration or keep maintaining your hair. What I like to tell people is do what works for you. But you know you better than me, So I always tell my clients stick with something that does not is not going to compromise your hair. So like you wearing braided up braids and things like that, it's nothing wrong with wearing braids. But again, if you're doing those type of styles back to back, back the bag, and you're not giving your hair a break, then that's when it becomes a problem. So like I, you wear wigs, and when my head was long, I did wear braids, but I did not make that my my my go to you back to back. I switched up my looks, but most importantly, I always resulted back to just taking care of my natural hair. So it's really it's no no, no right or wrong way when it comes to the proper way to keep the filicles acted. To be honest, you can do all the right things and still lose your hair. I've seen it. And because of aging, because of the chemicals in the in the environment we living in, a lot of things changed over the last twenty years that contribute into alopecia and the amount of women that's losing their hair now. It wasn't like this back then. Because of the environment that has now changed. So you can be doing all the right things and still lose your hair. Is it true that men were who wear a lot of baseball caps, they too have that same problem? Because what you talked about with detraction around yep, the hair caps yup. So men who are a lot of times what I've noticed over the years doing consultations and just research and studying men who have alopecia, they go to the gym a lot, they wear a baseball cat. Yes, and it was another another thing. Of course, it was genetics, but their hair loss what it could be the same thing. I mean, even though they are male, they still have follicles and so certain things within the body. What they discovered is that when you work out a lot, you begin to experience hair sinning, then hair loss, and so yeah, it's a lot of things that's connected. You think you're doing something. You are when you're working out, you are doing something, but it's like when you're taking the medication that the doctor's prescribing you. They're giving you something to treat one thing, but it's causing another issue. So a lot of women, you know, they are losing their hair from taking medication like high blood pressure. I have a lot of women who have lost their hair due to induce it's called induced alopecia, and that's specifically contributing from medications that causes the hair to come out. So you're taking blood pressure pills, when you're taking pills for lupus and diaboids to help with your immune system, your hormones, but it's causing your hair to come out. So it's almost like a it's really just kind of a catch twenty two things. It's really hard to really say this is what you need to do to keep all your hair. I can't tell you because, to be honest, I've seen people who did everything and they lost their Yeah, yeah, so I have. So I have heard and maybe I'm jumping in deep waters at this point because but women, I think my mom told me like after she I think after she had me, her hair grew or something like that. And then I hear others that after they have a child they lose their hair. Yeah, their hair fall out. You know, you know, is there some type of psychology behind not psychology, but it's some type of chemistry behind that that you know, once you know you have a child, either you grow or lose your hair or what. I guess what does What is the impetus of that? It's the hormones. No, it's all hormonal, all hormonal. So when a woman is pregnant, all of her the baby is taking all of her all of her nutrients, everything that she needs for her own body. The baby is now taken up with the mother needs. And so that's why sometimes when women when we are with child, we get emotional, we feeling away, we get easily upset. It's just a lot of different things. But it's hormonal. So when a woman begins to lose their hair after giving birth, it's because of all of the nutrients and all of the things that she needs the baby had got. So it don't just be just your hair lost that women are experiencing after giving birth, but you also can get the scalps disorder has caused separated dermatitis where you just get real bad flare ups on the scalp of yeast build up and it's like a yellowish build up on the scalp, and that's connected to the horm It is hormonal, and so there are a few things that happen to women while they are with child and even after they have their child. I also witness women have grow like crazy. So it depends on the genetics of that person in their DNA right, not the myth that a boy makes your hair growing and the girls, because that's a myth. I didn't say that, but sinceicorn though, you know, and you know that's especially in the black community. That's something I heard growing up my whole life exactly. That's what I'm glad you said what you said. Let's set the record. She set the record straight. Yes for our listeners, No kudos to you though. This time went so fast. Uh, you know, I got so many questions. I guess you know, will you promise to come back because we'd love to hang you back. How did you get on the show? Was it your publishers whoever reached out, They did a good job. You need to know about professionals. We was on five a few weeks ago and we just got overwhelmed with so many calls. A lot of women don't know that there this is even the same yea, So quickly, let's talk about uh before we let you go, let's talk about some of I guess the latest advancements and uh kind of like give place again so people can kind of knowing how to get in contact with you. And then I got a special question for you. So the special advancements when it comes to the industry is scout micro pigmentation, low level laser therapy and non surgical hair replacement. Our we we are located in glenn Burney, Maryland, and we service all women. We service men and children. Even though our demographic is majority women who are experienced in alopecia. Other uh things that's happening in this industry is out of my scope of work. I don't do. I don't do the needles and all of that stuff. I'm the person that everyone comes to who did everything and nothing else worth got you. Hold that thought one second, Hold that thought one second. This is We talked weekly after the talk on w p P m l P Philadelphia one o six point five film. We talked weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Gregen and beautiful Lawrence and the beautiful and the beautiful and the beautiful. Yeah. I just want to get it right, yeah, Kia, right y'all, Mkia can you yeah, meeky, I keep keep getting that wrong, y'all, including me and name. I'm sorry, I wasn't. No you you know the beautiful you know you you beautiful also and so absolutely and so sorry for mis pronouncing you because we got we gotta make sure we get our names right. You. No, I'm serious about that we got to make sure that we get our kings and kings names right. Yeah, you know, I was telling her, I love your accent. It's something about Baltimore and y'all accent when y'all say you and I just love it. I'm just hearing it because we get that in Philly too. Like you know, when you from Philly, they say you got an accent. So loving your Maryland accent for sure. For sure, I'm coming up there. I want you to come look at my follicles. Make sure I make sure you look at my follicles. You know, I still got a whole head of my dad before he passed, he still had his whole head to hear it. But I still want to make sure my follicles are right, so that by doing it's called a tricoscopy. Tricoscopy now because we're on that right, and I'm sure there's certain people who's watching and they're interested, and I'm sure you pique some interest. Also, what would be the process for them to come in schedule and what does something like that run? Is it affordable to the average person? Do they have to take out a loan and you know, uh, take out a secondary loan in their house. I mean, what do they have to do to kind of get seen by you? So we do finance our services. We finance, we are vendor with the VA, and we take insurance, We take HSA and FSA benefits. And those are the systems that I was talking about in the beginning of this conversation that I had to make sure that I had in place because the services we provide it can be pricey. So like for a tricostopy, it's like a hair and scalp analysis, it's two hundred and thirty dollars to come and get that done. It takes about an hour where we're looking at your filicles and I'm explaining to you what it is that you see because you can see your scalp and your files, but you don't know what's going on. So that is something that a lot of people come in and get done because they just want to stay ahead. They want to make sure that they do not lose their hands. So if we're able to see some signs, then I'm able to put like a treatment plan in place for them to keep that hair in the growing phase and to slow it down from causing slowing down the hormone which is DHT that that actually causes the head to shrink and miniaturize, which leads to hair loss. But yeah, we we have systems in place where people can finance, they can use their insurance if their insurance do cover them. We provide information for our clients to be able to reach out to their insurance company to find out if their insurance cover for our services, because a lot of women are not aware that their insurance covers for some of the services that we provide, like non surgical we have replacement. So yeah, we we have a system in place, and or you can just pay out a pocket. Actually we also accept after pay because you can use after pay now to pay for unique services and shop pay. So we have a lot of stuff in place for people to be able to utilize our benefits and most of us we have like these secondary options like have to pay shop pay a firm where we can use that money to pay for services. And so I thought to myself, since I'm able to incorporate that in my business, I might as well, you know, pitch that to my clients and let them know these are your options. Because if a client come in and they want to do a hand lost system. They going to spend anywhere between twelve hundred dollars to twenty two hundred dollars, but the units that we provide for them, it lasts over a year, So it's an investment. Nah. That's great. That's good to know. And I'm sure those who will be watching this watching it over, they will be glad to know that there are some options and even potential insurance might be able to cover this. The last question I have is what's the one thing that no one else knows about y'all? Mikia, I got it right that time, right that you can tell us here when we talk weekly. I mean you going. You showed us your little clutch, right, so I want you to dig all the way down in that clutch, and I want you to tell us the one thing no one else knows about y'all, Mikya, that you could tell us now when we talk weekly. What you scrolling through your phone? Trump? Are you really going through your clutch? Okay, let us know, there we go. I like that. So it's funny you asked me that question because before I got on someone tagged me on Facebook of a picture of me, Well not tag me, but they commented on one of my pictures from back in twenty seventeen where I opened up my hair salon. The hair salon. My hair salon was in the neighborhood that I grew up in, and when I was little, I always used to say, this is gonna be my hair salon one day. So I would go to this corner store and like buy candy and chips and things like that, and I would say to myself, like, this is gonna be my salon one day, because I just always loved hair, and I ended up opening up my salon at that same location, the store, which is at the bottom of the neighbor of the block that I grew up on. And So to be your question, one thing that a lot of people don't know about me, but they're gonna know now is that I am a firm believer. And a lot of people say this, but I don't think people really believe it. Is that I know who I am, and I know who I am so much that would I speak I know it's gonna come to pack. I know it's just gonna happen. So I believe in what I speak out my mouth being a fact being the apps absolute like it has to happen. And so that's one thing about me. Anything I touch is gonna happen for me, and I know it. And so that's something about me that I don't really share because and not that I care, but I know sometimes it can be intimidating to people. And a lot of times people who live live in false narratives and have limited beliefs. So when I speak the way I speak, people really look at me like I got five hiss on my shoulder because I speak what I know to be true. I know that's right. Well, one thing I know to be true is that we love you and we appreciate you for being on the show. We talk weekly, and uh, one thing that we always say is once you come to the show, you're a friend to the show, So you're always welcome to come back. But I think we want to bring you on more often to be our you know, our specialists, you know our art. I would love to, Yeah, for sure, for sure. Why don't you tell everyone how they can get in contact with you and all that? Because you're not too far from Philly, so we might I just was in Philly and I mightst have be coming back up there. In two weeks. You make sure you reach out. Yeah, for sure, absolutely, So you can't end that this is long. I might gotta put it in the chat. But you can follow us on Instagram at Levigne Professionals and it's the I mean, Facebook is the same thing and our website. If you go to our website Lavonner Professionals. Okay, so I just got an affirmation that says I see myself and I love myself. Facebook is Lavonner Professionals. Instagram Leavoner Professionals. My website is Leavoner Professionals. The professionals have two f in the f sas in frank though. If you go on our website, there is so much information there you will learn more about me, You will learn about how more about how my business has became even a thing. We retail. We do have products that we do retail, so you can learn about our hair products. If you're somebody who is looking for a hair product to use from home, uh, and it's an organic, healthy products for your scalp and your hair, then check out our website. And we know it's I know it's a lot of different companies out here who retail hair products, but I'm gonna be really honest. My conscience will not allow me to sell a product if I know it's just not gonna be a thing. And I know some people are selling products because it's like a trend. But like our products that we retail, I literally traveled to Texas met with chemists because I really wanted to create something that was solid. The foundation was solid and concrete and it's gonna really help and work for people. And so when you order products from us, we shift our products with a thank you card with affirmations, and on our bottles, on all of our packaging for our products, it also comes with affirmations. So remember what I said, I speak what I know, so I incorporated that in our products as well. So when people order from us, we are challenging people to speak what they feel about themselves by using the thank you cards that we sending out with our products. Wow, I'm gonna give you a round them. Applause right there. Well, my sister, we really appreciate you, We love you, you wish you the best in all your endeavors and everything that you have to offer. And I mean you constantly growing. So you started small, got bigger, bigger, and bigger. Now you super boss, you know. You know. I'm sure you're intimidating them. Men. You know you you a boss now super boss you know. But you know, we really appreciate you and we support you. And so anything that you want from much you think we can assist will help you with me definitely here for you and we'll be reaching out. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. In the same here, if there's anything I can do, you come back and speak because I am a speaker as well. I can speak to women and young girls because I do mentor young women as well. I love to be able to inspire. So so why don't we So why don't we in with that? Then why don't you look at the camera look at all the POTENTI you young ladies who will be watching and looking at you and looking up to kind of your success and in the role that you have paved, And why don't you tell them something, leave them with something. What I would say is trust yourself, know yourself. There's a lot of things that's going on outside of us and around us that's pulling on us, that can be very confusing, But the most important thing is spirit. Don't lie we all have a spirit. And so if something don't feel right here in your gut, trust what you feel. You may can't see it, you might can't touch it. But trust what you feel, whether it's good or bad. Don't go back and forth and argue with with anyone or with yourself about what it is that you feel. That's one thing that I always tell my own self and what I tell other people. Know yourself and trust yourself. I know that's right. Know yourself and trust thyself because the only person who know you. I know that's even if you're not being real with yourself, you know yourself. I know that's right. You know what I mean. Look, I'm trying to tell you man, you know you know you, So stop bobbing and weave and know who you really are. Embrace you. Uh. So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, your boy Charles greg with the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful lady and the beautiful as you got it right that time. We really appreciate you, my sister, and uh, we don't want you guys to go anywhere. Uh when we get back, we have another dynamic interview. We'll be right back y'all. After this that was a dynamic interview. I like her, y'all, don't go nowhere. We'll be right back, y'all. So we talked week these after the talking w P P M l P Philadelphia one on six point five of the film. We talked week these after they talk with your boy Charles Gregor and beautiful and the beautiful and the beautiful, Oh, your Mike, let's do that work in a beautiful, beautiful There we go. We got them back in. Uh So, if you're just joining us, you missed a dynamic interview with y'all, y'all, we gotta make sure we get that sister name right. Uh excellent, excellent, excellent. When we think about hair loss, when we think about how to rejuvenate ourselves, you know you may have an opportunity to do so. It's not the end of the tunnel. He ain't the end of the line, the finish line. You know, we have a young lady who you know, has a professional and scientific method to make sure that potentially you'll be able to get all that stuff fixed. But now we have a gentleman with whom my regiminous mount of respect for. He drove all away from New York. Listen let me tell you the story real quick, right. And so this gentleman, you know, we was talking a little bit. He was going to tune in virtually, and then he hit me like, yo, you know what I'm saying. I want to come through. I want to pull up. Yo, you know how we do? Pull up? Pull up? He in the studio today, sol classy lady. Who do we have today? Who do we have to think? Today? We have the infamous Indro. Mattellis a tech sales professional with diverse experience. He transitioned from roles in government and corporate sectors to entrepreneurship, founding ventures including a car wash and a travel company. His journey led to Favla Boys Apparel combination fashion, travel and philanthropy to uplift the underserved communities. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm we talk weekly. Welcome to mister Andrew Matala. It's boys, right, Let's do that one again. Let me see the word it means pretty much, it means the hood in Portuguese. There you go, yeah, definitely, I mean you here go, you know, shout out, shout out to you, my brother, appreciate you for coming in and let's start from the beginning. Man, let me hold up, let me let me show some love, right now, let me show some love. I got, I said, I show some love, you know, and I like this one appreciated. Yeah yeah, for sure, for sure, yeah yeah, this one nice? Right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. So so let's talk a little bit about kind of like you know, let's start from the beginning. You know, let's talk talk about like your upbringing, and then let's talk about your fashion journey and the things that you're doing. So you can't hear I have an accent. Originally born and raised Haiti, grew up in Haiti, like like when the people when people say they're from the Mud, I was the Mud, you know. So born and raising Haiti, and then I moved to Brooklyn, Crown Heights, and then Hollis Queens, and I moved to the suburbs of Philadelphia, so I can talk about from like like the third world country, from the inner city life and to you know, how it is to live in the suburbs. So that's how I came up with this idea for other boys too, because I realized that there's beauty in the in the struggle, right there's beauty in the inner city. That's like, the inner city have so much beauty in it. Like we we're aware of the hip hop. You know, those are the popular things, right, So the whole point of this brand is it's capturing the beauty. Right. At the same time, every time we sell clothing, we're using fitt percent of the profit to fund STEM education. So we don't want to just give you. We want to teach you how to fish, right than just give you something, right, we will give you the tools where you can learn how to code, you know how to do all these other things. Be a tech professional, right, so you can go out and hunt for yourself. You don't have to wait on anybody else because we are not all going to be athletes. Right. Yeah, no for sure. So lady, that's not going to fix your mic real quick. But as she's doing that, I want to talk a little bit about that idea, the concept of STEM and some of the things that you're doing based around that, because one of the things that we talk weekly, does we amplify those skills based around STEM and STEAM education. Right. One of the things we say, because we are within the arts, right, we say the arts make STEM sexy right. We are what amplify or give a platform for people that's within those fields or those those professions that had the ability to talk about some of the things that they're doing. Right. And so we're excited to have you on because when it comes to STEM based education, for those who don't know what STEM and STEAM, are you talking about science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics right, And so we actually have a nonprofit project Steam in which we created television content based off of STEM based learning and STEM careers and goals and all of that that that infrastructure and that scope, so people can know, youth can know, like yo, there's other things. You don't always have to just want to play basketball and make a lot of money. You don't always have to play sports. That's not the only thing that you know. We have a full talented, you know, group of like black beautiful children and youth that's very talented and knowledgeable and the only outlet they think they have to potentially be successful in sports. So I want you to talk a little bit about why you started, you know, the brand, and why you believe it's so important to support to support STEM based curriculum ideals. Correct. So the primary reason I created the brand is because I mean I was like the favela that's a Brazilian term, right, from like favella is pretty much in Brazil, that's the term, right, and growing up knowing myself and seeing like how black children, especially in like Brazil even Columbia there it's worse than than America, right, and they don't have any opportunities. You go somewhere because you from the US, you're the only black person in these spaces, right, and then you see how others are treated the same complexion as you are. So I was like, hey, how can I make a difference? And I realized the only way I can make a difference is giving you the education that you need. Well, you don't need to go to a four year education. You can get that certification and then you can be like whatever tree and still be able to have access where you can uplift your whole family out of poverty. And the same thing applied here in America. Because where you're in America, you're in Brazil, You're and Ghano, you're in Haiti. We all impacted the same way. So it's like what can each person do to help? Right? And the way I find I say, hey, listen, we spend billions of dollars, especially black people spend billion dollars in clothing, right, And my thing is, how can I The way I thought about it is, since we buying clothing anyway, why do I make it look cool, also have a message in it that's the beauty and also at the same time give back. So it's not all in one because everything, even from the logo, everything is pretty much saying, hey, that's the hood, right, and yeah, it's pretty much what it is because we already doing it already, but we won't do it in a positive note. Yeah, But whilest while, the primary reason for STEM is because STEM is the future now, right. If you look at cybersecurity, you look at even self driving cars, right, all these things need somebody to do that, right. And also right now currently in the US, we have so many opportunities that are open, and they're going to India to get people to come here to do these jobs. And the thing is a lot of these role we have a lot of roles, they're all closing right now because of when we talk about chat GBT, well you're talking about that AI closing a lot of opportunities about the same time it's creating other opportunities. Just need to have that skill set for those new opportunities. And that's where that comes in because if we and also if you really look at it, stem education, right, it's a great way because to pretty much the underserved community to really meet the middle class or upper class, right, because everybody is starting at the same pace. Right. So it's like, you have the skill set as a matter what color you are, you're gonna you're all going to have opportunities where you can either do it yourself or they're looking for people nobody what's getting complexion. You got the skill you're gonna get that role. Yeah, And I'm glad that you brought that up. And I want to just echo there because when you talk about people of color, right, people that fall under that that biopop community, that falls under that colorful community, oftentimes we're last when it comes to getting the resources or getting the information, getting the knowledge. Right. What I think is happening right now that we're at a at we're at this crossroad where there's a digital revolution that's happening that's equalizing a playing field. AI is that and when we think about just simple things. I won't say simple, but outlets or like chat GPT, that's one of those equalizers. Right. The problem is this that people are super terrified, as scared of oh my god, they're gonna take over jobs and they're gonna do that, and they're pushing back. Well, the problem is, ladies and gentlemen, is that if you don't jump on this train, it's leaving without you. So at the very least you want to understand what's going on, so you at least had the ability to have those resources and fight with it. Right, it's not taking jobs, it's creating. And so if you understand, just going back to stem science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, this is technology. It's all technology engineering, prompting understanding. This is a lot of stuff that doesn't take rocket science to do. It's just you putting yourself in that situation. That's space so you can start to understand and do the stuff yourself. I mean, I see you shaking here, would you like to listen? You just like speaking my language? Man, you speaking my language because a lot of people are afraid. But if you look back, you look at the history, that's the same thing. But early in the nineties or eighties. They thought about computers, right, they thought, hey, computer's going to you know, change the game, and you're gonna lose jobs and everything. Right, But guess why I helped me. Opportunities having the internet have created to the point where it leads into app application and stuff like that. Now that's the same thing. It's just you just gotta get that skill so you can be able to you know, like you said, get on the train and not be left behind. That's right, That's right. So that's what we're trying to do here. Yeah. Yeah, and I want you to someone upscale pr She said, I just stopped by to see who you had as a guest today, So glad I stopped by. This is so smart stem and clothing so dope. So she giving you kudos for that. Thank you absolutely. And one thing I want to do, and uh, lady your thought and we'll make sure our publish not our publishers, but Sheila, who you've been corresponding with, stay in contact with you, because what I want to do for you is walk you through the idea of NFC technology, right, and so we'll be putting chips in your shirts or showing you how to do that so they can scan it and say that this is an official fora Vella's shirt, right, And so I want to make sure that you get so I want to make sure that you kind of have an understanding of that technology, just to enhance the idea of what this the clothing is based around them, all right, And so we'll talk a little bit about that. So I want to do that for you. And so so yes, let's talk a little bit about kind of like your upbringing though, and because you were all over the gold pretty much, so let's talk about kind of like your family and what they instilled in you. And you know how you know, you transitioning and then leaving home getting pushed out the bird now so you flying so to speak. You know, how was that experience and how did the family feel? And how do they feel today? I mean, well, let's tell from the beginning, coming from Haiti, man, like, coming from Haiti, you come to America, you don't understand the word of English, right. And then also you coming to Brooklyn back in the nineties, and the Brooklyn you know today, right, So it's like that gritty Brooklyn that that best started their Biggie Smalls Brooklyn, Right, So you're there, you try to learn the language and try at the same time trying to learn the culture, right, and all that actually, all that is, there's a beauty to it, right, the struggle, there's a beauty to it because you're just gonna keep grinding until you get it right. And you need that another for you to communicate and navigate toward the country. So now coming from Haiti, you know, and nothing is easy in Haiti, right, and then you apply the American hardship from the inner city. At the same time, I'm seeing the hardship, but I'm also seeing the beauty. And because the beauty is where hip hop come from. That's where blue is, jazz, all these other things come from. Right, That's where my comets come from, Emma Kay come from. So all these leaders, we appreciate it. You can go home and say, Michael Jackson, it can go on and on. Right, there's a lot of beauty in there. Right. But we all more than just music and entertainments. Right, So all these things, right, all these things coming together for me. Right, And then I moved to the suburbs, where it was like whoa, that was so different. You have kids. When it turned sixteen, they get benzes, they come and fly right, all these things. You seeing a whole different side because when I was in Inner City, I didn't know about high school and college. I didn't know that, right, And if I had stayed in New York, I don't know where i'd be right now, right And having that change and education is something we always push Haitian community to push education. And then having that access, being able to school and then seeing the impact school had none for me come back to where I was before, I was like, hey, listen and pretty much that's that's that's why it's stilled on me in me, right, And I'm a very creative person, so I've always trying to create something not just for me but for the people. Because you know, Tupaca is my favorite artist, right, I love pak So when I listen to them, I'm always thinking about like de Mama and everything like that. I'm always thinking about like how can I uplift the community and and all these things? Over time, everything, right, they just come together. And that's how I came about creating this brand because that's another way too. I cannot wrap, I can't I cannot dance and everything, but I can do something else that can impact right to the point where even I'm no longer here, it can still impact people. And then and then who knows what kid's gonna like these because we donate computers to to So this is you guys understand, like we work a nonprofit organization that focus on STEM. Right, so we buy the computers for them. How in computer so they can do the work on I got you right. So because they take is one or two kids, who knows going to change the world? Right, that's all they take. So question, how did your background and government and corporate sectors? How did that influence what you're doing today? Well, here's the thing, right, I went to Temple for business school FOSCO to business. Right, I know this the Temple, but everything I learned Wait wait, wait, don't even wait, flag want to play, No, I got you know, but know this the temple, not thise, the temple, but you surrounded looking lawn. She's like, hold up, I just got my answer your question right, Yes? And then a nonprofit I was Americle Vista. That's why I did right, lisen to the Department of Commerce of Philadelphia, and that's where I learned business everything, like everything I need to know about business is where I learned it because I had like four territories was West Philly and Woodland, elm Wood and then uh uh fifth Street, and then you communicating with this businesses, right, and then you're learning all these different uh programs that can help this businesses, right. And then you're also connecting with people who want to start businesses. So they had they had these programs to in nonprofit working with businesses people who want to start businesses as well. So that's why I really learned it because it was hands on. Okay, that's different like when you're doing it like in the school environment, then you're actually doing it in persons applications. And that's during that time I started this waterless mobile car wash, washing cars without water. So yeah, so yeah, that was way away in the beginning. And one of my good friends is Haitian and he's he's a about community driven as well, but he says about how poor it is in Haiti and how he always wants to go back to give back to you know, to where he comes from. Because he said he went to go visit. He said he literally stripped, took his clothes off, put his cousin's clothes on and just was like giving out dollar bills and stuff. But it's so poor. Can you tell us about Haiti is rough? Man? Oh my god, Like it's rough. Like when I say rough, I'm talking about like you got people who cannot eat die of hunger. Right, that's a common thing. And then you have the security. We don't get me wrong. Haiti is a beautiful country. The culture is super beautiful. If you never hear Kompai, you got the Haitian food is amazing. Right, Oh, listen, the food, the peaklease listen, the food, the culture, all that's beautiful. Right. However, we got to talk about the reality of the safety component. Right, you go there, you might get kidnapped. Right. There's not a lot opportunities at all. So that's the reason I don't go back to Haiti. Right. The infrastructure that isn't none, Right, I don't even Yeah, I think America is the place I came to have ice cream. I don't think I ever had ice cream until I get to America, you know what I'm saying. Because there's no limitary there's no I grew up with no electricity, no running water. I think the TV we had was like maybe twice a year. Maybe the lights because the lights is not twenty four seven. When I came to America, I was like, hold on, it's like still long. But the lights is like you have lights maybe three hours four hours a day, and sometimes you don't have it for six months, you know, so you need you need, you don't have the infrastructure. So that's that's how it is. It's tough. So if we could get into a little bit of the design of the actual shirt, especially the one I love. The design that that stood out to me is the exactly is the bike riding the four wheelers the you know, those are huge in Philadelphia and that's something that law enforcement, political officials have fought against allowing that to happen Philadelphia. What made you put that on the ship? That's a beautiful question. I love that question. So that's the beauty right there. Right, So you have these kids, they're not they're not out there robbing anybody, right, they're not out there disturbing anyone, right. They create This actually should be a sport if you really look at it. And I want to be surprised. Here's the thing. I won't be surprised in the next five or ten years, it become a sport, right and if you see it takes kills to do that, it does right. So that's the reason I'm like, that's the beauty in it. A lot of people see it as like whatever, there's a negativity to it. But I'm seeing, I sing, I'm seeing a beautiful thing that's happening, right, and it takes skills. So I'm like, how do I That's what I'm saying. That's why Favilla Boys does we want to take the beauty snapchat it right and it talks to you as well. Yeah, for sure. Now I like the design of it, and I think you're on something and I'm gonna help you. I want to help you amplify, you know, put more, put more grit and put you know, another level of how can I say excellence to what you're putting out? Because when we talk to them, let's truly take it there. And I think there's something that we can we can do with that. And so do you have any other designs that you're working on and all of that? Yeah, I do. I have. There's one design I have on my phone. It's like it's mainly in New York City. You see if you ever get on the subway, you see the guys are breakdancing or whatever. Those things. I got one of that. Everything have a name to it. I have one that's uh, well, you know how a lot. I mean, I don't know how you guys gonna take it. That's going, you know how sometimes socially in Philly you have the shoes on the string and everything like that. Uh that one, I have one like that. In the shirt the title in the bottom says poor our little liquor. So to me, I see it like remembrance of you know, those that pass so fast on right. So I have a lot of design capturing. I have one. I have one where because I remember in Brooklyn we didn't have the pool. We used to play in the in the water when fair hydrant. I got that what you're playing the fire hydrant in the water and everything, because I'm capturing, That's what I'm to me. And I'm capturing the beauty of the ghetto and putting on the clothes because there's a lot of beauty just like this one. There's a lot I'm saying, I remember a strong believer of that. There's a lot of you, just like if you ever whatever you know fully or soft fully, you just step out and you just sit there and watch it. There's a lot of beauty because the thing is, when you turn onto five o'clock news, six o'clock news is always negative, right, it's up to you us change the narrative, and I'm changing the native to a clothing. Right. It's almost like a culture lesson with the different designs because it's it's a lot of stuff that people don't know about Black culture. And you know, our culture is so rich, and just to see that on the shirts is that's awesome. Black culture is more than rich. Black culture is what make America popular when you when you leave a lot of people understand that when you leave America, that's where you really see the black culture. It's global, it's international, so to the point where it's like, uh, to the point where it's like it's almost like I push traveling a lot too, because it's like, especially those who don't have access, especially black people or whatever, if you're not embraced here, you go over, it's it's like your culture is literally everywhere you turn and go right, and it's embraced. So it's like self value because listen, they love us everywhere we go. It reminds me of graffiti. You remember how back in the day, in the late seventies, early eighties, it was like, oh, who's putting that on the walls? But now they realized the beauty of it. They realized you know, yeah, so it's capturing It's like you said, it's capturing the richness in the culture of black culture. Just on that point, that's what hip hop was. Hip Hop was a thing that came out of the ghetto that people thought was just gonna literally be like a fad. This would be here for a second. What is the trash that they're talking about? And look at the day now they want to make money off the backs of the people who created the culture, right, which is important that we continue to support our culture, embrace it, put a stamp on it, and keep the remembrance of who actually created it. And it ain't no rap about it. I like the idea. I appreciate the idea that you know that you're embracing what we consider the hood or the ghetto, right, And a lot of people, I don't think that's quote unquote in the ghetto kind of see it, you know, because we are fighting a good fight every day, right, So we don't see the richness sometimes of our own community, but someone that's not there looking and they like wow, you know. And so that's something that I value and appreciate. And I love my hood. I get asked all the time, Charles Gregory, why are you still in Philly? I actually love my hood. I love Philly. You know, I've been to other places I like to visit. I just don't want to live here. I like where I'm at, you know what I mean. And it's one thing that I probably always stay. But I'll get the I get my visit on my travel on. But you know, Philly is with this is where this is. I'm a product of my environment, right, and everyone who's a product of environment isn't always a bad thing, right because we're not all monolips, so we don't do the same thing. So we have a richness there. And so when it comes to you, my friend, and all of the things that you're doing, what is the legacy that you want to leave? The legacy I want to leave is, like I said before, is even if I'm not here. That's the whole point of this brand, right to the point where I want to make it popular to the point where it can every time you purchase a product or whatever, it's gonna help these young kids. Right, These young kids are the one that's gonna shape off future. Right, and then when they get up, they can possibly do something bigger than for Villa boys. Right. Who knows what they're gonna bring. Who's gonna come next? Right? So yeah, just that's that's really the legacy I want to live because a lot of time people want to donate and everything that's that's just that's a quick fix. Long term. I want something long term, and so they know how to I'm all about, Hey, you know how to fish. That's the key element because if we got that, nothing can stop us. You want to fight the good fight using capitalism at its best, right, So won't we use the same thing they use against us? Won't we just use the same thing and benefit us. I like that. I'm loving what I'm hearing interesting And our nonprofit is project Sting and so it totally underscores what you're doing. And so you know, we love that. What when it comes to next steps for you? What are those next steps? So I'm trying to create a funnel so to me, because I want to be in charge of the message of my brand. Right, So now the next time I'm creating, I'm creating this this podcast talking about traveling so I can promote my brand, So creating that YouTube channel and of of this podcast, right, and then, uh, that's mainly what because I've been trying to be quite honest with you, I've been trying to connect with with tech companies to partner, right, because they already got the name and everything, right, so partner so we can drive it together. Right. So that's that's really what I really like to do as well, work with either Intel, work with the video, work with all these major companies that we partner up, and then you know, everything we sell pretty much, we share the profit, right, share the message and everything because they already got the name in place so that it will implify a message. I'm really curious to know what made you, because we're supposed to have you on virtually what made you want to drive in today to be on a platform is curious. I'm passionate about dismissing, like I really believe in this, This is like this is my this is my purpose in life, right, so I could have easily do it virtually, because I feel like if I do it virtually, it's not gone resonant as well. Right, So I'm like, even it took me two and a half hours to traffic, I was like, hey, it's better for me to be here in person, right, because sometime when you have opportunities, you gotta take it. You have to make sacrifices, right, So I make the sacrifice, but it's bigger than me. So I was like, hey, let me come here in person and let me wear my shirt, be in person, seeing you face to face. Because what they said, I think ninety percent of conversations non verbal, so in person will be much much better. So that's that's the primary reason, because that's something I'm super passionate about. Gotcha. Gotcha interesting? That half hour went fast. So this is what we'll do, right, I want you to stay for the rest of the show, all right. I want you to it first before we go on to the sizzle. I want you to tell everyone how they can get in contact with you where they can find out more about you. And then we're gonna go to our next segment and you're gonna stay with us. Listen, go to favelaboysopperrel dot com and then you can click contact us. The same thing for TikTok or uh TikTok was their Instagram. But if you want to reach out me, reach to me directly, you can do andro Mattellus E N d O O W Mattellus M E T E l U s on LinkedIn. You can, you know, reach out to me on LinkedIn directly. There too. Fantastic, fantastic. All right, Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen fora vella boys, favella boys. Man. It's great calls, great calls. And you know, one thing we say on the show was like, once you come to the show, your friend to the show, so you're always welcome to come back. And uh, I don't want you guys to go anywhere. When we come back, we're gonna add some more to sizzle. Man. We're gonna talk about something this this young lady that I've been hearing so much about. I don't know what, but we'll we'll talk a little bit about it. So don't go nowhere. We'll be right back after the show. Slunlock up, stuck, stuck, suck suck suck, suck, suck suck Pe Philadelphia one O six point five. That's film. We talked weeklies after the Talk with your boy Charles Gregon and beautiful Lauren and a beautiful class lad and a beautiful lady and my guy Andrew. Where you at? You're right there, Hey, definitely in the building, and so classy lady, you're writing for us. I'm ready, all right, go get news and bad news, good news, and Ben give it early all right. In Middleton Township, Pennsylvania, the community is dealing with deep distress. Justin Mohan, thirty two years old. He stands accused of horrifying crime. He allegedly murdered his father, Michael Mohan. Basically, he decapitated his head in a disturbing YouTube video. Did y'all hear about this now? The tragedy unfolded when Denise Mohan, the Justin's mother, stumbled upon the mutilated remains of her husband, triggering an urgent call to authorities. When she arrived, law enforcement discovered the gruesome scene. Michael Mohan's body was decapitated and the bad throne alongside weapons including a machete in a kitchen knife, Justin's mom's Justin Mohan's rhetoric in the video was a threat against federal officials. He was using aggressive language targeting various social groups. He was arrested at a nearby National Guard facility by the police, and the aftermath has left the attire community questioned the factors that could have led to such an act. Why didn't they arrest him earlier based on his tyrants that he placed live on YouTube? Why do you think that is they were able to see what see that he was, you know, coming off as his rocker, but nobody didn't that crazy? All right? Well, the next story, I don't know if this good news. This one. This one was a double homicide in Philadelphia. Uh. The philadelph Police Department was shaken by a double tragedy in the Tioga Nice Town section. A man and woman lives were cut short. They were found slumped in a Kia sportage on North seventeen Street near Airy Avenue. Here's the thing, the cops are saying that this wasn't just a random act. It looked like someone had, you know, had their sights on these two people. The woman was from the Philadelphia area and her name is Denver Newton, just thirty two years old and the man, Lamont Wright fifty three, was from the West Coast. He was from LA. Now, while they were in the car together, nobody knows the engine was still running when their bodies were motionless in the front seat. Eyewitnesses did see a shooters get into a dark colored car before speeding off, But nobody's been bought to justice. So Philadelphia are asking if people no information about this, this homicide, then please give the give your Philadelphia Police department across m Yeah, that's wild man. All right, well this might I don't know if this one's good news are bad news, but all I no, this one I don't know. Now, Philadelphians that work from home, y'all might want to listen up to this. So y'all know that iconic Philly skyline that's in City Hall the building. All right, well it's not all you know, it's not all good there because it turns out that those office spaces are now struggling big time. There's nobody in there. According to Jones lang Lasal, most of those buildings are now empty and causing major financial woes. The downtown area looks like a ghost town, and allegedly it's because workers that say they don't feel safe and they want to stay home. Well, now the plan is to bring them back. Our new Mayor, cherylle Parker is saying so in order to get the hustle and bustle and revive downtown, Mayor Cheryl Parker her administration is thinking about a comeback plan and that's bringing the at home workers back into the offices. So I thought that the that it was less stressed on one the O zone, but two overhead, like you're doing the same thing. Why why do people have to come back? Because now you got all these abandoned skyscrapers down Center City, and Center City is a ghost town and they're trying to bring more money to the city and people aren't spending money in the city. If Comcasts had to go back, everybody had to go back because Comcast campus is what twenty three thousand employees just right there on the Parkway. So with all of them being home, it was like I remember when Comcasts went back. The mayor actually like, yeah, a put a thank you note, posted thank you like on Twitter. Because all those restaurants and stuff that's around that area, people going to lunch and happy hour after work and stuff like that. That's not happening. So a lot of the businesses wasn't able to survive, a lot of closed. But what about the people who are saying that they are saving money from not traveling or eating out, like they're not up and there they're saving money, and that money ain't saving is the money that the city ain't making. So they don't care about you care about us saving money. They want us to spend that money to keep the city going. That they're trying to do all of this stuff to even bring even with the events upcoming events that are happening over the next few years, to bring money into the city. That's the whole reason they're talking about that whole stadium move, the Sixers Stadium going down, because to bring money into the city. So that's that's part that's gonna be. Part of that initiative to bring money into the city is getting everybody back in those empty, vacant office buildings. So here's a question I have, do they have to be there? Is it gonna be hybrid or is it gonna be all five days? I think hybrid would be fair. Hybrid is probably how they're gonna start. They're gonna they're gonna wean them back in gradually and then before you know it, eventually it's all everybody's. Well, there's been some studies that I've heard that people have been even more productive as they were home. I mean Twitter showed that or now ex formerly Twitter, you know, they said they have been more productive just by way of staying home. And so if you're getting more done, especially for organizations that rely on productivity, then that should be up to the quote unquote managers or the CEOs to make the decision on whether he wants his X, Y and Z to come back. Now that said people are finding it cheaper on them in terms of overhead that now they don't necessarily I probably don't need a brick and mortar now, right, So they're saving even more money. So their bottom line is where they're supposed to be as someone, especially as a small business. And so if you're going to have these conversations, we really have to have that conversation, no doubt. Yes, yeah, they need to find a balance though, because being in a cubicle for nine to ten hours a day and then commuting for two hours and then you don't have time with your family like that's they just thinking about themselves as if it's not a you know, all right, this next one is in recognition of Black History Month, all right. So in the heart of Philadelphia, in the heart of Philadelphia, amidst the concrete jungle where dreams often struggle to take root, there's a silent forest shaping destinies. And her name is Saudia Schuler. Yes, shout out to Saudia. She's not just another face in the crowd. She's the unsung hero who's every move vibrates with the pulse of the city. For nearly two decades, Saudia has been part of that glue for Philadelphia, from organizing community events to providing essential support during holiday and school drive Saudia's dedication knows no bounds. Her restaurant, which is in Jeff Brown's grocery store, isn't just about serving up soul food, but she's also employee and serving the community. But don't let the glitz and glamour for you. She has a hustle as gritty as the streets that she calls home. Yep, behind the scenes, she's a whirlwind of activity, always hustling. Saudia has purchased her dream building and hit appause on her dreams to give others a shot at theirs. She calls it the hood flea market. It just isn't the place to buy and sell. Is a testament to Saudia's belief and the power of community and entrepreneurship, a platform for local and distant vendors to thrive. So this Black History Month, as we celebrate different chilblazers who've paved the way, let's not forget some of the unsung heroes, like here in Philadelphia, which is Saudia Schuler. Saudia Schuler exemplifies exactly what I said about the culture. Exemplifies Yeah there, her resilience, her grid, her unwavering commitment to her people, basically the stuff that legends are made of. So here's to you, Saudia. We talked weekly. Want to acknowledge and recognize you for turning people's dreams into reality. One act of kindness at the time fantastic. Another random of a pause for saw the shoulder. That was your good news and your bad news from your girl classic Ladies Park Now was your good news and bad news class Lady Park on your boy Trust Greg with the beautiful Laurence, A beautiful classic ladies and a beautiful and my guy Andrew Mattella's plus little boys Apperil that's right in the building. So you know what we got coming up next? Right? We got the sizzle part too, how let me all right? All right, so let's get into Risa Tisa all right? So, Riesa Tisa is a TikTok TikToker who went viral for creating a fifty two plus I said plus because she's still putting out content. But it's a fifty two plus part tell all docuseries basically titled Who the F Did I Marry? So it consists of fifty two plus little ten minute segment segments where she's chronicling the story of how she met, married, and divorced her pathological liar, all within the year's time. So I'm gonna do my best with trying not to have spoil spoiler alerts because I know people have not seen it yet and we don't care, but you can spoil it. I'm gonna let you live. But people do care, so, yeah, you know, especially women, That's what I'm saying. Some of us don't. Yeah, But so the running time of all the parts is nearly eight hours, so yeah, and I watched the whole thing over the course of a few days. So she has the other follow up clips where she's doing live videos to address people's questions. So without giving away too much of the hard details of her story, Resa Tisa met this guy called Legion on March fourth, twenty twenty, and she purposely changed the names of the people involved so that she could conceal their identities. So they met on Facebook dating and another site where they matched as well. You know how when you match with somebody because you create your profile and then they match you with people. Well, they also matched on Hinge, so they basically were looking for someone on multiple sites. I guess the two of them, well, they had. He had two different names and two different picks on both sites, which kind of stood out to her initially. So he starts telling her he just moved to Georgia from San Diego after getting a promotion to transfer to a regional manager position for a corporation in Georgia. He tells her that he played arena football in California. Legion told her that he grew up in Philadelphia. So once I heard the Philadelphia part, my antennas went up because I'm from Philly. You know, we're from Philly. So I'm like, who who is bull? You know exactly? So then he says his dad was a Philadelphia police officer and his mom was a retired teacher. So I'm like, hm, I may know this guy, so let me look into this so I can thick. But you know how, you want to know just in case, like what if I ever run into this guy. I'm not doing dating sights, but you know, anyway, so he's saying he had brothers and sisters in different states. Resa Tisa at the time. She was employed with Georgia State Troopers. So they met, they got close. They started quarantining together when COVID hit within the first like two three weeks or whatever. So after some months of living together, they did all this house hunting, car shopping, the whole bent she she car shopping. Yeah, it's twisted. It's twisted. I don't want to put you know, put out too many details. But they was doing all this stuff because he was he was a fraud. Like he really had her going to these places thinking that he was going to buy her this lavish house and these cars. He had her test driving cars and like, I see you in a Mercedes Benz and he would act like he getting ready to pay for it, and it just was so much. So back to the marriage. After they exchanged exchange vows at the Justice of Peace, things started getting crazy and everything just spiral from there and she gets caught up in a whirlwind of lies and deception. Quick How long was they How long did they meet? So they met March fourth, and throughout the thing, she's giving dates, like specific dates of what happened at what time, and da da da, because when she went to met him and went to meet him, they we're gonna go to cheesecake factory, which is one of the places that she kind of, you know, chuckled about it that the long list of the places you don't go on first dates. So on her way there, her tire blew out, and he instead of meeting her at the place, he came directly to her. He fixed her tired, and then they kind of like, you know, hit it off from there. So but she finally starts after they got married, and they went through all this stuff, and she finally starts doing some research on this guy. After I'm like, after you got married, you finally start doing She finds out about his infidelity. Hold on, hold that thought real quick. We talked week these after they're talking to w P p P Philadelphia one on six point five film We talked week these after they talk with you boy, Trus Gregen and beautiful Lawrence's and a beautiful beautiful and my guy Andrew Ma tell us yes. So he finds She finds out about his real employment, all these ex wives, this family, this fake family that he created, his criminal background with all this stuff. She finally finds out about it. But basically he told everything he told her was a lie, with the exception of like two or three things. He's having these conversations within earshot of her, but really not talking to anybody on the phone, which was crazy and creepy, and the people that he said he was talking to were deceased. Oh so yeah, so he's like, right, He's like, I was on the phone with my uncle. But then when she finally talks to his brother, his real brother, and he's telling her the facts, he's like, oh, that uncle died ten years ago or you know however long it was, And he was like, there's no way he was talking to that uncle on the phone because he was dead. Well, basically, eventually she files for a divorce and then she tries to get away from him, but it's kind of like a struggle evenally she does. But now there are other women who are speaking out about their experiences with this guy whose name she called yes but Yes. As these women start talking his ex wife, who we've now found out her name is LaToya Everett, she spoke out about he tried to ruin her life, and now he's identified as Jerome McCoy Atlanta. Well, all this took place in Georgia, like around Clayton County and all that, and you know he's connected to Rhode Island. Jerome McCoy. Yeah, he lived in Philly up until high school and he moved to I think Atlanta or something like Georgia and he was there for a couple of years there. Because right, but you know, throughout the video, she is making these disclaimers about how she should have done a research ahead of time. She kind of moved too fast, but she really wanted women to know about this man and share her story. So now she's had three million followers on TikTok. Her series has amassed over two hundred million views, so as far as revenue from her series, TikTok's creative program pays roughly a dollar for every thousand views, so she's made over two hundred thousand dollars on TikTok alone from this. So and this is her husband, well he's her ex husband now, yeah, but she like met him in March. They moved in like as quarantine as the quarantine mandates hit, which was like the end of March. And then I think she she had gotten pregnant and had a miscarriage, and which she says she was lucky to She must be a great storyteller, she us, because I haven't I've heard of this, but I haven't like listened. Yeah, yeah, because it was like after after a few minutes, you locked in, you're locked in. So and how many parts did she did she have each? She has fifty two parts. She tells this story over fifty two ten minute segments on TikTok because they don't let you go any longer than ten minutes, so she's like talking ten minutes and then she's like, all right, this is part one, and then throughout it she's backtracking as well, so it's like trapped in the closet r Kelly. Yes, yes, yeah, yes, exactly exactly. So my thing was like, should there be specific protocols for women to follow when they're meeting men on dating sites? And I'm law enforcement trained, so I'm automatically in private investigator mod all the time. Because when she got the part ten and she starts saying stuff that he was saying, I was like, boo boo, Yeah it was I would have tapped out at part ten. But just different though when you think about everybody's levels of I don't want god, I don't want to say common sense, but yeah, it's yeah, those filters and just got It's a lot of things that go into that, right. You know, woman is desperate, really wants somebody, So the first thing they hear that sounds good to them, they're gonna they gonna yield to that. And it's and you're you start to turn off all your spiky senses and the stuff that you learned as far as security parameters of keeping yourself safe because you're hearing something that just sounds good. But we also gotta remember that that was during the pandemic where everybody was down, lockdown, and you want to be by yourself. Yeah, have COVID. You don't know if you're going to be if you're gonna die or live or whatever. All that kind of survival comes in, so you don't want to be by yourself. I think that plays in factor. But I want to know, Okay, besides him talking to the uncle who didn't die, like I didn't hear really nothing like is he not contributing financially? Like, oh he was paying bills? Oh like he he But he told her he had a banking like offshore bank account, and he had he was he had realtors that he was meeting that he was having the realtors take them around to different houses, saying that he had like seven hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in cash that he was going to put down on the house. But then they were like, show us your bank account. He wouldn't show it. So he was just he was doing things the whole time that was red flags. But okay, and I get that, But he wasn't extorting her because he was helping pay bills. He was basically trying to be somebody He's not right, so he wasn't. Instead of a forty thousand dollars a year man. He was trying to say he was a six figure, seven figure man. Okay, so she's like, who does she marry because she thought she married more of a person that was saying that she was about the bread. I mean, I mean, coming from the park, it sounds like pretty much she was just about that bread then it right, But he acting like what he didn't have, Like I'm saying, if you denoted down to the dollar, and I guess he had a manic depression with him talking to diseased people. But I mean, I don't I don't know if I'm hearing like other things that he's done, like what she said that was a factor too. Well that was because of his past relationship. I didn't hear that she did it. Well, yeah, he was going on. First of all, there was a prostitute that I know, I was trying not to tell like they en nobody's gonna watch this, so just go ahead and say, I know I ain't watching it. We don't really care, right right, right. So there was a she she had got his work phone and she was going through the text messages, which she said he gave her the password to the phone, and you go looking for something exactly. So she found a conversation with basically like a prostitute where he was like, I want to meet you, and and then he was asking for how much services costs, like how much is a BJ and she's like forty dollars? Well what if you want to get there? Yeah? So like so then I wanted wanted a discount, come at a certain price the discount. Yeah. So then she said there was like a few weeks or something where there was no conversation, but then she saw something that said, oh, thank you so much. I can't wait to see you again. So Brian, right, what if I just kept you just smile at it? But it was it was brilliant. It was really if I don't touch it, that's how you go right there here no money. If I gotta talk down and point it out, the prophet trying to get I got discount, Try to do it. If I get three, do I get like, you know, car exactly the car. The more time we come, I got free service. That's funny. What the thirty five? Thirty five? It's I only got twenty when he gets only got twenty. There are people out here. You never know what people have going through in their previous years and their childhood. But people, there are some people out here who have this thing where it's like I go to a new city or I meet a new person, and that allows me to be whoever I want to be because they don't know me. So I can go into this situation and be whoever I want to be and until until they find out, they just ride that way. Yes, yes, your question you had earlier about like what should women do? I will say like one of the key factors will be like, hey, you have she has Facebook, Go to that Facebook. I would definitely FaceTime. If they have Instagram, go through that because a lot of time and in conversation, because a lot of time a person will tell you who they really are to a conversation, they will because if you pick up, like you said, she picked up on a few things, she would have known already because he can only stay in character for so long and pay attention because guess what what he told you this week? If it don't want what he said last month, you gotta do you know you was that woman's intuition and all them side that you're doing, and don't let that stuff this pass. And more than likely she felt it. We don't know, but in her back of her mind that is, even if it's a one, it was there like she felt something. They say that that. She was like, Yo, this is either too good to be true what you just say it was a pandemic pandemic. I was like, Yo, there's a variant that you hear every week. There was a different variant that's gonna kill you. She's like, damn, I don't want to be by myself. This is my point. You got women out here that are desperate and they just want somebody and anything they say that sound good, they're gonna roll with that and not use the skills that they those building skills of tuition that we already have. You know, when something that's not right or doesn't feel right. And the other thing is is get somebody in your family to that you or you're just a friend, like, get somebody to vet this person. And probably for women it's another man, you know, because certain things that you can't see or ask questions of, they do. Because I heard what you said my brother about you know, going on the internet. But the internet you can change Google's information so you can make something to make you see what you want to see. And that's why you have to be even more careful when you're meeting somebody on line, absolutely, because then you can put anything on there. It's different when you meet somebody in person, like this brother drove here today. We know, we know, I think that come here. You know. I couldn't do this if I was virtual, you know, but he has studios and now I'm online or shirt exactly, I'm just a T shirt. I got thirty I was just about the write that in the comments order. I only got forty hours. How much is shortly? And shortly? Wife? Beata? What if I get my honey without the string? Prot just cut off the hood? So what happened with it? Size are they? They are now divorce and they've gone in separate ways. Yeah, she so she when she got that message from saw the messages from the prostitute, that's when she finally was like, that's it because by this time he had injured his knee and he was like in the bed and for a couple of weeks and wasn't the money, so she didn't care about the other lives. Yeah, so she kicked him out. When when he left he came to Philly, and then when exactly because his family don't mess with him like that. So when he came to Philly, they wanted nothing to do with him. So he came back to Georgia. He was trying to stay with her. She uh called the police, so they happened to find that he had a warrant out for his arrest because he had a criminal background. Like when she was going through his stuff, she found that I think he was on probation or something like that, but he was doing his sentence on weekends. You know how you get like the work release and you can work during the week, but then the weekends you can do your sentence. So she contacted the police and they did say that there was a warrant out because first they were like, well, you guys are still married, so he can technically still be there. So when he got there, she called the police. They arrested him, took him in the custody. He was there for a little bit, but he ended up getting out because the warrant had expired, which I never heard about, No, I mean, I guess arrested. He was arrested for impersonating a police officer. Yeah, he had other arrests, but that was one of the arrests that he had the plot. Whole thing this plot is, but that's what happened. He wanted to be, he wanted to be. I'm curious. She said that he was doing this like some of the time on the weekend. Yeah, on the weekends he would go in to he would go turn himself in. I guess every weekend time. What did he tell her he doing on the weekend. I'm curious she never mentioned that what he told her. Starting to sound like she got a little bit stuff. She's about her what she did. She did say that she she just really wanted to she really wanted it to be her time. So when she said that, I kind of felt bad for her because it was like, you know, women dream of their you know, this fairy tale wedding and meeting the man and this proposal and all this stuff. So I mean, for someone everybody that come in your path, like, he don't want he don't want to exactly. For some women, it's just like they're so in love with the idea of being in love or in love with having this lavish wedding, and they don't Yeah, because they just want to be married, just be safe. The first the first step meeting anybody, whether it's a friend, faul, business partner, somebody trying to deal with romantically, be safe, especially when you're meeting people on blind. That's the very first thing. Just be safe. I know, like I lived by myself for like sixteen years. You know, I had a a certain way I did things when I met people, and you don't. People don't know where you live, People don't have certain information you just until you really really vet them. Yeah, yeah, no, no, three weeks exactly. Yeah. A lot of stuff she kept from her family because she didn't want them to know what she had gotten herself into. That interesting, yeah, yeah, it is, and you know, and that's how you know that they know what they're doing. It doesn't really make sense because you know, if you would say to another person out loud, I met him three weeks ago, and now he's living here and I'm pregnant three weeks what when you're crazy, you already know what your friends and family gonna say to you. So that's exactly. Yeah. But I think he did speak out once they found you know, it was they started saying that he was who he was and put his name was put out there, and he was like, she's lying, but what else what you say? He needs to make his own one hundred and fifty parts series now his rebuttal's two sides of every story, right, that's what he needs to do, make his own money. That's his story. Yeah, three sides. Yeah, if he's listening to this, you better start working on that head. Uncles like, I don't know. Yeah, it's a lot deeper than that too. So I mean, if you have eight hours to spare and people's family, yea, yeah, that's that's enough for me. I'm worn out just hearing that said. No, I'm good. I'm I did see someone posts it on Facebook that they that they watched. They said, okay, just finish the fifty part whatever, whatever, and her comment was pretty much like, well I started and I was messing, so I just kept going because somebody was like are you how did you? How did you get through it? But she was once you kind of in the middle of songs, like I'm also just finished it? Right? Yeah? Yeah? Did she gets she got some work some merch now, I mean something I saw somebody do a I don't know if it was real, but it's probably fake. They took a they did like a fake movie poster and they put and they put two actors on there. It was the it was the guy, the guy who played in how Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? And then it was another girl. I think. I was like, is this is this real? Like I was like, because I was like that fan. So she got a deal already that that would make a good title of movie too. You know that sounds like they already enjoyed you already. Yeah, there'll be a remake. But if anybody in Philadelphia has dated this man, breach out to us, because we would love to hear his story. They don't know if they dated him or not, because he probably a whole different person with them. He probably a pilot with them. Put his picture there. No, she's not, that's what you're supposed to do. Now. Question did she take accountability though? Yeah, she does. The whole time. She was like, because I see y'all in the comments, y'all coming at me, So she does explain, like for some of the comments, she was like, yeah, I you know, she was like, I was just I know I did bad. I should have did more research. I should have looked the best teachers experience. That's right, and I've been through a lot of and for sure that was a sizzle. Did you do? Uh No, I didn't. I didn't. But is it something on a peripheral or something like that? It was just something Tyler Perry. He comes to the financial aid of actress Coco Brown after she and her son Phoenix lost their home in the house fire. So, after Coco Brown posted aftermath photos of the house fire and fair Bill Georgia, Tyler Perry kind of pledged to donate four hundred thousand to help her. Other celebrities like Tiffany Hadish, they made donations to a gofund me that her team set up. And then she just was kind of, you know, thinking everybody and just saying like she's devastated that this happened to her, but she's thankful for everybody's loving support. So yeah, so donations are still coming in. I think the goal fundy is up to like almost well, I think the goal was one hundred thousand. Okay, yeah, that was Yeah, So that's nice that people are supporting. You know, I'm your girl, Lawrence Sizzel, and that was and that's a sister. Ladies, gentlemen, your boy, trust Greg with the beautiful Lawrence Sizzle, Beautiful La beautiful Lady and my guy Andretella and just real quick news. 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